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Cameron of Clunes and Macdonald of Lochgarry, or Lochgarie, though they were themselves 'skulking, received the Prince with the utmost kindness and found a hiding-place for him in a hut in a wood at the south side of Loch Arkaig. Here the outlaws left him; only one of their number, Patrick Grant, remained till the Prince should be supplied with money to reward their faithful service.
This mass of French gold, buried after Culloden at Loch Arkaig, in one of the most remote recesses of the Highlands, was, to the Jacobites, what the dwarf Andvari's hoard was to the Niflungs, a curse and a cause of discord.
On June 11, Charles remonstrated with Madame de Talmond: if she is tired of him, he will go to 'le Lorain. 'Enfin, si vous voulez ma vie, il faut changer de tout. On June 27, Newton repeated his expressions of suspicion about Cluny, and spoke of 'disputes and broils' among the Scotch as to the seizure of the Loch Arkaig money.
Concerning the fatal hoard of Loch Arkaig, 'Newton' writes thus: Tho. Newton to 'March 18, 1750. 'You have on the other side the melancholy confirmation of what I apprehended. Dr. They will no doubt represent me not in the most advantageous light at Rome, for attempting to carry out of their country what they had to support them.
Progress of Pickle Charles's last resource Cluny called to Paris The Loch Arkaig hoard History of Cluny Breaks his oath to King George Jacobite theory of such oaths Anecdote of Cluny in hiding Charles gives Pickle a gold snuff-box 'A northern Asks for a pension Death of Old Glengarry Pickle becomes chief The curse of Lochgarry Pickle writes from Edinburgh His report Wants money Letter from a 'Court Trusty' Pickle's pride Refused a fowling- piece English account of Pickle His arrogance and extortion Charles's hopes from France Macallester the spy The Prince's false nose Pickle still unpaid His candour Charles and the Duc de Richelieu A Scottish deputation James Dawkins publicly abandons the Prince Dawkins's character The Earl Marischal denounces Charles He will not listen to Cluny Dismisses his servants Sir Horace Mann's account of them 'The boy that is lost' English rumours Charles declines to lead attack on Minorca Information from Macallester Lord Clancarty's attacks on the Prince On Lochgarry Macallester acts as a prison spy Jesuit conspiracy against Charles.
Henry Goring accused the Prince of shabbiness to his face, but assuredly he who insisted on laying down money on the rocks of a deserted fishers' islet to pay for some dry fish eaten there by himself and his companions he who gave liberally to gentle and simple out of the treasure buried near Loch Arkaig, who refused a French pension for himself, and asked favours only for his friends afforded singular proofs of Dr.
In an undated letter to Charles, certainly of 1751, Glengarry announces his approaching marriage with a lady of 'a very Honourable and loyall familie in England, after which he will pay his share of the Loch Arkaig gold. He ends with pious expressions. In 1754, two years after the anonymous denunciation, we find a repetition of the charge of treachery against Glengarry. On January 25, 1754, Mrs.
The first plan these brave men concerted together was to carry the Prince into Lochiel's country, where young Clanranald had promised to provide him a hiding-place. On their way, however, they heard that a body of soldiers were approaching from Loch Arkaig, which completely blocked their way on that side.
With these wild freebooters he continued for three weeks, during which time he made himself extremely popular by his freedom of intercourse with them. The wanderer left these dwellings of comparative luxury that he might join hands with other fugitive Jacobites, Macdonald of Lochgarry and Cameron of Clunes, and took up his quarters in the wood-surrounded huts near Loch Arkaig and Auchnacarry.
The Highlanders yet remember the Prince's treasure. A few years ago, a Highland clergyman tells me, he was trolling with a long line in Loch Arkaig. He hooked something heavy, which came slowly to hand, with no resistance but that of weight. 'You have caught one of the Prince's money bags, said the boatman, when suddenly the reel shrieked, and a large salmo ferox sped out into the loch.
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