FN 227 "I could have wished the Macdonalds had not divided; and Iam sorry that Keppoch and Mackian of Glenco are safe."--Letter of the Master of Stair to Levingstone, Jan. 9. 1691/2 quoted in the Report of 1695.
FN 228 Letter of the Master of Stair to Levingstone, Jan. 111692, quoted in the Report of 1695.
FN 229 Burnet, in 1693, wrote thus about William:--"He suffers matters to run till there is a great heap of papers; and then he signs them as much too fast as he was before too slow in despatching them." Burnet MS. Harl. 6584. There is no sign either of procrastination or of undue haste in William's correspondence with Heinsius. The truth is, that the King understood Continental politics thoroughly, and gave his whole mind to them. To English business he attended less, and to Scotch business least of all.
FN 230 Impartial Account, 1695.
FN 231 See his letters quoted in the Report of 1695, and in the Memoirs of the Massacre of Glencoe.
FN 232 Report of 1695.
FN 233 Deposition of Ronald Macdonald in the Report of 1695;Letters from the Mountains, May 17. I773. I quote Mrs. Grant's authority only for what she herself heard and saw. Her account of the massacre was written apparently without the assistance of books, and is grossly incorrect. Indeed she makes a mistake of two years as to the date.
FN 234 I have taken the account of the Massacre of Glencoe chiefly from the Report of 1695, and from the Gallienus Redivivus. An unlearned, and indeed a learned, reader may be at a loss to guess why the Jacobites should have selected so strange a title for a pamphlet on the massacre of Glencoe. The explanation will be found in a letter of the Emperor Gallienus, preserved by Trebellius Pollio in the Life of Ingenuus. Ingenuus had raised a rebellion in Moesia. He was defeated and killed. Gallienus ordered the whole province to be laid waste, and wrote to one of his lieutenants in language to which that of the Master of Stair bore but too much resemblance. "Non mihi satisfacies si tantum armatos occideris, quos et fors belli interimere potuisset.
Perimendus est omnis sexus virilis. Occidendus est quicunque maledixit. Occidendus est quicunque male voluit. Lacera. Occide.
Concide."
FN 235 What I have called the Whig version of the story is given, as well as the Jacobite version, in the Paris Gazette of April 7.
1692.
FN 236 I believe that the circumstances which give so peculiar a character of atrocity to the Massacre of Glencoe were first published in print by Charles Leslie in the Appendix to his answer to King. The date of Leslie's answer is 1692. But it must be remembered that the date of 1692 was then used down to what we should call the 25th of March 1693. Leslie's book contains some remarks on a sermon by Tillotson which was not printed till November 1692. The Gallienus Redivivus speedily followed.
FN 237 Gallienus Redivivus.
FN 238 Hickes on Burnet and Tillotson, 1695.
FN 239 Report of 1695.
FN 240 Gallienus Redivivus.
FN 241 Report of 1695.
FN 242 London Gazette, Mar. 7. 1691/2.
FN 243 Burnet (ii. 93.) says that the King was not at this time informed of the intentions of the French Government. Ralph contradicts Burnet with great asperity. But that Burnet was in the right is proved beyond dispute, by William's correspondence with Heinsius. So late as April 24/May 4 William wrote thus: "Je ne puis vous dissimuler que je commence a apprehender une descente en Angleterre, quoique je n'aye pu le croire d'abord: mais les avis sont si multiplies de tous les cotes, et accompagnes de tant de particularites, qu'il n'est plus guere possible d'en douter." I quote from the French translation among the Mackintosh MSS.
FN 244 Burnet, ii. 95. and Onslow's note; Memoires de Saint Simon; Memoires de Dangeau.
FN 245 Life of James ii. 411, 412.
FN 246 Memoires de Dangeau; Memoires de Saint Simon. Saint Simon was on the terrace and, young as he was, observed this singular scene with an eye which nothing escaped.
FN 247 Memoires de Saint Simon; Burnet, ii. 95.; Guardian No. 48.
See the excellent letter of Lewis to the Archbishop of Rheims, which is quoted by Voltaire in the Siecle de Louis XIV.
FN 248 In the Nairne papers printed by Macpherson are two memorials from James urging Lewis to invade England. Both were written in January 1692.
FN 249 London Gazette, Feb. 15. 1691/2.
FN 250 Memoires de Berwick; Burnet, ii. 92.; Life of James, ii.
478. 491.
FN 251 History of the late Conspiracy, 1693.
FN 252 Life of James, ii. 479. 524. Memorials furnished by Ferguson to Holmes in the Nairne Papers.
FN 253 Life of James, ii. 474.
FN 254 See the Monthly Mercuries of the spring of 1692.
FN 255 Narcissus Luttrell's Diary for April and May 1692; London Gazette, May 9. and 12.
FN 256 Sheridan MS.; Life of James, ii. 492.
FN 257 Life of James, ii. 488.
FN 258 James told Sheridan that the Declaration was written by Melfort. Sheridan MS.
