ABSTRACT
The victory at Culloden gave birth to an inexpressible joy through the extensive dominions of the British empire; not only Europe and Africa, but the two Indies joined in the shout, and gave joyful acclamations. Unfortunately for some of those, the people sent in among them pretended that money was due from the proprietors, under colour of which, some of the Grants and Sutherland people seized the cattle upon the premises, and sold them; some to the troops in the camp, and some to graziers, who hastened to be rich. Being come to Fort Augustus, he expressed some concern at seeing such vast tracts of uncultivated ground, and at the blindness of those who had blown up the beautiful and commodious barracks that had so lately been an ornament to that unfortunate district. Some of the principal Scots Gentlemen were tried there likewise, as Sir John Wedderburn, Hamilton governor of Carlisle, Sir James Kenloch, and his brother Mr. Alexander.
