Such was the career of Stephen Macdonald, the son of an obscure Scottish fugitive from the field of Culloden, who thus became a Marshal Duke of the Empire, and by his worth and bravery shed a glory on his father's name and on the rank he won. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 25: "General Macdonald, who has come forward with so much _eclat_ as commander of a French column, is the descendant of a Mr. Macdonald of Argyleshire. His uncle is Mr. Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart. He preserves his clannish affections, and in the campaign of Pichegreu in Flanders and Holland, having command of a brigade which had to press on a British brigade, where he discovered a _namesake_, he supplied his countryman during the memorable retreat with every comfort which a camp could afford."--_Edinburgh Herald_, 10th January, 1799.] [Footnote 26: General Sarrazen says _fifteen_ thousand (?)] [Footnote 27: Bourienne.] [Footnote 28: _Bourienne._] [Footnote 29: "The sabre I recognised at once; only since I had last seen it, the following words had been engraved on the blade:--_Sabre worn by the Emperor on the day of the battle of Mount Tabor_."--_Bourienne_, vol. iv.] [Footnote 30: _Biographie Universelle_, &c.] THOMAS DALYELL, OF BINNS, GENERAL OF THE SCOTTISH ARMY, AND FIRST COLONEL OF THE SCOTS GREY DRAGOONS. In my novel of _The Scottish Cavalier_ I have endeavoured to portray the character of this celebrated cavalier officer, with all that military sternness and ferocity of disposition which has generally been attributed to him, but chiefly by his enemies, for the poor man seems never to have found a single friend among the many historians of the Covenant. Thus, notwithstanding his unwavering loyalty to the House of Stuart in the days of its declension, by his extreme severity when that House was in the zenith of its power, he became so unpopular in Scotland, that his memory is still execrated there. He is stigmatized as a "persecutor," as the _Bloody Dalyell_, whose spirit is yet averred to haunt the fields where he routed or slew the children of the Covenant--who had sold himself to the devil; one who was shot-proof, and "Whose form no darkening shadow traced Upon the sunny wall;" one who, when he spat, burned a hole in the earth; one in whose military boots water would boil, and whose spectre, habited in a buff coat and morion, wearing that voluminous white beard for which he was so remarkable, still haunts the house in which he was born and the tomb in which he lies.