The Duke of Argyle having thus gloriously finished the most laborious and hard campaign that ever was known, he left the command of his Majesty's troops to Lieutenant-General Cadogan and returned to Edinbourgh the 27th of February, and in a day or two after set out for London, where he arrived on the 6th of March. FOOTNOTES: [56] Of Argyle. [57] January 30. [58] Of February. [59] Arbroath. [60] Stonehaven. [61] Gravelines. [62] Moray. [63] Eriska. F. HARSHNESS OF THE GOVERNMENT (1716). +Source.+--_Culloden Papers: comprising an Extensive and Interesting Correspondence from the Year 1625 to 1678 ... the Whole published from the Originals in the Possession of Duncan George Forbes, of Culloden, Esq._, p. 61. (London: 1815.) No. LXXII. An anonymous letter, written by Mr. Duncan Forbes to Sir Robert Walpole, most likely in August 1716--a copy is extant (from which the present is taken) in the President's handwriting. Sir, ... When the late Rebellion was happily ended by the Pretender's flight, his deluded followers found themselves all in chains, or obliged to surrender and sue for mercy, or to fly their country with him. Every man concerned in that odious work certainly deserved death, and the punishment due by law; but humanity and prudence forbade it. It was not fit to dispeople a country; nor prudent to grieve the King's best friends, who mostly had some concern in those unfortunate men; or expedient to give too just grounds of clamour to the disaffected.