ROBERT FORBES. _Citadel of Leith, September 7th, 1747._ _P.S._--By the same hand I have sent a letter to that valuable and faithful gentleman, Kingsburgh, with whom you may compare notes.[148] [148] See f. 856. [Sidenote: 7 Sept.] _September 7th._--Donald MacLeod when at supper spoke much in commendation of Ned Burk as being an honest, faithful, trusty fellow.[149] He said in the event of a R[evoluti]on Ned would carry a chair no more; for he was persuaded the Prince would settle an hundred pounds sterling a year upon Ned during life. And he could affirm it for a truth that not any man whatsomever deserved it better. Meantime Donald added that Ned, though true as steel, was the rough man, and that he used great freedoms; for he had seen him frequently [Sidenote: _fol._ 326.] at _Deel speed the leers_ with the Prince, who humour'd the joke so well that they would have _flitten together like twa kail wives_, which made the company to laugh and be merry when otherwise they would have been very dull. [149] See f. 281. ROBERT FORBES, A.M. _Wednesdays afternoon, September 9th, 1747._ [Sidenote: 9 Sept.] At the hour appointed (4 o'clock) Ned Bourk came to my room, when I went through his Journal with him at great leisure, and from his own mouth made those passages plain and intelligible that were written in confused, indistinct terms. A Short but Genuine Account of Prince Charlie's Wanderings from Culloden to his meeting with Miss MacDonald, by Edward Bourk.[150] [150] This Journal as far as f. 338 is printed in the _Jacobite Memoirs_, pp. 362-373. Burke died in Edinburgh on 23rd November 1757. See f. 1706. [Sidenote: 1746 16 Apr.] Upon the 16th of April 1746 we marched from the field of Culloden to attack the enemy in their camp at Nairn, but orders were given by a false[151] general to retreat to the place from whence we had come, and to take billets in the several parts where we had quartered formerly. The men being all much fatigued, some of them were dispersed here and there in order to get some refreshment for themselves, whilst the greater part of them went to rest. But soon after, the enemy appearing behind us, about four thousand of our men were with difficulty got together and advanced, and the rest were awakened by the [Sidenote: _fol._ 327.] noise of the canon, which surely put them in confusion. After engaging briskly there came up between six and seven hundred Frazers commanded by Colonel Charles Frazer, younger, of Inverallachie, who were attacked before they could form in line of battle, and had the misfortune of having their Colonel wounded, who next day was murdered in cold blood, the fate of many others. [151] This epithet is not to be regarded.--F. See f. 667.