Brave Balmerino, whom no words can paint, Embrac'd his martyrdom and died a saint. He sprang triumphant to a better state, By all confest, superiour to his fate. [Sidenote: _fol._ 406.] If Ratcliffe's[184] youthful crimes receiv'd their due, Ratcliffe was steady, bold and loyal too. This much be said, to palliate his offence, Howe'er he liv'd, he died a man of sense. But Frazer was a man by Heav'n decreed Not quite so legible for fools to read. Him in his manly labyrinth they mistook, And partial to their wit the clue forsook. He has no policy when none they find, And is not visible when they are blind. As the sun's course thro' various scenes does wind From one great principle to one great end; So did his actions, words and deeds combine To perfect and accomplish one design. For this alone he labours to be great; For this he courts his honours and estate; For this in secret he his faith conceals; For this invents a plot and then reveals; For this holds combat with domestick strife, And seizes, like old Rome, a Sabine wife; Wins confidence from artful foes by art, And on the statesman plays the statesman's part. The making one great stake, and that his last, He ventures all on the important cast On which the whole of's happiness depends, His life, his fortune, family and friends. All, all's too little for the glorious cause. If he had won (for there the difference lies), That very crowd his triumph would attend Who lately came, to view his noble end. [182] John Murray of Broughton (see f. 411 _et seq._) became an evidence against his former associates, especially against Simon, Lord Lovat, who was executed at London on 9th April 1747, in his eightieth year, for being implicated in the Rebellion. [183] William, fourth Earl of Kilmarnock, taken prisoner at Culloden and beheaded on Tower Hill, 18th August 1746. [184] Charles Ratcliffe, brother of James, third Earl of Derwentwater, who was executed on 24th February 1716 for his share in the rebellion of 1715. At that time Charles had also been taken and condemned, but he escaped out of Newgate and went to France. In November 1745 he was recaptured on board the _Esperance_ on his way to Scotland with other French officers to take part in the Rebellion, and after identification, he was condemned to suffer the sentence formerly passed upon him. He was accordingly executed on Tower Hill on 8th December 1746. He was a grandson of King Charles the Second, his mother being Mary Tudor, a natural daughter of that king. [Sidenote: _fol._ 407.] _Upon a young lady, who died on seeing her lover,[185] Mr Dawson,[186] executed on the 30th of July 1746._ [185] Not fact, for Mr. Dawson never saw her before she had come to glut herself with the bloody scene.--F.