Had it befallen a Whig, they would have said it was done on purpose.' NOTE 31 .-- PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD The Author of Waverley has been charged with painting the young Adventurer in colours more amiable than his character deserved.

But having known many individuals who were near his person, he has been described according to the light in which those eye-witnesses saw his temper and qualifications.

Something must be allowed, no doubt, to the natural exaggerations of those who remembered him as the bold and adventurous Prince, in whose cause they had braved death and ruin; but is their evidence to give place entirely to that of a single malcontent?
I have already noticed the imputations thrown by the Chevalier Johnstone on the Prince's courage.

But some part at least of that gentleman's tale is purely romantic.

It would not, for instance, be supposed, that at the time he is favouring us with the highly-wrought account of his amour with the adorable Peggie, the Chevalier Johnstone was a married man, whose grandchild is now alive, or that the whole circumstantial story concerning the outrageous vengeance taken by Gordon of Abbachie on a Presbyterian clergyman, is entirely apocryphal.