Dr Cameron was carried from the Tower, attended by several of the warders and a party of the Guards, to the Court of King's Bench, and then arraigned upon the Act of Attainder passed against him and others, for being in the late rebellion, and not surrendering in due time. The four Judges were on the bench, and the prisoner not being desirous to give the Court any trouble, readily acknowledged himself to be the identical person; whereupon, after due deliberation, the Lord Chief-Justice Lee pronounced the following moving sentence: 'You, Archibald Cameron of Lochiel, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, must be removed from thence to his Majesty's prison of the Tower of London, from whence you came, and on Thursday, the 7th of June next, your body to be drawn on a sledge to the place of execution, there to be hanged, not till you are dead; your bowels to be taken out, your body quartered, and your head cut off, and affixed at the king's disposal, and the Lord have mercy on your soul.' On receiving the sentence, he made a genteel bow, and only desired he might have leave to send for his wife, who with seven children, entirely dependent on him for support, are now at Lisle in Flanders, which was granted. He said, that in 1746, he came from France to surrender himself, agreeable to the Proclamation, but was prevented by an accident happening to his family. He behaved with great resolution before the Court, and answered to every question with a becoming decency. During the interval between the sentence and his execution, his wife used all possible means to obtain a pardon, by delivering a petition to his Majesty, another to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, and to several of the nobility; but without effect, for on Thursday, June 7th, he was conveyed in a hurdle from the Tower to Tyburn, and there executed agreeable to his sentence. His behaviour was all along firm and intrepid, yet decent and solid, and becoming a man who expected, yet feared not, the stroke of death. On Wednesday orders were sent to the Tower that the gates should be shut at six o'clock in the evening, and no persons whatever admitted after that hour, to prevent any attempt that might be made to favour his escape. As soon as his wife arrived from Flanders, she immediately repaired to her husband, in the Tower, who received her with all that tenderness and affection which the greatness and solemnity of the

occasion could inspire. The grief and anguish of her soul is much more easily imagined than described. She came to take her last farewell of him, who, by all the ties of mutual affection, was dearer to her than all the world. And as an aggravation of her affliction, she not only saw herself about to be deprived of an affectionate husband, but to be left destitute of a support for herself and her numerous family. Their children, the dear pledges of their love, must now be exposed to all the necessities and casualties of life, without the patronage of a kind and indulgent father to have recourse to for advice and assistance. The consideration of this train of evils now hastening upon her made such a strong impression on her mind as to force a flood of tears from her mournful eyes. The doctor comforted her as well as he could, and desired her to use all the means in her power to save his life; which was to present a petition in his favour to his Majesty, who, perhaps, might be prevailed upon to save him. On the morning of his execution, she took her last leave of him; indeed it was a very mournful one, and melted those who saw it into tears. The excess of her grief has so affected her senses, that she is now distracted; so great was her love for her husband, and so intense her sorrow for his sad catastrophy. As soon as she was gone, the doctor put himself in readiness to receive the Sheriff and those who were sent to conduct him to his execution. Accordingly, about ten o'clock he was brought out of the Tower, by a party of the Horse Guards, who delivered him to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, as soon as he was come without the Tower-Gate. He was then put into the hurdle, to which he was fastened by the executioner. In this manner, he was drawn through the city, attended by Sir Richard Glynn, one of the Sheriffs, and under the care of the Sheriff's officers and constable, to the place of execution. Sir Charles Asgill left the prisoner at the Tower, and Sir Richard Glynn followed the sledge from the Tower, in his chariot, to Tyburn. The doctor was dressed in a light-coloured coat, red waistcoat and breeches, and new bag-wig. In his passage through the streets, he was observed to look about, as if in admiration of the vast multitude of spectators that crowded the streets, windows, and balconies to see him pass, and bowed to several persons; about twelve o'clock he arrived at the place of execution. Having arrived there, and

helped into the cart, he desired to speak to the Sheriff; who being come to him, the doctor entreated the favour of him, that he would give orders to his officers to let his body hang till he was quite dead, before the executioner began his further operation. The Sheriff promised to oblige him in his request; and accordingly the body was permitted to hang full three-quarters of an hour, and was not cut down before it was very certain that no life was remaining in him. He had likewise some discourse with the executioner about the disposal of his body after the execution was performed, which he desired might be decently put in a coffin, and conveyed to Mr Stephenson's, the undertaker, and that his clothes might be given to his friends, in lieu of which, that he might not lose his usual perquisite, he bid him take what money was in his pockets. While he was in the cart, a gentleman in a lay-habit, came to him, and prayed with him for about a quarter of an hour, and then left him to his private devotions. From this incident, the spectators imagined that the doctor was a Roman Catholic, and that the gentleman who prayed with him was a priest. But whatever his religion was, he died with great steadiness, constancy, and resolution, without any visible alteration in his countenance or behaviour, but perfectly resigned to the will of Heaven, and cheerfully acquiescing with the sentence which the laws of his country had passed upon him. He made no public profession of his faith, nor declared what religion he was of; nor did he address the people in a speech; nor did he give any letters or papers to the Sheriff, or any other gentleman present at the execution, so that if anything of this kind should hereafter be published, we may look upon it as spurious. His body being taken down from the gallows, the executioner cut off the head, and took out the bowels, but did not quarter the body. His body and head were put into a coffin, with this inscription upon it: 'Dr Archibald Cameron, suffered the 7th of June 1753, aged 46.'" A hearse conveyed it to Mr Stephenson's, undertaker, opposite Exeter Change.*

Some interesting letters written by the Doctor, a statement left with his wife on the day of his execution, and a genealogical list of his descendants, will be given in our next.

REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION (HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS)— ΑΝ ANALYSIS.

IV.

EMIGRATION.

ENCOURAGEMENT to Emigration, "principally from the Northern Hebrides and to some extent on the adjacent coasts of Ross, and perhaps even of Sutherland," is the last measure proposed in the Report for the purpose of improving the condition of the Highlands and Islands. From this recommendation Mr Fraser-Mackintosh dissents, on the ground that, “(1) No State help should be given to individuals, but only to the entire family resident on the croft proposing to emigrate;" and, (2) That the districts designated are too wide, and that no "necessity for State interference, as regards emigration, has been established, except in the Lewis, and some of the minor islands of the Hebrides. Re-occupation," he says, "by, and re-distribution among, crofters and cottars of much land now used, as large farms will be beneficial to the State, to the owner, and to the occupier. Until this is done, much as I deplore the present position of congested districts, I must view with jealousy State-aided emigration." These objections, most of those who take an active interest in the welfare of the people, will fully endorse.

The Commissioners say that the ridiculously large number of 287 acres-2771⁄2 pastoral, and 9 or 10 arable, is necessary for a family to live upon in the Highlands, or-taking the average number in a family at five persons-57 acres per head; whereas the whole acreage of the Western Isles would only give about 191⁄2 per head of the population, including, it should be stated, such populous places as Stornoway and Portree. The people would no doubt like to have the larger number of acres, stated by the Commissioners, if they could get them. In the western mainland parishes of Sutherland, to which it is proposed to apply the State-aided emigration scheme, there is actually, according to the Report itself, an average acreage of over 90 acres per head, or nearly double what the Commissioners

themselves declare sufficient "for the maintainance of a family in comfort," with an average rental of £3. 9s. 31⁄2d. per head, or £19 16s. 5%d. per average family; while Strathnaver, and other fertile Straths, comprising the greater and best portion of the county, is a large desolation, in possession of the Sellars, the Purveses, and men of similar kidney!

Why, in the name of common-sense, should it be proposed to give State aid for emigration from the county of Sutherland? Even in Skye we have one parish, Bracadale, with a population reduced from 1824 souls to 920, paying a rental of £6965. 6s 2d., by three or four large sheep farmers, while the whole crofting rent of the parish is £3. 10s. Farr, in Sutherland, has a rent roll of £10,337. 8s. 7d., of which the whole crofters or cottars only pay £681. 13s. 8d., or less than a fifteenth part of the whole rent of the parish. Let us have State aid to enable the people to migrate from one part of the Highland counties to another, and when that has been done it will be soon enough to consider the propriety of spending the public funds in sending the Highlanders out of their native land, while so much is expended on the protection of the wild animals and vermin which take their place.

We have always been in favour of voluntary emigration, but have no hesitation in saying that those who will play into the hands of the proprietors by leaving the country, whatever inducements may now be offered to them, are and ought to be held up before public opinion as a cowardly set. The battle of land reform is being fought out in the Highlands, and the man who runs away before the victory is won should be considered as great a coward as the Highlander, if such a being ever existed, who would run away from the Russian or the Turk on the field of battle. Let them fight the battle for those who cannot or do not wish to leave the country of their fathers, and then let those desiring to emigrate to foreign lands do so, and be encouraged, if need be, to settle down in the Colonies.

The Commissioners admit that the people are at present adverse to emigration, but they hold that the repugnance which "has been expressed by Highlanders of to-day is due to a fluctuation of opinion, and is not to be ascribed to an ineradicable sentiment." Two reasons are given for the present attitude of the people on this question