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and some others, should endeavour to raise such a force, as with reinforcements from abroad, might enable him to make a stand till more as- sistance could be procured. Next morning they set out for Glenphillin, where at his first landing, the Camerons erected his standard. Here they made a cave the place of their residence, and were provided with every thing necessary for life; but Charles being uneasy in his mind, intimated a desire to be gone; and accordingly, after re- maining three days, they set out for the isles.
About this time, that is, the beginning of
May, two French men of war appearing on the East, they were attacked by the Grey hound and two sloops, which they obliged to sheer off, and having landed a considerable quantity of money and ammunition, took on board the Duke of Perth, Lord John Drummond, and several o- ther officers, and conveyed them all to France cx- pt the Duke of Perth, who died on his passage. Charles being informed of this adventure, was exceedingly uneasy that he had missed the op- portunity of escaping in them, and the more so, he understood they had landed 40,000 louis- dors, 35,000 of which had fallen into the hands of a person in whom he placed very little con- fidence.
Charles now finding that his affairs grew every
