The history of England VII. (töredék) [antikvár]

HISTORY OF ENGLAND. VOL. VII. CHAPTEE XYin. (continued.) The Lowlands of Scotland were, during the year which fol- chap. lowed the parliamentary session of 1690, as quiet as they had" 1092." ever been within the memory of man: but the state of the High-lands caused much anxiety to the government. The civil war lands." in that wild region, after it had ceased to flame, had continued during some time to smoulder. At length, early in the year 1691, the rebel chiefs informed the Court of Saint Germains that, pressed as they were on every side, they could hold out no longer without succour from France. .Tarnes had sent them a small quantity of meal, brandy and tobacco, and had frankly told them that he could do nothing more. Money was so scarce among them that six hundred pounds sterling would have been a most acceptable addition to their funds: but even such a sum he was unable to spare. He could scarcely, in such circumstances , expect them to defend his cause against a government which had a regular army and a large revenue. He therefore informed them that he should not take it ill of them if they made their peace with the new dynasty, provided always that they were prepared to rise in insurrection as soon as he should call on them to do so. * * Life of James, ii. 468, 469. Macaulay, History. VII. 1