to the Govan men, pouring their strength up into the Gorballs. "Go, call up the three sax pounders," cried the Highlander to an officer. "But stay a bit-has the Bailey ony cannon?" 66 'Only some thirty lang toms, includin' all the Quaker guns," And he spake truly: for they were nearly all of this class, non-resistance guns,* * Our student added after a pause, "We Sassanachs are a kittle race o' people, when aince fairly roused up!" 66 Mean ye, in blude earnest, to impede my course?" cried the chieftan fiercely. "Why-yes-no-" replied Lord Kardross, hesitating, and speaking with an air of mysteriousness, "that is to say, it just depends on your putting yourselves on gude behaviour. And let me just add by way of information," continued our youth, as he cast his eyes, with some affectation of contempt, over the divisions of the Highland Host,"Aiblins, we can clap some four stout Sassenachs on the back o' ilka ane o' yer Heelan' men, and may be sax o' them. I hae delivered my message. We wait your approach." And he rode off without waiting for his reply. The commander looked after him for some time in silence. He was evidently in some degree of confusion. He found himself actually hemmed in. He formed his men into close rank and file, six abreast, which he had to reduce to four as he approached the centre arch. "Screw your daggers on your musquetoons," he called to his men, "and see that your pieces be weel loaded, and in good order. We'll hae hett wark o't. We hae been thus far tulzien' wi' auld wives, and weans; wi' priests, and herd callans. We're like to meet wi' men noo, Seid suas, gillie!" added he, raising his voice into a scream. "Blaw up the pibroch, club yer airms, march warily, in close file; preserve a deep seelence and be ready to fire." 1 He placed himself at their head, and his officers took their position on each side of him. And he pranced along on a gallant steed, which he had taken out of the stables of the Earl of Cassilis, on the same terms as his father, and *These, as in ships of later times, were literally so, being made of wood. himself took a cow, or a horse from the stable of the Sassenach, who happened to refuse the tribute of Black Maille. The town's men and students looked on in deep silence, upon the mass of nodding black plumes; and the glittering musquetoons, and the waving sheen tartan. And when they arrived at the centre arch, the whole of them in mock solemnity, uncovered for a moment, and lowered the point of their swords and spears, before the host-but in such a manner as really to assume, awkwardly enough, a very ambiguous posture, and doubtful kind of salutation. At that moment a salute was fired from the rear of the temporary fort in the middle of the Stockwell. And the close column of men stationed in advance of it, wheeled suddenly to the right and left, and presented to view what seemed to be the muzzles of a threatening battery of cannon; and the gunners in their place, making a wonderful display of their lighted matches, and waving them round their heads to have them in prime blazing order to fire off their cannon. And in the distant perspective, squadrons of horsemen were seen advancing, and defiling, in an imposing manner. And the company of Carters backed their tumbrils more into the street; which they sported before the astonished Highlanders, as mounted cannon, ready for cross firing. "Conduct the officers, and forty of their men, in advance" -cried the Bailey, as he gave a flourish with his sword, somewhat in the awkward style of a military novice, and made a low bow to the Highland chief, and his staff. They moved on at a quick step. "Hully-hully a bit, you the rest"-cried the Bailey with a tone, and air of authority, after the forty men and officers had passed on. Then raising his voice still louder, he called out—"Let the rest of the Heelan' Host halt, instanter, unless ye want to be blawn a' intil the air, like peelins o' ingens.' He paused a moment, and added partly to the Highlanders, and partly to his own men, with a laugh. 66 My certes! only forty o' ye, my gallants, shall enter the royal liberties of Glasgow, at ae time-ay! and no ae soul mair at aince :"-Adding in a lower tone to his asso ciates. 66 Divide, and conquer, eh! as my duce auld fai ther, the Barony Kirk-elder used to say. As the Bailey uttered his order, a line of his guards threw themselves across the passage of the bridge. The Highlanders halted. There was no officer near them to give them orders. They looked on each other, and muttered their astonishment and fears. The Chieftain and his staff were meanwhile marched on, in terrorem, towards the cannon's mouth then, suddenly defiled to the right. And as they turned the corner out of the Stockwell, they found, to their fresh astonishment, the street lined with stout threatening looking men in arms. The Highlanders were crowded through a narrow space where not more than a single man could go at Thus by the simplest contrivance imaginable, they were separated from each other: and thrown personally into the power of strangers. once. "My orders"-cried the person commanding there (it was Sir Robert Hamilton,) are to rid you of your cumbersome baggage; in short, to take away from you ilka thing, whilk ye hae come by, without the tedious process of buying, and paying for it. That's only fair, ye ken, my gallants!" One of his associates, a Highland student, repeated in Gallic, this order of Sir Robert. They laughed in Sir Robert's face. "That horse," added the commander of the student's party, "wi' a' manner o' humility permit me to say it, belangs, I am just informed, to Lord Kennedy,-dismount......seize him guards-" added he in a thundering voice, as the chief was drawing out both his pistols from the holsters, and uttering Gallic oaths, mingled in a grotesque manner, with the court oaths of Charles, in a voice half choked with rage and vexation. The guards seized him on each side, and he was dismounted in a trice. The staff rushed in to the relief of their commander, with a kind of howl which was gradually heightened into a shriekand which sent the word "Claymore," loud on air. It was a moment of frightful confusion. They threw themselves on the guards. Fresh guards, consisting of students, poured themselves in upon them. And in their turn the forty men in the rear fell upon those. A fresh supply of townsmen and students rushed in on them. The swords clashed. Poignards glanced in the air. They screamed: they cursed: they fought. The women and children shrieked, and tumbled down, in heaps; while others ran pell mell upon them, as they lay groaning, and sprachling, and banning those who had broken their limbs, and peeled their shins. Meantime the kettle-drum, in the rear, kept up a constant roll, which effectually drowned the noise of the tumult: so that the main body neither saw their officers, nor, for this reason, heard them. The result was, that they were all disarmed: and the officers deprived of their horses.— CHAPTER IX. -Lochiel, Lochiel, beware of the day! And coming events cast their shadows before!-CAMPBELL. Order being in some measure restored; the students threw themselves in a circle of three or four men deep, around the marauders; and commanded them to render up every other article of plunder. 66 Search us, and take what you shall find,”—said the chief doggedly. 66 No, verily," cried Sir Robert, "We are men of honour. None of my men put their hands into other men's pockets. That's the work o' highwaymen, and Heelan' Hosts! My orders are peremptory. And there is no time to be spent in parlying wi' sic reivers. Deliver up a' the gudes and gear aboot ye; on this lang table put them a' doon instanter. Men! make ready-I wull blaw ye a' to the Heelan' hills, in a giffy, if ye dinna, this instant, deliver up yer ill-gotten gear, ye base loons, and reivers!" The countenance of the chief, and the rest of these Caterans became suddenly changed. They put on looks the most ruesome imaginable. At one time they cursed and grumbled. They looked wofully around them on the military, and the laughing mob: then they crouched, and be sought. And finally, they smote their thighs and hands, and cried, out of pure indignation; and a sense of their utter helplessness. They were now become quite chop-fallen. And their long and lank countenances, and skinny jaws were eked out to a hideous length-like those of the quivering criminal at the gibbet. Then with groanings, and half suppressed oaths, and Gallic interjections; and the most ludicrous contortions, and fidgettings-all of which scenes the students enjoyed exquisitely-they began to pull out, and render up their plunder. One rummaged his portman teau, another his sporran, another his pockets, and drew out slowly, and with heavy sighs, piece by piece, what they had stowed away in them with much economy of space. The chief threw down a bunch of parchments, with their broad red seal attached to them: and some papers: then some linens, marked with the well-known devices and coats of arms of the nobility and gentlemen of the South and West: some gold buckles next made their appearance, and some silver plate, with gold rings and jewels,sparkling with gems-torn from the ears and fingers of beauty. "What hae ye there in that bunchy sporran o' yours, master chieftain," was clamorously repeated by several of the younger students. "Come,-oot wi' it ;-else our steels will scatter its fragments afore yer een.' The chief had with some anxiety kept this concealed under the foldings of his tartan plaid. And as this demand was so imperiously repeated, he groaned with vexation; and big drops of sweat broke over his brow. He dashed the bonnet off his head, scratched his glossy red curls; and replacing it, he felt for his claymore: and looked furiously around him, for his hainchman to bring him his arms. He talked earnestly with an aged clansman, who stood near him, and whose long white hairs streamed in the February wind.A young Highland student explained to Sir Robert the conversation of the parties, while the chieftain was pouring out the contents of his sporran, there fell out a necklace of elegant gems. It sparkled in the sunbeams as it fell on the table. There followed the figure of a coronet, made of diamonds; and some ornamented gold inlaid with rubies, topazes, and garnets: then a gold chain of exquisitely deli eate links, to which was appended a locket, containing a |