Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . g ex-pected near Greenock, 200 of them, with seven9-pounders, marched there with the greatest enthu-siasm to meet the foe, who never appeared ; butby the time these two companies returned, transportsto convey the whole for foreign service had cometo anchor in Leith Roads. Where the scene of that service lay the menknew not. It was kept a mystery from them andtheir officers. The former would not believe arumour sjiread that it was to be tiie Isle of (]uern- 3o8 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Aithura Seat. sey, and a deep excite
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . g ex-pected near Greenock, 200 of them, with seven9-pounders, marched there with the greatest enthu-siasm to meet the foe, who never appeared ; butby the time these two companies returned, transportsto convey the whole for foreign service had cometo anchor in Leith Roads. Where the scene of that service lay the menknew not. It was kept a mystery from them andtheir officers. The former would not believe arumour sjiread that it was to be tiie Isle of (]uern- 3o8 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Aithura Seat. sey, and a deep excitement prevailed, when it waswhispered—none knew how—that they were undersecret orders for the distant East Indies—in otherwords, that they had been sold to the East India(Jomijany by the Government, and that, worse than the authorities basely having an idea that the poorclansmen of Kintail were ignorant, unable to coni-])rehend the nature of their stipulations, and incap-able of demanding redress for any breach of the Seaforth men were neither so ignorant. CLOCKMILL HOUSK, I7S0. *{From a Print by Kohcrt and Ancre^u Fiddeil, in possession r/Dr. J. A. Sidfy.) all, they had been sold by their officers and by thechief, whom they had looked upon as a father andleader. All their native jealousy and distrust of theSaxon was now kindled and strengthened by theirlove of home. General David Stewart, in his? Sketches of the Highlanders, boldly asserts thatthe regiment was secretly under orders for India, nor so confiding as the Government supposed, andthey were determined at all hazards not to submitto the least infraction of the terms on which theywere enlisted as Fencible Inflintry—limited serviceand within the British Isles ; and when the day forembarkation came, the 22nd September, their lorg-smothered wrath could no longer be hidden. The regiment paraded on the Castle hill, and * This buililiiig (whi^h was in ihe shape of the letter L, w itii the
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