. The history of Scotland, its Highlands, regiments and clans . the Highlands, and a few districtsnorth of the Tay, where Catholicity and non-juringEpiscopacy still retained a footing, the rest of Scotlandwas not disposed to join a contest for legitimacy, whichthey might imagine would not, if successful, strengthenthe liberties of the nation, and might possibly impairthem. The regular line of hereditary succession hadbeen departed from, and it did not seem wise after atrial of fifty-seven years, during which period the politi-cal frame and texture of society had undergone a com-plete revolutio
. The history of Scotland, its Highlands, regiments and clans . the Highlands, and a few districtsnorth of the Tay, where Catholicity and non-juringEpiscopacy still retained a footing, the rest of Scotlandwas not disposed to join a contest for legitimacy, whichthey might imagine would not, if successful, strengthenthe liberties of the nation, and might possibly impairthem. The regular line of hereditary succession hadbeen departed from, and it did not seem wise after atrial of fifty-seven years, during which period the politi-cal frame and texture of society had undergone a com-plete revolution, to place the succession on its originalfooting, by restoring the son of James the Jacobites, however, imbued with ideas of inde-feasible hereditary right, were deaf to every argumentfounded on expediency or the will of the nation, andcontended that every departure from the direct line ofsuccession was an usurpation, and contrary to thedivine law. No sovereign was, therefore, held by themas legitimate, while there existed a nearer heir to the 190. ALARM IN ENGLAND crown in the direct line of succession; but they did notreflect that, upon this principle, there was scarcely alegitimate sovereign in Among the Lowland Jacobites who displayed thegreatest zeal on the present occasion, was Lord Ogilvy,eldest son of the Earl of Airly, who joined the princeat Edinburgh on the third of October with a regimentof six hundred men, chiefly from the county of Forfar,where his fathers estates were situated. Most of theofficers of the regiment were either of the Airly family,or bore the name of Ogilvy. Lord Ogilvy was followedby old Gordon of Glenbucket, an equally zealous sup-porter of the Stuarts, who arrived at Edinburgh nextday with a body of four hundred men, which he hadcollected in Strathdon, Strathaven, Glenlivet, and Auch-indoun. Glenbucket had been a major-general in Marsarmy, in 1715, but he now contented himself with thecolonelcy of the regiment he had just ra
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