. Memoriale del progresso reale in Scozia . rifling, e di conseguenza è disposto a credere, che se gli errori esistano dovunque durante tutta la narrazione, devono necessariamente beso piccolo sia in numero che in importanza, in modo da lasciare ad esso tutto il thecharacter di fedeltà che può appartenere ad una prestazione umana. HEls più si è immolato ad esprimere questa convinzione, perché le evervinformation gli sono state prontamente fornite da quei distinti per-sonages che hanno portato parti prominenti nelle scene descritte, i sheetsessendo successivamente sottoposti alla loro revisione rigorosa, per cui le elemosini così da esprimere

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. Memorial of the royal progress in Scotland . rifling, and he is consequently disposed to believe, that if errors do existanywhere throughout the whole narrative, they must necessarily beso small both in number and importance, as to leave to it all thecharacter of fidelity that can belong to a human performance. Heis the more emboldened to express this conviction, because evervinformation was readily supplied to him by those distinguished per-sonages who bore prominent parts in the scenes described, the sheetsbeing afterwards subjected to their strict revision, for which hebegs thus to express his most grateful acknowledgments. xiv TO THE READER. At the risk of increasinff the number of its pages, but with thehope of imparting to them a greater degree of interest in the eyesof those who are unacquainted with Scotland, it has been thoughtright to notice the antiquities, and other objects of interest, as wellas to describe the scenery all along the route of The QueensProgress. The (jfuAMiE Iloiisi:, l.v< Julii 1843. INTRODUCTION.. HE Scottish national character has an inhe-^>rent tendency to a certain peculiar descrip-tion of loyalty, having perhaps more ofromance than of reason in it, of which thelater periods of the history of the people arereplete with glowing- examples. It wasespecially manifested by all ranks, from the peer to the peasant, duringthose chivalric but vain struggles, made for the restoration of theStuart family to that throne from which they had been driven bv themajority of the British nation. The poor nameless Highlander, whoso nobly refused to betray him whom he conscientiously believed tobe his legitimate Prince, though tempted to do so by a reward, in hiseyes great as the riches of Croesus, and who afterwards suffered anignominious death for stealing a cow, was but one prominent exampleof that devotion which was generally diffused. It was this very flameof Scottish loyalty, indeed, burning like an ignis fatims before theeyes of the brave

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