"Who for many a day Had followed stout and stern, Where through battles, rout, and reel, Storm of shot and hedge of steel, Led the grandson of Lochiel, Valiant Fassifern!
Though steel and shot he leads no more, Low laid 'mid friends' and foemen's gore But long his native lake's wild shore, And Suinart rough, and high Ardgower, And Morven long and tell;
And proud Bennevis hear with awe, How, upon Bloody Quatre Bras, Brave Cameron heard the wild hurrah Of conquest, as he fell!"
Riddled with wounds, Colonel Donald M'Donald of Inch, Knight of St. Vladimir, died in 1830, and is interred at Edinburgh; Lieutenant Winchester died there in 1846. Captain Campbell died, by leaping over a window, with a pistol in each hand, to chastise a person who had insulted him; some have died as emigrants among the wilds of the far West; many more are lying near Uppark, in Jamaica, where the close-ranked headstones show where 1300 of the Gordon Highlanders are sleeping far from their native hills; and now Paymaster Gordon, and Lieutenants Ewen Ross, John Grant, and Alexander Gordon alone survive to wear the _war decoration_.
[Footnote 3: As an example of the number of _officers_ belonging to the clans, who served during the war and escaped its slaughter, we may state that there were on full and half-pay commissions, in 1816, 22 Buchanans; 67 Camerons; 22 Drummonds; 26 Fergusons; 41 Forbeses; 49 Grahames; 90 Frazers; 96 Grants; 144 M'Leans and M'Kenzies; 248 Campbells; and other names in the same proportion.]
[Footnote 4: MS. Records, 92nd Highlanders.]
[Footnote 6: "Record:" Lyon Court, Edinburgh.]
[Footnote 7: Note of his services furnished to author from Horse Guards.]
Sir Samuel Greig, Governor of Cronstadt, Admiral of all the Russias, and commonly called _the Father of the Russian Navy_, was a Scotsman of humble but respectable parentage, and was born at the ancient seaport town of Inverkeithing, in Fifeshire, on the 30th of November, 1735.[8] He was educated by the parochial schoolmaster, who lived long to boast of his pupil, for the Domini would seem to have been still alive when the old statistical account of Scotland was published in 1794.
When very young, Samuel Greig entered the British navy, and at an early age obtained the rank of lieutenant. In 1759 he served with the fleet of Admiral Sir Edward Hawke, C.B. (afterwards Lord Hawke), when blockading the harbour of Brest, where a fine French fleet lay, under the pennant of the Marquis de Conflans. At that time a double invasion of Britain (one by the way of Scotland, the other on the coast of England) was threatened; but Commodore Boys blocked up Dunkirk, and Rodney bombarded Havre-de-Grace, while the French transports and flat-bottomed boats lay inactive in Brest, with the fleet of M. de Conflans; till a violent storm in autumn, having driven the ships of Sir Edward Hawke into Torbay, the marquis put to sea with twenty-one sail of the line and four frigates, and threw all England into consternation.