'S na 'm bitheamaid uile dileas

Do 'n righ bha toirt cuireadh dhuinn,
Cha 'n fhaicte sinn gu dilinn

A striochda do 'n chulaidh so.

If this punishment had been confined to the clans that took part in the rebellion, it would not have been so cruel, but friend and foe were treated alike—with equal severity. It was very hard for those clans who remained faithful to the Government, that they should have to suffer this degradation and shame as the reward of their fidelity-not only to lay aside the swords they had used on behalf of the Government, but compelled to carry the brand on their very backs; it looked as if it were more the intention to outrage their feelings as a race than the act of a wise and just administration. "It is impossible to read this Act," says D: Johnson, "without considering it rather as an ignorant wantonness of power, than the proceeding of a wise and beneficent Legislature." Rob Donn expresses the sentiments of his countrymen when he says in

ORAN NAN CASAGAN DUBHA

Lamh Dhe leinn a dhaoine

C' uime chaochail sibh fasan,
'S nach 'eil agaibh de shaorsa
Fiu an aodaich a chleachd sibh,
'S i mo bharail mu'n éighe,
Tha 'n aghaidh feileadh a's osan,
Gu'm bheil caraid aig Tearlach,
Ann am Parlamaid Shasuinn.

Faire Faire; 'Righ Deorsa,
'N ann a spors' air do dhilsean,
Deanamh achdachan ura,

Gu bhi dublachadh 'n daorsa,
Ach on 's balaich gun uails' iad,
'S fearr am bualadh no'n caomhnadh,
'S bidh ni's lugh g' ad fheitheamh,

'N uair thig a leithid a ri'sd oirnn.

Ma gheibh do namhaid 's do charaid,

An aon pheanas an Albainn,

'S iad a dh-eirich 'na t-aghaidh

Rinn an roghainn a b' fhearra dhiubh.

Rob Donn's countrymen took up arms on behalf of the Government, both in 1715 and in 1745, and it was certainly galling to be subjected to such treatment as this for their pains.

(To be continued.)

TO THE GAEL.

I'll sing a song to Highlanders, wherever they may be,
A song of love and friendship to my kinsmen o'er the sea,
A thousand joys I wish to all who claim the mountain land,
A thousand times I'd love to shake each honest Highland hand;
Our Caledonia silent sits upon her mountains lone,

Dark mists and tempests wild rage still around her rocky throne,
Her fountains pour their music hoarse, her rivers sweetly sing,
Her heather-bells in beauty still their fragrant blossoms fling.

Come sing a song for Caledon ! the home we love so well,
In every distant cot or hall her strains of beauty swell,
Howe'er oppressors crush our race, our hearts are ever true
To Caledonia's lonely glens and rocky mountains blue.

Her wintry blasts sweep loudly o'er her children's lowly graves,
'Mid ruined cots their melody in sorrow's cadence raves,

Her summer winds the thistles kiss, and sigh in sad despair
For stalwart men and bonnie maids who once were dwelling there;
Her glens are green; but, oh, it is the verdure of the tomb !
Cold desolation spreads around its dark and deathly gloom,
The laverock's lilt e'en seems a song of anguish or of pain,
And Caledonia weeps for days that ne'er will come again.
But sing a song for Caledon, &c.

Her waves still leap with joyous pride around her rocky shore,
Or break their swelling, foamy crests in anger's sullen roar
That rolls to heaven, and tells the tale of tyranny and blood,
Which clings to Caledonia's name and cheerless widowhood;
Her sons that dwell around her now no more are tartan clad,
The maidens that adorn her still are songless now and sad.
The love which once imbued their hearts is quenched by Saxon scorn,
And chiefless now they tread her hills forsaken and forlorn.

But sing a song for Caledon, &c.

Denied by landlord strangers harsh, the simple right to live,
In distant lands they seek the joys that willing toil can give,
And tho' afar from hills and glens their love they ne'er forget,
Around each hearth is heard the songs of Caledonia yet;
Then tho' our Fatherland is reft of ancient might and worth,
We aye will show that Highlanders are foremost on the earth.
Our love of home can never die, as Gaels our boast appears, --
Where'er we live we proudly stand as Freedom's pioneers.

Sunderland.

Come sing a song for Caledon! the home we love so well,
In every distant cot or hall her dear old music swell,
Howe'er oppressors crush our race, our hearts are ever true
To Caledonia's lonely glens and rocky mountains blue.

WM. ALLAN.

CHARLES FRASER-MACKINTOSH, M.P., F.S.A., Scot.

BIOGRAPHICAL Sketches of prominent Highlanders have from time to time appeared in these pages. It will be very generally conceded, whatever differences of opinion may exist on minor. matters of detail in his public career hitherto, that the subject of the present sketch is a very prominent Highlander, and that he well deserves a very high, if not the leading place among those who will have left their mark on the history of the Highlands, politically and socially. A notice of his career will be specially interesting at the present juncture, when the labours and the result of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the state of the Highlands, in which he has taken such a distinguished part on the side of the people, is placed before the country, and that quite independently of whether the result of the Inquiry is considered satisfactory or the reverse.

Mr Fraser-Mackintosh was born on the 5th of June 1828 at Dochnalurg, on the estate of Dochgarroch. His father, Alexander Fraser, a cadet of the family of Fraser of Kinneries, was born so far back as 1764. His great-grandfather, also named Alexander, lived in 1708 at Achnabodach, now Charleston, on the property of Kinmylies, and is on record as having paid a sum of money to the Town Council of Inverness for the freedom of toll over the old stone bridge, carried away by the flood of 1849, for himself and for his heirs for ever. Two of his sons, having been "out" in 1715, were among the first Highlanders who emigrated to South Carolina; and from them sprung the numerous and wealthy Frazers (for so they spell their surname) who, for the last century and a-half, have held such influential positions in the city of Charleston, and were so prominent in the late Federal and Confederate war in the United States of America.

Alexander Fraser, Dochnalurg, married Marjory, daughter of Captain Alexander Mackintosh, only son of William, only son of Duncan, a Captain in the Mackintosh Regiment of 1715, and third brother of Brigadier Mackintosh of Borlum, who commanded the Highlanders in the first Stuart Rising. Among the issue of this marriage was our present subject, Mr Charles Fraser

Mackintosh, M.P., F.S.A., Scot. His grandfather, Captain Alexander Mackintosh, above named, married his cousin, Janet, eldest daughter of Charles Maclean of Dochgarroch, the head of a family for several generations prominent in the immediate vicinity of Inverness, descended from Sir Charles Maclean of Urquhart, after whom they were styled Clan Tearlaich.

Mr Fraser-Mackintosh received his early education under the private tutorship of the Rev. A. Watson. Later, from 1836 to 1840, he was under the tuition of Mr Forbes, of Dochgarroch School, an eminent classical scholar, who did such justice to his charge that in his eleventh year he gained prizes at a great Highland competiton, held in 1839 in Inverness, for Latin and Greek. After leaving Dochgarroch School Mr Fraser-Mackintosh attended for one year Messrs Gair's Seminary at Torbreck.

It had been first intended that he should seek his fortune abroad, but an elder brother having then recently died in Calcutta, while another was at sea, and his mother having the bones of one uncle and of three brothers resting in foreign lands, it was finally resolved that young Mr Charles should seek his fortune at home, in the legal profession. In 1842, in his fourteenth year, he entered the office of Mr John Mackay, solicitor, Procurator-Fiscal for the county; and in 1844 he was indentured as an apprentice with the late Patrick Grant, Sheriff-Clerk for the county of Inverness, with whom he remained for three years. From 1847 to 1849 he served with the late Mr Charles Stewart of Brin, after which he went to Edinburgh, where he served in the office of a Writer to the Signet, meantime attending the classes of Civil Law, Scots Law, Conveyancing, and Rhetoric, taking an honourable position in nearly all of them. He passed as a Notary Public in May 1853; and in the following month, in the 25th year of his age, was admitted a Procurator at Inverness. He soon made for himself a good position in his profession at the head of an extensive and lucrative practice.

In 1857 he appeared prominently for the first time in public life, acting as one of the agents of Alexander Campbell of Monzie, who in that year unsuccessfully contested the Inverness Burghs as an Advanced Liberal, against Mr (now Sir) Alexander Matheson, the sitting member.

In the same year his uncle, Eneas Mackintosh, formerly an

officer in the Royal Navy, who died in August 1857, by his settlement-proceeding on the narrative that he was the last descendant of Duncan Mackintosh, third son of William Mackintosh of Borlum, and for the keeping up of the family namerequested his nephew, the subject of these remarks, to assume the additional surname of Mackintosh, to whom the Royal license for that end was duly granted.

The same year, he was urged to become a candidate for the Town Council, and he stood for the Third Ward, when he was returned at the top of the poll, very much in consequence of his energetic and warm advocacy of the popular Parliamentary candidate, Mr Campbell of Monzie, in the recent contest; and this position he always maintained until he finally retired from the Council in 1862, where he had invariably supported the advanced popular and reform party, then, and for several years after, in a minority.

In 1859 he again supported the advanced Liberal party in the Burghs in their second attempt to return Mr Campbell of Monzie, on this occasion giving his services as agent gratuitously, and subscribing £100 towards the expenses of the contest.

In 1860 he was elected Captain of the 4th Inverness Company of Rifle Volunteers, and continued in command for the next ten years, when he had to resign in consequence of other pressing engagements.

In 1861 he was associated with Messrs G. G. Mackay, C.E., Donald Davidson, and Hugh Rose, solicitors, in bringing about the most important improvement that was ever made in the town of Inverness-the great Union Street Scheme, which has so largely benefited and beautified the town, and proved so lucrative to the projectors. In 1863 he bought the estate of Drummond in the neighbourhood, which had once belonged to his great-great uncle, Provost Phineas Mackintosh; and in 1864 that of Ballifeary, both now important and populous suburbs of Inverness.

In May 1867 he retired from the legal profession, when he was entertained to a public dinner by his brother townsmen, and from June in that year until July 1868, he travelled all over Europe. On his return home he consented to act, for a limited period, as Commissioner for the late Mackintosh of Mackintosh, but he gave up that position in 1873, when he was entertained to