P. G. WILSON, JEWELLER TO THE QUEEN, INVERNESS, Has a large and beautiful Stock of JEWELLERY, in the Fashionable and must desired Patterns; and which have been patronised by many distinguished persons of taste. SILVER AND ELECTRO-PLATE in a great variety of patterns, suitable for Presentation, and including all the Articles required for Table use. P. G. WILSON'S WATCHES are of the best and most improved construction, carefully finished, and guaranteed first-class Time-Keepers. CLOCKS AND TIME-PIECES in great variety, suitable for the Drawing-room, also for Dining-room, Hall, Office, Lobby, &c. The Largest Stock in the North of Scotland to choose from. The Repairing of Watches, Clocks, and Jewellery receives careful and prompt attention, while the charges are as moderate as any in the tra-le. Orders by Post receive most careful attention. MACDOUGALL'S. ་་་་་ Our deliveries of New and Special Fabrics for the present Season are now to hand. Our Large Stock, and Improved Facilities, enable us to submit greater Choice and better Value than Minor Establishments, or Large Associations, and we have great confidence in respectfully soliciting the honour of a visit. MACDOUGALL & CO., Manufacturers of Tartans and Tweeds to Her Majesty and the Royal Family. THE ROYAL CLAN TARTAN WAREHOUSE, INVERNESS AND LONDON. ALEXANDER SIMPSON (LATE INNES & CO.), Tea Dealer, Family Grocer, & Italian "THE GROCERY," 13 HIGH STREET, INVERNESS. Business Established in 1767. Agent for the Edinburgh Life Assurance Co. and the Phoenix Fire Assurance Co. MACDONALD BROTHERS, FLESHERS, 12 UNION STREET, Beg to inform their Customers and the Public generally that they have made extensive purchases of CATTLE and SHEEP for the Summer and Autumn Trade, and they are in a position to execute any orders entrusted to them on very short notice. SHOOTING LODGES and Country Orders punctually attended to. The Best Meat only kept. 12 UNION STREET, INVERNESS manufactured into GOODS for own use by sending it to ROBERT HOUSTON & SONS, 28 WEST BLACKHALL STREET AND ROCKBANK MILLS, GREENOCK. EACH CUSTOMER'S LOT IS KEPT SEPARATE, Un ́ less he instructs otherwise. Fixed lengths not guaranteed; but average yield from 24 lbs, clean scoured Cheviot Wool exceeds 21 yards Strong Tweed, or 28 yards "Homespun or Suminer Tweed." REDUCED CHARGES on Tweed Pieces, 35 yards and upwards, 28 inches wide and Broad Blankets 8 yards and upwards. Write for Patterns and Prices. New Season's Designs. Carriage of Wool per Goods Conveyance payable by R. H. & S. FOR SALE. Scotch Cheviot Tweeds, Blankets, e c., our own manufacture; any length cut. SERVANTS-Families requiring Servants, and DR ARCHIBALD CAMERON OF LOCHIEL. DR ARCHIBALD CAMERON was the fourth son of John Cameron, eighteenth of Lochiel, the grandson of Sir Ewen Dubh, and brother of the "Gentle Lochiel" of 1745. He was born in 1707, and was originally educated for the Bar, but "observing that in order to be properly qualified for an advocate he must be master of all the quirks and sophistical reasonings that are usually made use of to puzzle a cause and hoodwink the understanding with factitious arguments," he applied himself to the study of a science more agreeable to his natural genius and bent of mind"-the medical profession, which was finally chosen by him. He studied anatomy under Dr Alexander Munro, then a distinguished professor, like his father before him, in the University of Edinburgh; while he studied physic under Dr Sinclair, one of the most eminent professors of his day. He afterwards travelled abroad, and studied for some time in Paris. Having thus fully qualified himself for the practice of his profession, he returned to Lochaber, where he married and settled among his own people. According to one authority, his services were much required morally, as well as physically. The author of The Life of Dr Archibald Cameron, published in London in 1753, says that he "who might have made a considerable figure even in a Court, or a populous and well-cultivated city, contents himself with exercising his talents among a people whose manners and fierceness resembled them very much to the wild beasts of a forest; yet by his gentle and humane carriage among them, many were taught to follow a more honest course of life than is generally ascribed to the Highlanders, especially the Camerons, who have been reckoned the most infamous of all the clans for their thefts and plunderings. The Doctor therefore took as much pains in cultivating the minds of these poor ignorant wretches as he did of their bodies in prescribing them proper remedies in all their illnesses. So that the whole clan, by means of his, and his brother's instructions, were greatly reformed in their morals. Honesty and industry increased everywhere by the encouragement given by their patrons, who took all imaginable pains to instruct them in the principles of justice and religion, and to civilise their manners, by teaching them to behave like rational and sociable creatures." The author of the booklet from which we quote is not known; but it is beyond question that he was as woefully ignorant of the character of the Highland people as he undoubtedly was of the history of that family to whom Dr Cameron belonged. Considering how severely the author writes against the Highlanders generally, and the Camerons in particular, it is agreeable to find him writing so favourably of Dr. Cameron, who, he informs us, "was a man of no ambition but of a quiet and easy temper," whom the reader must not expect to find "engaged in any notable exploits, his only or chief business in the army" of Prince Charles "being to attend his brother Lochiel, and to assist him with his skill if any disaster should happen to befal him in battle." The same writer also informs us that "the doctor could not for a good while be prevailed upon to join" Prince Charles, and that he strongly urged upon his brother Donald to keep out of the rebellion. "He remonstrated in the strongest terms upon the unsurmountable obstacles that he foresaw would attend the undertaking, and the terrible consequences of a miscarriage. Lochiel, however, would take no denial, telling him, that he did not want the assistance of his sword or his valour, but only desired he would attend him as his companion, that he might always have the advantage of his advice and skill, in case the fortune of war should render either of them necessary. The doctor, how ill-soever he thought of the cause, yet his affection for his brother, and the many signal obligations he lay under to him, at length prevailed over all other considerations, and he submitted to share his brother's fate whatever it should be. But though the doctor was, with great reluctance, and, in a manner, forced to join his brother's measures, yet he absolutely refused to accept any commission in the army; neither did he act there, as ever I could learn, in any other capacity than as a physician.* He was perfectly unacquainted with the military art, and therefore wholly unqualified to give his advice, or even his vote in council, upon any operations that were proposed by the chiefs or general officers. Yet as he was always among them, it is supposed, at least in the eye of the law that he countenanced, encouraged, and, as much as it was in his power, assisted the rebels, in all their outrages against the Government. Dr Cameron was of so humane a disposition that, if credit be given to general report, when any wounded prisoners were brought to him, he was as assiduous in his care of them, as if they had fought in the cause he espoused; and it is affirmed that he never refused his assistance to anyone that asked it, whether friend or foe." This appears to be a very fair estimate of Dr Cameron's character. At Falkirk, Lochiel in the heat of the action was wounded by a musket-ball in the heel, "which being observed by his brother, the doctor, who always kept near his person, he begged him to retire to have it dressed, which he did accordingly; but as the doctor was lending him his assistance he himself received a slight wound." Lochiel's wound was, however, slight, for we have seen that he was able to lead his men into Falkirk after the battle. We have also seen that Lochiel was severely wounded at Culloden, in both ankles, when he was carried off the field by his two henchmen, assisted by the doctor, who dressed his wounds with every possible care, and followed him in his wanderings for some months after, doing everything that filial affection and medical skill could suggest to affect a speedy cure of his wounds. * The writer is clearly wrong here, as will be seen hereafter. |