Having accompanied her supposed lover into the field, and walked about till towards evening, they then sat down under a hedge, where, after a little conversation, Caddell suddenly pulled out a knife, cut her throat, and made his escape, but not before he had waited till she was dead. However, in the distraction of his mind, he left behind him the knife with which he had perpetrated the deed, together with his case of instruments. When he came home it was observed, that he appeared exceedingly confused; though the reason of the perturbation of his mind could not even be guessed at. But on the following morning Miss Price being found murdered in the field, great numbers of people went to take a view of the body, among whom was the woman of the house where she lodged, who recollected that she had said, she was going to walk with Mr. Caddell ; on which the instruments were examined, and known to have helonged to him: he was accordingly taken into custody, and committed to the gaol of Staf ford; and being soon afterwards tried, was found guilty, condemned, and executed, at Stafford, on the 21st of July, 1700.

CAMERON, DR. ARCH. (TRAITOR,) was intended by his father for the profession of the law, and therefore sent to Glasgow, where he continued his studies some years; but, having an attachment to the practice of physic, he entered in the university of Edinburgh; whence he went to Paris; and then compleated his studies at Leyden in Holland. Though well qualified to have made a respectable figure in any capital city, yet he chose to reside for life near his native place; and, having returned to the Highlands, he married, and settled in the small town of Lochaber, where, though his practice was small, his generous conduct rendered him the de

light and the blessing of the neighbourhood. His wife bore him seven children, and was pregnant of the eighth at the unfortunate period of his death. While Dr. Cameron was living happy in the domestic way, the rebellion of 1745 broke out, and laid the foundation of the ruin of himself and his family. The pretender having landed, went to the house of Mr. M'Donald, who sent for the doctor's brother. The doctor went to his brother, to preventhim from entering into the pretender's measures, from which nothing but ruin could ensue. Mr. Cameron's brother having previously promised to bring all his servants in aid of the pretender, the latter upbraided him with an intention of breaking his promise; which so affected the generous spirit of the highlander, that he immediately went and took leave of his wife, and gave orders for his vassals, to the number of near twelve hundred, to have recourse to arms. At this time, his estate did not exceed 700l. per annum; his being able, then, to arm such a number, is a proof of the poverty and the vassalage of the country. Having now sent for his brother, to attend him as a physician: the doctor urged every argument against so rash an undertaking; from which he even besought him on his knees to desist. The brother would not be denied; and the doctor at length agreed to attend him as a physician, though he absolutely refused to accept any commission in the rebel army. This unhappy gentleman was distinguished by his humanity; and gave the readiest assistance, by night or day, to any wounded men of the royal army, who were made prisoners by the rebels. His brother being wounded in the leg at the battle of Falkirk, he attended him with the kindest assiduity, till himself was likewise slightly wounded. Dr. Cameron exhibited repeated

instances of his humanity; but when the battle of Culloden gave a decisive stroke to the hopes of the rebels, he and his brother escaped to the western islands, whence they sailed to France, in a vessel belonging to that kingdom. The doctor was appointed physician to a French regiment, of which his brother obtained the command; but the latter dying at the end of two years, the doctor became physician to Ogilvie's regiment, then in Flanders. A subscription being set on foot, in England and Scotland, in the year 1750, for the relief of those persons who had been attainted, and escaped into foreign countries; the doctor came into England to receive the money for his unfortunate fellow-sufferers. At the end of two years another subscription was opened; when the doctor, whose pay was inadequate to the support of his numerous family, came once more to this country, and having written a number of urgent letters to his friends, it was rumoured that he was returned. Hereupon a detachment from Lord George Beauclerk's regiment was sent in search of him, and he was taken in the following manner-Captain Graves, with thirty soldiers, going towards the place where it was presumed he was concealed, saw a little girl at the extremity of a village, who, on their approach, fled towards another village. She was pursued by a serjeant and two soldiers, who could only come near enough to observe her whispering to a boy, who seemed to have been placed for the purpose of conveying intelligence. Unable to overtake the boy, they presented their guns at him; on which he fell on his knees, and begged his life; which they promised, on condition that he would shew them the place where Dr. Cameron was concealed. Hereupon the boy pointed to the house where he

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was, which the soldiers surrounded, and took him prisoner. Being sent to Edinburgh, he was thence conducted to London, and committed to the Tower. While in this confinement, he was denied the use of pen, ink, and paper, nor suffered to speak to his friends but when the warder was present. On his examination before the lords of the privy council, he denied that he was the same Dr. Cameron whose name had been mentioned in the act of attainder; which made it necessary to procure living evidence to prove his identity. Being brought to the bar of the Court of King's Bench on the 17th of May, he was arraigned on the act of attainder, when, declining to give the court any farther trouble, he acknowledged, that he was the same person who had been attainted on which the lord chief justice Lee pronounced sentence in the following terms:"You, Archibald Cameron, of Lochiel, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, must be removed from hence to his Majesty's prison, the Tower of London, from whence you came, and on Thursday, the 7th of June next, your body to be drawn on a sledge to the place of execution; there to be hanged, but not till you are dead; your bowels to be taken out, your body quartered, your head cut off, and affixed at the King's disposal, and the Lord have mercy on your soul!" After his commitment to the Tower, he begged to see his wife, who was then at Lisle in Flanders; and, on her arrival, the meeting between them was inexpres sibly affecting. The unhappy lady wept incessantly, on reflecting on the fate of her husband, herself, and numerous family. Coming to take her, final leave of him on the morning of execution, she was so agitated by her contending passions, that she was attacked by repeated fits, and, a few days after, the

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the death of her unfortunate husband, she became totally deprived of her senses. The convict, being brought out of the Tower, was delivered to the sheriffs at ten in the morning; and, being placed in a sledge, was drawn through the streets of London to Tyburn, amidst an immense number of spectators. He was dressed in a bag-wig, and wore a light-coloured coat, with a scarlet waistcoat and breeches. He bowed to several people in the windows, as he passed; and there was equal manliness and composure in his behaviour. The procession reached the fatal tree a little before twelve, when Dr. Cameron begged that his body might be permitted to hang till he was dead; which request was granted. He looked round him in a manner that testified the calmness of his nind; and said to the clergyman who attended him, "This is a glorious day to me. It is my new birth-day! There are more witnesses at this birth, than were at my first." The clergyman asking him how he found himself, he said, "Thank God, I am very well; only a little fatigued with my journey; but, blessed be God! I am come to the end of it." This unhappy man then declared, that he should die a member of the church of England, in the faith of which he had been educated. After the body had hung more than half an hour, it was cut down; and the remaining part of the sentence being carried into execution, the head and body were put into a coffin, and carried to an undertaker's, whence they were conveyed and interred in the chapel of the Savoy. The doctor suffered on the 7th of June, 1753, in the 46th year of his age.--He was the last who was executed on account of the rebellion; and of all who were concerned in it, perhaps, the least deserving of his calamitous fate.

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