Our troops croft the water,
The King follow'd after,
But the Highlanders would not go over;
For though they all swear,

Yet none of them care

To fight for the Houfe of Hanover.

They would not agree

To croffing the sea,

And a doubtful campaign to go thro';

For receiving their pay,

Their fixpence a day,

Was all they thought they must do.]

They remember'd Argyll,

What he did ere while,

And they follow'd that step of his Grace's ; Who feeing from far

That there must be a war,

Refign'd his command and his places.

So when danger was nigh

They determin'd to fly,

And on England each man turn'd his breech;

And with joy they run home

To the place whence they come,

To beggary, oatmeal, and itch.

Do our regents act right,

Who hinder their flight,
And to Scotland won't let them repair?
They are furely too ftrict,
For can they inflict

A worfe punishment than to go there?

O yes there is one,

And I with it was done,

In fpite of all Semple + may fay;
Since they won't march or fight,
Disband them outright,

And ftrip them of cloaths and of pay.

We have fometimes been told,
That the English of old

Have filed from their enemies blows;

But the Scotch, for their glory,

Are the firft in all story,

That run without feeing their foes.

What then would they have done

At the attack of a town,

Where the bullets and bombs would have hit 'em? At the first walls or ditches,

If they'd had any breeches,

They certainly would have b

-t'em.

Lord Semple, their colonel.

George,

George, ftand thy own friend,
And never depend

On fuch Jacobite rebels as these are;
They're for another king all,

And would fly to his call,

As Lepidus' troops did to Cæfar.

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Do our regents act right,

Who hinder their flight,
And to Scotland won't let them repair?
They are furely too ftrict,
For can they inflict

A worfe punishment than to go there?

O yes there is one,

And I wish it was done,

In fpite of all Semple + may fay;
Since they won't march or fight,
Difband them outright,

And strip them of cloaths and of pay.

We have fometimes been told,
That the English of old

Have fled from their enemies blows;

But the Scotch, for their glory,

Are the firft in all story,

That run without feeing their foes.

What then would they have done

At the attack of a town,

Where the bullets and bombs would have hit 'em? At the first walls or ditches,

If they'd had any breeches,

They certainly would have b-t 'em.

Lord Semple, their colonel.

George,

George, ftand thy own friend,
And never depend

On fuch Jacobite rebels as these are;
They're for another king all,
And would fly to his call,

As Lepidus' troops did to Cæfar.

THE SURPRISING HISTORY OF A LATE LONG

ADMINISTRATION,

SHEWING THE WONDERFUL TRANSACTIONS, THE WISE NEGOTIATIONS, THE PRUDENT MEASURES, AND THE GREAT EVENTS OF THАТ MOST ASTONISHING PERIOD.

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piled the history of our adminiftration: We have thought proper, at his humble requeft, to permit'