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 ropes which tyranny had bound on the arms of the men. The weapons of the fallen foe supplied what lacking of arms; and with great vigour we moved forward to charge the enemy on the left flank, Claverhouse formed a hollow square—himself in the centre; his men fought gallantly, they did all that solders could do in their situation. Wherever a gap was made Clavers thurst his men forward, and speedily filled it up. Three times he rolled headlong on the heath, as he hastened from rank to rank, and as often he remounted My little band thinned his ranks. He paid us a visit. Here I distinctly saw the features and shape of this far-famed man. He was small of stature, and not well formed; his arms were long in proportion to his legs; he had a complexion unusually dark; his features were not lighted up with sprightliness, as some fabulously reported, they seemed gloomy as hell; his cheeks were lank and deeply furrowed; his eye-brows were drawn down, and gathered into a kind of knot at their junctions, and thrown up at their extremities, they had, in short, the strong impression given by our painters to those on the face of Judas Iscariot; his eyes were hollow; they had not the lustre of genius, nor the fire of vivacity; they were lighted up by that dark fire of wrath which is kindled and famed by an in-