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horse and dragoons, to join those that had been sent off from the Duke's army. They pursued with much alacrity, and having overtaken the rear of the rebel army, had a few skirmishes in Lanca- shire. Though the millitia of Cumberland and Westmoreland were raised and armed, by the Duke's order, to harass them in their march, and though the bridges were broken down, the roads damaged, and the beacons lighted to alarm the country, they retreated very regularly with their small train of Artillery. On the 19th of the month the highland army reaehed Carlisle, where the majority of the English in it were left at their own desire, after which Charles reinforced the ga- rison of the place, and crossed the rivers Eden and Solway into Scotland ; having thus accom- plished one of the most surprising retreats, per- haps ever performed. They comitted no violence nor outrage, and they were effeetually restrained from the exercise of rapine. Though the weath er was excessively cold, and though they must have been exposed to much hunger and fatigue, they left no sick, and lost only a few stragglers, but retired in good order, carrying off their ean- non in the faee of the enemy. The Duke of     Cumberland invested Carlisle with his whole ar- my, on the 21st day of December; and on the 30th, the whole garrison surrendered by a kind