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clan, and erected Charles' standard with this motto, " Tandem Triumphans:” Triumphing at last. When the news of Charles' arrival was spread abroad, the chiefs who had been previously in- formed of it, and who concurred in his scheme, soon repaired to his standard. When he had got a sufficent number to make the appearance of an army, he marched with them to within a mile of Fort-William, and there encamped. Having en- reased his forces to the number of about two Thousand, he marched forward to a hill, about six miles distant from Fort Augustus, and being informed that General Cope was coming to at- tack him, he waited with a resolution of hazard- ing an engagement; but the General, either distrusting his own strength, or for some other reason, proceeded to Aberdeen, where he em- barked his army on board some ships. which transported it to Dunbar, where he landed.  On the 30th of August Charles arrived at Blair, the residence of the Duke of Athol, upon which that nobleman and several gentlemen of the county of Fife retired to Edinburgh. After this he proceeded to Perth, Dumblain, and Stir- ling; and on the 16th of September encamped with his army at Gray's Mill, about two miles from Edinburgh, where some of the magistrates