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The original does not, perhaps, warrant the above expression, which might be considered an invidious allusion to the desertion of General Hamilton's infantry, at the Boyne.

This may allude to the ancient name of the Irish, or more likely to their fidelity to James, in opposition to the treachery of the Scots to his father.

$3$"The Irish scholar who thinks this version over wrought, may be better satisfied with— "The long -gorged adventurer shall pine for a meal. Driven hungry and houseless from Grana Weal."— T.

This excellent Jacobite song has been alluded to in the notes to the last. It was written to the popular air of "The white Cockade," but the reader, or rather the singer, will easily perceive that the time must be slow, and the expression, almost throughout, pathetic. The Scotch claim the air, as "My gallant braw John Highlandman."

$4$This was an epithet of opprobrium in frequent use with the Jacobites, and applied by them to the House of Hanover, by a mal-pronunciation of the family name of that Royal stock.

$5$This comparison of the youthful chevalier to the renowned heroes of Irish lore, from whom he was descended, is peculiarly happy, and was well calculated to excite feelings of sympathy in his favour. A French writer, describing the prince and his sister, after alluding to the opinion of Plato, that "the soul