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OHN FRASER, Enign in the Mater of Lovat&apos;s Regiment, was hot through the Thigh by a Muket Bullet, at the Battle of Culloden, and was taken Prioner after the Battle, at a little Ditance from the Field, and carried to the Houe of Culloden, where a Multitude of other wounded Prioners lay under trong Guards. There he, and the other mierable Gentlemen (for mot of them were Gentlemen) lay with their Wounds undreed, for two Days, in great Torture. Upon the third Day he was carried out of Culloden Houe, and with other eighteen of his Fellow Prioners ﬂung into Carts, which they imagined were to carry them to Invernes to be dres'd of their Wounds: They were oon undeceived; the Carts topt at a Park Dyke at ome Ditance from the Houe, there they were dragged out of the Carts: The Soldiers who guarded them, under Command of three Officers, carried the Prioners cloe to the Wall or Park-Dyke, along which they ranged them upon their Knees, and bid them prepare for Death. The Soldiers immediately drew up oppoite to them—It is dreadful to proceed! They levell'd their Guns; they fired among them! Mr. Fraer fell with the ret and did not doubt but he was hot. But as thoe Gentlemen, who proceeded thus deliberately in cool Blood, had their Orders to do nothing by Halves, a Party of them went along and examined the Slaughter, and knocked out the Brains of uch as were not quite dead; and oberving Signs of Life in Mr. Fraer, one of them with the Butt of his Gun, truck him on the Face, dahed out one of his Eyes, and beat down his Noe, flat and hattered, to his Cheek, and left him for dead. The Slaughter thus finihed, the Soldiers left the Field. In this mierable Situation, Lord B—d riding out that Way with his Servant, epied ome Life in Mr. Fraer, who by that Time had crawled to a little Ditance from his dead Friends, and calling ourout [sic] to him aked what he was. Fraer told him he was an Officer in the Mater of Lovat&apos;s Corps. Lord B—d offered him Money, aying he had been acquainted with the Mater of Lovat, his Colonel. Mr. Fraer aid he had no Ue for Money, but begged him for God's Sake to caue his Servant to carry him to a certain Mill and Cott-Houe, where he aid he would be concealed and taken care of. This young Lord had the Humanity to do o, and in this Place Mr. Fraer lay concealed, and by God's Providence recovered of his Wounds, and is now a living Witnes of as unparallell'd a Story, in all its Circumtances, as can be met with in the Hitory of any Age.

Mr. Fraer is well known, and his Veracity atteted by all the Invernes People.