Excerpt from The New Monthly Magazine, 1864, Vol. 132 Tue period referred to in the following tale is at the early part of the present century; a time when railroads were not in existence; when. Steam was in its infancy; when the great French Revolution, which had' overthrown the d asty of the Bourbons, was fresh in the recollection of every one; and t a lost cause of the unfortunate Stuarts still rankled in man a Scotch mind, and still created feelings of hostility against their English neighbours. It is, however, with some of these English neigh bours that we have first to do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.