than to promulgate the tale of danger, which might thus have been
believed to be more widely diffused than was really the case.

In one instance alone this very prudential and humane line of
conduct was departed from, and the event seemed to confirm the
policy of the general course. Doctor Archibald Cameron, brother
of the celebrated Donald Cameron of Lochiel, attainted for the
rebellion of 1745, was found by a party of soldiers lurking with
a comrade in the wilds of Loch Katrine five or six years after
the battle of Culloden, and was there seized. There were
circumstances in his case, so far as was made known to the
public, which attracted much compassion, and gave to the judicial
proceedings against him an appearance of cold-blooded revenge on
the part of government; and the following argument of a zealous
Jacobite in his favour, was received as conclusive by Dr. Johnson
and other persons who might pretend to impartiality. Dr. Cameron
had never borne arms, although engaged in the Rebellion, but used
his medical skill for the service, indifferently, of the wounded
of both parties. His return to Scotland was ascribed exclusively
to family affairs. His behaviour at the bar was decent, firm,
and respectful. His wife threw herself, on three different
occasions, before George II and the members of his family, was
rudely repulsed from their presence, and at length placed, it was
said, in the same prison with her husband, and confined with
unmanly severity.

Dr. Cameron was finally executed with all the severities of the
law of treason; and his death remains in popular estimation a
dark blot upon the memory of George II, being almost publicly
imputed to a mean and personal hatred of Donald Cameron of