THE LIFE AND DIARY OF S.H.1826 LIEUT. COL. J. BLACKADER, OF THE CAMERONIAN REGIMENT, AND DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF STIRLING CASTLE; WHO SERVED WITH DISTINGUISHED HONOUR IN THE WARS UNDER KING WILLIAM AND THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, AND AFTERWARDS IN THE REBELLION OF 1715 IN SCOTLAND. BY ANDREW CRICHTON, AUTHOR OF THE MEMOIRS OF THE REV. JOHN BLACKADER. EDINBURGH: PUBLISHED BY H. S. BAYNES, 15, UNION PLace, and 17, pICARDY PLACE. W. BAYNES & SON, LONDON. M.DCCC.XXIV. PREFACE. THE principal materials from which the following LIFE is compiled, are the Diary and Letters written by the Colonel himself during the Campaigns in which he was engaged. These manuscripts, it would appear, were committed to the hands of his widow, who was married to Sir James Campbell of Ardkinglas, Bart. After her death, they were thrown aside, as papers of no value, and lay neglected for many years. When the descendants of Sir James quitted the family residence near Stirling, a quantity of papers, supposed to be useless, were sold to a tobacconist in that town; and among these, his curiosity discovered, and rescued from destruction, the Diary and Letters referred to. The manuscripts thus, as it were, accidentally preserved, happily came into the possession of those who perceived their worth, and were anxious to make their usefulness more extensively known. Part of them were shewn to the Rev. John Newton, then (1799) Rector of St. Mary's, Lombard-street, London, who expressed his opinion that their publication might do good, and agreed to write a recommendatory preface With this view they were put into the hands of Mr. John Campbell, then resident in Edinburgh, now Minister of Kingsland Chapel, near London, and PREFACE. THE principal materials from which the following LIFE is compiled, are the Diary and Letters written by the Colonel himself during the Campaigns in which he was engaged. These manuscripts, it would appear, were committed to the hands of his widow, who was married to Sir James Campbell of Ardkinglas, Bart. After her death, they were thrown aside, as papers of no value, and lay neglected for many years. When the descendants of Sir James quitted the family residence near Stirling, a quantity of papers, supposed to be useless, were sold to a tobacconist in that town; and among these, his curiosity discovered, and rescued from destruction, the Diary and Letters referred to. The manuscripts thus, as it were, accidentally preserved, happily came into the possession of those who perceived their worth, and were anxious to make their usefulness more extensively known. Part of them were shewn to the Rev. John Newton, then (1799) Rector of St. Mary's, Lombard-street, London, who expressed his opinion that their publication might do good, and agreed to write a recommendatory preface With this view they were put into the hands of Mr. John Campbell, then resident in Edinburgh, now Minister of Kingsland Chapel, near London, and |