| Vol. II.—No. 90. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | PRICE FOUR CENTS. |
| Tuesday, July 19, 1881. | Copyright, 1881, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
FLORA MACDONALD IN NORTH CAROLINA.
BY BENSON J. LOSSING.
When the young Prince Charles Edward, grandson of James II., King ofGreat Britain, landed in Scotland in 1745, and claimed his right to thethrone from which his grandfather had been driven, thousands ofScotchmen, regarding him as their lawful sovereign, joined him infighting for the British crown. He fought, was defeated, and became ahiding fugitive on the island of Uist, one of the Hebrides, off the westcoast of Scotland, and was assisted in making his escape to France byFlora Macdonald, a beautiful, patriotic, and romantic Scotch girl, justfrom school in Edinburgh, come to visit her kinsman, Laird Macdonald,the chief of Uist.
Laird and Lady Macdonald were friends of the Prince, and were trying tohide him from the searching eyes of British soldiers, who swarmed on theisland in quest of him. They could not shield him much longer. LadyMacdonald conceived a plan for the Prince's escape, but found no manwilling to undertake the perilous enterprise. Her young kinswoman Floraspoke