FLORA MACDONALD.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3106, 11 June 1881, Page 4

FLORA MACDONALD.

Flora Macdonald, whose memory will be ever cberised by all patriotic Scotsmen for her noble disinterestedness in aiding Prince Charles to make his escape after the battle of Culloden, was the daughter of Macdonald of Milton, in South Uist. Her father, a tacksman, left her an orphan when only a year old, and her mother married Macdonald of Armadale, in Skye, who, at the time of the rebellion, commanded one of the militia companies raised in that island by Sir Alexander Macdonald for his services to the Government. When first introduced to tho Prince, Flora was about twenty-four years of age. Sho was of the middle size, and besides a handsome figure and great vivacity, she possessed much good sense, an amiable temper, and a kind heart. After the Prince's departure she was apprehended by a party of militia, and placed on board Commodore Smith's sloop, where she was treated with great kindness and attention by him and General Campbell. She was a prisoner for a short time in Dunstaffnage Castle; and after being conveyed from place to place, she was removed to London, where she remained in confinement from December 1746 till the following July, when ahe was discharged, at the Bpecial request of Frederick, Prince of Wales, father of George 111., without a single question having been put to her. After her return to Skye she married Macdonald pf King-burgh, with whom she

emigrated to America. Here her husband died, and, after enduring many privations' •luring tho War of American Independent ■*he returned with her family to Skye, where *he died, March 4th, 1790, leaving a son, Lieutenant-Colonel Macdonald, of the Royal Clan-Alpin Regiment, and an able winter on military tactics and telegraphy : >uid a daughter, married to Maeleod of Skye. She retained her Jacobite predilections to the last hour of her existence.