From Our Own Connesronoexr, Edinburgh, Nov. 12.
The unveiling of a memorial to Marshal Wade in the form of a tablet upon the house in which he: resided at Bath recalls a career which left @ great mark upon Seot~ tish history. George Wade was a man of 50 when he first set foot on Scottish soil, and had had consider-fable military experience. 'The Gov-Jernment was anxious about the condition of the Highlands of Scotland, and especially about the prospects jof another Jacobite Rising, and Wade was asked to report Precautions which were necessary or desirable, and was subsequently' made Cotmander-in-Chief in Scot~ and in order that he might carry: out his own recommendations. The} most important of these wa: construction of the mi through the Highlands, ated by the well-known verse.
"Had you see these roads before they were made You would lift up your hands and bless General: Wade."
For some years Wade's engineers, jor "highwaymen," as he liked to term them, were engaged in the Jconstruction of roads and bridges. Probably Wade, like his assistant, Captain Burt,' regarded Highland scenery as detestable, remarked the stupendous bulk, frightful irreguftarity, and horrid gloom" of the and thought them "most Jof all disagreeable when the heath fs in bloom... brown drawing Wade's knowledge of Scottish!
fairs, at this period, led to his be-
strangest episodes in 18th century connected with' one "of the history. When Captain Porteous }was condemned to death for firing jon the Edinburgh crowd, Queen Caroline, who was acting as regent during the absence of George LI. in Hanover, is believed to have consult-jed Wade and to have acted upon hie advice in granting the reprieve which led to the adoption of "lynch Inw" by the people of Edinburgh.
It is said that his experience the Highlands convinced him of the: usefulness of the kilt, and he may' have expressed, or even left on cord, an 0 regiments were recruited iam Pitt, it is searcely likely that Wade's views were remember-
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