After Culloden
Colonel Yorke to Philip Yorke

Inverness, 30 April 1746

I hope the apprehensions of the terrible Highlanders is by this time a little abated and I flatter myself that this is the last time blood will be shed in the field by fellow subjects of this island....

Since the battle our time has been taken up in hunting out the Rebels who made their escape from our fury that day, and in examining the papers found in the baggage and pockets of the officers killed and taken. It is very evident that the Rebels never seem to have had any settled scheme or formed plan of operations. Disputes, jealousies, doubts of one another are on all sides plain which, with the total want of order, discipline and economy, must have made a hell upon earth.... The French and they were continually jarring and I am firmly persuaded, had they been numerous enough, the French would have saved us a great deal of trouble by putting an end to the Rebellion themselves; for they could not endure one another and every letter they wrote during the time they were amongst them, are filled with complaints of their brutality and total want of obedience and discipline.

The Young Pretender is still lurking about in the Highlands, either in the Camerons country or in the Isles, where he first landed. When we move, we shall do our best to ferret him out, and if we can't send him to his long home, endeavour at least to rid the island of him.

I long to hear you have begun to make some laws for this country, which absolutely till this time have been without any, or governed by the impositions of the Highland scoundrel chiefs. You must never expect to see a total end to the rebellious spirit of this country till the Highlanders are unclanned, undressed, effectually disarmed and taught to speak English....

Yorke's Hardwicke Papers. I:528.