Fairpor

, Roxburghshire, and Selkirkshire, the volunteers and militia got under arms with a degree of rapidity and alacrity which, considering the distance individuals lived from each other, had something in it very surprising--they poured to the alarm-posts on the sea-coast in a state so well armed and
so completely appointed, with baggage, provisions, etc., as was accounted
by the best military judges to render them fit
for instant and effectual service. There were some particulars in the general alarm
which are curious and interesting. The men of Liddesdale, the most remote point to the westward which the alarm reached, were so much afraid of being late in

the field, that they put in requisition all the horses they could find, and when they had thus
made a forced march out of their own country, they turned
their borrowed steeds loose to find their way back through the hills, and they all got back safe to their own stables. Another remarkable circumstance was, the general
cry of the inhabitants of the smaller towns for arms, that they might go along with their companions. The Selkirkshire Yeomanry made a remarkable march, for although some of the individuals lived at twenty
and thirty miles' distance from the place where they mustered,
they were nevertheless embodied and in order in so short a period, that they were at Dalkeith, which was their alarm-post, about
one o'clock on the day succeeding the first signal, with men and horses in good order, though the roads were in a bad

state, and many of the troopers must have ridden

forty or fifty miles witho

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