And still no English rising for the rightful King! Instead Whig armies, and a slow Whiggish buzzing beginning through all the country.
The Duke of Cumberland and Marshal Wade, two jaws opening for Jacobite destruction, had between them twenty thousand men.

Spies brought report of thirty thousand drawn up before London, on Finchley Common.
The Prince might have so many lions of the desert in his Highlanders, but multitude will make a net that lions cannot break.

At Derby also they had news from that Scotland now so dangerously far behind them.
Royal Scots had landed from France, the Irish brigade from the same country was on the seas, and French regiments besides.

Lord John Drummond had in Scotland now at least three thousand men and good promise of more.

The Prince held council with the Duke of Perth, Lord George Murray, Lord Nairn, the many chiefs and leading voices.