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officers and two ladies commenced their home-journey
after an imprisonment of more than twelve years. They
reached Petersburg in March, and Stockholm on the
22nd of June. In 1742 he received his discharge, to
which was added a double pension. Ennis then bought a
small farm, employed himself in gardening and agriculture,
and lived to the patriarchal age of ninety-four. He had
never been ill in his life, performed long journeys on
horseback when eighty, and died of weakness in 1713,
leaving a family of thirteen children. He was buried
in Wedby Church, in the province of Skåne.1
Perhaps the most terrible fate of all was that of Captain
Magnus Henrik Hay, who returned from Tobolsk, two
years later than the other prisoners, in 1724. According
to family papers he and a certain Lieutenant Seulenberg
entered into a conspiracy during his stay in Siberia with
the Governor of the Province, Prince Gagarin, for the
purpose of making the latter King of Siberia and White
Russia, with the assistance of the Swedish prisoners of war.
But the bold plan was betrayed; Gagarin was carried to
Moscow, tried, and executed, whilst Seulenberg and Hay
were condemned to be hung up by the iron-hooks proj
ect-ing out of one of the portico-walls. But the sentence was
commuted by the Czar to solitary imprisonment for life in
two miserable caves. Here Seulenberg died in 1716, but
Hay lived on until he was rescued from his grave through
the mediation of the Swedish Ministry in 1724. He was
made Lieut.-Colonel in 1734.1 2
To this long roll of Scottish bravery and endurance we
shall add the name of Maurice William Nisbeth, who
1 Ennis, loc. cit., ii.
2 Ennis, Konung Carl XIII s Krigares Minnen, i. 297, Note.
According to the Russian history of Abbe Perm, Gagarin was executed for
peculation.
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