Please don't repeat that slander about "the English" clearing the Highlands. It promotes racial hatred, beside being essentially untrue. Any good history book will reveal the complexities of what happened. John Prebble's Highland Clearances is a fair introduction, though he has his critics; John G Gibson's Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745 - 1945 analyses emigration records and demographic patterns, and is very educational for those raised on old wives' tales as opposed to real history (he also comprehensively demolishes the myth that the bagpipes were banned after Culloden).

The Highland landowners were responsible for the Clearances, and I'm afraid that most of them were Scottish Highlanders. That particular matter has been gone into in some detail in a number of past discussions, and needn't be repeated here, where it would be a distraction.