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The king was PRICE 8d. to Spain, there had been a negotiation between | between their imperial and catholic majesties. the princess and Count Broglio, the French 2. The emperor gives the eldest archduchess in ambassador, by the intervention of the late marriage to the infant Don Carlos. 3. The Lady Darlington, for Princess Ann to be second archduchess is given to the infant Don given in marriage to the French king, and Philip. 4. The Emperor and King of Spain that the French court expected it as a thing enter into reciprocal engagements to begin a sure; and for that reason, at the same time war for reconquering the duchy of Burgundy, that the ambassador notified the resolution of Franche Comté, Alsace, and all the French sending the young queen back, he desired of conquests in Flanders and encroachments on the king his grand-daughter for his master, Lorraine, Navarre, Roussillon, Petite Sarbut that the king absolutely refused it. An- daigne, which are to be divided after the folother negotiation had lately been on foot in lowing manner: Burgundy, Franche Comté, relation to the two young princes, Frederick Alsace, and all that formerly belonged to the and William.+ The prince and his wife house of Austria, is to be settled upon Don were for excluding Prince Frederick from the Carlos, and looked upon as the Austrian patri"After the trial of the Earl of Macclesfield, throne of England; but that after the king mony Lorraine is to be restored to its duke: Sir Peter King, lord chief - justice of the and prince, he should be elector of Hanover, and Navarre, Roussillon, and la Petite SarCommon Pleas, was made lord chancellor, and Prince William, king of Great Britain: daigne, to be reunited to the Spanish moand held the seals from 1725 to 1733, during but that the king said it was unjust to do it narchy. 5. The Emperor and King of Spain which period he noted down in short-hand the without Prince Frederick's consent, who was do mutually oblige themselves and posterity, principal subjects which occupied the atten-now of age to judge for himself; and so this never to give an archduchess or infanta in tion of the administration of Sir Robert Wal-matter now stood. But that Sir Robert Wal- marriage to the house of Bourbon in France. pole. It will be seen, however, that these pole had told the king, that if he did not in 1. Separate article-That in case the present memoranda are very much broken and discon- his life-time bring over Prince Frederick, he King of France should die without issue to tinued after 1730, in consequence, probably, of would never set his foot on English ground; inherit that crown, the infant Don Philip is the declining health of the writer. Abundant so that he did not know whether the king, to be king of France. 2. The Emperor and proof will be found in the following pages of when he returned from Hanover, would not King of Spain do solemnly engage to assist the putting him in possession of the throne the disproportionate importance attached to the Pretender with their forces, in order to German politics during the reigns of the two of Great Britain. 3. Is a reciprocal engagefirst princes of the House of Brunswick, who ere more interested in the welfare of their ment between the Emperor and King of Spain, electorate, and in making some petty addition utterly to extirpate the Protestant religion, be fully and effectually executed. None of the to their German territories, than in that of and not to lay down their arms till this design Great Britain, which they neither valued nor "June 20th (1726). The Duke of Newcastle King of Spain's ministers, besides himself, understood. Many of the questions stirred up by the restless activity of the Queen of Spain communicated to me the information given by knew this treaty; and that it had not been and the projects of the emperor, for establishing Mr. Keene, the 15th instant, to the duke, of communicated to any person whatsoever, exa great trading company at Ostend, to the de- the discoveries made to Mr. Stanhope in Spain cept the emperor, the King and Queen of Spain, triment of English commerce in the East and by the Duke of Ripperda. After the Duke of and the ministers who signed it. His Catholic West, perplexing as they may have been to Ripperda's disgrace he sheltered himself in majesty was so earnest for the extirpation of the ministers of that day, have now lost the Mr. Stanhope's house, and, whilst there, made the Protestant religion, that in the several interest that formerly belonged to them; but such discoveries to Mr. Stanhope, that he did letters that had passed directly between the as they may serve to explain some parts of not think fit to send in writing, lest they should King of Spain and the emperor upon this subour history, they are printed verbatim from fall into the hands of those who might make an ject, the king proposed, in case of necessity, to the short-hand memoranda. There are some ill use of them, therefore sent Mr. Keene to see the domains of his throne put up grandezas curious anecdotes of George II. and Queen acquaint the Duke of Newcastle with them by to the highest bidder, and dispose of all the emCaroline, and a remarkable proof is afforded word of mouth, that so he might lay them be-ployments for life in the Indies to the best purof their early hatred to their eldest son Fre-fore the king. The account that Mr. Keene chaser, for promoting this scheme; and in one derick, afterwards Prince of Wales, in the gave was, that Mr. Stanhope having pressed of his own letters he makes use of these explan which they had formed for disinheriting the Duke of Ripperda to inform him of the traordinary expressions: Je vendrai nime ma him in England. The project, however, was schemes that had been projected or agreed to chemise." defeated, by the equally inimical feelings of the by the Emperor and King of Spain, either with reigning king, George I., towards his own im- regard to the state of Europe in general, or to mediate successor, if not by his sense of right his majesty's affairs in particular, the duke beand justice. Wherever Walpole is mentioned, gan with the secret treaty of Vienna, consisting we may observe the good sense and discretion of five articles, and three separate ones, the which distinguished him among the statesmen substance of which he dictated to Mr. Stanof his own times. He is, indeed, eminently hope, who took them down in writing with his distinguished above the statesmen of almost own hand, and are as follows:- Art. 1. Conevery age, by his love of peace-the first and firms and ratifies all preceding treaties made greatest of all virtues in a minister." The proof of the early hatred of Prince Frederick is afforded by a confidential conversation, July 24, 1725, in which, among other remarkable facts, Sir R. Walpole told the chancellor, while on a visit to him at his house at Ockham, "that pending the design in France of sending back the young queen The following is a very remarkable piece of political reformation, relating to the treaty between the emperor and Spain; to counterbalance which, the alliance was entered into by England, France, and Russia. "Afterwards Frederick Prince of Wales. +"Afterwards Duke of Cumberland. This is a very curious proof of the early hatred of George the Second and have been fortunate if the separation of Hanover from Queen Caroline to Frederick Prince of Wales. It would England had taken place then or at any time, by fair means, or by any means." The then Prince of Wales, afterwards George the "The Princess of Wales, afterwards Queen Caroline. Second. At the present period it will be interesting to readers to have the particulars of an earlier succession to the crown in the reigning house, on the demise of George I. "Wednesday, June 14th, 1727.-About five in the evening I had a letter from Sir R. Walpole, informing me that the king was dead, and desiring me to meet him immediately at the diately, and found that Sir R. Walpole, on reDuke of Devonshire's. I went there immeceipt of the news from Lord Townshend, had instantly gone to Richmond, and acquainted the prince with it, and that thereupon the could that evening. In the mean time we preprince had resolved to be in town as fast as he pared, by the attorney and solicitor-general, the draft for proclaiming the king, and set With these specimens of a diary which we may well include among the valuable historical lights of this genuine description, we for the present conclude; and when the work to which it forms so interesting an addition is published, (we trust next week), we shall feel ourselves more at liberty to extend our extracts. The Journal of the Heart. Edited by the tled the other things necessary to be done. [and had secret conferences with him; but in his conduct as to that matter in the late reign: The king, in the mean time, came to town, about three weeks' time, he saw his credit di- that he was now struck at by a great number and sent us word that he was ready, when-minish, and so left off the constancy of his of people. All those who had hopes on the ever we were ready to wait on him. Ac-attendance. The Tories and others, who ex-king's coming to the throne, seeing themselves cordingly, we who were at the Duke of pected great changes and alterations, finding disappointed, looked upon him as the cause. Devonshire's, except the duke himself, who things not to answer their expectations, began All the discontented Whigs, and Carteret, had the gout, went to Leicester House, and to retire about the end of the short session of Roxburgh, Berkeley, Bolingbroke, the Speaker, there being joined by several others of the parliament that was held for settling the civil Compton, and Pulteney, were entered into a nobility, we sent in to the king to desire an list. The king, when he came to the throne, formal confederacy against him; and if he audience and although the archbishop was had formed a system both of men and things, and could once retire, he would never meddle by present, yet I made a short speech to the king, to make alterations in several offices, as to their way of opposition, but would comply with the according to agreement, setting out the great power, and particularly as to mine. About government in every thing." sorrow we were under by the unexpected death July 8th, he told me that he expected to noof the late king, and that nothing could relieve minate to all benefices and prebendaries that or mitigate it, but the certain prospect of happi-the chancellor usually nominated to. I told ness under his future administration; and that him, with great submission, that this was a being now become our liege lord, we desired right belonging to the office, annexed to it by leave to withdraw into the council-chamber, to act of parliament and immemorial usage, and draw up a form of a proclamation for proclaim- I hoped he would not put things out of their ing him, and to sign it as usual; which being ancient course. He told me my Lord Cowper* granted, we retired into the council-chamber, told him, that in the latter part of his chanand there the form, which we had before agreed cellorship, in the queen's time, he laid before upon, was produced, engrossed, and thereon all the queen a list of all persons whom he recomthe lords of the council then present first signed mended to benefices, that she might be satisfied it. Then the doors were opened, and the peers they were good churchmen. I did not give up in the outer room were desired to walk in and this point, but directly desired him to consider sign it, which they did; then it was delivered it; and afterwards, at another time, he told to the gentlemen in the outer room to sign as me that I should go on as usual.—Sunday, many as they pleased. And after it had been July 16th. I then saw him again: he seemed some time out, the lords of the council sent for now very pleasant, and I gave him a list of all the parchment, which being returned, secret the judges, both in England and Wales, king's intimation was given to the king that the coun-sergeants, and council, and other subordinate cil were ready to receive him. Whereon he officers in the law, in his invariable nomination, immediately came in, and seating himself in and told him, that as to those which were not the royal chair, he there read the declaration, judges in England, they were many of them that was printed at the desire of the lords of parliament men, and some now stood again. the council: it had been prepared at the Duke So he ordered me to make out fiats for such of of Devonshire's, by Sir R. Walpole and the them as were like to be parliament men. He speaker. After that, orders were given for the also told me, now that he had heard that I had proclaiming of the king the next morning at acted prudently in his father's time, as to the ten o'clock, and several other orders of course commissions of the peace, that his pleasure was, were made, which are to be seen in the council-that I should put into the commission of the book, particularly one for proroguing the par-peace all gentlemen of rank and quality in the liament, being now, by reason of the king's several counties, unless they were in direct demise, immediately to meet.Thursday, 15th. opposition to his government; but still keep a A little after ten, I came to Leicester House, majority of those who were known to be most and the heralds and all being ready, about firmly in his interest, and he would have me eleven, the Archbishop of Canterbury, myself, declare the former part as his sentiment. and other lords, went into the yard before November 24. Sir R. Walpole took occasion to Leicester House, and there the heralds pro- tell me of the great credit he had with the claimed the king, we being there on foot un-king, and that it was principally by the means covered. As soon as that was done, we went of the queen, who was the most able woman to into our respective coaches, and in the street govern in the world. However, he wished before Leicester House the king was again now he had left off when the king came to the proclaimed. From thence we went and pro-throne; for he looked upon himself to be in claimed him at Charing Cross, Temple Bar, the worst situation of any man in England; the corner of Wood Street, and the Royal Ex-that that which engaged him to go on, was change. On seeing every one willing to settle a large civil the king's coming to the throne, he ordered list on the king. He went with the others, Sir R. Walpole and Sir S. Compton to confer and that the civil list now given exceeded the together about his affairs, and let him know what they thought fit to be done for his service from time to time. Sir R. Walpole seemed so sensible that he should be laid aside, that he was very irresolute what to do, whether to retire into the House of Lords and give up all business, or whether to continue. But the king and the speaker persuading him to continue, he went on, and undertook what the king expected from him, as to the civil list and the queen's jointure, which he forwarded in parliament. had discourse with the archbishop about disposing of the June 25th, 1706.-At cabinet. Before it begun, I During which time, by his constant application livings in my gift, and my having promised the queen to to the king by himself in the mornings, when present as she directed, in all the valuable ones; he said he feared it would be under a worse management than the speaker, by reason of the sitting of the under the late keeper's servants, by the importunity of House of Commons, was absent, he so worked the women and other hangers-on at court, and promised upon the king, that he not only established to endeavour to get that matter into a proper method.' "These importunate women and other hangers-on at himself in favour with him, but prevented the court, were probably the first and loudest to cry, The cashiering of many others, who otherwise would church is in danger! on every occasion that suited their have been put out. The speaker for some time interest or secured their patronage; and they thought the best security of the church was to be found in the worst came constantly to the king every afternoon, distribution of the richest benefices in that church." civil list given to his father, and all the addi- "Lord Cowper's diary, found among Lord King's "Extract from Lord Cowper's Diary. bestow my livings of 40%. and under without consulting "The family consisted of a mother and six children, five of them grown up, and one not yet arrived at that state of felicity. The eldest, Mrs. Davies, left school at seventeen, and happened immediately to attract the fancy of a yellow, sickly, Indian judge, who was come home on a three weeks' prowl in search of a wife. None of her friends liked the marriage, but, nevertheless, she took him for better for worse,' trusting to the latter proving impossible, and sailed with him for India. Ever since this event, fashion has pronounced her the flower of the flock,' and will not allow that either of her sisters can play or sing like her, or look so pretty, or make themselves so agreeable, or, in short, be at all compared to Mrs. Davies. No wonder, for neither of them are married! and is not marriage the infallible criterion of a woman's character all the world over, and that which is proposed as the measure of her excellence? Certainly in this the testimony of the world in general must be right; and fashion, for once, speaks in the language of wisdom and experience; for when was it ever heard that a foolish, an ugly, or an ill-tempered woman was married? or that one handsome, or amiable, or good, remained an old maid? Captain Evelyn, the eldest son, was in reality as well known to the antipodes as to us, being in the army and abroad; but old Lord Morley had once seen him for two days, and declared he was a very fine young man, so all the neighbourhood echoed that John Evelyn was an uncommonly fine young man, very handsome, and as brave an officer as ever drew a sword; and thus his character has has the impudence to destroy the dream by every chance of remaining intacte, unless he coming to dwell before our waking eyes. The other son, William, was at Oxford; he was intended for the church; had been more in the neighbourhood, and therefore was known a little better, but not much, which occasioned him to have a character of a mixed nature. He was said to have done divers very wrong things he had stayed out on Saturday-night till the beginning of Sunday morning, and he had been two or three times inebriated. Moreover, report added, that he had frightened his any selection of its beauties, which are too inti-, celebrated places, of raids and murders, and of An Account of the Great Floods of August Such being our judgment upon this work, it may be but candid to say, that we cannot be sure of its possessing the same charm for every reader. The difference of taste may cause it to seem somewhat prolix and less interesting to others; but we are convinced that the great majority will agree with us in thinking it a very singu lar and captivating performance. It is finely embellished by two maps of the rivers chiefly augmented by the floods; and by sixty-five picturesque plates, illustrative of the state of the country, its inhabitants, their houses, ruins, bridges, linns, &c. &c. &c., from the clever burin of W. H. Lizars. mother out of her wits, for fear he should be fashionable; and his sisters for fear he should not; some of his friends, lest he should be a missionary, and others, lest he should be a confirmed rake; but those persons who were inclined to like him, laid all the fault of these his aberrations, to his guardians, and pitied him, poor creature! and only thought him the more interesting, whilst others said it was entirely owing to his own wild and thoughtless disposition, that he was so ill spoken of. Arthur was but eight years old, and just placed at school; yet we heard more of him, and wished IT must be confessed, that when we lifted this more to see him, than any of the rest of the well-sized volume, though we could not expect family; for he was said to be an extraordinary a very dry narrative, either from the nature of child; the delight of his mother's heart, and the subject, or from the Laird of (here most the unwearying theme of her admiration and appropriate) Fountain-hall, we could not help It is out of our power to afford room for the praise: and one of the worst traits of the Miss prejudging it as a production of far too great Evelyns, was their seeming to care so little length for the event which it undertook to deabout this delightful boy. He did not know scribe. Local details,-how one burn swelled, copious extracts we should otherwise be tempted his letters at four years old, because Mrs. Eve- and another overflowed its banks; how a river to make, for the purpose of justifying our crilyn considered the brain as a sort of vegetable, raged, and a bridge was swept away; how the ticism; but we shall do our best, by selecting and therefore thought that, like other vege-poor dwellers on the lowlands were forced to as great a diversity as we can, to do honour to Among the previous indications or warnings tables, it would put forth the most fruitful and flee, and how their goods and chattels were the author, and to gratify our readers. most vigorous shoots, if left to itself; besides destroyed by the merciless waters,—seemed to which, she had been told by a learned physi-us, à priori, a sufficient theme, for some weeks, of the flood were many electrical phenomena, cian, that his temperament was hot, and that in a county newspaper, or a pamphlet at most; aurora-borealis, waterspouts, &c. On the 12th Neptune preserve us! of July, one of the latter occurred at Keanif (to use another metaphor) she taught his but a stout octavo young ideas how to shoot,' before nature thought we, from such a flood (not a rivulet) loch-luichart, in Ross-shire; and the author had given them strength to bear, they would of text, and without any dishonest book-tells us: "This waterspout did not extend be firing off, to right and left, at all hazards, making breadth of margin! For (we went on beyond two miles on each side of the village-a and drive either herself or her child into a considering) if there had been-(and the Laud-circumstance that led these simple people to brain fever. But the fact of Arthur's noters are an old family, whose ancestor came into consider their calamity as a visitation of Proviknowing how to read till he was seven, only Scotland with Malcolm Canmure)--if there dence for their landlord's vote in parliament in So much for Highland simplicity! It was in made his precocity of intellect the more re-had been any Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart. favour of Catholic emancipation." markable. He listened most attentively when-in the time of Noah, or even of Deucalion, ever his mother read the Scriptures, and found (unde Dick or Duck might very readily be August (3d and 4th) that the waters came out, from them, that Moses was taken to the derived by an ingenious etymologist), what down in torrents from the hills, and that the hill by the Bristol carrier. Moreover, he had famous long histories we might have had of rain and tempest raged with incessant fury. seen many little lions, in the shape of poodle- either the sacred or the pagan deluge! At this On the Findhorn at Randolph's bridge (the dogs, about Bath, the first time he was taken rate, in the proportion of one volume octavo for Randolph of Douglas, in which tragedy the to that town, and had looked at them, and Moray, we must have had, at least, ten thou- effects of the swollen river are so poetically passed them without a sign of fear. But his sand folios of papyrus for the old Patri-ark, described), the flood rose to the height of fifty "Nothing can convey an idea of the violence grand feat was discovering the day of judgment, and five thousand for the son of Prometheus. feet; and Sir Thomas says:and desiring his mother to prepare for it, as it However, it was our duty to dip into Sir would take place on the morrow. He had heard Thomas's "Account;" and who can guess our and velocity of the water that shot away from her read that before that day, the stars would surprise and pleasure when we discovered, that the whirling sea above the cliffs. It was scarcely fall from heaven, and the moon would be out of so unpromising a theme he had contrived possible to follow with the eye the trees and wreck turned into blood: and when he was going to to make a book, not of merely ordinary, but of that floated like straws on its surface. The force bed at night, he had seen the full-moon rise uncommon interest-a book which Scotsmen, was as much more than that of a raging ocean slowly and magnificently, a dark and lurid red, especially, in every quarter of the world, will as gunpowder ignited within the confined tube and some of the stars falling (as it is called) read with national and homefelt pleasure? It of a cannon is more terribly powerful than the from one part of the sky to another. At the is true that the worthy baronet goes into many same material when suffered to explode on the time of our visit, only Mrs. Evelyn and her small details; but even in these there is a truth open ground. I was particularly struck here two daughters were at home-she, in the and freshness which remind us more of the with an example of the fact, that trees exposed opinion of every one, was devoted to her duties, fascinations of Robinson Crusoe than of any to occasional struggles with torrents, instinctand a charming woman; and having made a other work with which we are acquainted: ively prepare themselves to resist them. It was broken over confidant of my mother, we knew particularly and, generally speaking, there is a graphic observed one tall ash, growing a little way about her. Poor woman! it was from the spirit in the whole of this narrative which above Randolph's Bridge, covered to at least you not only a spectator of all the peril-four-fifths of its height. best of all authorities,-from her own mouth,we learned how she suffered from these de-ous incidents which it relates, and a hearer of at last, but, having been taught by experience testable girls. Where she liked to live, they the remarks of the people, whether sufferers or to resist the action of water, it was not rent hated to reside; and where she hated to saviours, but absolutely an actor in the busy and away, whilst all those which had never been sojourn, they liked to abide; she had taken affecting catastrophe. The book is one of the visited by floods before were torn Ashgrove entirely to please them, and from a most complete pictures of Highland scenery and weeds. Before I left this spot, I saw one of hope that they would mix much with the manners which we have ever read; and so far the under-gardeners wade into the water, as it society near them, and find it suit their wishes. from being tired with its minuteness, in our had begun to ebb on the haugh, and, with his Ellen Evelyn was a stupid, conceited, evil- opinion the omission of any one little particu-umbrella, drive ashore and capture a fine salspeaking girl; and her sister, besides excelling lar would be an injury and a loss. her in the two last-mentioned particulars, was satirical-bas bleu-and all that was horrible. - We shall have a woful visit of it."" makes up I like mon, at an elevation of fifty feet above the ordiIndeed, the production is altogether peculiar nary level of the Findhorn.' Among the incidents, where the inhabitants a novelty in manner and in matter-a literary curiosity. The alternation of character-were rescued by the bravery of their neighThe paper whence this is extracted is calledistic traits, bordering on humour, with simple bours from houses surrounded by the waters, "prejudice," and the ensuing remarks in it, unadorned relations from the mouths of the and momentarily yielding to their force-we upon the subject of taking up hearsay and parties where dangers were appalling and lives find the following:hasty opinions, are admirably set forth. An were sacrificed, adds much to the feeling with "owre true" tale is interestingly told (it seems which these pages must be perused; and anto be by a different hand); and, altogether, we other striking variety is communicated to them most cordially recommend this Journal of the by the recollection of ancient historical events, Heart, though we are unable to do it justice by of superstitions and legends, of antiquities and "After landing the Cumins, the next house of the hamlet the boat went to was that of Widow Speediman, an old bedrid woman, with whom resided her niece, Isabella Morrison, an elderly person. One of the walls of this house was gone, and the roof was only kept up by bishop of Moray, had a plan for restoring it to a place of safety, and watched them there till resting on a wooden-boarded bed. Here those this channel, in order to relieve the valuable their owners came to recover them. Padrig in the boat beheld a most harrowing spectacle. lands of the church from its troublesome in- Mac-an-Ts'agairt did not utter his threats Up to the neck in water sat the niece, scarcely roads. Birnie was the first episcopal seat of without the fullest intention of carrying them sensible, and supporting what was now the the bishopric of Moray. The sanctity of the into effect. In the latter end of the following dead body of her aunt, with the livid and dis-old church is still so great, that it is com- spring he visited Strathspey with a strong torted countenance of the old woman raised up mon to send from great distances to ask the party, and waylaid the Mugach, as he and his before her. The story will be best told in her prayers of its congregation for people in ex-sons were returning from working at a small own words, though at the risk of some pro- tremity. The popular saying is, If a man be patch of land he had on the brow of a hill, lixity. It was about eight o'clock, an' my ill, let him be prayed for in the kirk of Birnie, about half a mile above his house. Mac-anaunty in her bed, fan I says till her, Aunty, which will either end him or mend him.' Ts'agairt and his party concealed themselves the waters are cumin' aboot's; an' I had There is a beautiful Saxon arch in the interior, in a thick covert of underwood, through which hardly spoken fan they wur at my back. and a very ancient stone font. But the most they knew that the Mugach and his sons must Gang to my kist,' says she to me, and tak curious piece of antiquity is the Ronnell bell of pass; but seeing their intended victims well oot some things that are to be pit aboot me fan Birnie, said to have been brought from Rome armed, the cowardly assassins lay still in their I'm dead.' I had hardly tukken oot the claes by the first bishop. It is about 18 inches high, hiding-place and allowed them to pass, with fan the kist was floated bodalie through the by 6 inches one way, and 4 inches the other, the intention of taking a more favourable ophoos. Gie me a haud o' your hand, Bell,' at the mouth. Its shape angular, and joined portunity for their purpose. That very night says my aunty, an' I'll try an' help ye into at the sides with nails. It has a handle at the they surprised and murdered two of the sons, the bed.' Ye're nae fit to help me,' says I, top, and no tongue remaining. Its metal seems who, being married, lived in separate houses, 'I'll tak a haud o' the stoop o' the bed.' And to be bronze; but the popular tradition is, that at some distance from their father's; and hav sae I gat in. I think we war strugglin' i' the there is a great deal of silver in it. I think I ing thus executed so much of their diabolical bed for aboot twa hours; and the water floatit have seen bells resembling it, used in religious purpose, they surrounded the Mugach's cotup the cauf-bed, and she lyin' on't. Syne I processions in Italy.” tage. No sooner was his dwelling attacked, tried to keep her up, an' I took a haud o' her Speaking of the river Dulnan, we have a than the brave Mugach, immediately guessing shift to try to keep her life in. But the waters similar illustration (not of antiquities, but) of who the assailants were, made the best arwar ay growin. At last I got her up wi' ae an old Cateran affair. rangements for defence that time and circumhaun to my breest, and hed a haud o' the post "Near the hamlet of Carr, on the right stances permitted. The door was the first o' the bed wi' the ither. An' there wuz ae jaw bank, a slate-rock has been laid bare, which, point attempted; but it was strong, and he o' the water that cam' up to my breest, an' if properly wrought, might turn out to some and his four sons placed themselves behind it, anither jaw cam' and fuppit my aunty oot o' account. About 150 yards to the westward of determined to do bloody execution the moment my airms. Oh! Bell, I'm gane!' says she; the houses, there is a small patch of land sur- it should be forced. Whilst thus engaged, the and the waters just chokit her. It wuz a rounded by a few stunted birches, called Croft- Mugach was startled by a noise above the dreadfu' sight to see her! That wuz the fight na-croich, or the Gallows Croft, having the rafters, and, looking up, he perceived, in the and struggle she had for life! Willin' was she following story attached to it :-Near the end obscurity, the figure of a man half through a to save that! An' her haun', your honour of the seventeenth century, there lived a cer- hole in the wattled roof. Eager to despatch hoo she fought wi' that haun'! It wad hae tain notorious freebooter, a native of Lochaber, his foe as he entered, he sprang upon a table, drawn tears o' pity frae a heathen. An' then of the name of Cameron, but who was better plunged his sword into his body, and down fell I had a dreadfu' spekalation for my ain life, an' known by his cognomen of Padrig Mac-an- -his stepson! whom he had ever loved and I canna tell the conseederable moments I was Ts'agairt, Peter the Priest's son. Numerous cherished as one of his own children. The doon in the water, an' my aunty abeen me. were the creachs, or robberies of cattle on the youth had been cutting his way through the The strength o' the waters at last brak the great scale, driven by him from Strathspey. roof, with the intention of attacking Padrig bed, an' I got to the tap o't; an' a dreadfu' But he did not confine his depredations to that from above, and so creating a diversion in fajaw knockit my head to the bed-post; an' I country; for, some time between the years vour of those who were defending the door. wuz for some time oot o' my senses. It was 1690 and 1695, he made a clean sweep of the The brave young man lived no longer than to surely the death-grip I had o' the post; an' cattle from the rich pastures of the Aird, the say, with a faint voice, Dear father, I fear surely it wuz the Lord that waukened me, for territory of the Frasers. That he might put you have killed me!' For a moment the the dead sleep had cum'd on me, an' I wud hae his pursuers on a wrong scent, he did not go Mugach stood petrified with horror and grief faun, and been droont in the waters! After I directly towards Lochaber, but, crossing the but rage soon usurped the place of both. Let cam' to mysel' a wee, I feelt something at my river Ness at Lochend, he struck over the me open the door!' he cried, and revenge his fit, an' I says to mysel', this is my aunty's mountains of Strathnairn and Strathdearn, death, by drenching my sword in the blood of head that the waters hae torn aff! I feelt wi' and ultimately encamped behind a hill above the villain!' His sons clung around him to my haun', an' tuk haud o't wi' fear an' trum- Duthel, called, from a copious spring on its prevent what they conceived to be madness, lin'; and thankfu' was I fan I faund it to be summit, Cairn-an-Sh'uaran, or the Well Hill. and a strong struggle ensued between desperate naething but a droon't hen! Aweel, I climbed But, notwithstanding all his precautions, the bravery and filial duty; whilst the Mugach's up, an' got a haud o' the cupple, an' my fit on celebrated Simon, Lord Lovat, then chief of wife stood gazing on the corpse of her firstthe tap o' the wa', an' susteened mysel' that the Frasers, discovered his track, and de-born son in an agony of contending passions, way frae maybe aboot half-past ten that night spatched a special messenger to his father-in-being ignorant, from all she had witnessed, but till three next afterneen. I suppose it wuz law, Sir Ludovick Grant, of Grant, begging that the young man's death had been wilfully twelve o'clock o' the day before I saw my his aid in apprehending Mac-an-Ts'agairt and wrought by her husband. Hast thou forgotaunty again, after we had gane doon thegither, recovering the cattle. It so happened that ten our former days of dalliance?' cried the an' the dreadfu' ocean aboot huz, just like a there lived at this time on the laird of Grant's wily Padrig, who saw the whole scene through roarin' sea. She was left on a bank o' sand, ground a man also called Cameron, surnamed a crevice in the door how often hast thou leanin' on her side, and her mouth was fou o' Mugach-more, of great strength and undaunted undone thy door to me when I came on an san'. Fouk wondered I didna dee o' cauld an' courage: he had six sons, and a stepson, whom errand of love; and wilt thou not open it now hunger; but baith cauld an' hunger ware his wife, formerly a woman of light character, to give me way to punish him who has but unkent by me, wi' the terrification I wuz in had before her marriage with Mugach; and this moment so foully slain thy beloved son ?' wi' the roarin' o' the waters aboot me, Lord as they were all brave, Sir Ludovick applied Ancient recollections and present affliction consave me!' The corpse of the poor old woman to them to undertake the recapture of the spired to twist her to his purpose. The strugSpeediman was put into a cart, together with cattle. Sir Ludovick was not mistaken in his gle and altercation between the Mugach and her niece, Bell, whose state of exhaustion was man. The Mugach no sooner received his his sons still continued. A frenzy seized on so great, that it was difficult to tell which was orders than he armed himself and his little the unhappy woman. She flew to the doorthe living, and which the dead, body. band and went in quest of the freebooter, whom undid the bolt-and Padrig and his assassins 6 "At a place called Fosse, immediately above he found in the act of cooking a dinner from rushed in. The infuriated Mugach no sooner the Hill of Birnie, there is an ancient course part of the spoil. The Mugach called on Pa-beheld his enemy enter, than he sprang at him of the Lossie, by which it must have once run drig and his men to surrender; and they, like a tiger, grasped him by the throat, and down through a totally different line of country though numerous, dreading the well-known dashed him to the ground. Already was his from that which it now waters. Its modern prowess of their adversary, fled to the opposite vigorous sword-arm drawn back, and his broad level is considerably below the mouth of this. hills, their chief threatening bloody vengeance claymore was about to find a passage to the But, in the fourteenth century, Alex. Barr, as he went. The Mugach drove the cattle to traitor's heart, when his faithless wife, coming |