on the slender allowance bestowed on the Scotch exiles by France, entered into the service of that nation, and acted in the capacity of aide-de-camp in Canada; on the conquest of which, by the British forces, he returned to France, where he died at rather an advanced age. Towards the close of his life, he composed, in French, Memoirs of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746; of which, a translation from the manuscript originally deposited in the Scots' college, at Paris, appeared in 1820. His person was short and slender; his demeanour elegant; his mental capacity respectable; and his disposition open and impetuous. He is said to have indulged in whatever pertained to enjoyment, spurning restraint, and evincing but little regard either for morality or religion.

GRANT, (COLQUHOUN,) one of Prince Charles' body guards, had the satisfaction, shortly before the battle of Preston-Pans, of saving two of his friends, (afterwards Lord Gardenstone and General Cunningham,) who were then volunteers in the royal army, from being summarily executed as spies. It appears that they had been employed, during the night, to patrole the coastroad, between Sir John Cope's camp, at Haddington, and that of the insurgents; but, being both bon vivants, had so neglected their duty, as to sup at a tavern, (on oysters and sherry,) at the opposite side of the Eske, which they had crossed at low water. While they were regaling, a writer's apprentice, who was on his way to join the insurgents, chanced to pass by the house." He saw the two volunteers," says a writer in the Quarterly Review, "through the window; knew them, and guessed their business:-he saw the tide would make it impossible for them to return across the sands, as they had come;-he therefore placed himself in ambush, on the steep, narrow, impracticable bridge, which was then, and for many years afterwards, the only place of crossing the Eske; and-how he contrived it I could never learn-but the courage and assurance of his province are proverbial, and the Norland whipper-snapper, surrounded and made prisoners of the two unfortunate volunteers, before they could

draw a trigger." Roy Stuart, the commander of the prince's body guard, into whose hands they were placed, proposed to hang them both, as spies. Although in a state of dreadful consternation, they luckily recollected that their acquaintance, Colquhoun Grant, was one of Roy Stuart's corps, and boldly asserted that he would prove their innocence. On being brought before Grant, he interfered successfully in their behalf, and, shortly afterwards, permitted them to escape. At the battle of Preston Pans, after having, it is said, displayed extraordinary valour, he mounted the horse of a British officer, who had fallen a victim to his prowess, and rode, alone, after a party of the royal dragoons, which fled at full speed towards the castle of Edinburgh." In the rear of their long straggling troop," says Chambers, in his interesting History of the Rebellion, "came the heroic Grant, so close in pursuit, that he entered the Netherbow port, ere the warders could close the gate which had been opened to receive them: notwithstanding all his efforts, they got safe to the castle, and he was obliged to turn away disappointed." He might now, without much difficulty, have been taken or killed, by the citizens, whom, however, he seems to have perfectly intimidated by his dauntless deportment. After having coolly ordered a full suit of tartan, at a draper's shop, in the Lawn-market, he rode, sword in hand, to the Netherbow port. The guards, who had determined on detaining him, were struck with so much awe, by his athletic frame, terrific voice, bloody weapon and habiliments, that they opened the gate; and, on being subsequently taunted for having suffered him to escape, intimated that they thought it was very well of them to get rid of the fellow in the way they did. Colquhoun Grant, subsequently became a very respectable writer to the signet, at Edinburgh.

DAWSON, (JAMES,) the son of a Lancashire gentleman, after having nearly completed his studies at St John's college, Cambridge, abandoned the university, on account of some youthful excesses, and became an officer in the English regiment of insurgents, taken at Carlisle, in the rebellion of 1745. Being found guilty of high

treason, at the court-house, on St. Margaret's-hill, Southwark, on the 15th of July, 1746, he was roused from his slumbers, about six o'clock in the morning of the 30th of the same month, to prepare for immediate execution, on Kennington Common, with eight of his unfortunate associates. He had, for some time prior to his quitting college, been attached to a young lady of fortune, to whom, it is said, he would have been immediately united, had he obtained an acquittal. In opposition to the wishes of her friends, his intended bride went to witness his execution; during the dreadful preparations of which, although the fire prepared to consume her lover's heart was blazing before her, she retained a perfect mastery over her feelings; but, according to Dougal Graham, when the shouts of the multitude announced the termination of his mortal career, she fell upon the neck of a female companion, exclaiming," My love, I follow thee! Sweet Jesus, receive our souls together!" and immediately expired.

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MACDONALD, (FLORA,) daughter of Macdonald, of Milton, in South Uist, who, dying while she was an infant, her mother became the wife of Macdonald, of Armidale, in Skye, senior captain of one of the companies employed, on the Long Island, to prevent Charles Edward's escape; which, however, with her assistance, he succeeded in effecting. The particulars of her romantic adventures with Charles Edward, having been already stated in the memoir of his life, at page 159 of this volume, the residue of the present notice will be confined to a sketch

of her subsequent career. On parting

from Flora Macdonald, at Portree, Charles Edward is said to have tenderly embraced her, and, after thanking her warmly for the great services she had rendered him, to have presented her with his miniature as a token of his gratitude. In consequence of information extorted from the boatmen who had rowed them from South Uist, she was soon afterwards apprehended and sent to London; where she was visited,

in prison, by Frederick Prince of Wales; to whom, in reply to a question as to her motives, in delivering the young Pretender from his perilous situation, she stated, that should his royal highness, or any member of the reigning family, apply for her assistance under circumstances equally distressing, with God's blessing, it should be as cheerfully afforded; for that in saving the unfortunate adventurer, she had simply obeyed the dictates of humanity. The prince, it is said, greatly admired her reply, and, through his interest, after having been imprisoned for about a year, she obtained her discharge. On being liberated, she went to reside at the house of Lady Primrose, where she was visited by a number of distinguished Jacobites, from whom she received the most flattering attention and many valuable presents. After having excited a high degree of admiration by the unassuming propriety of her conduct, she returned to her native island, and married a son of Macdonald, of Kingsburgh, with whom, many years after, she proceeded to America. During the contest between Great Britain and the colonies, she is said to have encountered various misfortunes; and before its termination, she returned with her family to Skye, where she died at rather an advanced age. Boswell, who saw her at Kingsburgh, during his tour with Dr. Johnson to the Hebrides, describes her as having been an uncommonly mild, well-bred, genteel, little woman. She was, however, so zealous a Jacobite, that, even when advanced in years, if any man, it is said, had dared to speak of Charles Edward, in her presence, as the Pretender, she would have struck him a blow with her fist. During her voyage from America, she gave a signal proof of that extraordinary courage, which had already rendered her so remarkable. The vessel, of which she was on board, being attacked by a French ship of war, she left her female fellow-passengers trembling in the cabin, and bore a part in the action on deck, until, being accidentally thrown down, her arm was fractured.

ingratiate himself with the partisans of the Prince of Orange; and, as it is positively stated, was among the first to vote that James the Second had abdicated. He was, however, expressly excepted from the pardon granted, by William and Mary, to the followers of their predecessor; he consequently absconded, and offered to resign his bishopric to Burnet, on condition of receiving £1000 per annum out of its revenues for life. Burnet declined the proposal; and Crewe, in consequence of Tillotson's intercession, was allowed to retain his see. Having ventured

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return to England, he made his peace at court, by voting for the new settlement; and, on the death of his two elder brothers, in 1691, became Baron Crewe, of Stene. Almost the last act of his public life, was an opposition to the proceedings instituted against Sacheverell, of whose prosecution Queen Anne avowedly disapproved. He died without issue, although thrice married, on the 18th of September, 1721, aged eighty-eight. This despicably versatile prelate, who, towards the close of his career, became ostentatiously munificent and charitable, was not eminent either for piety or erudition. Speaking of his employment as an ecclesiastical commissioner, Burnet says, "he was lifted up with it, and said, now his name would be recorded in history; and when some of his friends represented to him the danger of acting in a court so illegally constituted, he said, he could not live, if he should lose the king's gracious smiles." It is related of him, that he would frequently take the key of Stene chapel, where his last wife was buried, and place himself near her remains; under which he directed that his own coffin should be deposited. One day, in allusion to an alabaster skull at the bottom of the monument, he said to his chaplain, Dr. Grey, "I wish that horrid death's head had not been placed there!" Grey, who was much attached to the bishop, made no reply, but immediately sent for the sculptor, whom, after some consideration, he directed to convert the obnoxious skull into a bunch of grapes!

SOUTH, (ROBERT,) the son of a merchant, was born at Hackney, in 1633, and received his education under

Dr. Busby, at Westminster school; whence, in 1651, he was elected to Christchurch, Oxford. After having distinguished himself by producing three Latin poems, one of which was addressed to Cromwell, on the termination of the Dutch war, he took the degrees of B. A. and M. A., and entered into holy orders. In 1660, he was chosen public orator of the university of Oxford, and soon afterwards became domestic chaplain to Lord Clarendon; who, in 1663, made him a prebendary, presented him to a living in Wales, and procured for him, although of insufficient standing, the degree of D. D. On the disgrace of his noble patron, he became chaplain to the Duke of York. In 1670, he was installed canon of Christchurch; and, three years after, attended the British ambassador, Lawrence Hyde, to Poland, in the capacity of chaplain. On his return, in 1678, he obtained the living of Islip, in Oxfordshire; and, in 1681, he preached a sermon before Charles the Second, on the vicissitudes of human life; in which, after having illustrated his subject by the examples of Agathocles and Masaniello, he thus proceeded:-" And who that beheld such a bankrupt, beggarly fellow, as Cromwell, first entering the parliament-house, with a threadbare torn cloak and greasy hat, perhaps neither of them paid for, could have suspected that, in the space of so few years, he should, by the murder of one king, and the banishment of another, ascend the throne?" The king, it is said, laughed heartily at the passage, and desired that, on a vacancy occurring on the episcopal bench, he might be reminded of the preacher. Dr. South evinced his loyalty to James the Second, by refusing to join in the invitation to the Prince of Orange; to whom, however, he subsequently took the oath of allegiance, although he is said to have declined the vacant see of a non-juring prelate. In 1693, he engaged in a controversy on the doctrine of the Trinity, with Sherlock, in which he displayed much humour, great learning, and abundance of zeal; but, it may safely be said, to no good purpose. Each of the contending parties professed to be strictly orthodox, although they differed materially in explaining the text, which formed the

subject of their dispute. He exerted himself most strenuously in favour of Sacheverell; and, on the accession of his party, the Tories, to power, at the latter end of the reign of Queen Anne, to whom he was sincerely attached, he declined the offer of a bishopric, observing that such a chair would be too uneasy for an infirm old man to sit in. His decease took place in July, 1716. In politics, he was a confirmed Tory; and, in religious principles, a furious high churchman. In abilities and erudition, he had not many superiors; and but few of his cotemporaries possessed so abundant a share of wit and humour. He was intolerant, irascible, harsh, and unforgiving, yet eminently charitable. His love of the satirical and ludicrous is frequently displayed in his most serious compositions, to which, however, a high degree of praise has been attributed. Six volumes of his sermons were printed during his life; and, after his death, appeared his English Posthumous Works, his Opera Posthuma Latina, an account of his journey to Poland, and memoirs of his life. The following, among other amusing anecdotes, have been recorded of him-On one occasion, a military officer, whom he was presenting, in his capacity of public orator, for an honorary degree, having accidentally turned his back, South appended to his exordium of "Præsento vobis, hunc bellicossissimum," the addition of “qui nunquam antia tergiversatus est."During his residence in Oxfordshire, he was called out of bed, one cold morning, to perform the marriage ceremony for a couple, who had, for above an hour, been shivering in the church. On inquiring for the bride and bridegroom, his clerk brought forward a man and woman, the youngest of whom appeared to be at least seventy years of age. South inquired if it were possible that they had come to be married. "To be sure," replied the man; "better wed than do worse." "Get you gone," replied South; “ go home, you silly old fools; go home and do your worst.' saying, he hobbled away, in a great passion with his clerk, for having brought him out on so ridiculous an errand. Having accepted an invitation to dine with a clerical friend, at whose house he had called for the purpose of

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paying a morning visit. his host, on stepping into the adjoining room, was severely upbraided by his wife, for giving her the trouble of providing a repast fit for such a guest. An altercation ensued, which South overheard; and, at length, the husband, in a violent passion, exclaimed, "If the doctor were not so near at hand, I would certainly give you a beating." South immediately opened the door, which separated him from his host and hostess, exclaiming, "I beg pardon; but pray don't let my presence be any impediment." The lady, it is added, at once retired, and served up an excellent dinner; but did not think proper to appear at the table.

BURNET, (THOMAS,) was born at Croft, in Yorkshire, about the year 1635, and concluded his education at Christ's college, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship. He made three tours on the continent, in the capacity of tutor-the first with the Earl of Wiltshire, the second with the Duke of Bolton, and the third with Lord Ossory, son of the Duke of Ormond, through whose interest he obtained, in 1685, the mastership of the Charter-house. During the same year, he took the degree of L. L. D., and, shortly afterwards, rendered himself conspicuous by resisting the king's attempt to fix a Roman catholic as a pensioner on the Charter-house. By William the Third, he was made a royal chaplain, and clerk of the closet; but he lost these appointments, in 1692, by the publication of his Archæologia Philosophica, sive Doctrina Antiqua de Rerum Originibus; in which he displayed such latitude of opinion as gave offence to many influential divines. He had previously produced a work, entitled, Telluris sacra Theoria, which he afterwards translated into English. He was also the author of two treatises, posthumously published, De Fide et Officiis Christianorum, and De Statu Mortuorum et Resurgentium. Addison has warmly panegyrised one of his productions; all of which are eloquent and imaginative, but, for the most part, erroneous, and often glaringly absurd. His admirers have been too much dazzled by the splendour of his style, to hesitate as to the truth of his