I have as yet scarce seen any body except Mr. Conway and Lady Alesbury: Both of them told me they would visit-Jean Jacques if I thought their company would not be disagreeable. I encouraged them to shew him that mark of distinction. Here I must also tell you of a good action, which I did, not but that it is better to conceal our good actions; but I consider not my seeking your approbation as an effect of vanity: Your suffrage is to me something like the satisfaction of my own conscience. While we were at Calais, I ask ed him whether, in case the King of England thought proper to gratify him with a pension, he would accept of it? I told him that the case was widely different from that of the King of Prussia; and I endeavoured to point out to him the difference, particularly in this circumstance, that a gratuity from the King of England could never in the least endanger his independence. He replied; But would it not be using ill the King of Prussia, to whom have since been much obliged? However on this head, added he, in case the offer be made me, I shall consult my father, meaning Lord Mareschal. I told this story to General Conway, who seemed to embrace with zeal the notion of giving him a pension, as honourable both to the King and nation. I shall suggest the same idea to other men in despair of succeeding. he could not forbear, for the sake of a very in- duties, except that which was so sweet and London, 12 January 1766. P. S. Since I wrote the above, I have seen General Conway, who tells me that the King has spoke to him on the same subject, and that the sum intended is a hundred pounds a year; a mighty accession to our friend's slender revenue Oh! my dear friend, how I dread that it may still be long ere you reach a state of tranquillity, in a distress which so little admits of any remedy, and which the natural elevation of your character instead of putting you above it, makes you feel with greater sensibility. I could only wish to administer the temporary consolation, which the presence of a friend never fails to afford. 66 I ac world. I have now settled him in a 'manner entirely to my satisfaction and to his own. There is one Mr. Davenport, a worthy man, a man of letters and sense and humanity, and of an ample fortune, about 6 or 7000 pounds a year, an elderly man and a widower. Among several country seats which belong to him, he has one in the county of Derby, situated amid rocks and mountains A letter has also come to me open from and rivulets and forests, and surrounded Guy the bookseller, by which I learn, the with the most beautiful savage country in Mademoiselle sets out post, in company with England. As he seldom lives there, he proa friend of mine; a young gentleman very posed to me to give an apartment to our good humoured, very agreeable, and very mad. friend; and he has there a gardener and other He visited Rousseau in his mountains, who servants, for whom he must keep a table, he gave him a recommendation to Paoli, the told me that he cou'd easily supply him with King of Corsica; where this gentleman, whose his diet, and all other conveniencies. name is Boswell, went last summer in search cepted of the offer provided that he woud take of adventures. He has such a rage for litera- 30 pounds a year of board for M, Rousseau ture, that I dread some event fatal to our and Madle. le Vasseur. He laughed very P. S. Since I wrote the above, I have re- friend's honour. You remember the story of heartily, but had the good nature to agree to ceived your obliging letter directed to Calais. Terentia, who was first married to Cicero, my proposal. It is a fortnight since poor Mr. Rousseau says, the letter of the King then to Sallust, and at last in her old age Rousseau left me, and here is a paragraph of of Prussia is a forgery, and he suspects it to married a young nobleman, who imagined, a letter he writes to me. Vous voyez deja, come from M. de Voltaire. I have the satis- that she must possess some secret, which mon cher patron, par la date de ma lettre, que faction to tell you, that the project, which I would convey to him eloquence and genius. je suis arrive au lieu de ma destination. Mais had formed for our friend's service, has suc It is impossible for me, dear Madam, to ex-vous ne pouvez tous les charmes que J'y ceeded. You remember the conversation be- press the difficulty, which I have to bear your trouve il faudroit connoitre le lieu et lire dans tween him and me at Calais, of which I gave absence, and the continual want which I feel you an account. I found means to have that of your society. I had accustomed myself of conversation related to the King, by a friend a long time to think of you as a friend from of mine, who possesses much of his confidence. whom I was never to be separated, during He was pleased with it; promised our philo- any considerable time, and had flattered sopher a pension, without naming the sum; myself that we were particularly fitted to pass and there now wants only Lord Mareschal's our lives in intimacy and cordiality, with consent to his accepting it. We have wrote to Berlin for that purpose; and I entertain no doubt of our obtaining it. You know that our Sovereign is extremely prudent and decent, and careful not to give offence: For which reason it is wished, that this act of generosity may be entire secret. As I am sensible it would give you great pleasure, and as I am well acquainted with your secrecy and discretion, I would not conceal it from you; allowing you to inform the Prince of Conti alone, who, I know, will take part in this success. I pretend also, that you are to like me a little better, on account of the share I have had in it. I suppose, that by this time you have learned it was Horace Walpole who wrote the Prussian letter you mentioned to me. It is a strange inclination we have to be wits, preferably to every thing else. He is a very worthy man; He esteems and even admires Rousseau; yet mon coeur. Vous y devez lire au moins les sentimens qui vous regardez et que vous avez si bien merite. Si Je vis dans cet agreable azil aussi heureux que Je l'espere, une des douceurs de ma vie sera de penser que Je vous les dois. Faire c'est meriter de l'etre. Puissiez vous trouver en vous meme, le prix De tout ce que vous faites pour moi." each other. Age and a natural equability of 148 Every one who saw him here, admires the simplicity of his manners, his natural unaffected politeness, the gaity and finesse of his conversation. For my part, I never saw a man, and very few women, of a more agreeable com merce. heart. Letters of David Hume-General Dalyell. It is one of his weaknesses, that he likes to complain: the truth is, he is unhappy, and he Please to make my compliments to Miss Lisle St. Leicester Fields. General Dalyell. [December 6, 1817. When I return to Paris, it will be necessary Captain Crichton, " both in diet and for me to lay a plan of life more conformable clothing. He never wore boots, nor to my character and usual habits: I must above one coat, which was close to his also resolve to pass a great part of my time among my books and in retreat. How far body, with close sleeves, like those we will such a plan be consistent with the situa- call jockey coats. He never wore a I shall tell you a very singular story of him, tion projected. I forget to tell you that Lord peruke, nor did he shave his beard since which proves his extreme sensibility and good Mareschal has given an answer such as I ex the murder of King Charles I. In my pected, but General Conway has been ill, so Mr. Davenport had thought of a contriv- that we have not yet obtained the warrant for time, his head was bald, which he coance to save him part of the expenses of his the pension; though there is no doubt to be vered only with a beaver hat, the brim journey. He hired a chaise, which would on- entertained of it. I must add that Davenport of which was not above three inches ly cost a trifle. He succeeded at first; but told me he intended to leave our friend by will broad. His beard was white and bushy, Mr. Rousseau, the evening before his departure, the life rent of the house in which he lives, if and yet reached down almost to his began to entertain suspicions, from some cir- he finds that his attachment to it continues. cumstances which had escaped Mr. Daven-You see then that in point of circumstances, girdle. He usually went to London port's attention. He complained to me griev- he is not to be pitied, for I have also discovered once or twice a year, and then only to ously of the trick, and said, that, tho' he was that he has some little resources beyond what kiss the king's hand, who had a great poor, he chose rather to conform himself to he mentioned to the president Malesherbes and esteem for his worth and valour. His his circumstances, than live like a beggar up-to me. unusual dress and figure, when he was on alms; and such pretended favours were real injuries. I replied, that I was ignorant in London, never failed to draw after of the matter, but should inform myself of him a great crowd of boys and other Mr. Davenport. No, cried he, no if this be a young people, who constantly attended contrivance you are not ignorant of it; it has at his lodgings, and followed him with not been executed without your contrivance and consent; but nothing could possibly be more huzzas, as he went to court, or returned disagreeable to me. Upon which he sate from it: As he was a man of humour, down in a very sullen humour; and all athe would always thank them for their tempts, which I could make, to revive the civilities when he left them at the door conversation and turn it on other subjects to go into the king; and would then were in vain. After near an hour, he rose up, and walked a little about the room. Judge let them know exactly at what hour he of my surprise when all of a sudden, he sat intended to come out again, and return down upon my knees, and threw his arms ato his lodgings. When the king walkbout my neck, kissed me with the greatest ared in the Park, attended by some of his dour, and bedewed all my face with his tears. courtiers and Dalyell in his company, the same crowds would always be after him, showing their admiration of his beard and dress, so that the king could hardly pass on for the crowd; upon which his majesty bid the devil take General Dalyell, the son of Thomas Dalyell, for bringing such a rabble of Dalyell of Binns, descended from the boys together, to have their guts squeezfamily of Carnwath, was born about ed out, while they gaped at his long 1599; at an early period of life he a- beard and antic habit, requesting him, Please to tell this story to Mde la Mares-dopted the military profession, and ad- at the same time (as Dalyell used to exchale de Luxembourg, to whom I desire that hered to the cause of Charles I. He press it) to shave and dress like other my sincere respects be presented. I also al- commanded at Carrickfergus, in Ire-christians, the keep to poor bairns out of land, and was there taken prisoner, danger; all this could never prevail on 1650; again, 1651, he was taken pri- him to part with his beard, but yet in soner at the battle of Worcester and compliance to his majesty, he went once, carried to the Tower, from whence he to court, in the very height of the faescaped; after which, his estates were shion; but as soon as the king and those forfeited, and himself exempted from about him had laughed sufficiently at the the general act of indemnity. Charles strange figure he made, he re-assumed II recommended Dalyell, for his emi- his usual habit, to the great joy of the nent courage and fidelity, to Prince boys, who had not decerned him in his Radzivil, the King of Poland, and the fashionable dress. The accusation of other foreign dignitaries, in the years being a wizard, Dalyell shared with al1655 and 1656. The Czar of Muscovy, most all the active loyalists of his time; Alexis Michaelovitch, under whose ban- whom, however, if we can trust the au ners he fought, promoted him to the thor of God's judgmeuts, he so far exrank of general, and on his return to ceeded in " devilish sophistry, that he Scotland, ordered a testimony of his sometimes beguiled the devil; or rather services, in the most houourable terms, his master suffered himself to be outto pass the Great Seal." He was bred witted by him." He has also been de up very hardy from his youth," says nounced as a person of manuers singu "Ah, my dear friend," exclained he, " is it possible you can ever forgive my folly? This ill humour is the return I make you for all the instances of your kindness towards me. But notwithstanding all my faults and follies, I have a heart worthy of your friendship, be cause it knows both to love and esteein you." I hope, dear Madam, that you have not so bad an opinion of me as not to think I was extremely affected with this scene. I confess that my tears flowed as plentifully as his: and that I embraced him with no less cordiality. low you to tell it to Mde de Barbantane, and to such of her female friends as you think worthy of it? I scarce know a male who would not think it childish. Ask Mde L'Espinasse whether she can venture to tell it to D'Alembert. I own that I am ashamed to mention that lady's name, as I have not yet answered the letter with whichs he honoured me. What do you think also of my ingratitude when I tell you that I have not yet wrote to Mde Geofrin? I thank God, however, that I have not the impudence to desire you to make my apology, when I know that no apology can possibly be made. I am at a loss in what terms to express my acknowledgments to the Prince of Conti. Nothing can be more honourable as well as agreeable to me than the offer which he is pleased to make me. I leave you to judge what addition the pleasure of living in your company must make to all other inviting circumstances that attend it. But there is only one particular which we must weigh together, when we meet. As the brief sketch of this singular man in the Tales of My Landlord has excited some attention, we have extracted the following particulars of him from the late edition of Kirkton's works, by Mr. Kirkpatrick Sharpe. December 6, 1817.] General Dalyell-Scottish Custom.-Miss M'Avoy. 149 larly rude and brutal, chiefly because at not too old too hang; he would hang well pepper flew out in clouds. When Clauan examination of whigs before the pri- enough. This was amongst the last of his dius observed with what an appetite he public manœuvres. In that same day, August vy council he struck one Garnock (who 22, when at his beloved exercise, drinking ate, he followed his example, and relishhad railed against him as "a Musco- wine, while the cup was at his head, he felled his fare so well, that he said to Esvia beast that roasted men)," with the down and expired. Lord Fountainhall adds, tonne, Upon my soul, I never ate pomel of his sword, till the blood sprang. that the general was buried splendidly after meat prepared in this fashion; but, But it should be remembered, that sol- the military form, being attended by the stand- henceforward, I shall never more turn diers are not wont to bear such epithets fore his hearse, with his led horse and his geing force, and six pieces of cannon drawn beout of my way to seek other cookery." tamely." By my troth, captain, these nerall's battoon. -"Sir," said Estonne, "when I am on are very bitter words;" and, moreover, the Scottish moors that belong to my at that period, a liberality in bestowing Ancient Scottish Custom. lord, I ride for a week or perhaps a fortblows was practised by the higher ranks, BRANTOME, in his Vies des Hommes night together without seeing house or towards their inferiors, now scarcely cre- Illustres, relates that the Vidame de harbour, or even fire, or any living creadible. In almost every comedy of that Chartres, while a prisoner of war in ture, save the beasts of the forest; then age, the fine gentleman, as he is called, England during the reign of Edward am I content with food dressed in this beats his valet de chambre, and general- III. obtained permission to visit the manner, and I should not relish it betly his whole household, whenever a fit Highlands of Scotland. After a grand ter out of an emperor's kitchen.” Thus of ill humour incites him to exercise his hunting-match, in which a great quan- did these two ride on, talking and catcane; and this brutality must have com-tity of game had been killed, he saw ing, till they reached a valley in which monly prevailed, else it could not have these "Scotch savages" devour part of was a very fair spring. When Estonne been suffered on the stage. In the MS. their booty raw, without any other pre- saw it, he said to Claudius, “Let us› sermons of Mr. Hugh Mackaile, (in paration than putting the flesh between drink here of this beverage, which God 1649), is a passage concerning conjugal two pieces of wood, which they squeez- bestows upon all men, and which I precorrection, which bears upon this point, ed together with such violence as to fer to all the banquets in England." and is here printed at length, as the dis- express all the blood, so that the flesh quisition is highly edifying and import- was left quite dry. This they considerCase of Miss M'Avoy. ant, putting what regards the chastise-ed as a great dainty; and the Vidame ment of inferiors entirely out of the highly ingratiated himself with them, pool Infirmary, has published a narraDR. RENWICK, physician to the Liverquestion. because he partook of their fare. In tive of the singular case of this young “Particularlie learn that a husband may the old romance, La trés élégante His-lady, with an account of some optical not stryk his wyf. Thee reid of the correction toire du trés noble Roi Perceforest (Paris, experiments connected with it-from der a more servil subjection. But no word of 1531,) this practice is described with which the following particulars are cxthe wyf's correction, because her subjection is great naiveté in the following episode, tracted :— not servil, but free; shee being made of rib in which Estonne, a Scottish knight, of his syde, and not of a bone of his foot. Ob- who has killed a deer, addresses his of her age in June last. From the age This lady entered into the 18th year jection. May not a man draw blood of himself companion, Claudius, in these words:for his health? Answer. Of a legge or arme, of nine months she has always been in why not? but not of his heart, and a man's Now, Sir, eat as I do."-" So I might, bad health. Her first ailment appears wyf is his heart. Objection. Does not Christ if we had but a fire."By my bro- to have been an affection of the brain, correct his kirk? Answer. Christ is not onlie ther's soul," cried Estonne, "I will cook or its membranes, the kirk's husband, but her absolut, and Lord for you, after the fashion of my country, was owing to a discharge of thick matas her recovery and King over her, as no husband is over his as it befits a knight-errant." Hereupon ter from her ears and nostrils. She next wyf; therefore, as Job reproved his wyf, so may hee, but no stryking. Objection. What he drew his sword, went up to a tree, had the scarlet fever and hooping cough, if a woman be verie stubborn ? Answer. A cut off a branch, which he split very which last was succeeded by a violent man in this case hath to look what end he had deep, two feet at least; then placed a inflammation of her eyes. before him in his choice; and if to gett his slice of the deer in the cleft, took his eyelids were raised up," says Dr. Ren"When the eye and his hand filled hath been his maine horse's bridle, and bound the end of the wick, end, he must drink as he hath brewin, and "the eyeballs appeared as one seik to be humbled, and to walk so as hee give branch so tightly, that all the blood and mass of blood." They were cured by his partie no offence or matter of irritation to juice spirted out of the flesh, and it was Johnston's golden ointment. In Octomake her worse. And if hee be conscious hee left quite dry. He then took it and ber 1814, she caught a violent cold, athath acknowledged God in his choice, and yet pulled off the skin, and the flesh looked tended with cough, loss of appetite, and hee is disappoynted of his expectation, hee is as white as that of a capon. to pray to God for his wyf, and take upe his Upon this great debility. In February 1815 her crosse and beir it after Christ. And if shee be he said to Claudius: "Sir, I have cook- thighs became edematous, and the body so stubborn that there is no cohabiting with ed the flesh after the manner of my was much swollen. On the 14th of June her, there are both civil and ecclesiastick cen- country; you may dine daintily upon 1816, Dr. Renwick received a message sures. The magistrat is custos utriusque tabuit, and I will show you how." lae; and if a brother or sister walk inorderlie, then reached with his hand to a place describes the condition in which he found He to visit her early next morning, and he they are to be noted, and proceedit against by the censures of the kirk." her: On the 5th she had taken little or no food for the last three weeks. The pulse varied from 84 to 140. There had been no appearance of the menses for three months. She complained of cough, pain in the right side, tightness of the chest, of children and servants, because they are un The following particulars of Dalyell appear in a note by Mr. Sharpe. One William Hannah was brought before the council, and when pleading he was too old to banish, Dalyell told him roughly, he was 2 tr near his saddle, and brought out salt 1 180 have his hands folded across his breast; the The following experiments are attestby the Rev. T. Glover, of Stoneyhurst, who previously blinded Miss MA voy in such a manner that he was cer [December 6, 1817. scale; to learn the sentiments of the Miss M'Avoy.-Bell's Account of the Wounded at Waterloo. dyspnea, and palpitation of the heart; | sat down; and then of the four, she stated one also of violent pain in the fore and back to be reading a paper or book, the second to part of the head, with a throbbing and third with his hands in his breeches pocket, beating sensation. The vessels of the and so on." coats of the eye were filled with red blood, but she suffered very little unea-ed siness from the action of light. She was much affected with giddiness; was nearly blind of the left eye; and, for some tain not a ray of light could penetrate days, every object which she had seen to her eyes. She accurately described with the right appeared white, if at a the colour and shape of wafers fastened between two plates of window glass, and distance: if near, it appeared double. On the 7th, she appeared totally blind. also the seven prismatic colours painted On the 9th she was seized with convulon a card, but she could not distinguish sions. About 3 o'clock on the afternoon colours in the dark. She read a line or of the 12th she was observed to gasp two of small print by feeling the letters, for breath, and complained of a sense and then through a convex lens at the of suffocation, from something passing distance of nine inches from the book. down her throat that was very offensive While reading, she gently rubs the upper surface of the lens with the tips of ceased from the time of the discharge her fingers. With a concave lens she taking place; but the beating complain-could not read easily till the glass was ed of in the back part of the head did laid on the paper.-On applying her very worst aspect of war presented ita soreness over the whole body. The fingers to the window, she perceived French wounded. The wounded con in taste and smell. The convulsions not subside until the 17th, she then felt top of the head became peculiarly sensible. Her hearing, which had been dull from childhood, was now very acute. On the 2d of August she had become in a two newly cut stones of a yellow colour sense of their unexampled exertions diers, who in the morning were moved in the evening hardened by the repetially passing by, a cart loaded with bar-by the pitious cries of those they carried, very expert in sewing although she was rels of American flour, another with tion of the scene and by fatigue, and insaid to have been blind from the 6th or loaves of sugar, a third empty, a girl different to the suffering they occasion7th of June. It was now that her won-with a small child in her arms, &c. A ed. It was now the thirteenth day after derful powers began to be developed. middle-sized man at the distance of 12 the battle. It is impossible for the imagination to conceive the sufferings of She was able to thread a needle frequentIn September she yards did not appear, she said, above ly at the first effort. In September she men rudely carried at such a period of two feet; but as he approached nearer, pointed out to her father-in-law a parti- she felt him grow bigger. On touching their wounds. When I first entered this book that was put incular passage to her hands, and read part of it. This a plane glass mirror, she said that she felt the picture of her own fingers, and hospital these Frenchmen had been induced them to try her with another nothing else; but on holding a plate of roused and excited in an extraordinary there was a character of fierceness which book, and on presenting her with a large plane glass three or four inches before degree, and in the glance of their eyes the mirror, she was enabled to perceive I never thought to have witnessed in the the reflected image of herself. She ac- human countenance. They were past curately described the features of two the utterance of what, if I might read persons whom she had never seen be- the countenances, was unsubdued hatred fore, holding the plane glass three or and desire of revenge. On the second This faculty four inches from the face. of distinguishing colours and objects is more perfect at one time than at another; sometimes it suddenly and entirely fails, and then, she says, every thing appears black. She folio bible she read several verses. January 7, 1817.-" This day she not only declared the colour of different cloths, cotton and silk, but several pieces of silk that were inclosed in a small phial bottle"-" a watch was put into her hands, she felt the surface of the glass, and soòn named the hour." June 28.-"Traced and told several colours of silk inclosed in a glass bottle." Experiment 19." With her hands upon day the temporary excitement had subsided. Turn which way I might I encountered every form of entreaty from those whose condition left no need of words to stir compassion-" Major, O comme je souffre! Pansez, pansez ! Docteur je me recommande à vous; cou the window, perceived two newly cut stones of Mr. Charles Bell's Account of the Wound- pez ma jambe! O! je souffre beaucoup, a yellow colour, lying one on another against the wall, on the other side of the street, dis tance about 12 yards." ed at Waterloo. beaucoup !" And when those entreaties were unavailing, you might hear in a "ON the breaking out of the war, weak inward voice of despair: "Je mourAugust 14. With her hand placed behind her upon the window, opposite to the (says Mr. Bell), I intended to follow the rai! je suis un homme mort!"-The At four in the communion end of the church, she told the army for a short part of the campaign. tones were too true to nature soon to figures of different people passing, and some- My purpose was to perfect my know- lose their_influence. She told also the position of four different work-ledge of gunshot wounds; to observe morning I offered my services; and at men in the church-yard, one by one as they the difficulties of the wounded on a great six I entered on the most painful duty times named the colour of their clothes. December 6, 1817.] Bell's Account of the Wounded at Waterloo.Marriage Contracts. Marriage Contracts. (From the New York Port Folio.) of my life, in inspecting and operating 151 the vociferous lungs of an advocate; to summon witnesses to prove interviews, sighs suppressed, or tender looks exDR. GIBSON, in his Codex, makes changed; to issue a supœna duces tethe observation, that persons con- cum, to Cupid's chancellor, the bearer tracted to one another, are prohibited or the faithful depositary of letters, in by the law of God from marrying a- order to prove that the half reluctant word had once been lisped: to read to those "fat and greasy citizens" who are so courteously styled the gentlemen of the jury, the impassioned language of ardent affection! The idea is intolerable to any but a surly revengeful mercenary. Him no lactescent fountain ever nourished: his cradle was a butt, and in the fumes of heavy port or drowsy malt, the lullaby of his infant years was sung. Hence if we consult the antiquities be drawn ; a certain general impression of the Christian Church, we shall find remains, and the individual instance the ecclesiastical law exceedingly severe must be very remarkable that is remem- against all perfidiousness and breach of bered at all. I know not what notions espousal contracts. The council of my feeling countrymen have of 30,000 Eliberis orders, that if either the man men thrown into a town and its envi- or the woman, who were espoused, Mary Queen of Scotland. rons. They still their compassionate broke the faith of their espousals, they MARY QUEEN OF SCOTLAND, the most emotions by subscriptions; but what should, for their crime, be kept back celebrated woman of her time, died upavails this to the wounded who would from the communion three years; Conc. on the scaffold. The beauty of her exchange gold for a bit of rag! If men Elib. Can. 54. And the council of person, and the possession of the throne would encounter the painful reality, and Trullo determines it to be downright of Scotland, excited the jealousy of Eallow themselves for a moment to think adultery, for a man to marry a woman lizabeth, who to all the qualities of a of the confusion that must attend such that was betrothed to another, during great monarch, united the foibles of a a scene; the difficulty of arrangement; the life of him who espoused her, Conc. weak woman. Mary regretted all her the many, very many cases where know- Trull. Can. 54. Indeed, it is upon the life the French court, where she had ledge, decision, and dexterity are more supposition of adultery only, that the lived with the respect and attention due necessary than in any other situation of injured person may lawfully marry ano-to the wife of Francis the second, and life; if they would consider that from ther. It is certain that in the reign of where she had become the admiration the pressure of the time the surgeon Edward VI. unless there was a volun- and delight of all ranks. Her reputarequires personal and constitutional tary release of each person, it was e- tion for letters, which she loved and strength, as well as the promptitude steemed adultery for either of them to cultivated with success, was deservedly gained by long study and experience, marry any body else, and the eclesias- great, and she would have descended they would be led to inquire what du- tical judges were empowered to give to posterity with merited distinction as ties had been performed, and what con- sentence in favour of the precontract, a woman of learning, had not her missideration had attended the unexampled and to require that matrimony be so- fortunes made her more celebrated. At exertions of the army surgeons after the lemnized and consummated between the the age of thirteen or fourteen, she rebattle of Waterloo. Such has been the persons contracted, though one of them cited, at the Louvre, in the presence of tenor of my expressions since the se- may be actually married to, and have Henry the second, and the whole cond day I entered the streets of Brus-issue by another person. 2 Ed. 6. French court, a discourse in Latin, sels; which at that time presented a The modern practice in England written by herself, in which she sucscene of which the public can have no gives the party aggrieved an action of cessfully combated the idle prejudice distinct conception; and such opinions damages against the recusant. In our that would exclude the female sex from I expressed to General Adam, then in courts of justice I have never known the study of the belles lettres. It was command, as well as at home, and uni- an instance of such an action, where a spectacle as interesting as it was sinformly on all occasions." the parties belonged to the better class-gular, to see a princess so young and so • The author says, after describing what he es of society. Instead of appealing to handsome, filling the office of an orator, did in this hospital, p. 329-"The moment a jury to heal a wound which no money and proving, as well by reason as exthat an intelligent army surgeon could be can cure, the injured lover buries his ample, that knowledge added a new spared for this hospital, the object of my stay feelings in his own bosom, and con- charm to her beauty. She passed for there was accomplished," "This hospital of signs the inconstant fair to that conthe French wounded was just forming in the an agreeable writer in prose, and the most difficult circumstances. When I was tempt or detestation which her fickle-few poetical pieces which she has left, there it had not yet assumed the system of the ness or her perfidy deserves. To our prove, that in another age, she had, perother hospitals. It was the last hospital form- American notions it seems quite impos-haps gained a distinguished rank among ed, where full thirty thousand men had been sible that a generous lover could ever the French poets. To the merit of a accommodated; and yet there was no want of any thing essential, and the exertions of the consent to "minister to a mind diseas- literary character she joined every femedical officers were unremitting to bring it ed" by bringing his faithless mistress male accomplishment. She was an ex. to a bar of justice. What! to hear the cellent dancer, a good musician, and soft breathings of passion re-echoed by possessed of every amiable talent: these into order." |