most of the modern languages. Of the Italian poets, especially of Dante, they are warm admirers.

"Miss Ponsonby, somewhat taller than her friend, is neither slender nor otherwise, but very graceful. Easy, elegant, yet pensive, is her address and manner:

Her voice, like lovers watch'd, is kind and low.

A face rather long than round, a complexion clear, but without bloom, with a countenance which, from its soft melancholy, has peculiar interest. If her features are not beautiful, they are very sweet and feminine. Though the pensive spirit within permits not her lovely dimples to give mirth to her smile, they increase its sweetness, and, consequently, her power of engaging the affections. We see, through their veil of shading reserve, that all the talents and accomplishments which enrich the mind of Lady Eleanor, exist, with equal powers, in this her charming friend.

"Such are these extraordinary women, who, in the bosom of their deep retirement, are sought by the first characters of the age, both as to rank and talents. To preserve that retirement from too frequent invasion, they are obliged to be somewhat coy as to accessibility.'

LADY HOLLAND AND THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

THE late Lord Holland strenuously resisted the bill passed for the detention of Napoleon; and, until death released the prisoner, he never ceased to deprecate what he deemed the unwarrantable conduct of the British government and its agents towards the fallen chief. While his lordship was vehemently denouncing in the senate the pettiness of the treatment to which the exEmperor was doomed, Lady Holland was silently occupying herself in ministering to his relief. Books, journals, and many other of those apparently trifling articles of domestic comfort were unsparingly forwarded by her ladyship to St. Helena. Nor was ingratitude in this instance to be registered amongst the many sins which have been attributed by his adversaries to the Imperial exile. The magnificent box, with the invaluable antique gem which enriched its lid, that Pius VI. consigned to the victor's possession on the signing of the treaty of Tolentino, was by him, under the happier influence of grateful feeling, again conveyed, with this inscription in his own hand-writing:

L'Empereur Napoleon à Lady
Holland, temoignage de

Satisfaction, et d'estime.

Lord Holland illustrated the memorial in the following Latin and English verses:

Hanc iterum egregiæ pietatis præmia gemmam,

Victori intacta misit ab urbe Pius;

Hanc tibi dat meritam Dux, excaptus, et exsul,

Quod sola es casus ausa levare suos.

This gem, twice destined to reward
The deeds of generous pity,

Braschi gave him whose conquering sword
Spared Rome's imperial city.

He exiled, fallen, the prey, the jest
Of mean unmanly foes,

Grants it to you, oh! just bequest,

Who felt and soothed his woes.

THE GENTLE LOCHIEL.

Lochiel! Lochiel! beware of the day

When the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array!
For a field of the dead rushes red on my sight,
And the clans of Culloden are scatter'd in fight.

AT the time of Queen Anne's death, the aristocracy of England, who have at all times virtually been its rulers, were divided into two parties-the one bent upon bringing back the Stuarts and high-church principles, while the other was no less determined to exclude the old dynasty. So far as the nobles themselves were concerned, the two factions were pretty equal in wealth and numbers, or, if anything, the Jacobites had the advantage, but this was more than made up to the Whigs, by the mass of the people throwing themselves into their side of the scales, and thus giving them an overwhelming preponderance. It was not that the English nation had, or could have, any personal regard for George I., a foreign prince, who could not even speak a syllable of their language, but he was a Protestant, and Protestantism was supposed to be a natural adjunct of political freedom, while the Catholic faith was by the many considered as being incompatible with the liberty of the subject. True it was, that such had been the religion of their forefathers, and equally true was it, that high and low

were then, as now, always ready to vouch for the wisdom of the olden times; but in this special instance their wisdom, it would seem, had been no better than folly, and was therefore not only to be eschewed, but to be put down at whatever expense of blood or treasure.

Aided by this popular feeling, the Whigs, upon the death of Queen Anne, baffled all the efforts of James to regain his lost throne, and brought over George I. in triumph from Hanover, stoutly maintaining all the while the somewhat inconsistent maxim, that the king could do no wrong. The defeated faction, however, were by no means disposed to submit in quietness to the domination of their successful rivals. In this point the High-churchmen made common cause with the English Roman-catholics; yet even their zeal, when at its utmost, fell infinitely below that of the Highland chiefs and their clans, to whom strife and bloodshed seemed to be the natural state of things, and who, if not in arms against the government, would most assuredly have been fighting with each other. They had, moreover, the same wild ideas of fidelity to the sovereign that their clans evinced towards themselves, besides which they were yet further blinded by some fanciful noticons of again erecting Scotland into an independent kingdom, of which James was to be the ruler. The wisdom of their conduct in thus wrapping the whole nation in fear and bloodshed, for a scheme so hopeless, may indeed be doubted; but unless morality be merely conventional, meaning one thing to-day and another to-morrow, it is impossible to deny them the praise of loyalty to their king, and fidelity to their religion. The question assumes a very different shape when we come to consider, as we must presently, the conduct of the exile, who prompted them to such undertakings.

Amongst these untameable adherents of James Stuart,