transportation, conveyed him to Leith sands, and set down the astonished judge on the very spot where he had taken him up. The joy of his friends, and the less agreeable surprise of his successor, may be easily oneceived, when he appeared in court, to reclaim his ce and honours. All embraced his own persuasion, that be had been spirited away by witchcraft; nor could he himself be convinced of the contrary, until, many years afterwards, happening to travel in Annandale, his ears were saluted once more with the sounds of Maudge and Batty -the only notes which had solaced his long confine ment. This led to a discovery of the whole story; b.: in those disorderly times, it was only laughed at, as a fair ruse de guerre.

Wild and strange as this tradition may seem, there is little doubt of its foundation in fact. The judge, tpt up whose person this extraordinary stratagem was practised. was Sir Alexander Gibson, Lord Durie, collector of the Reports, well known in the Scottish law under the t of Durie's Decisions. He was advanced to the station of an ordinary Lord of Session, 10th July, 1621, and died at his own house of Durie, July 1646. Betwixt these periods this whimsical adventure must have har pened a date which corresponds with that of the tradition.

"We may frame," says Forbes, " a rational conjectur of his great learning and parts, not only from his colle tion of the decisions of the session, from July, 1621, t2 July, 1642, but also from the following circumstances— 1. In a tract of more than twenty years, he was frequently chosen vice-president, and no other lord in that time. 2. 'Tis commonly reported, that some party, LL a considerable action before the session, finding that the Lord Durie could not be persuaded to think his plea good, fell upon a stratagem to prevent the influence azi

weight which his lordship might have to his prejudice, by causing some strong masked men to kidnap him in the Links of Leith, at his diversion on a Saturday afternoon, and transport him to some blind and obscure room in the country, where he was detained captive, without the benefit of daylight, a matter of three months (though otherwise civilly and well entertained); during which time his lady and children went in mourning for him as dead. But, after the cause aforesaid was decided, the Lord Durie was carried back by incognitos, and dropped in the same place where he had been taken up."

THE WHITE ROSE OF SCOTLAND.

Of the romantic heroines of history, one of the most interesting is the Lady Katherine Gordon, daughter of George, second Earl of Huntly, and niece of K.:g James II. of Scotland. On the arrival at the Scottish court of the famous Perkin Warbeck, at the head of a gallant train of foreigners, and of a retinue of full fifteen hundred men, the northern monarch at once acknowledged his pretensions, and prepared, with all his chivalry, to maintain the cause of him whom he deemed the son of King Edward IV., and the rightful hear of the English throne. To the youthful adventurer, encouraging and joyful as was this reception, the exquisite beauty of Katherine Gordon was more attractive than even the regal diadem which glittered in the distance. He soon won the heart of the Scottish maiden, and soon, with the King's consent, led her to the altar. Brief, however, was the term of happiness that waited on the nuptials. All the efforts of the Scotch proved inef-etual; and Warbeck himself, abandoned by his allies, was captured, and executed.

Through his manifold misfortunes, his wife attended him with devoted love, and unshaken fortitude; and, after his miserable end, her loveliness, modesty, and distress, so affected Henry VII., before whom she was brought. that he evinced the greatest tenderness towards her, en

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trusted her to the Queen's protection, and assigned a pension for her support. Thenceforward the widowed lady was known at the court of England as "the White Rose," a name which had been given to her husband in consideration of his supposed birth, as heir of the house of York, and continued to her on account of her innocence and beauty.

Subsequently she entered on a second marriage, wedding Sir Matthew Cradock, Knt., of Swansea, in Wales, and had by him an only daughter and heiress, Margaret, who became the wife of Sir Richard Herbert, of Ewyas, ancestor of the Earls of Pembroke.

In the Herbert aisle in Swansea church, the tomb of "the White Rose" is still to be seen.

THE AUTHOR OF “SANDFORD AND MERTON.”

MISS SEWARD, in her " Memoirs of Dr. Darwin," has supplied us with the materials from which we have compiled the following narrative of the extraordinary Le of" The Author of Sandford and Merton," a gentleman of fortune and genius, much mixed up with the literary society of his time.

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Thomas Day was born in London, in 1718. received the rudiments of his education at the CharterHouse, and from that institution was removed to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His father died during his infancy, leaving him an estate of twelve hundri pounds per annum. Soon after that event, Mrs. Day married a gentleman of the name of Philips, one of those ordinary characters who seek to supply an inhe rent want of consequence by an officious interference in circumstances with which they have no real concern Mrs. Philips, with a jointure of three hundred pounds a year, out of her son's estate, had been left his guardian, in conjunction with another person, whom she influenced. Being herself under the control of her husband, the domestic situation of her son, a youth of high spirit and no common genius, was often rendered extremely uncomfortable. It may easily be supposed, that he impatiently brooked the troublesome auth ty of a man whom he despised, and who had no clum