has been ascertained that the towers of Tirnahoe, Ram | The part uncovered at present represents the three kings Island, Ardmore, and Cloyne, were, among other uses, presenting their offerings to the infant Jesus; a very appropriated as sepulchres, whilst similar buildings, such popular subject at that time.-lb., Dec. 11. as Cashel and Kinneh, were not so employed. Whether pagan or Christian, remains a mystery; but it is curious that all the sites where Ogham inscriptions have been found are of decidedly heathen origin.-Literary Gazette, Dec. 4.

IMPRESSION OF A CRUCIFIX IN A TREE.-Academy of Sciences, Paris-Sitting of December 6.-M. Berton, of the Académie des Beaux Arts, laid on the table a fragment of a tree, cut in the forest of Eu, in the interior of which the complete impression of a crucifix was found. The tree was about a foot in diameter, and on splitting it open the impression was found. of the secretaries of the Academy observed that the circumstance in question was not without parallel, various objects and impressions of objects having been found in the heart of timber-trees. Objects, on becoming accidentally attached to any wounded part of a young tree, are easily grown over by the fresh bark, and thus become permanently enveloped within the coats of wood which ultimately grow over them.—Ib.

DISCOVERY OF FRESCO PAINTINGS.-Society of Antiquaries, Dec. 2d.-Mr. H. Gurney, vice-president, in the chair. A paper was read from Mr. Halliwell, accompanying drawings by Mr. J. A. Cahusac, of frescopaintings discovered on the walls of the church of Islip, near Oxford. Islip is said to have been the birthplace of King Edward the Confessor; and some part of the church is very ancient, apparently the remains of an older structure than the present. The paintings discovered in it, about two years ago, are on the walls of the more modern part, and are apparently of the fifteenth century. There is reason for believing that the whole of the church was painted in this manner: but as it is covered with five or six coats of whitewash, of different ages, the task of discovery is very tiresome, and not very satisfactory, as the figures are necessarily much damaged.

NEW PAINTING BY PAUL DELAROCHE.-We have been to the Ecole Royale des Beaux Arts to see Paul Delaroche's great painting; and we have not been disappointed. It represents a semicircular bench, in front of a collonade, with a sort of elliptical recess in the middle, and flights of steps leading to it on either side. On a seat, in the middle recess, are placed Ictinus, Apelles, and Praxiteles, judging the world of art; while in front of them are four ideal female figures of the various epochs of art, with a female genius in the foreground distributing wreaths of laurel. On the side-benches and steps are grouped the greatest painters, architects, sculptors, and engravers, of all epochs. The three antique artists and the ideal figures are failures, with one exception, that of mediæval art. This is a beautiful figure, closely clad in long drapery, (all the rest are, more or less, in a state of nudity,)—and she is looking up to heaven, lost in contemplation. It is the portrait of Madame Delaroche, the daughter of Horace Vernet, for love of whom Leopold Robert killed himself at Rome. The face of Apelles is the portrait of Paul Delaroche himself. The best figure among the painters is that of Leonardo da Vinci, who is talking to Rubens and Vandyke, (both failures.) Titian is also well done. Raffaelle is an ideal theatrical figurenot good; but Nicolas Poussin is full of dignity. Old Inigo Jones's eccentric face is well sketched among the architects, and Michael Angelo is drawn with a good deal of force. The engravers and sculptors are on the bench next to Ictimus, with the colourist division of the painters on their right; the architects and drawing division of the painters are on the side of Praxiteles. The grouping is ably done, and the tone of colouring peculiarly good on the whole, it is one of the most satisfactory works of this kind that has been produced for some time. The main faults are those of omission. Paul Delaroche knows nothing of medieval or national art, and has left out many great personages who lived anterior to 1500. He has not taken any notice of Spanish, German, or English painters or architects, though, at the same time, it must be admitted that he has not flattered his own

countrymen unduly, and that very few French artists, compared with what might have been expected, are in the composition.-Paris Letter of the Lit. Gaz. Dec. 25. THE PRINCESS ROYAL'S PORTRAIT.-By W. C. Ross; engraved by H. T. Ryall. M'Lean.-This is stated to be the only portrait the Queen will permit to be published; and it is a jolly semblance of a fine royal little fat baby. The likeness to the royal family, and especially to its mamma, is very obvious; and there is a lively and healthful appearance in its round face, which is quite delightful to look upon.-Lit. Gaz., Jan. 1.

NEW HISTORICAL PICTURE.-Mr. George Hayter, Painter of History and Principal Painter in Ordinary to her Majesty, has had the honour of an audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert; when by her Majesty's gracious permission it was decided, that he should commemorate the forthcoming solemnity of the Christening his Royal Highness the Infant Prince, by a grand histori tal picture, with portraits the size of life.-Britannia, Nov. 17.

the meeting of the Society of Antiquaries, held last Thursday evening, a paper of considerable interest was read by Mr. C. R. Smith, on the recent discovery of Roman antiquities in London, particularly with reference to the foundations of the new Royal Exchange. The completion of the foundation was much retarded by the excavators finding an extensive gravel pit, which it required many loads of concrete to fill, on the part opposite to the entrance of the bank of England. It afterwards appears to have been employed to receive the rubbish and refuse from the shops and houses of the City; and amongst the debris removed were large quantities of bones and other remains of animal and vegetable matters, with abundance of articles of domestic life, as shoes, and sandals; knives and cutting instruments, on some of which were engraven the names of the makers; and some weaving instruments, in which part of the wool remained entwined, and which seemed to show the antiquity of this staple branch of British manufacture. There were also found coins of Vespasian, Domitian, and Severus; but in the rubbish at the top were coins of much later dates, showing this part of the City to be of comparatively recent formation. From the discovery within the last few years of tesselæ in the Bank of England, Cornhill, and the site of the French church in Threadneedle-street where Roman villas doubtless stood, the results of the present inquiry seemed to show that Roman London was continually entrenching on the fields which surrounded it, and that the excavation alluded to was situated in fields.-Britannia, December 25.

It will be

THE LATE SIR F. CHANTREY.-The Wellington Testimonial is in a forward state, but unfortunately those parts which require the artist's most consummate skill, the elaborate perfection of sculpture, are yet untouched. A serious responsibility is thus cast upon the Testimonial Committee to decide whom they shall elect as most worthy to finish this great national work of art. recollected that Sir Francis Chantrey was appointed to execute the other works of great public interest; we mean the testimonial to the late Sir David Wilkie, to defray the expense of which a handsome subscription has been already raised, and the monument for the late Mrs. Siddons, which has been for some months under contemplation. The committees in each case have now to revoke these votes and decide upon some other competent artist. Sir Francis's health had become so precarious that for a long time past he had ceased to interfere with the execution of the models, which was entirely left to to Mr. Weeks. In the Court of Common Council Sir P. Laurie mentioned, that a short time before Sir Francis Chantrey's death, that eminent artist expressed a wish that he should go to see the model of the horse and of the duke so far as had been completed. The horse, which was a splendid model, had been since cast in bronze. He had seen the horse and the model of the head of the duke, who had been sitting on the day he visited the sculptor's studio. The great task had been therefore completed, and it would be an easy matter to get a sculp tor able to do justice to the test. Sir Francis had had one instalment of 3,000l., and he had shortly before he died, thought he was justified in demanding the second

DISCOVERY OF ROMAN ANTIQUITIES IN LONDON.-At instalment of 3,0001.-Examiner, Dec. 18.

OBITUARY.

ADMIRAL SIR JOHN WELLS.-This gallant naval officer died on Friday last, the 19th inst., at Belmore, his residence, near Cuckfield, Sussex, at the advanced age of seventy-eight years. He had been in the navy upwards of sixty-five years, for his commission as Lieutenant is dated as far back as 1779. When Captain, he was appointed, in 1797, to the Lancaster, of 64; and, under Lord Duncan, contributed to the defeat of the Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral de Winter, and, for his eminent services on that occasion (the victory of Camperdown,) he received the distinction of a medal. In October, 1834, he was nominated a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Hon. Order of the Bath. His commission was dated as follows:-Lieutenant, the 22nd of July, 1779; Commander, the 1st of June, 1782; Captain, the 1st of March, 1783; Rear-Admiral, the 9th of Novem

ber, 1805; Vice-Admiral, the 31st of July, 1810; and Admiral, the 19th of July, 1821; being with the excep; tion of Sir Charles E. Nugent, Sir J. H. Whitshed, and Almirals Aylmer and W. Wolsely, the senior admiral in

the British service.-Britannia, Nov. 27.

DUNCAN MUNRO.-On the 8th Nov., at Tullich Farm, near Inverary, Duncan Munro, the oldest tenant upon the Argyll estate, he and his forefathers having possessed the same farm above three hundred years; in his 108th year.-Spectator, Nov. 27.

JOHN HEINRICH DANNECKER, who has just died at Stuttgard, in the 84th year of his age, was, like Chantrey, one of the children of genius who strike into the true path of their powers by an instinct overbearing the impulse of surrounding circumstances. Against the will of his father, a groom in the service of Duke Charles of Würtemberg, and against the rule, too, which limited the benefits of the institution to the youth of the upper ranks,

he succeeded on a personal application to that Prince, in JOHN BEATTY WEST, ESQ.-J. B. West, Esq., Queen's gaining admission to the School of the Fine. Arts, esta- Counsel, and one of the represesentatives for Dublin, blished at the Solitude,' a royal castle near Stuttgard; died on the 27th ult. The event took place at Mount whence, at the age of thirteen, he carried off the prize. Anvilla, the residence of Judge Burton. Since the last Dannecker studied, afterwards, at Paris, under Pajou; general election in July, when Mr. West, with Mr. Groand thence proceeded to Rome, where he attracted the gan, was returned for the city, after one of the most fornotice, and received the counsels of Canova His mar-midable contests on record, the deceased gentleman neble statues of Bacchus' and 'Ceres,' executed while in ver fully recovered from the effects of the fatigue and exthat city, procured his admission as a member into the haustion he had suffered on that occasion. The passing Academies of Bologna and Milan; and on his return to over of the paramount claims of Mr. West, when Mr. Stuttgard, he was long employed in modelling for his Warren obtained the vacant sergeantcy, might also have early patron, Duke Charles. His famous Sappho,' had considerable effect upon a constitution debilitated by executed in 1790, and now at Monrepos, and his still illness.-Examiner, Jan. 1. more famous Ariadne,' in the possession of the banker Bethman at Frankfort, placed him in the first rank of German sculptors. His works in marble and in bronze are about five hundred in number; and amongst the most celebrated of these may be mentioned, in addition to those already named, his Eros and Psyche,' after the well known Mythus of Apuleius, his Minerva, Mel; pomene' and 'Thalia,' and, above all, his Christ,' which employed eight years of his study and labour, and whose conception he is said to have owed to a dream. It is also said to have been against the strongly-expressed opinion of Thorwaldsen that he clothed the figure of the Mediator in flowing drapery, to which, however, he has succeeded in communicating a wonderful lightness, har monizing finely with the divine attributes impressed on the face. His busts are many,-those of Schiller, Gluck, and Lavater being reckoned among the most remarkable. The frame of the sculptor had outlived the mind which produced, and yet speaks in, these works; and his latter years were spent in the helplessness of second childhood. Of his pupils, the most distinguished is Martin von Wagner, now Secretary to the Academy of the Fine Arts at Munich.-Atheneum, Dec. 25.

Viscount Perceval, (in Ireland,) and fourth Baron Lovell HENRY FREDERICK JAMES, FIFTH EARL OF EGMONT, and Holland, (in England.) died on the 22d instant, at his residence in Wigmore Street. He was great grandson to John, the second Earl of Egmont, (First Lord of Bute's in 1763); who was father, by a second marriage, the Admiralty in the Ministry which succeeded Lord to the late Lord Arden and Mr. Spencer Perceval. The late Earl was in his forty-seventh year; and, dying unArden, a captain in the Navy, who served with gallantry married, his titles have devolved upon his cousin, Lord under the late Lord Exmouth at the siege of Algiers. He was born in 1794; and married in 1819 to Jane, eldest daughter of the late Mr. John Hornby, of Hook, near Southampton.-Spectator, Jan. 1.

man, Cornwall, on Wednesday morning, when in the THE EARL OF FALMOUTH died suddenly, at Tregothact of dressing himself. His title was conferred in 1821. He will be succeeded by his only issue, Lord Boscawen Rose, one of the Members of the Western Division of Cornwall; a vacancy in the representation of which is thus created. The late Earl was in his 55th year, having been born in May 1787. He married Anne Frances, daughter of the late Mr. Henry Bankes. The present Earl is in his 31st year.-Ib.

THE EARL OF WESTMORELAND died in his eighty-third year, on Wednesday night at half past ten o'clock, at his residence at Brighton. He had been indisposed for nearly two months. The Earl had held several high offices in the state; having succeeded the Marquis of Buckingham as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1789, and held that appointment till 1794. Three years after his return from Dublin, he was appointed Lord Privy Seal; in which office he continued, with the exception of a short interval, (from 1806 to 1807,) till 1827. He was for a short time Master of the Buckhounds to George the Fourth. Lord Westmoreland was twice married; first, in 1782, to Sarah Anne Child, the wealthy heiress of the late Mr. Robert Child the eminent banker, by whom he had six children; and secondly, in 1800, to Jane Saunders, second daughter and co-heir of Mr. Richard Huck Saunders, by whom he had three children, and who survives him. The Earl is succeeded in his titles and estates by Viscount Burghersh, British Minister at the Court of Berlin; who was born the 3d of February, 1784.-SpecDEATH OF THE REV. DR. BARCLAY, OF KETTLE.-Wesenting Chapel. Newcastle (a place of great popularity regret to announce the death of the Rev. Dr. Barclay, at that time,) and finished his ministerial carcer in this minister of the parish of Kettle, which took place on town.-Tyne Mercury. Monday morning last. Dr. Barclay was, we believe, upwards of ninety years of age. He was ordained in 1778, and has been, since the death of Dr. Kelloch Cunningham, "Father of the Kirk of Scotland."-Edinburgh Observer.

THE REV. JAMES CHAMBERS, M. A., died on the 17th ult. at the house of his son, Mr. P. T. Chambers, surgeon, Newgate street, in the 90th year of his age. Mr. Chambers received his classical education at the College of Glasgow, and left it at the age of 21 years, when he entered upon his pastoral duties in Carlisle; and afterwards went to Enfield, in the county of Middlesex, in 1793; whence he removed, under the American Government, to Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, U. S., in 1795, where he remained nine years, and had the honour of preaching before Congress, which Congress placed him at the head of the college of that State. The yellow fever prevailing to a great extent in that country, Mr. C. returned to England, and settled in Longtown, Cumberland, in 1805. He removed thence to Rothbury, this time Mr. C. received a call to the Castle Garth Disin Northumberland, where he remained some years.

sator, Dec. 18.

SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. MILLER, QUEEN'S COUNSEL.This learned gentleman expired suddenly on Monday night, at his chambers, in Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn. The learned gentleman was in perfect health on Monday afternoon, and dined with several of the benchers in Lincoln's-inn Hall. He retired from the convivial board at an early hour. On Tuesday morning he was discovered by the laundress of his chambers dead in the bed with his clothes on. It is supposed that Mr. Miller, after returning from Lincoln's-inn Hall, sat down to read his briefs, and that being taken suddenly ill, he had laid himself down on his bed, and there expired. Several briefs were found open on the table, and both the candles were burned down to the sockets. Mr. Miller practised chiefly in the Lord Chancellor's Court and the Privy Council. A verdict of "Natural Death" was recorded at a coroner's inquest, which was held on view of the body of the deceased on Wednesday.-Britannia, Dec. 25.

was the oldest colonel in the British army, and had been COLONEL CUYLER.-It is remarkable that the deceased longer in the service than the Duke of Wellington. The deceased has one son, who held a commission in the 2nd, or Queen's Regiment, but he lost it through misconduct. The deceased was Aide-de-Camp to Sir George Cuyler, his uncle, in the American war, and he commanded the 51st Regiment in the Peninsular campaigns. He also served in the West Indies. The deceased, who was 73 years of age, was well known to his late Majesty, William IV.-Britannia.

LORD DOUGLAS GORDON HALYBURTON, the late Member for Forfarshire, died on the evening of Christmas day, at Warren's Hotel, Regent Street. He was half-brother to the present Marquis of Huntly, and son of the fourth Earl of Aboyne. He was born on the 10th October, 1777, and was consequently in the sixty-fifth year of his age. He took the name and arms of Halyburton in 1784, on succeeding to the estates of his cousin, the Honourable Hamilton Douglas Halyburton, of Pitcur. He married, in 1807, Louisa, only daughter and heiress of Sir Edward Leslie, of Tarbut, Kerry.-Spectator, Jan. 1.

From the Examiner.

It excites a melancholy smile to read the contents of the letter first quoted. The poor idiot lord had Letters of David Hume, and Extracts from Letters re-written a novel, and not all the combined persuaferring to him. Edited by Thomas Murray, LL.D. Edinburgh.

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In Hume's brief but delightful Autobiography, there occurs this passage. In 1745, I received a letter from the Marquis of Annandale, inviting me to come and live with him in England: I found, also, that the friends and family of that young nobleman were desirous of putting him under my care and direction, for the state of his mind and health required it. I lived with him a twelvemonth. My appointments during that time made a considerable accession to my small fortune." This is the only reference he is known to have made to his residence with Lord Annandale. It is the period exclusively referred to in this thin volume of letters; which throw some new light upon the character of the historian and philosopher.

sions of Hume and Vincent could dissuade him
from the darling project of publishing it. Its pecu-
liar character is to be guessed from remarks dropped
by Vincent as to the literary tastes of his Lordship,
and more broadly made in other parts of the corres-
pondence by Hume.

with the beauty of moral discourses as with the
"I wish the Marquis could be as much captivated
sprightly ingenious turns of Fontenelle and Voltaire;
for Mr. Hume and I have got him a very pretty col-
This very day he has anticipated my expectations in
lection of authors that can possibly hit his taste.
being, or seeming, highly pleased with Foster's Ser-
I think, I ever met with."
mons, the best and genteelest discourses of the kind,

From the letter already referred to, this extract is taken. It exhibits the philosopher and future historian, "for a con-si-de-ration," at strange employment. Superintending the progress of a madman's novel, and interrupting the progress of a madman's low intrigue!

The young Lord Annandale was a madman. In the intervals of his disease there had broken forth glimpses of a love of letters and a desire for the acquaintance of literary men. His friends thought it right therefore, in the years before his malady reach"You wou'd certainly be a little surpriz'd and ed so distressing a height as to demand other inter- vext on receiving a printed copy of the Novel, which ference, to humour him with a companion of that was in hands when you left London, if I did not kind. Several men had been tried, with more or explain the mystery to you. I believe I told you, that less success: when Capt. Vincent, a cousin of the I hopt that affair was entirely over, by my employing young Lord's mother, and who seems to have been Lord Marchmont and Lord Bolingbroke's authority deputed by her to exercise a vigilant superintend- against publishing that Novel; tho' you will readily ance over his pecuniary affairs and general establish- suppose that neither of these two noble Lords ever ment, applied to David Hume. He was then thirty- perus'd it. This machine operated for six weeks; four years old; had published (still born) his Trea- but the vanity of the author return'd with redoubled lise on Human Nature; had won some distinction by force, fortify'd by suspicions, and encreas'd by the the first part of his Essays; and had before him, un- delay. Pardie, dit il, je crois que ces messieurs occupied, the vast field of literary effort on which veulent etre les seules Seigneurs de Angleterre qui eushe could hardly be said to have yet fairly entered. sent de l'esprit. Mais je leur montrerai ce que le petit But the money came slowly in: David had all the A- peut faire aussi.' In short, we were oblig'd provident caution for which his countrymen are said to print off thirty copies, to make him believe that we had to be famous: Capt. Vincent's offer was advantage-printed a thousand, and that they were to be disperst all ous, and, after some slight hesitation, accepted. over the kingdom. Nothing could be more promising than the commencement of his duties. So pleased was Capt. Vincent with their discharge that he endeavoured, in consideration of the many sacrifices they implied, to effect some permanent settlement for Hume's advantage.

"Mr. Hume is almost wholly taken up with our friend personally, so that he can scarce have the resource of amusement, or even of business, which is somewhat hard upon a man of erudition and letters, whom indeed I think very deserving and good natured; and whilst he can be his companion, there could not be a better made choice of; and, as there is a difficulty in making a settlement of an annuity of 100!. per annum, in consideration of his giving up his time and whatever other views he might have as a man of learning, so I wish, when you are in town, we may agree on some method to make up for that difficulty. He should not, I imagine, be on less advantageous terms than those who have formerly been engaged."

This letter was addressed to Col. John Johnstone, who had married the Dowager Marchioness, mother to the unhappy young Lord. It was a part of Hume's office to keep up a constant correspondence with this Johnstone on the state of the patient: and from these letters, with extracts of those of Vincent, the volume is composed.

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"My Lady Marchioness will also receive a copy, and I am afraid it may give her a good deal of uneasiness, by reason of the story alluded to in the novel, and which she may imagine my Lord is resolv'd to bring to execution. Be so good, therefore, as to inform her, that I hope this affair is all over. I discover'd, about a fortnight ago, that one of the papers sent to that damsel had been sent back by her under cover to his rival, Mr. M, and that she had plainly, by that step, sacrific'd him to her other lover. This was real matter of fact, and I had the good for tune to convince him of it; so that his pride seems to have got the better of his passion, and he never talks of her at present."

It would be worth notice, that novel, if it could be recovered. But no doubt the thirty copies were all carefully destroyed. Vincent says of it, in another of his letters:

"It was an innocent amusement, and we could not

prevent printing it, though but very few copies, and given only to particular friends. The author believes it sells well in all the shops, and we had one advertisement in one single paper, to that purpose."

Its author's next literary effort was a tribute to the excellence of his new companion :

“We live extremely well together, without the smallest interruption of good will and friendship,

and he has done me the honour of composing some my conduct and behaviour, he has broken his word, French verses in my praise."

and contriv'd a way of life for me which it is impossible for me or any other man ever to endure. Be not surpriz'd at this, nor imagine there is any contradiction betwixt what I here say and his seeming desire of attatching me by the offer he made me last summer. I shall explain that matter on a more proper occasion. Those, who work continually upon such dark intricate designs, must observe a conduct which, to persons at a distance, who have not the proper clue, must appear a continu'd scene of contradiction." Another is worded thus:

will ever be gain'd by yielding to so much arro"I doubt not but you are convinc'd that nothing gance, I might, I believe, by compliance have remain'd as long as I pleas'd, because he cou'd entertain no jealousy of me; but he knows that your title to authority is so much better than his own, that he never will think himself fully secur'd till you are entirely remov'd. For this reason, he does not pretend to act in conjunction with you, nor will admit you to any share of his councils; but has, from the very beginning, even before he had any occasion to find you of a different opinion from him, erected altar against altar, or rather attempted to erect a throne over your

footstool.

But it was not simply that no improvement was visible in the Marquis: a serious difference had arisen with Vincent. The exact designs of the latter it is difficult to get at; whatever they were, they seem to have been deeply laid, and to have failed in propitiating the favour of Hume for any of the purposes they involved. Their intercourse assumed an attitude of extreme hostility. Intrigue induced counter intrigue; the first manly appeals of Hume to Col. Johnstone being feebly evaded, less manly aids were resorted to: and the contest, from a matter of principle, became a matter of pounds and pence. It is difficult to determine-setting aside the admirable expression of some of his letters-that the philosopher cuts a respectable figure in the course of "He told one of the servants here, that he said to it. At its beginning, he takes a good position : thinking that the affair is recoverable by a frank ex-wou'd admit of no interference in these affairs. I do that he was the nearest relation, and that he you, posure and a truthful appeal. At its end, he falls into the dignity that becomes him: treating things things behind your back at present. A month hence, not believe he was so impudent. He only says such without remedy as things without regard. But in he will say them to your face, if yielded to." the intermediate struggle: in the anxiety to retain an office of such degrading duties; in the non-reluctance to compromise his own expressed opinions and contempts, provided he may still retain its emoluments; and in his long squabble as to their precise amount it is almost impossible to discover the quiet, contented man, lazy and learned, careless yet self-possessed, of later days. Nor can we feel surprise that Vincent triumphed. While Hume wrote his long and able letters to Johnstone, which might have been addressed to a woolpack with about as much effect, the wily Captain possessed the weak intellects of the young lord with a thorough hatred and disgust of his whilome literary companion, and settled the business

that way.

The series of extracts we shall now give are highly curious, and require little comment. This is one of Hume's early appeals to Johnstone, which the latter did not dare to respond to:

And yet the same writer, when other means failed, could conciliate the man he so described, in such laboured appeals as this. It is from a letter addressed to Capt. Vincent, and refers to his own position with the young lord.

"With regard to him, I believe you are sensible that I have always liv'd with him, and continue so to do, in a more equal way of complaisance and good little disgusts and humours cou'd not be prevented, humour, than cou'd well have been expected. Some and never were propos'd to be of any consequence.

have been once of a different opinion from you, I al"As to his friends, and you in particular, tho' I ways manag'd the argument with decency and good manners, as far as I remember, and as you acknowledg'd to me very lately. If any contrary expressions have escap'd me, which I do not remember, they were the effects of melancholy and chagrin, for which I am sorry, and which I am ready to acknowledge.

"I found a man, who took an infinite deal of pains for another, with the utmost professions both of dis- "I conclude that it is not improbable but I may of interestedness and friendship to him and me; and I myself come to the determination you point at, with readily concluded that such a one must be either one of regard to the time of my stay here, but that I have the best, or one of the worst of men. I can easily ex-not yet done it; and that, in all cases, I desire to cuse myself for having judg'd at first on the favourable side; and must confess that, when light first began to break in upon me, I resisted it as I would a temptation of the Devil. I thought it, however, proper to keep my eyes open for farther observation; till the strangest and most palpable facts, which I shall inform you of at meeting, put the matter out of all doubt to me.

"There is nothing he wou'd be fonder of than to sow dissension betwixt my Lady and you, whom he hates and fears. He flatters, and caresses, and praises, and hates me also; and would be glad to chase me away, as doing me the honour, and, I hope, the justice of thinking me a person very unfit for his purposes. As he wants all manner of pretext from

stay or go, in the same or greater degree of friendship and regard with you and all my Lord's friends, than what we first met with. The momentary effect of passion I can forgive in others, and acknowledge in myself; and the keeping of rancour on these accounts without explanation or mutual forgiveness, is a conduct 1 shall never observe myself, or expect from your good sense and candour."

Another passage from the same letter discloses a startling project, by which England might have lost

her historian!

"My Lord, so far from having a quarrel with me, said this evening, that he wish'd we cou'd form a plan, by which we might go together to some foreign