confinement; and, upon my asking for pen, ink, and paper, told me he fhould lofe his place, and be confined himself if it was f und out. I told him I could not imagine what could be the cause of my imprifon ment, as I was not a spy, nor had done any thing to offend the ftate or injure any perfon. He asked me if I had affronted any of the minifters I answered him in the negative; and that I had only affronted one man du ring my stay at Paris. He asked me to defcribe his perfon; which I did. "Ay then, replied he, no wonder you are here; the man you affronted was a fpy of police; perhaps that is your only offence; but for that offence you may never enjoy your liberty again." After he had left me, I reflected on my melancholy fituation; "Great God, faid I, I am juftly punished for murmuring at thy will, and leaving that manfion of liberty in which thou hadft placed me." In this place I lived three tedious years, till one day I was difturbed by an unusual noife of unlocking the doors. The gaoler at length came to mine, and opening my door, informed me, that the fovereign was dead, and that by means of a general amnef. ty upon the acceffion of a new one, I was liberated. Good heavens! what were my raptures at hearing these words; I behaved like one frantic, and could fcarcely believe my fenfes. I returned to the lodging where I had been arrefted; my hoft received me with every degree of kindnefs; I took leave of him the fame evening refolving to go for Ireland, and declaring I would never ftay in a country where there was a Baftile. Arriving at Calais, I flew to the quay, but the wind was contrary--the fight of thofe white cliffs, which I had left five years before reinspired me with the fa ne ideas I had when I quitted them, though not fo ftreng. "I can never live in Ireland, faid ; every object will recall to my mind my loft Amelia; and though I have had the misfortune to find a Baftile in France, I never heard of one, nor of any fpies, in Spam; I will go thither." Returning to my inn, I wrote to Ireland about my remittances, which, after fome trouble obtained, having been thought to be dead. After fettling this bufinefs, I embarked for Cadiz. Durate, et vofmet rebus fervate fecundis. VIRG. Endure and conquer, live for better fate. In a fhort time I arrived at Cadiz, but did not remain there long, as I concluded the heft place to diffipate that fettled melancholy which still preyed on my fpirits, would be the capital, I there for haftened to Madrid, in the pleasures of that town forgot the mifery of the Baftile, and greatly configned the memory of my wife to oblivion. Here I had refided about fix months, when as I was returning home late at night from a convivial party through the street of Alcala, my ears were faluted with fome excellent mufic; I went on, and found it proceeded from a band headed by a gentleman in a domino. After performing fome time they proceeded down the street; and I accompanied them. They had not gone far before the gentleman difmiffed the mufic, and proceeded home by himself. The mufic was fcarcely out of fight when he was overtaken by three men, led by one difguit ed, who, with fwords drawn, inftantly at tacked the man in the domino. I happened to be a few paces before him, and feeing him warmly engaged with them, took them for banditti; being unarmed, I fecured myfelf in a dark alley. The gentleman hid fcarcely called for help twice, before I heard him fall and utter a deep groan; and I faw the men run away by the end of the passage where I was concealed. As I concluded every thing was now fafe, I thought it proper to afford fome affiftance to the wounded gentleman; and for that purpote failied out of the paffage to where he lay; but I had fcarcely drawn him towards a lamp, taking off his mafk to fee if he was quite dead, before I was surrounded by a number of patroles and alguazils, who, with many imprecations, feized on me, and accufed me of the murder. In vain 1 protefted my innocence in broken Spanish: I was taken with the body to a guard-house, and on looking at the deceafed gentleman, he was discovered to be the young marquis de Cuenza. The next morning I was carried before the corregidor. All the account I cond give of myfelf was, that I was a ftranger, and had arrived about fix months before from France. This declaration was corroborated by my hoft; who added, on exa mination, that he did not know how I lived. This account was followed by that of the alguazils, who faid I had hold of the body in order to plunder it. This wa fufficient; there remained nothing but to extort from me who were my accomplices; and this was to be effected by the torture. For this purpofe, being undreffed, and ha ving my hands tied with a rope behind me, a heavy weight was faftened to my feet horrid manner to theceiling. I hung there and I was then drawn up.ftretched in a meft in the most excruciating torture for fome! time, and was defired to confels. I perfifted in my innocence of the whole tranfactions, and related how it happened; but I was not believed. I was then let down and 1786. Lora Buchan's Addrefs on the Death of Dr. Stuart. and scourged leverely; the idea, even now makes me fmart. To add to all my afflictions they sprinkled falt upon the fores, and made me feel the pains of the damned. Wearied out with pain, I refolved to criminate myself, and by death to end all my fufferings and misfortunes. I accordingly confeffed I had murdered the gentleman, and was going to rob him when the alguazils came up; and that I alone was concerned in the tranfaction. In confequence of this confeffion I was ordered to be executed the next morning. The night I paffed in agonies undescribeable; the thought of being broke drove me almoft to diffraction, which was not a little heightened by the torture which proceed ed from the wounds in my back and fides, and the ftretching of my limbs by the fufpenfion. The morning arrived, and I waited in momentary expectations of being dragged to execution. At length, about afternoon, the door of my cell was opened; but inftead of the officers of juftice, I was addreffed by the fecretary who had taken my confeffion, who bidding me follow him, brought me into the court of juftice, where I beheld a gentleman and the three men I had feen fet upon the deceased marquis. I then understood that one of the affaffins having heen defrauded of his fhare of the hire, had informed against the reft; that the marquis who was flain, had been ferenading the wife of a gentleman who was the prisoner, under an idea that he was gone to the country, which the other had given out, hired affaffins, and in his return home flain the ferenader. I identified the men to the corregidor, and explained to him he reafon of my confeffion, upon which hey were ordered for execution, and I was lifcharged. On my regaining my liberty, I thanked Providence for my delivery. "Well, faid , I wil not ftay in a place where the culrit is forced to accufe himself had I been En Ireland, a jury would not have convictd me for giving affiftance to a dying man ; hey would have weighed the circumftances, nd, upon hearing my cafe, would have ifcharged me."I hafted immediately o Seville; when I arrived there, the crowed mercantile city much elevated my meancholy." Why, I argued, fhould I rearn to Ireland? The idea of Ireland and ny Amelia are infeparable; and I can ever fee one without recalling the other o my remembrance." Thus faying I re aired to the harbour, and enquired what ips were going out. I was informed that ne would fail in the evening for Venice. found out the captain, agreed for my affage, and in the evening went aboard and t fail with a fair wind. 635 I arrived after a fhort voyage at Venice, and was delighted with the mixtures of the pleasures of a metropolis, and the hurry and bufinefs of a fea port. Here I took a lodging, and lived very comfortably, and fo much obliterated the remembrance of my misfortunes, that I expected to be able to enjoy much pleasure at the enfuing Carnival. (To be continued.) The Addrefs in which Lord Buchan an nounced the death of Dr. Gilbert Stuar. to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Gentlemen, I AM forry to be obliged to acquit myself of the melancholy duty of informing you, that our eminent affociate, Dr. Gilbert Stuart, died at his father's house in Fisher-row, of a dropfy and deep decline, on the 13th of this month, [Auguft, 1786.] It is fit that I fhould do honour to the memory of a man who was attached to this Society in its infancy, and was useful to it in its progrefs; and I fhall acquit myself of this duty with pleafure, for I think myself peculiarly fortunate in being able either to praife or to cenfure without being fufpected of partiality; and this happy posture I have obtained by having been the uniform friend of Learning wherever I have found it, and by fhunning the prejudice and the violence of party. Dr. Gilbert Stuart, Gentlemen, was a man of great abilities and of high attainments; but he was unfortunate, and his misfortunes and his difappointments preffed upon his genius, his temper, and his character. Is it poffible that it should be otherwife? Shew me the man that is not irritated by infidious jealousy and oppofition, and by lofing the road to profeffional fame and fortune, and I will fhew you that he is not worthy of. your care. It was Stuart's misfortune to mifs a fituation in the University of Edinburgh for which he was highly qualified, and in which I think, he would have out hone his affociates. This difappointment drove him to difplay his talents at the expence of a group of our literary men in Scotland, who, by puffing one another, had contrived to damn every man of letters who was not willing to range himself under their standard. These men bore down every thing before them, and forced their enemies either to leave the country, or to fubmit to be pointed at in the street as literary Drawcanfirs. How disagreeable is it to remember, that the good-natured Hume, whofe claffic works will be read after the memory of these little men, who abufed his friendship, fhall be completely washed away by the tide of time, was at the head of this defpicable club! After having thrown away his time and LII 2 talents talents for fome time in writing a Scotch Review at Edinburgh, Stuart went to London, and became a profeffional writer, engaging himself in feveral periodical publications, in which, though he feemed to write for bread and for a party, he never deviated from his principles, which were friendly to the rights of humanity and to the liberties of his country. He lived in London without a patron, and yet preferved his independence without the means of fortune. It was his happines to love and to cultivate letters, and to be too proud to have any terror of his enemies. His view of Society in Europe, in its progrefs from rudeness to refinement, his Hiftorical Differtation concerning the Antiquity of the English Conftitution, his Obfervations concerning the Publick Law, and the Conftitutional Hiftory of his own country, and his Hiftory of the Establishment of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland, though written without that complete leifure which is neceffary to the production of great and claffical undertakings, do all of them evince a bright underftanding, a mafculine genius, and a careful examination of the truth, for which time only was wanting to poffefs him completely of his fubject. Of his Hiftery of Mary, it is needlefs for me to fay much; its reception by the world after men were fuppofed to have made up their minds about that period of the Scotifh annals, and the guilt of the Queen, and that fuperficial readers were fatisfied with Dr. Robertfon's hiftory, are fufficient proofs of the merit of Dr. Stuart's. The book is now printing in Germany in the German language, and wil be received on the Continent, where hiftorians are required to fupport their reputation by laborious inveftigation, and are not allowed to write novels for the entertainment only of the ladies. In the year 1793, he had begun to write the lives of John Knox, George Buchanan, and Sir Thomas Craig, for a Biographia Seo tica. To the laft article he meant to have fubjoined fome thoughts upon the feudal and canon law; and to that of Knox, fome reflections on religious establishments. At that time he alfo formed the refolution of compofing a hiftory of Scotland, from the earliest accounts of time till the rebellion in the year 1745. Soon afterwards his engagements in the English Review and Politica! Herald diverted Fim from thofe nobler pursuits; and it is to be regretted that a man of his eminent abilities thould have been forced to lend himself to occupations of fo inferior a nature. But it is not fair to underva ue his merit on account of the hardness of his fortune. ihat he came forth in the Political Herald, as the bitter and determined enemy of a bro} or adventurer of his, connected with this country, and who is fuppofed to govern it, ha excited great indignation among the panders power in Scotland; but let it be remembered, that the worft that can be faid of Stuart is, that he was a violent fatyrift, and stopped nothing to pull down a man whom he cor dered as a chief advocate for abfolute pow in this country and nation, whilst at the far time he continued the integrity of his politica creed.-But of the fycophants of Dmay be affirmed, that they support a man wa defpifes them in his heart, derides them his conduct, and has taught them to exp that he will leave them in penury and co tempt whenever another Temple fhall be cre ed on the platform of royal favour. For my own part, gentlemen, after m than twenty years of confiftent conducti may be permitted to fay, that brown fearlet, or buff and blue, have no charms my eyes, independent of those who wa them; and I will venture to fore-tell, th when our Auguftus fhall have obtained plenitude of power, by the corruption of manners, and the confent of a degener people, he will loathe, as Octavius di, vile fteps by which he afcended to the preme power, and will prefer the old frie of the commonwealth in Afiaticus, Pož Virgils, and Horaces of future days, ta bluftering unprincipled hounds that can with him full-cry to the death of a conf1 ́tion of free government, which will re in fiory the admiration, and the fubjeć regret tofurrounding nations, and to the l pofterity. Thefe fentiments, gentlemen, do I fre venture to exprefs, while one may yet to fpeak or to write in this degraded cou Unconnected with party, I defire to on the one hand, my refpect for HIM VĨ the conftitution has placed at the head of nation; and, on the other, that I wi ftoop to please him by the facrifice e of my opinions or my attachment to that t of government, which has been lately def by the late mifconduct or endeavours of who ought to have united to fave it by le and lawful means, when they were in t power. Concerning Dr. Stuart's family, I th unneceflary to fay any more than, wh have reason to believe, hewas a gentlem birth, as well as in character, and that was the fon of a learned father, and a wo mother. He was born in the year 1744 year which the whimfical author of the bleau de Paris has fet forth as prod of men of a fervid genius, remarkable f peculiarity of their character, and of th purfuits. I fhall conclude this sketch with an preffion of his own, in his famous lettr me, about Robertson : 1785. The Sorrows of Charlotte. The Sorrows of Charlotte. A pathetic Tale. Twell proportioned, and the might pro perly enough be denominated handfome, her moft diftinguished beauties refulted from those mental graces with which she was moft profufely adorned; and, had her features been remarkable for irregularity, her internal accomplishments would have amply compenfated for any external deficiency. Indeed, the appeared. Like a fair tree, the glory of the plain, The root her honour, and the trunk her friendship; From whence branch out a thousand diffe- Candour, humility, and angel-truth, As beauty, when perfonal and mental, has Secluded from the world, and all its fafcinations, by the long indifpofition of an aged grandfire-who had for fome years fupplied the place of parents fhe never knew -her heart beat not for the luxury of novelty, or the attainment of fashionable follies. Charlotte's principal amufement was an application to books, and her only ambition the converfation of Alfred, which tended to enrich the underflanding, and meliorate the heart. But how unftable is human happiness! Fabian, whofe life had been a ferics of viciffitudes, on hearing the report of Herbert's dangerous illness, eagerly haftened to the old gentleman's manfron; for, in the days of his profperity, when Charlotte was yet an infant, he had been appointed her fole guardian. On approaching the bed, where he beheld his departing friend, who was now barely capable of articulating his laft word, joy and forrow at once invaded the breast of Fabian: he was infpired with admiration by the beauties of Charlotte, and wept for the agonies of her parent. Herbert clafped the hand of Fabian, whom he had not feen for many years; and, after a few tears of welcome and regret, demanded his protection for Charlotte-his dear, his beloved Charlotte !—and then, with a fimile that indicated an adherence to virtue and morality, departed this life. The bitterness of grief was allotted to the melancholy Charlotte; being rendered, from this interpofition of fate, an orphan of for row, a child of affliction. for that fympathy of fentiment, to alleviat To Alfred fhe could no longer appeal, ing to the acrimony of diftrefs. Fabian, invefted with the authority of guardianship, foon týrannized over the wishes and mutual affections of innocence and fincerity. Charlotte was compelled to fubmit to the feverity of separation from Alfred, and retire with Fabian to a diftant and folitary abode, where he was to remain till fhe came of age, without any other companions than her brutal guardian, and his infidious housekeeper, Agnes; who, thoroughly converfant in all her mafter's villainies, practifed her unworthy talents to flatter and deceive Charlotte. Fabian, unknown to the good and unfufpecting Herbert, had for many years been a man of the world; and had purchafed its pernicious knowledge at the expence of a very ample fortune; to procure another, by any means, had long been the object which engaged his every thought, when Charlotte became the unfortunate victim devoted to the cruel facrifice. Poor Charlotte! unconscious of deceit, was equally a stranger to fufpicion. Fabian, to fecure the fortune of Charlotte, which was thirty thousand pounds, and which he was to enjoy if the died during her minority, or married without his content, having for feveral months kept her in this clofe retirement, at length inftructed Agnes to affure his fair ward, that Alfred went abroad, and died in the field of battle. Senfibility is often fo feverely affected, that a recital of the greateft horror only creates a penfive sadness and apparent indifference. Thus it was with Charlotte, when Fabian, fubftituting diffimulation for fincerity, affected to tranquillize the fettled forrow of genuine pallion by the profeffion of a love which added infult to injury. The phrenzy of Charlotte momentarily increafed; her melancholy extended to rage; and the bittereft execrations now accompa nied every mention of Fabian. Diftraction maddened her fenfes: the wandered abroad, but whither the knew not, and all-unconscious that fhe was unceasingly pursued by the artful and detefted Fabian. The vallies re-echoed her fighs, and al' nat nature appeared to commiferate the forrows Thus is the happiness of an amiable ! of Charlotte. deftroyed for ever, through the hafty de fion of a parent, incautiously trufting the we fare and peace of a child in the power of man with whose principles and moral chara ter he was utterly unacquainted, and wh virtues it was impoffible for him to knowand thus has many a virtuous Charlotte f len. But, O! ye parents— Being arrived on the fummit of an exceedingly fleep hill, crowned by a thick grove of mountain pines, Fabian thought himself fecure; and, haftening to Charlotte with all the rapidity of defire, exclaimed- Now, Madam, a truce with your affumed madnefs; inclination can no longer have weight; confent to marry me without hesitation; and confirm it inftanly by figning this paper. I adore you, by all that is facred! Nay, fruggle not; it is in vain. Human being is not within your call: confent, therefore, to my wishes; for I muft and will be rendered happy. This was the language of the moft's manifefted for making difceHE paffion which the Normans h diabolical of human beings, when the screams of Charlotte made it neceflary that Alfred and myself should come forward; for long had we followed the footsteps of Fabian, and had overheard every fyllable of his infernal difcourfe. Chance had at length discovered to the indefatigable Alfred the retired refidence of Charlotte's guardian, whofe circumftances and character he well knew, and on whom he was determined to revenge every infult fhe might have experienced. We had juft arrived at the fccret retreat of Fabian, when providence and mercy worked in the foul of Agnes to betray her infamous mafter, and thus lead to this difcovery. At the fight of Alfred, Charlotte fainted. Fabian demanded initant fatisfaction for the intult of intrufion; and Alfred precipitately gave it. Having piftols ready loaded in his pocket, he inftantly prefented Fabian with one; and bade him take his diftance at eight pares, and truft to chance for the reward of his vallainy. Fabian fired: Alfred ftaggered, but difcharged his piflol, and his antagonift lay proftrate on the ground, breathing out his impious foul in the imprecations of horror. Charlotte, recovered from her excefs of unexpected joy, flew to the arms of her protector and lover; but, alas! he had received a mortal wound in the imprudent conteft; he fell amidit the felicity of her embrace; and expired, with a faint ejaculation of her Daine. Paroxyfms of rage and defpair enfued; the reafon of Charlotte was again vanquished by agony; he grew frantick with grief; and, in the most piercing accents of poig. Bant mifery, called on her departed Alfred. The forrows of Charlotte are the theme of the village and its vicinity, where all endeavour to aíluage her affliction by exertions of tenderness: but regret has made too deep en impreffon ever to be erafed; the fhowers of April, without the funfine, are Charlette's future destiny. First Learn to be wife from others' har veries, prevailed, among them even in the cold regions of Iceland and Greenland. An Icelander of the name of Herjolf, was ac customed, together with the fon of Bare, to make a trip every year to different countries, for the fake of trading. Aboz! the year 1001 their fhips were separated by | a form. Biorn being arrived at Norway, heard that his father Herjolf was gone to Greenland. Upon this he refolved upon following his father thither; but another storm drove him a great way to the fouthweft of his tract. In confequence of this, he defcried a flat country, covered all over with thick woods; and just as he fet out on his return, he difcovered an ifland likewife. He made no stay at either of the places, but haftened as much as the wind would allow him to do, which had now fallen greatly by a north-eafterly courfe to Greenland. Here this event was no fooner known, than Leif, the fon of Eric Redhead, who had an inordinate defire to ac quire glory, like his father, (who first planted a colony in Greenland), by making di coveries and founding colonies, fitted out a veffel, carrying thirty-five men, and taking Biorn with him, fet out for this newly-dilcovered country. Having fet fail, the fir land he faw was rocky and barren. Accord ingly he called it Helleland or Rock-land.— Upon this he came to a low-land, with a fandy bottom, which, however, was overgrown with wood; on which account be named it Markland, or Woody-land. Two days after this he faw land again, and an ifland lying before the northern coaft of it. Here was a river, up which they failed.The bufhes on the banks of it bore sweet berries; the temperature of the air was mild, the foil fertile, and the river well ftored with fish, and particularly with very fine falmon. At laft they came to a lake, from which the river took its rife. Here they de termined to pafs the winter, which they at cordingly did; and in the shorteft winter day faw the fun eight hours above the hormon: |