frugal, and temperate student which he had been at Edinburgh. But, exclusive of a portion remitted home for the most honourable and pious purpose, his income was devoted to the pursuit which engaged his whole soul; to the increase, namely, of his acquaintance with eastern literature in all its branches. The expense of native teachers of every country and dialect, and that of procuring from every quarter oriental manuscripts, engrossed his whole emoluments, as the task of studying under the tuition of the interpreters, and deciphering the contents of the volumes, occupied every moment of his spare time. "I may die in the attempt," he writes to a friend, "but if I die without surpassing Sir William Jones a hundred-fold in oriental learning, let never a tear for me profane the eye of a borderer." The term was soon approaching when these regrets were to be bitterly called forth, both from his Scottish friends and from all who viewed with interest the career of his ardent and enthusiastic genius, which, despising every selfish consideration, was only eager to secure the fruits of knowledge, and held for sufficient reward the fame of having gathered them. Dr. Leyden accompanied the governor-general upon the expedition to Java (August, 1811), for the purpose of investigating the manners, language, and literature of the tribes which inhabit that island, and partly also because it was thought his extensive knowledge of the eastern dialects and customs might be useful in settling the government of the country, or in communicating with the independent princes in the neighbourhood of the Dutch settlements. His spirit of romantic adventure led him literally to rush upon death; for, with another volunteer who attended the expedition, he threw himself into the surf, in order to be the first Briton of the expedition who should set foot upon Java. When the success of the well-concerted movements of the invaders had given them possession of the town of Batavia, Leyden displayed the same ill-omened precipitation in his haste to examine a library in which many Indian manuscripts of value were said to be deposited. A library, in a Dutch settlement was not, as might have been expected, in the best order, the apartment had not been regularly ventilated, and, either from this circumstance, or already affected by the fatal sickness peculiar to Batavia, Leyden, when he left the place, had a fit of shivering, and declared the atmosphere was enough to give any mortal a fever. The presage was too just; he took his bed, and died in three days (August 28), on the eve of the battle which gave Java to the British empire. Thus died John Leyden, in the moment perhaps most calculated to gratify the feelings which were dear to his heart; upon the very day of military glory, and when every avenue of new and interesting discovery was opened to his penetrating research. In the emphatic words of Scripture, "the bowl was broken at the fountain." His literary remains were intrusted by his last will to the charge of Mr. Heber and Dr. Hare of Calcutta, his executors. They are understood to contain two volumes of poetry, with many essays on oriental and general literature. His remains, honoured with every respect by Lord Minto, now repose in a distant land, far from the green-sod graves of his ancestors at Hazeldean, to which, with a natural anticipation of such an event, he bids an affecting farewell in the solemn passage which concludes the Scenes of Infancy: "The silver moon, at midnight cold and still, Is that dull sound the hum of Teviot's stream? Is that blue light the moon's or tomb-fire's gieam, By which a mouldering pile is faintly seen, The old deserted church of Hazeldean, Where slept my fathers in their natal clay, Till Teviot's waters roll'd their bones away? Their feeble voices from the stream they raise, 'Rash youth! unmindful of thy early days, Why didst thou quit the peasant's simple lot? Why didst thou leave the peasant's turf-built cot, The ancient graves, where all thy fathers lie, And Teviot's stream, that long has murmured by? And we-when Death so long has closed our eyes How wilt thou bid us from the dust arise, And bear our mouldering bones across the main, From vales that knew our lives devoid of stain? Rash youth! beware, thy home-bred virtues save, And sweetly sleep in thy paternal grave!" Such is the language of nature moved by the kindly associations of country and of kindred affections. But the best epitaph is the story of a life engaged in the practice of virtue and the pursuit of honourable knowledge; the best monument, the regret of the worthy and of the wise; and the rest may be summed up in the sentiment of Sannazario. "Haeccine te fessum tellus extrema manebat Hospitii post tot terræque marisque labores? Pone tamen gemitus, nec te monumenta parentum Aut moveant sperata tuis tibi funera regnis, Grata quies patriæ; sed et omnis terra sepulchrum.” To this eloquent and highly picturesque memoir, upon which we have drawn so largely, it is only to be added, that the Poetical Remains of Dr. Leyden were published in one volume 8vo, in 1819, with a memoir by the Rev. James Morton; and that another posthumous work, entitled Memoirs of the Emperor Baber, and commemorating for the first time an Indian hero little inferior to Cæsar or Napoleon, but heretofore totally unknown in Europe, in which he had had the co-operation of his friend Mr. William Erskine, appeared at Edinburgh in 1826. LIDDEL, DR. DUNCAN, a physician of eminence, was born in Aberdeen in the year 1561, and was son to a respectable citizen of that town. He received his education at the schools, and the university of King's College, in his native city. In the year 1579, at the early age of eighteen, he visited the Continent, passing over to Dantzic, whence he travelled through Poland to Frankfort-on-the-Oder, where he had the good fortune to meet with a beneficent countryman, Dr. John Craig, afterwards physician to James VI., who then taught logic and mathematics. His views, which were previously wavering, were fixed by the kind attention and assistance of his friend, who enabled him to study mathematics, philosophy, and medicine for three years in the university of Frankfort, where Craig was himself a professor. In 1582 Craig proposing to return to Scotland, his pupil proceeded to prosecute his studies at Breslau in Silesia, under the conduct of a statesman at that period of considerable note-Andreas Dudithius, to whose attention his zealous countryman had recommended him. In this new sphere of exertion he is said to have made extensive progress in his favourite study of the mathe matics, under the tuition of Professor Paulus Wittichius. After spending somewhat more than a year at Breslau he returned to Frankfort, where he again turned his attention to medicine, and commenced a 1 Inscription on a brass plate in the church of St. Nicholas, Aberdeen; Sketch of the Life of Dr. Duncan Liddel, Aberdeen, 1790. This pamphlet, understood to have been written by Mr. John Stewart, professor of Greek in Marischal College, gives so accurate and concise an account of its subject, that little can be added. We are aware of but one work having any reference to Liddel which has been overlooked. The Litera ad Joannem Kepplerum contain one or two letters from him. course of private tuition in mathematics and philo- | sophy. A contagious distemper which broke out at Frankfort in 1587, dispersing the students in various directions, induced him to change his place of residence for the celebrated university of Rostock. Here he appears to have first acquired celebrity for his professional knowledge and conversational information, and particularly for his knowledge of astronomy and mathematics. He became the companion and pupil of Brucæus, a physician and philosopher of Flanders, who, although the senior of Liddel both in years and celebrity, acknowledges himself to have received much useful information and assistance from the young philosopher; while Caselius, another companion and friend of Liddel, pays a tribute to the comprehensiveness of his genius and reading, by remarking that "he was the first person in Germany who explained the motions of the heavenly bodies according to the three different hypotheses of Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Tycho Brahe.' great length upon the opinions of many other astronomers who had also treated of it. Nor could any such controversy have possibly happened at the time mentioned by Sir Thomas Urquhart, for the new star there spoken of was observed by Tycho Brahe in 1572, and the account of it published in 1573, when Dr. Liddel was only twelve years of age. There is indeed, in the volume of Astronomical Epistles of Tycho Brahe, a long letter from him to his friend Rothmannus, chiefly filled with severe reflections upon the publications of a certain Scotsman against his account of the comet of 1577, not of the new star in Cassiopeia; but it appears from Gassendi that this Scottish writer was Dr. Craig, formerly mentioned, and not Dr. Liddel." When we recollect that Liddel and Craig, as intimate literary associates, may have imbibed the same theories, and similar methods of stating them, this last circumstance approaches a solution of the difficulty. In the university of Rostock Liddel received the The illustrious individual last mentioned had like- degree of Master of Philosophy, and in 1590 he left wise studied at the university of Rostock: it is pro- it to return to Frankfort, at the request of two young bable that the pursuits of the two philosophers brought | Livonians of rank, to whom it is probable he acted them into contact, and the author of the biography as tutor. He did not long remain at Frankfort on of Liddel considers it sufficiently established, that his second visit, having heard of the rising fame of they were intimate with each other in after-life, and the new "Academia Julia," founded at Helmstadt that the Danish philosopher frequently visited the by Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick, in 1576. Here subject of our memoir in his journeys to Scotland. he accompanied his pupils, and was restored to the There is, however, a shadow of authority for sup-company of his old friend Caselius, whom the duke posing' that Liddel held the higher rank of an op- had invited to his youthful establishment. ponent of Tycho Brahe, and maintained a disputa- In 1591 Liddel, by the recommendation of his tion with him on equal terms. The eccentric Sir friend, and of Grunefeldt, an eminent civilian, was Thomas Urquhart, who, whatever information he appointed to the lower professorship of mathematics may have chosen to receive on the subject, certainly in the new university, as successor to Parcovius, who was enabled to have made himself master of the true had been removed to the faculty of medicine; and, state of the circumstances which he related, says, on the death of Erhardus Hoffman in 1594, he suc"These mathematical blades put me in mind of that ceeded to the first or higher mathematical chair. Dr. Liddel, who, for his profoundness in those sciences This eminent station he filled during the course of of sensible immaterial objects, was everywhere much nine years, giving instructions in geometry, astrorenowned, especially at Frankfort-de-Main, Frank-nomy, and universal geography, and keeping the fort-on-the-Oder, and Heidelberg, where he was information he communicated to his pupils on a almost as well known as the monstrous bacchanalian level with the dawning progress of discovery. In tun that stood there in his time. He was an eminent 1596 he obtained the degree of Doctor in Medicine; professor of mathematics, a disciple of the most ex- and, in a science which was not at that period concellent astronomer Tycho Brahe, and condisciple of sidered as so completely abstracted from the circle that worthy Longomontanus: yet in imitation of of general knowledge as its practical extent now Aristotle (whose doctrine with great proficiency he compels it to be, he acquired the same celebrity had imbued), he esteemed more of truth than either which he had achieved in philosophy and matheof Socrates or Plato; when the new star began to matics. He is said by his lectures and writings to appear in the constellation of Cassiopeia, there was have proved the chief support of the medical school concerning it such an intershocking of opinions be- of Helmstadt; he acted as first physician to the court twixt Tycho Brahe and Dr. Liddel, evulged in print of Brunswick, and enjoyed a lucrative private prac to the open view of the world, that the understand-tice among the opulent families in the neighbouring reader could not but have commended both for all; and yet (in giving each his due) praised Tycho Brahe most for astronomy, and Liddel for his knowledge above him in all the other parts of philosophy.' It is not improbable that the imaginative author of the Sewel may have thought proper, without much inquiry, to bestow on a person born in his own near neighbourhood the merit of a conflict in which a Scotsman, whose name may not have then been known, was engaged; at the same time adding to the lustre of the achievements of his countryman. The author of the life of Dr. Liddel observes, "Upon what authority this circumstance is founded cannot be discovered, for there is no mention of it in either of the very full accounts of the life and writings of Tycho Brahe by Gassendi and Montucla, nor in a large volume written by Tycho himself concerning this new star; although he there animadverts at hood. In 1599 he was elected dean of the faculty of philosophy, a post of honour to which he was frequently re-elected, both by the faculties of philosophy and of medicine. Meanwhile, in the year 1603, he resigned to Henricus Schaperus the chair of mathematics, of which he had remained occupant, notwithstanding his labours in another science; and in the year following he was chosen pro-rector of the university. The method of studying his profession, and his courses of public tuition, had already made Liddel an author of no inconsiderable extent, and about this period the fame he had acquired probably induced him to present the academical works which he had written or superintended in a distinct manner before the world. In 1605 was published Disputationes Medicinales Duncani Liddelii Scoti, Phil. et Med. Doctoris, et Professoris Publici in Academia Julia Helmæstadtii. This work, filling four volumes 4to, contains the theses or public disputations maintained by himself and his pupils at Helmstadt from 1592 to 1606; it is dedicated as a mark of gratitude to his early friend and patron Craig, accompanied by the usual multitude of commendatory verses on the author and his works. This book is mentioned by the author of the memoirs of Liddel as having been reprinted at so late a period as 1720. In 1607 he produced a better-known work, Ars Medica, Succincte et Perspicue Explicata, published at Hamburg. This work was dedicated to King James. A second edition was published at Lyons in 1624, and a third at Hamburg in 1628. As in other works on medicine of the period, the range of the author's investigation was not confined to subjects to which the term medical would now exclusively refer; metaphysics were included. Into the merit of this as a work on practical medicine it would now be useless to inquire, and we may be content with ranking the merit of the author according to the estimation of the work during the seventeenth century, which was by no means inconsider. able. At the time when the last-mentioned work was published, motives which we cannot now discover induced Liddel to retire for the remainder of his life to his native country, which he had frequently visited during his honoured residence abroad. It would appear that he privately left the university, as Caselius remarks that the Duke of Brunswick, if aware of his intention, would probably not have permitted so active a teacher to leave his favourite institution, which was then falling into confusion. On his return he passed through Germany and Italy, and finally took up his residence in Scotland, although in what part of the country seems not to be known, the earliest information obtained as to his locality being of the year 1612, when he subscribed at Edinburgh a deed of settlement, mortifying certain lands in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen for the support of six bursars in Marischal College. The magistrates of Aberdeen were appointed trustees for the application of the fund; and, according to a not unusual practice, the curse of God was denounced against any one who should abuse or misapply it.1 By a settlement dated the 9th December, 1613, he confirmed the previous donation, and left for the establishment of a professorship of mathematics in Marischal College, the sum of 6000 merks, which was afterwards profitably laid out on land by the trustees. To the same institution he left his books and instruments. This may be considered the last performance of his active life, for he died eight days after its date, on the 17th of December, 1613. He was buried in the church of St. Nicholas in Aber deen, where a tablet of brass, on which his portrait has been boldly and expressively engraved by an artist at Antwerp, was erected to his memory. He is likewise commemorated by a small obelisk erected in the lands of Pitmedden, near Aberdeen-the same which he mortified for the support of bursars. Dying unmarried, the children of a brother and sister inherited his property, and one of the former succeeded Dr. William Johnston in the mathematical chair which Dr. Liddel had founded. Besides the literary efforts already mentioned, a posthumous work by Liddel was published at Hamburg in 1628, entitled Tractatus de Dente Aureo; being an answer to a tractate by Jacobus Horstius, who had maintained the verity of a fable which bore that a boy of Silesia, who had lost a tooth, received from nature in return one of pure gold. The circumstance was considered an omen to encourage the 1 In a minute of the council records of Aberdeen, of date 6th December, 1638, it is ordained that Dr. Liddel's bursars shall wear a black bonnet and a black gown, both in the college and in the street, conform to the will of the mortifier, under the pain of deprivation. LINDSAY, SIR DAVID, a celebrated Scottish poet of the sixteenth century, was born about the year 1490. He is distinguished by the title "of the Mount," from the name of his family seat near Cupar in Fife, and which is presumed, though not certainly known, to have been also the place of his birth. The early part of his education he received at Cupar, the after part of it at St. Andrews, to which he removed in 1505. Here he remained till 1509. From this period till 1512 there is a hiatus in his history, and it is not known how the intermediate space was employed. In that year, however, he is found to be in attendance upon the young prince, afterwards James V., who was born on the 10th of April, 1512. The particular nature of his appointment on first settling at court cannot be ascertained; but it does not appear to have been of a very dignified description. His attendance on the infant monarch seems also to have been divided with the royal parent James IV., on whom he is found waiting as a special servant on the remarkable occasion of the feigned spectre's appearance before that prince in the chapel of Linlithgow in 1513. Lindsay stood close beside the king during the whole of that extraordinary scene, and, according to his namesake the historian, declared that he, along with the other servants in attendance, made several ineffectual attempts to take hold of the ghostly intruder. The death of James IV., which took place soon after, does not appear to have affected Lindsay's situation at court. He still continued his attendance on the young prince, and this in rather a singular capacity, considering the respectability of his family, although probably it may be thought that there was no degradation, if indeed it was not a positive honour, to take the personal charge of an infant king. This, however, he seems to have done literally, and, as is gathered from passages in his own works, much in the character of a dry nurse. The following are amongst those alluded to. The lines occur in the dedication of his poem entitled the Dream:"Quhen thou was young I bore thee in my arme, Full tenderlie till thou begouth to gang; And in thy bed aft happit thee full warme, With lute in hand, sine sweitly to thee sang.' And again at an after period, when complaining of the neglect which he met with at court, he thus reminds the king of the days of his childhood, and of the playful and tender kindnesses which then passed between them: "How as ane chapman beiris his pack, Bot Gynkertoun thou luifit ay best." Lindsay's attendance on the young king was not dignified by any charge whatever connected with his education. His services were entirely of a personal nature, and were only put in requisition when the royal youth returned from "scule." James' education was intrusted to Gavin Dunbar, an eminent and learned prelate, so that, with all Lindsay's genius, he seems not to have been thought competent to this important and honourable trust. That which he filled, however, such as it was, he retained till the year 1524, when he was dismissed from it by the intrigues of the queen-mother, who, aiming at the sole direction of the national affairs during the min- | ority of the king, carefully removed from the royal presence all whom she feared might exert an influence over the young monarch inimical to her own views and interests, and amongst that number she seems to have reckoned the poet. His dismissal, however, seems by no means to have taken place with the king's consent, although it is evident that he was obliged to submit to it. He was too young to assert his own will in opposition to that of his mother, but he did the next best thing he could for the kind companion of his tender years-he pro- | cured a pension to be bestowed upon him, and took especial care of its punctual payment. On the king's assuming the reins of government in his own person, and when his will could be no longer opposed, Lindsay was recalled to court, and about 1530 was appointed lyon king-at-arms, and as a necessary accompaniment, invested with the honour of knighthood. In the dedication of the Dream to the king, already quoted from, and which was written during the time of his banishment from court, although he complains of the treatment which he had received, he not only acquits the king of having any part in inflicting it, but speaks in terms of the warmest gratitude of the kindness of his royal master. He seems, indeed, to have formed a strong personal attachment to the monarch, and there is every reason to believe that it was reciprocal. Lindsay had now begun to make some figure as a poet. He had already written the Dream and the Complaynt, both productions of great merit; but it was to his talent for satire, a quality which he had not yet exhibited, that he was chiefly indebted for the singular degree of popularity which he afterwards acquired. Of the felicity and point with which he could exercise this dangerous gift, the following curious instance is related by Dr. Irving in his life of the poet:-"The king being one day surrounded by a numerous train of nobility and prelates, Lindsay approached him with due reverence, and began to prefer a humble petition that he would install him in an office which was then vacant. 'I have,' said he, 'servit your grace lang, and luik to be rewardit as others are, and now your maister taylor, at the pleasure of God, is departit, wherefore I wald desire of your grace to bestow this little benefite upon me.' The king replied, that he was amazed at such a request from a man who could neither shape nor sew. 'Sir,' rejoined the poet, 'that maks nae matter, for you have given bishopricks and benefices to mony standing here about you, and yet they can nouther teach nor preach, and why not I as weill be your taylor, though I can nouther shape nor sew, seeing teaching and preaching are nae less requisite to their vocation than shaping and sewing to ane taylor?' The effect of this well-managed jeu d'esprit upon the bystanders, many of whom came within its range, may be readily conceived. Whatever might be their feelings on the subject, James himself enjoyed it greatly, and found much amusement in contemplating the angry looks which it occasioned." This and other witticisms at the expense of the clergy are supposed by Lindsay's biographers to have been the principal cause of that want of promotion of which he so frequently complains; but this seems doubtful. James himself had but little reverence for the clergy, and it is not therefore likely that he would be displeased with Lindsay for entertaining similar sentiments. Of the king's opinion of the holy men of his time, his answer to a deputation of them which waited upon him with a list of Protestant peers and chiefs whom they desired might be brought to punishment, is sufficiently indicative. "Pack, ye jugglers," said he, “get ye to your charges and reform your own lives; be not instruments of discord between my nobility and me; or I vow to God I shall reform you, not as the King of Denmark by imprisonment, nor as he of England by hanging and beheading, but yet by most severe punishments, if ever such motion proceed from you again." It is not therefore easy to say, considering the intimate, nay familiar, footing on which Lindsay stood with the king, what were the causes that afforded him grounds for his frequent complaints, if indeed he had any at all that were reasonable-a point by no means made evident. Whatever might be the emoluments arising from his services, they were now occasionally of a sufficiently dignified and important nature. In 1531 he was despatched on an embassy to Antwerp, to renew an ancient commercial treaty with the Netherlands; and in 1548 he was sent to the court of Denmark, to solicit ships to protect the Scottish coast against the English, and to negotiate a free trade in grain for the Scottish merchants. Besides being a man of genius, Lindsay was also a man of great practical good sense, if the latter be not indeed a necessary attribute of the former, and this enabled him to see in a peculiarly strong and clear light the errors and absurdities, if not inherent in, at least which had been then ingrafted on, the Church of Rome, and against these he directed the whole force of his satirical powers, and with an effect which rendered him at once extremely formidable to the clergy, and singularly popular with the great bulk of the people. Of his talent for ridicule the following exquisitely humorous specimen of his manner of dealing with the impositions of the Romish church will give a correct idea. It is the speech of a pardoner-of one who dealt in miracles and traded in holy relics and absolutions. It occurs in his play entitled Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis: "My potent pardonnis ye may se Weill seillit with ester schellis. With help of buikis and bellis. Of gude hempt saft and sound: Neidis never to be drowned. He sall nevir gang till hell- And mak ane fals narratioun. Duchess of Lauderdale. His mother having died while he was yet an infant, he was committed to the charge of an elderly female domestic at the family seat of Struthers in Fife; his father, who was at this time captain of the second troop of horse grenadiers, and lieutenant-general of Queen Anne's forces, residing constantly in London. From this it will be plainly seen what a dangerous | James Lord Doune, and grand-daughter to the and powerful enemy the Romish church had to contend with in the person of Lindsay-infinitely more dangerous and more powerful than the ablest preacher or the most acute reasoner. The effect, indeed, aided as it was by the circumstance of the public mind being already attuned to such feelings and sentiments regarding religious matters, was altogether irresistible; and there is no doubt that this and similar productions of the satirist tended more to the accomplishment of the final overthrow of Popery in Scotland than any other circumstance previous to the Reformation. Lindsay himself was the Burns of his day. His poems were in every mouth, and were equally appreciated in the cottage as in the castle. Among the lower orders he was especially popular. His broad humour delighted them beyond measure, and there was scarcely one of them but could repeat large portions of Davie Lindsay from memory. Indeed it is not yet a very great while since his popularity among this class began to fade. Nor, though now certainly fast losing ground, is he by any means yet entirely forgotten in the country. Many an ancient tiller of the soil, and his equally ancient better half-for what remains of his fame is more vigorous in the country than the town-still cherish and appreciate the merits of their old favourite native poet. The dread and detestation in which Lindsay's satirical poems were held by the clergy is expressively enough indicated by their having procured an act to have his "buick" burned during the regency of Mary of Loraine, when they had regained a temporary ascendency under that princess, and a wonder arises that Lindsay himself was not subjected to a similar fate; indeed, that he escaped it at all is a circumstance not easily accounted for. During his lifetime many unfortunate persons were brought to the stake for heresy, and for contemning the ordinances of the existing religion; and how it happened that he, incomparably the most dangerous and most notorious offender of them all, should have escaped, is a question that may well be asked; but we suspect it is one which cannot be satisfactorily answered, otherwise than by supposing that he was protected by the strong arm of royalty. In 1537 Lindsay acted as sort of master of ceremonies on the occasion of the arrival in Scotland of Mary of Guise, queen of James V. He contrived a variety of pageants, and prepared orations for the reception of her majesty at St. Andrews, and superintended in person the execution of his designs. Some of them were absurd and fantastic enough, but they were of course in accordance with the taste of the times. Of the concluding years of his life nothing is known, nor is it ascertained when or where he died. Dr. Irving states that he survived till the year 1567; but how long he lived after is unknown. He must, however, from this account, have been at least upwards of seventy years of age at the time of his death. Lindsay's merits as a poet are not of the very highest order. Broad humour was his forte, and the specimen given will sufficiently show, that when he trusted to this talent he did not trust to a broken reed. His principal pieces are The Dreme, The Complaynt, The Complaynt of the King's Papingo, Satyre on the Thrie Estaitis, Answer to the King's Flyting, and The Complaynt of Basche the King's Hound. LINDSAY, JOHN, eighteenth Earl of Crawford and fourth Earl of Lindsay, was born on the 4th of October, 1702. He was the eldest son of John, seventeenth Earl of Crawford, by Emilia, daughter of His lordship in after-life has been frequently heard to repeat an interesting anecdote which occurred about this period of his life. The Duke of Argyle and the Duke of Hamilton were one day dining with his father. After dinner a warm debate ensued about the then all-engrossing topic the union. In the midst of it the Duke of Argyle caught up the young earl, then a child, who was playing about the room, placed him on the table in the midst of the crowd of bottles and glasses by which it was occupied, and, after contemplating the boy for an instant, “Crawford," he said, addressing his father, "if this boy lives, I wonder whether he will be of your sentiments. "If he has a drop of my blood in his veins,” replied the earl, "he certainly will." "I warrant, at any rate, he will make a brave fellow," said Argyle, kissing the child, and placing him again on the floor. In 1713 his lordship succeeded, by the death of his father, to the family titles and estates, and was soon after invited, together with a younger and only brother and two sisters, by the Duchess of Argyle, their grand-aunt, to take up their residence with her in the Highlands, where she then lived in retirement. Here he remained until he had attained a proper age for college, when he was sent to the university of Glasgow. His biographer Rolt informs us, that while residing with the Duchess of Argyle, the young earl had fallen desperately in love with a little Highland girl; but he unfortunately gives no account of the progress or termination of this boyish attachment. The circumstance, however, affords an early indication of the warm, chivalrous, and romantic disposition for which his lordship was afterwards so much distinguished. While at the university he rendered himself famous amongst his fellow-students by his boldness and courage. He led them on in all their battles with the citizens, headed every expedition of difficulty or danger, and stood forward on all occasions as the champion of the college, when any of its members were injured or insulted, or conceived themselves to be so. He, in short, took the whole burden of the university's honour on his own shoulders, and guarded and protected it with the most watchful zeal and uncompromising intrepidity. From the college of Glasgow he went to that of Edinburgh, where he remained for some time, and then returned to the retirement of the Duchess of Argyle in the Highlands. Here he now prosecuted his studies under the tuition of a private preceptor, and continued this course until he attained his nineteenth year. On arriving at this age it was thought proper that he should, agreeably to the usual practice in the cases of young men of rank and fortune, proceed to the Continent, at once to complete his education, and to improve himself by travel. With this view he set out in the year 1721, first for London, where he remained for a short time, and thereafter to Paris. Here he entered the academy of Vaudeuil, and continued to attend that seminary during the two succeeding years. His progress in learning, and in the acquisition of every elegant accomplishment while he resided in the French capital, was so remarkable, as to excite a strong feeling of respect for his talents amongst his fellow-academicians, who saw him sur |