was anxious, however, to effect his escape from the country, and declined her offer. Some days afterward, having lodged at the house of a Mr. Stuart, he states his proceedings thus:

On rising in the morning, I exchanged my laced Highland dress with his servant, for an old labourer's dress, quite ragged, and exhaling a pestilential odour; for it smelt so strongly of dung as to be absolutely infectious at a distance. Having made a complete exchange with him, even to our shoes and stockings, each of us found our advantage in it, and particularly myself, as these rags were to contribute to save my life. Thus metamorphosed, we took leave of each other, every one following a different road. Gordon of Park advised me to pass the night at his castle of Park; and I accepted his offer the more readily, as, being only a league and a half from Banff, it was conveniently situated for an interview with my brother-in-law Rollo.- I found in this mansion his cousingerman, Mrs. Menzie, a very amiable, sprightly, and sensible lady, with whom I had passed some time very delightfully at the house of Mr. Duff, provost of Banff.

'Mrs. Menzie informed me that there were four hundred English soldiers in the town of Banff, and she strongly advised me not to expose myself by going there; but as an interview with my brother-in-law was that on which I placed all my hopes of effecting my escape to a foreign country, I determined to go, contrary to her opinion; and I set out next day on foot, about nine o'clock in the evening, leaving my horse till my return. On entering the town I met a number of soldiers, who paid no attention to me, which was a very favourable omen to me of the success of my disguise as a beggar. Indeed, my clothes were so bad, that the lowest peasant would have been ashamed to wear them. My blood boiled in my veins at the sight of the soldiers whom I considered the authors of all the trouble and distress which I began to feel, and I could hardly prevent myself from casting at them looks expressive of rage and indignation. I, however, proceeded on my way, invoking the Supreme Being, with much earnestness, to favour us with one single opportunity of taking vengeance on them for their cruelties at Culloden, when I should die tranquil and satisfied; prayers which, in appearance, will never be granted.

I went straight to the house of Mr. Duff, where I had been so agreeably entertained a short time before. He was a secret partisan of the Prince, but, being prudent and discreet, he only avowed his principles to his particular friends. He was one of the most amiable men in the world, endowed with every possible good quality, and possessed of true merit; he was of an equal mind, of a gay and sprightly disposition, and had a great share of good sense, judgment, talents, and discernment. Mrs. Duff resembled her husband in every thing; and their two daughters, the youngest of whom was a great beauty, were the exact copies of their father and mother. As the servant-maid who opened the door did not know me, on account of my disguise, I told her that I was the bearer of a letter to her master, which I was charged to deliver

into his own hands, and I therefore desired her to inform him of it. Mr. Duff came down stairs, and did not recognise me at first any more than his maid had done; but having fixed his eyes on me for some moments, his surprise was succeeded by a flood of tears. He strongly exhorted the maid to fidelity and secrecy. As Mrs. Duff and her daughters were in bed, he conducted me into a room, and immediately sent his maid in quest of my brother-in-law, who happened to be from home, and who could not be found, notwithstanding every search was made for him. It was not my intention to sleep in Banff, if I could have seen my brother-in-law without delay, and ascertained if I had any thing to hope from his services, at a moment so critical for me.—I had, therefore, resolved to leave Banff before day, and to return to Mr. Gordon's house. Mr. Duff retired to rest at one o'clock in the morning: when I went to bed, I was, however, unable to close an eye.

I rose as soon as day began to appear, and put on my rags; and whilst I was seated in an arm-chair, with my eyes fixed on the fire, pensive, melancholy, and absorbed in a train of reflections, which my situation suggested to me in abundance, the servantmaid suddenly entered my chamber, and told me that I was undone, as the court-yard was filled with soldiers, come to seize me. I immediately flew to the window, when I saw, in reality, the soldiers which the maid had told me of. Having thus ocular demonstration of my misfortune, I returned to my chair, perfectly resigned, and considered myself as a man who was soon to end his days. I instantly conjectured that the maid must have betrayed me, having some soldier for her sweetheart, a common enough circumstance: one feeble ray of hope alone remained, which was, to open a passage for myself through the soldiers, with a pistol in each hand; and I kept my eyes steadfastly fixed on the door of my chamber, in order to spring on the soldiers like a lion, the moment they should appear. A melancholy resource! I had little hopes of success; but I had no alternative.

Having passed about a quarter of an hour in the most violent agitation, the door of my chamber at length opened, and I sprung forward with precipitation to the attack. But what was my surprise, when, in place of the soldiers, I saw the beautiful and adorable Miss Duff the younger burst in out of breath, to tell me, like another guardian angel, to be no longer uneasy: that the disturbance was occasioned by some soldiers fighting among themselves, who had entered into the court, to elude the observation of their officers, and who, after settling their quarrel by a boxing match, had all gone off together. Miss Duff, the younger, was very beautiful, and only eighteen. I seized her in my arms, pressed her to my bosom, and gave her, with the best will in the world, a thousand tender kisses.'

The Chevalier's brother-in-law received him coldly, and gave him that of which hollow-hearted beings are profuse, in the hour of distress, abundance of advice, but no assistance. It provokes from the author a natural remark, and

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who is there that cannot bear testimony to its truth? He says that those whom he had obliged, and from whom, therefore, he expected assistance, threw off the mask, and displayed nothing but falsehood and dissimulation. It was those only from whom I did not expect any services who acted as sincere friends.' He was therefore compelled to proceed to Edinburgh, in spite of the peril to which it exposed him, in order to be there concealed by his friends, till an opportunity of escape presented itself. After various adventures, some of which are very interesting, he arrived at the frith of Tay; and here, having revealed his situation to a gentleman in the neighbourhood, he procured, by means of his good offices, a boat to pass over in the night to the other shore: but, before the hour came, the boatmen grew so fearful of the soldiers, who had been searching the village, that they refused to take him. All his offers and intreaties were of no avail, till he perceived that the two daughters of the landlady of the public-house, whose son had been in the rebel-army, were not objects of indifference to the boatmen. He therefore attached himself, as he says, to these two beautiful girls, in order to profit by their influence over the boatmen.

In less than half an hour my two beauties were entirely in my interest, and each of them made a vigorous assault on her sweetheart, making use of all manner of prayers and intreaties, but with as little success as I had had. The fear of these stupid animals was more powerful than their love. The beautiful and charming Mally Burn, the eldest of the two, disgusted, at length, and indignant at their obstinacy, said to her sister, “O, Jenny! they are despicable cowards and poltroons. I would not for the world that this unfortunate gentleman was taken in our house. I pity his situation. Will you take an oar? I shall take another, and we will row him over ourselves, to the eternal shame of these pitiful and heartless cowards." Jenny consented without hesitation. I clasped them in my arms, and covered them, by turns, with a thousand tender kisses.

'I thought, at first, that the generous resolution of these girls would operate upon their lovers; but the unfeeling cowards were not in the least moved. They preserved their phlegm, and allowed the charming girls to act as they pleased, without being in the smallest degree affected by their conduct. Seeing the obstinacy of the boatmen, and wishing to take advantage of the offer of my female friends, I immediately took the two oars on my shoulders, and proceeded to the shore, accompanied by my two beauties. I launched the boat, and, as soon as we had all three entered, I pushed it into deep water, and taking one of the oars myself, I gave the other to one of the girls, who was to be relieved by the other, when she found herself fatigued. I experienced, on this occasion, the truth of the maxim, that every kind of knowledge

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may be useful. While I was in Russia, where parties of pleasure on the water are frequent, I used sometimes to amuse myself with rowing; little thinking then that I should one day be obliged to row for my life.

• We left Broughty at ten o'clock in the evening, and reached the opposite shore of this arm of the sea, which is about two miles in breadth, near midnight. The weather was fine, and the night was sufficiently clear, from the light of the stars, to enable me to distinguish the roads. My two beauties landed with me, to put me in the highway that leads to St. Andrews: and I took leave of them, deeply affected with their generous sentiments and heroic courage, experiencing a sensible regret on quitting them, when I thought that perhaps I should never see them more. I embraced them a thousand times by turns, and as they would not consent to receive any pecuniary gratification, I contrived to slip ten or twelve shillings into the pocket of the charming Mally, who was one of the most perfect beauties nature ever formed, with an elegant shape, and possessed of all the graces of her sex.'

With great difficulty the Chevalier reached St. Andrew's. His feet were dreadfully ulcerated, and he knew not where to look for shelter and refreshment; the town and the whole district being zealously Calvinistic, and inveterately hostile to the Stuarts. A female servant of his mother had married a gardener in that neighbourhood, a rigid Presbyterian: but the Chevalier determined, notwithstanding, to confide in his fidelity. It was a severe and humiliating trial for Lillie (that was his name) to give an asylum to a rebel. He was, however, an honest man, notwithstanding his fanatical prejudices. He assured me that he would do every thing in his power to save me, and to procure me a passage to the other side. Here he remained a few days; and at length, after having passed through a series of distressing adventures and hair-breadth escapes, he succeeded in reaching Leith, where he took refuge with another woman who had been in his mother's service. He then removed to the house of Lady Jane Douglas, under whose roof he remained some time; and with whom he at last effected his flight to Holland, in the disguise of a servant in her suite. A mode of concealment which he was obliged to adopt while he remained with this lady, we must give in the Chevalier's own words. An alarm had been spread by a servant-maid who had just returned from Edinburgh, with the intelligence that a lackey of an English gentleman had whispered in her ear that it was well known that Johnstone was concealed in Lady Jane's house, and that it would soon be searched. It was then only nine in the morning.

This intelligence filled me with the utmost grief and uneasiness. I trembled lest the extreme goodness of Lady Jane, in giving me an asylum in her house, should involve her in difficulties with the government; and I was a thousand times more afraid of the disagreeable consequences which the being taken in her house would entail on her, than of the fate which awaited myself. When I feelingly expressed how much I regretted the dangers to which I exposed her, she replied, with her usual spirit and promptitude, "If there were no risk, you would be under no obligation to me." It was impossible to get out by the door into the court, on account of the servants, who, in that case, would see me from the kitchen; and there was no place in the house, which I examined all over, where I could remain concealed. But, as they were then making hay in an enclosure belonging to Lady Jane, Mr. Stewart proposed that I should conceal myself in a cock of hay. In order to succeed in this, it was necessary to let a footman into the secret, that he might watch the other servants, and seize a favourable opportunity for my leaving the house and entering the inclosure.

I went out, in my waistcoat, with the footman and gardener, followed by Mr. Stewart. As it was necessary to observe a number of precautions, on account of some of the windows of the village which looked into the inclosure, we began to throw down all the cocks of hay, one after another; and the footman and gardener threw each other down on the hay, with which the one who happened to be undermost was covered by the other. This pretended amusement went on for some time, when they threw me, in my turn, as a part of the same sport, and covered me with hay, till the cock in which I was concealed was raised as high as the rest, leaving me only a small aperture for breathing; and having given me a bottle of water and another of wine they withdrew.

'I do not think it possible to suffer more than I did the whole day: the weather was fine, but very warm; the excessive heat of my situation under the hay, which was like an oven, almost deprived me of respiration. Mr. Stewart came to see me from time to time, and exhorted me to be patient; and, indeed, I had need of patience, for my sufferings were occasionally so insupportable, that I was sometimes tempted to give the hay to the devil, and expose myself to whatever might happen, rather than to continue where I was. My regard for Lady Jane alone restrained me. After the most dreadful sufferings, from ten o'clock in the morning till nine at night, remaining always in the same attitude, without power to stir myself, and bathed in sweat, I was at length relieved. But when I came out of the hay my body was so bruised, and I was so weak, from my excessive transpiration, that it was with difficulty I could walk, leaning on the arm of Mr. Stewart, for my legs could scarcely support me. I was enraged to think I had passed so disagreeable a day for nothing, no person having come to search the house.'

As an historian, the Chevalier is loose, disconnected, and inaccurate: but we cannot dismiss his Memoirs without con

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