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Be then took his leave, and proceeded; at the door ne nowed to the spectators, and was conveyed from thence to the outer gate in the governor's coach, where he was delivered to the sherits, who conducted him in another coach to the house near the scaffold, in which was a room lined with black cloth, and hung with sconces, for his reception.

His friends were at first denied entrance; but, upon application made by his lordship to the sheriff's for their admittance, it was granted. Soon after, his lordship, addressing himself to the sheriff's, thanked them for the favour, and, taking a paper out of his pocket, delivered it to one of them, saying he should make no speech, and that they might give the word of command when they pleased.

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When his lordship was going up the steps to the scarfoid, assisted by two warders, he looked round, and, seeing so great a concourse of people, God save us,' says he,

why should there be such a bustle about taking off an old grey head, that cannot get up three steps without three bodies to support it?"

Turning about, and observing one of his friends much dejected, he clapped him on the shoulder, saying, Cheer up thy heart, man! I am not afraid; why should you be so?

As soon as he came upon the scaffold he asked for the executioner, and presented him with ten guineas in a purse; then, desiring to see the axe, he felt the edge, and said he believed it would do. Soon after he rose from the chair which was placed for him, and looked at the inscription on his coffin. He then sat down again, and repeated from Horace,

A gentleman present beginning to read a prayer to his lordship while he was sitting, he called one of the warders to help him up, that he might kneel. He then prayed dently a short time, and was after. 104, as usual, was in Latin, but may be rendered in English thus: Simon, Lord

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He then desired all the people to stand off, except his two warders, who supported his lordship while he said a prayer; after which he called his solicitor and agent in Scotland, Mr. W. Fraser, and, presenting his gold-headed cane, said, I deliver you this cane in token of my sense of your faithful services, and of my committing to you all the power I have upon earth,' and then embraced him. He also called for Mr. James Fraser, and said, 'My dear James, I am going to heaven; but you must continue to crawl a little longer in this evil world.' And, taking leave of both, he delivered his hat, wig, and clothes, to Mr. William Fraser, desiring him to see that the executioner did not touch them. He ordered his cap to be put on, and, unloosing his neckcloth and the collar of his shirt, kneeled down at the block, and pulled the cloth which was to receive his head close to him.

But, being placed too near the block, the executioner desired him to remove a little further back, which, with the warder's assistance, was immediately done; and, his neck being properly placed, he told the executioner he would say a short prayer, and then give the signal by dropping his handkerchief. In this posture he remained about half a minute, and then, throwing his handkerchief on the floor, the executioner at one blow cut off his head, which was received in the cloth,

remained till four o'clock, and was then removed by an undertaker, in order to be sent to Scotland, and deposited in his own tombs in the church of Kirkill; but leave not being given, as was expected, it was again brought back to the Tower, and interred near the bodies of the other lords.

His lordship professed himself a papist, and, at his request, was attended by Mr. Baker, belonging to the Sardinian ambassador; and though he insisted much on the services he had done the present royal family, in 1715, yet he declared, but a few days before his death, that he had been concerned in all the schemes formed for restoring the house of Stuart since he was fifteen years old.

This nobleman's intellectual powers seem to have been considerable, and his learning extensive: he spoke Latin, French, and English, fluently, and other modern languages intelligibly. He studied at Aberdeen, and disputedhis philosophy in Greek; aud, though he was educated a protestant, yet, after three years' study of divinity and controversy, he turned papist.

He maintained an appearance of that facetious disposition, for which he was remarkable, to the last; and seems to have taken great pains to quit the stage, not only with decency, but with that dignity which is thought to distinguish the good conscience and the noble mind.

But it may be remarked, on this

* These ejaculations being told to a gentleman, he replied instantly, to the first, With justice may Lovat this adage apply,

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occasion, that as dying is an event of infinite moment, and its issue at best uncertain, nothing can be more incongruous and absurd than to treat it with levity, negligence, or presumption.

As the review of a life in which virtue has been an active, growing, and governing principle, can alone enable human nature to meet its dissolution with a rational fortitude, and render a serene and cheerful deportment in the last awful moments beautiful and becoming;-so an air of intrepidity, and a forced pleasantness, at the hour of death, in a person whose life has been remarkable for the most daring and flagitious enormities, instead of reflecting any new honour upon him, renders him yet more odious and contemptible, as such a conduct can proceed only from insolence, ignorance, or insensibility.

Let us not, therefore, be deceived by specious appearances, or dazzled with a false lustre. Let us not judge of the man, or the cause in which he dies, by the manner of his dying; but rather censure or approve his dying behaviour, by comparing it with the general tenor of his life; and then only yield our approba. tion to the appearances of fortitude, serenity, and cheerfulness, when the individual's moral conduct seems to afford such a prospect of eternity as may inspire him with that hope of heaven which is consistent with knowledge, reason, and humility.

We have already observed that Lord Lovat was an extraordinary man; he was truly so in every meaning of the word; and some further particulars, therefore, of such a character, carefully gleaned from the publications of the time in which he suffered, cannot prove unacceptable to our readers.

His person was very large; and
Treatly added to his unwieldy

appearance by wearing a number of garments, one over the other, like a Dutchman. He was tall, walked very upright, (considering his great age,) and was tolerably well shaped; he had a large mouth, short nose, eyes very much contracted and down-looking, and a very small forehead, almost all covered with a large periwig; this gave him a grim aspect, but, upon addressing any one, he put on a smiling countenance; he was near-sighted, and affected to be much more so than he really was; he was naturally of a robust constitution and a strong body, hardened by fatigue, inured to hunger and thirst, heat and cold, and improved by exercise; but his long confinement in the Bastile had greatly impaired him; however, be still preserved a degree of health and vigour very uncommon at so advanced an age. He was a man of some learning, and great parts. His experience, and attention to political matters, had made him acquainted with men as well as books ; he was polite, affable, and agrecable in conversation; and so great a master of flattery and dissimulation, that he generally gained the good will, if not the esteem, of those he conversed with, however prejudiced they might have been against him. His knowledge of the history and genealogy of the great families in Scotland contributed not a little to this; for there was no person in that country but he would make out to be a relation or ally of some noble or ancient family. In this traditional history he paid little regard to truth, provided he could give his anecdotes an air of probability. He seemed to entertain his guests with the utmost cheerfulness and hospitality; but, being sordidly avaricious, he grumbled privately at the least expense, and though, to their faces, he caressed them, yet

no sooner had they turned their backs than he cursed them for the trouble and expense they had put him to. He was ambitious and proud; but, when it served his turn, mean and fawning. He was generally subtle, but sometimes unguarded in his speeches and actions, and that even in matters of great concern, by which means he had frequently involved himself in dangers and difficulties; but he was very fertile in expedients, and had almost always extricated himself out of such scrapes. His restless and active disposition drew him into snares; but a ready invention, and a bold and speedy execution, helped him out of them. He was much addicted to enthusiasm and superstitious notions, by which he was greatly governed in many cases. In business he was unconscionable; and avowed that his own profit or pleasure had always been the rule of his actions this had led him to violence, rapes, cruelty, revenge, trcachery, and every infamous practice, when it suited his purpose; this had made him put himself into all shapes and appearances, and therefore rendered him detested and despised by all good men, dreaded by some, and scorned and derided by others. He was naturally brave and resolute; and though fearful as to invisible powers, and, as to his health, and the lesser accidents of life, scrupulous to pusillanimity, yet in imminent danger he was undaunted. He was amorous; but for many years past had been very cautious in respect of women of rank, being sensible that intrigues of that sort are often attended with disagreeable consequences: he therefore made his addresses to the lowest and meanest of the female sex; and by that means tasted all the sweets of love

without any alloy; besides which, his absolute sway over them saved him the trouble of a long courtship. In short, he was a cruel master, an imperious husband, a tyrannical parent, a treacherous friend, and au arbitrary chief.

Just before he came out of the Tower, a scaffolding near the Ship alchouse, Barking Alley, built from that house in many stories, with near one thousand persons on it, suddenly fell down, by which eight or ten were killed on the spot, and numbers had their arms, ribs, and legs broken. Ten more died of their wounds the next day in the London Infirmary and St. Thomas's Hospital; among whom were the carpenter that erected the scaffold, and his wife, who were selling liquor to the populace underneath it at the time it fell. Thus was this man, whose life had been a scene of tyranny and perfidious duplicity, the occasion of injuring many others almost in the moment of his death. Lord Lovat was executed on the 9th of April, 1747.

Mr. Boswell tells us that Dr. Johnson used to repeat with great energy the following verses on Lord Lovat's execution, which first appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine;' but there is no authority to say they were the doctor's own.

'Pitied by gentle minds, Kilmarnock died;
The brave, Balmerino, were on thy side;
Ratcliffe, unhappy in his crimes of youth,
Steady in what he still mistook for truth,
Beheld his death so decently unmov'd,
The soft lamented, and the brave approv'd.
But Lovat's end indifferently we view,
True to no king, to no religion true:
No fair forgets the ruin he has done;
No child laments the tyrant of his son;
No Tory pities, thinking what he was;
No Whig compassions, for he left the cause;
The brave regret not, for he was not brave;
The honest mourn not, knowing him a

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FRANCIS TOWNLEY, JOHN BARWICK, JAMES DAWSON, AND OTHERS,

EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON.

FRANCIS TOWNLEY was indicted at the sessions held at St. Margaret's Hall, June 23, 1746, for the trial of the insurgents, for the part he had acted in the rebellion. His counsel insisted that he was not a subject of Great Britain, being an officer in the service of the French king; but this the judges observed was a circumstance against him, as he had quitted his native country, and engaged in the French service, without the consent of his lawful sovereign. Some other motions, equally frivolous, being overruled, he was capitally convicted, and adjudged to die..

This gentleman, the rebel colonel of the Pretender's Manchester regiment, was the son of Townley, Esq. of Townley Hall,

Lancashire, who was tried for

the share he had in the rebellion of 1715, but acquitted.

Young Townley, having been educated in the rigid principles of popery, went abroad early in life, and, entering into the service of France, distinguished himself in the military line, particularly at the siege of Philipsbourgh.

Coming to England in 1742, he associated chiefly with those of the Catholic religion; and it was thought that he induced many of them to take an active part in the rebellion. When the Pretender came to Manchester, Townley of fered his services; and, being accepted, he was commissioned to raise a regiment, which he soon completed; but, being made prisoner at Carlisle, he was conducted to London.

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