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a respectful distance, with his bonnet off. Malcolm then said to him, "Mr. Caw, you have as much need of this as I have; there is enough for us both: you had better draw nearer and share with me." Upon which he rose, made a profound bow, sat down at table with his supposed master, and eat very heartily. After this there came in an old woman, who, after the mode of ancient hospitality, brought warm water and washed Malcolm's feet. He desired her to wash the feet of the poor man who attended him. She at first seemed averse to this, from pride, as thinking him beneath her, and in the periphrastic language of the Highlanders and the Irish, said warinly, "Though I wash your father's son's feet, why should I wash his father's son's feet?" She was, however, persuaded to do it.

They then went to bed, and slept for some time; and when Malcolm awaked, he was told that Mr. John M'Kinnon, his brother-in-law, was in sight. He sprang out to talk to him before he should see Prince Charles. saluting him, Malcolm, pointing to the sea, After said, "What, John, if the prince should be prisoner on board one of those tenders?" "God forbid!" replied John. "What if we had him here?" said Malcolm. "I wish we had," answered John; 66 we should take care of him." “Well, John," said Malcolm, "he is in your house." John, in a transport of joy, wanted to run directly in, and pay his obeisance; but Malcolm stopped him, saying, "Now is your time to behave well, and do nothing that can discover him." John composed himself, and having sent away all his servants upon different errands, he was introduced into the presence of his guest, and was then desired to go and get ready a boat lying near his house, which, though but a small leaky one, they resolved to take, rather than go to the Laird of M'Kinnon. John M'Kinnon, however, thought otherwise; and upon his return told them, that his chief and Lady M‘Kinnon were coming in the laird's boat. Prince Charles said to his trusty Malcolm, "I am sorry for this, but must make the best of it." M'Kinnon then walked up from the shore, and did homage to the wanderer. His lady waited in a cave, to which they all repaired, and were entertained with cold meat and wine. Mr. Malcolm Macleod being now superseded by the Laird of M'Kinnon, desired leave to return, which was granted him, and Prince Charles wrote a short note, which he subscribed James Thompson, informing his friends that he had got away from Sky, and thanking them for their kindness; and he desired this might be speedily conveyed to young Rasay and Dr. Macleod, that they might not wait longer in expectation of seeing him again. He bade a cordial adieu to Malcolm, and insisted on his accepting of a silver stock-buckle, and ten guineas from his purse, though, as Malcolm told me, it did not appear to contain above forty. Malcolm at

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first begged to be excused, saying, that he had answered, "You will have need of money: I a few guineas at his service; but Prince Charles shall get enough when I come upon the main land.”

to the opposite coast of Knoidart. Old Rasay, The Laird of M'Kinnon then conveyed him to whom intelligence had been sent, was crossing at the same time to Sky; but as they did not know of each other, and each had apprehensions, the two boats kept aloof.

These are the particulars which I have collected concerning the extraordinary concealment and escapes of Prince Charles in the Hebrides. He was often in imminent danger. The troops traced him from the Long Island, across Sky, to Portree, but there lost him,

authentic information of his fatigues and perils Here I stop, having received no farther before he escaped to France. Kings and subjects may both take a lesson of moderation Stuart; that kings may not suffer degradation from the melancholy fate of the house of and exile, and subjects may not be harassed by the evils of a disputed succession.

house with the elegant and pathetic reflections Let me close the scene on that unfortunate of Voltaire, in his Histoire Générale.

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writer, speaking of Prince Charles, "qui se croyent
Que les hommes privés," says that brilliant
malheureux, jettent les yeux sur ce prince et ses
ancêtres."

story of the family in general :-
In another place he thus sums up the sad

"Il n'y a aucun exemple dans l'histoire d'une
Ros d'Ecosse, qui eut le nom de Jacques, après
maison si longtems infortunée. Le premier des
avoir été dix huit ans prisonnier en Angleterre,
mourut assassiné, avec sa femme, par la main de
III. mis en prison par son peuple, fut tué ensuite
ses sujets. Jacques II son fils, fut tué à vingt-
neuf ans en combattant contre les Anglais. Jacques
par les revoltés, dans une bataille.
périt dans un combat qu'il perdit.
Jacques IV.
sa petite fille, chassée de son trône, fugitive en
Marie Stuart,
vit condamnée à mort par des juges Anglais, et eut
Angleterre, ayant langui dix-huit ans en prison, se
la tête tranchée.
Roi d'Ecosse et d'Angleterre, vendu par les Ecos-
Charles I. petit fils de Marie,
sois, et jugé à mort par les Anglais, mourut sur
fils, septième du nom, et deuxième en Angleterre,
un échaffaut dans la place publique. Jacques, son
fut chassé de ses trois royaumes; et pour comble
de malheur on contesta à son fils sa naissance; le
fils ne tenta de remonter sur le trône de ses pères,
que pour faire périr ses amis par des bourreaux ; et
sant en vain les vertus de ses pères, et le courage
nous avons vu le Prince Charles Edouard, réunis-
du Roi Jean Sobieski, son ayeul maternel, exécuter
les exploits et essuyer les malheurs les plus in-
croyent une fatalité à laquelle rien ne peut se
croyables. Si quelque chose justifie ceux qui
soustraire, c'est cette suite continuelle de malheurs

qui a persécuté la maison de Stuart, pendant plus de trois cent années." 1

The gallant Malcolm2 was apprehended in about ten days after they separated, put aboard a ship, and carried prisoner to London. He said, the prisoners in general were very ill treated in their passage; but there were soldiers on board who lived well, and sometimes invited him to share with them: that he had the good fortune not to be thrown into jail, but was confined in the house of a messenger of the name of Dick. To his astonishment, only one witness could be found against him, though he had been so openly engaged; and therefore, for want of sufficient evidence, he was set at liberty. He added, that he thought himself in such danger, that he would gladly have compounded for banishment. Yet, he said, "he should never be so ready for death as he then was." There is philosophical truth in this. A man will meet death much more firmly at one time than another. The enthusiasm even of a mistaken principle warms the mind, and sets it above the fear of death; which in our cooler moments, if we really think of it, cannot but be terrible, or at least very awful.

Miss Flora Macdonald being then also in London, under the protection of Lady Primrose, that lady provided a post-chaise to convey her to Scotland, and desired that she

might choose any friend she pleased to accompany her. She chose Malcolm. "So," said he with a triumphant air, "I went to London to be hanged, and returned in a post-chaise with Miss Flora Macdonald."

Mr. Macleod of Muiravenside, whom we saw at Rasay, assured us that Prince Charles was in London in 17594, and that there was then a plan in agitation for restoring his family. Dr. Johnson could scarcely credit this story, and said there could be no probable plan at that time. Such an attempt could not have succeeded, unless the King of Prussia had stopped the army in Germany; for both the army and the fleet would, even without orders, have fought for the king, to whom they had engaged themselves.

Having related so many particulars concerning the grandson of the unfortunate King James the Second; having given due praise to fidelity and generous attachment, which, however erroneous the judgment may be, are honourable for the heart; I must do the Highlanders the justice to attest, that I found every where amongst them a high opinion of the virtues of the king now upon the throne, and an honest disposition to be faithful subjects to his Majesty, whose family has possessed the sovereignty of this country so long, that a change, even for the abdicated family, would now hurt the best feelings of all his subjects.

The abstract point of right would involve

1 The foregoing account is by no means so full, or so curious, as might have been expected from Mr. Boswell's activity of inquiry, and his means of information. It relates only to a few days of the Pretender's adventures, which, however, lasted five months. Even of Miss Flora Macdonald it tells less than had been already in print forty years before Mr. Boswell's publication. It does not say who she was, nor when she met the prince, nor why she was selected or induced to interfere, and, in short, tells as little as possible of her personal share in the events. We should particularly have liked to know, from her own report, the particulars of her examination and reception in London. The reader who may be curious to know more of the details of the Pretender's escape, will find them in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1747, pp 531. 638.; in the little volume before referred to, called Ascamus; and in a Journal in the second volume of the Lockhart Papers. - CROKER.

2 Who had succeeded Flora Macdonald as guide to the Prince, and had so greatly contributed to his escape.CROKER.

3 When arrested, which was a few days after parting from the Prince, Flora was conveyed on board the Furnace, Captain Fergussone, and conveyed to Leith. There she was removed on board Commodore Smith's ship, and conveyed to the Nore, whence, on the 6th of December, after being five months on ship-board, she was transferred to the custody of the messenger Dick, in which she remained till July, 1747, when she was discharged, and returned to Edinburgh.Ascanius. It seems strange that Mr. Boswell, affecting to give an accurate account of all this affair, should use expressions which not only give no intimation of Flora's arrest and confinement, but seem even to negative the fact. Is it possible that the lady's delicacy wished to suppress all recollection of her having been a prisoner? It will be seen, by a comparison of Mr Boswell's account with other statements of the transaction, that Flora gave him very little information-none, indeed that had not been already published. Lady Primrose's protection must have been very short, for Flora returned, it seems, to Scotland immediately after her release from confinement. Lady Primrose was Miss Dreliucourt, daughter of the Dean of Armagh, and relict of Hugh, third Viscount Primrose. It is not known how she became so ardent a Jacobite; but she certainly was so, for she was in the secret of the young Pretender's visit to London, which (notwithstanding Dr. Johnson's disbelief) did certainly occur in 1753. CROKER.

4 Dr. King states, antè. p. 92., the visit at which he saw the Pretender at Lady Primrose's to have been in 1750, while other authorities (if there were not two visits) place it in 1753. Of this last there can be no doubt. Hume so stated it (see his letter to Sir John Pringle in the Gent. Mag. for 1788) on the separate, but concurring authority of Lord Marechal, who saw him at Lady Primrose's, and of Lord Holderness, Secretary of State from 1751 to 1754. who had official knowledge of the fact. I think it unlikely that there were two visits so near together, and I therefore still think that the date 1750 in King's Memoirs is an error for 1753. Hume adds, that he was assured, th it on this occasion the Prince formally renounced the Roman Catholic religion in the New Church in the Strand. About this. however, Hume was, as he says, a sceptic. Lord Marechal further told him that the Pretender was present at the coronation of George III., but the evidence adduced is very slight. I find nowhere any confirmation of Mr. Macleod's statement of a visit in 1759, and believe that to be also a mistake for 1753.

Mr. Cole, of Norton Street, possesses, and permits me to print, an original letter of Flora Macdonald's, which proves that a small provision was made for her by her Jacobite friends, perhaps the Prince himself, through the hands of Lady Primrose. I give this Jacobite relic literatim. CROKER.

"Kingsborrou, Aprile 23d, 1751.

SIR, Few days agoe yours of the 26th March Came to hand, by which I understand my Lady Primrose hath Lodged in your hands for my behoof £627 Sterg, and that her Ladyship had in view, to add more, of which you would aquent me So as to send a proper Discharge to my Lady, which I am ready Doe how soon you are pleas'd to advise me and as I am to have Security, to my friends satisfaction, on Sir James McDonald's estate its design'd, the whole shou'd be payed next may to John McKinzie of Delvin written att Ednr, of which My father in Law spock to Kenneth mcKenzie attorney who will give you proper derections, at the same time I shall be glad to hear from you as oft as you pleas, in order I may observe such derections as my Lady will be pleas'd to give you concerning me, I was uneasie befor the recipt of your Letter that my lady was not well, haveing wrott frequently to her Ladyship, but has had no turn. Please be so good as to offer my humble Duty to my Lady, & Mrs. Drelincourt, and I am Si Your most humble Servt. FLORA MCDONALD.

us in a discussion of remote and perplexed questions; and, after all, we should have no clear principle of decision. That establishment, which, from political necessity, took place in 1688, by a breach in the succession of our kings, and which, whatever benefits may have accrued from it, certainly gave a shock to our monarchy, the able and constitutional Blackstone wisely rests on the solid footing of authority. "Our ancestors having most indisputably a competent jurisdiction to decide this great and important question, and having, in fact, decided it, it is now become our duty, at this distance of time, to acquiesce in their determination." " L

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Mr. Paley, the present Archdeacon of Carlisle, in his "Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy," having, with much clearness of argument, shown the duty of submission to civil government to be founded neither on an indefeasible jus divinum, nor on compact, but on expediency, lays down this rational position: Irregularity in the first foundation of a state, or subsequent violence, fraud, or injustice, in getting possession of the supreme power, are not sufficient reasons for resistance, after the government is once peaceably settled. No subject of the British empire conceives himself engaged to vindicate the justice of the Norman claim or conquest, or apprehends that his duty in any manner depends upon that controversy. So likewise, if the house of Lancaster, or even the posterity of Cromwell, had been at this day seated upon the throne of England, we should have been as little concerned to inquire how the founder of the family came there." 2

In conformity with this doctrine, I myself, though fully persuaded that the house of Stuart had originally no right to the crown of Scotland, for that Baliol, and not Bruce, was the lawful heir, should yet have thought it

very culpable to have rebelled, on that account, against Charles the First, or even a prince of that house much nearer the time, in order to assert the claim of the posterity of Baliol.

However convinced I am of the justice of that principle, which holds allegiance and protection to be reciprocal, I do, however, acknowledge, that I am not satisfied with the cold sentiment which would confine the exertions of the subject within the strict line of duty. I would have every breast animated with the fervour of loyalty; with that generous attachment which delights in doing somewhat more than is required, and makes "service perfect freedom." And, therefore, as our most gracious sovereign, on his accession to the throne, gloried in being born a Briton; so, in my more private sphere, Ego me nunc denique natum, gratulor. I am happy that a disputed succession no longer distracts our minds; and that a monarchy, established by law, is now so sanctioned by time, that we can fully indulge those feelings of loyalty which I am ambitious to excite. They are feelings which have ever actuated the inhabitants of the Highlands and the Hebrides. The plant of loyalty is there in full vigour, and the Brunswick graft now flourishes like a native shoot. To that spirited race of people I may with propriety apply the elegant lines of a modern poet, on the "facile temper of the beauteous sex:

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"Like birds new-caught, who flutter for a time, And struggle with captivity in vain ;

But by-and-by they rest, they smooth their plumes,

And to new masters sing their former notes."3

Surely such notes are much better than the querulous growlings of suspicious Whigs and discontented republicans.

1 Commentaries on the Laws of England, book i. chap. 3. 2 Book vi. chap. 3. Since I have quoted Mr. Archdeacon Paley upon one subject, I cannot but transcribe, from his excellent work, a distinguished passage in support of the Christian revelation. After showing, in decent but strong terms, the unfairness of the indirect attempts of modern infidels to unsettle and perplex religious principles, and particularly the irony, banter, and sneer of one, whom he politely calls "an eloquent historian," the Archdeacon thus expresses himself:

"Seriousness is not constraint of thought; nor levity, freedom. Every mind which wishes the advancement of truth and knowledge, in the most important of all human researches, must abhor this licentiousness, as violating no less the laws of reasoning than the rights of decency. There is but one description of men to whose principles it ought to be tolerable. I mean that class of reasoners who can see little in Christianity, even supposing it to be true. To such adversaries we address this reflection. Had Jesus Christ delivered no other declaration than the following, The hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done well unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation,' he had pronounced a message of inestimable importance, and well worthy of that splendid apparatus of prophecy and miracles with which his

mission was introduced and attested: a message in which the wisest of mankind would rejoice to find an answer to their doubts, and rest to their inquiries. It is idle to say that a future state had been discovered already. It had been discovered as the Copernican system was; it was one guess amongst many. He alone discovers who proves; and no man can prove this point but the teacher who testifies by miracles that his doctrine comes from God."- Book v. chap. 9.

If infidelity be disingenuously dispersed in every shape that is likely to allure, surprise, or beguile the imagination, in a fable, a tale, a novel, a poem, in books of travels, of philosophy, of natural history, as Mr. Paley has well observed, I hope it is fair in me thus to meet such poison with an unexpected antidote, which I cannot doubt will be found powerful. -BOSWELL. It is almost unnecessary to add, how much Paley increased and confirmed the early reputation acquired by the work so justly praised by Boswell, by his Hora Paulina, 1790, Evidences of Christianity, 1794, Natural Theology, 1803,- and many of the best, as I venture to think, sermons in our language. He was born in July, 1743, and died 25th May, 1805. Mr. Windham once pronounced to me a glowing panegyric on the intrinsic excellence and public utility of Paley's works. - Croker, 1846. Agis, a tragedy, by John Home.-BOSWELL.

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KINGSBURGH conducted us in his boat across one of the lochs, as they call them, or arms of the sea, which flow in upon all the coasts of Sky, to a mile beyond a place called Grishinish. Our horses had been sent round by land to meet us. By this sail we saved eight miles of bad riding. Dr. Johnson said, "When we take into the computation what we have saved, and what we have gained, by this agreeable sail, it is a great deal." He observed, "It is very disagreeable riding in Sky. The way is so narrow, one only at a time can travel, so it is quite unsocial; and you cannot indulge in meditation by yourself, because you must be always attending to the steps which your horse takes." This was a just and clear description

of its inconveniencies.

to induce a chief to act a more liberal part, from a mere motive of interest, independent of the lofty and honourable principle of keeping a clan together, to be in readiness to serve his king. I added, that I could not help thinking a little arbitrary power in the sovereign, to control the bad policy and greediness of the chiefs, might sometimes be of service. In France, a chief would not be permitted to force a number of the king's subjects out of the country. Dr. Johnson concurred with me, observing, that "were an oppressive chieftain a subject of the French king, he would, probably, be admonished by a letter." 1

During our sail, Dr. Johnson asked about the use of the dirk, with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat. He was told, they had a knife and fork besides to eat with. He asked, how did the women do? and was answered, some of them had a knife and fork too; but in general the men, when they had cut their meat, handed their knives and forks to the women, and they themselves eat with their fingers. The old tutor2 of Macdonald always eat fish with his fingers, alleging that a knife and fork gave it a bad taste. I took the liberty to observe to Dr. Johnson, that he did so. "Yes," said he, "but it is because I am short-sighted, and afraid of bones, for which reason I am not fond of eating many kinds of fish, because I must use my fingers."

and ask yourself what you had been reading: there were so many words to so little matter, that there was no getting through the book."

The topic of emigration being again intro- Dr. McPherson's "Dissertations on Scottish duced, Dr. Johnson said, that "a rapacious Antiquities," which he had looked at when chief would make a wilderness of his estate." at Corrichatachin, being mentioned, he reMr. Donald M'Queen told us, that the oppres-marked, that "you might read half an hour, sion, which then made so much noise, was owing to landlords listening to bad advice in the letting of their lands; that interested and designing people flattered them with golden dreams of much higher rents than could reasonably be paid; and that some of the gentlemen tacksmen, or upper tenants, were themselves in part the occasion of the mischief, by overrating the farms of others. That many of the tacksmen, rather than comply with exorbitant demands, had gone off to America, and impoverished the country, by draining it of its wealth: and that their places were filled by a number of poor people, who had lived under them, properly speaking, as servants, paid by a certain proportion of the produce of the lands, though called sub-tenants. I observed, that if the men of substance were once banished from a Highland estate, it might probably be greatly reduced in its value; for one bad year might ruin a set of poor tenants, and men of any property would not settle in such a country, unless from the temptation of getting land extremely cheap; for an inhabitant of any good county in Britain had better go to America than to the Highlands or the Hebrides. Here, therefore, was a consideration that ought

1 Meaning, no doubt, a "lettre de cachet.” — Croker.

2 He means one of the family (an uncle probably) who

As soon as we reached the shore, we took leave of Kingsburgh, and mounted our horses. We passed through a wild moor, in many places so soft that we were obliged to walk, which was very fatiguing to Dr. Johnson. Once he had advanced on horseback to a very bad step. There was a steep declivity on his left, to which he was so near, that there was not room for him to dismount in the usual way. He tried to alight on the other side, as if he had been a young buck indeed, but in the attempt he fell at his length upon the ground; from which, however, he got up immediately without being hurt. During this dreary ride, we were sometimes relieved by a view of branches of the sea, that universal medium of connection amongst mankind. A guide, who had been sent with us from Kingsburgh, explored the way (much in the same manner as, I suppose, is pursued in the wilds of America) by observing certain marks known only to the inhabitants. We arrived at Dunvegan late in the afternoon. The great size of the castle, which is partly old and partly new,

was guardian during the minority of the young heir.CROKER.

BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.

and is built upon a rock close to the sea, while the land around it presents nothing but wild, moorish, hilly, and craggy appearances, gave a rude magnificence to the scene. Having dismounted, we ascended a flight of steps, which was made by the late Macleod, for the accommodation of persons coming to him by land, there formerly being, for security, no other access to the castle but from the sea; so that visiters who came by the land were under the necessity of getting into a boat, and sailed round to the only place where it could be approached. We were introduced into a stately dining-room, and received by Lady Macleod, mother of the Laird, who, with his friend Talisker, having been detained on the road, did not arrive till some time after us.

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We found the lady of the house a very polite and sensible woman, who had lived for some time in London, and had there been in Dr. Johnson's company. After we had dined, we repaired to the drawing-room, where some of the young ladies of the family, with their mother, were at tea. been the bed-chamber of Sir Roderick Macleod, This room had formerly one of the old lairds: and he chose it, because behind it there was a considerable cascade, the sound of which disposed him to sleep. Above his bed was this inscription: Rorie Macleod of Dunvegan, Knight. God "Sir send good rest! Rorie is the contraction of Roderick. He was called Rorie More, that is, great Rorie, not from his size, but from his spirit. Our entertainment here was in so elegant a style, and reminded my fellow-traveller so much of England, that he became quite joyous. He laughed, and said, came in at the wrong end of this island." "Boswell, we Sir," said I, "it was best to keep this for the last." He answered, "I would have it both first and last." Tuesday, Sept. 14. the morning, Dr. Johnson said in "Is not this a fine lady? There was not a word now of his "impatience to be in civilised life;" though indeed I should beg pardon he found it here. We had slept well, and lain long. After breakfast we surveyed the castle and the garden. Mr. Bethune, the parish minister, Magnus Macleod of Claggan, brother to Talisker, and Macleod of Bay, two substantial gentlemen of the clan, dined with us. We had admirable venison, generous wine; in a word, all that a good table has. This was really the hall of a chief. Lady Macleod had been much obliged to my father, who had settled, by arbitration, a variety of perplexed claims between her and her relation,

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She was the daughter of Alexander Brodie, Esq., of Brodie, Lyon King at Arms. daughters out of Hampshire, to superintend her son's houseShe had lately come with her hold at Dunvegan. This respectable lady died in 1803. It has been said that she expressed considerable dissatisfaction at Dr Johnson's rude behaviour at Dunvegan. Her grandson, the present Macleod, assures me that it was not so: "they were all," he says emphatically, " delighted with him;" and. indeed, his father's Memoirs give the same impression of satisfaction on all points but Ossian.- CROKER.

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the Laird of Brodie, which she now repaid by particular attention to me. the church for fornication. JOHNSON. "It is the subject of making women do penance in Macleod started right, Sir. Infamy is attached to the crime, by universal opinion, as soon as it is known. I would not be the man who would discover it, if I alone knew it, for a woman may reform; nor would I commend a parson who divulges a woman's first offence; but being once divulged, it ought to be infamous. Consider of what importance to society the chastity of world depends. a sheep, but the unchastity of a woman transwomen is. Upon that all the property in the fers sheep, and farm, and all, from the right We hang a thief for stealing common prostitute than for a woman who conowner. I have much more reverence for a ceals her guilt. She cannot deceive: she cannot bring a strumpet into the arms of an honest man, The prostitute is known. without his knowledge." is, however, a great difference between the BOSWELL. of a married woman." JOHNSON. licentiousness of a single woman, and that "There there is a great difference between stealing a shilling and stealing a thousand pounds; be"Yes, Sir; tween simply taking a man's purse, and murone begins to be vicious, it is easy to go on. dering him first, and then taking it. But when Where single women are licentious, you rarely find faithful married women." India, the distinction is strictly observed." "And yet we are told, that in some nations in BOSWELL. JOHNSON. puts me in mind of Montesquieu, who is really Nay, don't give us India. That ever he wants to support a strange opinion, he à fellow of genius too in many respects; quotes you the practice of Japan, or of some whenother distant country, of which he knows nothing. To support polygamy, he tells you of the island of Formosa, where there are ten suppose another island, where there are ten women born for one man. He had but to riage between them.3 men born for one woman, and so make a mar

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Cadogan's book on the gout. JOHNSON.
is a good book in general, but a foolish one in
At supper, Lady Macleod mentioned Dr.
"It
mending temperance, and exercise, and cheer-
particulars. It is good in general, as recom-
fulness. In that respect it is only Dr. Cheyne's
book told in a new way; and there should
come out such a book every thirty years,
dressed in the mode of the times. It is foolish,
in maintaining that the gout is not hereditary,
and that one fit of it, when gone, is like a fever

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