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merous forces, and gave an overthrow to her difaffected subjects in that province. The Duke of Burgundy, to whom John of Bavaria had now bequeathed his pretended right to the States of Jacoba, alarmed at the fuccefs of the Princefs, advanced with his army into Holland. While Jacoba oppofes a brave refiftance to this Prince, the Duke of Glocefter folicits fresh fuccours in England, where he was retarded by many obftacles. Henry V. was now dead, and the crowns of England and of France had defcended to his infant fon, Henry VI. a prince born to an unhappy destiny; and a troubled minority ushered in an unfortunate reign. Though the Duke of Glocester was now advanced to a high rank, and poffeffed popular qualities, yet he found the English court little difpofed to fupport his pretenfions in Haynault with warmth. The firife between the Dukes of Burgundy and Glocefter had greatly interrupted the fucceffes of England, in the war that the waged in France. The Duke of Bedford, knit in affinity with the Duke of Burgundy, and now appointed Regent in France, was folicitous that the whole force of England fhould be employed again.ft that kingdoin. The ambitious Beauford, bishop and afterwards cardinal of Winchester, fought to thwart the views of the Duke of Glocefter, from the hatred which he entertained againft the Duke, and which did not terminate but with the life of that Prince. At length, after many delays, an English force was obtained, and, under the command of the Lord Fitzwalter, was fent into Holland, to the aid of the Princefs of Haynault. But this force was too weak to effect the intended purpose, and, foon after its landing on the shore of Holland, was attacked by the Duke of Burgundy, and after a fharp conflict overthrown, the Lord Fitzwalter elcaping with difficulty to his fhips.

The defeat of the English army was a fevere dilappointment to the hopes of Jacoba, and other difafters foon followed. The Duke of Burgundy failed not to improve his victory; and whilst he purfued with viyour his fuccefies in arms, he alfo, by his arts and addrefs, drew away the provinces of Jacoba more and more from their fovereign. Martin V. triumphant over his rival Benedict XIII. and obfequious to Philip, ified at the laine time a bull, by which the marriage of jacoba with the Duke of Glocefter was annulled, and her firft marriage with the ke of Brabant was confirmed a fevere claufe was added, by which the Princes was refrained from marrying the Duke of Glocefter, even if the thould become a widow by the death of the Duke of Brabant; an event which, from the ill health of that Prince, feemed not far diftant.

But the blow that imprinted the deepet wound on the mind of Jacoba, was the inconftancy of the Duke of Glocefter. That Prince, from a compliance, as he pretended, with the counfels of his brother and the Duke of Bedford, but more from that unworthy paffion which he entertained for Eleanor Cobham, whom he afterwards marri ed, and whofe pride wrought his fhame, now declared his purpose of feparating him felf from the Princefs of Haynault, and o yielding entire obedience to the mandate Martin the Pope. Deferted by her fubjects, forfaken by the ungrateful Duke of Ch cefter, preffed by the armies of Philip, từ unfortunate Jacoba, after many exertions € Į a noble and valorous fpirit, was obliged yield to the Duke of Burgundy, and to f mit to thofe harsh terms that he now pr fcribed. The tenor of these terms was ful as fulficiently declared the fecret ambic by which that Prince had been fo long a tuated. By the first article it was fliped, that all the dominions of Jacoba wr to be governed by Philip, who was to ru in them by the title of her Lieutenant. fecond article, not lefs rigorous, was pofed on the Princefs, now a widow by th death of the Duke of Brabant, that she shoul not be at liberty to contract any future m riage without the confent of the States i her provinces and of the Duke of Burgun

Jacoba had not exceeded her twenty venth year, when he was obliged to fuhr: to thele hard laws. Yielding now to her fortune, and divested of all authority in l provinces, while the retained the name t fovereign, she retired into the country of 7 land, where a flender revenue was fup by Philip to her expence. There, in t iflands that are furrounded by the Schel where, dividing itself into many chars it pours its waters into the ocean, the dulged thofe melancholy reflections wh the misfortunes of her life fuggefted. S times, in order to amufe her melancho he joined in the village-fports, and i tuted exercifes in archery or in horfe fhip. In thefe exercifes, in which the celled, and that were fuited to her mar genius, fhe was well pleafed to win the pr and to be proclaimed queen by the voi the villagers. Thus the paffed two y her beauty as yet little impaired by time, by the accidents of her life, when L that had wrought her fo many diftre furprised her again in her retirement, prepared for her new misfortunes

Among the Lords in Holland whe been the mofl adverfe to the interefts of coba, and who on that account had been warded by Philip, was Francis Bori Lord of Martendyke. This nobleman feffed large eftates in Zeland, and frequ

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Story of the Princess Jacoba of Haynault.

ly made his abode in that province. His oppofition to the interefts of Jacoba had long kept him at a diftance from that Princefs, till an accident, that fortune threw in his way, and of which he profited, gained him an access to her acquaintance. Margaret of Burgundy, the mother of Jacoba, having fent to her daughter a prefent of a fine horse from Haynault; and Jacoba, from the extreme parfimony of the Duke of Burgundy, being unable to reward the perfon by whom the horse had been brought, fo liberally as the wifhed; Borfelen, who 'had learned her diftrefs from a domeftic, took occafion to prefent a large fum of money with fo good a grace, that the Princes, touched with his generous proceeding, forgot the prejudices which she had entertained against him, and gave orders that he fhould have free admittance to her company. A nearer acquaintance prepoffeffed her ftill more in favour of Borfelen, who to a graceful perfon joined courtly and engaging manners. At length her inclination for this nobleman, growing from the retirement in which the lived, and perhaps alfo from the hard reftraints impofed upon her, became fo ftrong, that, forgetting the difparity of rank, and the engagements by which the was fettered, fhe united herself with Borfe len by a private marriage.

Philip, who had employed spies to watch the conduct of Jacoba, was no fooner apprised of this marriage, than he baftened to draw from it that advantage which it afforded to his ambition. While he was inwardly pleafed, he affected violent indignation, Borfelen by his command was apprehended, and conveyed from Zeland to the caftle of Rupelmonde in Flanders, fituated at the confluence of the Rupel and the Scheld. Here, aggravating the prefumption of which this nobleman had been guilty, with a view to alarm the Princefs, he caufed the report to be spread, that the life of Borfelen was to atone for his offence. The Princefs of Haynault, apprehenfive for the life of her husband, collected a small force in Zeland, and, having armed fome vefiels, failed up the Scheld, with the hope of furprising Rupelmonde, and delivering her hufhand. When he approached to Rupelmonde, the learned that her defign had been difcovered, that a large force was affembled at Rupel monde, and that Philip himself was in the caftie. Difappointed in her fcheme, he next requefied that the might be permitted, from ber veffel, to speak with her coufin the Duke of Burgundy; and the Duke not declining the conference, the inquired carneftly of him if her husband was yet alive. Philip, as if to remove her apprehenfions, commanded that Borfelen fhould be brought forth on the terrace that bordered the river;

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when the Princefs, with the ardour that was natural to her, transported with joy at the fight of a perfon fo dear, and forgetting that she gave herfelf into the power of the Duke, inftantly iprang from her veffel upon the hore, and ran with eagerness to embrace her husband,

Philip had now obtained the advantage which he fought, and detaining the Princefs, wrought fo powerfully on her fears for her husband, that in order to purchafe the life and liberty of Borfelen, the confented to yield up to the Duke the entire fovereignty of all her ftates and dominions. So high a price did the ambition of the Duke require for the ranfom of Borfelen! Philip, having attained that object to which he had long afpired, took poffeffion of the States of Jacoba: and thofe Provinces, accuftomed to his controul, and by his arts indifpofed towards their fovereign, fubmitted quietly to his government. In return for that ample conceffion which the Princess had made, he affigned to her certain eftates in Holland and Zeland; which Jacoba, setting no bounds to her affection for her husband, bestowed in free gift upon Borfclen. This nobleman was alfo created Count of Oftervant, and decorated with the order of the Golden Fleece, lately inftituted by Philip.

Thus was acquired by Philip Duke of Burgundy, and by him tranfmitted to his defcendants, the province of Haynault, ard with it the provinces of Holland, Zeland, and Friefland. This Prince has been diftinguifhed by the title of Philip the Good; an appellation to which he is in fome degree intitled from the general mildnefs of his government: but impartial history will always reproach him with the wrongs done to the Countefs of Haynault: and his unkind and ungenerous treatment of this Princefs, his kinfwoman, and the unfair advantage that he drew from her errors in conduct, errors that merit great indulgence, imprint a deep and indelible stain on his memory.

Jacoba, who, in place of all her pompous titles, now bore only the title of Countess of Oftervant, palled into Zeland, to tafte the pleafures of an humble ftation, in the company of a husband to whom the had given fucn proofs of entire affection. Hiftory has not fpoken of her in her retreat, but it appears that her life did not laft long beyond this period. She died at the age of thirty-fix, an 1 was buried in the tomb of the Counts of Holland. In her retirement, the had fometimes amufed herfelf in framing vafes of earthen ware: many of thefe have been found in the lake that furrounded the caftle where the refided, and were long religiously kept by the people of the country, who named them the vafes of the Lady Jacoba of Haynault.

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HE various fubjects of gallantry which have continually prefented themfelves to our animadverfion, form a regular hiftory of amours, and as in a collection of this kind every remarkable character fhould have its place, we have chofen for the hero of the prefent biographical effay, a gentleman long and well known upon the town.

Anticipator is a native of Ireland, and fon to a gentleman who now refides on the Continent on a very flender fubfiftence, the fragment of a diffipated inheritance. His grandfather was an intimate friend of Addilon's, and author of feveral poems which have ftood the teft of criticifm, and must always be objects of admiration.

Anticipator was intended for a liberal profeffion, and received an early education in the claffics; but his father's narrow circumftances reftraining him from the purfuit of letters in an univerfity, he was forced from neceffity, at an early part of life, to bring his little ftock of learning and genius to the London market, where he retailed them to the beft bidder.

In London Le renewed a juvenile connection, -with the manager of a theatre, who ls now the honour of a feat in the houfe of commons, and who affifted him materially with hints; but though privately they appeared in perfect harmony, yet in public no two men could hold forth more oppofite principics: the one having lifted himfelf under the banners of lord North, the other volunteering in the corps of Mr. Fox.

During the administration of the noble lord alluded to, Anticipator brought forward a pamphlet written in a new ftyle, it being the Anticipation of a Debate on 'the King's Speech. The language of the feveral debaters was firongly imitative, indeed fo ftrongly, that for fome months after, fcarce a member could open his lips without creating a laugh.

This pamphlet had a very extensive fale, and was undoubtedly the best exertion of the writer's genius; another, which foon followed, though formed on an excellent idea, afforded neither information nor entertainment; but the first having infured him the protection of the minifter, he was, foon after its publication, rewarded with an appointment to a place worth three hundred pounds a year.

In the dramatic line he has alfo made two attempts. His first production was an original opera, which experienced univerfal -reprobation. The fecond, a romance, tranflated from the French, which was forced

on the town as a spectacle, and support

piece, however, he was affifted by a well known general, the modern Congreve, and a third affociate.

The incidents attending his amour with the heroine of this narrative, are not worth recording. He might exclaim with Cæfar, "I came, I faw, I conquered:" the fuited his tafte, and he fuited her views.The ftage was her object, and he had an interest with the managers.

But though the courtship was fhort, the connection lafted for some time, nor was it without its fruits. Time, however, and la tiety, produced indifference.-Anticipator became enamoured of a new object, and entered into the bonds of matrimony.

Frantic paroxyfms, and ftrong hysterics, were the immediate confequences to the lady. But the cafe, though defperate, was not incurable; her connections not having been founded in fentiment, the fought for comfort in the ufual refource of handsome women without virtue, and prudently con cluded to make the most of the beauty with which nature had endowed her.

The ftage fhe confidered the best mart for her beauty, and was indulged with: trial at Covent Garden theatre, where the performed the character of Alicia in Jane Shore, with very confiderable approbation; but the manager differing in opinion with the town, the lady was refufed an engage ment. This, however, did not entirely dif appoint her hopes: her figure was attract ing, and the difplay of it had effect.-Stveral overtures of love were offered, and he made the most of them.

Had her prudence in faving, borne proportion to the avidity of her avarice, fe muft foon have fecured a competency; but her expenditures exceeding her receipts, creditors became clamorous: fhe was arrefted by an inexorable tradefman, and having neither money nor fecurity to offer, was compelled by neceffity to remove her far body, by virtue of a Habeas, into the King's Bench prifon.

Here the remained fome time, and form ed a connection, which at least affifted r with the neceffaries of life; but deprivati of liberty to a mind and conftitution L hers, was infupportable-fhe folicited Anticipator for aid, and he having strong intere in the management of Drury Lane theatre, the lady was emancipated from confinement, and was perfuaded to join the theatrica company in Dublin.

Her reception on the Dublin ftage was fa vourable, but extravagance forced her from the country, and the is once more fettled London, bartering her perional charms enjoyments of luxury, and is now lifted the difhonourable corps of demireps.

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