...Tuesday fe'night, the Prefbytery of Dunbarton made choice of the Rev. Meffrs. Archibald Smith of Strathblain, David Macgibbon of Buchanan, and John Freebairn of Dumbarton, minifters, and Sir James Colquboun of Lufs, elder to reprefent them in the enfuing Affembly. A letter from Kinrofs informs, that Charles Graham tinker, who was lately incarcerated in the tolbooth of Edinburgh on fufpicion of theft, and who, with fome others then in prifon, were paft to the Eaft-India Company for foldiers, and fent aboard of a fhip at Leith for London, has eloped from Gravefend, and is now in this country. He was feen with fome others in Kinrofs fair, on Wednesday the 30th ult. and in Perth fair on Friday the 2d inft where feverals had their pockets picked both of money and notes, and there is reafon to fufpect this was done by one or other of the gang. Extract of a letter from Dublin, dated March 27. "On Thursday laft the Highlanders, to whom the public have been uncommonly generous, embarked on board the Snow Britania, Capt. Rober Eyres, for New York, and yesterday at eleven o'clock in the forenoon fhe fet fail from hence with a fair wind.-The fubfcription money raised for them amounted to 3341. 7s 6d. "The Countefs of Leicefter packet arrived at Falmouth, in fix days from Coronna, took up the Captain and four hands belonging to the Lovely Kitty, from Lisbon to Bristol, which foundered in the Bay of Bifcay.- -Thefe unfortunate people had been three days in the boat, without provifions of any kind. MARRIAGE S. March 30. By a fpecial licence, the Hon. Thomas Shirley, deputy Ranger of St James's Park, and a brother to Earl Ferrers, to Lady Anderfon, reli& of the late Sir Stephen Anderfon, Bart. March 3. At Rome, Cardinal Fre deric Marcel Lante, Bishop of Porto, and Sub Dean of the Sacred College, aged 78 years. He was raised to the Purple by Benoit XIV. in 1743. His death makes the fourteenth Hat vacant in the Sacred College. 4. At Longford in Ireland, Mrs Agnew, wife to Captain John Agnew brother to the late Sir Andrew Agnew, Baronet. 7. At Ratisbon, his Serene Highnefs, Alexander Fredinand, Prince of La Tour and Taxis, his Imperial Majefty's principal Commiffary to the Diet in that city. 26. At Lauriefton, Mr Charles Dall Writer to the Signet. 29 At the Houfe of Mr Charles Guthrie Writer in Edinburgh, Mrs Elizabeth Guthrie, widow of Mr Robert Dall merchant in Aberbrothock. 31. At Strathtyrum, Mifs Lumídain, daughter of James Lumfdain Efq; of Strathtyrum. In Mortimer street, Oxfordstreet, Peter Jamefon, Efq; late Secretary to the Gevernment at Jamaica. -Of a broken heart, Mr Henry Neale, late partner with Mr Fordyce. PRICES of GRAIN at PERTH. Oats, from 12 to 14s. to 145. per Boll. } per Peck. Errata in No I. Vol. IV. p. 15th col. 1ft line 13. for heard r. beard, THE ERTH MAGAZINE OF NOWLEDGE AND PLEASURE. FRIDAY, APRIL 16. 1773 1 the PUBLISHER of the PERTH MAGAZINE. HE following fory extracted from the Count de Rochfort's Memoirs, printed at London 1696, may probably amufe feverals of your Readers rt was a man of Genius-he was a Confident of Cardinal Richlieu's, to England and Scotland, to blow up the Commotions during the civil een the King and Parliament, he returned home and was richly reI am Sir, Your well-wisher, RE were two men of quality were very intimate friends, he Marquis de Rambouillet, ther to the Dutches de Mon d the other was the Marquis he eldeft Son of the Family illet; one of whom had been r of the Kingdom, and in fo ur in the reign of one of our the oblig'd his mafter, while d the State with an abfolute to get him a Cardinal's Cap. O gentlemen went both into as all people of quality do first or laft, and falling into of the world to come, after courfes, by which they difey did not very well underthey talkt of, they made a mife to one another, that the y'd of them two, should come an account of thofe things his friend, and having fhook nit, in teftimony that they nded, and refolv'd if it were perform it, they fell into o Y. A. GELLIUS. ther difcourfes lefs ferious. Two or three months part after this, without perhaps either of them fo much as thinking on this agreement, and the time for the opening of the Campaign coming on, Monfieur de Rambouillet, went away for Flanders; but Preci, being fick of a Malignant Fever, was left behind at Dupin's, where he lodg'd. A month or five weeks after, about fix o'clock in the morning, fomething flung back the curtains of Monfieur Preci's bed all of a fudden, and he turning himself to fee who it was, fees MonGeur de Rambouillet stand at the bedfide booted and in Buff; he would have took him about the Neck to embrace him, but the Marquis de Rambouillet retiring two steps, told him, thofe Careffes were now improper, that he came to him, to difcharge his pronife made at fuch a time; that he had been kill'd the day before in fuch and fuch an action, and that there was nothing more certain, than those things which had been told them of the other I world, fuaded to believe it, and the truth of it all feemed to depend upon what the Apparition had told Preci fhould befal him, that he fhould be kill'd in the first action he was engag'd in; and fo people had their eyes upon that, as the effectual proof of the ftory: and as a convincing argument that what we hear from the Pulpit of thofe things, is not all Prieftcraft, as our Modern Atheists would have us believe; which the event foon confirm'd. The civil war being begun, he would needs go to the Battle of St. Antoine, tho' his Father and his Mother begg'd of him as it were on their knees not to go, being afraid of the Prophecy the Spectre had left of him; but he would go, and was kill'd, to the great regret of all his Relations, who had much more hopes of his advancing their Family than of him who was to fucceed him, who had marry'd a Wife of a mean Birth and no Fortune, and one that had none of the best characters befides. world, therefore he fhould think of living after another manner than he us'd to do; that he would be kill'd alfo in the first engagement he met with, and therefore he had no time to lofe. I need not fay how much this difcourfe furpriz'd the Marquis de Preci; neverthelefs he could not believe what he heard, but jumpt out of bed to embrace his friend, believing he had done this only to amufe him, but he embrac'd nothing but the air; and Rambouillet feeing he would not believe him, show'd him the place where he was shot, which was in the reins, and lookt as if it were all bloody, and then he vanish'd. Preci, who was not much disturb'd before, was now perfectly confounded and frighted, and throwing himself down again upon the bed, he cry'd out at fuch a rate, as put all the houfe in an uproar: I got up among the reft, and running up into his Chamber with Dus pin, to fee what the matter was; when he told us the ftory, we thought it was only the violence of his Fever (which ftill was upon him) which made him light-headed, and fo pray'd him to lye down again, telling him, that this was nothing but fancy. He was very angry to fee we took him to be delirious; and to convince us, told us all the particu lars as I have related them. However, he might say what he would, we were of the fame opinion, and fo continu'd till the Poft came in from Flanders, which bringing an account that the Marquis was really kill'd, we began to look upon one another, and to think there must be fomething in it, efpecially comparing it with the particulars he had told us. The news of this paffage being fpread about the Town, folks took it for a made ftory; but others, defirous to know the truth of it, came to the house to enquire: I believe I had a hundred Notes fent to me about it, and as many Vifiters; for my acquaintance knowing I lodg'd in the house, thought to have a more particular account of it from me: But for all I could fay, they could hardly be per The Hiftory of the Norwegian Prin cipality of the Ifles, commonly called the Kingdom of Man. (Continued from Page 45. VOL. IV.) Rfons for courting the honour of EGINALD faw very good rea being a vaffal to the fee of Rome. The popes of the twelfth and thirteenth age prelcribed laws to fome of the greatef fovereigns of Europe, and fecured the intereft of those who committed thei perfons and eftates to their protection Reginald thought the tribute payabl by his kingdom to the crown of Nor way too high, and the Lord of his al legiance was at too great a distance to defend him, if oppreffed by one of hi more powerful neighbours. He there fore, like two English monarchs, hi cotemporaries, fubjected his kingdon to the pope, who demanded only an an nual tribute of twelve merks*. *Fadera Anglia, tom. 1. p. 134. Reginald Reginald, though illegitimate, ftiled himself King of Man, by hereditary fucceffion. In thofe days illegitimacy did not incapaciate any perfon in the Northern parts of Europe from fucceeding his father in the poffeffion of an eftate or kingdom; and the cafe was much the fame towards the South. After Reginald had reigned near thirty years, his brother Olave found means to re establish his own authority in the Northern Ebudes; and having equipped a confiderable fleet there by the alliftance of his friends, invaded Man, and furprized Reginald: but he entered into a treaty with him, and left him in poffeffion of Man, with the regal title. In a little time after the conclufion of this treaty, Reginald entered into a confederacy with Allan, Earl of Galloway, the most powerful fubject of Scotland; and accompanied by that Lord, made an expedition into the Northern Ebudes, with a defign of retaking those territories which he had refigned to Olave by treaty. But the confederates found themfelves under the neceflity of returning home without effecting any thing; the people of Man having too great a partiality for Olave, and too much regard for the Islanders in his intereft, to fight them *. Soon after this unfuccefsful expedition, Reginald pretended a journey to the court of England; and to defray the expence of it, obtained from the people of Man a pecuniary aid, which was thought very confiderable at that time; but he went only to Galloway, in order to facilitate the execution of his former defign, and to marry his daughter to the fon of his ally. His fubjects, difobliged by this grofs mifapplication of the aid they had granted, fent for Olave, and made him King t. Reginald made two unfuccefsful attempts to difpoffefs his brother, and loft his life in the laft of them. The competition being ended by the death of Reginald, and a perfect tran quility enfuing, Olave went to Norway, with a defign of paying homage to his fovereign, and getting his right confirmed; but before his arrival, Haco, the Norwegian monarch, had made a certain nobleman called Hufbec King. of the Sodorian iflest. This nobleman, I 2 who * Chron. Man. add ann. 1225. + Ibid. ad ann. 1226. If Sodor was a town in Man, in the beginning of the fixteenth century, or in the fifteenth, which was Buchanan's opinion; or if, from that town or Holm, the bishops of Man and the Iles derived their respective titles, agreeably to Dr. Brown's opinion; it is difficult to comprehend, why, in charters, regifters, hiftories, and common converfatiou, Sodor fhould be preferred to Man, of which it was no more than a small part. When we take the word Sodor in fo confined a fing• nification, there feems to be the fame impropriety in filing a perjon bishop of Sodor and Man, as in ftiling another of the fame order bishop of Derry and Ireland, bifhop of Bangor and Wales, or bishop of Dumblane and Scotland. When the Norwegians conquered the Western ifles, they fometimes changed the old Galic names of places, and gave them new ones, abundantly descriptive. Thus to the Eaftern OEbude of the ancients they gave the name of Ealand Skianach, or the Cloudy Inland; Sky in the Norfe language fignifying a Cloud; and to the Western OEbuda, that of Logus, or Lodhus, i. e. a Marfhy Country, more fit for pafturage than tillage; and when they divide thefe ifles into two parts, agreeably to their fituation, and appointed a diftinct governor to each, they gave the name of Sudereys to that divifion of the ifles which lay to the South, and of Nordures to that in the oppofite quarter; Ey or Ay, in the Norwegian language, fignifying who, according to the Chronicle of Man, was the son of Owmund, but according to Torfæus, the fon of Dugal, and grand-fon of Somerled, was killed, in the first year of his reign, at the fiege of a caftle in Bute, and his body tranflated into Iona. Immediately after his death, Olave reaffumed the government of his paternal dominions, and his title to the kingdom was in a little time recognized by Haco. He died in the isle of Man, after a reign of eleven years, and was buried at Ruffin; the monks of that abby having found means to recommend themselves to his favour more powerfully than thofe of Iona, Olave the Black, was fucceeded by his fon Harold: this young Prince confiding in the alliance he had contracted with the King of England, refufed to pay homage to Haco, King of Norway. But that monarch, to punish the disloyalty of his vaffal, fent Gofpa tric, one of his favourites, in quality of viceroy, into the ifles, at the head of a great fleet. Gofpatric drove Harold out of all his dominions; but dying foon thereafter, Haco was reconciled to Harold, and restored him to his pater nal dominions, confirming to him and his an island, and Suder and Norder fignifying Southern and Northern, when they poffeffed the ancient Cathanefia, they gave the new name of Suderland to a country in the Northern divifion of Scotland, now well known by the fame apppellation. It appears from the hiftory of the Orkneys, compiled by an old Islandic writer, and tranflated, with large additions, by Torfaus, that the explication now given of the two vocables Nordureys and Sudereys, is perfectly just. The promontory in Argylefhire, which is called the Point of Ardnamurchan, was the boundary which feparated the Sudereys and Nordureys of former times from each other. To the South of that promontory lies Man, Arran, Bute, Cumra, Avon, Gid, Ila, Colenfa, Fura, Scarba, Mull, Iona, Tiree, Coll, Ulva, and many other ifles of inferior note. To the North of Ardnamurchan are Muck, Egg, Rum, Canna, Sky, Rafay, Barra, South Uift, Benbicula, Morth Uift, and the Lewis, including Harris, together with a vast number of small ifles. All thefe when joined together, and fubject to the fame prince, made up the whole kingdom of Man and the Ifles. The Southern divifion of the Ebudes was reckoned more confiderable than the Northern. The feat of empire was fixed in the former: the Kings kept their courts in the Isle of Man, and fent deputies into the Nordureys, who refided either in Sky or in the Lewis. When the kingdom of Man and the Ifles was divided between Godred, the fon of Olave, and Somerled, Thane of Argyle, Ila, one of the beft ifles in the Southern divifion of the Ebudes, fell to the fhare of Somerled, and became in fome measure the capital of a fecond Hebridian kingdom: for these reafons the Infulæ Sodorenfes, or Southern Ifles, became much more famous than the Nordureys, and are therefore more frequently mentioned in hiftory. When the Norwegian writers make no diftinction between the Sudereys and Nordureys, the latter are always comprehended under the name of the former; and hence it was that the bishops of the ifles were filed bishops of Sodor, though their discefe included all the ifles to the North of Ardnamurchan, as well as thofe to the South. But when the Nordureys are particularly mentioned by thefe writers, the Southern Ebudes are totally excluded: thus we are told by Torfaus, that Magnus the Barefooted, fome time before he had made a defcent on the Southern Iles pertaining to the King of Man, made a prisoner of Lagman, the fon of Godred Chrovan, whom bis father had made governor of the Nordureys. Torfa. Hiß. Orcad. p. 71. |