ther and from Lord Ormond per brother, the Lord of Drummond, were among the few that made a stand for the honour of their country at Solway Moss. Auriol received several wounds; the Lord of Drum-gence and pernicious practices of her mond died on the field of battle, and leaving no heirs male, our hero succeeded to the estate and titles. No exaltation could more endear him to Wilmina, nor procure him higher respect from all ranks of men, than he previously held for his intrinsic -merits. His offspring inherited the virtues of their parents, and they have descended to their posterity. artful mother. Susannah and Sarah would have been the victims of rigorous controul, if they had not come under the guidance of their aunt Wilmina before their habits were unalterably fixed. The same auspicious transfer saved Andrew from growing up the slave of his passions. In tuition all extremes are dangerous. Lord and Lady Drummond observed a salutary medium in the gentle yet steady government of their children, their nephew and nieces. If in the early stages of life Sylvester had been so excited, so mildly but firmly restrained when needful, he might have lived in honour and usefulness, and have died in the arms of affection. His painful last illness was softened by no friendly Lord Balveny in a few months taught Sylvester to feel the loss of a just and indulgent father. Gavin, Lord of Balveny, was liberal to his undutiful sons. He gave to each a gave to each a handsome locality, dependent, however, on his pleasure. In a short space after he became lord, Archibald required his brother to act for him in an affair, which, to the lofty spirit of Sylvester, appeared degrad-attendance, except from Gabriel Hosing, if not dishonourable. He expostulated; Archibald resented, and deprived him of the locality. At variance with the court, and too proud to accept an establishment from Lord and Lady Drummond, though pressed upon him with all the delicacy understood in an age of imperfect refinement, he took refuge in a monastery, and, always in extremes, hastened the corrosion of a broken theart by the penances and austerities be imposed on himself. His eminent natural gifts, and the proficiency he attained in science and learning, were of little use to himself ior to the world, as he wanted judgment and prudence in their application. He was ruined in childhood by unbounded licence from his mother, and bad example from his bro sack. Sylvester had not been uniformly kind as a master; but the faithful dwarf never forgot that he was the son of his best, his invariable benefactor. After the decease of Sylvester, Gabriel became domes ticated as a valued friend at Drummond Castle. The dwarf, almost hideous in his exterior, passed from infancy to old age with more service to mankind, and more self-enjoyment, than Sylvester, the endowed and adorned. Rank, wealth, and talents, without consistent worth, are of little avail to the possessor. Though Sylvester had inherited the estate and titles of Balveny, his impetuous selfindulgence would often have made him unhappy. Archibald was detected in practices against the state, attainted and banished, He endured teuil, a French nobleman, was captivated by the lively Sarah. These ladies profited by the example of their aunt, Lady Drummond, and suffered less in correcting their foibles, than they would have had to endure from the consequences of disingenuous proceedings. Lady Glammis did not live to see the marriage of her younger daughters, nor the eleWorn out by the harassing anxiety of self-created sorrows, resulting from her own machinations, she died soon after Lord Ormond and his lady became con extreme want, till relieved in a foreign country by the aged Lord Home, father and grandfather to the Wilminas, who unjustly were the objects of hatred to the Master and Lord of Balveny. Lady Glammis accomplished the aim of many artifices when Lord Ormond, half intoxicated, made professions of love to Annabel of Glammis; he could not retract with impunity from her un-vation of her son. cles. Discord and distrust were the incessant tormentors of this selfish pair, equally tenacious and regardless of each other's comfort, where their own humours were in question.spicuous for domestic misery, which As an attainted exile, Ormond left his wife dependent upon the sisters whose early years were embittered by her unkindness. After a few years, the annuity bequeathed by the Lady Abbess of Vallis Lucis might have sufficed for Annabel, if she could have been satisfied with moderate competence; but she preferred hanging upon her more fortunate relatives for superfluities; and, with all her pride and stateliness, incurred the epithet, which in Scotland implies a person that offers visits, or takes slight invitations, and remains with the hospitable entertainers till hospitality itself is tired of the sorner; a term used only for those who are not forced by poverty, but by idleness or avidity induced to live in luxury at the expense of others. happened within the first year of their union. Andrew of Glammis, warmly attached to his aunt, Lady Drummond, and conceiving the highest esteem for her lord, gave himself up to their influence. His worth and ability recommended him to the Lord Regent Murray; his titles were restored, and he was among the first of the nobles who publicly professed the reformed religion. Mary of Glammis took the veil, and survived only till 1548, when the disease known at that time by the name of sweating sickness spread through the monastery of Vallis Lucis. The lady abbess and her niece, the sister Mary, expired in the same hour: death spared them the grief of witnessing the suppression of their convent. Such was the private life of Britons in ancient times. The customs of England and Scotland were near In this way Lady Ormond shifted among her relations, even after she had means to have a home in respect-ly similar, making allowances for the able privacy. Susannah of Glammis and her sister Sarah were taken to Drummond Castle on the death of their mother. Lord Scroop of England, a friend of Lord Drummond, obtained the hand of the fair Susannah; and the Marquis d'Au difference between a kingdom enriched by commerce, and a state dependent only upon limited internal resources. Domination and often cruelty to female youth prevailed in general; and the austerities they inflicted subtracted much from the happiness of the oppressors. They were strangers to that blissful reciprocation of kind sympathies, affiance, and concord, which sweeten, adorn, and dignify the domestic circle to refined and enlightened moderns. B.G. SOME ACCOUNT OF RICHARD WILSON, R.A. Extracted from "Testimonies to the Genius and Memory of RICHARD WILSON, Esq. by T. WRIGHT, Esq." Tuis great landscape-painter, a distinguished ornament of the British school, was the third son of a clergyman in Montgomeryshire: his father was of a very respectable family in that county, in which he possess ed a small benefice; but soon after the birth of our artist, he was collated to the living of Mould in Flintshire. His mother was of the family of Wynne of Leeswold. They had six sons and a daughter, all of whom died unmarried. The eldest son obtained a situation in Mould as collector of customs, and died two years after the painter. The second was a clergyman, who had good preferment in Ireland. Richard, born 1713, was the third. The fourth was a tobacconist at Holywell: he afterwards went to Pennsylvania, where he died. The youngest, when a little boy, was killed by part of the Barley-Hill at Mould falling upon him, whilst playing under it. Miss Wilson was an attendant on Lady Sandown, a lady of the bed-chamberto Queen Caroline, through whose means Richard was introduced to the royal family. It is not known that any of the family of Wilson had a taste for painting except Richard,|| whose marked predilection for drawing discovered itself when he was quite a child. At that early period he might frequently be seen tracing figures upon the wall with a burnt stick. His relation, Sir George He Wynne, took him to London, where est estimation, happening one day, while both these artists were study ing in Rome, to visit Wilson's painting-room, was so struck with a landscape he had painted, that he requested to become the possessor of it, offering in exchange one of his best pictures. The proposal was readily accepted, and the picture deli by any traits which distinguish them from the general manner which then prevailed among his contemporaries. No decided character can therefore be affixed to them. It may, however, be asserted, that in drawing a head he was not excelled by any of the portraitpainters of his time. A proof of this was formerly in the possession of J. Richards, Esq. one of the found-vered to Vernet, who, with a liberaers and secretary to the Royal Academy: it is the portrait of Alderman Smith, drawn before Wilson went abroad. It is executed in black and white chalk, as large as life, upon brown French paper, and is treated in a bold masterly manner. But this is not a work which can authorize the critic to consider him as superior to the other portrait-painters of his day." lity as commendable as it is rare, placed it in his exhibition-room, and recommended the painter of it to the particular attention of the cogno scenti, as well as to the English: nobility and gentry who happened to be visiting the city. "Don't talk of my landscapes when you have so clever a fellow in your countryman Wilson," was the observation of this liberal French artist. Though there is reason to believe that Wilson had painted some landscapes before he went abroad, yet it is certain he did not commence a regular course of that study until after he had been some time in Italy. When he began, however, he did not waste his time or subju After having practised some time in London, he was enabled, by the assistance of his relations, to travel into Italy, where he continued the study of portrait-painting, being still unacquainted with the bias of his genius. He frequented good society, and was much respected by his countrymen abroad. Wilson proba-gate his powers to the unimproving bly might have remained ignorant of the peculiar bent of his talents, but for the following circumstance: One day while waiting for the coming home of Zuccarelli, upon whom he had called at Venice, he made a sketch in oil from the window of the apartment; with which that artist was so highly pleased, that he strongly recommended him to apply himself to landscape-painting. Another occurrence, which hap-works of his predecessors. His stupened not long afterwards, tended to There is a print engraved by J S. confirm him in his inclination to fol- Miller from a picture painted by R. Willow that pursuit. The celebrated son, a View of Dover, without date, French painter Vernet, whose works but generally supposed to have been ex at that period were held in the high-ecuted before he went abroad.. drudgery of copying pictures of the old masters, but contented himself. with making his observations upon their works, and afterwards confirming those observations by his studies from nature. Of the originality of his style we are convinced by inspecting his works, and in most of them he has represented the general character of Italy with more decided precision than can be found in the He remained abroad six years, having left England in 1749, and returned in 1755. His residence in London after his return was over the north arcade of the Piazza, Covent-Garden. He afterwards lived in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, and also in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, in apartments which have been since occupied by Mr. Theed the sculptor. Besides the above-mentioned, he is said to have had several other places of abode; following his great instructress Nature into the fields in Mary-le-bone, and changing his quarters as often as his view was intercepted by the erection of a new building, with more regard perhaps to his love of landscape than to his pecuniary circumstances. At one period he resided at the corner of Foley-place, Great "Portland-street. His last abode in London was at a mean house in Tottenham - street, Tottenham - Courtroad, in which he occupied the first and second floors, almost without furniture. Y He appears to have possessed the powers of his mind when every thing else seemed almost to have failed him; and " during the last two years of his life," as Sir George Beaumont, who was well acquainted with Wilson, very obligingly informs me, "a feeble flash of what he once was would occasionally burst out, and his sound and unerring principles produced a considerable effect."I have," continued this gentleman, a small picture done by him in this last stage; and although it is nearly void of form, and the trembling hand and failing eye visible in every touch; yet still there is a general effect, supported by breadth and hue, which a judicious imitator might transform to a Wilson." won ysb a The last year's of Wilson's life were passed with his brother in Mould, and with his relation, the late Mrs. Catherine Jones of Colomondie, near the village of Llanverris, now called Loggerheads, a few miles from Mould. To the first exhibition of 1760, in At the time of his residence in that the great room at Spring-Gardens, neighbourhood, he had nearly lost he sent his picture of Niobe, which his memory, and was reduced to a confirmed the reputation he had pre- state of childishmess. Rd. Lloyd, a viously gained as a landscape-painter. servant, living not many years ago at It was bought by William Duke of Colomondie, attended him in his last Cumberland, and came afterwards moments. He at first only complaininto the possession of H. R. H. the ed of a cold, but upon retiring to Duke of Gloucester. In 1765, he bed, almost immediately expired. exhibited, with other pictures, a His remains are interred in the View of Rome from the Villa Mada-churchyard at Mould, near the north |