temporal reward of goodness :-That a character so distinguished for her undaunted love of virtue, lived and died in poverty, if not want, serves only to show us how insignificant in the sight of Heaven are our principal objects of ambition upon earth." "

It might have been added that the divine care is manifested as often by denials as by gifts, and that as that weather would be the worst which the farmer sometimes ungratefully dares to dictate, so the storms of a man's trials would be overwhelming if wafted upon the gales of his wishes. We should limit our desires to the simple one of doing good, and then, at the close of life, the gratitude of the young for our counsel, and of the poor and bereaved for our sympathy, would be a nobler monument and more durable than Parian or Italian marble. This virtuous fame it was Helen Walker's principle to seek, and she attained it.

Flora Macdonald.

"Tis such as thou,

Who from affection serve, and freeborn zeal To guard whate'er is dear and sacred to them, That are a king's best honour and defence."

MALLET.

Flora Macdonald.

BORN 1720. DIED 1790.

AT the extremity of Loch Shiel, in the secluded valley of Glenfinnan, the traveller's attention will be drawn to a pillar erected in commemoration of the landing of Charles Edward, generally called the "Young Pretender," upon the native shores of the Stuarts. This memento was placed there by a member of the same family, which had the honour of enumerating amongst its scions, the well-known and heart-stirring name of Flora Macdonald. Hither, where Charles elevated his first standard, came many a true heart and bold hand.

The entire clan of Macdonald was secretly favourable to the pretensions of the prince, but only a portion openly espoused his cause. The brother of our young heroine, Macdonald of Milton, and her step-father, also bearing the same name-Flora had lost her own father when a child-were among those who deemed

the present enterprise, if not rash and premature, at least ill-organized, and certainly more than doubtful of success. They refrained, therefore, though anxiously interested in every detail of the coming contest, from any direct partisanship; but the feelings of regard entertained by them for the Stuart cause, were generally understood.

The history of Charles Edward up to the battle of Culloden is too fully known to need recapitulation. After that fatal encounter, the prince, escaping with difficulty from the scene of his defeat, withdrew to the house of Lord Lovat, where his arrival is thus recorded by Sir Walter Scott :-" A lady who, when a girl, was residing in Lord Lovat's family, described to us the unexpected appearance of Prince Charles and his flying attendants at Castle Dounie. The wild, desolate vale on which she was gazing with indolent composure, was at once so suddenly filled with horsemen riding furiously towards the castle, that, impressed with the belief that they were fairies, who, according to Highland tradition, are visible to men from one twinkle of the eyelid to another, she strove to refrain from the vibration which she believed would occasion the strange and magnificent apparition to become invisible. To Lord Lovat it brought a certainty more dreadful than the presence of fairies, or even demons. The tower on which he had depended, had fallen to crush him, and he only met the Chevalier to exchange mutual condolences."