OR, THE MERCHANT PRINCE. A HISTORICAL ROMANC BY ELIOT WARBURTON, AUTHOR OF "THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS," "MEMOIRS OF PRINCE &c., &c. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: COLBURN AND CO., PUBLISHERS, 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. ΤΟ MY FRIENDS ON TWEED AND YARROW; THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF A SUMMER PASSED IN THEIR RENOWNED AND HOSPITABLE BORDER-LAND. BY THE AUTHOR. TO THE EDITOR. DEAR * TIBBIE SHIELLS'S, ST. MARY'S LOCH, From most of the various countries to which my vagrant propensities, from time to time, have led me, I have despatched to you some such bulky MSS. as accompanies this note. I began to fear, however, that Scotland, my present scene of wanderings, would prove a blank in this respect,-for into whatever period of its fertile history I looked, I found that its best interests had been already illustrated by the unapproachable beauty and fidelity of Scott's narrations. Though far from indulging in the presumptuous ambi H |