cording to every one's taste of fame.. And though your manner and converfation may be deeply enough tinctured with vanity, I have no objection to it as long as it does not shock mine.---To be pleafed with one's felf I fuppofe belongs to the idea of vanity: Yet furely it is one of the kindeft gifts that Heaven has bestowed upon human nature; and without it you can neither be happy in yourself, nor agreeable to others.

After all, it is making but an ungrateful return for civil officers to fuppofe them the effect of mere vanity. There is fomething deteftably ungenerous and malignant in this way of thinking. While you are treated with great attention and complaifance, and perhaps even at a great expence, can you be fo unmannerly and impertinent as to wifper to your neighbour, but there's no fincerity in all this -What fincerity d'ye want or expect?---What d'ye mean by fincerity ?---Are you always diftruitful of a perfon's fincerity except when he's faying or doing fomething to difoblige you?It is furely time enough to complain of a man's infincerity when he has come fhort of his profeffions to you; when he flatters you to your face and laughs at you as foon as your back is turned; or when it appears that he has been cajoling on purpose to over-reach you.

But why not charitably afcribe the French complaifance to humanity, and the pleasure of obliging? If it were poffible to compare things of this nature, perhaps France, notwithstand ing the agreeable behaviour of its inhabitants in general, could fupply as many inftances of disinterested humanity friendship and generosity, as any other fpot equally populous in Europe; fuppofe it even where the original manners of the natives are the leaft corrupted with civil education, and the infection of a polished fociety.I have my eye at prefent upon two par ticular inftances of their native humanity and good-nature. At Paris, if two people quarrel in the streets-inftead of making a circle round them to enjoy the fport, under the pretence of preventing foul-play, every body runs to part them. But you'll fay,

this is mere vanity, and there's no fine cerity in all this.

There is fomething extremely amiable in the common behaviour of the French to their domeftics, whom they treat with an engaging familiarity, and almost upon the footing of companions. It must be one of the most disagreeable and mortifying circumftances of fervitude, to thofe who perhaps were born with as delicate fenfations as their fu periors, to be kept conftantly at a forbidding distance, and by a cold fupercilious behaviour made inceffantly to feel their fubjection. The condition of an humble dependant, a modeft inferior, whofe liberty in fome degree you have purchased for a certain term, ought to be facred from all needlefs hardships, from all mortifications and indignities. The French are remarkable for the practice of this moral etiquette; and I believe they are not the worfe ferved for it.

Before I finish this tedious account of things, which perhaps many of my readers have seen at much more leifure, and reflected upon with more taste and judgment than I can pretend to have done; I think it not impertinent to' obferve that the most grievous tax upon the pleasures of travelling in fuch parts of France and Italy as I have seen, is the want of cleanlinefs in their houses and cookery. The Dutch are extremely neat in moft things; but the English for univerfal cleanlinefs perhaps excel all other nations in Europe.' Yet in one or two articles the French are faid to be more delicate: For inftance, they never drink after one another out of the fame cup. It is to be withed that this piece of delicacy were more commonly practifed in Britain: But people are not apt to feel much distress from thefe flovenly habits to which they have been accuftomed from their infancy. In England too, with all its cleanlinefs, there is fome room to be apprehenfive of a practice fo nafty that it is almost too horrible to be mentioned; and it never fhould, but as an attempt to give fome check to it. For in this cafe, to difcover the disease makes you mafter of its cure. I have oftener than once---before dinner---in the kitchin of a London tavern, found

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So much for the travels of Mr. Lancelot Temple, you'll fay. His account of fome things might have been more exact than perhaps they are; if he did not write entirely from recollection, and without fo much as one scrap of a note or memorandum. For he never dreamt of expofing his travels to the public till a good while after his return.

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HE antiquity of a family is in itfelf rather a cafual than an intrinfic advantage. If it abounds with heroes it is fo far illuftrious, but no farther; for if the defcendants do not emulate the virtues of their progenitors, this circumstance degrades, inftead of aggrandizing them." The Hamilton family has at all times produced heroes, and the prefent duke of Brandon, teaches us, that the race of Hamilton has not degenerated.

From many illuftrious perfonages of this family we will felect John marquis of Hamilton, fecond fon of the duke of Chattlerault. This illuftrious perfonage was born in 1532, and was, by James V. made commendator of the abbey of Aberbrothwic, or Aberbroth, the richest in Scotland.

When the civil war broke out in 1567, he embarked in the cause of queen Mary, and was one of the affociators, who entered into an engagement for her deliverance from prifon, for the prefervation of her fon, and for the punishment of his father's murderers.

After the queen's flight, and imprifonment in England, the Marquis Atrenuously afferted her caufe, and drew on him the anger of thofe, who repay loyalty with punishment. In the year 1579 the marquis and his brother lord Claud were attainted, and their eftates forfeited by a vote of one of the Scotch mock parliaments. Parliaments, when the tools of faction or of defpotifm, have too frequently de ferved that appellation. HDA

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After this injury he was obliged to fly difguifed as a failor firft into England, and then into France. Here he gave a noble inftance of his integrity in refufing many confiderable offers, that were made by the princes of the houfe of Guife, the uncles of queen Mary to induce him to change his reli gion.

The queen in all her distresses expreffed a grateful fenfe of the loyalty/ and fervices of the houfe of Hamilton; and both fhe and her fon, spoke of him by the endearing title of father, which appellation they had before given to the duke of Chattlerault.

An upstart favourite of the name of Stuart, upon the forfeiture of the family of Hamilton, had affumed or rather ufurped the title of earl of Arran ; and upon the return of lord Claud to the kingdom of Scotland forced him into exile again.

This violence highly exasperated the family of Hamilton; an ample revenge was taken. For joining fome male. content noblemen, they raised an army of five thousand men, with which, they furprifed the king at Stirling; his favourite Stuart narrowly efcaping into France.

As the king was little better than a prifoner, he was perfectly reconciled to this attempt, which gave him his li berty. And, when the lords approched him with expreffions of duty and loyalty, he forgave them all. In par ticular he addreffed himself to the marquis in the following remarkable A a

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terms; My lord," faid he, "I did never fee you before, and must confefs, that of all this company you have been moft wronged. You were a faithful fervant to the queen my mother in my minority, and, when I understood not, as I do now, the state of things, hardly used."

Soon after this the marquis obtained a full repeal of all the forfeitures in curred either by himself or his family: and was in fo great favour with the king, that he made him both a privy counsellor and governor of the castle of Dumbarton, then efteemed an important poft.

His attachment to the cause and perfon of queen Mary was fo ftrong, that the laft thing he did on the fcaffold, was to pull off her ring, defiring one of her attendants to deliver it to the marquis, and tell him that "that was all the then had to witness her great fenfe of his and his family's conftant fidelity to her, and of their fufferings for her intereft, and defired, that it. might be ftill kept in the family, as a lafting evidence of her kindness to it." It is laid that this departing pledge of gratitude has been accordingly preferved by this noble perfonage's defcendants, and that it remains in their poffeffion to this day.

In the year 1588 the marquis was

nominated by the king ambassador extraordinary at the court of Denmark, to treat of a match between his Scottish majefty and the princess Ann, the Danifh king's daughter; but declined this honourable condition on account of his advanced age.

When the king, on his refufal, determined to negociate for himself, he appointed the marquis lieutenant of South Scotland in his abfence. The poftcript of his letter to him on this occafion does him the greatest honour.

My lord, if my conftant truft had not been in you, of your great love towards me, I had not thus employed you upon fuch an occafion; therefore I affure myself you will not fruftrate my expectation," His lordship exceeded the king's most fanguine expectation in the discharge of this truft. On the king's return this noble personage, together with the duke of Lenox, affifted at the coronation of the queen in the Abbey Church of Edinburgh, In the year 1999 he was created marquis of Hamilton, and in 1604 stole from this world to receive a nobler title in the next. His memory, ftill recent in the minds of the friends of their country, cries out to his descendants→→→ GO AND DO LIKEWISE.

Oxon, May 27, 1771, ANTIQUARIUS.