The Waverley novels, by Sir Walter Scott, complete in 12 vol., printed from the latest English ed., embracing the author's last corrections, prefaces & notes.

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pretty daughter; in short, making as great a figure in its little sphere a6
did once the more important ballad of Chevy Chase in its wider range: the
burden of song purporting that William Dhone was the mirror of virtue and
patriotism, and that envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness,
operate the destruction of thbe wisest and the best.
Themes of popular feeling naturally attract the earliest notice of a
stranger; and I found the story of this individual, though abundantly garbled and discoloured on the insular records, full of circumstances to excite
the deepest interest, but which, to be rendered intelligible, must be
approached by a circuitous route, in which neither elfin page, nor maiden
fair, can be the companion of our walk.
The loyal and celebrated James, seventh Earl of Derby, was induced, by
the circumstances of the times, to fix his chief residence in the Isle of Man
from 1643 to 1651.* During this period he composed, in the form of a
lettert to his son Charles, (Lord Strange,) an historical account of that
island, with a statement of his own proceedings there; interspersed with
much political advice for the guidance of his successor; full of acute observation, and evincing an intimate acquaintance with the works of Machiavelli, which it appears, by a quotation,j that he had studied in a Latin edition. The work, although formally divided into chapters and numbered
paragraphs, is professedly desultor y, and furnishes few means of determining the relative dates of his facts, which must accordingly be supplied
by internal evidence, and in some cases by conjecture.
HIe appears to have been drawn thither, in 1643, by lettersll intimating
the danger of a revolt: the "people had begun the fashion of England in
murmuring;" assenlbled in a tumultuous manner; desiring new laws, they
would have no bishops, pay no tithes to the clergie, despised authority,
rescued people committed by the Governor," &c. &c.
The Earl's first care was to apply himself to the consideration of these
insurrectionary movements; and as he found some interruption to his proceedings in the conduct of -Edwacrd Christiacn,~ an attempt shall be made,
so far as our limits will admit, to extract the Earl's own account of this
person. " I was newly** got.acquainted with Captain Christiafl, whom I
perceived to have abilities enough to do me service. I was told he had
made a good fortune in the Indies; t'hat lhe was a Mankesman borne." - -
" He is excellent good companie; as rude as a sea-captain should be; but
refined as one that had civilized himself half a year at Court, where he
served the Duke of Buckingham." - -- " While he governed here some few
years he pleased me very well," &c. &c. "But such is the condition of
man, that most will have some fault or other to blurr all their best vertues;
and his was of that condition which is reckoned with drunkenness, viz.
covetousess, both nmarked wit7 age to increase and grow in man." - - " When
a Prince has given all, and the favourite can desire no more, they both grow
weary of one another."'tt
* His cottnitess resided at Lathamn Iouse (her heroic defence of which is well known) until 1644 or 5, whes
she also retired to the Isle of Alan. A contemporary publication. the Merc7zwius Aulicts, by Johin Birklenhead,
says,' the Countesse, it seerms, stole tile Earl's breeches, when he fled long since into the Isle of Alan, and
hath in his atbsence played tile man of Latilam." This insinuation is certainly nijust; tult the Earl seems
to consider somre explanation necessary, " why he left the land, whetl every gallant spirit lhad engaged himself for king anrd country," Danger of revolt and insvasion of the island coristitute the substalnce of thlis explanation.'I'here is reaston, however, to conjecture, that lie had been disappointedi of tie conrriland le had a
right to expect, when he btrought a contsiderable levy to join the King at York. Any explasnation, ilt short,
tight be listesned to, except a doubt of his loyalty and ardent military spirit, wltichl were above all
itlrpea}i imrent.
t Published in Peck's Desi(lerlata Curiosa, in 1779.
4 Pecli, p. 446 —for-titer callumnliari aliqlidl adblmerebit.
~'ee'k, p. 446. "Loth to dwveil tos loing on one sulbject," skip over to some other matter.
11Peck, 434.
F born a history rf this famssilv, establishled inl tle Isle of Man so enyly ns 1422. see HIutchinson's I-lstory ol
Cunlmbelland, vol. iii p. 146. They had previously beern establishedl in Wigttonshire.
t*o* Tlis is in examrpie of tile difliculty of alranging the relative dates; the wolrd sewly; thus employed at tlih
earliest in 1613, reflrs to 1628, the dal;te of the appointlmert of E. Christian to be goverrsir of the Isle of Mant
which office he Ihad till 1635, (Stacheverill's Account rof thie sle of ln.rl publisled irl 1502, p. 100,) tie Earl
beinig thlen Lqrd Strangre, bitt apparently taking tile lead is putltic business dr'lins his fastiher's lifetinie.
it Feck. p 114.'Il jere is tapparently some error in Hfutchinson's gcenealogy of the firtllb in Itns Hist;ory of
Cut,berland, 1st brother, Johl!n, born 1602; 2d, died ysoullg; 3d, William,' orn 11; 4tls, Elwardl, Leut,