Edinburgh Magazine, OR LITERARY MISCELLANY, FOR JULY 1792. Regifter of the Weather for July, Anecdotes of the Reign of Henry Inconveniences refulting from an Dugald Stuart, F. R. S. 5 mas Burns, - Letter from Brutus to the Right Natural Hiftory of the different Serpents in the Eaft Indies, 27 A Lift of living English Poets, with ST Cuftoms and Manners of the Tar- From Sketches chiefly relating On the Practice of burning the Review of a Day in Turkey, or the after the play of the Confcious Lovers, ib. State of the BAROMETER in inches and decimals, and of Farenheit's THER MOMETER in the open air, taken in the morning before fun-rife, and at noon; and the quantity of rain-water fallen, in inches and decimals, from the goth of June 1792, to the 30th of July, near the foot of Arthur's Seat. Caftle-Lachlan, fituated in the Parish of Strachur, is a large building, nearly fquare The height of the walls is 47 fect 3 inches.---Its greatest length is 72 feet 4 inches. It is not precifely known when this Caftle was built.The tradition regarding it is," that it was built by a lady at a time her husband, the Taird, was abroad, ferving in one of the crufades. Donald Maclachlan, Efq. the proprietor, feems refolved to. keep the le in fuch repair as it was when he fucceeded to it; but finding it inconvenient family refidence, he has just now built a good modern houfe clofe by the castle. Anecdotes ON laft Volume.] was: fhe had a good appetite, and ate a great deal. She died four hundred thousand crowns in debt, being prodigal more than any queen or princess in christendom; a difpofition fie inherited from the Houfe of Medicis, being niece of Pope Clement VII. N the first day of the year, Guinceffre, after preaching a fermon at St Barthelemi, exacted from all the congregation an oath (which he made them take, by holding up their hand in token of affent,) to spend the laft farthing of their purfe, and the laft drop of their blood in avenging Thofe who approached her in het the death of the Catholic Princes ill fs, fuppofed, that difpleasure of Lorraine, the Duke of Guife, and at what her fon had done had haf his brother the Cardinal, maffacred tened her death; not from any friendby the tyrant, Henry III. in the fhip fhe bore the two murdered prin. Caftle of Blois, in the face of the ces, whom he loved à la Florentine States. And from Harlay, the first that is, in order to ferve herself by Prefident, who was feated oppofite to them, but becaufe the faw her fon-inhim, he exacted a feparate oath, fum- law, the King of Navarre, thereby efmoning him two different times in tablished, which the dreaded more thefe words: "Hold up your hand, than any thing elfe in the world, Mr Prefident; hold it up high, if you having fworn his ruin by whatever pleafe, that all the people may fee it." means. However, the people of Pariš This he was forced to do, not with-believed that the had given confent out fcandal; for the people had been and opportunity to the death of these given to understand that this fame two princes; and their friends faid, Prefident, had known and confented that fhould the body be brought to to the death of the two princes whom Paris for interment at St Denis, in Paris adored as its tutelar deities. the magnificent fepulchre fhe had On the 2d, the people continuing the tumults, to which they were excited by the preachers, tore down and demolished the tombs and marble ftatues which the king had erected near the great altar of the church of St Paul at Paris, in memory of the Fate Maigrin, Quelus, and Maugiron, his favourites laying that it did not belong to fuch wretches who denied God with their laft breath, who were the blood-fuckers of the people, and minions of the tyfant, to have fuch fine monuments in the Church of God, and that their bodies were worthy only of a gibbet." On the 7th, arrived the news of the death of the Queen Mother, who died at the Cafile of Blois on Monday the 5th. She was fixty-five years of age, and kept her looks well, for a woman fo full and fat as the built for herfelf and her husband Henry II. they would throw it to the dunghill or into the river. Such was the refpect of Paris. As to that of Blois, where he was adored and revered as the Juno of the Court, she had no fooner breathed her laft figh, than they paid no more regard to her than the had been a dead dog. On Sunday the 8th, the little Feuillan, in his fermon, apoftrophifing the late Duke of Gaife, turning towards Madame de Nemours his mother, made ufe of thefe words, "O holy and glorious martyr of God, bleffed be the womb that bore thee, and the breafts that gave thee fuck." On Tuesday the 26th a herald was fent by the king to the Duke of Aumale, who called himfelf Governor of Paris, commanding him to leave that place, and interdicting the Court of Parliament, the Chamber of Accounts, the Court of Aids, the Provost of Paris, and all other officers and judges, from exercifing any jurifdiction. He was not heard, nor his letters opened, but, on the contrary, was in danger of being imprisoned and hanged. At laft, he was fent away without an anfwer, loaded with infult and contumely fo irritated were the Parilians against their king, whofe name was fo odious to the people, that whoever even mentioned it, was in great danger of his life. Many images of wax were made at Paris, which people held over the altar, and pierced them at each of forty maffes, which were faid during forty hours in feveral parishes of Paris: and at the fortieth, they punctured the image in the place of the heart, repeating at each puncture a certain magical word, thinking by this means to kill the king. At proceffions likewife, and for the fame purpose, they carried certain magic tapers, which, in mockery, they called holy tapers, extinguishing them at certain places, and turning the tops downward, and uttering, I know not what words which forcerers had taught them. At the fame time, the Sorbonne and Faculty of Theology, as trumpets of fedition, declared and publifh ed, that all the people of the kingdom were abfolved from the oath of fideHity and obedience which they had taken to Henry of Valois, their late king: they razed his name from the prayers of the church, and perfuaded the people, that in good confcience they might unite and arm themselves, and contribute money for making war against him, as an execrable tyrant, who had violated the public faith to the manifeft prejudice of the holy Roman Catholic faith, and against the affem bly of the States of the kingdom. The preachers in their fermons gave him a thousand bad names. The fcald head (faid Boucher, meaning the king,) is always caped like a Turk with a turban, which no one ever faw him take off, even when comnicating to do honour to Jefus Christ; and when this unhappy hypocrite pretended to march against the Reif-· ters, he had the furred coat of a German, with filver hooks, which fignified the good agreement and intelligence that fubfifted between these black piftolled devils and him. In fhort, he is, faid Boucher, Turk by the head, a German by the body, a Harpy by the hand, an Englishman by the garter, a Poie by the feet, and a true devil by the heart. On Ash Wednesday, Guinceftre, in his fermon, told the people that he would not preach the gospel to them that Lent, because it was common, and every body knew it, but that he would preach to them the life and abominable acts of that perfidious tyrant Henry of Valois, against whom he vented a thousand infults, faying that he invoked the devil; and in order to make the foolish people believe this, he drew from his fleeve one of the king's wax candles, on which Satyrs were engraved, (as is the cafe with many wax-candles,) and thefe he afferted were the king's demons; that they worshipped them as gods, and made ufe of them in his incantations.m In April of this year, happened the reconciliation and interview of the king with the King of Navarre at Tours; the latter of whom, on retiring at night, faid thefe words: “ I could die content any kind of death, now that God has this day allowed me to fee the face of my king," At this time the king having received the news that the Pope was about to excommunicate him, af fembled his council, and confidered every poffible and feasible means of preventing this deed and of diverting the ftorm which threatened him; faying, that who would might jeft |