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 ELUCIDATXNa 
 
 THE ORIGIN OF THE PLOT 
 
 GUY MANNERING 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 GILBERT J. FRENCH 
 
 PRINTED FOR PRESENTATION 
 
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 1855 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 In the advertisement to the collected edition of the 
 Waverlej Novels, (page iii.) Sir Walter Scott states 
 that he "proposes to publish, on this occasion, the va- 
 rious legends, family traditions, or obscure historical 
 facts which have formed the groundwork of these 
 novels;" and in the general preface (page xxxviii.) he 
 adds, "I have done all that I can do to explain the 
 nature of my materials and the use I have made of 
 them." 
 
 It is the purpose of the following pages to show 
 that this eminent author failed to fulfil the voluntary 
 promise of the advertisement, and that the assertion 
 quoted in the general preface is incorrect. 
 
 In the introduction to Gui/ Mannering the author 
 says : " He looked about for a name and a subject, and 
 the manner in which the novels were composed cannot 
 be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narra- 
 tive on which Guy Mannering was originally founded ; 
 
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IV INTRODUCTION. 
 
 but to which, in the progress of the work, the produc- 
 tion ceased to have any, even the most distant, resem- 
 blance." (Introduction to Guy Mannering, p. i.) The 
 succeeding thirteen pages of the introduction contain 
 a wild tale of diablerie and astrology, said to have 
 been communicated to Scott by his father's old High- 
 land servant, John Mackinlay. This, for the reason 
 given by the author, it is unnecessary to repeat. Other 
 pages are devoted to the characters which are said to 
 have suggested Meg Merrilies and Dominie Sampson ; 
 but there does not appear the most distant hint that 
 the author had borrowed his plot from events of real 
 life. 
 
 A curious, long, and somewhat obscure, "Additional 
 Note to Gmi Mannerimf (vol. ii. p. 374), defends the 
 originality of the story from some attacks which appear 
 to have been made upon it. Of this note, the first and 
 last sentences are : " An old English proverb says, that 
 'more know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows;' and the 
 influence of the adage seems to extend to works com- 
 posed under the influence of an idle or foolish planet. 
 Many corresponding circumstances are detected by 
 readers, of which the author did not suspect the ex- 
 istence. He must, however, regard it as a great com- 
 pliment that, in detailing incidents purely imaginary, 
 he has been so fortunate in approximating reality, as 
 to remind his readers of actual occurrences." * * * * 
 " The author has only to add that, though ignorant 
 of the coincidences between the fictions of the tale and 
 some real circumstances, he is contented to believe he 
 
INTRODUCTION. V 
 
 must unconsciously have thought or dreamed of the 
 last while engaged in the composition of Guy Manner- 
 ingr {Ibid. p. 378.) The author was, however, more 
 candid and communicative to his personal friends than 
 to the public, as, in a letter addressed to Mr. Morrit 
 dated January 1815, he informs that gentleman that 
 he is engaged upon Guy Mannering, and remarks, that 
 "it is a tale of private life, and only varied by the 
 perilous exploits of smugglers and excisemen." How 
 exactly this remark describes the facts of the case will 
 be seen in the sequel. 
 
 The chosen biographer of Sir Walter Scott, in his 
 " Memoirs " of that eminent author, supplies very little 
 additional information respecting the origin of the plot 
 of Guy Mannerijig, and that little relative only to the 
 astrological part of the story ; concerning which he 
 quotes sixty stanzas of doggrel rhyme, entitled " The 
 Durham Garland," (Appendix to Memoirs of the Life 
 of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., vol. iii. p. 405,) communi- 
 cated to him after the death of Sir Walter, but which, 
 he remarks, " I am strongly inclined to think he must 
 in his boyhood have read, as well as heard the old 
 serving-man's Scottish version of it." 
 
 Mr. Train, a correspondent of Scott's, supplied him 
 with " a local story of an astrologer who, calling at a 
 farm-house at the moment when the good wife was in 
 travail, had, it was said, predicted the future fortune of 
 the child;" and Mr. Lockhart adds, "there can be no 
 doubt that this story recalled to his mind, if not the 
 Durham ballad, the similar but more detailed corrup- 
 
VI INTRODUCTION. 
 
 tion ot" it, Avhich he had heard told by his fathers old 
 servant, John Mackinlay, in the days of George's Street 
 and ' Green Breeks,' and which he has preserved in 
 the introduction to Guy Mannering as the ground- 
 work of that tale." 
 
 Again, Mr. Lockhart remarks, when relating the ex- 
 traordinary success of the novel : " The earlier chapters 
 of the present narrative have anticipated much of what 
 I might, perhaps with better judgement, have reserved 
 for this page. Taken together with the author's in- 
 troduction and notes, these anecdotes of his youthful 
 wanderings must, however, have enabled the reader to 
 trace, almost as minutely as he could wish, the sources 
 from which the novelist drew his materials both of 
 scenery and character ; and Mr. Train's ' Durham Gar- 
 land ' exhausts my information concerning the humble 
 groundwork on which fancy has reared this delicious 
 romance." 
 
 From these quotations, it cannot be doubted that 
 the author of Guy Mamiering and his biographer, 
 while admitting the foundation upon which the astro- 
 logical part of the story has been built, claim all the 
 other incidents of the tale to be the fruit of purely 
 imaginative invention. 
 
 Immediately after the publication of the volume 
 of the Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott 
 which contained the account of the composition 
 and publication of Guy Mannering, the editor of 
 these pages placed at the disposal of Mr. Lockhart 
 information and authorities upon that subject, of suf- 
 
INTRODUCTION. Vll 
 
 ficient importance to elicit the following letter of 
 thanks : — 
 
 " Milton Lockhart, Lanark, 
 
 July 14, 1837. 
 Sir : I have this morning received your very curious 
 communication about the origin of " Guy Mannering," 
 and regret much that it did not reach me while en- 
 gaged on the second volume of my " Memoirs of Scott." 
 Should that volume be reprinted I shall avail myself of 
 your valuable paper and the authorities to which you 
 refer, and I am led to believe that I shall have this op- 
 portunity at no great distance of time. Meanwhile, 
 accept my best thanks for your courteous and liberal 
 attention, and believe me your very obedient and much 
 obliged servant, 
 
 J. G. Lockhart." 
 
 G. J. French, Esq., 
 
 BOLTON-LE-MOORS. 
 
 In subsequent editions of the Life of Scott, published 
 in 1839 and in 1853, no use has been made of the 
 communication, but the paragraph in which the bio- 
 grapher states that he had exhausted his information 
 on the subject is omitted in the last. Mr. Lockhart 
 having declined, or neglected, to communicate this in- 
 formation respecting the origin of Guy Mannering, the 
 editor procured the main facts stated in the ensuing 
 pages to be recorded in the Gentleman s Magazine for 
 July 1840, and in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal of 
 
Vlll INTRODUCTION. 
 
 March 6th 1841, though in a shape little likely to at- 
 tract public attention. He is now induced to present 
 the subject to a few literary and private friends, be- 
 lieving that the time has arrived at which it may prove 
 of interest, the authorship of some of the Waverley 
 Novels being now publicly attributed to other persons. 
 Vide Notes and Queries, vol. xii. p. 343. 
 
 In the advertisement to Cloudesley, a tale by God- 
 win, published in 1830, the author says : "The follow- 
 ing tale is built upon a fact that occurred about the 
 middle of the last century. I have changed the per- 
 sonages, and endeavoured to clothe the story with the 
 colours of imagination ;" and in a note to the adver- 
 tisement, " it is but just that the reader should be in- 
 formed that a novel has been already written on this 
 theme, and printed in the year 1743, under the title of 
 Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman returned 
 from a thirteen years slavery in America''' It is not a 
 little curious that Godwin does not notice the episode 
 in Peregrine Pickle nor Guy Mannering, both of which 
 have a much closer relation to the " Memoirs of an un- 
 fortunate young Nobleman" than his own philosophical 
 novel. 
 
 Guy Mannering is said to have been written with 
 extreme rapidity, occupying the author only a few 
 weeks in its composition ; and this circumstance has 
 given colour to the assertion, that Sir Walter Scott is 
 not the exclusive author : but when it is seen that the 
 novel is in reality only an adaptation — in the same 
 way in which modern English dramas are adapted 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 from the French — the wonder caused by the rapid 
 execution vanishes. But another still remains. Who 
 can fail to marvel at the masterly skill with which 
 crude materials have been worked into one of the 
 most delicious tales in modern literature? 
 
 A list of the books quoted from is appended. The 
 quotations are as nearly as possible literal, but fre- 
 quently and largely abridged to keep the matter within 
 reasonable space, and to bring the passages into nearly 
 corresponding length. By placing them in juxtaposi- 
 tion the reader will, by easy comparison, readily form 
 his own judgment on the subject ; and the editor is 
 spared the necessity of any comment or explanation, 
 from which he willingly escapes, quite aware that his 
 work is a sufficiently ungracious one without these 
 additions. 
 
 G. J. R 
 
 Thornydikes, Bolton, 
 
 12th November, 1855. 
 
WORKS REFERRED TO. 
 
 Guy Mannering. The first collected edition of the Waverley Novels. 
 
 Edinburgh, 1829. 
 Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. First edition. 
 
 Edinburgh, 1837. 
 Sharpe's British Peerage. 
 Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman. Vols. 1 and 2. 
 
 London, 1743. 
 Ditto. Vol. 3. London, 1747. 
 The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D. Edinburgh, 
 
 1790. 
 The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. 14. London, 1744. 
 Cloudesley : a Tale by Godwin. London, 1830. 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES, 
 
 ETC. 
 
 Richard Fitzgerald's visit to Dunmaine, and 
 birth of James AnneMey. 
 
 "In the harvest time of the year 1715/' a young gentleman 
 named '^ Mr. Richard Fitzgerald" called at Dunmaine House 
 in the county of Wexford^ which was then inhabited by Lord 
 and Lady Altham. He was informed that her ladyship was 
 then in labour of a long wished for child, and was invited 
 " to go and tap the groaning drink, but excused himself for 
 not doing so as it was an improper time.'' " On the next 
 day he went to Dunmaine House and dined there ; the child 
 was brought down to him, he kissed it, gave the nurse half a 
 guinea, and the company toasted the young heir at dinner." — 
 Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xiv. p. 27. 
 
 By another account it would appear that " Mr, Fitzgerald 
 slept at Dunmaine House on the same night on which the 
 child was born." — Ibid. p. 492. 
 
 Dennis Redmond, the stable boy at Dunmaine, was sent 
 for the midwife, Mrs. Shields of Ross, whom he brought and 
 set down at the gate {ibid. p. 27). He does not appear to 
 have been the regular groom of the establishment, but an 
 assistant, "a fellow whose office it was to rub horses' heels 
 and clean out stables." — Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young 
 Nobleman, vol. iii. p 35. 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES, 
 
 ETC. 
 
 Quy Mannering's visit to Ellangowan, mid 
 birth of Henry Bertram. 
 
 " It was in the beginning of the month of November 17 — , 
 when a young EngHsh gentleman who had just left the uni- 
 versity of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him to 
 visit some parts of the north of England, and curiosity 
 extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister 
 country." — Guy Mannering^ vol. i. p. 2. 
 
 Having lost all knowledge of his road in consequence of 
 the darkness of the night, he enquired for a guide at " a mi- 
 serable hut," but could obtain no aid until he offered to pay 
 handsomely for it. 
 
 "The word pay operated like magic. 'Jock, ye villain, 
 get up and show a young gentleman the way down the 
 muckle loaning. He'll show you the way, sir, and Tse war- 
 rant ye'U be weel put up, for they never turn away uaebody 
 frae the door ; and ye'll be come in the canny moment, I^m 
 thinking, for the laird's servant ^ — -that's no to say his body- 
 servant, but the helper like — rade express by this e'en, to 
 fetch the houdie, and he just staid the drinking o' twa pints 
 o' tippenny to tell us how my leddy was ta'en wi' her pains.' 
 'Perhaps/ said Mannering, 'at such a time a stranger's arri- 
 val might be inconvenient.' ' Hout, na, ye needna be blate 
 
14 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 On account of this happy event a bonfire was made, and 
 drink publicly given to the neighbours and people. A month 
 afterwards the boy was christened at Dunmaine by the Rev. 
 Mr. Loyde^ Lord Altham's chaplain and curate of E-oss, by 
 the name of James. — Gentleman''s Magazine, vol. xiv. p. 25. 
 
 The Hero's Father and Ancestry. 
 
 "The Baron de Altamont/' the fictitious title given to 
 Baron Altham, " held a considerable rank among the nobility, 
 but had not sentiments altogether answerable to the dignity 
 of his birth ; he was passionate and irresolute ; neither a fast 
 friend nor a violent enemy ; and, to complete his character, 
 one of those who without being liberal was profuse, and hav- 
 ing never been known to do one great action, squandered 
 away a very large fortune in a very short time." — Memoirs 
 of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, vol i. p. 2. 
 
 Some of his ancestors had held high and lucrative offices 
 under different governments, but had also been subjected to 
 reverses of fortune from the parts they acted in the troubled 
 politics of their time. 
 
 '' Francis first Viscount Valentia was sentenced to lose his 
 head at the instance of the lord deputy Wentworth in 1635, 
 solely for an inconsiderate expression which was construed 
 into evil intention against the deputy ; he however underwent 
 nearly two years imprisonment in Dublin Castle, when he 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 15 
 
 about that ; their house is muckle eneugh, and decking 
 time's aye canty time.' " — • Quy Mannering^ vol. i. p. 8, 
 
 " The circumstances of the landlady were pleaded to Man- 
 nering first as an apology for her not appearing to welcome 
 her guest, and then as an excuse for pressing an extra bottle 
 of good wine." — Ibid. p. 22. 
 
 "At length the joyful annunciation that the lady had pre- 
 sented her husband with a fine boy broke off this intercourse ; 
 Mr. Bertram hastened to the lady^s apartment, and Meg 
 Merrilies descended to the kitchen to secure her share of the 
 groaning malt." — Ibid. p. 29. 
 
 The Hero's Father and Ancestry. 
 
 " Godfrey Bertram of Ellangowan," the gentleman whose 
 hospitality Guy Mannering claimed, "was one of those second- 
 rate sort of persons that are to be found frequently in rural 
 
 situations." He had " succeeded to a long pedigree 
 
 and a short rent-roll, like many lairds of that period 
 
 Without a spark of energy to meet or repel his misfortunes, 
 Godfrey put his faith in the activity of another. He kept 
 neither hunters nor hounds, nor any other preliminaries to 
 ruin ; but he kept a man of business who answered the pur- 
 pose equally well. Under this gentleman^s supervision small 
 debts grew into large, interests were accumulated upon capi- 
 tals, and law charges were heaped upon all." 
 
 His ancestors had not generally taken the most lucrative 
 sides in the politics of their day. 
 
 " Allen Bertram of EUangowan, tempore Caroli Prhni, was 
 a steady loyalist, and full of zeal for the cause of his sacred 
 Majesty; he united with the great Marquis of Montrose, 
 and sustained great losses in that behalf. He had the 
 
16 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 was pardoned, aud his sentence made one of the charges 
 against his prosecutor, then become Earl of Essex. He died 
 in 1660, and was succeeded by his son Arthur first Earl of 
 Anglesea, born in 1614, who, like his father, was at first a 
 loyalist and one of the Oxford Parliament in 1643 ; but pass- 
 ing through an initiatory commission from the Parliament for 
 the affair of Ulster in 1645, he became one of the five deputed 
 by them to receive the sword of government from the Mar- 
 quis of Ormond in 1647. At the close of the Protectorate he 
 became president of the council of state, and opening a cor- 
 respondence with King Charles II. was, on the Restoration, 
 created Earl of Anglesea. He afterwards became treasurer 
 of the navy and lord privy seal, but was dismissed from office 
 in 1682 in consequence of his remarks upon the succession 
 of the Duke of York as a papist." — Sharpe's Genealogical 
 Peerage of the British Empire, vol. iii. ; article '' Mount- 
 
 NORRIS." 
 
 Illegitimate issue, Church dues, ^c. 
 
 '' Michael Downes, a registered priest, who had lived these 
 forty-two years at Birrstown, within a mile from Dunmaine, 
 ' saw Juggan Landy as my lord's kitchen maid, who proving 
 with child, was, soon after my lady came down, turned off; 
 and being delivered about the end of April, 1714, he chris- 
 tened the child, who was brought by an old woman, Landy's 
 mother. I told my lord some time after that I christened 
 the child as the old woman said it belonged to himj and 
 my lord said : '* It seems they have put it upon me." I also 
 said to my lord : " I have christened but have got no retri- 
 bution," [christening money). " Well, well," said he ; "Fll 
 requite you hereafter." I afterwards married Joan Landy 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 17 
 
 honour of knighthood conferred upon him by the King, and 
 was sequestrated as a mahgnant by the Parhament 1642, and 
 afterwards as a resolutioner in the year 1648, these two 
 cross-grained epithets costing poor Sir Allen one half of the 
 family estate. His son, Dennis Bertram, was a man of 
 eminent parts and resolution, and was chosen by the "western 
 counties one of the committee of noblemen and gentlemen 
 to report their griefs to the privy council of Charles II. 
 anent the coming in of the Highland host in 1678. For 
 undertaking this patriotic task he underwent a fine, to pay 
 which he mortgaged half the remaining moiety of his paternal 
 property. On the breaking out of Argyle's rebellion he was 
 again suspected by government, apprehended, sent to Dun- 
 notar Castle, and there broke his neck in an attempt to 
 escape." — Guy Mannering, vol. i. pp. 11, 12, 13, 16. 
 
 Illegitimate issue, Church dues, ^x. 
 
 "1 cannot well sleep," said the laird with the anxious 
 feelings of a father in such a predicament, " till I hear she's 
 gotten ower with it; and if you, sir, are not very sleepry, 
 and would do me the honour to sit up, I am sure we shall 
 not detain you late. Luckie Howatson is very expeditious ; 
 there was ance a lass that was in that way - — she did not 
 live far from hereabouts — ye needna shake your head and 
 groan. Dominie, I am sure the kirk dues were a' weel paid, 
 and what can man do mair? and the man that she since 
 wadded does not think her a pin the waur for the misfortune. 
 They live, Mr. Mannering, by the shore side at Annan, and 
 a mair decent orderly couple, wi' six as fine bairns as ye 
 
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18 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 to one M^Kormack ; they had two or three children chris- 
 tened/ " — Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xiv. p. 37G. 
 
 "It was reported in the country that Joan Landy's hus- 
 band was a sailor/^ — Memoh's of an Unfortunate Young Noble- 
 man, vol. iii. p. 117. 
 
 Prophetic Dream. 
 
 "He lay down in his little hammock one night so full of dis- 
 turbed meditations, that all the weariness he felt after a day 
 of very great toil could not for some time make him fall into 
 a sleep; and when he did, his active fancy, or rather some 
 supernatural cause (as the future accidents of his life would 
 make one think), presented him with images which his waking- 
 thoughts never could have produced. 
 
 " He imagined that, instead of the wretched furniture his 
 bed was composed of, he was lying on a beautiful green bank 
 on the side of a meadow. The sun seemed as near setting, 
 and gilding the tops of the distant hills added to the agree- 
 ableness of the prospect ; when all at once the rays withdrew 
 — a heavy cloud overspread the hemisphere - — ■ all appeared 
 brown and dismal, but chiefly that part where the dreamer lay. 
 He turned his eyes upwards, and beheld a little above his head 
 a balance of enormous size, self-poised and hanging in the 
 air, each scale by turns seeming more ponderous than the 
 other and threatening to descend and crush him with its 
 weight. Frighted, yet unable to detach his sight or rise from 
 the place he was in, he continued gazing till the phenomenon, 
 as if plucked by a hand unseen, flew up and was lost in air. 
 This no sooner disappeared than other and yet more dreadful 
 objects struck his wondering eyes. Before him, but very 
 high in the cloud, he saw a great many globes cut cross with 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 19 
 
 ^youl(^ wish to see plash in a salt-water dub ; and little curlie 
 Godfrey — that's the eldest^ the come o' will, as I may say — • 
 he's on board an excise yacht." — Guy Mannering, vol. i. p. 23. 
 
 Astrological Prophecy. 
 
 " And now," said Meg Merrilies, " some o' ye maun lay 
 down your watch, and tell me the very minute o' the hour 
 the wean's born, and I'll spae its fortune." 
 
 "Ay, but, Meg, we shall not want your assistance, for 
 here's a student from Oxford that kens much better than 
 you how to spae its fortune — he does it by the stars." 
 
 " Certainly, sir," said Mannering, entering into the simple 
 humour of his landlord, " I wdll calculate his nativity accord- 
 ing to the rule of the Ti'iplicities, as recommended by Pytha- 
 goras, Hippocrates, Diodes, and Avicenna." — Guy 
 
 Mannering, vol. i. p. 27. 
 
 " The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle 
 of the seventeenth century ; it began to waver and become 
 doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the begin- 
 ning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and 
 even general ridicule. Yet it still retained many partisans 
 even in the seats of learning." 
 
 " Among those who cherished this imaginary privilege with 
 undoubting faith, was an old clergyman with whom Mannering 
 was placed during his youth. He wasted his eyes in observ- 
 ing the stars, and his brains in calculations upon their various 
 combinations. His pupil, in early youth, naturall}^ caught 
 some portion of his enthusiasm, and laboured to make himself 
 master of the technical process of astrological research; so 
 
20 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 numberless lines which ran diametrically athwart each other, 
 and from each globe or sphere a fiery arrow seemed to dart 
 directly on him ; at a greater distance a sword of tremendous 
 length pointed towards him and brought up the horrid rear ; 
 the blade looked blue with keenness, the hilt was enveloped 
 with clotted gore, and spots of the same colour tinged the 
 thick cloud in which these wonders were exhibited." 
 
 " The Chevalier remembered in his dream that he had 
 heard the sailors, when he was on board, talk much of the 
 zodiac, and the confused idea he had of what they called 
 the signs made him at first imagine they were what he saw. 
 Though still asleep, he grew terrified, and considered the 
 whole apparition a menace from heaven ; this beat so strongly 
 on his apprehension that it broke the bands of sleep, and 
 he awoke covered all over with a cold sweat." 
 
 ''The particular relation of this dream will doubtless be 
 looked upon as a piece of impertinence and folly by those 
 who pretend to be too wise to pay any regard to what they 
 call only the effect of a disturbed imagination ; but whoever 
 shall have patience to go through these memoirs and compare 
 the accidents which afterward befel the dreamer with the 
 particulars of his dream, they will be apt to confess with me 
 that it must be somewhat more than the vague and uncon- 
 nected ideas which rise either from the fumes of a distem- 
 pered body, or disturbed mind." — Memoirs of an Unfor- 
 tunate Young Nobleman, vol. i. pp. 69, 70, 71. 
 
 "William Wall, of Maryborough, Esq., was acquainted 
 with Lord A. in 1715 ; he also knew Lady A. Before my 
 lady came to my lord, she had a child by one Mr. Segreve in 
 Holland, which, during my lord and my lady's cohabitation, 
 he heard was dead." — Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xiv. pp. 
 317, 318. 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 21 
 
 that, before lie became convinced of its absurdity, William 
 Lilly himself would have allowed him ' a curious fancy and 
 piercing judgment in resolving a question of nativity/ 
 
 "On the present occasion he arose early in the mornings 
 and proceeded to calculate the nativity of the young heir of 
 Ellangowan. He accordingly erected his scheme, or figure of 
 heaven, divided into its twelve houses, placed the planets 
 therein according to the Ephemeris, and rectified their posi- 
 tion to the hour and moment of the nativity observed 
 
 from the result that three periods would be particularly 
 hazardous — his fifth, his tenth, and his twenty-first year. 
 
 " He hesitated what he should say to the laird of Ellan- 
 gowan concerning the horoscope of his first-born ; and at 
 length, resolved plainly to tell him the judgment he had 
 formed, at the same time acquainting him with the futility of 
 the rules of art on which he had proceeded.^' — Guy Man- 
 nering, vol. i. pp. 35, 36, 37. 
 
 " It was in this lady^s behalf (confined for the first time 
 after her marriage) that the speedy express had been des- 
 patched to Kippletriugan.^' — Guy Maymering, vol. i. p. 17. 
 
 The expression in parentheses is curious, and certainly, 
 whether with that intention or not, conveys a doubt of Mrs. 
 Bertram's antenuptial discretion. 
 
22 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 The nurse Juggy Landy, and her 
 habitation. 
 
 Joan Landy was appointed nurse to the young James 
 Annesley. She lived with her father, who had " a Uttle cot- 
 tage upon the sheepwalk about a quarter of a mile from 
 Dunmaine/' described as " a despicable place, without any 
 furniture except a pot, two or three trenchers, a couple of 
 straw beds on the floor, and only a window for the smoke to 
 
 go out at at one end of the cabin was a place made up 
 
 of twigs and wattles, and the beds were of straw." — Gentle- 
 man's Magazine, vol. xiv. p. 324. 
 
 Though a woman of bad character, Joan Landy appears to 
 have been affectionately attached to this child, as will be 
 seen in the sequel. The care of the boy was afterwards 
 transferred to another nurse, named Joan Laffan. His 
 parents also were, during his infancy, much attached to him, 
 and he was clothed as the son of a nobleman, wearing " a silk 
 scarlet coat, a velvet cloak, with a goldlaced hat and feather." 
 {Ibid. p. 319.) He also "had a little sorrel horse, and put 
 on his boots to go a-hunting with my lord." — Ibid. p. 378. 
 
 " When about seven years old he had a little horse to ride 
 upon, and went with my lord to huntings very gaily dressed." 
 — Ibid. p. 87. 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 23 
 
 Affectionate care of the hero ; Meg Merrilies 
 and her habitation. 
 
 " A tribe of gipsies, to whom Meg Merrilies appertained, 
 had long been as stationary as their habits permitted, in a 
 glen upon the estate of EUangowan. There — within a mile 
 of the house — they had erected a few huts, which they de- 
 nominated their 'city of refuge;' and they had been such 
 long occupants that they were considered in some degree as 
 proprietors of the wretched shealings which they inhabited/' 
 — Guy Mannering, vol. i. p. 67. 
 
 " Years rolled on and little Harry Bertram, now approach- 
 ing his fifth year, was one of the hardiest and most lively 
 children that ever made a sword and grenadier's cap of 
 rushes. A hardihood of disposition, which early developed 
 itself, made him a little wanderer, and he had more tlian 
 once made a stolen excursion as far as the gipsy hamlet. 
 On these occasions he was generally brought home by JMeg 
 JNIerrilies, who often contrived to waylay him in his walks, 
 sing him a gipsy song, give him a ride on her jackass, and 
 thrust into his pocket a piece of gingerbread or a red-cheeked 
 apple. This woman's ancient attachment to the family 
 seemed to rejoice in having an object on which it could re- 
 pose and expand itself. On one occasion when the child was 
 ill she lay all night below the window, chaunting a rhyme 
 which she believed sovereign as a febrifuge, and could not 
 be prevailed upon to leave the station she had chosen, till she 
 was informed that the crisis was over." — Ibid. vol. i. p. 73. 
 
24 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 Juggan dismissed ; her house pidled doivn. 
 
 Juggan Landy, tlie nurse of young Annesley, ultimately 
 became an object of great dislike to Lord Altham. " She 
 dared not come into the presence of my lord, my lady^ or the 
 waiting-maid." — Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xiv. p. 324. 
 
 " She used to skulk about Dunmaine stables, and obtained 
 victuals and small beer from the servants." — Ibid. pp. 323-24. 
 
 On one occasion she came to see the boy, " and my lord 
 gave orders to the servants, if ever they saw her, to set the 
 dogs at her." — [Ibid. p. 375.) At another time my lord 
 said, " 1^11 horsewhip you if you allow Joan Landy to come 
 within sight of him." — Ibid. p. 376. 
 
 Again ; " One day at Dunmaine, my lord was standing 
 with his back to the kitchen door, the child playing at his 
 feet ; Joan Landy came to the gate and peeped in, when my 
 lord swore and called to the men to let out the hounds and 
 set them at her, and upon that occasion my lord ordered the 
 house she lived in to be pulled down." — Ibid. p. 318. 
 
 The Tutor. 
 
 " The Rev. Mr. Abel Butler* was minister of the parish of 
 Tyntern, which comprised the property of Dunmaine." — 
 Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xix. p. 206. 
 
 * Reuben Sutler, a Dominie and Minister, will be remembered as a promi- 
 nent character in Sir Walter Scott's novel of The Heart of Midlothian . 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 25 
 
 Meg and the Gipsies removed ; their hoiises destroyed. 
 
 Meg Merrilies and the gipsies incurred the displeasure of 
 Mr, Bertram^ who threatened them with "prosecution ac- 
 cording to law " for trespassing on his enclosures. — Guy 
 Mannerinff, vol. i. p. 69. 
 
 " Six well-grown gipsy boys and girls were riding cock- 
 horse on a new gate. The laird commanded them to de- 
 scend, and began to pull them down one after another. 
 They resisted, and he then called in the assistance of his 
 servant, a surly fellow, who had immediate recourse to his 
 horsewhip, and a few lashes sent the party a scampering." — 
 Ibid. p. 70. 
 
 The gipsies "committed much petty mischief, and some 
 evidently for mischiefs sake. Warrants went forth to pur- 
 sue, search for, and apprehend them ; and one or two of the 
 depredators were unable to avoid conviction. Two children 
 were soundly flogged, and one Egyptian matron sent to the 
 House of Correction." — Ibid. p. 73. 
 
 "At length the term day arrived, and violent measures of 
 ejection were resorted to. A strong posse of peace-officers 
 charged the gipsies to depart by noon, and, as they did not 
 obey, proceeded to unroof the cottages and pull down the 
 wretched doors and windows." — Ibid. p. 75. 
 
 The Tutor. 
 
 Harry Bertram's " father resolved to give him a good edu- 
 cation, and with this view secured the services of (Abel) 
 Sampson, who was easily induced to renounce his public pro- 
 fession of parish schoolmaster, and make his constant resi- 
 
26 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 He does not appear to have interfered with the education 
 of the boy, which was entrusted to " James Dempsey, a tutor 
 who attended to his education in his lordship's house and his 
 own school for two years." — Gentleman'' s Magazine, vol. xiv. 
 p. 29. 
 
 This person acknowledged " that he was a papist, but re- 
 fused to answer whether he was in orders." — Ibid. p. 87. 
 
 Reasons for concealment. 
 
 "Lord Altham being in great necessity, and wanting to 
 raise money, was made to look upon his son as a bar in the 
 way, persons scrupling to lend him money upon the security 
 of the Anglesey estate, unless the next person in remainder 
 joined with him. He was, therefore, induced to conceal his 
 son, who, being an infant, could not join." — Gentlemai-Cs 
 Magazine, vol. xiv. p. 26. 
 
 "Yellow Waistcoat." 
 
 "In February, 1716, there were unhappy differences be- 
 tween Lord Altham and his lady, upon which they, by agree- 
 ment, separated; but Lady Altham, as was natural, desired 
 to have the company of her child, which Lord Altham, with 
 great expressions of regard and tenderness for the child, re- 
 fused. He forbade Lady Altham's access to this child, and 
 directed that she should by no means see him." — Memoirs 
 of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, vol. iii. p. 5. 
 
 Subsequently, " Lord Altham began a criminal correspond- 
 ence with one Miss Gregory, who gained such prodigious 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 27 
 
 dence at the place, iu cousideratioii of a sum not quite equal 
 to the wages of a footman/^ — Guy Mannering, vol. i. p. 57. 
 
 *^Abel Sampsou had been admitted to the privilege of a 
 preacher, but, alas ! upon his first attempt he became totally- 
 incapable of proceeding in his discourse ; he shut the Bible, 
 stumbled down the pulpit stairs, and was ever after desig- 
 nated as a ' stickit minister.' " — Ibid. p. 20. 
 
 Reasons for concealment. 
 
 Glossin was indigent and greatly in debt, but he was 
 already possessed of Mr. Bertram's ear, and, aware of the 
 facility of his disposition, he saw no difficulty in enriching 
 himself at his expense, provided the heir-male were removed, 
 in which case the estate became the unlimited property of the 
 weak and prodigal father. — Gtiy Mannering, vol. ii. p. 45. 
 
 " Green Breeks.^' 
 
 "The author's father residing on the southern side of 
 Edinburgh, the boys of that family with others in the neigh- 
 bourhood, were arranged into a sort of company, to which a 
 laSy of distinction presented a handsome set of colours. 
 Now this company or regiment was engaged in weekly war- 
 fare with boys inhabiting the neighbouring suburbs. These 
 last were chiefly of the lower ranks, hardy loons who threw 
 stones to a hair's breadth, and were very rugged antagonists 
 at close quarters. It followed, from our frequent opposition 
 to each other, that, though not knowing the names of our 
 
28 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 influence over him, that she prevailed on this unhappy lord to 
 remove the child out of his house. He was given in charge 
 to one Cavanagh, with directions to be kept private, so as it 
 should not be known where he was. Too sprightly, however, 
 to be confined in this manner he made his escape, and being 
 denied admittance to his father's house he roved about from 
 place to place until the death of Lord Altham in 1727" 
 {ibid. pp. 7, 8), at which time he led a vagabond life in the 
 streets of Dublin, subsisting on charity, or by small sums 
 received for running errands, " holding gentlemen's horses," 
 or as a " scull about the college." — Gentleman's Magazine, 
 vol. xiv. p. 90. 
 
 "When forced by the pinch of an empty stomach to ask 
 compassion, the manner in which he implored, the reluctant 
 bashfulness that showed itself in his voice and eyes, joined 
 with a certain something which in spite of his distress spoke 
 him above what he appeared, excited a pity in every one that 
 saw him, and made him rarely sue in vain." — (Memoirs of 
 an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, vol. vi. p. 45.) Even under 
 these adverse circumstances he is described as having " a 
 certain nobleness in his air, a fine proportion of his limbs, 
 with the loveliest hair in the world." — Ibid. vol. i. p. 51. 
 
 "Neither well clad nor well fleshed, playing among shoe 
 boys" (Gentleman s Magazine, vol. xiv. p. 373), wearing "an 
 old yellow livery waistcoat " given to him by a youthful patron 
 [ibid. p. 205), and without shoes or stockings {ibid. p. 90), he 
 nevertheless " had a great deal of alertness in his nature and 
 inherited all the passion of his family, which frequently oc- 
 casioned him many blows from those of his companions who 
 had the advantage of him in strength." 
 
 " It happened one day that some boys, superior to himself 
 in appearance, fell upon him and beat him for something 
 they imagined he had offended them in, calling him at the 
 same time 'dog ! scoundrel ! blackguard !' and such like foul 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 29 
 
 enemies^ we were yet well acquainted with their appearance, 
 and had nicknames for the most remarkable of them. One 
 very active and spirited boy might be considered as the prin- 
 cipal leader in the cohort of the suburbs. He was I suppose 
 thirteen or fourteen years old, finely made, tall, blue-eyed, 
 with long fair hair, the very picture of a youthful Goth. This 
 lad Avas always first in the charge and last in the retreat — 
 the Achilles, at once, and Ajax, of the Crosscauseway. He 
 was too formidable to us not to have a cognomen, and like 
 that of a knight of old, it was taken from the most remark- 
 able part of his dress, being a pair of old green livery 
 breeches, which was the principal part of his clothing; for, 
 like Pentapolin, according to Don Quixote's account, Green- 
 breeks, as we called him, always entered the battle with bare 
 arms, legs, and feet 
 
 " It fell that once upon a time, when the combat was at 
 the thickest, this plebeian champion headed a sudden charge 
 so rapid and furious that all fled before him. He was 
 several paces before his comrades, and had actually laid his 
 hands on the patrician standard, when one of our party, whom 
 some misjudging friend had entrusted with a couteau de chasse, 
 or hanger, inspired with zeal for the honour of the corps, 
 struck poor Green-breeks over the head with strength suf- 
 ficient to cut him down The remorse and terror of the actor 
 were beyond all bounds, and his apprehensions of the most 
 dreadful character. 
 
 " The bloody hanger was thrown into one of the Meadow 
 ditches, and solemn secrecy sworn on all hands. 
 
 " The wounded hero was for a few days in the Infirmary ; 
 but though enquiry was strongly pressed upon him, no argu- 
 ment could make him indicate the person from whom he had 
 received the wonnd, though he must have been perfectly 
 well known to him. When he recovered, the author and his 
 brothers opened a communication with him, through the 
 
30 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 names; which less able to eudure thau the blows^ he told 
 them ' they licd^ and that ' he was better than any of them^ 
 for that his father was a lord^ and he should be a lord too 
 when he came to be a man/ Several idle people being ga- 
 thered together to see the battle, hearing him say this, set up a 
 loud laugh, and from that time he Avas called in derision no- 
 thing but ' my lord/ " — {Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young 
 Nobleman, vol. i. pp. 47, 48.) In another boys' quarrel "he 
 was stabbed by one of his schoolfellows, and that so danger- 
 ously that it was requisite to put him under the care of a 
 surgeon." — Ibid. vol. ii. p. 220. 
 
 We must now briefly follow the fortunes of this poor boy 
 to the British colony in America, where he became involved 
 in adventures with the natives and colonists. 
 
 Kidnapped and carried abroad. 
 
 " Mark Byrne deposed : " That about sixteen years ago, 
 at the desire of one Donnelly a constable, who told him (then 
 also a constable) he had a good job for him, for which he was 
 to get a guinea, he went along with him to one Jones's, 
 where was the present Earl of Anglesey (then called Lord 
 Altham) and a small boy, which my lord said was his bro- 
 ther's son, and desired Donnelly &c. to take him away to 
 George's quay; that accordingly they carried him towards 
 Essex bridge, and from thence in a coach to the quay ; that 
 my lord was there as soon as the coach; that a boat was 
 waiting at the quay and the boy put into it by Donnelly; 
 that my lord went into the boat down the river; that they 
 had no staves as constables nor any warrant ; and that when 
 Donnelly carried the boy down the steps he was so tired with 
 crying he could scarce speak." — Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 
 xiv. p. 142. 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 31 
 
 medium of a popular gingerbread baker, of whom both 
 parties were customers, in order to tender a subsidy in 
 name of smart-money ; but he decHned the remittance, say- 
 ing that he would not sell his blood. 
 
 " Such was the hero whom Mr. Thomas Scott proposed to 
 carry to Canada, and involve in adventures with the natives 
 and colonists of that country."" — Appendix iii. to the general 
 preface to the TVaverley Novels, vol i. 
 
 Kidnapped and carried abroad. 
 
 " So much the better, my dear sir," said Mr. Pleydell, 
 " Mr. Brown must now tell us where he was born." 
 
 " In Scotland, I believe, but the place uncertain." 
 
 "Where educated?" 
 
 "In Holland, certainly." 
 
 " Do you remember nothing of your early life, before you 
 left Scotland?" 
 
 "Very imperfectly; yet I have a strong idea that I was, 
 during my childhood, an object of much solicitude and affec- 
 tion. I have an indistinct remembrance of a good-looking 
 man, whom I used to call papa, and of a lady who was infirm 
 in health, who I think must have been my mother ; but it is 
 an imperfect and confused recollection." 
 
 "And now," said Mr. Pleydell, after several minute en- 
 quiries concerning his recollection of early events — "And 
 
32 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 "They produced evidence to show that a ship, called the 
 ' James ' of Dublin, Thomas Hendry master, sailed over the 
 bar of Dublin the 30tli of April, 1728, and that this boy did 
 actually sail on board this ship ; that it was bound to Phila- 
 delphia, and that the principal part of the cargo were men 
 and maid servants/' — Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young 
 Nobleman, vol. iii. p. 175. 
 
 " The chevalier James reflected as much as his young com- 
 prehension would permit on this treatment. He spoke not a 
 word, however, till, the captain having dined upon such fare 
 as is usually eat at good tables on shore, he had his allowance 
 given him of salt beef and peas, and that in such a manner 
 as but in the short time he was a vagrant in the streets he 
 
 had never even seen The complaints, the piteous cries 
 
 and exclamations he sent forth, on the discovery of the unpa- 
 ralleled cruelty,'^ were such " that the captain, fearing in his 
 desperation he might throw himself overboard, ordered he 
 should be put into the hold and a watch set over him. In 
 this calamity did he make manifest a greatness of spirit 
 wonderful at his years. He refused all sustenance; nor hun- 
 ger, nor drought, nor faintness, could prevail with him to 
 take the least refreshment, until the captain thought proper 
 
 to try what soft usage would avail A little persuasion 
 
 now sufficed to make him eat and drink what was set before 
 him in the captain's cabin." On the completion of the voy- 
 age " he sold him to a rich planter in Newcastle county, who, 
 after paying the money agreed on between them, took home 
 the young chevalier and immediately entered him among the 
 number of his slaves." — Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young 
 Nobleman, vol. i. pp. 58 — 61. 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 33 
 
 now, Mr. Bertram — for I think we ought, in future, to call 
 you by your own proper name — will you have the goodness 
 to let us know every particular which you can recollect con- 
 cerning the mode of your leaving Scotland ? " 
 
 " Indeed, sir, to say the truth, though the terrible outlines 
 of that day are strongly impressed on my memory, yet, some- 
 how, the very terror which fixed them there has, in a great 
 measure, confounded and confused the details. I recollect, 
 however, that I was walking somewhere or other — in a wood, 
 I think, — and then, like one of the changes of a dream, I 
 thought I was on horseback before my guide — 
 
 "On a sudden,^^ continued Bertram, "two or three men 
 sprang out upon us, and we were pulled from horseback. I 
 have little recollection of anything else, but that I tried to 
 escape in the midst of a terrible scuffle ; . . . the rest is all con- 
 fusion and dread — a dim recollection of a sea beach and a 
 cave, and of some strong potion which lulled me to sleep for 
 a length of time. In short, it is all a blank in my memory, 
 until I recollect myself, first an ill-used and half- starved cabin 
 boy aboard a sloop, and then a schoolboy in Holland, under 
 the protection of an old merchant, who had taken some fancy 
 for me.^^ — Gny Mannering, vol. ii. p. 280. 
 
34 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 Intended murder prevented. Payment by bills. 
 
 "Hap'ning to be acquainted with the master of a vessel, 
 the baronet agreed with him for a thousand pounds to take 
 the young gentleman on board, and when they were sailing to 
 throw him into the sea, it being easy for him to pretend to 
 the ship's crew that he fell in by accident. The man con- 
 sents for the lucre of so great a reward; three hundred 
 of which was paid at the time, and a note of hand given for 
 seven hundred when he should return from his voyage.'^ — 
 Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, vol. ii. p. 127. 
 
 The captain did not drown the boy, but caused him to be 
 left at the Musketa Island. 
 
 " He made his voyage and returned full of expectation of 
 receiving the hire of his barbarity. The baronet received him 
 kindly, and asked him if he had performed his agreement? 
 'Yes, sir,^ answered he; 'the boy will never trouble you 
 again.' ' You assure me that he is dead V again demanded 
 the cruel guardian. 'Aye, sir,' cried the tarpaulin, 'and 
 buried long enough in some fish's belly, for I threw him 
 overboard with my own hands.' " 
 
 "With this the baronet seemed highly pleased, but when 
 the other demanded the seven hundred pounds he only laughed 
 at him, and told him that he thought he had been paid well 
 enough for one murder 
 
 " The captain then went directly and enquired when any 
 vessel sailed for the Musketa Island, and hearing of one that 
 was taking in her cargo, took passage in her . . . He soon dis- 
 covered who was now in possession of the abused innocent, 
 pretended that he was his own, and bought him for an incon- 
 siderable sum The captain having so far compassed 
 
 his point, went to the baronet, who, with a scornful look, 
 asked what he wanted ? ' I come,' said he, ' to let you know 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 35 
 
 Intended murder prevented. Payment by bills. 
 
 Glossin then drew near the smuggler with a confidential air, 
 " You knoWj my dear Hatteraickj it is our principal business 
 to get rid of this young man ?" " Not/' continued Glossin, 
 ''that I would wish any personal harm to him — if — if — if 
 
 we can do without You land at night with the crew 
 
 of your lugger, and carry the younker Brown with you back 
 to Flushing ; wont that do f 
 
 " Ay, carry him to Flushing," said the captain, " or — to 
 America." 
 
 "Ay, ay, my friend " 
 
 " Ay, or — pitch him overboard ? " 
 
 " Nay, I advise no violence. '' 
 
 "Nein, nein, you leave that to me.'' — Guy Mannering, 
 vol. ii. p. 59. 
 
 "You^ll hardly get out of this country/' said Glossin, 
 "without accounting for a little accident that happened at 
 Warroch Point a few years ago. I have no wish to be hard 
 upon an old acquaintance — but I must do my duty. I shall 
 send you off to Edinburgh in a post chaise and four this very 
 day." 
 
 "Poz-donner! you would not do that,"" said Hatteraick; 
 " why, you had the matter of half a cargo in bills on Van- 
 beest and Vanbruggen." 
 
 " It is so long since, Captain Hatteraick," answered Glossin, 
 superciliously, "that I really forget how T was recompensed 
 for my trouble." 
 
 " Your trouble ? your silence, you mean." 
 
 " It was an affair in the course of business," said Glossin, 
 " and I have retired from business for some time." 
 
 " Ay, but I have a notion that I could make you go steady 
 about, and try the old course again," answered Dirk Hatte- 
 
36 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 I am no murderer, and had more compassion than to become 
 the instrument of one that intended to be so. The young 
 gentleman I took on board I have brought safely back ; he is 
 now at my house, and I will take care to prevent him from 
 ever being in your power again.' Judge of the astonishment 
 these words gave to the person who heard them.^^ — Episode 
 in the Memows of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, vol. ii. 
 pp. 126-139. 
 
 Love affairs in America ; fight with his master ; falls into 
 the hands of natives, and escapes. 
 
 " He was one day sighing over some meat that was given 
 him by his mistress, when she, being called out of the room 
 on some occasion, ordered her daughter, a very amiable 
 young creature of about fourteen or fifteen years of age, to 
 give him a little can of wine. The girl readily obeyed, but 
 .presented it to him with a trembling hand and so visible a 
 confusion that the Chevalier, sunk as he was in sorrow, could 
 not help taking notice of it." — Memoirs of an Unfortunate 
 Young Nobleman, vol. i. p. 90. 
 
 " He was soon convinced that the miseries he had under- 
 gone through the severity of the father were fully revenged 
 on the daughter, this young girl being possest of a passion 
 for him more violent than is ordinarily found in persons of 
 her tender age." — Ibid. p. 91. 
 
 " Maria was a very lovely creature ; she was extremely fair, 
 had yellow hair, fine blue eyes which spoke the tenderness of 
 her heart ; but she was a little vain and inclined to coquetry. 
 She was much admired and complimented by the young 
 men ; but though she was pleased with their addresses, none 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 37 
 
 raick. " Why, man, hold me der deyvil but I meant to visit 
 you and tell you something that concerns you." 
 
 "Of the boy?" said Glossin, eagerly. 
 
 " Yaw, Mynheer/' replied the captain, coolly. 
 
 "He does not live, does he?" 
 
 "As lifelich as you or I," said Hatteraick. 
 
 "Good God! — But in India?" exclaimed Glossin. 
 
 " No, tousand deyvils ! here, on this dirty coast of yours," 
 rejoined the prisoner. — Guy Mannering, vol. ii. p. 41. 
 
 Love affairs in India ; duel with his Colonel; falls into 
 the hands of natives, and escapes. 
 
 Extract from a letter addressed by Colonel Mannering to 
 Arthur Mervyn, Esq. : — 
 
 " In a moment of peculiar pressure a young man named 
 Brown joined our regiment as a volunteer, and finding the 
 military duty more to his mind than commerce, remained 
 
 with us as a cadet I was absent for some weeks upon 
 
 a distant expedition; when I returned I found this young 
 fellow established quite as a friend of the house, and habitual 
 attendant of my wife and daughter.'' — Guy Manner- 
 ing, vol. i. p. 128. 
 
 Extract of a letter from Julia Mannering to Miss March- 
 mont : — 
 
 " You are possessed, my dear Matilda, of my bosom secret 
 in those sentiments with which I regard Brown. His ad- 
 dresses to me were countenanced by my deceased parent ; 
 imprudently countenanced perhaps, considering the preju- 
 dices of my father in favour of birth and rank." — Ibid. 
 p. 171. 
 
 Julia Mannering " was of middle size or rather less, but 
 
38 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 of them made any impression on her heart, — the agreeable 
 slave reigned sole master there, though she had understand- 
 ing enough to know that there was little probability that her 
 father, who was very wealthy and had no ehild but herself, 
 would ever eousent to dispose of her to one who was in the 
 condition of a slave/' — Ibid. p. 96. 
 
 The mother of Maria having become aware of her daughter's 
 attachment to James Annesley, proposed to her husband to 
 give him his liberty " as a just recompense to him for the 
 honour and integrity of his behaviour. The husband seem'd 
 to approve of what she said, and promised to send him away 
 by the first ship that sailed for Europe." — [Ibid. p. 107.) 
 This arrangement she privately and against the orders of her 
 husband communicated to Annesley. Instead, however, of 
 liberating him, the husband secretly transferred the slave to 
 another master, which so exasperated Annesley that he re- 
 solved to " take that satisfaction that his injuries demanded. 
 He flew at him, seized him with so strong a gripe, as, had 
 they not been separated, the father of Maria might not per- 
 haps have been ever able to return." — Ibid. p. 114. 
 
 Subsequently the Chevalier was met by two Iroquois, who 
 both at once fell upon him. " He defended himself as well as 
 he could, but one of them hastily plucked out a knife he had 
 in his pocket and aimed to stab the Chevalier with it in the 
 belly, but he had the dexterity to writhe his body, so that 
 he received only a slight wound on the hip ;" but " he who 
 had wounded him, catching up his knife, was going to cut 
 his throat while the other kneeled upon his breast to hold 
 him down. 
 
 " Just at that point of time arrived some persons who .... 
 before the fatal knife could do its work, seized on the hand 
 that held it and dragged the assassins off." — Ibid. p. 119. 
 
 " The Chevalier James," having served full thirteen years 
 as a slave, " took his passage in a merchant vessel to Jamaica, 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 39 
 
 formed with much elegance ; piercing dark eyes and jet-black 
 hair of great length corresponded with the vivacity and intel- 
 ligence of her features (ibid. 199) with a Httle of that 
 
 love of admiration which all pretty women share less or 
 more." — Ibid. vol. i. p. 164. 
 
 Brown resolved that no difficulties should prevent him 
 continuing his enterprise, while Julia left him a ray of hope. 
 The interest he had secured in her bosom was such as she 
 had been unable to conceal from him, and with all the cou- 
 rage of romantic gallantry he determined upon perseverance. 
 — Ibid. p. 207. 
 
 Extract : Colonel Mannering to Arthur Mervyn, Esq. : — 
 " An acute friend of mine gave a more harmless construction 
 to his attentions, which he conceived to be meant for my 
 daughter Julia, though immediately addressed to propitiate 
 
 the influence of her mother I have absolutely forgot 
 
 the proximate cause of quarrel, but it was some trifle which 
 occurred at the card table, which occasioned high words and 
 a challenge. We met in the morning on the frontiers of the 
 settlement. This was arranged for Brown's safety, had he 
 escaped. I almost wish he had, though at my own expense, 
 but he fell by the first fire. We strove to assist him ; but 
 some of those Looties, a species of native banditti who are 
 always on the watch for prey, poured in upon us. Archer 
 and I gained our horses with difficulty after a hard conflict, 
 in the course of which he received some desperate wounds. 
 To complete the misfortunes of this miserable day my wife, 
 who suspected the design with which I left the fortress, had 
 ordered her palanquin to follow me, and was alarmed and 
 almost made prisoner by another troop of these plunderers, 
 
 but was quickly released by a party of our cavalry She 
 
 died within about eight mouths after this incident, bequeath- 
 ing me only the girl of whom Mrs. Mervyn is so good as to 
 undertake the charge. Julia was also so extremely ill that I 
 
40 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 where he entered himself as a common sailor on board a man- 
 of-war about to set sail for Europe." — Ibid. p. 165. 
 
 Sleepless terror of the uncle. 
 
 "But what words are comprehensive enough to describe 
 the situation in which this wicked and unfortunate Count 
 passed the night ? He went to bed, but soon arose, called 
 for lights — walked in the most disturbed emotions about his 
 room, then threw himself again on down, in which he vainly 
 attempted to bury those perturbations which would not suflFer 
 the least slumber to close his eyes." — Memoirs of an 
 Unfortunate Young Nobleman, vol. ii. p. 207. 
 
 " The cruel Count in the mean time receiving every post 
 intelligence of some fresh disappointment, was full of horror 
 and confusion — a vicissitude of the most dreadful ideas rose 
 in his distracted brain — he felt by turns every pang that 
 guilt and enervate rage can possibly inflict — he found the 
 hand of heaven was against him — that all the arrows shot 
 against his innocent nephew recoiled upon his own breast — 
 that the more he endeavoured to defame him, the more shame 
 he brought upon himself; and that all he did, instead of 
 creating him enemies, served only to raise him up new 
 friends. Yet did not all this excite in him any true repent- 
 ance — though he saw unavoidable ruin stare him in the 
 face, still he persisted obstinate in iniquity." — Memoirs of 
 an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, vol. i. p. 271. 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 41 
 
 was induced to throw up my command and return to Europe, 
 where her native aii', time, and the novelty of the scenes 
 around her have contributed to dissipate her dejection and 
 restore her health." — Ibid. p. 131. 
 
 Sleepless terror of Glossin. 
 
 " There was little fear that Glossin should that night sleep 
 oversound. His situation was perilous in the extreme, for 
 the schemes of a life of villainy seemed at once to be crumb- 
 ling around and above him. He laid himself down to rest, 
 and tossed upon his pillow for a long time in vain. At length 
 he fell asleep, but it was only to dream of his patron — now, 
 as he had last seen him, with the paleness of death upon his 
 features, — then, again, transformed into all the vigour and 
 comeliness of youth, approaching to expel him from the 
 mansion house of bis fathers." — Gn^/ Mannering, vol. ii. 
 p. 44. 
 
 " He remembered how, like a guilty thing, gliding from 
 the neighbouring place of concealment, he had mingled with 
 eagerness, yet with caution, among the terrified group who 
 surrounded the corpse (of Kennedy), dreading lest any one 
 should ask from whence he came ' Good God ! ' he ex- 
 claimed, 'is all I have gained worth the agony of that mo- 
 ment, and the thousand anxious fears and horrors which have 
 since embittered my life ! '" — Ibid. pp. 50, 51. 
 
42 
 
 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 Arms of Annesley — British. Peerage. 
 
 " Yes/^ says he. " He is the right heir if right would take 
 place. — Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xiv. p. 434. 
 
 Annesley shoots a poacher. 
 
 " Among the diversions of the rural life in which Annesley 
 was now engaged^ shooting might be accounted his favourite 
 one. He frequently went out with some or other of his 
 neighbours with him, and was seldom so unlucky as not to 
 spring some game. 
 
 " One day he went out alone^ but happened afterward to 
 meet a person who lived near, and was gamekeeper to a per- 
 son of condition to whom that manor belonged ; as they 
 were walking together and discoursing on ordinary affairs, 
 they spy'd two men fishing in a little river that ran through 
 the next meadow, which not being allowable for them to do, 
 the gamekeeper jumped over the style and ran towards them 
 
PARALLEL TASSAGES. 
 
 43 
 
 Arms oiBertTam. as described in " Guy Mannering," vol. ii. p, 152.^ 
 
 Bertram motto : " Our right makes our might'' — Gmj 
 Mannering^ vol. ii. p. 157. 
 
 Bertram shoots Hazlewood. 
 
 From a letter addressed to Matilda Marchmout by Julia 
 Mannering : 
 
 " We were returning liome by a footpath which led 
 
 through a plantation of firs. Lucy had quitted Hazlewood^s 
 arm — it is only the plea of necessity which reconciles her to 
 accept his assistance. I still leaned upon his other arm. 
 Lucy followed us close ; and the servant^ a groom who acts 
 occasionally as gamekeeper, and who carried a gun, was two 
 or three paces behind us. Such was our position when 
 Brown stood before us at a short turn of the road. I 
 screamed, between surprise and terror. Hazlewood mistook 
 the nature of my alarm, and, when Brown advanced towards 
 
44 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 with an intention to seize their net, as it was his duty ; the 
 Chevalier followed^ and came up with him just as he had 
 taken one of them by the collar, who had the string on his 
 wrist, and, refusing to resign it, there was some struggle be- 
 tween them. The other fellow seeing the Chevalier advan- 
 cing, and not doubting but he would assist his friend in 
 taking it away, cut the string and threw it into the river, 
 then ran in himself, for the water was very shallow, and 
 drag'd it to the other side; but the Chevalier that instant 
 coming up, stooped hastily down to catch hold of the cords 
 that trailed on the ground to pull back the net ; but in that 
 action the gun he had in his hand unhappily went off, and 
 shot the man who was engaged with the gamekeeper dead.^"* 
 
 " Horror and amazement immediately seized the soul of 
 the Chevalier. The gamekeeper was almost as much alarmed, 
 and hearing the young fellow, who by this time was got on 
 the other side, call out to some men that were passing that 
 way, that a man was murdered, and seeing them about to 
 pass the stream, he roused the Chevalier from the lethargy 
 he seemed to be in, saying, ' Sir, we shall be pursued — let 
 us endeavour to escape — we have no time to lose,' and ran 
 away. The Chevalier seeing the other run, he ran too, till he 
 came to the house of one who knew him very well, and no 
 less loved him." — ■ Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Noble- 
 man, vol. i. p. 218. 
 
 Prosecution by Gifford, aided by Jans. 
 
 " Mr. Gifford, attorney to Lord Anglesey," said " that Mr. 
 Annesley having shot a man at Staines, my lord sent for de- 
 ponent and ordered him to go to Staines to collect evidence, 
 and carry on the prosecution with the assistance of one Mr. 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 45 
 
 me as if to speak, commanded him haughtily to stand back 
 and not to alarm the lady. Brown replied, with equal as- 
 perity, he had no occasion to take lessons from him how 
 to behave to that or any other lady. I rather believe that 
 Hazlewood, impressed with the idea that he had some bad 
 purpose in view, heard and understood him imperfectly. He 
 snatched the gun from the servant, who had come up on a 
 line with us, and, pointing the muzzle at Brown, commanded 
 him to stand off at his peril. My screams only hastened the 
 catastrophe. Brown, thus menaced, sprung upon Hazlewood, 
 grappled with him, and had nearly succeeded in wrenching 
 the fowling-piece from his grasp, when the gun went off in 
 the struggle, and the contents were lodged in Hazlewood's 
 shoulder, who instantly fell. I saw no more, for the whole 
 scene reeled before my eyes, and I fainted away; but, by 
 Lucy's report, the unhappy perpetrator of this action gazed 
 a moment on the scene before him, until her screams be- 
 gan to alarm the people upon the lake, several of whom now 
 came in sight. He then bounded over a hedge which divided 
 the footpath from the plantation, and has not since been 
 heard of.'^ — Guy Manfieting, vol. ii. p. 16. 
 
 Prosecution by Glossin ; his old confederate, Jans Sanson. 
 
 " Glossin made careful minutes of the information derived 
 
 from these examinations He rode slowly back to 
 
 EUangowan, pondering upon what he had heard, more and 
 more convinced that the active and successful prosecution of 
 
46 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 Jans, who was my lord's companion and manager." — Gentle- 
 man's Magazine, vol. xiv. p. 259. 
 
 Arrest and imprisonment. 
 
 " On the certainty that a man was dead, the alarm was pre- 
 sently spread through the town ; the crowd gathered from all 
 quarters, and the house where the Chevalier was concealed be- 
 ing one that he frequently used, it was the first they searched. 
 The guiltless delinquent was easily found ; but in such con- 
 dition as excited more pity than resentment in those who 
 apprehended him. So wholly was he taken up with his mis- 
 fortune, that he had not the least thought of himself, and if 
 not in a manner forced into a private room, he had doubtless 
 given no trouble to his pursuers, but waited their arrival with 
 that fearlessness which real innocence inspired." — Memoirs 
 of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, vol. i. p. 219. 
 
 " By degrees he grew calm, and suffered himself to be car- 
 ried before a magistrate without testifying anything more 
 than that decent concern which every honest man must feel 
 in having been the cause, though unknowingly, of the death 
 of his fellow creature." — Ibid. vol. i. p. 221. 
 
 " The depositions being made, the only material of which 
 was that of the son of the deceased, and he not pretending to 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 47 
 
 this mysterious business was an opportunity of ingratiating 
 
 himself with Hazlewood and Mannering, to be on no account 
 
 neglected/' 
 
 (Dirk Hatteraick is brought before Glossin.) 
 
 " Who will you be pleased to call yourself for the present?" 
 
 said Glossin. 
 
 " "What bin I ? — donner and blitzen ! I bin Jans Janson, 
 
 from Cuxhaven. What sail ich bin 1 " — Guy Mannering, 
 
 vol. ii. pp. 35, 39. 
 
 Arrest and imprisonment. 
 
 "In that case," said Glossin, observing his emissaries had 
 now got on the level space close behind them, " in that case, 
 you are my prisoner in the king's name." At the same time 
 he stretched his hand towards Bertram's collar, while two of 
 the men who had come up seized upon his arms. He shook 
 himself however free of their grasp by a violent effort, and 
 
 drawing his cutlass stood on the defensive Glossin 
 
 then caused one of the officers to show a warrant for the appre- 
 hension of Vanbeest Brown, accused of the crime of wilfully 
 and maliciously shooting at Charles Hazlewood, younger of 
 
 Hazlewood, with an intent to kill The warrant being 
 
 formal, and the fact such as he could not deny, Bertram 
 threw down his weapon and submitted himself to the officers, 
 who, flying on him with eagerness, were about to load him 
 with irons. But Glossin, afraid to permit this unnecessary 
 insult, directed the prisoner to be treated with decency, until 
 the means for conveyance before a magistrate should be pro- 
 vided." — Guy Mannering, vol. ii. pp. 160 - 162. 
 
 " Really, sir," said Charles (Hazlewood), " I must remind 
 
48 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 accuse the Chevalier of any malice or even design in the 
 affair, none had any notion of his being in danger. In all 
 such cases, however, the law appoints a trial, and the magis- 
 trate sent him under guard up to the capital, where he was 
 to remain in prison till the time of his hearing should 
 arrive." — Memoirs of an Unfo7'tunate Young Nobleman, vol. i. 
 pp. 219, 223-4. 
 
 Paulus, and the character of the Lawyer. 
 
 Among the friends of the Count de Anglea (the name given 
 to the Earl of Auglesea in the Memoirs of an Unfortunate 
 Young Nobleman) who endeavoured to procure evidence in his 
 favour, is one who writes to him with the peculiar signature 
 of " Paulus." — Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, 
 vol. ii. p. 145. 
 
 The gentleman who undertook the legal prosecution of 
 young Annesley's claim, is thus described : — 
 
 " He was bred to the law, and at an age when others are 
 but beginning to study that abstruse science he became a 
 perfect master of it. He knew so well the meaning of the 
 most obscure passages in the tracts chiefly quoted, that one 
 would think he had been of council with the compilers of 
 them ; and as his penetration enabled him to see which might 
 be wrested by those who endeavoured to pervert their true 
 sense, and made him always armed against all the querks, 
 evasions, and chicanery of an unfair adversary ; so his own 
 integrity and greatness of mind rendered him above making 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 49 
 
 you of what I have often said before, that I am positive the 
 discharge of the piece was accidental." — TMd. i^. 237. 
 
 " I say, therefore, Mr. Brown/' said the baronet, " we have 
 determined and resolved, and made up our minds, to commit 
 you to jail, or rather to assign you an apartment therein, iu 
 order that you may be forthcoming." — Ibib. vol. ii. p. 184. 
 
 "Early on the following morning the carriage which had 
 brought Bertram to Hazlewood House with his two surly 
 attendants, conveyed him to his place of confinement at 
 Portanferry." — Ibid. p. 187. 
 
 Paufus Pleydell, the Lawyer. * 
 
 " Why, sir, for myself," replied the counsellor, " I am 
 Paulus Pleydell, an advocate at the Scottish bar." — Chiy 
 Mannering, vol. ii. p. 282. 
 
 Mr. Pleydell, besides being a man of good family and of 
 high general estimation, was Sir Robert's old friend. — Ibid. 
 vol. ii. p. 303. 
 
 "Why, yesj as far as my vocation will permit I am, as 
 Hamlet says, indifiierent honest, when my clients and their 
 solicitors do not make me the medium of their double- 
 distilled lies to the bench." — {Ibid. vol. ii. p. 93.) "We 
 lawyers, sir, are not of iron, sir, or of brass, any more than 
 you soldiers are of steel. We are conversant with the crimes 
 and distresses of civil society, as you are with those that oc- 
 cur in a state of war; and to do our duty in either case, a 
 little apathy is perhaps necessary. But the devil take a sol- 
 dier whose heart can be as hard as his sword, and his dam 
 catch the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his fore- 
 head." — Ibid. vol. ii. p. 94. 
 
 D 
 
50 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 use of them himself. It is certain that on the Chevalier's 
 first application for his birthright while he was a stranger, 
 nothing more assured the world of the validity of his claim 
 than that he had undertaken to defend it. 
 
 "To add to this, he was no less the gay and agreeable 
 companion than the excellent lawyer ; and as his unwearied 
 application to business gained him the esteem of all who 
 employed him, so did his good humour attract the affection 
 of every one.'' — Meiyioirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, 
 vol. ii. pp. 103-104. 
 
 The Farmer at Dinner. 
 
 A farmer once to London went. 
 To pay the worthy Squire his rent ; 
 The steward was called, th' accounts made even. 
 The money paid, receipt was given. 
 " Well," quoth the Squire, " now you shall stay 
 " And dine with me, old friend, to-day ; 
 " IVe here some ladies wondrous pretty, 
 " And pleasant sparks I'll war'nt will fit thee." 
 He scratched his ears, and held his hat, 
 And said : " No, zur, two words to that ; 
 " For look, d'ye zee, when Ize do dine 
 " With gentlefolks, zo cruel fine, 
 " I do use to make (and 'tis no wonder) 
 " In deed or word zome plag'y blunder, 
 "■ Zo, if your honour will permit, 
 "■ I'll with your zervants pick a bit," &c. 
 From " The Farmer's Blunder ; a Fable." — Gentleman's 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 51 
 
 "Mr. Pleydell, from the investigation which he had for- 
 merly bestowed on the subject, as well as from the general 
 deference due to his professional abilities, was requested to 
 take the situation of chairman, and the lead in the examina- 
 tion." — Ibid. vol. ii. p. 347. 
 
 "A moment after, Mr. Pleydell called out: 'Here's our 
 Liddesdale friend, I protest, with a strapping young fellow of 
 the same calibre.' His voice arrested Dinmont, who recog- 
 nised him with equal surprise and pleasure — ' Od ! if it's 
 your honour, we'll a' be as right and tight as thack and rape 
 can make us.' " — Ibid. vol. ii. p. 270. 
 
 Dinmont at Breakfast. 
 
 "The breakfast party at length assembled, Dandie ex- 
 cepted, who had consulted his taste in viands, and perhaps in 
 society, by partaking of a cup of tea with Mrs. Allan (the 
 housekeeper), just laced with two tea-spoonfuls of Cognac, 
 and reinforced with various slices from a huge round of beef. 
 He had a kind of feeling that he could eat twice as much, 
 and speak twice as much, with this good dame and Barnes 
 (the valet) as with the grand folk in the parlour. Indeed 
 the meal of this less distinguished party was much more 
 mirthful than that of the higher circle." — Guy Mannering , 
 vol. ii. p. 299. 
 
62 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 Magazine^ vol. xiv. p. 44, being the number for January 
 1744, in which commences the "Account of the great trial 
 at Dublin between James Annesley, Esq., and the Earl of 
 Anglesey." 
 
 The entrance into Landy's cabin. 
 
 " They had a bush to draw in and out for the cabin door." 
 Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xiv. p. 324. 
 
 Recognition by affectionate servants. 
 
 Several servants who had lived with his father and been 
 deceived with the story of his death, so industriously propa- 
 gated by his uncle, no sooner heard of his being in Dublin 
 than they came from different parts of the country to see 
 him; and though great pains were taken to deceive them, 
 they nevertheless knew him at first sight. Some of them fell 
 upon their knees to thank heaven for his preservation, em- 
 braced his legs, and shed tears of joy for his return. — 
 Episode in Adventures of Peregrine Pickle; SmoUet's Works, 
 vol. iii. p. 324. 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 53 
 
 Tlie entrance to the cave. 
 
 " For the purpose of further concealment it was usual with 
 the contraband traders, after they had entered, to stuff the 
 mouth of the cave with withered sea weed, loosely piled to- 
 gether as if carried there by the waves.'' — Guy Mannering, 
 vol. ii. p. 53. 
 
 Recognition by Sampson, his affectionate tutor. 
 
 " Here the Dominie could contain no longer. . . . He rose 
 hastily from his chair, and with clasped hands, trembling 
 limbs, and streaming eyes, called out aloud : ' Harry Ber- 
 tram ! — look at me — was I not the man?' . . . The Dominie 
 threw himself into his arms, pressed him a thousand times 
 to his bosom in convulsions of transport which shook his 
 whole frame, sobbed hysterically, and at length, in the em- 
 phatic language of Scripture, lifted up his voice and wept 
 aloud." — Guy Mannering, vol. ii. p. 277. 
 
54 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 Pretended illegitimacy. 
 
 "Thougli we might safely rest our case here^ we will go 
 much farther, and prove the plaintiff a bastard," — Gentle- 
 man's Magazine., vol. xiv. p. 316. 
 
 "My lord A. had a child by Joan Landy, but never by 
 lady A., nor was it ever reputed so." — Ihid. 
 
 " Joan Landy was married to MacOormick after Lord A. 
 left Dunmail." —Ibid. p. 28. 
 
 "A ship called the James of Dublin, Thomas Hendry 
 master, sailed over the bar of Dublin the 30th of April 1728 
 
 this boy did actually sail on board that ship 
 
 There was a long list of names, and among the rest was that 
 of James Ansley." — Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Noble- 
 man, vol. iii. p. 174. 
 
 Proof of identity. 
 
 *' Juggan cried out to those who accompanied her, 'Hold, let 
 me be well assured I am not imposed upon myself. — Neigh- 
 bours, you have often heard me say that that infant was born 
 with a peculiar mark, which if this gentleman can show, then 
 I will suffer death rather than deny him for the heir of Alta- 
 mont.^ 
 
 " The Chevalier, on hearing these words, immediately con- 
 vinced her that she had not been deceived, by uncovering 
 that part of his body where nature had imprinted this happy 
 token. This was sufficient to make the good nurse and every 
 one present melt into tears of joy and bless the Divine Good- 
 ness, who, by means least taken notice of, often brings the 
 greatest events to perfection." — Memoirs of an Unfortunate 
 Young Nobleman, vol. i. p. 206. 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 55 
 
 Pretended illegitimacy. 
 
 " Not to interrupt you, Mr. Glossin," said Pleydell, " I ask 
 you who you say this young man is?" 
 
 " Why, I say/' replied Glossin, " and I believe that gentle- 
 man (looking at Hatteraick) knows, that the young man is 
 a natural son of the late Ellangowan by a girl called Janet 
 Lightoheel, who was afterwards married to Hewit the ship- 
 wright, that lived in the neighbourhood of Annan. His name 
 is Godfrey Bertram Hewit, by which name he was entered on 
 board the Royal Caroline excise yacht." — Gny Mannering, 
 vol. ii. p. 353. 
 
 Proof of identity. 
 
 Gabriel the gipsey added, that his aunt had always said 
 that Harry Bertram carried that round his neck which would 
 
 ascertain his birth " Bertram here produced a small 
 
 velvet bag, which he said he had worn round his neck from 
 
 his earliest infancy The bag, being opened, was found 
 
 to contain a blue silk case, from which was drawn a scheme 
 of nativity. Upon inspecting this paper Colonel Mannering 
 instantly admitted it was his own composition ; and aflForded 
 the strongest and most satisfactory evidence that the pos- 
 sessor of it must necessarily be the young heir of Ellangowan, 
 by avowing his having first appeared in that country in the 
 character of an astrologer." — Guy Mannering, vol. ii. p. 258. 
 
66 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 Recognized by the tenants and populace. 
 
 "That good woman wlio had relieved the distresses of his 
 childhood, when he was indeed in that vagrant condition 
 with which the instruments of his cruel uncle now upbraided 
 him, was still living, and concealed nothing of the Chevalier 
 Richard^s behaviour to him while at her house, and the pre- 
 tence he made to take him thence." — Memoirs of an Unfor- 
 tunate Young Nobleman, vol. i. p. 260. 
 
 " When the people were informed that he was near, they 
 ran out one and all. Shops, streets and houses were left to 
 the care of little children, or such women who only wanted 
 strength to gratify their impatient curiosity; none but 
 whom old age or infirmities kept prisoners remained behind. 
 Happy were the foremost of this joyful crowd ; some pressed 
 to kiss his hands — others clung about his legs — some took 
 the bridle of his horse, leading him as it were in triumph — 
 while those at greater distance threw up their caps and joined 
 in the general cry, ' Long live the heir of Altamont — our 
 own true lord ! ' " — Ibid. p. 263. 
 
 "In this manner, amidst a shouting multitude, was he 
 conducted to the best house the town afforded, and there 
 left, after a thousand benedictions, to receive the congratula- 
 tions of the chief of the province, who hearing of his approach, 
 made all the haste they could to meet him. Many of these 
 remembered his birth, had paid their compliments to him 
 in his infant years, and could still trace great part of the 
 Baroness de Altamont's sweetness in a son who was once 
 thought very like her." Meantime " the populace were busy 
 in making bonfires, ringing the bells, and other demonstra- 
 tions of a public and sincere joy. Early in the morning a 
 troop of young men and maidens, neatly drest with garlands 
 on their heads, and preceded by several musicians, came 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 57 
 
 Recognized by the tenants and populace. 
 
 " ' Let me speak/ said Meg Merrilies, ' what 1 have to say. 
 .... Where's Henry Bertram ? Yes/ she said iu a stronger 
 and harsher tone ; ' I said Henry Bertram of Ellangowan. 
 Stand from the light and let me see him.' 
 
 "All eyes were turned towards Bertram^ who approached 
 the wretched couch. The wounded woman took hold of his 
 hand : ' Look at him/ she said^ ' all that ever saw his father 
 or his grandfather, and bear witness if he is not their living 
 image ? ' A murmur went through the crowd — the resem- 
 blance was too striking to be denied." — Guy Mannering, 
 vol. ii. p. 336. 
 
 " But the Scotch are a cautious people ; they remembered 
 that there was another in possession of the estate, and they 
 as yet only expressed their feelings in low whispers to each 
 other. Our old friend Jock Jabos, the postilion, forced his 
 way into the middle of the circle; but no sooner cast his 
 eyes upon Bertram than he started back in amazement, 
 with a solemn exclamation : ' As sure as there's breath in 
 man, it's auld Ellangowan arisen from the dead ! ' 
 
 "This public declaration of an unprejudiced witness was just 
 the spark wanted to give fire to the popular feeling, which 
 burst forth in three distinct shouts: — 'Bertram for ever!' 
 — ' Long life to the heir of Ellangowan V — ' God send him 
 his ain, and to live amang us as his forebears did of yore V 
 
 "'I hae been seventy years on the land/ said one person. 
 
 " ' I and mine hae been seventy, and seventy to that,' said 
 another; 'I have a right to ken the glance of a Bertram.' 
 
 " ' I and mine hae been three hundred years here/ said 
 another old man ; ' and I sail sell my last cow, but I'll see 
 the young laird placed in his right.' 
 
 " The women, ever delighted with the marvellous, and not 
 
58 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 before his lodgings and presented bim with a rural entertain- 
 mentj which in that country they call the Long Dance. In 
 fine, the whole time he staid gave one continued proof of the 
 sincerity of the people's hearts towards him, and that they 
 were not only convinced of the justice of his pretensions, but 
 also that they thought him worthy of the dignities he 
 claimed.'' — Ibid. pp. 264 - 5. 
 
 Major Richard Fitzgerald. 
 
 " Major Richard Fitzgerald, an officer in the Queen of 
 Hungary's troops, brought from the army on the Rhine. "^ — 
 Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xiv. p. 27. 
 
 " His genius inclined him to the army, and a long peace 
 preventing him from following that avocation at home, he 
 went a volunteer into Germany, and for some gallant action 
 in which he had a principal share was made an officer, and 
 had ever since remained there, till some letters giving him an 
 account of the wonderful accidents that had revealed the 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES, 69 
 
 less SO when a handsome young man is the subject of the 
 tale, added their shrill acclamations to the general all-hail — 
 ' Blessings on him ! he's the very picture of his father. 
 The Bertrams were aye the wale o' the country side.' 
 
 " ' Eh ! that his puir mother, that died in grief and in doubt 
 about him, had but lived to see this day ! ' exclaimed some 
 female voices. 
 
 " * But we'll help him to his ain, kimmers I ' cried others ; 
 ' and, before Glossin sail keep the Place of Ellangowan, we'll 
 howk him out o't wi' our nails ! ' — Ibid. p. 339. 
 
 '■'■ ' Oh ! if the young laird would take my horse ! ' — 'Or 
 mine ' — 'Or mine ' — said half a dozen voices — ' Or mine ; 
 he can trot ten mile an hour without whip or spur, and 
 he's the young laird's frae this moment, if he likes to take 
 him.' .... Bertram readily accepted the horse as a loan, 
 and poured forth his thanks to the assembled crowd for their 
 good wishes, which they repaid with shouts and vows of 
 attachment." — Ibid. p. 342. 
 
 Colonel Guy Mannering. ' 
 
 "Young man," said the Deacon to the servant, filling a 
 glass, " ye'll no be the waur o' this after your ride." 
 
 " Not a feather, sir — thank ye — your very good health, 
 sir." 
 
 " And wha may your master be, friend ?" 
 
 " What, the gentleman that was here ? — that's the famous 
 Colonel Mannering, sir, from the East Indies." 
 
 " What, him we read of in the newspapers ?" 
 
 '•Ay, ay, just the same. It was he relieved Cuddicburn, 
 
60 PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
 
 Chevalier James de Altamont, he resolved to return in hopes 
 of being serviceable to him on his trial .... Accordingly he 
 obtained leave from his general to leave his quarters, and had 
 travelled night and day, fearing to come too late for the good 
 office he intended." — Memows of an Unfortunate Young 
 Nobleman, vol. ii. p. 194. 
 
 Names Suggestive. 
 
 Ash; Elms; Bush • Gent. Magazine, vol. xiv. pp. 141, 318, 90. 
 
 GiFFARD Ibid. vol. xiv. p. 206. 
 
 MacMullen Ibid. vol. xiv. p. 151. 
 
 Annesley (Annie's-lee) • • • Ibid. vol. xiv. p. 25. 
 Shellcross (Ash) Ibid. vol. xiv. p. 141. 
 
 Names Corresponding. 
 
 Barnes Gent. Magazine, vol. xiv. p. 28. 
 
 Kennedy Ibid. vol. xiv. p. 375. 
 
 Jans Ibid. vol. xiv. p. 259. 
 
 Abel (Butler) Ibid. vol. xiv. p. 206. 
 
 Paulus • Mem. of an Unfort. Young Nobleman, vol. ii. p. 149. 
 Arthur (Lord Altham) • Gent. Magazine, vol. xiv. p. 26. 
 
 Dawson Ibid. vol. xiv. p. 258. 
 
 Brown (Christopher) .... Ibid. vol. xiv. p. 28. 
 
PARALLEL PASSAGES. 61 
 
 and defended Chingalore, and defeated the great Mahratta 
 chief, Ram JollL Bundleman — I was with him in most of his 
 campaigns/' — Guy Mannering, vol. i. p. T22. 
 
 Names Suggestive. 
 
 Hazlewood .... Gtiy Mannering, vol. i. p. 158. 
 
 Glossin Ibid. vol. i. p. 150. 
 
 Mac Morlan Ibid. vol. i. p. 151. 
 
 Ellangowan (Ellen-gowan) • • • Ibid. vol. i. p*. 11. 
 Shellicoat (stane) Ibid. vol. ii. p. 149. 
 
 Names Corresponding. 
 
 Barnes Quy Mannering, vol. ii. p. 253. 
 
 Kennedy Ibid. vol. i. p. 83. 
 
 Jans (Janson) Ibid. vol. ii. p. 39. 
 
 Abel (Sampson) Ibid. vol. i. p. 18. 
 
 Paulus (Pleydell) Ibid. vol. ii. p. 282. 
 
 Arthur (Mervyn) Ibid. vol. i. p. 126. 
 
 Dawson Ibid. vol. i. p. 184. 
 
 Brown (Vanbeest) Ibid. vol. i. p. 206. 
 
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