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There are likewise monuments, bearing the names of illustrious Scotch families; and inscriptions, in the Scotch dialect, on the walls. In one of the front towers, the only remaining one, indeed, we saw the marble tomb of a nobleman, Lord Belhaven, who is represented reclining on the top, with a bruised nose, of course.

A portrait of Viscount Lord Melville, which he executed for the Archers' Hall, and another picture of Lord Belhaven, painted for the County Hall, in Lanark, are also considered two of his most excellent works. Since the death of Mr. Graham Gilbert, Mr.

Winterfield's wife, and of the explanatory letter written by the rector of Belhaven. Bingen, on the Rhine, May 19. Letters from Devonshire at last, which relieve my wretchedness in some small degree. The frightful misfortune at Brussels will at least be kept secret, so far as I am concerned. Beaupark House is shut up, and the servants are dismissed, "in consequence of my residence abroad."

He thinks I must have been named for Lady Penelope Belhaven, who lived in Leven Lodge, one of the country villas of the Earls of Leven, from whom he himself is descended. "Does that make us relatives?" I asked. "Relatives, most assuredly," he replied, "but not too near to destroy the charm of friendship."

I opened the writing-case in which I keep the papers sent to me by the Rector of Belhaven, and placed them on the table by which she was sitting. The more plainly and briefly I spoke now, the better I thought it might be for both of us. "Since we parted at Brussels," I said, "my wife has died. Here is a copy of the medical certificate of her death." Stella refused to look at it.

Did you ask the Rector, when you went to Belhaven?" "I asked the Rector nothing. But he thought it his duty to tell me all that he knew of the theft." She drew her chair nearer to me. "Let me hear every word of it!" she pleaded eagerly. I felt some reluctance to comply with the request. "Is it not fit for me to hear?" she asked. This forced me to be plain with her.

Two troops of horse, Lord Annandale's and Lord Belhaven's, probably made up the army to the number of above three thousand men. Belhaven rode at the head of his troop: but Annandale, the most factious of all Montgomery's followers, preferred the Club and the Parliament House to the field,

He and Lord Belhaven repaired to London, opened an office in Clement's Lane, formed a Board of Directors auxiliary to the Central Board at Edinburgh, and invited the capitalists of the Royal Exchange to subscribe for the stock which had not been reserved for Scotchmen resident in Scotland.

The heads of three noble houses took three thousand pounds each, the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke of Queensbury and Lord Belhaven, a man of ability, spirit and patriotism, who had entered into the design with enthusiasm not inferior to that of Fletcher. Argyle held fifteen hundred pounds.

There are likewise monuments, bearing the names of illustrious Scotch families; and inscriptions, in the Scotch dialect, on the walls. In one of the front towers, the only remaining one, indeed, we saw the marble tomb of a nobleman, Lord Belhaven, who is represented reclining on the top, with a bruised nose, of course.