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house: " All !" cried he, with transport, "Ah !
who are you, respectable and benevolent old man,
to yflaorn I ow,g -4,4_ore than to my ow rather ? ipeak,
I beg of yo ti tavour me with the name of so gene•
yous a benefador in whom I. an) so singularly inter
rested, and who'se dayd Heaven seems to have pro-
longed, that -be--may--find in me the most tender
and respe6table of friends, and the most grateful of
,men !" . " Leave-me, my. deaF Lord," said the old
man, in haste, " I am too weak to bear a longer
conversation, leave me, I beg; take that box and
bid adieu to an old ffian, who thinks himself less

unfortuuate „since he lsas had the happiness of hoide
ing you in his arms." " Ah ! whoecer your are,"
said'Lord S. " and whatever reasons you may have
to conceal the name of so generous a man, can
you have the cruelty to oblige me to' obey you ? to
abandon you in such a situation, without friends,
without help, without " Stop, my Lord ! it
is -with pleasure I see in you such generous senti-
ments; but know that your friend (since you think
him worthy of that title), however unfortunate he
may be in other respe4s, is still free from want;
therefore, if ado, wish to oblige me; leave me, my
Lord,. instantly,; eaysa. do More, and believe me I
have ,a right te 7;detltOd it : swear to me that you
will never cemeehere again, nor ever search after
the; unlesqeend-for •yde." His Lordship seeing by
his toneoi -miseS.6atehe would not be refused, pro-.
misedeo obey hiree„- once more: embraced him, and
left him with teals in his eyes. On his return home
he immediately opened the box, and foonel a great
number of fiapers which he judged would be of
great use to him.. Next morning as he was prepare
jag (dotwithstehding ,his promise) to return to the
Old man, he was suddenly stepped by the following
letter, sealed With his-own arms, mid, to his extreme
surpriseesigned Gorge Stair.
Do not aceurie to me, my dear LOrd, for you
will not find, Mee, • If it had been only tO tell you
who I am, that is, your great grand-father, Who has
been so long supposed dead, and who justly deserv-
ed to be so, I shouldeiot have opposed your desire
of knowing youte.teeeefaaor ; but the consequences
which I foresaw of so interesting a scene, too much
so for my weak age to bear,' made. me 'dread td satisfy
your curiosity on circumstances which far froth offer-
itig to you so.dear. and respectable a relation as you
imagined, esseuld only have shown to you a wretch—
, amonsteeless worthy of pity than of horror.
" Mk-father, died ifew months after my birth ;
ony'mother sookfollowed him ; I was left to the
I care of an aunt, sister to my father, who brought me
op so tenderly that ',though., she was the cause of
my crime) I still retain the most grateful remem-
brance of her in my heart. I was scarce seventeen, •
whenerruckeivith indignation at seeing my country-
men armed against their !assent sovereign, I formed
the •design of tendering to King Charles I. the offer
•of my tontine and sword : but vsitat was my aSt'/•••
eishment when at di, losing my intention to my-
- good. aunt, I saw her trembling lift her 'hands to
Heaven, end lookat me with a' kind of horror. Sur-
, prised and offlielelai -the state she was in, and !Urn-
- ing with impatience' to know tee reason, " You
force ine then to tell you," cried she, bursting into
tears, '"‘ know :then that the Prince you are-so •
•deersais of ;Wesreing, is the author of my shame
and your lather'S death. I was about fifteen, and
-among tire atteedafitS who waited on his mother,
when the' wretch; imposing on my age and credulity
by the the most sacred oaths, contrived to seduce
me--ein short, levas ruined. The perfidious Prince,
soon after, went to Spain, in hopes of marrying the
Infanta. I should have been entirely lost if your
Other had not come to London : to him I was ob.
liged to own meamisfortune and the consequancea
which I dreaded. That dear brother, afflied even
to tears, eateitnneedlately to the Queen, obtained -
permission toatake meetway, and sent me to one of
his seats near Edinburgh, where I remained till I
was perfectly recovered. Alas ! (added she) I was
&anted to seedahn eo More. The grief which he
conceived for my undoing soon killed him, and his
worthy wife, earheifter bringing you into the world,
►survieed only a month. Stich, my dear nephew,
were the secrets .and deplorable motives which re-
duced me to that obscurity in which. I have, since
lived,.and of which you are alone acquainted. Judge
now, my friend, if after the care I have taken of
your infancy, and the education I have procured you,
say; can you devote your fortune and arms to the eu-
thor of so many calamities, to a barbarian who has
carried death into the breasts-of your 'parents and
into 'nine eternal remorse." Ne, cried I, by God !
no, the wretch is unworthy-phlife, and he shall die
by 'my
,haed !. To tell you, my-Lord, by whit means,
as refined as dangerous, my fury against the King.cen-
tinually increahae),,aavas etlast able to fulfil my re-.
venge and execratilemathe to. tell you all the eyelets,
and the excess of .rernorse Which: soenTfollewed
crime, would be-now too grievous in my.weak state
to relate.. Be. peisfrestaWitn knbwirig that yodasay
abhor me as muefreeal 'detest myself ; that the ex-,
ecutioner of Kitt!ettatieS I. who appeared under a
mask, was in feet no other than your unWorthy too
guilty great grand-father, Sir George Stair.' "
From 1649, (when.Cb.ark6 T. was _beheaded) god
• 1743 (when illOt nettle of Detti,n.geu was fought)
there is. an interval .of 94 years. tin a supposition;
that Sir George Stair -wes tweety years iici whetehe
ebmmitu.d his crime, his age in 1743. tnust hive
been 114 years.
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The anonymous author of these Memoirs,' adds,
that whatever Wert • :Ws; emotions of Lord Staite-at
reeding'tais first care was.to.iook the
street anii holea?'{vhere he Tied 'seen his great grande
father;• thqii7z'suse erne y, he had learnt
fruits the neighbours ffe-atcrOkad only been occupied
since eight days ; that 'it SaS never known by whom;
that siSe es the preceding night the servants had aban-
doned. it, fur,ii,:lied as it wa,; that- they could not
tell of whom the'tenent-hel,. tire house, the proprie-
:Ur bring bop& since settled let America.