Star.
London, England, 1827-05-10 00:00:00

COWSLIPS.

ST PIIRCY'ROLLIL
flitiOnekes et my early Mors,
ail I love your golden lowers !
. tbe wayside primrose pale,
• Plotting in the wintry gale;
Vet the daisy ; no, nor yet,
" " fif kit eet-seented violater
'lialsolt I love them each, can be
liver half so dear to me!
Tales of olden tittle, ye tell
pr the sweet-toned Sabbath bell,
Meerd, as through the mead we trod,
To the distant NOUN of Gee;
Of the brook in verdure lost;
•• Of the rustic bridge we crest;
Golden palhway-..gslilen hours,
Then my very thoughts were Rowers!
I remember when the day
Morning's dew had dried away,
• 7, one of an infant band,
With an eager eye and hand, •
Soegtrand plucked your chasten belle,
In the shady woods and dells;
Nor forgot that shot:hi be mine,
Fragrant tea, and future wine !
' Days of Infancy, alas!
Why de ye so quickly pass?
What. would I relinquish now,
Fos that sunny eye and brow.;
For that meek and unwarp'd wiU;
•
For that ignorance of ill;
Which were mine at five years oiJ,
Ere life's dark pages were unreU'di •
Since I follow weightier things,
Vanish'd are my spirit's wings;
Cloudless is my heart no more,
But with Care all shadow'd o'er :
Never may it know Again
The pure Joy that *arm% it then,
Whet( its highest hopes were crewel...
Hopes, a Cowslip field could bound
LOVAT CLAIM Or PEERAGE.

This claim is now in progress of prow ution before the Home of
Ueda. Owing to the state of health of same of the witnesses they
have been examined in Scotland ; and their evidence is just returned
to the House. The following are extracts i
Alexander Fraser asked (7th question)—Have you, or not, ever
heard front any member of the family, and if so, from which In
particular, who *as reputed to be the father of Simon Lord Loam,
Who was beheaded in the year 1747 ; if yea' set forth what you
have SO heard from them, or any of them, relative to the matters
inipilred after by this questitto, according to the best of your remem-
brance and belief ?
After replying to the 6th qiestlon, that he was welt acquainted
with different members of the fasniky of Fraser of ,Lovat, who 'are
now Amused ; that be was gamekeeper to General Sim ,m Fraser
of mat, from the time that the estate of Lovat was ristored
to him till his death; that .he was born in this place. which is
situated within half a inftle• of Beaufort Castle, and has resided
bap, aU.his lifetime. Depones, that the deponent's father was a
• seriant to Simon Lord Lovat, and also lived at this place all his
lifetime. Depones, that the deponent recollects Simon Lord Lovat,
sod remembers his Lordship being at a christening near this place,
when, after the ceremony was over, he took the deponent into his
coach, and that this wmabout three years before the battle of Cullo-
den.' Depones, that be was also well acquainted with Alex. Fraser,
second son of Simon Lord Levet, commonly called the Brigadier.
who resided many years in the deponent's near neighbourhood, and
that the deponent knew the said Brigadier front the period of the
battle of Culloden till the time of his death. Deposes that he was
else very well acquainted With the late Colonel Archibald Camp-
belt*Fraser of Lovat, youngest son of Simon Lord Lovat, for a
great -many years, and for at least upwards ,4 50 years; and ea he,
Am knew the children of the said' Colonel Archibald Campbell
Fratur, viz.. Simon, Archibald, and William, and there was. see
Who"died in London, whose name he does. not know. hfej
inusWered• to the seventh qUestion;—That he has beard that Altai
latliteriefSimon Lorchluvat; who Wall beheaded in the year 1747,
Alto Vatted Thomas' Fraser of Beaufort, and that this, deponent ro.,
ceivael this information from his
.0103 father; and• that the said;
Thomas' Fraser of Beatifort lived at Tomich in ;he perish of Urray.
• the Bth question, he answered* that Alexander Simon Lord
Lovat and John, Fryer were all the sons or children of Thomas,
Armee of Beaufort ; that Alexander/tied a fiddler for plating the
ftaland air of " Ha Pits& er Mae Theasask" which the said Alex-
ander-en:lce ved. to be in derision of hint, and he never heard that
the said Alexander was married; that Simon succeeded to the
property and title of laivat, and that John, the youngest son of
.Thomas of Beaufort, was killed at the
-battle of Glenshiel, a young
man unmarried; that he learned these particulars about the family
Of, Lovat from his own father and the neighbours. He adds, that
be never beard fibril any member of the Lovat family. nor from
any other person, that Simon Lord luvat was reputed in the family
to have had any uncle er uncles by the father's side. That he cannot
sign his name, owing to a great tremor in his hand. AU which
Is truth,as he shall answer to Goo.
Hugh Maclean depones that he was eighty-one years of age on
the 30th of October last • that he took a farm on the forfeited
ettateuf Levu, and possessed the same for fifty-one years, during
tightets bang period he was Intimate with the successive proprietors
of the estate of Lovat, he. that io 1757 he got acquainted with the
mid General Simon Fraser, the eldest son and heir of Simon Lord
*Liver, whowas beheaded in the year 1747, and the deponent's re-
keens wished the deponent to accept of a commission in a High-
land• regiment which the said General Simon Fraser was theta
raising, ate. that he was well acquainted with Alexander Fraser,
called the Brigadier (the only brother-german of General Sines
Fraser aforesaid), who often visited the deponent's father, and
npon some of those occasions the said Brigadier Alexander Fraser
passed the night in the deponent's father's house, and upon such
occasions. the deponent, then a boy, used to leave a bottle of
whiskey at the Brigadier's bedside, to be drunk by him Marin
the tight, and which be generally finished before morning. De-
poses, that the said Alexander Fraser-died unmarried in the year,
1762,' and 'the deponent accompanied his funeral to lOrkbill.
In the county of Inverness, and saw his coffin deposited, in the
family tomb is the Church of Kirkhill. Deposes, that the deponent
also knew, indmitelyobb late Colonel Archibald Canipbell Fraser
tif Lovat, who was' he only other brother of the said Geo. Frame
hiving been the only son of the said Simon Lord Laval's sesoast
marriage; and the deponent knows very well that the said Colonel
Archibald Campbell Fraser survived all his hue sons, who all died
unmarried and without lawful issue ; and he was particularly well
acquainted with Simon. the eldest of the said hue sons. That in
hisaarly years he was told by the late General Simon Fraser of
Loom; or thy said Brigadier Alexander Fraser his brother, that
Thianaa Frasee of Beaufort, commonly called the Lord Lovat's
son, was the Cathie of Simon Lord Lovat, who was beheaded in.
thei;year 17t7, and that he was their grandfather. That he was
also toid, either by the said Geoeral Simon Fraser, or the said
Bi*adier Alexander Fraser, and the tradition is still current in the
B#linds, that She GaeliC song " Ha Pitag cr Mac Thomash"
was composed In derision of the said Alexander Thomas of Beau-
foes eldest son. •
Miss hi.,Mackenxie deposed that froru what she has heard her
grandmother and ocher relations mention, she firmly believes that
there are now no male descendants of the said Sir Sunny Fraser of.
Tnieralloclay, secend.son of Lord Lovat, in existence ; and deposes,.
that she ha, often heard her grandmother lament the total eatioc-
tion of all the males of tbebraoch of Inverallochy, as thereby open-
ing:nithe sucerisitioto the estate of Lir., ender General Fraser's
entail in 1774, to another and more distant branch of the house of
Lovat, which die knows and heard her grandmother mention to be
thai.of Fraser of Stricken.
phi ill. Fraser depones that she was very well acquainted with
seettral members of the family, of the Fusers of Lovat, who are
stem deceased ; thatthe deponent has a perfect recollection of hay-
log, when a child, seen Simon Lord Levet, who Was beheaded in
3747 ; thatshe was particularly well acquainted, and of habits of
btianacy, with Alexandfelffraser commonly called the Brigadier,
leeridson of the said &Mon Lord Low.; that the deponent was
also acquainted with Gin. Simon Fraser, late of Levet, the eldest
sweigt the mid Popop Lord Loam, icc. That the deponent always
wiaratiOd from the family of Lorat, and the different members,
thereof:es well tri from the members of her own family (and par-
tici/lady from be father, John Teaser of Farraline), which she
always -considedid s branch of the Lovat family, that Thomas
. react of Beanlert,Wmiger son of Hugh tbe, apsh Lord Lovat,
wig the rather ofadb lard Loyat,whu was beheaded M 1747, dr.c.