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Article HAWKESWORTH'S NOTES on ROBERTSON'S HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. ← Page 3 of 3 Article LETTER II. Page 1 of 2 →
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Hawkesworth's Notes On Robertson's History Of Scotland.
who with a few attendants waited for her . ' Hawkesworth : — ' This is strangel y told ; for , by the first part , it appears tnat Douglas was in the castle , ami having let out the Queen ami one maid , shut the gate after her ; and , by the sequel , that he was waiting for her at the boat . ' Robertson , ibid . ' She instantly mounted on horseback , and rode full speed towards Niddrie , Lord Beaton ' s seat , in West Loihian . '
Hawkesworth : — ' Did she mount before she got on shore ?' Robertson , page 435 . ' He , ( i . e . Hamilton ) took his stand in a wooden gallery , which h-id a window towards the street ; spread a feather-bed on the floor , to hinder the noise of his feet from being heard ; hung up a black cloth behind him , that his shadow might not be observed from withoutaud after all this preparationcalmly
; , expected the Regent ' s approach , who had lodged during the night in a house not far . distant . ' - Hawkesworth : — . Whoever could see his shadow , could ha--e seen him ; and as no man ' s feet make a noise while he stands still , the precaution of vlie feather-bed , after lie had taken his stand , seems ridiculous , and is , probably , false . '
Letter Ii.
LETTER II .
TO THE PEOPLE OP GREAT BRITAIN .
yEItOW COUNTRYMEN , IN an hour when every one of us is called upon to contribute to the defence of his country , will you suffer a plain man to address a few words to yon , on a subject our hearts are all s . - - deeply interested in ? With a foreign and inveterate enemy threatening invasion , and subtle emissaries working to weaken and divide us at home , it
is full time for every man to rouse his attention , to examine their progress , to beware no less , perhaps more , of the danger from within than the menaces from abroad . When day by day you are assailed by publications which libel 3-our government and your religion , which press and insult ou with representations of whatever evils are your portion in the common lot of humanity , and attack the foundation of your best hopes—what will you , in common sense , think of them ? Is this humanity ? Is it the love of mankind?—No .
These are of milder temper . When the Author of Christianity gave a new religion , he did it to unite and console , fs then their morality more pure ? Look to their dilig . -nce in exasperating the sense of difficulty and distress , and to their zeal in breaking the most sacred ties of man to man . Whit means do they leave untried , to goad you on to a fury suited to their purposes ? In the moment of contest for all that is dearthey exposeand piobeand lacerate every wound , and
, , , relax everv weakened ( ibie , in hopes to produce a convulsion that sh'il ! lay the whole body of the slate an exhausted subject , for the attempts of giving new life by cold-blooded experimentalists . Against such men can it be neces .. urv to warn you iarthei ? It was not thus your ancestors gave you a constitution which the experience of a century has blessed in your behalf . They founded it iu moderation ,
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Hawkesworth's Notes On Robertson's History Of Scotland.
who with a few attendants waited for her . ' Hawkesworth : — ' This is strangel y told ; for , by the first part , it appears tnat Douglas was in the castle , ami having let out the Queen ami one maid , shut the gate after her ; and , by the sequel , that he was waiting for her at the boat . ' Robertson , ibid . ' She instantly mounted on horseback , and rode full speed towards Niddrie , Lord Beaton ' s seat , in West Loihian . '
Hawkesworth : — ' Did she mount before she got on shore ?' Robertson , page 435 . ' He , ( i . e . Hamilton ) took his stand in a wooden gallery , which h-id a window towards the street ; spread a feather-bed on the floor , to hinder the noise of his feet from being heard ; hung up a black cloth behind him , that his shadow might not be observed from withoutaud after all this preparationcalmly
; , expected the Regent ' s approach , who had lodged during the night in a house not far . distant . ' - Hawkesworth : — . Whoever could see his shadow , could ha--e seen him ; and as no man ' s feet make a noise while he stands still , the precaution of vlie feather-bed , after lie had taken his stand , seems ridiculous , and is , probably , false . '
Letter Ii.
LETTER II .
TO THE PEOPLE OP GREAT BRITAIN .
yEItOW COUNTRYMEN , IN an hour when every one of us is called upon to contribute to the defence of his country , will you suffer a plain man to address a few words to yon , on a subject our hearts are all s . - - deeply interested in ? With a foreign and inveterate enemy threatening invasion , and subtle emissaries working to weaken and divide us at home , it
is full time for every man to rouse his attention , to examine their progress , to beware no less , perhaps more , of the danger from within than the menaces from abroad . When day by day you are assailed by publications which libel 3-our government and your religion , which press and insult ou with representations of whatever evils are your portion in the common lot of humanity , and attack the foundation of your best hopes—what will you , in common sense , think of them ? Is this humanity ? Is it the love of mankind?—No .
These are of milder temper . When the Author of Christianity gave a new religion , he did it to unite and console , fs then their morality more pure ? Look to their dilig . -nce in exasperating the sense of difficulty and distress , and to their zeal in breaking the most sacred ties of man to man . Whit means do they leave untried , to goad you on to a fury suited to their purposes ? In the moment of contest for all that is dearthey exposeand piobeand lacerate every wound , and
, , , relax everv weakened ( ibie , in hopes to produce a convulsion that sh'il ! lay the whole body of the slate an exhausted subject , for the attempts of giving new life by cold-blooded experimentalists . Against such men can it be neces .. urv to warn you iarthei ? It was not thus your ancestors gave you a constitution which the experience of a century has blessed in your behalf . They founded it iu moderation ,