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The Collector.
snd esteem in all stations , and am more and more assured of his Majesty the Emperor ' s gtace and clemency . It lias pleased his Majesty to transport me out of Hungary , which is a country not , iryach civilized , or cultivated as yet for conversation , nor secure from foreign or intestine wars . And he gave me a much more honourable preferment , and seat , in the hereditary countries , at Labaeh ,
the metropolis of Carniola ; to which belong many estates , with fine castles , near to the castle of Pittour , which belongs to Count Leslie . By means of this promotion , I am advanced to the dignity of Prince of the Empire , which is a great honour to our name and family , seeing none before was elevated ro this title . This Emperor , whom God preserve , not by reason or regard of borrowed merits ^ but , without vain glory ,- for my own comportment , has advanced me within three years to three steps of honour ^ one hig her than the other . I would needs adventure the present , to let you know that 1 live ( how long
God knows , and his will be done !) in a most honourable station . Be p leased to present my duty to ail friends and relations . My residence is on the high post-way between Vienna and Venice / In a letter , July i , 1725 , he " says , ' You ma ^ direct to me in this manner : —To the Bishop of Labaeh , Metropolitan of Carniola , betwixt Vienna and Venice , Privy Counsellor to his Imperial Majesty . The title of Rt . Rev . here is due to others who are inferior " to
bishops . And albeit I be Prince of the Empire , which the Emperor himself and all other Princes in Germany allow me , who enjoy the courtesy of their grace ; j-et I am nowise desirous of those titles in a foreign kingdom , much less in the Land of Cakes . I judge nevertheless fitting , that the graces and honours which his Majesty has bestowed on me , be known to my best friends and nearest relations ,
as a badge of the esteem of the greatest of Monarchs , and as an evidence of my comportment and behaviour , whereby I have not degenerated from tny birth and pedigree . ' In another letter he has the following paragraph , ' I represent a greater person in the theatre of the world , than ever I could have aspired to , or flattered myself to obtain ; far hig her than I deserved , for which I wish I may be grateful to God and my master . ' In these hig h , stations he continued to his death , in 1727 .
ANECDOTE OF THE LESLIES OF BALQUHAYN , ONE of this family , who indulged himself freely in his pleasures , to enjoy them with the greater security built a strong wall round the top of Bennochie , and because the passage to it is through a great moss , he laid a long causeway through the moss to his fort of pleasure , whither he brought such handsome girls as he fancied ,
and could forcibly carry away from their parents and relations , defending himself in this strong hold against such as attacked him to ] recover their ravished relations . The causeway ancl strong , « •<; , ' . ] are to be seen to this day . The country people have a long fabulous legend of a giant , who lived on the top of Bennochie , and did many acts of violence among the inhabitants round him , which took its rise from tlie voluptuous riots of this daring debauchee , vox ., ix . R r
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The Collector.
snd esteem in all stations , and am more and more assured of his Majesty the Emperor ' s gtace and clemency . It lias pleased his Majesty to transport me out of Hungary , which is a country not , iryach civilized , or cultivated as yet for conversation , nor secure from foreign or intestine wars . And he gave me a much more honourable preferment , and seat , in the hereditary countries , at Labaeh ,
the metropolis of Carniola ; to which belong many estates , with fine castles , near to the castle of Pittour , which belongs to Count Leslie . By means of this promotion , I am advanced to the dignity of Prince of the Empire , which is a great honour to our name and family , seeing none before was elevated ro this title . This Emperor , whom God preserve , not by reason or regard of borrowed merits ^ but , without vain glory ,- for my own comportment , has advanced me within three years to three steps of honour ^ one hig her than the other . I would needs adventure the present , to let you know that 1 live ( how long
God knows , and his will be done !) in a most honourable station . Be p leased to present my duty to ail friends and relations . My residence is on the high post-way between Vienna and Venice / In a letter , July i , 1725 , he " says , ' You ma ^ direct to me in this manner : —To the Bishop of Labaeh , Metropolitan of Carniola , betwixt Vienna and Venice , Privy Counsellor to his Imperial Majesty . The title of Rt . Rev . here is due to others who are inferior " to
bishops . And albeit I be Prince of the Empire , which the Emperor himself and all other Princes in Germany allow me , who enjoy the courtesy of their grace ; j-et I am nowise desirous of those titles in a foreign kingdom , much less in the Land of Cakes . I judge nevertheless fitting , that the graces and honours which his Majesty has bestowed on me , be known to my best friends and nearest relations ,
as a badge of the esteem of the greatest of Monarchs , and as an evidence of my comportment and behaviour , whereby I have not degenerated from tny birth and pedigree . ' In another letter he has the following paragraph , ' I represent a greater person in the theatre of the world , than ever I could have aspired to , or flattered myself to obtain ; far hig her than I deserved , for which I wish I may be grateful to God and my master . ' In these hig h , stations he continued to his death , in 1727 .
ANECDOTE OF THE LESLIES OF BALQUHAYN , ONE of this family , who indulged himself freely in his pleasures , to enjoy them with the greater security built a strong wall round the top of Bennochie , and because the passage to it is through a great moss , he laid a long causeway through the moss to his fort of pleasure , whither he brought such handsome girls as he fancied ,
and could forcibly carry away from their parents and relations , defending himself in this strong hold against such as attacked him to ] recover their ravished relations . The causeway ancl strong , « •<; , ' . ] are to be seen to this day . The country people have a long fabulous legend of a giant , who lived on the top of Bennochie , and did many acts of violence among the inhabitants round him , which took its rise from tlie voluptuous riots of this daring debauchee , vox ., ix . R r