■82. 



THE BEE, 



LITERARY WEEKLY INrELLIGENCER, 



FOR 



Webnesdav, July ii. 1791. 



SKETCH OF THE LIFE 



OF 



JOHN.E.OPBUCHAN, CONSTABLE OF FRANCE, 



BY ALBANICUS. WITH A PORTRAIT. 



Sir, To the Editor ^ the Bee. 



Maving observed with wonder and regret, that, while 

 the editors of the Biographia Britannica have been ob- 

 truding on the public the lives of obscure clergymen, 

 whose most honourable situation is the fhade, and 

 whose best memorial is their parochial reputation pre- 

 served by the tradition of the people, they have omitted 

 some of the most interesting characters that had es- 

 caped their predecefsors in the former edition of the 

 Biographia, I have thought it might not be improper 

 to throw upon paper, for this respectable miscellany, 

 the outlines of a-life and character, that has been hi- 

 therto unjustly neglected by our Britifh biogra- 

 phers. 



John Stewart, earl of Buchan, constable of France, 

 was the eldest son of Robert, duke of Albany, by his 



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