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ceased ; but the minister, in the true spirit of his holy 

 calling, lost no time in employing his influence, which 

 was considerable (he had from the first espoused the Ha- 

 noverian cause, and been personally serviceable both to 

 Lord Loudon and President Forbes, on their retreat from 

 Inverness to the Western Islands, on the return of the 

 then victorious clansmen from the battle of Falkirk), and 

 succeeded in obtaining a pardon for his enemy. The 

 reader will be glad to learn, that after the culprit's re- 

 turn to his native country, he commenced and continued 

 one of the most attached and grateful of his reverend 

 benefactor's pari shioners. 



" So Donald Dhu, who till that time 

 Had been the wildest of his clan, 

 Forsook his crimes, repress'd his folly, 

 And after ten months' melancholy, 

 Became a good and honest man." — The Voyage. 



SUMBURGH ROOST. 



When informed by the captain that we were off Sum- 

 burgh Head, the secretary, in spite of some tremendous 

 lurches, made his way to the foot of the companion stairs, 

 the higher portion of which he found blocked by the body 

 of Jack, the cabin servant, who immediately removed 

 himself upwards. At this moment a heavy sea struck the 

 cutter on her weather quarter, and went right over her. 



