VISIT TO EUROPE: RESIDENCE IN EDINBURGH. 185 



ing of the pictures of that artist would be regarded as a 

 proof of want of loyalty, and of course the visits ceased. 

 This was very narrow and illiberal, and of a piece with the 

 execution of Col. Hayne. From 1812 to 1822, he was 

 Governor-General of India. In 1824 he was appointed 

 Governor of Malta, and resided there until 1825, when he 

 died on board of the British ship-of-war Revenge in the 

 bay of Baiae, near Naples. It is mentioned to his honor, 

 that his " profuse liberality and generous hospitality," par- 

 ticularly to the French emigrant noblesse, clouded the 

 later years of his life. His country-seat was near Edin- 

 burgh, and Holyrood House was occupied by the Count 

 D'Artois and his friends of the Bourbon family ; and again it 

 became an asylum for French exiles after the fall of Charles 



X. in 1830 



Among the celebrities of Edinburgh, Mr. Listen (after- 

 wards Sir Robert Listen) must not be forgotten. Probably 

 he had no more to do with science than the Earl of Moira ; 

 for, unlike him, he had passed a public life, not in the field, 

 but accredited as a minister to most of the cabinets of 

 Europe, and to that of the United States. He had had, 

 therefore, an opportunity to study the science of govern- 

 ment. From Henry Thornton, Esq., M. P., I had brought 

 a letter of introduction to a venerable friend of his in Edin- 

 burgh, Mr. R. S. Moncrieff ; and he was on terms of inti- 

 macy with Mr. Listen. Mr. Moncrieff, learning from me 

 that I bore a letter from Col. Pickering to Mr. Listen, 

 proposed that we should ride out together on horseback to 

 Mr. Liston's residence at Melbourne, five miles from Edin- 

 burgh, in season for breakfast. We were received by Mrs. 

 Liston with great politeness, and then by her husband, who 

 was called in from the field, where he was directing the 

 agricultural operations of spring. During the administra- 

 tion of General Washington, Mr. Liston had been long 

 resident minister of Great Britain at the American court, 

 which was then held in Philadelphia. They (Mr. and Mrs. 



