(26) HISrORT of the SOCIEtr. 



wT^toEf • dence or her crimes, the fentiment of the reader, let his hiflo^ 

 rical opinion be ever fo adverfe to the Queen, prevails over his 

 jullice, and the dramatic efFedl of the flory is uniformly, com- 

 palfion for the Princefs, and refentment againft her enemies. 



To him who looks on that portion of hiftory rather with the 

 eye of a moralift than of an antiquarian, her marriage with 

 BoTHWELL is the moft unfavourable palTage of her life, both 

 as afFedling the propriety of her condu6l in that particular, and 

 as tending to corroborate the evidence produced by her ene- 

 mies on the great charge of privacy in the murder of her huf- 

 band. Of that marriage, Dr Henry thus expreffes himfelf, in 

 the letter I mentioned above, written to Mr Tytler on the 

 20th of July '1790, a few months before his (Dr Hi£NRy's) 

 death. " Her laft marriage (fays the Dodlor) was the moft 

 unhappy, and there feems ftill to be fpme difficulty in vindica- 

 ting her condudl in contradling that marriage. Was flie feized 

 by BoTHWELL in her pafTage from Linlithgow, in confequence 

 of a pre-concert, and with her own confent ; or was it by mere 

 violence, and without her having any intimation, that fuch an 

 attempt was made ? If I could anfwer that queftion, I fhould; 

 know what to think of feveral other things." 



In confequence of this letter from Dr. Henry, Mr Tytler 

 wrote a DiJJertntion on the Marriage of- ^een Mary with the 

 Enrl of BoTHWELi. ; which, with the letter that occafioned it,, 

 was pvibliflied, in 1792, in the Tranfadlions of the Antiquarian 

 Society of Scotland, of which Mr Tytler was one of the Vice- 

 prelidents. In this differtation, he maintains, in conjuncflion 

 with Whitaker and Steuart, that the Queen'^s marriage 

 with Both WELL was an objedl which the treacherous Murray 

 and his aifociates had all along wiflied to accompliih, and that 

 it was at laft brought about by the daring ambition (encou- 

 raged by them) of Bothwell himfelf, who, liaving feized the- 

 Queen on her return from vifiting her fon at Linlithgow, car- 

 ried her prifoner to Dunbar, where, by the moft flagitious and 



violent 



