from human infirmity by torture, he resolved to elude the vengeance of his enemies by suicide. Previous to inflicting on himself the fatal stroke, Strozzi gave directions for the disposal of that portion of his effects which escaped the shipwreck of his fortune. The particulars of a will which he wrote in prison are related by Babzac, who saw it among the cabinet papers of the Frangipani family. "As it is probable," says the defeated republican in his last testament, as it is probable that my remains will be ignominiously buried in the city of Florence, it is my last and earnest request, that my children will find means of disinterring my body and procuring its conveyance to Venice. "As it was not my happiness to live and die in a free city, I hope they will not refuse me the comfortable assurance at the hour of death, that my bones shall hereafter repose undisturbed in a land of liberty and beyond the reach and malice of my enemies." Strozzi little imagined, that what he called the land of liberty, would in little more than two centuries from the time of his death be over-run and plundered by republican desperadoes, and finally be delivered over by the heroes of liberty to an absolute monarch. The will concludes with the writer's throwing himself on the mercy of God, to pardon the crime of suicide, which he felt himself compelled to commit, in order to preserve his honor inviolate; he trusts his life will be considered as sacrificed, however ineffectually, in defending the freedom of his country. It is observed by a modern writer, who flourished at the com mencement of the French revolution, that if Brutus should meet with Strozzi in the Elysian fields, he would assuredly einbrace him as a genuine patriot and an honest republican, stimulated by motives similar to those, which induced the stern reformer of Rome to plant his dagger in the dictator's heart. The cordiality of their meeting I am not disposed to doubt; but if the murderer of Julius Cæsar and the assassin of De Medicis could be informed how very little the crimes they committed added to the liberty or the happiness of their country, but rather to the misery and oppression of their fellow citizens, the Roman and the Florentine would probably confess their mistaken and inexpedient zeal, and own, that in their endeavours to re move move petty evil and imaginary his coffin and shroud on tressels at the foot of his bed. grievance, they had introduced enormous and incurable mischief. Like the enchanter in fairy land, who to forward the private purposes of selfishness, ambition, pleasure, sensuality, or revenge, brought down on a devoted country war, famine, pest, volcano, storm, and fire. A NDREW BORDE, or as he chose to write his name, ANDREAS PERFORATUS,by the same rule that plenum sed is latin for full butt. This singular man, who, to use his own words, had travelled through and round about Christendom and out of Christendom, was born at Pevensey and educated at Winchester, where he practised as a physician in the middle part of the sixteenth century; but extending his fame either by professional success, the strange books he published, or the eccentric habits of his life, he removed to London, became a fellow of the college and was appointed physician to king Henry the eighth. Having been a Carthusian monk in the early part of his life, he observed many of the severities and mortifications of that order after he had quitted it; drinking water, wearing a shirt of hair-cloth, and placing He more particularly set his face against marriage, insisting that celibacy was an indispensable duty in all who were or had been connected with any religious order. religious order. Acting under these convictions, he not only abstained from marriage himself, but coarsely attacked such of the clergy, dignified or others, who presumed to marry. These and other acts of imprudence drew on him the notice and censure of John Ponet, bishop of Winchester, who, consistently with his Calvinistic principles, had taken to himself a wife after carefully watching the proceedings of the physician, the prelate at last imagined that he had laid himself open to an attack on the score of morals, for which he had so much valued himself, and this other mens intermedler with other matters was served with a citation from the ecclesiastical court and examined strictly before several justices of the peace. The enemies of Andrew, exasperated by the rudeness of his attacks, insisted that he converted his dwelling into a brothel and made his medical profession a cloak for lewdness and debauchery, enticing to his house many weak and many wicked women, women, under pretence of medi'cal consultation. This was touching the doctor in a tender place, for he valued himself on chastity, and as a Carthusian, had assumed the name of, or been called by others, the virgin priest. Insisting that his accusers should confront and meet him face to face, he required of them to produce the persons with whom he was accused of carrying on this unhallowed intercourse; they readily named Magdalen Lambe, Alice Bowyer, and other notorious prostitutes. The persons named were directly sent for, when Borde proved to the satisfaction of the magistrates, as well by ocular proof as their own confession, that these loose women had indeed visited him at secret hours, not for unlawful purposes, but to seek relief for certain loathsome diseases, by which their lives were not only endangered, but their countenances disfigured. The physician further appealed to the bishop, the magistrates, and all present, if it was probable, that a man of common sense, taste, or discernment, who had a professional reputation, and who had already more than half disarmed his passions by never having indulged them, he asked if it was likely, that such a person would risk his credit, the salvation of his soul, and the health of his body, by an illicit intercourse with objects so miserable, so very unlikely to excite or gratify the passions. Having established his innocence by this convincing species of internal evidence, his enemies retired in confusion. The works of Borde are scarce and curious, not wholly void of amusement and information; of this description is An Introduction to Universal Knowledge; Knowledge; which teacheth a man to speak all languages, and know the fashion of all countries; written partly in verse and partly in prose, with wooden cuts; one at the beginning exhibits a naked man with a piece of cloth lying on his arm and a pair of scissars in his hand, with a copy of verses underneath, beginning with the two following: I am an Englishman, and naked The Breviary of Health; wherein are remedies for all diseases, and in which obscure. Greek, Latin, and other barbarous terms are explained. London, 1547. Next followed "The Merry Tales of the Madmen of Gotham; tham;" this was accounted a mirthful and witty book. A right, pleasant, and merry History of the Miller of Abingdon. He also wrote on Prognostics and Urines. At length, after all his peregrinations, he was imprisoned in the Fleet, where he died in 1549; having exposed himself to this penalty by persevering in his unruly attacks on married clergymen; apparently forgetting, that those who have no wives of their own are very apt to make use of the wives of other people. ANGUS FOY FLETCHER, an inhabitant of Glenorchay, in the highlands of Scot land, of whom a sketch has been given by a minister of that remote district, who united easy manners with piety and learning, but could pardon and pity a want of correct conduct and uniform orthodoxy in others: I speak in the past tense, because seas and continents separating us prevent my ascertaining whether he is now living, and because at a certain time some of his neighbours thought and acted a little differently. Angus, with the particulars of whose birth, parentage, and education, we are not made acquainted, discovering an early relish for solitude and a dis taste for social intercourse, devoted the whole of his time and attention to fishing and shooting, as well for the purpose of indulging his favourite propensity, as for exercise, amusement, and procuring the means of subsist ence. At a distance from any neighbourhood, with his dog and gun, a dirk and spear, a belted plaid and brogs, he built his hut and resided in the wildest and most mountainous parts of Glenorchay and Rannoch. Depending wholly for food on what he caught or killed, and the produce of a few goats, he ranged over hill, heath, and forest, and returning to his little flock in the evening, drove them into his hut, feasted on the produce of the day, then stretching himself at length on a little dry grass with his humble companions, he slept undisturbed till the approach of morn, when he again sallied forth, drove his cattle to a spot of fresh herbage, and after a hasty morsel, plunged into the wilderness. He associated neither with man nor woman; and if accident or necessity threw a human creature in his way, he felt evident pain, which he always endeavoured to remove by getting away. If, after erecting his hut, he discovered Such was the stubborn inde discovered that it was built near a sequestered hamlet, or the out-pendence of his spirit and such lying grounds of any remote farm which had escaped his notice, or if he found himself often interrupted by visitors, he instantly moved house, (with him, no very burthensome or tedious business) and proceeded to build another in a situation less frequented, and sometimes apparently inaccessible. Thus occupied and so situated, spring, summer, autumn, and part of winter passed away; but when the benumbing coldness of December came on, the bitterness of which in that country a South Briton scarcely can conceive, Angus descended with reluctance from his solitary den on the mountain, and submitted unwillingly to the necessity of residing among his fellow creatures; but here, from habit, or design, he rose at break of day, was absent till night, and generally retired to rest without being spoken to or speaking, heard or seen. This singular character is described as attentive to and neat in his dress; his looks, deportment, and attitude, as dignified and lofty; his pace, excepting when he avoided meeting company, slow, measured, and somewhat stately. VOL, IV his unbending pride, (we want a little of this right sort of pride to the south of the Tweed) that he would have perished rather than ask a favour of any one yet the same man killed, prepared, and cooked the whole of his food; made his bed, washed his shirt, and performed every spe cies of domestic drudgery with his own hands. Such was Angus Foy, haughty under the most humiliating circumstances; and at a period, and in a country civilized and christian, exhibiting himself in the original state of man, when just emerged from barbarism and savage manners; a hunter; a fisher, and a herdsman, wholly unacquainted with religion, reading, writing, or the English language. His meritorious conduct, in two respects, ought not to pass unnoticed. He once rescued a female from robbery, violation, and probably from murder, who never knew or saw the face of her benefactor, as after her deliverance, he accompanied her in silence through the midnight gloom to the door of her dwelling, and suddenly disappeared without uttering a word. The hero of this action would never have been guessed at, but from |