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■frere proportionably moved; and the whole
concluded, not only in prayers, but in firm
relblves, to leave nothing undone for the
recovery of the honour and rights of that
oppreffed kingdom.
We have already feen to what accident
it was owing, that the young Lorn, when
nb more than thirteen years of age, came
into the hands of Angus; but his enter¬
tainment, and the manner of his education,
with a variety of circumftances, both in-
ftrufting and interefting, during his nur¬
ture and tutelage in that family, remains to
be related •, a talk, as our manufcript in¬
forms, which was performed by himfelf,
to gratify the -anxious inclinations of his
generous benefactors.
This fmall, but happy fociety, having
next day conveened in Edmund's garden,
when the feafonable ferenity of a delightful
day contributed to heighten the attention
fuitable to fuch an affeCting narration,
Lorn thus proceeded:
‘You have heard, faid he, by what
means the Tyrant deltined me to confine¬
ment ; how difficult then mult it be for me
to do juftice to that benignity, which, in
place of a prifon, had prepared for me an
Academy j for I had been but a few days
under