duchy; and fince the family hath been long Teated in the counties of Leicester and Cambridge, where Chriftopher Shute, Efq; refided, whofe fon Robert was bred to the law, and was one of the Barons of the Exchequer in 1579. He married a daughter of Chriftopher Burgoyne, Efq; by whom he had 4 fons and a daughter, married to John Hatton, Efq; anceftor of the Lord Viscount Hatton, which title is now extinct. Francis, the eldest fon, married Frances, daughter to Hercules Meautys, of Effex, Efq; by whom he had two fons, Samuel and Benjamin: the eldeft was fheriff of London in 1681, and left two daughters, his coheirs. Benjamin, the youngest fon, married Elizabeth, daughter to Carroll, Efq; and had iffue three fons and three daughters.Samuel, the eldeft, was lieutenant-colonel of horfe, and governor of New England, and died unmarried, aged 80 years, in April 1742.-Benjamin died a batchelor in 1714. John was created Viscount Barrington.-Of the daughters, Mary was married to Henry Yeamans, Efq;-Martha to Henry Bendifh, Efq; and Anne, first to Richard Offley, Efq; and fecondly, to Richard Scrope, Efq. (Ift Viscount.) John Shute, the youngest fon, was a commiffioner of the cuftoms, till removed in 1711 by Queen Anne, in whofe reign, John Wildman, of Becket, in the co. of Berks, fettled his large eftate upon him, though no relation, and hut of flender acquaintance, having always approved of the Roman cuftom of adoption.Some years after, he had another confiderable eftate left him by Francis Barrington, of Tofts, Efq; and he, pursuant to the deed of fettlement, procured an act of parliament, to affume the name and bear the arms of Barrington. He was member of parliament for the town of Berwick upon Tweed. And his Majesty King George the First was pleased to create him a peer of Ireland, by privy feal, dated at St. James's, 10th June, and by patent at Dublin, ft July, 1720, by the titles of Baron Barrington of Newcastle, in the county of Dublin, and Viscount Barrington of Ardglafs, in the county of Down, to him and his heirs male. He married Anne, eldest daughter of Sir William Danes, Knight, by whom he had 7 fons and 4 daughters, of whom 7 furvived him, viz. ift for, William Wildman, the ad and prefent Viscount. zd John, a major-general, and colonel of the 8th regiment of foot, lieutenant governor of Berwick, whofe memory is endeared to his country, for his gallant behaviour in the late war. He died in 1764, leaving issue by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Florentius Vaffal, Efquire, three fons, viz. William, now prefumptive heir to his uncle the present Viscount, Richard, and, George. 3d fon, Daines, a king's council, and one of the prefent judges of the grand feffion in Wales. 4th Samuel, Admiral of the Blue, who diftinguifhed himfelf, during the late and former wars, in feveral campaigns. 5th Shute, the precent Bishop of Salisbury, in England; married, first, to Lady Diana Beauclerk, daughter to Charles duke of St. Albans; and, fecondly, to Jane, daughter of the late Sir John Guife, Baronet. Ift daughter, Sarah, married to Robert Price, of Hereford, Efquire, and is fince dead. 2d Anne, married to Sir Thomas Clarges, Baronet, by whom she had the present Sir Thomas Clarges, and died in 1780. And his lordship dying 14th December, 1734, was fucceeded by his eldest son, (2d Viscount.) William Wildman Barrington, the fecond Viscount. [Titles.] The right hon. William Wildman Barrington, Lord Viscount Barrington, of Ardglafs, in the county of Downe, and Baron Barrington, of Newcastle, in the co. of Dublin. [Creation.] So created ift July, 1720, 6th Geo. I. [Arms.] Pearl, three chevronels, ruby, a label of three points, faphire. [Creft.] On a wreath, a Capuchin friar, proper, with black hair, a band about his neck, filver, vefted pally of fix pearl and ruby, with a cap or cowl of the fame. [Supporters.] Two gryphons, with wings expanded, topaz, and gorged with labels, as in the coat. [Motto.] Honefta, quam fplendida. (Honeft things, rather than splendid.) [Seats.] Becket Houfe, county of Berks, 60 miles from London; and Tofts, in the county of Effex, 32 miles from London. To Sophia. I HAVE a most affecting incident to relate to you, my Sophia. My Lord infifte that you should be acquainted with it. He knows that I have been used to confide every thought to you as to another felf; and fearful that a delicacy to him hould have made me omit a narrative in which he bears fo large a part, he requests me particularly to make you a recital of it; thus in every refpeét does he prevent my wishes. My tale will beguile you of many a tear-I have al ready fhed rivers, but I will keep you in fufpenfe no longer. I was walking with my Lord a few nights ago, and enjoying all the luxuries of a fummer's evening. We had rambled three miles from home, and were P 2 loiter loitering by the fide of a large wood, when I ftumbled against a ftump of a tree, and unable to recover myself, fell to the ground. My Lord caught me up, but I had fprained my foot, and could not fet it to the ground. He was much alarmed, and carried me with what fpeed he could to a cottage, which ftood a little way off. Before he reached it, I fainted; and when I recovered, I found myfelf in a neat room, my hufband and a genteel pretty-looking young woman at tending anxiously upon me. I foon grew better, and he left the house in queft of a messenger from one of the neighbouring cot tages, to difpatch to the caftle with orders for the carriage to come for us.-While he was abfent, another very neat and modeftlooking girl came in from an oppofite door, leading in her hand a boy about three years old, the moft lovely infant I ever beheld; no angel was ever painted fo divine: I exclaimed my admiration at the fight of him. The young women would have carried him away, but the charming child extended his little arms towards me. I defired they would bring him towards me, and I folded him fondly in my arms. "Are either of you mother to this fweet babe?" I afked. They blushed, and the eldeft replied, "No" that its mother was their fifter, but they had the misfortune to lofe her. "And where is its father?" I rejoined. The poor girls hefitated; tears flood in their eyes. I repented my curiofity. I told them to be comforted; that I would ask nothing of them which would pain them to tell. At this inftant my Lord entered. I called to him to come and look at the little cherubim I held in my lap. The engaging child held out his hand. I obferved that he looked confused, and unde termined whether to advance. In an inftant I difcovered the mystery. "Ah! my Lord," faid I, "why fhould you hefitate to own fuch a child as this? Am I not right? I fee I am, and I will love it the better. So faying, I almost fmothered it with careffes. My Lord haftened to me, and encircling us both in his arms, his feelings grew too powerful for him, and he could only articulate, "My beft Louifa! My poor little hapless to him; but he affured me he had often wish ed to confide this story to me, but could ne ver get the better of a consciousness that tiec his tongue. He then related to me the following moft interesting and affecting circumi ftance, which I will give you as nearly as I can in his own words. You know, my dear Louifa, that it was my uncle who left me the house and eftate we are now at. I was always a favourite with him. I paffed two or three months with him every year at the caftle. It is now near four years fince, being on a vifit to him, I walked out one morning with my gun, and chance led me to the wood through which we ftrayed this afternoon. I was pleafed with the fpot, and ftruck into the midft of it, in hopes of finding game. I had not advanced far, when I efpied, fitting on the grafs, a young woman of a fuperior mien to the generality of the village girls. She wore a clean linen gown, and a ftraw bonnet, which was tied with a bunch of green ribbonds; and being slipped almoft to the back of her head, difcovered one of the fweeteft faces in the world, with the moft informed, animated countenance that could be seen. I obferved fhe had been weeping. I longed to accoft her, but I refpected her folitude too much to dare to interrupt it. At the noife, however, of one of my dogs which ran paft her, the rose, and with a penfive air taking the path I was in, we met, but I ftopped her. "You are in diftrefs," faid I. She darted at me one of the most penetrating looks, and then with an air of the greateft franknefs the answered, "Yes, Sir, I am in diftrefs; my mother will be ruined, and for my fake." She wrung her hands, and burft into tears. I feized them in mine; I conjured her to explain herfelf. "My mother," faid fhe, rents a farm of Mr. Courtenay, but his fteward is going to turn her out, and all because I will not marry him; indeed, fooner than bring my poor mother and fifters to diftress, Ĭ would have had him, and tried to have made him a good wife, even to a man I hate, but they will not fuffer fuch a facrifice, as they call it; and my mother fays it would be wickednefs to vow my love where I cannot The young women fobbed audi- give it, fo the will leave the farm: it breaks bly; the feene grew too pathetic. I en- my heart; and becaufe the cannot bear to treated my husband to be compofed. I de- fee me unhappy, I come here to weep alone.” fired the fifters to bring their little nephew to "And what is your name, my lovely maid?". the caftle; and I would not fuffer them to "My name," faid fhe, is Fielding, Fanny take it from me till the coach arrived, when Fielding. My dear lady, the late Mrs. I took an affectionate leave of it, and we de- Courtenay, loved me. I lived with her when parted. During our ride home, my kind fhe was in the country; fhe delighted in Henry faid the kindeft and moft endearing teaching me to read, and many an happy things on my behaviour, which he fondly hour have I paffed in reading to her. Since ftiled moft generous and noble. He faid he her death I have been conftantly at home, would inform me of every particular relative and till within a few weeks happy." "And to the most unfortunate event of his life. I you fhall be happy again," I exclaimed. entreated him to think of nothing fo painful" Dry up your tears, and meet me here babe !" again to-morrow, and you fhall hear good feek her mother's peaceful madlion The news." "But who are you, Sir?" faid the. time for my departure arrived, and I return"My name is Fortefcue," faid I; "I am ed to London in a frame of mind not eafy to nephew to your patronefs, your Mrs. Cour- defcribe. All the diverfions and companions tenay." Then your countenance has not I had before delighted in, grew irksome to deceived me," the returned; "I know your me; I thought inceffantly of my dear uncharacter, and I will meet you here to-mor- happy Fanny. I became a burden to myrow, my Lord." So faying, the made a grace- felf; I was wretched. Thus did I drag on ful obedience, struck into another path, and eight miferable months, when I received the was out of fight in an inftant. I returned, news of my uncle's death, and that he had wrapped in the idea of this charming cot- left me all his vaft poffeffions in H tager, to the caftle, and lost no time in flat- I really mourned the lofs of this good man. ing the cafe to my uncle, though I thought I haftened down to the caftle; the morning it prudent to conceal the means by which I after my arrival I ordered my steward to bring learned it. My good uncle fent immediately me a lift of all my tenants. I had a view in for his fteward, and gave him orders to con- this, which I need not explain to you; but tinue the widow Fielding in her farm, and to alas! the poor widow Fielding's name was cease his perfecutions to Fanny, who, he told not among them. I haftily afked where the him, was too good a girl by far to be his wife. was. "She is dead, Sir," replied the unThe man was forced to fubmit, and my un- feeling wretch; "her eldeft daughter has cle dispatched his own servant with this note turned out no better than she should be, to' to the widow: "Good woman, you need be the furprize of all the world, for fhe was fet under no farther apprehenfions; you fhall not up as a pattern of goodness; and God help quit your farm, nor fhall your daughter be me, I had like to have married her, but the perfecuted. I have given strict orders to my would not have me forfooth, becaufe, as it fteward; if he does not obey them, let me came out, fhe had another favourite, but no know." I waited moft impatiently for the body can find out who; however, madam next day; and oh my Louifa, how often could not hide her condition any longer. Her have I wished fince that it had never come. mother took it to heart, and has been dead I hastened to the wood; after waiting a few these two months; and she lives with her fifminutes, I esped the lovely Famiy. She ters in a cottage hard by." I fee, my Loufaw me; fhe flew like lightning into my arms, ifa, that you feel for what I must have felt at "My guardian friend!" was all the could this recital. I fought the cottage which conutter, and the remained with her eyes fixed tained my poor Fanny. I entered it with on mine, panting on my breast. Our feelings trembling fteps; the two young women you grew too powerful for us; we were abforbed have just seen were fitting at their work; they by them, and they plunged us into an abyfs rofe at my entrance, I bade them be feated, of guilt, which in our cooler moments we and asked leave to rest myself; they gave me fhould have fhuddered at. But this delirium a chair. "And do you live here alone?" I could not laft for ever; it vanished but too afked. They told me no; they had a fifter. quickly. I expected nothing but reproaches" And where is the ?" "She is fick, Sit," from the innocent I had fo undefignedly in- anfwered the eldeft, with a faultering voice. jured; I knew not the nobleness of her foul. I was forced to rife to go to the window; but With a fteady composure in her countenance, on turning my head at the opening of a door, and an answer that I cannot forget-"I am I beheld what appeared to me the fpirit of undone," fald fhe; "but I reproach you Fanny Fielding, hearing too vifibly the marks not; it was my own heart that betrayed me; of our fatal meeting in the wood. She would I alone will fuffer. Go, fir, and forget that have fallen to the ground, if I had not caught you ever faw fo loft a wretch as Fanny Field- her in my arms With fome difficulty we' ing." "No, no, no," faid I, we muft revived her; the opened her eyes upon me. meet again." "Never," the replied; "I" My Lord," faid the, "I had hoped neam a loft, but not abandoned creature: 1 will never see you again. I will pray for us both, that we may be forgiven; and fo God preferve us, we part for ever. Nay, ftir not; if you have any honour, fuffer me to depart;" and the took into a winding path, and was hid from my fight directly. Thus you fee, my Louifa, how in one unguarded minute two hearts, who dreamed of no wickedness, became criminal and unhappy. I from this time grew reftlefs and unealy. I frequented the wood conftantly, but Fanny was no longer to be found, and I dared not ver to have feen you more; I did not wish you to have witneffed my mifery. I have faithfully kept our fecret; even my fifters did not know of it till this hour that you were the caufe of my undoing. My dear fifters, my Lord is no feducer; my own heart, mý own feelings, betrayed me; let it caution you to diftruft your own strength." "Be compofed, my best love," I exclaimed ; “ all the reparation I'can I am determined to make you; you fhall be my wife, my loved, my adored wife; to-morrow morning fhall make us one." She glanced a look at me, replete W tirely unperceived by them; there, in a ftate of mind that beggars description, did I behold the mournful ceremony. I never heaved a figh or shed a tear; my feelings were beyond that: at laft, fcarcely knowing what I did, I dragged myself to the cottage, where thefe two mourners foon followed me. For a long time tears were the only language that passed between us; I almost drowned my poor infant in mine. When they could fpeak, they told me that poor Fanny was fo shocked at hearing I was gone, that he was directly taken ill, and lived only four hours after her delivery. She defired to be interred in the night-time, and named the day; and that her infant fhould be chriftened at the fame time. For many months, after an event I cannot dwell upon, I was in a flate bordering on distraction; my friends then forced me again into the world, which had still a bleffing in flore for me." with furprise, love, and gratitude; and after a minute's paufe, "My Lord," faid fhe, "your goodness will be rewarded; you are acting like a great and good man, but I will not marry you. Do not urge me, my Lord," feeing me ready to speak; "I cannot, I will not marry you; even your moft dear fociety would not make me happy. I have broke my mother's heart, and that has broken mine. One prayer I have to make to you; if my poor little infant furvives, take care of it, and love it as well as its mother has loved you." But I diftrefs you too much, my love. I faw my poor Fanny every day for a fortnight, and more than once I tried to perfuade her to be mine, but it was all in vain. I observed her daily to decline, and I dreaded the decifive moment which was approaching. In my frequent vifits to this unfortunate girl, I had an opportunity of difcovering in her fentiments, a ftrength of mind, that would have reflected luftre on the higheft ftation. My. compaffion grew to love, and I became hourly a greater wretch. At this period I received a halty fummons to London, where my father lay at the point of death; I could not but obey it. I loved and honoured him, but I left behind me concerns that ftill themfelves twined clofer to my heart. The meffenger told me, that I had no time to lofe. It was early in the morning. I haftened to the cottage; my Fanny's fifters were already rifen. She wat in bed, and after a reflefson fome of the Portuguese who arrived night, had fallen into a peaceful slumber; I would not fuffer her to be difturbed. I approached her bed; I looked at her for the laft time. I left orders for every attention fhe could want, and ample means to procure them. I then fet out with fuch feelings as I do not wish to give you an idea of. My father lived a few days after I reached him, and I had then the mournful office of clofing his eyes. As foon as I had given the neceffary orders for his interment, I haftened to return to my poor Fanny. It was nine in the autumn evening when I entered the village. As I paffed at a little distance from the church, the found of a bell struck my ear; it funk into my heart. I felt terrified, and pierced with horrors; a glimmering light appeared through the trees, I threw myfelf from my horfe, and, urged by an irrefiftible pulfe, I haftily croffed the two fields that divide the church-yard. What a scene met my eyes! A mournful train were following a corpfe to the grave, lighted by a few candles in lanterns, by the help of which I difcovered Mary Fielding and her young fifter in all the agony of grief; the former, to complete this difmal fcene, bearing an infant in her arms. What now lecame of me, there was fo much real woe in this little group that they had no attention for any ing elfe; I leaned against a tree, then in What a ftory, my friend! I can make no comments on it; it has almoft broken my' heart. LOUISA COURTENAY. Portuguese Voyages to the Eaft-Indies. Various Voyages and Transactions of Pacheco, Alburquerque, and other Portuguese Adven tures. [Continued from Page 69.] "HE Hay-tau revenged this difafter up-' there, and the ambaffador Perez; who being returned with his company to Canton, they were all flain, and the effects of Perez, together with the prefent he brought for the emperor, feized. This man was of bafe parentage, and by trade an apothecary; though chofen for the embaffy, on account of his good parts. There was found with him 2000 weight of rhubarb, 160 pieces of damask, 400 of other filks, above 100 ounces of gold, and 2000 of filver, three quarters of a hun-dred of loofe mufk, and above 300 purfes of it, at firft called papos, and much other merchandife, the fame year, 1521, the islands Bahrayn and Catif were conquered from Mocrin, king of Lafah; who held them of the king of Ormuz, but refused to pay the tribute. In 1522, the Portuguese were attacked at Ormuz, Bahrayn, Mafcat, Curial, and Soar (or Sohar) at once. The king of Ormuz defpairing of fuccefs, retired to Keyfhom, after setting the city on fire: but being murdered by his favourites, his fucceffor, only fifteen years of age, was prevailed on by the Portuguese to return to Ormuz, on condition that they fhould not meddle with the government of the city. This year alfo the country about Goa, which had belonged to Aden Chan, was recovered by him. The king of Achen, attacking them in Sumatra, they they abandoned the fort of Pafing. Things went ill with them alfo at Malacca and the Moluccas. In 1525, the fort of Calicut being attacked by the Samorin, with confiderable force, the Portuguese demolished it, and withdrew. Hector de Silveyra, in 1526, deftroyed Dofar, (or Dhafar) a ftrong city on the coaft of Arabia; and entering the Red-fea, reduced the islands Mazua and Dalaca. They discovered the island of Celebes, Calayat and Mafcat, exafperated by the avarice of Diego de Melo, revolted, but were reduced again. Raez Soliman, the Turk, who killed Mir Husleyn, at Joddah, having recovered his prince's favour, by delivering up the city, and fending a prefent; Sultan Soliman, the fucceffor of Selim, fent Haydarin, from Suez, with a fleet of twenty galleys, and five galliots, to deliver to Raez Soliman, who was then fortifying the island of Camarin, in the Red-fea where Haydarin, on fome disguft, killed him. Muftapha, nephew to Raez, fucceeded him, and flew Haydarin after which he fled with a few fhips, firft to Aden, and then to Diu, for protection. Thus this expedition defigned againft the Portuguese mifcarried. Antonio Tenreyro went by land with the news to King John, being the firft who performed that journey, till then thought impoffible.-Malacca being infefted by the king of Bintang, Pedro Mafcarenas, with 21 fhips and 1000 men, ooo of them Malayans, failed to that ifland; and attacking the capital, which was well fortified, and defended by 7000 men, entered it, flew 400, and took 2000 prifo ners, a vaft booty, and 300 pieces of cannon, with the lofs only of three Portuguese: the king was reftored on becoming tributary. In the Moluccas, Don Garcia Henriquez burned Tidore, after making peace with the king; and went to expel the Spaniards out of port Camafo, and another town in that ifland, but were repulfed. Don George de Meneles, in his way to the Moluccas, difcovered the island of Borneo, having fent a prefent of tapeftry to the king; that prince, on beholding the figures, cried out, They were men inchanted, and would kill him in the night;" and notwithstanding all that could be faid, would neither fuffer the tapeftry to remain in his palace, nor the meffengers in the port. At Tidore the Portuguese were worfted by the Spaniards. In 1527, fome Portuguese, after the lofs of their hips, getting into the boat to Chachuria in Bengal; the Indians having made a vow to facrifice to their idols, the handfomeft Portuguese they fhould take, it was the lot of Gonzalo Vaz de Melo to fal! the victim. A fleet being fent to burn the Turkifh galleys left at Camarin, they could not get to them, the winds proving contrary; however they burned the city of Zeyla, on the coaft of Adel; which fate Mangalo, on the coaft of India, underwent alfo, At Diu feventeen Portuguefe being taken in a boat, Diego de Mefquita, their captain, for refufing to turn Mahometan, was ordered by the king of Cambaya to be blown in pieces out of a cannon; but that prince, admiring the refolution with which Mefquita entered the mouth of it, was appeafed, and spared him; Chatua near Cranganor, and Porca were burnt by Lope Vaz, the governor of India; Marabia and Mount Dehli, by his nephew Simon de Melo. The king of Cambaya's fleet of eighty barks, were all but feven taken or deftroyed by the brave Hector de Silveyra, who foon after in 1519, took Bazaim, and made Tana tributary. Don George de Menefes, with the people of Ternate, fell upon thofe of Tidore, and the Spaniards, whom they defeated, burning the city, and then they befieged the fort. The Spaniards furrendered, obliging themfelves to retire to Camafo; not to commit hoftilities against the Portuguese or their friends; nor to go to any of the Clove iflands. The king of Tidore was made tributary, and compelled not to aid the Spaniards. Nunno de Cunna in his way to India this year, plundered Mombaffa; then failing to Ormuz, feized Raez Afhraf, the king's vifier, and fent him to Portugal, for malpractices. He was there joined by Belchior Tavarez de Soufa, who had been to affift the king of Bafrah with forty men against him of Jazirat, an island (as the name imports) about forty leagues in compass, made by the Euphrates and Tigris. He being the first Portuguefe, who had penetrated thofe rivers from the Perfian Gulph. After this he was fent to reduce Bahrayn, which had revolted, and battered the fort, but withdrew for want N O. T E. *After this Don George became, on a fudden, moft wicked and outrageous. Sufpecting that Cachil Vaydeca, a Tydore nobleman, had killed a Chinese fow of his, he annointed his face with bacon (which is the moft heinous injury that can be offered to a Mahometan). In the town of Tabona, he took the chief magiftrate, and two Moors of note: the hands of these laft he cut off; and on the firft he fet two dogs, who tore his flesh, till to fhun them, he ran into the fea; where being purfued, he defended himself with his teeth, till at laft he was drowned, almoft worried to death. Another of the natives endeavouring to ftir up the people, to drive out both Portuguese and Spaniards, Don George feized and beheaded him publickly in Ternate; which fo terrified the people, that most of them, with the queen herfelf, fled from the city. |