service, and to apply to the East India Company for the pension to which he was entitled. During the several succeeding years he divided his time between London and the South of France.

In the spring of 1776 both the Dowager Lady Abercorn and Hamilton's mother passed away, and he subsequently paid a visit each summer with Lord Abercorn to Scotland, a practice which he continued until Lord Abercorn's death, which occurred a year or two later at Boroughbridge in Yorkshire.

It was upon one of these visits to the north that Colonel Hamilton, as he now was,

with Lord and Lady Abercorn in Grosvenor Square, Hamilton applied for a further period of twelve months' leave, as his wounds still caused trouble and he was very dropsical. His case was referred to Doctor Vanswieten1 of Vienna, who declared that he could not live, and he therefore decided to take up his residence once more in Switzerland and to place himself for treatment in the hands of Doctor Tissot 2 of Lausanne. This medical gentleman took the view that all previous diagnoses of his case had been wrong, stopped his wine, and put him upon a diet of stewed apples, un peu de bouillon de grenouilles, and a plentiful supply of weak veal-made the acquaintance of Miss tea; he also ordered him to Camargue, an island on the Rhone, in order that he might partake of land turtle, which the worthy dootor thought "preferable to boiled frog." One is not surprised to learn that under this treatment the patient at once began to improve and resolved to return to London, fortified with the hope that he would yet again see India. Alas, this was not to be discontinuance of Dr Tissot's treatment led to further relapses, and Hamilton was finally induced to abandon all further thoughts of military

Jane Ewart (daughter of the venerable minister of Troqueer), to whom he was shortly afterwards married in Edinburgh by the Rev. Principal Robertson,3

After taking leave of their friends in Scotland, Colonel and Mrs Hamilton journeyed on their honeymoon to Paris, where they had the happiness of meeting our Ambassador, the Marquis of Stafford (then Earl Gower) and his wife (Countess of Sutherland in her own right), the only daughter of Colonel Hamilton's "earliest and beloved" friend, Lord

1 Gerard Vanswieten, celebrated physician; born 7th May 1700; was physician to the Empress Maria Theresa; died 18th June 1772.

2 Doctor S. A. D. Tissot, an eminent Swiss physician; died at Lausanne, 15th June 1797.

3 William Robertson, D.D., Principal of the University of Edinburgh, and minister of the Greyfriars' Church; born 1721, died 11th June 1793.

Earl Gower succeeded his father as second Marquis of Stafford, and on 14th January 1833 was created Duke of Sutherland. He was recalled as Ambassador from Paris when Louis XVI. was guillotined.

Strathnaver, his school fellow of which Colonel Hamilton's

1 Charles Bonnet, a native of Geneva, devoted to the study of natural history and metaphysics; he died there on the 20th May 1793.

2 Horace Benedict de Saussures, born at Geneva 17th February 1740; Professor of Philosophy at Geneva. He explored Vesuvius, Etna, and Mont Blanc. On the union of Savoy to France he was elected to the National Assembly, but the disorders of the Revolution ruined him, and he died broken-hearted in 1799.

3 Benedict Pictet, a native of Geneva; was offered the Chair of Theology at the University of Leyden, but preferred to remain with his own countrymen.

one was flying through the mountains by Mont Blano, that one battalion had been out to pieces already, and that the best thing Colonel and Mrs Hamilton could do was to save themselves by instant flight. Upon the heels of the gallant De Verne came the Commandant de St Suffrein, who was also in retreat with his Swiss troops and some guns; he was equally insistent that the Hamiltons had no time to lose, stating that he had already sent his own wife, plate, and money across the lake into Switzerland.

their stay at this village, several other British subjects arrived, amongst the conveyances which reached the inn being those of the Scottish Lord Gray1 and of an English olergyman named Taylor.

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From Sécheron, Colonel and Mrs Hamilton made their way to the nearest barrier which had been established by the Revolutionists, to ascertain if his nationality would secure passports for himself and his wife. These, thanks to his being a British subject, he was able to obtain, but not until he had been dragged from his carriage and were carriage and assailed with ories of "Aristoorate." reply to his inquiry as to who might be in command, he was informed "Tout le Monde." Furnished with such security as the passports afforded, the Hamiltons then drove 88 quickly as possible to the residence of M. and Madame Necker at Coppet, picking up on the way a little boy, a nephew of General Villettes, who was running along the road in an effort to reach his parents in Switzerland.

Numbers of people were escaping in this way in boats, and when Colonel Hamilton mounted his horse to warn some English friends, named Newdigate, of their danger, he found the roads also blocked with fugitives terrified at the approach of the "murderers of Paris."

Upon his return to his own house, Colonel Hamilton marked upon the gate that it was the property of "Le Colonel Edouard Hamilton, Ancien Colonel au Service de la Grande Bretagne," and then taking sufficient money, plate, and baggage in his oarriage, drove with Mrs Hamilton to the town of Geneva.

Though the castle at Coppet was only six miles from Geneva, M. Neoker, who knew that he was an especial especial object of popular fury, had been unable, From Geneva, where the until the Hamiltons arrived, to panic and confusion were in- obtain any definite news of deseribable, they proceeded to what was happening. They the inn at Sécheron, whence warned him of his danger, and they sent back their carriage then proceeded to the local to assist the Newdigates in inn, where they were able making their escape. During to obtain accommodation for

1 William John, 14th Lord Gray, an officer of the Scots Greys. He died unmarried 12th December 1807.

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themselves and the little boy horses harnessed, ready to fly for the night. The whole at a moment's notice. place was orowded with émigrés flying from Savoy, now threatened with occupation by their bitter enemies. Many of these unfortunates had been plundered when orossing the lake by Revolutionists, who manned boats to go in pursuit of them. "Some of the ladies," says Colonel Hamilton, "came to the inn with even their clothes torn off and with the loss of everything they possessed in the world, yet anxiously enquired the moment they arrived if any one could lend them a little rouge."

From Coppet, the Colonel and his wife went on to Lausanne, where they met with General Villettes (unole of the little boy they had befriended and brought along with them), the Comte de Narbonne,1 and the Vicomte de Vaux, who had all, by the aid of good horses, escaped from the clutches of the Revolutionists.

Many of the old noblesse, who had fled from France, had congregated in Lausanne, whilst amongst the English in the town were the Duchess of Devonshire and Mr Gibbon,2 "who did the honours of Lausanne very kindly" while keeping a purse of money and his

The Hamiltons remained at Lausanne for three weeks, and then, hearing that their house at Thonex had been occupied by an officer of the staff of General Montesquieu, the Republican commander of the troops invading Savoy, they decided to run the risk and return home. Before, however, taking this step, they resolved to pay a brief visit to M. and Madame Necker, who, with their daughter Madame de Staël, had betaken themselves from the castle of Coppet to safer quarters at Rolle. "We found them all quite happy," says Colonel Hamilton, "with the idea that a new production from M. Necker's pen was to save the lives of the King and Queen, then, alas! on the brink of their fate."

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From Rolle they drove to the inn at Geneva, where at the table d'hôte they were witnesses of a fracas between some Swiss and French officers, one of the latter, a general, having boasted that he was the first man te enter the Tuileries, and that he had killed seme of the Swiss Guards with his own hands. High words were used and swords were drawn, but Mrs

1 The Comte de Narbonne was Minister of War under the ill-fated Louis XVI. 2 Edward Gibbon, author of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'; born at Putney 8th May 1737. He resided at Lausanne, was at one time engaged to the lady who became Madame Necker, and was a friend of Voltaire. The horrors of the French Revolution disturbed his tranquillity of mind, and he left Lausanne and died in England on the 16th of January 1794.

3 Madame de Staël, daughter of M. and Madame Necker, was the wife of Baron de Staël, Swedish Ambassador to the Court of France. She was the author of an abortive scheme to smuggle the King and Queen out of Paris in her carriage.