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Published in the Court Magazine N. 7. for Jan! 1855, by Edward Bust 28.11 was St. Cavendish Square. Proof Impressions may be had of the Publisher & fall Fork & Frisur in Town & Country.

THE COURT MAGAZINE,

AND

Belle Assemblee,

FOR JANUARY, 1833.

ILLUSTRATIVE MEMOIR OF LADY NASMYTH.

MARY, LADY NASMYTH, the subject of our present memoir, is the third daughter of Sir JOHN MARJORIBANKS, Baronet, of Lees, in the county of Berwick, and was married in the year 1826, to Sir John Murray Nasmyth. The antiquity of the House of MARJORIBANKS is attested by the early records of Scotland; and the history of that country makes honourable mention of several of its members as representatives in the Scottish Parliament. The family bore originally the surname of JOHNSTON; at what period it

* Sir John Nasmyth is representative of an ancient and influential family, in the county of Peebles.

MICHAEL NASMYTH, Chamberlain of the Archbishopric of St. Andrews, a bold and faithful adherent of the ill-fated MARY STUART, arrayed under her Majesty's banner at Langside, was lineal ancestor of

SIR JAMES NASMYTH, of Posso, who was created a BARONET of Nova Scotia, 31st July, 1706. The grand

son of this gentleman,

SIR JAMES NASMYTH, third Baronet of Posso,

wedded, in 1785, Eleanor, second daughter of John Murray, Esq. of Philiphaugh, in the county of Selkirk, representative of one of the most eminent and ancient families in North Britain, being the sixteenth in a

direct male line from Archibald de Moravia, a potent

Scottish Baron, whom King Edward I., in 1296, compelled to take the oath of fealty. By this lady, Sir James had SIR JOHN MURRAY NASMYTH, the present

and fourth Baronet, and five daughters, viz.

Elinor Margaret,

Jane Anne.

Mary Christian, married to the late Captain James Dalrymple Hamilton.

Harriet.

Charlotte, married to David Anderson, Esq., of St. Germains.

VOL. II.NO. I.

assumed its present designation cannot now be ascertained: the Johnston Arms continue, however, to be its ensigns. The name is derived from the lands of "Matho Marjorie Bankis," so denominated in the charter, by which King ROBERT BRUCE conferred, in dower, upon his daughter Marjory, the Barony of Matho.

THOMAS MARJORIBANKS sat in Parliament for Edinburgh in 1540, and was subsequently appointed one of the Senators of the College of Justice. The lineal descendant of this learned person,

EDWARD MARJORIBANKS, Esq. of Hallyards, espousing Miss Lock, was father of

JOHN MARJORIBANKS, Esq., of Hallyards, who wedded Catherine, daughter and coheir of Ronald Campbell, Esq., of Kames and Balerno, and was succeeded at his demise by his eldest son,

EDWARD MARJORIBANKS, Esq. of Hall. yards, who inherited the estate of Lees, in the county of Berwick, which previously descended to a younger branch of the family, and had been possessed in right of his mother by James Pringle, the last survivor of the Pringles of Torsonce. Mr. Marjoribanks espoused Grizzle, daughter of Archibald Stewart, Esq.,t and had issue,

JOHN, (Sir,) his successor.

+ This gentleman, who was provost and M. F. for Edinburgh, during the rising of 1745, was committed to the Tower in that eventful year, tried for high treason, and acquitted.

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The eldest son and heir,

SIR JOHN MARJORIBANKS, twice Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and M. P. for the county of Berwick in 1818 and 1820, was He created a BARONET, 6th May, 1815. wedded, 15th April, 1791, Allison, eldest daughter of William Ramsay, Esq., of Barnton, in the county of Midlothian, and has issue,

EDWARD, born 14th January, 1792.

William, born 15th December, 1792, a captain in the naval service of the Hon. East India Company, who married Mary, eldest daughter of Henry Stone, Esq., banker, of the city of London.

Janet, married in 1816, to Robert Shuttleworth, Esq, of Gawthorp Hall, in the county of Lancaster, by whom (who is deceased,) she has an only daughter, JANET SHUTTLEWORTH, heiress to her father. Mrs. Shuttleworth: wedded, secondly, Frederick North, Esq., of Rougham, in the county of Norfolk. Rachael, married in 1823, to Josiah Nesbit,

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THE SUN AND MOON.

FROM THE GERMAN OF EBERT.

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SUN. I saw, as my daily course I ran, The various labours of busy man; Each project vain, each emprise high, Lay open to my searching eye. I entered the peasant's lowly door, I shone on the student's narrow floor; I gleamed on the sculptor's statue pale, And on the proud warrior's coat of mail. I shed my rays in the house of prayer, On the kneeling crowds assembled there; In gilded hall and tapestried room, And cheered the dark cold dungeon's gloom.

With joy in happy eyes I shone,

And peace bestowed where joy was gone.
In tears upon the face of care,

In pearls that decked the maiden's hair,—
I shone on all things, sad and fair.

But few the eyes that turned to Heaven,
In gratitude for blessings given;
As on the horizon's verge I hung,
No hymn or parting lay was sung.
MOON.-Thou risest in glory, my journey
is o'er;

Alternate our gifts we bestow;

Yet seldom behold we the hearts that adore The Source whence all benefits flow.

SUN.-Thou comest, O Moon, with thy soft-beaming light,

To shine where my presence has been; Then tell me, I pray thee, thou fair queen of night,

What thou in thy travels hast seen.

MOON.-I shone on many a pillowed head, On greensward rude and downy bed; I watched the infant's tranquil sleep, Composed to rest so calm and deep: The murderer in his fearful dream, Woke starting at my transient gleam. I saw, across the midnight skies, Red flames from burning cities rise; And where, 'mid foaming billows roar, The vessel sank to rise no more: I heard the drowning sailor's cry For succour, when no help was nigh. On mountain path, and forest glade, The lurking robber's ambuscade, I shone, and on the peaceful grave, Where sleep the noble and the brave. To each and all my light I gave; And as my feebler silver ray Vanished before the dawn of day, In vain I lent my willing ear, One word of gratitude to hear.

SUN. We still travel onward our task to fulfil,

Till time shall be reckoned no more; When all shall acknowledge the Sovereign

Will,

That made them to love and adore.

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