145. ART Polite Agriculture WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. 1793. SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF HENRY LORD CARDROSS. With a portrait. HENRY ERSKINE lord Gardrofs was the great. grandson of John earl of Mar, lord high treasurer of Scotland, of whom an account has ben given in this miscellany *. He was the son of David lord-Cardross, by Anne Hope, daughter of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, lord advocate of Scotland. His father was one of the seven Scottish lords who bravely and honourably protested against the déli very of king Charles the first to the army of the English parliament, at Newcastle, in the year 1646; and he educated his son in the same principle of honour and fidelity to the laws and personal engagements, without which no character can be respec table. The subject of this fhort memoir was born at Cardrefs in Perthshire, the family seat, antiently the rural residence of the abbots of Inchme-homoe. The elementary part of his education was conducted at Edinburgh; and from thence he was sent to study at Leyden under the most eminent professors. Afterwards he travelled for some time on the continent, but more with a view to acquire useful knowledge, than to admire the splendour of courts, or partake of fashionable amusements. On his coming of age in the year 1671, he returned home, and soon after married Katherine Stewart, daughter of Sir James, and grand daughter of Sir Lewis Stewart, lord justice general of Scotland. The same year his father died, and from the political complexion of the times, he was forced to take a part in the opposition to the arbitrary measures of the Lauderdale administration. On this account the fhare he had of the illegal and cruel opprefsion of the times, are fully set forth in Wodrow and Cruikshanks, their narratives of those unhappy disputes; and are unnecefsary to be repeated in this place. It is sufficient to mention that for the baptism of his son (afterwards earl of Buchan,) by a clergyman of the prefbyterian communion, he was forced to pay a fine of great amount, and for suffer |