found an easy introduction to an enlarged and elegant society; and, what to them was still more valuable, they experienced in him a friend, who was ever easy of access, and ready to assist them to the utmost, with his counsel and patronage. The same spirit of philanthrophy, endeared him, in a particular manner to his intimate friends, amongst whom, may be ranked, most of the Scottish literati of his time.

Some time after his death, the professorship of the theory of medicine, was bestowed upon his eldest son, the present Dr. James Gregory, who, has since succeeded to the practical chair, lately filled by that truly respectable professor, Dr. Cullen.

We cannot conclude this article, without expres. sing our regret, that amongst the practitioners of physic in the United states, there are too many, whose talents and accomplishments, fall infinitely short of those recommended by Dr. Gregory, as essentially requisite, to be possessed by every well bred phy sician; too many, who, instead of believing with him, "that the profession of medicine, requires a more comprehensive mind than any other," seem to think, that a very limited share of genius, improved by a superficial education, extending little farther than the knowledge of technical terms, and some confused ideas of the virtues of the most common medicines, are qualifications sufficient to entitle the possessor, to assume the appellation of Ductor, and to sport with the most important of all concerns, the lives of his fellowcitizens, with impunity. The medical establishments, in the United States, for the instruction of students in the healing art, are far from being contemptible. Their professorial chairs, are filled by gentlemen, whose talents and ingenuity, reflect the highest honour on their country; and the expence of attending them, is by no means exorbitant: Yet, strange to tell! every succeeding year, sends forth an inundation of Doctors, many of whom have never seen the inside of a college, or an hospital-nor perhaps the

skeleton of a human body. Such men, however, by their impudence and effrontery, imposing upon credulous people, frequently attain eminence, whilst the modest and assuming practitioner, who has devoted his best days to the acquisition of professional knowledge, is sometimes doomed to live in obscurity.

But is the industry of the professional student to abate, because he sometimes sees great and well cultivated powers, neglected or forgotten by mankind? Is he to exchange the glowing enthusiasm of expectation, for the impotent langour of inactivity? The man, who, in spite of time mis-spent, and unimproved talents, has been able, by low manoeuvre, and fortunate incident, to obtain eminence, is best qualified to answer these questions. He knows and feels the peculiar dangers of his situation, that the health and life of his best friends are in the hands of a man unfit for the important office he has undertaken; that he is every moment exposed to the open attacks, or the insidious artifices of competitors, eager, as well as able, on every occasion, to detect imposture and punish imbecillity.

Let, therefore, every young man, who avows himself a candidate for fame and fortune whether in law, physic or divinity, by unwearied diligence, by prudent conduct, and by application, secure himself from the ridicule and contempt so constantly and so properly attached to ignorant, though successful pretenders. If, after devoting his days to business and his nights to books, his toil should prove ineffectual; if mankind shall not be disposed to acknowledge merit, or reward his labours, let not disappointment damp his spirits, nor delayed hope make his heart sick: honest, though unrequited effort will afford solid comfort. He may console himself with reflecting, that he shares the fate of many great and many good men, and that though he does not move in a brilliant and exalted circle, he is a valuable and useful member of society. The conviction, that he has en

deavoured, in spite of a frowning world, to fulfil the duties of that station assigned him by Providence ; that he has not buried his talent, nor yielded to the depressions of despair, will heal the wounds of ambition, and diffuse a warm ray of honest joy over the evening of life.

GREY, (LADY JANE) an illustrious, but unfortunate personage of the blood royal of England by both her parents, her grandmother on her father's side being queen consort to Edward IV. and her grandmother on her mother's being daughter to King Henry VIL was born in the year 1537. It was, in consequence of the near relation of this last to the house of Tudor, that her father, the aspiring duke of Suffolk, formed the design of transferring the English diadem into his own family, and of founding the right of his eldest daughter to the succession, if King Edward should die without children. He gave it out amongst his relations and confidents, that though Henry VIII. had named in his testamentary settlement, his daughters Mary and Elizabeth, as next in succession to his son Edward, in case of his dying without issue; yet the parliament as well as the ecclesiastical courts, had declared them both illegitimate; that, on the supposition of their being set aside by the statute law of the realm, the right of other heirs to the succession remained unimpaired; that it would be an indelible stain upon the crown of England to put it on the head of a bastard; and in fine, that if ever the princess Mary should mount the throne, the whole fabric of the reformation, in the erection of which the whole nation had so assiduously laboured, during so many years, would be thrown down in one day.

By these and similar arguments had the duke of Suffolk artfully endeavoured to prepare his friends for the design, which he had long seriously meditated, while he beheld with secret pleasure, the de

clining state of King Edward's health. But in order the more effectually to carry his measures into execution, and only a few weeks before the death of his young sovereign, he married his eldest daughter the lady Jane, to the earl of Guilford son of the duke of Northumberland. Thus assisted by this powerful interest, and chiefly aided by the strong attachment, which the dying king had to the reformation, and his fears, least, if his sister Mary should succeed, that whole work would be ruined; he at last ventured to open his design to him, and prevailed with him to alter the order of the succession, and to transfer the crown to the lady Jane Grey.

Upon the death of Edward, that part of the ministry, who were in the secret with the Dukes of Suffolk and Northumberland, went with these noblemen to acquaint lady Jane of Edward's settlement of the crown upon her. Already overwhelmed with the death of this pious prince, at so critical a time, their compliments upon that occasion only served to add a poignancy to her grief. She told them, that, according to the laws of the realm as well as the rights of consanguinity, the crown belonged to the sister of the deceased king: That she should wound her conscience, if she would accept of a dignity, which did not belong to her, and that it was very far from ever being wished by her, to become great at the expence of others. The assurances, which they made her, that nothing was transacted for her succession, but what was agreeable to the laws of the country little availed to shake her resolution of rejecting the offer. But other reasons respecting the critical state, in which the nation. beheld the protestant religion, joined to the importunity of her father and husband, at last determined her to suffer them to act, as they pleased concerning her. Thus, as the Duke of Northumberland afterwards bore witness, instead of pretending of herself to the crown, or taking any step towards obtaining it, she never would have accepted it, but in spite of herself, to

please others, and to prevent the ruin of the protestant part of the nation.

On the 10th July 1553, lady Jane was proclaimed queen; for which proceeding, the danger of the nation being again subjected, to the tyrannic sway of the Romish see, if Mary should succeed to the throne, was given out as the ostensible reason. It was, likewise, declared, "that the late king had disposed of the crown to the exclusion of his sisters, because they were illegitimate, according to the sentence of the ecclesiastical court and the declaration of parliament, and that even, if they had been legitimate,

they were only sisters of half blood, the laws of England could not admit either of them to succeed to the throne, in consequence of which, king Edward had appointed, that, in case Frances, duchess of Suffolk, who was the nearest heiress should die without male descendants, her eldest daughter lady Jane Grey, should inherit the crown.

Thus this virtuous lady, whose excellent and amiable qualities had rendered her dear to all, who had the happiness of knowing her and who, in no part of her conduct, appears to have been actuated by motives of ambition, was, contrary to her inclination, dragged forward to appear as the ostensible head of a faction. Her regal pageantry continued, however, only a few days; for after some feeble and unavailing efforts to prevent Mary's succession, the voice of the nation, protestants, as well as catholics called her to assume the sceptre. Lady Jane and her husband were committed to the tower and on the 13th November arraigned and found guilty of high treason, in consequence of which, they were beheaded on the 12th February fol lowing.

She met death with that dignity and fortitude which seldom accompanies any, in that awful scene, except the virtucus. Immediately before her execution, she addressed herself to the weeping multitude with amazing composure, acknowledged the justice of