brought to a court-martial and broke. The constant and grateful support of the distinguished families whom he had obliged in time restored his ruined fortunes. Margaret Johnstone, Lady Ogilvy, had several talented, distinguished, and fortunate brothers, of whom it may be interesting to give a short notice. Her second brother, William, married Miss Pulteney, daughter of Daniel Pulteney, and sole heiress of the Earl of Bath. In consequence of succeeding to her immense fortune, Mr. Johnstone assumed the name of Pulteney. He became fifth Baronet, and claimant of the Marquessate of Annandale on the death of his eldest brother. His only daughter, who was created Countess of Bath, died without issue. Her vast estates were inherited by her maternal relatives, the Duke of Cleveland and Sir Richard Sutton. Sir William Johnstone Pulteney's heir in the Westerhall estate, the great American possessions, and the claim to the Marquessate of Annandale, is Sir Frederick, the eighth Baronet, great-grandson of the third son of Sir James and dame Barbara. Sir James's fourth son, John, had a very singular career. He went out in early life to India, with the ambition of acquiring influence and fortune. After he had been there for some time, and had distinguished himself as a hard working civilian, in the position which his father's influence had procured for him, he was seized with a dangerous fever, which had nearly proved fatal to him. He owed his life, under Providence, to the tender care and assiduity of an elderly lady of the name of Warwick, who spared no pains in nursing him. Mrs. Warwick had been for many years settled at Calcutta, and was a woman of very large fortune. She adopted Mr. Johnstone as her son, and at her death left him all that she had, which amounted to considerably upwards of a hundred thousand pounds. Mr. Johnstone was anxious to enjoy this succession while yet young. He accordingly realised it as speedily as possible, with the intention of returning home immediately, and purchasing an estate in Scotland. Mrs. Warwick had often related to him the circumstances of her history, which were romantic and extraordinary. She said that she had no near relations, excepting a brother, from whom she had been separated in infancy, who, she believed, had entered the navy, but with whom she never had been able to keep up intercourse; and she did not know whether he was dead or alive. Having turned all Mrs. Warwick's property into money, Mr. Johnstone was on the point of embarking for England with a large fortune and with the advantages of youth and health, which few rich Indians possess. He had taken out his passage, and was living, during the last two or three days of his stay in India, at the principal hotel in Calcutta. While sitting in the coffeeroom reading a newspaper, he overheard one waiter say to another, "Carry up Captain Warwick's portmanteau to No. 5." The name of his benefactress arrested his attention. It struck him-Can this Captain Warwick be in any way connected with her? He immediately sent his card to the gentleman in No. 5, with a request that he might be allowed to call on him. He was immediately ushered into the presence of an elderly man; and after an apology for the intrusion, he begged to be permitted to enquire into the particulars of his past life; "for," said he, "I feel an interest in your name, which is an uncommon one. A namesake of yours was my dearest friend." Captain Warwick very frankly told him all that he knew concerning himself and his family. He said, he had only had one sister, from whom he had been separated in early life, and who, he believed, had gone to India; but he had never been able to trace her subsequent fate, From many particulars which he mentioned, it was quite evident to Mr. Johnstone, that this was Mrs. Warwick's only brother. Having convinced himself of the fact, he said to Captain Warwick, he could give him the most satisfactory account of his long lost sister, who had been his dearest friend, and who had on her death appointed him her trustee; that she had died very wealthy; that all her property had been confided to his care; and that he now handed over to him, as the rightful owner, considerably upwards of £100,000. Thus did this inflexibly just man deprive himself of every thing, and sacrifice all his future prosperity, in order to do that which his high and independent feeling of integrity led him to believe to be his duty. As soon as Captain Warwick discovered the real state of the case, he offered to divide the inheritance with Mr. Johnstone. This, however, he obstinately refused to agree to. He remained in India, spending many years in the arduous pursuits of honour and wealth. It is satisfactory to know that he was eminently successful. He returned an elderly man, about ninety years since, to England, with a fortune much more than double that which his unbending and high-minded principle had caused him to renounce in early life. He immediately purchased large estates and beautiful seats in his native country; Alva, in the county of Clackmannan, which formerly belonged to a baronet's family of the name of Erskine, now represented by the Earl of Rosslyn; and the |