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 with pistols, she proceeded to a small public-house near Belford, where the postman was accustomed to stop for a few hours to rest. Sending the landlady out on some errand, Grizel stepped to the room where the postman was sleeping, but his mail bags were under his head, and could not be touched without awaking him. However, she succeeded in drawing the load out of the pistols, which lay near him, before the woman returned, and then overtaking him about half-way between Belford and Berwick, she succeeded in obtaining the mail-bags, in which she discovered her father's death-warrant. Destroying this, and several other obnoxious papers, she re assumed her female dress, and returned to Edinburgh. As it then took eight days for communications to pass from London to Edinburgh, the sixteen days Grizel thus gained for her father were sufficient to allow the Earl of Dundonald to obtain his son's pardon. Miss Cochrane afterwards married Mr. Ker, of Morriston, in the county of Berwick.

COCKBURN, CATHARINE, daughter of Captain David Trotter, a Scotch gentleman in the navy, was born in 1679. She gave early proofs of a poetic imagination by the production of three tragedies and a comedy, which were all acted; the first of them in her seventeenth year. She had also a turn for philosophy; and she engaged in controversy, defending Mr. Locke's opinions against Dr. Burnett, of the Charter-House, and Dr. Holdsworth. She was induced to turn Roman Catholic when very young, but renounced that faith in her riper years.

In 1708, she married Mr. Cockburn, the son of an eminent Scotch divine, and was precluded for twenty years from pursuing her studies, by the cares of a family, which she nevertheless resumed with ardour. Mrs. Cockburn died in 1749; her works are collected in two octavo volumes.

She wrote, among her plays, "Agnes de Castro;" "The Fatal Friendship;" "Love at a Loss, or Most Votes carry it;" and "The Unhappy Penitent." She also wrote several poems and controversial essays.

That she was scrupulous never to neglect any womanly duty, gives added importance to her example of improvement. Her familiar letters show this happy talent of biding her time.

COLERIDGE, SARA HENRY, English poetess, daughter of the distinguished poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and wife of his nephew, Henry Nelson Coleridge, well known for his contributions to classical learning, and as editor of his uncle's posthumous works; this lady has shown herself worthy of her birth-right as a "poet's daughter," and of her station as the bosom-companion of an eminent scholar.

The first work of Mrs. Coleridge was a translation of the "History of the Abipones," from the Latin of Dobrizhoffer; her next was a beautiful fairytale, called "Phantasmion," published in 1837, and deservedly admired as an exquisite creation of feminine genius. Besides these, she has written poems, evincing talent of no common order. A distinguished critic remarks thus, concerning her:—"With