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 manners often softened the bitterness of political animosity.

Major Acland being taken prisoner at the battle of Saratoga, Lady Harriet determined to join him; and obtaining from Burgoyne a note, commending her to the protection of General Gates, she set out in an open boat, during a violent storm, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Brudenell, a chaplain in the British army, her own maid and her husband's valet, to the American camp. Here she was kindly received, and allowed to join her husband. After Major Acland's return to England, he was killed in a duel, caused by his resenting some aspersions cast on the bravery of the British soldiers in America; and the shock of his death deprived Lady Harriet of her reason for two years. She afterwards married the same Mr. Brudenell who had accompanied her to the camp of General Gates. Lady Harriet outlived her second husband many years, and died at a very advanced age in 1815.

Shortly before her death, it was discovered that for sixteen years she had suffered from a cancer, which she had concealed from her nearest relatives in order to spare their anxiety.

In a work by Madame de Riedesel, who was also at the battle of Saratoga, (her husband. Major de Biedesel, was one of the German officers employed by the English government in the war against the American colonies,) she makes this mention of the subject of our memoir:—

"Lady Acland's tent was near ours. She slept there, and spent the day in the camp. On a sudden, she received the news that her husband was mortally wounded, and taken prisoner. She was greatly distressed} for she was much attached to him, though he was rude and intemperate; yet a good officer. She was a very lovely woman. And lovely in mind, as in person."

ADA, of Hecutomnus, king of Caria, who married her brother Hidrieus. After her husband's death she succeeded to the throne of Caria, but was expelled by her younger brother, Pixodarus, who, in order to maintain himself in his usurption, gave his daughter in marriage to a Persian lord called Orontobates; and he afterwards became king of Caria, and defended Halicamassus against Alexander the Great. The revolutions which happened at that time proved favourable to Ada; she implored the protection of the conqueror Alexander against Orontobates, the usurper of her kingdom. Alexander gave her a very kind reception, and restored her to the authority she had formerly enjoyed over all Caria, after he had then the city of Halicamassus. 

ADA, , in the beginning of the thirteenth century. At the death of her father, Diederyk, or Theodora the Seventh, which took place in 1203, she was in the sixteenth year of her age, and it being a question whether Holland, then a fief of the Empire, would be given to a young unmarried female, her ambitious mother married her immediately on the death of Diederyk, to Count Louis van Loon, who took up arms to assert his right to the headship of Holland, in opposition to William of Friesland, the late Count's brother, by whom Ada was taken prisoner, in