He had reached as far as Cherson, on the eastern borders of Russia, visiting, according to his wont, prisons and hospitals on his way. Here he was seized by a fever which proved mortal, and which he is supposed to have caught in visiting, with his usual benevolence, a young lady, to whom also it proved fatal. He was buried in the grounds belonging to the villa of a French gentleman who had shown him much attention. A small brick pyramid, instead of the sun-dial he had suggested, was placed over his grave. The little pyramid or obelisk still stands, we are told--stands alone, "on a bleak desolate plain." But Protestant England has a monument in that little pyramid, which will do her as much honour as any colony or empire she has planted or subdued. THE DARK WAGGON. BY DELTA. I. The Water-Wraith shrieked over Clyde, The winds through high Dunbarton sighed, When to the trumpet's call replied The deep drum from the square; And, in the midnight's misty shade, With helm, and cloak, and glancing blade, Two hundred horsemen stood arrayed Beneath the torches' glare. II. Around a huge sepulchral van They took their stations, horse and man-- The outer gateway's bolts withdrawn, In haste the drawbridge fell; And out, with iron clatter, went That sullen midnight armament, Alone the leader knew where bent, With what--he might not tell. III. Into the darkness they are gone:-- The blinded waggon thundered on, And, save of hoof-tramp, sound was none:-- Hurriedly on they scour The eastward track--away--away-- To none they speak, brook no delay, Till farm-cocks heralded the day, And hour had followed hour. IV. Behind them, mingling with the skies, Westward the smoke of Glasgow dies-- The pastoral hills of Campsie rise Northward in morning's air-- By Kirkintilloc, Cumbernold, And Castlecary, on they hold, Till Lythgo shows, in mirrored gold, Its palaced loch so fair.[12] [12] It is mentioned by both the chroniclers, Hemingford, (i. 196) and Trivet, (332,) that Edward the First built "a strength" or fort "at Linlitcu" in 1301, and there enjoyed the festivities of Christmas. Lord Hailes inaccurately states that he wintered there; for, by dates since collected from writs, Chalmers has proved that, although Edward was still at Linlithgow on the 12th January, he was, on his way home, at Roxburgh on 12th February, and had reached Morpeth by the 24th. This fort, or castle, was probably the same that was, a few years afterwards, taken by the stratagem of the patriotic yeoman, Binnock, in concealing some of his followers in a waggon of hay; and who was rewarded by King Robert with an estate, which his posterity long afterwards enjoyed. V.