EARLS OP LEVEN. —Before the family forsook its first seat in Aberdeenshire, it had thrown off branches, some of .which still flourish there. The chief, that of Balquhain, has given birth by itself or by its offshoots to several men of murk, such as the learned John Leslie, bishop of Ross (born in 1527, died in 1569), the devoted champion of Mary, queen of Scots; sir Alexander Leslie of Auchintoul, a gen. in the Muscovite service, who died governor of Smoleusko iu 1663; and Charles Leslie, chancellor of the diocese of Connor, author of a Short Method with the Deists, who died in 1732. A still more dis. tinguished man was Alexander Leslie, a soldier of fortune, who, bursting the trammels of illegitimate birth and a scanty education (he could write his name, but nothing more), rose to be a field-marshal of Sweden under the great Gustavus Adolphus. He was recallek to Scotland in 1639, to take the command of the covenanting army; and in 1641 was made earl of Leven and lord Balgony. He died in 1661, leaving two grandchildren, the younger of whom married the earl of Melville, and left a son, who became third earl of Leven and second earl of Melville. His descendant is now ninth earl of Leven
and eighth earl of Melville.
LORDS LINDORES.—The second son of the fifth earl of Rothes was created lord Lin dores in 1600. The title has been dormant since the death of the seventh lord in 1775.
LORDS NEWARK.—David LeMie, fifth son of the first lord Lindores, served with dis tinction under Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and returning to Scotland, on the out break of the great civil war, was one of the leaders of the parliamentary army at Marston moor, and surprised and routed Montrose at Philiphaugh. He was defeated by Cromwell at Dunbar in 1650, and after ten years' imprisonment in the Tower,was set at liberty at the restoration. He was made lord Newark in 1661. and died in 1682. The title has been dormant since the death of his great-grandson, the fourth lord, iu 1791.