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HANNA. 305 After this characteristic anecdote, we cannot wonder at Sir J.'s riches not being inexhaustible. In the year 1745, he made a second trip to Scotland, and was at Edinburgh when the Pretender was there. He was called into the Great Hall to play; at first he was alone, but shortly afterwards, he was joined by four fiddlers, when the tune called for was, “The King shall enjoy his own again,” which he played and sung. He was then brought into the Pretender's presence by Colonel Kelly and Sir Thomas Sheridan, at which period he was above fifty years old. He returned once more to his native country, where he astonished and interested every body by his musical powers. He afterwards visited Magilligan; and at the advanced age of eighty-six, married a woman of Innisowen, whom he found living in the house of a friend. By this wife he had one daughter, who affectionately attended him for upwards of thirty years. Death, however, termi nated his harmonious life, on the 5th of November, 1807, being then in the one hundred and eleventh year of his age. A few hours prior to his death he tuned his harp, in order to have it in readiness to entertain Sir H. Bruce's family, who were expected to pass that way in a few days, and who were in the habit of stopping to hear his music. Shortly after this act he felt the approach of that grim monarch, whom no melody can persuade to delay his visit, and calling his family around him, he resigned his breath “to him who gave it,” without either sigh or struggle, being in perfect possession of h i s faculties t o the last moment of his existence. MARTHA HANNA, A R EMARKAble dwarf, who measured only four feet seven inches, and who attained the advanced age o f one hundred and twenty-six. She was born near Dungannon, and remembered t o WOL. II. X