Arabat, Tongue

OF, in the Crimea, a narrow slip of sandy land, 70 m. long, and 1,600 to 2,000 ft. wide, which divides the Sivash or Stagnant sea from the Sea of Azov. Arab'azari, a town of Karamania, 16 m. N.E. of Alamek. Arabella Stuart, commonly called the Lady Ara bell a, was the only child of Charles Stuart, Earl of Lennox, younger brother to Henry Lord Darnley, the husband of Mary Queen of Scots. She was therefore cousin german to James I., to whom, previously to his having i ue, she was next in the line of succe ion to the crown of England, being the grand-daughter of Henry VII., by the second marriage of his eldest daughter Margaret. Her proximity to the throne was the source of her misfortune. Elizabeth, for some time before her decease, held the Lady A. under restraint, and refused the request of the king of Scotland to give her in marriage to the Duke of Lennox, with a view to remove her from England. The detection of a plot of some English nobles to set aside James in favor of A. , of which she was altogether innocent, ultimately proved her destruction; for, although left at liberty for a time, when it was afterward discovered that she was secretly married to the grandson of the Earl of Hertford, both husband and wife were committed to the Tower. After a year's imprisonment, they contrived to escape, but the unhappy lady was retaken. Remanded to the Tower, the remainder of her life was spent in close confinement. D. 1615, aged 38 years.