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THE GREAT WINCOW. ?59 Parliament Hoox.]
obelisks, with the motto Bominus cusfodif infroifurn
msfrunz. The destruction of all this was utterly
unwarrantable.
The tapestries with which the hall was hung
were all removed about the end of the last century,
and now its pictnres, statues, and decorations of
Scotland?s elder and latter days replace them.
Of the statues of the distinguished Scottish
statesmen and lawyers, the most noticeable are a
colossal one of Henry first Viscount Melville in
his robes as a peer, by Chantrey ; on his left is Lord
Cockburn, by Brodie ; Duncan Forbes of Culloden,
in his judicial costume as President of the Court,
by Roubiliac (a fine example) ; the Lord President
Boyle, and Lord Jeffrey, by Steel ; the Lord President
Blair (son of the author of ?The Grave?),
by Chantrey.. .
On the opposite or eastern side of the hall
(which stands north and south) is the statue
of Robert Dundas of Arniston, Lord Chief Baron
of the Scottish Exchequer, also by Chautrey;
portraits, many of them of considerable antiquity,
some by Jameson, a Scottish painter who studied
under Rubens at Antwerp. But the most remarkable
among the modern portraits are those of
Lord Broiigham, by Sir Daniel Macnee, P.R.S.A. ;
Lord Colonsay, formerly President of the Court,
and the Lord Justice-clerk Hope, both by the
same artist. Thete are also two very tine pQrtraits
of Lord Abercrombie and Professor Bell, by Sir
Henry Raeburn.
Light is given to this interestihg hall by fouI
windows on the side, and the great window on the
south. It is of stained glass, and trulymagnificent.
It was erected in 1868 at a cost of Az,ooo, and
was the work of two German artists, having been
designed by Wilhelm von Kaulbach, and executed
by the Chevalier Ainmiller of Munich. It repre.
sents the inauguration of the College of Justice, 01:
the Supreme Court of Scotland, by King Tames V.,
in 1532. The opening of the court is supposed by
the artist to have been the. occasion of a grand
state ceremonial, and the moment chosen for
representation is that in which the young king,
surrounded by his nobles and great officers
of state, is depicted in the ,act of presenting
the charter of institution and of confirniation by
Pope Clement VII. to Alexander Mylne, Abbot
of Cambuskenneth, the first Lord President, wha
kneels before him to receive it, surrounded by the
other judges in their robes, while the then Lord
Chancellor of Scotland, Gavin Dunbar, ArchbishoF
of Glasgow, and afterwards of St. Andrews, with
upraised hand invokes a.blessing on the act.
In 1870 the four side windows on the west of the
la11 were filled in with stained glass Qf a heraldic
:haracter, under the superintendence of the late
Sir George Harvey, president of the Royal Scottish
kcadeniy. Each window is twenty feet high
~y nine wide, divided by a central mullion, the
:racery between being occupied by the armorial
learings and crests of the various Lord Justice-
Zlerks, the great legal writers of the Faculty of
Advocates, those of the Deans of Faculty, and the
Lords Advocate.
This old hall has been the scene of many a
;reat event and many a strange debate, and most
Df the proceedings that took place here belong
to the history of the country j for with the exception
of the Castle and the ancient portion of Holyrood,
no edifice in the city is so rich in historic
memories.
Beneath the old roof consecrated to these, says
one of its latest chroniclers, ? the first ?great movements
of the Civil War took place, and the successive
steps in that eventful crisis were debated
with a zeal commensurate to the important results
involved in them. Here Montrose united with
Rothes, Lindsay, Loudon, and others of the
covenanting leaders, in maturing the bold measures
that formed the basis of our national liberties ; and
within the same hall, only a few years later, he sat
with the calmness of despair, to receive from the
lips of his old compatriot, Loudon, the barbarous
sentence, which was executed with such savage
rigour.?
After his victory at Dunbar, some of Cromwell?s
troopers in their falling bands, buff coats, and steel
morions, spent their time alternately in preaching to
the people in the Parliament Hall and guarding a
number of Scottish prisoners of war who were confined
in ? the laigh Parliament House ? below it
On the 17th of May, 1654, some of these contrived
to cut a hole in the floor of the great hall, and all
effected their escape save two; but when peace
was established between Croniwell and the Scots,
and the Courts of Law resumed their sittings,
the hall was restored to somewhat of its legitimate
uses, and there, in 1655, the leaders of the Commonwealth,
including General Monk, were feasted
with a lavish hospitality.
In 1660, under the auspices of the same republican
general, came to pass ? the - glorious
Restoration,? when the magistrates had a banquet
Ft the cross, and gave _~;I,OOO sterling to the king;
and his brother, the Duke of Albany and York, who
came as Koyal Commissioner, was feasted in the
same hall with his Princess Mary d?Este and his
daughter, the future Queen Anne, surrounded by all
the high-born and beautiful in Scotland. But dark

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140 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Geage Street.
?( Chaldee Manuscript,? the effect of which upon
the then circle of Edinburgh society can hardly
be realised now ; but this pungent jeu d?esprit, of
which it is scarcely necessary to give any account
here, is still preserved in Volume IV. of the works
of Professor Wilson.
The sensation excited by the new magazine was
kept up by all the successive numbers, though for
some months no one was attacked; but the subjects
discussed were handled in a masterly manner,
and exhibited a variety of talent that could not fail
to influence and command the respect of all ; and
it has been said that the early defects of the magazine
are nowhere better analysed than by the hands 1 of those who did the work-the authors of ? Peter?s
In October, 1817, he brought out the first
number of that celebrated magazine which has
enrolled among its contributors the names of
Wilson, Scott, Henry Mackenzie, J. McCrie,
Brewster, De Quincey, Hamilton (the author of
? Cyril Thornton ?), Aytoun, Alison, Lockhart,
Bulwer, Warren, James Hogg, Dr. Moir, and a
host of others. This periodical had a predecessor,
l l e Edinburgir Monthly Magazine, projected in
April, 18~7, and edited by Thomas Pringle, a
able and interesting papers, contained three
calculated to create curiosity, offence, and excitement.
The first was a fierce assault on Coleridge?s
Biog7aphia Literaria, which was stigmatised as a
? most execrable ? performance, and its author ? a
miserable compound of egotism and nialignity.?
The second was a still more bitter attack on
high Hunt, who was denounced as a ?profligate
creature,? one ?( without reverence for either
God or man.? The third was the famous
highly-esteemed poet and miscellaneous writer, the
son of a farmet in Teviotdale, and this falling into
the hands of new proprietors, became the famous
Blackzeoo&s Magazine.
This was consequently No. VII. of the series,
though the first of Blackamd. (?In the previous
six numbers there had been nothing allowed to
creep in that could possibly offend the most
zealous partisan of the blue and yellow,? says airs.
Gordon, in her ?Life of Professor Wilson.? In
the first Number the Edinburgh Review had been
praised for its moderation, ability, and delicate
taste, and politics were rather eschewed ; but
Number seven ?spoke a different language, and
proclaimed a new and sterner creed,? and among

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54 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
that upwards of two hundred thousand patients had derived benefit from the
Institution.
br. Duncan entered warmly into every proposal which had for its object the
promotion of medical science. He projected, in 1773, a new work to be published
annually, originally under the name of “ Medical Commentaries,” but subsequently
under the title of “Annals of Medicine,” which regularly made its
appearance f0r.a series of more than thirty years.
The celebrated Dr. Cullen, through old age and extreme debility, having
resigned, Dr. James Gregory was elected to the professorship of the ,Practice of
Physic on the 30th December 1789. Upon the same day Dr. Duncan was
chosen Dr. Gregory’s successor j and lie taught this class-“ The Theory of
Medicine ”-till within a few months of his death.
No. CXCI.
DR. ANDREW DUNCAN
IN 1797.
THIS portrait represents the Professor at a later period of life than the former,
although, from the difference of attitude, and the adoption of the modern round
hat, his appearance may be deemed younger. He invariably carried an umbrella
under his arm in the manner figured.
In 1807 Dr. Duncan proposed the erection of a Lunatic Asylum at
Morningside, in the vicinity of Edinburgh, the want of which had been long
felt in Edinburgh. He had many difficulties to encounter. Subscriptions at
first came in slowly, but at last the object was effected ; and a royal charter
for its erection was obtained. The year following, the Lord Provost, Magistrates,
and Town Council presented him with the freedom of the city, in testimony of
the sense they entertained of the services he had rendered to the community
by the establishment of the Public Dispensary and Lunatic Asylum.
Dr. Duncan delighted much in the pleasure of a garden, and having for
many years entertained an opinion that the science of horticulture might be
greatly improved, he succeeded, in 1809, in establishing the Caledonian
Horticultural Society. . It is incorporated by royal charter ; and, by exciting
a spirit of emulation among practical gardeners, has been productive of the best
effects. Upon the death of Dr. Gregory) he was appointed, in 1831, First
Physician to his Majesty for Scotland.
Dr. Duncan was a member of the Harveian, Gymnastic, and other clubs of a

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THE PALACE BURNED AND REPAIRED. 73
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gesse !?? Then the castle fired a salute, while
silver was scattered to the multitude. Three years
afterwards the king and court had departed, and
Holyrood was consigned to silence and gloom.
On James VI. re-visiting Scotland in 1617, the
palace was fitted up for him with considerable
splendour, but his project of putting up statues
of the apostles in the chapel caused great excitement
in the city. Taylor, the Water-poet, who was
at Holyrood in the following year, states that he
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the gardens known as Queen Mary?s sundial,
although the cyphers of Charles, his queen, and
eldest son appear upon it. Cromwell quartered
a body of his infantry in the palace, and by accident
they set it on fire, on the 13th November,
1650, when it wzs destroyed, all save the Tower of
James V., with its furniture and decorations.
Of this palace a drawing by Gordon of
Rothiemay has been preserved, which shows the
main entrance to have been where we find it
HOLYROOD PALACE AKD ABBEY CHURCH, FROM THE SOUTH-EAST.
saw this legend over the royal arms at the gate :
CC4Nobis hec invicta misanf 106 proovi.? I inquired
what the English of it was. It was told me
as followeth, which I thought worthy to be recorded :
-6 106 foreJ&%ws h i e I& this to ux unconpumed..? ?
When Charles I. visited Edinburgh, in 1633,
the magistrates employed the famous Jameson to
paint portraits of the Scottish monarchs, and,
imitative of his master Rubens, he wore his
hat when Charles I. sat to him ; but it is probable
that after the latter?s last visit, in 1641, the palace
must have become somewhat dilapidated, otherwise
Cromwell would have taken up his residence
there. The improvements effected by Charles
were considerable, and among other memorials of
his residence still remaining, is the beautiful dial in
68
now. Round embattled towers flank it, with bow
windows in them, and above the grand gate are
the royal arms of Scotland. On either side is a
large range of buildings having great windows ;
and the now empty panels in the Tower of James V.
appear to have been filled in with armorial bearings,
doubtless destroyed by Cromwell. In his map of
1657 the same artist shows a louyingdn-stone in
the centre of the palace yard.
The palace was rebuilt to a certain extent, by
order of Cromwell, in 1658, but the whole of his
work, at the Restoration, was pulled down by
royal warrant two years after, as the work ? built
by the usurper, and doth darken the court?
Engrafted on the part that survived the conflagration,
and designed, it is said, after the noble

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Manor Place.] HAYMARKET STATION. 213
A shot fired from the belfry apprised the multi-
&de far down below of the close of the ceremony,
and immediately the choir, along with other officials
of ?the church in surplices stationed in the garden,
sung the hymn ?Praise ye the Lord, ye Heavens
in the nave and clerestory bear the arms of many
ancient Scottish families,
Away to the westward of the quarter we have
described, at the delta of the old Glasgow and
Dalry roads, where for several generations stood
ST. MAPY7S CATHEDRAL, INTERIOR VIEW. (Fpom a Phofosrnph by G. W. Wikm ad Co., ACrdem.)
by the Lord Provost.
Sir Gilbert Scott did not live to see the completion
of this cathedral, which is one of the many
lasting monuments of his skill as an architect.
Among the gifts to the cathedral are a peal of ten
bells presented by Dean Montgomery ; the great
from Glasgow by wings upon the two roads, formed
a junction and halted, while the officers had breakfast
or dinner before pushing on to the Castle by
the Lang Dykes and latterly by Princes Street and ,
the Earthern Mound-is the Haymarket Railway
Station, the first or original terminus of the Edin

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 291
No. CCLXVIII.
HARVEY CHRISTIAN COMBE, ESQ.,
LORD MAYOR OB LONDON.
THIS is another of the few portraits sketched by gay while he sojourned for
a short time in the great metropolis. ALDERMACNO MBEa,s he was usually
denominated, was well known in London, both politically and as a brewer in
very extensive business. He was born at Andover, in Hampshire, where his
father, an attorney, was the owner of considerable landed property. The eldest
son, and succeeding at an early age to the patrimonial inheritance, he might
have lived in independence, far from the bustling scenes of commercial activity ;
but his spirit of enterprise dictated a different course. Under the patronage of
a relative, he began his career in London as a corn factor-was successful-and,
by a matrimonial alliance with a cousin, he soon afterwards, on the death of his
father-in-law, came into possession of property to some extent. He subsequently
engaged in the brewing establishment so long and so successfully carried
on, first under the firm of Gyfford and Co., and latterly of Combe, Delafield,
and Co., in Castle Street, Long Acre.
The active mind and business habits of Mr. Combe were such a8 to call him
prominently forward, while his pleasing manners and liberality of disposition
tended greatly to his popularity. He waB elected Alderman of Aldgate Ward
in 1790-served as Sheriff in 1791-was appointed Governor of the Irish
Society in 1793-and arrived at the highest dignity of the Corporation, by
being elected Lord Mayor in 1799.
Though he so far concurred in the defensive measures recommended by
Government, as to hold the command of the loth Regiment of London Volunteers
for some time, the politics of Alderman Combe were decidedly opposed
to the Pitt administration. He was a member of the Whig Club; and first
stood candidate for the city in opposition to Mr. Lushington. He failed on this
occasion, but was returned at the general election in 1796 ; and, in 1802, his
popularity had so greatly increased that he stood at the head of the poll, having
3377 votes. His conduct in Parliament, throughout a period of more than
twenty years, was marked by a constant adherence to principle, and-to the
party with which he had been early associated.
In a work entitled “The Whig Club, or a Sketch of Modern Patriotism,”
Mr. Combe is favoured with a few passing touches of the sketcher’s pencil ; and,
in common with the other members, he is described as a frequenter of the
gaming table, and a bon vivant of unconquerable stamina. indeed:’

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OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Princes Street 121
famous china emporium-has had many and various
occupants. In I 783, and before that period, it was
Poole?s Coffee-house, and till the days of Waterloo
was long known as a rendezvous for the many
military idlers who were then in Edinburgh-the
veterans of Egypt, Walcheren, the Peninsula, and
India-and for the officers of the strong garrison
. maintained there till the general peace. In July,
1783, by an advertisement, ?Mathew Poole returns
his most grateful acknowledgments to the
nobility and gentry for their past favours, and begs
leave respectfully to inform them that he has taken
the whole of the apartments above his coffee-house,
which he has fitted up in the neatest and most
genteel manner as a hotel. The airiness of the
situation and the convenience of the lodgings,
which are perfectly detached from each other,
render it very proper for families, and the advantage
of the coffee-house and tavern adjoining must
make it both convenient and agreeable for single
gen tlemen.?
In the Post Ofice Directory for 181 5, Nos. 3 and
14 appear as the hotels of Walker and Poole ; the
latter is now, and has been for many years, a portion
of the great establishment of Messrs. William
Renton and Co.
When, in the summer of 1822, Mr. Archibald
Constable, the eminent publisher, returned from
London to Edinburgh, he removed his establkhment
from the Old Town to the more commodious
and splendid premises, No. 10, Princes Street,
which he had acquired by purchase from the connections
of his second marriage, and in that yeat
he was included among the justices of the peace
for the city. ?Though with a strong dash of the
sanguine,? says Lockhart-? without which, indeed,
there can be no great projector in any ryalk of life-
Archibald Constable was one of the most sagacious
persons that ever followed his profession. . - .
Indeed, his fair and handsome physiognomy carried
a bland astuteness of expression not to be inistaken
by any one who could read the plainest of nature?s
handwriting. He made no pretensions to literature,
though he was, in fact, a tolerable judge of it
generally, and particularly well skilled in the department
of Scotch antiquities. He distrusted himself,
however, in such matters, being conscious that
his early education had been very imperfect ; and,
moreover, he wisely considered the business of a
critic quite as much out of his proper line as
authorship itself. But of that ?proper line,? and
his own qualifications for it, his estimation was
ample; and as often as I may have smiled at the
lofty serenity of his self-complacence, I confess
that I now doubt whether he rated himself too
highly as a master in the true science of the bookseller.
He was as bold as far-sighted, and his
disposition was as liberal as his views were
wide.?
In January, 1826, the public was astonished by
the bankruptcy at No. 10, Princes Street, when
Constable?s liabilities were understood to exceed
~250,000-a failure which led to the insolvency
of Ballantyne and Co., and of Sir Walter Scott,
who was connected with them both j and when it
became known that by bill transactions, &c., the
great novelist had rendered himself responsible for
debts to the amount of &IZO,OOO, of which not
above a half were actually incurred by himself.
Constable?s failure was the result of that of Messrs.
Hunt, Robinson, and Co., of London, who had
suspended payment of their engagements early in
the January of the same fatal year.
At the time of his bankruptcy Constable was
meditating a series of publications, which afterwards
were issued under the title of ?Constable?s Mis
cellany,? the precursor of that now almost universal
system of cheap publishing which renders the
present era one as much of reprint as of original
publication ; but soon after its commencement he
was attacked by a former disease, dropsy, and died
on the zIst of July, 1827, in the fifty-third year of
his age. His portrait by Raeburn is one of the
most successful likenesses of him.
No. 16, farther westward, was, in 1794, occupied
as Weir?s Museum, deemed in its time a
wonderful collection ?? of quadrupeds, birds, fishes,
insects, shells, fossils, minerals, petrifaction, and
anatomical preparations . . , . . . One cannot
help,? says Kincaid, ? admiring t.he birds from Port
Jackson, New South M7ales, for the extreme beauty
of their plumage j their appearance otherwise eb
hibits them as not deprived of life.?
It is of this collection that Lord Gardenstone
wrote, in his ?Travelling Memoranda? :-?I cannot
omit to observe that in the whole course of
my travels I have nowhere seen the preservation
of quadrupeds, birds, fishes, and insects executed
with such art and taste as by Mr. Alexander Weir
of Edinburgh. He is a most ingenious man, and
certainly has not hitherto been so much encouraged
by the public as his merit deserves.?
No. 27, a corner house, was in 1789 the
abode of the Honourable Henry Erskine, who
figures prominently in the remarkable collection of
Kay ; and in the same year No. 47 was occupied
by Lady Gordon of Lesmore, in the county of
Aberdeen, an old family, created baronets in 1625.
It.now forms a portion of the great premises of
Kennington and Jenner, the latter of whom is

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436 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Dr. Dickson was not generally known as an author,l except by a few sermons,
preached on public occasions, of which two may be more particularly
noticed-the one on the death of his venerable colleague, Sir Henry, in 1827 ;
and the other on that of Dr. Andrew Thomson, in 1831. Both discourses were
published at the time, and are much valued for the interesting and discriminating
views which they give of the respective characters of these highly gifted and
eminently distinguished individuals.
Dr. Dickson married, in 1808, Miss Jobson, daughter of James Jobson,
Esq., Dundee, by whom he had three sons and three daughters. He died on
the 28th of July 1842, in the sixty-third year of his age.
No. cccxx.
TWELVE ADVOCATES
WHO PLEAD WITH WIGS ON.
FROMth e title of this and a subsequent Plate, it might be inferred by those
unacquainted with the practices in our Courts of Law, that a difference in rank
exists betwixt those advocates who plead with wigs and those who do not.
This is not the case, however, their wearing them being simply a matter of
choice. The Portraits, beginning at the top, range from left to right.
I.-JOHN BURNETT, son of William Burnett, and nephew of Lord Monboddo,
was born at Aberdeen in 1763. He was educated in his native city, but
repaired to Edinburgh preparatory to his admission to the bar, of which he
became a member in 1785. He was employed long as an Advocate-Depute,
and thought to be rather neglected by his party; but he was at length appointed
Sheriff of Haddington in 1803, and Judge-Admiral of Scotland in 1809,
in the discharge of which duties he displayed the utmost correctness and integrity
of conduct. He died on the 7th December 1810, at the premature age
of forty-seven. He wrote “ A Treatise on various branches of the Criminal Law
of Scotland,” Edinburgh, 1811, 4t0, published after his death, and which is
held as a standard work.
Mr. Burnett married Miss Deborah Paterson, a lady from the West Indies,
and who afterwards went to reside in New South Wales. They had several
children, of whom three daughters and one son survived.’
He edited an edition of Horsely on the Psalms, a great portion of which was in Hebrew. In
the correction ‘and revisal of the sheets Dr. Dickson displayed the most accurate acquaintance with
that language.
The eldest daughter, Elizabeth, was married to Captain Twopenny, of the 78th Regiment, the son
of an Episcopalian clergyman in Casterton ; the second, h e , to Mr. Grant, a younger aon of Grant

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excepting such as had become attached to him during his attendance at the
University.
The rapidity with which Mr, Bell rose in his profession was remarkable.
He was not less eminent as a consulting surgeon than as an operator ; and he
enjoyed to an extraordinary degree, the confidence of his professional brethren
and of the country. In addition to his natural and acquired abilities, two points
in E. Bell’s character seem to have contributed much to promote his successa
fixed determination that not an hour should be misapplied, and a never-failing
kindly attention to the interests and feelings of those who placed themselves
under his care. The extent to which the first of these considerations prevailed
is evinced by the variety of his publications. Besides several treatises on distinct
professional subjects, and an extended system of surgery, he is understood to
have been the author of not a few political and economical tracts, called forth
by the engrossing interest of the times, and of a series of essays on agriculture
-a pursuit which he cherished during the busiest years of his life, and which
afforded him employment when his health no longer su5ced for much professional
exertion.
hlr. Bell’s address was mild and engaging; his information varied and extensive
; and his powers of oonversation such that his society was much courted.
He was born in 1749. He married in 1774 the only daughter of Dr. Robert
Hamilton, Professor of Divinity, and died in 1806, leaving four sons.
No. CLXXXVII.
“THE FIVE ALLS.”
THE characters in this grotesque classification of portraitures have been previously
noticed, with the exception of two-Mr. Rocheid of Inverleith and his
Satanic Majesty, whose biography was, at the beginning of last century, penned
by the author of Robiiuon Crusoe.
The figure in the pulpit represents the REV. DR. ANDREW HUNTER,
of the Tron Church, whose benevolence might well be said to extend to all ;
and the uncombed head, in the desk beneath, is intended to indicate Mr. John
Campbell, precentor.
The gentleman in the long robe, said to “Plead for All,” is the HON.
HENRY ERSKINE ; and perhaps, in reference to his character as the poor
man’s lawyer, to no other member of the Scottish bar of his time could the
observation be more appropriately applied.
The centre figure is JAMES ROCHEID,’ Esq. of Inverleith, a gentleman
l Pronounced and sometimes spelt Roughead.

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1 90 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
Previous to the extension or rebuilding of the west portion of the Tolbooth, it had
furnished accommodation for the wealthiest traders of the city, and there also some of the
most imposing displays took place on Charles I. visiting his northern capital in 1633. ‘‘ Upon the west wall of the Tolbooth,” says an old writer,l r‘ where the Goldsmiths’ shops
do stand, there stood ane vast pageant, arched above, on ane large mab the pourtraits of
a hundred and nine kings of Scotland. In the cavity of the arch, Mercury was represented
bringing up Fergus the first King of Scotland in ane convenient habit, who delivered to
his Majesty a very grave speech, containing many precious advices to his royal successor;
” a representation, not altogether in caricature, of the drama often enacted on
the same spot, at a later period, when Jock Heigh,-the Edinburgh Jack Ketch for above
forty years,-played the part of Mercury, bringing up one in ane convenient habit, to hear
a very grave speech, preparatory to treatment not unlike that which the unfortunate
monarch received, in addition to the precious advices bestowed on him in 1633. The
goldsmiths’ ’ shops were latterly removed into the Parliament Close ; but George Heriot’s
booth existed at the west end of St Giles’s Church till the year 1809, when Beth’s
Wynd and the adjoining buildings were demolished, as already described. A narrow
passage led between the church and an ancient three-storied tenement adjoining the
New Tolbooth, or Laigh Council House, as it was latterly called, and the centre one of
the three booths into which it waa divided, measuring about seven feet square, was
pointed out by tradition as the workshop of the founder of Heriot’s Hospital, where both
King James and his Queen paid frequent visits to the royal goldsmith. On the demolition
of this ancient fabric, the tradition was completely confirmed by the discovery of
George Heriot’s name boldly carved on the stone lintel of the door. The forge and
bellows, as well as a stone crucible and lid, supposed to have belonged to its celebrated
possessor, were discovered in clearing away the ruins of the old building, and are now
carefully preserved in the Hospital Museum.
The associations connected with the ancient building we have described, are almost
entirely those relating to the occupants whom it held in durance in its latter capacity as
a prison. The eastern portion, indeed, had in all probability been the scene of stormy
debates in the earlier Scottish Parliaments, and of deeds even ruder than the words of the
turbulent barons. There also the College of Justice, founded by Jamea V. in 1532,
held its first sederunt ; the earliest statutes of the Court requiring that all the lordis sall
entre in the Tolbuth and counsal-houss at viij howris in the mornyng, dayly, and sall sit
quhill xi howris be strikin.” All these, however, had ceased to be thought of for centuries
previous to the demolition of the tall and gloomy prison ; though even in its degradation
it was connected with historical characters of no mean note, having been the final place of
captivity of the Marquises of Montrose and Argyll,’ and others of the later victims of
factious rivalry, who fell a sacrifke to the triumph of their opponents. The main floor of
the more ancient building, in its latter days, formed the common hall for all prisoners,
except those in irons, or incarcerated in the condemned cells. It had an old oak pulpit of
curious construction for the use of any one who took upon him the duties of prison chaplain,
and which tradition,-as usual with most old Scottish pulpits,-affirmed to have been
.
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THE Calton Hill, till the erection of the Regent
Bridge, was isolated from the line of Princes
Street, and rises to the altitude of 355 feet above
the level of the sea, presenting an abrupt and
rocky face to the south-west, and descending in
other directions by rapid but not untraversable
declivities. ?Calton, or Caldoun, is admitted to
be a hill covered with bushes,? according to
Dalrymple?s 6?Annals?; but with reference to the
OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH.
forest of Drumsheugh, by which it was once
surrounded, it ,is more likely to be Choille-dun.
In the oldest views we possess of it, the hill is
always represented bare, and denuded of all trees
and bushes, and one lofty knoll on the south was
long known as the Miller?s Knowe. In some of
the earlier notices of this hill, it is called the
Dow Craig. The Gaelic Dhu, or Black Craig, is
very appropriate for this lofty mass of trap rock,
[Calton HilL
by the railway terminus and Waverley Bridge. The
former extends eastward under the North Bridge,
and occupies a great space, including the sites on
which stood old streets, two churches, and two
hospitals, wkich we have already described, a
public market, and -superseding the original
termini, but retaining some of the works pertaining
to the Edinburgh and Glasgow, the North
British, and the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee
Railways. Between 1869 and 1873 it underwent
extensive reconstruction and much enlargement.
It has a pedestrian access, about twelve feet wide,
from the north-east corner of the Green Market,
and a spacious carriage-way round the western
side of that market and from the Old Town by the
Waverley Bridge, and serves for the entire North
British system, with pleasant and sheltered accommodation
for the arrival and departure of trains.
The site of the Little Mound we have referred
to is now occupied by the Waverley Bridge, which,
after. striking rectangularly from Princes Street,
about 270 yards westward of the new post office,
crosses the vale of the old loch, southward to the
foot of Cockburn Street. The bridge was originally
a stone railway structure, consisting of
several arches that spanned the Edinburgh and
Glasgow lines, and afforded carriage access to all
the three original termini. Proving unsuitable for
the increased requirements of the station, it was
in 1870-3 replaced by a handsome iron skew
bridge, in three reaches, that are respectively 3 10,
293, and 276 feet in length, with 48 feet of a
carriage-way and 22 feet of footpaths.
The Green Market, which lies immediately westward
of the block of houses at the west side of the
North Bridge, occupies, or rather covers, the
original terminus of the Edinburgh, Perth, and
Dundee Railway, and was formed and opened on
the 6th March, 1868, in lieu of the previous
market at the eastern end of the valley, removed
by the North British Railway. It stands on a
basement of lofty arches, constructed of strength
sufficient to bear the weight of such a peculiar
edifice. It was covered by an ornamental terraced
roof, laid out in tastefully-arranged gardens, level
with Princes Street, and having well lights and
a gallery; changes, however, were. effected in
1877, when it was to suffer encroachment on
its roof by the street improvements, and when
it received a further ornamentation of the former,
and acquired at its north-west corner a handsome
staircase. In the spacious area of this
edifice, promenade concerts, cattle and flower
shows, are held.
The East Princes Street Gardens, which extend
from the Waverley Bridge to the east side of the
Mound, after being, as we have said, a nursery,
were first laid out in 1830, and after suffering some
mutilation and curtailment by the formation of the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, w2;?e re-formed
and ornamented anew in 1849-50, at the expense
of about Â£4,500.
The high graduated banks with terraced walks
descend to a deep central hollow, and comprise
within their somewhat limited space a pleasant
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 327
his troops, and the place was speedily retaken. Ever since the Cape has
remained in possession of Britain.
General Dundas wasappointed Governor of Dumbarton Castle in 1819. He
died at his house in Shandwick Place, Edinburgh, on the 4th of January 1824,
after a long and painful illness, “which he supported with the patience of a
Christian, and the fortitude of a soldier.”
The next of the military figures, with the volunteer cap and feather, in the
centre of the Promenade, is SIX HENRY JARDINE. His father, the
Rev. Dr. John Jardine-who died in 1766, aged fifty-one, and in the twentyfifth
year of his ministry-was one of the ministers of Edinburgh, one of the
Deans of the Chapel-Royal, and Dean of the Order of the Thistle. His mother
was a daughter of Provost Drummond, of whose patriotic exertions for the
city of Edinburgh, the New Town and the Royal Infirmary are honourable
memorials. Sir Henry was brought up to the profession of the law, and passed
a Writer to the Signet in 1790. He was appointed golicitor of Taxes for
Scotland in 1793 ; Depute King’s Remembrancer in the Exchequer in 1802 ;
and King’s Remembrancer in 1820, which latter office he held till the total
change of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland in 1831. He was knighted by
George the Fourth in 1825.
Sir Henry was the original Secretary to the Committee for raising the Royal
Edinburgh Volunteers in 1794, of which corps he was appointed a Lieutenant
on the 20th October of the same year; a Captain in 1799 ; and Major in
March 1801. He was the last individual alive enumerated in the original list of
officers ; and he was one of three trustees for managing the fund remaining, after
the Volunteers were disbanded, for behoof of any member of the corps in distress.
Sir Henry Jardine was long conspicuous as a public-spirited citizen, there
being few institutions for the promotion of any useful or national object
of which he was not a member. In the lists of the year 1838 his
name appeared as one of the Councillors of the Royal Society of Edinburgh;
one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland;
one of the Extraordinary Directors of the Royal Institution for the
Encouragement of the Fine Arts,; one:of the Ordinary Directors of the Scottish
Naval and Military Academy; one of the Brigadier-Generals of the Royal
Company of Archers ; one of the Councillors of the Skating Club ; one of the
Directors of the Assembly Rooms, George Street ; and one of the Sub-Committee
of Directors of the Royal Association of Contributors to the National Monument.
He was also one of the Ordinary Directors of the Bank of Scotland ; one of the
”rustees for the Encouragement of Scottish Manufactures ; one of the Trustees
for Promoting the British White Herring Fishery j and one of the Vice-Presidents
of the Caledonian Horticultural Society.
With the charitable and humane institutions of the city the name of Sir
Henry was not less extensively associated. He was one of the Managers of the
Orphan Hospital; one of the Auditors of the Society of the Industrious

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 289
Besides the voluminous correspondence which he almost constantly maintained
with men of literature of all nations, and the incessant exertions into
which his active mind betrayed him, the Earl was not insensible to the softer
wooings of the Muses, to whom his leisure moments were sometimes devoted.
Only a very few of these productions, however, have been given to the public ;
but we have been informed that he excelled in a “light, elegant, extemporaneous
style of poetry.”
The Earl of Buchan married, on the 15th October 1771, Margaret, eldest
daughter of William Fraser, Esq. of Fraserfield, but had no issue. His lordship
died in 1829,’ and was succeeded by his nephew, Henry David, eldest son of
his brother, the Hon. Henry Erskine.
No. CXVII.
HENRY D UNDAS, VIS COUNT MELVILLE,
IN THE UNIFORM OF THE ROYAL EDINBURGH VOLUNTEERS.
As we have previously mentioned, MR. SECRETARDYU NDAbSe came a member
of the “Royal Edinburgh Volunteers” on the 6th July 1795. He was immediately
requested to accept the station of Captain-Lieutenant-an honour
which he declined. In his letter of reply, addressed to Lord Provost Stirling,
after acknowledging in handsome terms the mark of respect paid to him, he
says-“ I shall always recollect the proposition with the sentiments I ought.
But it is my sincere conviction that the precedent of filling any commission
with the name of a person whose other avocations may prevent him from exercising
the duties of it, may ultimately prove detrimental to the principle of the
establishment; and I trust, therefore, my declining to accept of it will be
received as an additional proof of the sense I entertain of the incalculable utility
of the corps, established and acting upon the principles which have contributed
to bring them to that perfection which cannot but secure to them the,admiration
of every lover of his country.”
At the “grand field day of the whole brigade of Edinburgh and Leith
Volunteers,” which took place at Drylaw Mains, on the 16th October 1798, Mr.
Secretary Dundas was present. Sir Ralph Abercromby was then Commanderin-
Chief in Scotland. The following particulars from the Courant of that period,
relative to the review, may be deemed interesting :-
“ The different corps paraded in the New Town at ten o’clock, and marched
There are numerous portraits and busts of his lordship. An excellent paiuting (from Sir
Joshua Reynolds) adorna the hall of the Scottish Antiquaries. Another, by Alexander Runciman,
is in the Museum of the Perth Antiquarian Society. He also presented to the Faculty of Advocates
a portrait in crayons, with an inscription written by himself, and highly complimentary to the donor.
2 P

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154 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
The successors of Mr. Macgregor in the Gaelic Chapel have been numerous.
They were the Rev. James M‘Lauchlan, afterwards removed to the parish of
hloy, Inverness-shire ; the Rev. John Xlacdonald, afterwards of Urquhart,
Banffshire j the Rev. John Munro, afterwards of Halkirk, Caithness ; and the
unfortunate (he was thought to be insane) Duncan M‘Cuaig, who wa5 tried and
banished for theft in July 1831.l The succeeding pastor was the Rev, John
M‘Allister.
No. LXV.
THE REV. JAMES LAWSON OF BELVIDERE,
ii THE JOB OF PRESENT TIMES.’’
THIS Print, we are assured, is a striking likeness of MR. LAWSONw,h o is represented
in the attitude of receiving the General Assembly’s covered, buttoned,
and sealed Bible, which was handed to hirn by a member of the Assembly, when,
in answer to a question put to him as to where his creed lay, he pointed to it
as the only rule of his faith. The quotations inserted on the plate, at his own
request, on each side of the figure, entitled “The World and the Church,”
pre in allusion to his protracted process before the Church Courts.
The father of Mr. Lawson was proprietor of Eelyidere, a small estate in the
neighbourhood of Auchterarder. He had warmly opposed the settlement of
Mr. Campbell as Minister of that parish ; but, on finding himself in the minority,
he signed the call along with the other heritors. This opposition, trivial as it
may appear, is represented in Kay’s MS. as the primary cause of the course of
procedure afterwards adopted by the Presbytery of Auchterarder towards his son.
Shortly after the father’s death, young Lawson began seriously to think of
entering the ministry; and, after attending the usual number of seasons at
College, he applied to the Presbytery of Auchterarder to be licensed, at least
to undergo his trials for that purpose.
According to Kay, the Rev. Mr. Campbell had not forgotten the circumstance
of the Laird of Belvidere’s opposition to his settlement, and resolved to manifest
that vindictive feeling towards the son, which circumstances did not enable
occasionally became the associate of two well-known sporting gentlemen-then in the heyday of
youth and frolic-whose portraits we will have occasion to notice in a subsequent part of this work.
These manifestations of the spirit render the character of the Gaelic clergyman somewhat equivocal ;
yet it is but fair to state that his name ought not to be confounded, as has frequently been the case,
with that of the Reverend JaseTh Robertson, sometime minister of the chapel in Macdowall Street,
Paul’s Work, who was banished for forging certificates of proclamation.
The latest accounts represented hirn as
in a state of complete destltution.
This person became a teacher in Van Diemen’s Land.

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208 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
In these nine volumes he comprehended all that was contained in the original,
which consisted of sixteen large quarto volumes. The method he pursued of
rendering it into the English language was somewhat unusual. Instead of
translating literally, paragraph by paragraph, and sentence by sentence, he
deliberately read over six or eight pages at a time, making himself perfectly
master of their substance, and then wrote down the whole in English, in his
own words and arrangement. The greater part of this task he performed in a
small correctingroom connected with his printing-office, amidst the continual
interruption farising from the introduction of proof-sheets of other works for
his professional revisal, and the almost perpetual calls of customers, authors,
and idle acquaintances. Yet kuch was his self-possession, that, as usual with
almost everything he wrote, he gave it out to his compositors page by page,
as fast as it was written, and hardly ever found it necessary to alter a single
word after the types were set up from his first uncorrected manuscript.
In'Aupst 1781, Mr. Smellie drew up the first regular plan for procuring a
statistical account of the parishes of Scotland. This plan was printed and
distributed by order of the Society of Antiquaries ; and although no other result
followed at the time than a st,atistical report, by the Earl of Buchan, of the
parish of Uphall, in which his lordship then resided, along with three or four
others, which were printed in the Society's Transactions, yet it is proper to
mention the circumstance, as it was the precursor of the scheme which the late
Sir John Sinclair afterwards brought to maturity.
On the death of Dr. Ramsay in 1775, Mr. Smellie became a candidate for
the Chair of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh. The patronage
being in the gift of the Crown, his friends made strong and ardent applications
in his favour to Lord Suffolk ; but from the superior political influence of his
opponent, Dr. Walker, these exertions were unsuccessful,
Mr. Smellie was one of the original founders of the Society of Antiquaries.
In 1781 he was appointed Superintendent of its Museum of Natural History ;
and in 1793 he was elected Secretary. It is not intended here to give a history
of that Society ; yet, as a considerable portion of the strange and inexplicable
opposition which that Association encountered, in their application for a royal
charter, from two highly respectable public bodies, originated out of circuinstances
intimately connected With Mr. Smellie's history, a short account of these
transactions may be given. Mr. Smellie having announced his intention of
giving a course of lectures, at the request of the 'Society, on the Philosophy of
Natural History, to be delivered in their hall, this proposal gave great dissatisfaction
to Dr. Walker, the recently elected Professor of Natural History, already
mentioned ; although every attempt was made by the Earl of Enchan to satisfy
him that Mr. Smellie's lectures would not interfere with those of the University,
and although Dr, Walker had not given even L single lecture for nearly seven
years after his appointment. Nothing, however, would satisfy him ; and his
answer to the Earl's pacific endeavours was-'' In the professorship P am soon
to undertake I have foreseen many difficulties, which I yet hope to surmount ;

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24 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Canongate.
Life below Stairs,? which the fraternity of footmen
bitterly resented, and resolved to stop. On the
second night of its being announced, Mr. Love,
one of the management, came upon the stage and
read a letter containing the most bitter denunciations
of vengeance upon all concerned if the piece
should be performed. It was, nevertheless, proceeded
with, and the gentlemen who were in the
theatre having provided accommodation for their
servants in the gallery, the moment the farce began
? a prodigious noise was heard from that quarter.?
occurred till the night of the 14th December, 1756,
when, to the dismay of all Scotland, there was
brought out the tragedy of ? Douglas,? written by
the pen of a minister of the kirk !
The original cast was thus :-Douglas, Mr.
Digges; Lord Randolph, Mr. Younger; Glenalvon,
Mr. Love; Norval, Mr. Hayman; Lady Randolph,
Mrs. Ward ; Anna, Mrs Hopkins.
With redoubled zeal the clergy returned to the
assault, and though they could no more crush the
players, they compelled John Home, the author of
? #I
nounce the orders
that had been
tarnished by a
composition so
unwonted and unclerical,?
Ultimately
he became
captain in the Buccleuch
Fencibles,
and lived long
enough to see the
prejudices of many
of his countrymen
pass away; but he
was long viewed
with obloquy.
?To account for
this extraordinary
phen o me n o n,?
says Dr. Carlisle,
??so far down in
theeighteenth cen-
Theatre from the original proprietors for L648 and
Lroo per annum during the lives of the lessees ;
but he failed in his engagement, and James Callender,
a merchant of the city, undertook to conduct
the business, with Mr. Digges as stage manager.
Callender soon after resigned his charge to Mr.
David Beatt, another citizen, who had ventured in
the past time to read Prince Charles?s proclama.
tions at the Cross. Mr. Love also withdrew from the
charge, and was succeeded by Mr. John Dawson
of Newcastle ; but dissensions arose among the
performers themselves. Two parties were formed in
the theatre, which, during a performance of ? Hamlet,?
they utterly wrecked and demolished, and set
on fire in a riot, to the supreme. delight of all
opponents of the drama.
Legal actions and caunter-actions ensued ; the
house was again fitted up, and nothing of interest
a few well-meaning people and all the zealots of
the time were seriously offended with a clergyman
for writing a tragedy, even with a virtuous tendency,
and with his brethren for giving him countenance.
They were joined by others out of mere envy.?
The Presbytery of Edinburgh suspended all
clergymen who had witnessed the representation
of ?Douglas,JJ and at the same time ?emitted an
admonition and exhortation, levelled against aZZ
who frequented what they supposed to be the
Temple of the Father of Lies, and ordered it to be
read in all the churches within their bounds.?
The personal elegance of Digges and the rare
beauty of Mrs. Bellamy were traditionally remembered
in the beginning of the present century,
and made them even objects of interest to those
by whom their scandalous life was regarded with
just reprehension. They lived in a small countg

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The Mound.] THE EQUIVALENT MONEY. 85
houses for the French weavers, who, in memory of
their native land, named the colony Little Picardy,
.and thereon now stands Picardy Place. This was
in 1729. The men taught weaving, their wives
and daughters the art of spinning cambric yarn ;
and by the trustees a man well skilled in all the
branches of the linen trade was at the same time
brought from Ireland, and appointed to travel the
country and instruct the weavers and others in the
best modes of making cloth.
'' Secondly, to indemnify for any losses they
might sustain by reducing the coin of Scotland to
the standard and value of England ; and thirdly, in
bribing a majority of the Scottish Parliament when
matters came to the Zasf push.
" Of the whole equivalent, therefore, ono
~40,000 was left for national purposes ; and so lost
to public spirit and to all sense of honour were the
representatives of Scotland, three gr four noblemen
alone excepted, that this balance was supposed to
THE ROYAL INSTITUTION.
Before proceeding further, we shall here quote the
comprehensive statement concerning the Board ot
Trustees which appears in Knox's "View of the
British Empire," London, 17Sg :-
" By the Treaty of Union it was stipulated that
;6398,085 should be paid to the Scots as an
equivalent for the customs, taxes, and excises to be
levied upon that kingdom in consequence of the
English debt, jC~o,ooo,ooo, though estimated at
~17,000,000. This equivalent, if it may be so
called, was applied in the following manner :-
"Firstly, to pay off the capital of the Scottish
India Company, which was to be abolished in
favour of the English Company trading to the East
Indies.
be useless in the English Treasury till the year
1727, when the royal burghs began to wake from
their stupor, and to apply the interest of the
~40,000 towards raising a little fund for improving
the manufactures and fisheries of the country."
'' An Act of Parliament " (the Act quoted before)
'' now directed the application of the funds to the
several purposes for which they were designed, and
appointed twenty-one commissioners, who were
entrusted with the management of the same and
other matters relative thereto."
In Lefevre's Report of July zoth, 1850, it is stated
that "having regard to the origin of this Board as
connected with the existence of Scotland as a
separate kingdom, and to the unbroken series of

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tion, such as David Laing, Robert Chambers, and
Cosmo Innes. In his ? Diary? Scott writes of him
as ?a very remarkable man. He has infinite wit
and a great turn for antiquarian lore. His
drawings are the most fanciful and droll imaginable
-a mixture between Hogarth and some of those
foreign masters who painted ?Temptations of St.
Anthony ? and such grotesque subjects, My idea
is that Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, with his oddities,
tastes, satire, and high aristocratic feelings,
resembles Horace Walpole.?
THE EXCISE OFFICE, DRUMMOND PLACE
portraits, some on the walls, but many more on the
floor. A small room leading out of this one was
the place where Mr. Sharpe gave audiences. Its
diminutive space was stuffed full of old curiosities,
cases with family bijouterie, &c. One petty object
was strongly indicative of character, a calling card of
Lady Charlotte Campbell, the once adored beauty,
stuck into the frame of a picture. He must have
kept it, at that time, about thirty years.?
This lady, one of the celebrated Edinburgh
beauties, was the second daughter of John, Duke of
The resemblance in their abodes was more
strictly true. The house of Sharpe, No. 28 Drummond
Place, was one of the sights of Edinburgh to
the select few who found admittance there, with its
antique furniture, tapestries, paintings, and carvings
-its exquisite enamels, weapons, armour, bronzes,
bijouterie, ivories, old china, old books, and cabinets-
the mighty collection of a long life, and the
sale of which, at his death, occupied six long days
at the auction rooms in South Hanever Street.
Robert Chambers deseribes a visit he paid him
in Princes Street. ?? His servant conducted me to
the first floor, and showed me into what is called
amongst us the back drawing-room, which I found
carpeted with green cloth and full of old family
(From a Drawing Sy She&%?, #&shed in 1829.)
Argyle, who died in 1806, and the visit referred to
took place about 1824.
To Mr. Sharpe Sir Walter owed many of the
most graphic incidents which gave such inimitable
life to the productions of his pen ; and a writer in
the Gentleman?s Magazine justly remarked that
?his collection of antiquities is among the richest
which any private gentleman has ever accumulated
in the north. In Scottish literature he will be
always remembered as the editor of ?Law?s Memorials?
and of ? Kkkton?s History of the Kirk of
Scotland.? His taste in music was no less cultivated
than peculiar, and the ~ curious variety of
singular and obsolete musical instruments which
enriched his collection, showed how well t b ~

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 417
Besides the Professorship, Dr. Hope held the appointment of Physician to
the Royal Infirmary ; and in this department of his public duty, his humane
and enlightened attention to the diseases of the patients under his care, and his
judicious prescriptions for curing and alleviating their disorders, were most
exemplary and instructive.
About the year 1760 Dr. Hope married Juliana, daughter of Dr. Stevenson,
physician in Edinburgh, by whom he had four sons and a daughter. After
long enjoying mnch domestic felicity and high honour in his profession, both
as a physician and professor, he died, while President of the Royal College of
Physicians, after a short illness, on the 10th November 1786, in the sixty-second
year of his age. His third son, Dr. Thomas Charles Hope, afterwards (1837)
filled the chair of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh.
No. CCCXII.
SECOND DIVISION OF THE COURT OF SESSION.
TEE Senators composing this Sitting (beginning at the left), are LORDS
ARMADALWE, OODHOUSELEGEL,E NLEEM, EADOWBANRKO, BERTSONan, d GILLIES
-the LORDJ USTICE-CLER{KB OYLEp) residing in the centre. The Print bears
the date of March 1812, yet three of the seven Judges represented still survive.'
namely, Lord Glenlee, the Lord Justice-clerk, and Lord Gillies. Save the two
last mentioned, Portraits of the other Senators have successively appeared in the
course of this Work.
THER IGHT HON. DAVID BOYLE, LORDJ USTICE-CLERKth,e fourth, but
only surviving, son of the Hon. Patrick Boyle of Shewalton (third son of John
the second Earl of Glasgow) was born in 1772. Mr. Boyle, after the usual
course of study requisite for the Scottish bar, passed advocate in December
1793. He was constituted Solicitor-General for Scotland in 1807, and the
same year elected member of Parliament for the county of Ayr, which he continued
to represent until his elevation to the bench in 1811. He was at the
same time nominated a Lord of Justiciary; and in November of that year
appointed Lord Justice-clerk in the room of the Right Hon. Charles Hope,
who had been Promoted to the Presidency.
Throughout the long period during which the Lord Justice-clerk filled this
office he efficiently qscharged its important duties, both as a criminal and a
civil judge. Not content with making himself fully master of the different civil
cwes coming before him, by a previous diligent perusal of the printed records
and pleadings, he carefully noted down any observations of importance
At the date of the first edition of this work, 1837-8,
VOL. IL 3 H

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . .
THE UNIVERSITY.-~~ontirpi~ce.
PAGE
The Kirk-of-Field . . . . . . . I
Rough Sketch of the Kirk.of.Field, February. 1567.
taken hastily for the English Court . . . 5
The Library of the Old University. as seen from the
south-east corner of the Quadrangle. looking North
The Lihrary of the Old University. as seen from the
south-western corner of the Quadrangle. looking
East . . . . . . . . ., 12
Part of the Buildings of the South side of thc Quad-
Laying the Foundation Stone of the New University.
9
rangle of the Old University . . . . 13
November 16. 1789 . . . . . . 17
The original Design for the East Front of the New
Building for the University of Edinburgh . . 20
Original Plan of the Principal Storey of the New
Building for the University of Edinburgh . . ZI
The Quadrangle. Edinburgh University . . . 25
The Library Hall. Edinburgh University . . . z8
The Bore-Stane . . . . . . . . . zg
Wright?s Houses and the Barclay Church. from Brnnts-
. . . . . . . field Links 32
TheAvenue. Bruntsfield Links . . . . . 33
Wrychtishousis. from the South-west . . . . 36
Merchiston Castle ; Napier Room ; Queen Mary?s Pear
Tree ; Drawing Room ; Entrance Gateway
Tu /;(cc pap 37
. . . Cillespie?s Hospital. from the East ? 37
Christ Church. Morningside . 41
Braid Cottages. 1850 . . . . . . . 40
. . . .
The Hermitage . Braid ; Craig House ; Kitchen. Craig
House; Dining-room Craig House . . . 44
TheGrangeCernetery . . . . . . 45
OldTombat Warrender Park . . . . . 46
Warrender House ; St . Margaret?s Convent ; Ruins of
St . Roque?s Chapel ; Grange House. 1820 ; Draw- . . . ing-room in Orange House, 1882 . 48
Broadstairs House. Causawayside. 1880 . . . 52
Mr . Dullcan McLaren . . . . . .
Ruins of the Convent of St . Katharine. Sciennes.
north-west view. 1854 . . . . .
Interior of the Ruins of the Convent of St . Katharine.
Sciennes . 1854 . . . . . . .
Seal of the Convent of St . Katharine . . . .
Prestonfield House . . . . . . .
Old Houses . Echo Bank . . . . . .
Craigmillar Castle . . . . Tofarepage
Craigmillar Castle: The Hall ; The Keep; Queen
Mary?s Tree; South-west Tower ; The Chapel .
Peffer Mill House . . . . . . . .
Bell?s Mills Bridge . . . . . . .
The Dean House. 1832 . . . . . .
Watson?s, Orphans?. and Stewart?s Hospitals. from
Drumsheugh Grounds. 1859 . . . .
Views in the Dean Cemetery . . . . .
Randolph Cliff and Dean Bridge . Tofacepage
The Water of Leith Village . : . . .
The Water of Leith. 1825 . . . . . .
3 . Bernard?s Well. 1825 . . . . . .
The House where David Roberts was horn . . .
Fettes College. from the South-west . . . .
St . Stephen?s Church . :? . . . . . .
The Edinburgh Academy . . . . . .
Canonmills Loch and House. 1830 . . . .
Heriot?s Hill House . . . . . . .
Tanfield Hall . . . . . . . .
Pilrig House . . . . . . . .
Bonnington House ; Stewadfield ; Redbraes ; Silvermills
House ; Broughton Hall; Powder Hall ;
Canonmills House . . . . . .
View in Bonnington. 185 I . . . . . .
Warriston House . . . . . . .
The Royal Botanic Gardens: General View of the
Gardens ; The Arboretum ; Rock Garden ; Palm
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352 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES,
Societies of Edinburgh-of its Subscription Library, etc. He was for forty-one
years treasurer of the Synod of his church ; and, from its commencement, and
for more than forty years, had acted as treasurer of the Widows’ Fund of Dissenting
Ministers of Scotland.
They consist principally of
single sermons published at intervals ; the first of which was preached on the
occasion of the Centenary of the Revolution. Two or three were delivered
before missionary and philanthropic societies ; one before the United Associate
Synod; another upon the occasion of the Great Fires in Edinburgh, in 1824;
and the remainder on funeral and other occasions. He also contributed
various articles to religious periodicals ; in particular, to the Chvistian Illagaxine,
the Christian Monitov, and the Theological Magazine. More lately, a series of
lectures on the book of Jonah, from his pen, appeared in successive numbers of
the United Xecession Mugaxine. His most remarkable publication was a letter
addressed to the late Rev. Dr. Porteous of Glasgow, in 1800, in reply to a
charge of political disaflection which that Divine advanced against the Associate
Synod, in consequence of their having made an alteration in their doctrinal
standards, in reference to the subject of the magistrate’s power in matters of
religion. This letter was much admired at the time for its delicate yet keen
satire, and the clearness, strength, and elegancies of its reasoning. The late
Dugald Stewart recommended it to his students, as one of the most masterly
pieces of classical sarcasm in our language.
Dr. Peddie’s publications are few in number.
No. CCLXXXVIII.
REV. DR. PEDDIE,
IN 1810.
To the foregoing slight sketch of the reverend gentleman, it may be added,
that he received the degree of Doctor in Divinity, in 1818, from the University
of Aberdeen, and that he was twice married-first, to Margaret, daughter of
the late Rev. George Coventry of Stitchill, and sister to the late Dr. Andrew
Coventry, Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, by whom
he had no children; and, secondly, to Earbara, daughter of the late Donald
Smith, Esq., banker in Edinburgh. By his second wife he had a family of
nine children, one of whom, his second son, the Rev. William Peddie, was
ordained his colleague and successor in the year 1828.
Dr. Peddie had the honour of being the oldest clergyman among the
various denominations within Edinburgh and Leith. His long ministry having
been wholly spent in Edinburgh, it is satisfactory to know that, in return for

... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Societies of Edinburgh-of its Subscription Library, etc. He was for forty-one years ...

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E CCL ESIA S TICA L A NTIQ UITIES. 379
Edinburgh, in the reign of David I. and long afterwards, was, as we have already shown,
no more than an assemblage of rude huts, constructed in full anticipation of their falling
a prey to the torch of the southern invaders. Froissart represents the Scots exclaiming
more than two centuries later, “ thoughe the Englishe brinne our houses, we care lytell
therefore; we shall make them agayne chepe ynongh! ” Nevertheless, it is to David I.
that Edinburgh owes its earliest improvement and much of its future prosperity. He was
the first monarch who made the Castle of Edinburgh his chief residence; and by his
munificent monastic foundation in its neighbourhood, he made it the centre towards which
the wealth of the adjacent country flowed, and thereby erected it into the capital of the
Lothians centuries before it assumed its position as the capital of the kingdom. It
cannot, therefore, surprise us to discover evidence of the rebuilding of the Parish Church
of Edinburgh about the period of his accession to the throne ; and we accordingly find
that some beautiful remains of the original edifice, somewhat -earlier in style than the
oldest portions of the Abbey Church of Holyrood, were only destroyed about the middle
of last century.
The annexed vignette, copied from a very rare print, represents a beautiful Norman doorway
which formed the entrance to the nave of St Giles’s Church on the north side, and was
only demolished about the year 1760. It stood immediately below the third window from
the west, within the line of the external wall.
access to it was obliterated in the alterations
of 1829. This fragment sufliciently enables us
to picture the little Parish Church of St Giles
in the reign of David I. Built in the massive
style of the early N0rma.n period, it would
consist simply .of a nave and chancel united
by a rich Norman chancel arch; altogether
occupying only a portion of the centre aisle
of the present nave. Small circular-headed
windows, decorated with zig-zag mouldings,
would admit the light to its sombre interior;
while its west front was in all probability
surmounted by a simple belfry, from whence
the bell would daily summon the natives of
the hamlet to matins and vespers, and with
slow measured sounds toll their knell as they
were lain in the neighbouring churchyard.
A plain round archway that had given
This ancient church was never entirely demolished. Its solid masonry was probably very
partially affected by the ravages of the invading forces of Edward IL, in 1322, when
Holyrood was spoiled; or by those of his son in 1335, when the whole country was wasted
with fire and sword. The town was again subjected to the like violence, probably with
results little more lasting, by the conflagration in 1385, when the English army under
Richard IL occupied the town for five days, and then laid it and the Abbey of Holyrood
in ashes. The Norman architecture disappeared piece-meal, as chapels and aisles were
added to the original fabric by the piety of private donors, or by the zeal of its own

... CCL ESIA S TICA L A NTIQ UITIES. 379 Edinburgh, in the reign of David I. and long afterwards, was, as we have ...

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4 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
THE DAFT HIGHLAND LAIRD.
JOHN DHU, OR DO'CV, ALIAS 'MACDONALD, AND
JAMIE DUFF, AN IDIOT.
THE first of these worthies, who is in the act of holding up a staff surmounted
by the representation of a human head and face, was a gentleman by
birth, his proper name and title being James Robertson of Kincraigie, in Perthshire.
He was a determined Jacobite, and had been engaged in the Rebellion
of 1745, for which he was confined in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh.
It was during this incarceration that the Laird exhibited those symptoms of
derangement which subsequently caused him to obtain the sobriquet of the
" Daft Highland Laird." His lunacy was first indicated by a series of splendid
entertainments to all those who chose to come, no matter who they were.
His insanity and harmlessness having become known to the authorities, they
discharged him from the jail, from which, however, he was no sooner ejected
than he was pounced upon by his friends, who having cognosced him in the
usual manner, his younger bother was, it is understood, appointed his curator
or guardian. By this prudent measure his property was preserved against any
attempts which might be made by designing persons, and an adequate yearly
allowance was provided for his support. A moderate income having in this way
been secured to the Laird, he was enabled to maintain the character of a
deranged gentleman with some degree of respectability, and he enjoyed, from
this time forward, a total immunity from all the cares of life. When we say,
however, that the Laird was freed from all care and anxiety, we hazarded something
more than the facts warrant. Tilere was one darling wish of his heart
that clung to him for many a day, which certainly it was not very easy to gratify.
This was his extreme anxiety to be hanged, drawn, and quartered, as a rebel partisan
of the house of Stuart, and a sworn and deadly foe to the reigning dynasty.
He was sadly annoyed that nobody would put him in jail as a traitor, or attempt
to bring him to trial. It would have been a partial alleviation of his grief, if he
could have got any benevolent person to have accused him of treason. It was
in vain that he drank healths to the Pretender-in vain that he bawled treason
in the streets ; there was not one who would lend a helping-hand to procure him
the enjoyment of its pains and penalties.
The Laird, although he uniformly insisted on being a martyr to the cause
of the Chevalier, seemed to feel that there was something wanting to complete
his pretensions to that character-that it was hardly compatible with the unrestrained
liberty he enjoyed, the ease and comfort in which he lived, and the total
immunity from any kind of suffering which was permitted him j and hence his
anxiety to bring down upon himself t,he vengeance of the law.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 171
(( This spirit of false chivalry,” adds Barrington, (( which took such entire
possession of Hamilton Rowan’s understanding, was soon diverted into the
channels of political theory.” The (( wrongs of Ireland,” real and imaginary,
were not without their influence on a mind so susceptible of humane and
honourable impressions. In 1782 he had participated in the memorable but
short-lived triumph obtained for their country by the Volunteers, whom the
emergency of the times called into existence j and he saw with equal regret the
return of anarchy and disorganisation which so speedily followed that propitious
effort of national unanimity. The spirit of democracy, so fearfully awakened in
the Revolution of France, acted with talismanic effect upon the people of Ireland,
where the patriotic exertions and eloquence of a Grattan and a Curran were
expended in vain against the corruption of the Irish Parliament.
In Hamilton Rowan the promoters of the societies of (( United Irishmen,”
the first of which was held in Belfast in October 1791, found an influential and
enthusiastic coadjutor. The first sitting of the Dublin Society was held on the
9th November following; the Hon. Sirnon Butler in the chair, and James
Napper Tandy, secretary. Of this body Hamilton Rowan was an original
member; but it was not till 1792, at the meeting on the 23d November,
that we find him officially engaged in the proceedings. Dr. Drennan (whose
talents as a writer have been much admired) was elected chairman, and Mr.
Rowan, secretary.
The views of the “ United Irishmen ” were ostensibly the accomplishment
of political reformation-and probably nothing farther was at first contemplated ;
but it soon became evident that measures as well as principles were in progress,
which were likely to increase and streugthen in proportion as a redress of
grievances was denied or postponed. That national independence was an event,
among others, to which the United Irishmen looked forward, is strongly countenanced
by concurring circumstances-although it ought to be borne in mind
that the original political associations were entirely distinct from those subsequently
entered into, bearing similar designations. Early in 1792 a body of
volunteers were formed in Dublin, approximating in design to the National
Guards of France-the leaders of whom were Hamilton Rowan and Napper
Tandy. This body of armed citizens-who “wore clothing of a particular
uniform, with emblems of harps divested of the Royal Crown ”-had hitherto
met only in small divisions ; but a general meeting, to be held on Sunday the
7th September, was at length announced in a placard, to which was attached
the signature of Mathew Dowling. Alarmed at this procedure the Government
issued a counter proclamation the day previous, which proved so entirely
authoritative, that the only individuals who appeared on parade in uniform
were Rowan, Tandy, and Carey, printer to the Society.
Immediately following this, the ‘( United Irishmen ” met in consdtationan
energetic address to the Volunteers of Ireland, or rather the disorganised
remains of that once powerful body, was agreed ob-and the Guards of Dublin
were summoned to meet in a house in Cape Street, belonging to Pardon, a

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