... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
to assume. These two gentlemen *had been acquainted from infancy; and
duriug a long ...
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... SKETCHES. 15
adcounts are closed. Take up your papers, man, and go home with an easy
mind ; your ...
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... THE VALE OF THE ESK. 141
‘by Sir John Vanbrugh. Here she lived in almost regal splendour till her
death at ...
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... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Here he had a wider field for his exertions, both as a temporal and ...
Book 9 p. 215
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Roslin.
? scratching on a pewter plate two verses, which are
~ preserved among his ...
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... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Until within a few weeks of his death he enjoyed uninterrupted good
health-possessed a ...
Book 9 p. 193
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... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
the present system unavoidably produces.-To the various duties of my office I shall pay ...
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Great Stuart Street.
shire, and of Amelia, daughter of Alexander Graham,
of Duntrune, ...
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... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
An’ then there ’s the Major, sin’ less winna ser’ him,
His servitude haulds ...
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... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
the head, and was styled the Provost's Officer, it being his chief duty to ...
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... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
He is represented in the prosecution of a favourite walk in the Meadows ; and
half a ...
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... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
then in his forty-sixth year, while Miss Dawson (from the vicinity of Doncaster)
was ...
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... SKETCHES. 1 83
He was one of the original members Fof the Antiquarian Society, instituted
chiefly by ...
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... SKETCHES. 457
Few men ever enjoyed a course of uninterrupted good health equal to Mr. Sym.
When ...
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![Xigh Street.] EXCISE OFFICE. 217
not only to inspire his enthusiasm, but improve his
seamanship ; and there was something prophetic
in the poem, as the frigate Azlroru, in which he
served, perished at sea in 1769.
Eastward of Knox?s manse is an old timberfronted
land, bearing the royal arms of Scotland
on its first floor, and entered by a stone turnpike,
the door of which has the legend Beus Benedictat,
and long pointed out as the excise office of early
times. ? The situation,? says Wilson, ? was peculiarly
convenient for guarding the principal gate of
das?s splendid mansion in St. Andrew?s Square,
now occupied by the Royal Bank. This may be
considered its culminating point It descended
thereafter to Bellevue House, in Drummond Place,
built by General Scott, the father-in-law of Mr.
Canning, which house was demolished in 1846 in
completing the tunnel of the Edinburgh and Leith
Railway; and now we believe the exciseman no
longer possesses a local habitation ? within the
Scottish capital.?
The interesting locality of the Nether Bow takes
the city, and the direct avenue (Leith Wynd) to
the neighbouring seaport. . . . . . Since
George 11.?~ reign the excise office had as many
rapid vicissitudes as might mark the ?areer of a
profligate spendthrift. In its earlier days, when a
floor of the old land in the Nether Bow sufficed
for its accommodation, it was regarded as foremost
among the detested fruits of the Union. From
thence it removed to more commodious chambers
in the Cowgate, since demolished to make way for
the southern piers of George IV. bridge. Its next
resting place was the large tenement on the south
side of Chessel?s Court in the Canongate, the scene
of the notorious Deacon Brodie?s last robbery.
From thence it was removed to Sir Lawrence Dun-
28
its name from the city gate, known as the Nether
Bow Port, in contradistinction to the Upper Bow
Port, which stood near the west end of the Eigh
Street. This barrier united the city wall from St.
Mary?s Wynd on the south to the steep street known
as Leith Wynd on the north, at a time when, perhaps,
only open fields lay eastward of the gate,
stretching from the township to the abbey of Holyrood.
The last gate was built in the time of Tames
VI. ; what was the character of its predecessor
we have no means of ascertaining; but to repair it,
in 1538, as the city cash had run low, the magistrates
were compelled to mortgage its northern
vault for IOO rnerks Scots; and this was the gate
which the English, under Lord Hertford, blew open](images/thumbs/old_new_edin_v2p037.gif "Old and New Edinburgh Vol. II Page 217")
... Street.] EXCISE OFFICE. 217
not only to inspire his enthusiasm, but improve his
seamanship ; and there was ...
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![Infirmary Street.] DR. HAMILTON. ? 301
of the instruments for the use of the wards ; and
to each of these four surgeons, after 1766, was
assigned a salary in proportion to what the funds
of the institution admitted.
Distinct as these regulations were, they did not
work well, and a committee was appointed to confer
with the managers in 1769 to adjust certain
matters that were in dispute, and new arrangements
were made. Under these ?? one of the substitutes
was to be changed annually, and his place supplied
by a brother duly elected by the Incorporation
of Surgeons according
to seniority-
at least
in the order in
which they could
find any disposed
to accept
of the trust : all
this was to be
.done under the
authority of the
managers, and
to continue in
force until they
saw cmse to
alter it.?
About 1769
.the ordinary
patients, exclusive
of soldiers
and servants,
averaged about
sixty; but the
funds having
grown apace,
eighty were accommoda
t ed.
?If the phybe
mentioned that?between 1770 and 1775 the
numbers admitted yearly at an average amounted
to 1,567Q, and the number of deaths 634, and,
omitting fractional parts, the deaths were to the
numbers admitted as I to 25.
In 1778 the total number of patients with their
attendants made up a family of 230, but so rapid
has been the increase of the population, that betweenoctober
1846 and October 1847 no fewer
than 7,576 patients sought refuge within its walls.
Of these 1,059 died-? a large number no doubt,?
THE OLD ROYAL INFIKMARY, 1820. (Affer Storm..)
sicians, on -a due consideration of certain cases
thought otherwise, no more were to be admitted,
and those taken in, so long as they remained
supernumeraries, were expected to pay sixpence
per day.?
Dr. John Stedman, on the 2nd of August, 1773,
was elected in place of Dr. Drummond, who had
emigrated to Bristol ; but his health was so infirm,
that in 1775 Dr. Black was chosen in his place,
and afterwards Dr. James Hamilton senior, long
one of the ornaments of the city; and after obtaining
also the office of physician to George
Heriot?s, the Trades Maiden, and Merchant Maiden
Hospitals, he superintended these benevolent insti-
&u$ions for upwards of fifty years.
As an estimate of the good accomplished it may
says a report,
?still, but for
such a house of
refuge, how
many more
would have
breathed out
their last amidst
the noxious
abodes of our
city, spreading
wider and wider
the pestilential
calamity which
has swept away
its thousands of
victims in all
parts of the
country.?
In the year
1848 the chap
lain was required
by new
regulations to
read a portion
of the Scrip
tures, and engage
in devotional
exercises in every ward in the house-a
duty which generally occupied about five hours ;
he had to meet the convalescent patients in chapel
for religious duty every evening ; to be ready to
attend the dying, and he had to preach twice on
Sunday to the nurses, servants, and all patients
who could attend.
In the old house over 5,000 patients were admitted
annually, of whom about 2,300 were surgid
cases. The average number of out-door patients
yearly was about 12,000, obtaining the benefit
of the highest professionai skill of the medical and
surgical officers, and receiving all the necessary
dressings, appliances, and comforts at the expense
of the house, which has an admirable sta?f of nurses
under a lady-superintendent.](images/thumbs/old_new_edin_v4p121.gif "Old and New Edinburgh Vol. IV Page 301")
... Street.] DR. HAMILTON. ? 301
of the instruments for the use of the wards ; and
to each of these four ...
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... BI 0 GRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
specimens brought home, a sketch of the geology of the different coasts disy
covered ...
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Moray Place.
~~
reputation, but he was too much a votary of the
regular old ...
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... 89
property of the bishops, which was not inconsiderable, was very unjustly
seized on by the greedy hand ...
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... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
heirs, extended it first to the female line, and then vested in him the power ...
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... UCKENEOOTHS AND PARLIAMENT CLOSE. 203
Michaell Cranstoun, then a verie fordward minister,” profitably employed ...
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. Gwrge squarc
for transporting a finelydressed lady in a powdered
toupee. The public ...
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... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
No. XXVITI.
SIR JAMES HUNTER BLAIR, BART.,
LATE LORD PROVOST OF EDINBURGH,
Is here ...
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... SKETCHES. 121
On the way‘the prisoner behaved with much levity of manner, and
Williamson used to ...
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