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416 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
century, it was his turn, along with another of the Royal Chaplains, to officiate.
The latter opened the proceedings with a prayer most elaborately composed for
the occasion. His eloquence attracted notice, and expectation was excited in
regard to the prayer with which the proceedings were to be terminated, and
which fell to be offered by the subject of this sketch, when the reverend gentleman
stood up, and rightly judging that neither the circumstances nor the services
called for anything but the femest and simplest words, with great solemnity
repeated the Lord’s Prayer, to the no small surprise of the audience, some of
whom had the bad taste to term it unsuitable to the occasion,
The death perhaps of no clergyman ever produced a greater sensation in the
neighbourhood where it occurred. It was announced by bills hawked about
the streets of Edinburgh; and the presence of thousands of persons at the
funeral attested the veneration in which their pastor was held. Only one of
Mr. Paul’s sermons was ever published, although some of them have since
appeared in the periodical publications of the day. His venerable widow
survived him till 21st November 1828.
This Print was executed by the artist from recollection, after the reverend
gentleman’s death.
No. CLXIV.
BYRNE, THE IRISH GIANT,
MR. WATSON, MR. M‘GOWAN, MR. FAIRHOLME,
AND
GEORDIE CRANSTOUN.
THIS Print, which is one of the early productions of the artist, represents the
Giant in conversation with Mr. Watson, while Mr. M‘Gowan, Mr. Fairholme,
and Geordie Cranstoun are listening very attentively to what is going on.
Some account of MR. FAIRHOLME, the first figure to the left, will be
found in our notice of “The Connoisseurs.” The likeness here afforded may
not be so accurate or distinct in the outlines as the one in the group alluded to ;
yet the person and attitude are very characteristic of the upright and somewhat
pompous figure of the original.
The next figure presents an equally graphic portraiture of MR. JOHN
M‘GOWAN, who lived for many years in the Luckenbooths, where he occupied
the second and third flats above Creech the bookseller’s shop. He latterly
removed to a house in Princes Street, between Castle and Charlotte Streets,
where he died.

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CHAPTER X.
LEITH, AND THE NEW TOWN.
HE history and antiquities of the ancient
burgh of Leith are much too intimately
connected with the Scottish capital to admit of
their being overlooked among its venerable memorials.
The earliest notice of Leith occurs in
the original charter of Holyrood Abbey, where
it is mentioned among the gifts bestowed by
Saint David on his royal foundation, under the
name of Inverleith. Little, however, is known
of its history until the year 1329, when the
citizens of Edinburgh obtained from Eing
Robert I. a grait of the Harbour and Mills of
Leith, for the payment of fifty-two merks ye'arly.
From that period almost to our day it has
remained as a vassal of Edinburgh, not incorporated,
like the Canongate, by amicable relations and the beneficent fruits of a paternal
sway, but watched with a spirit of mean jealousy that seemed ever to dread the step-child
becoming a formidable rival. It bore a share in all the disasters that befell its jealous
neighbour, without partaking of its more prosperous fortunes, until the Burgh Reform
Bill of 1833 at length freed it from this slavish vassalage, that proved in its operations
alike injurious to the Capital and its Port. The position it occupied, and the share it had
in the successive struggles that exercised so marked an influence on the history of Edinburgh,
have already been sufficiently detailed in the introductory sketch. It suffered
nearly as much from the invading armies of Henry VIII. as Edinburgh; while in the
bloody feuds between the Congregation and the Queen Regent, Mary of Guise, and the no
less bitter strife of the Douglas wars, it was dragged unwillingly into their quarrels, and
compelled to bear the brunt of its more powerful neighbour's wrath.
In the reign of Alexander 111. it belonged to the Leiths, a family who owned extensive
possessions in Midlothian, including the lands of Restalrig, and took their patrimonial
surname from the town. About the commencement of the fourteenth century
these possessions passed by marriage to the Logans, the remains of whose ancient strong-
VIGNETTs-Arms, vinegar Close, Leith.

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‘34 ROSLTN, HAWTHORNDEN,
that built the more modern portion of the mansion as we now see it,
repairing or renewing the more ancient house that stood on. the same rock and
fragments of which still remain, Hawthornden, in short, is a kind of minor
Abbotsford, much nearer Edinburgh, and much more antique than the greater
one; and it is this’ that makes it an object of curiosity, and invests all its
accessories with a precise human interest.’ 1
Perhaps the most interesting fact in Drummond’s life was the visit paid to
him by Ben Jonson, who had walked from London into Scotland. He had
not come, qs is generally stated, on purpose to see Drummond; but he had
known Drummond by reputation for some time, and was very glad to make
his acquaintance personally. Accordingly, after having met Drummond in
Edinburgh (where Jonson, as a celebrity from ‘London, was received with
great distinction by all classes of people, and even presented with the
freedom of the city at a banquet in his honour),‘he accepted Drummond’s
invitation to stay a week or two with him in Hawthornden House. The time
was about the Christmas of 1618 or the New Year’s Day of 1619 ; and the visit
has been sketched as follows :-
‘Retter than most myths of the kind is the myth which would tell us
exactly how the visit began, Drummond, it says, was sitting under the great
sycamore-tree in front of his house, expecting his visitor, when at length,
descending the well-hedged avenue from the public road to the house, the
bulky hero hove in sight. Rising, and stepping forth to meet him, Drummond
saluted him with “Welcome, welcome, royal Ben !” to which Jonson replied
Thank ye, thank ye, Hawthornden IJJ and they laughed, fraternised, tmd went
in together.
‘ For two or three weeks, at all events, Drummond had Ben Jonson all to
himself. There would, doubtless, be friends from Edinburgh, perhaps Scot
of Scotstarvet and two or three more, asked out every other day to make
dinnercompany for the great man ; and again, once or twice, Drummond and
Ben may have trudged into Edinburgh together in the forenoon, or walked
together by cross-roads to the house of some neighbour of Drummond’s.
(Carriages were not then much in fashion near Edinburgh, and I do not think
Drummond kept one, or had a horse fit for a rider of Ben’s size.) But then,
even when there’were other guests at Drummond’s table, Ben would be the
1 This and the following extracts are taken from Professor Masson‘s Drammond of fiaw
thorn&# : Tiu Story of his Ltyc and Writings.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 401
and having taken lodgings at Rosslyn, for change of air, she died there in 1792.
A stone in the churchyard, where her remains were interred, records her name
and the date of her death.
No. CCCVII.
A POLITICAL SET-TO;
‘( FREEDOM OF ELECTION ” ILLUSTRATED.
KINGHORNth, e scene of the affray represented in the Print, is the ferry-town
opposite Edinburgh, on the north side of the Forth. Though small it is a
royal burgh, and can boast an antiquity nearly as remote as any in the extensive
peninsula ycleped the Kingdom of Fife-
“ The most unhallowed mid the Scotian plains !”-
at least so wrote poor Fergusson, some sixty or seventy years ago ; although
few, we daresay, who visit the ‘( Fifan coast ” in our own day will acquiesce in
the inhospitable character ascribed to it by the poet. Along with Dysart,
Kirkaldy, and Burntisland, Kinghorn continues to send .a representative to
Parliament; and, if common fame report truly, in no other Scottish burgh
could a more curious or entertaining chronicle of electioneering manceuvres be
gleaned. From the union of the kingdoms down to the passing of the Reform
Bill, a series of political contentions agitated the otherwise peaceful community:;
and, amid the alternate scenes of strife and jollity which prevailed, there were
no lack of spirits-daring enough ; nor yet of joyous fellows-fond of merriment
and good cheer-who
“ Wisely thought it better far,
To fall in banquet than in war.” I ,
The annual return of councillors-always an interesting evenkserved to
keep alive the political excitement, and to whet the appetite for the more
engrossing occasion of a Parliamentary election. Some idea may be formed of
the consequence attached to the office of Chief Magistrate of the burgh, when
it is known that the civic chair has been frequently filled by an Earl of Rothes,
or an Earl of Leven, and that the Right Hon. Charles Hope, Lord President of
the Court of Session, was at one period the Provost of Kinghorn for nearly
twenty years. Not the least attractive circumstance attendant on the yearly
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348 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [North Bridge.
musical farce, entitled HaZZow 3a+, which is not
included in tne ?? Biographia Dramatica.? Burns
wrote a prologue for him, attracted to him by his
having been a friend of his own predecessor,
Robert Fergusson.
With the old house whose history we have been
recording all the eminent literary men of Edinburgh
whose names have been of note between
1769 and 1859 have been intimately associated, and
none more than he who was the monarch of them
all-Sir Walter Scott A lover of the drama from
his earliest years, as soon as he had a home of his
own the chief objects of his lavish hospitality were
the leading actors, and among the first of his
theatrical friends was the famous tragedian Charles
Young ; and soon after he was on intimate terms
with Mrs. Siddons and Mr. John Kemble, When
the twenty-one years of the patent expired in 1809,
it was transferred to certain assignees, two of whom
were Mr. Walter Scott, and Henry Nackenzie
author of ?The Man of Feeling;? and it was
at the suggestion of the former that Mr. Henry
Siddons, only son of the great tragedienne, applied
for the patent, which was readily granted to him
and at the same time an arrangement was entered
into for the possession of the house.
Now, indeed, commenced the first part of the
most brilliant history of the Edinburgh Theatre
Royal, the second being unquestionably that of the
management of Mr. R. H. Wyndham.
CHAPTER XLIV.
EAST SIDE OF NORTH BRIDGE (coontinwed).
Old Theatre Royal-Management of Mr. Henry Siddons-Mr. Murray-Miss ONeill-Production of Rob Ray-Visit of George IV. to thc
Theatre-Edinbureh Theatrical Fund-Scott and his Novels-Retirement of Mr. Murray-The Management of Mr. and MIX. Wyndham -
-The Closing Night of the Theatre.
MR. SIDDONS? powers as an actor were very
respectable ; moreover, he was a scholar, a man of
considerable literary ability, and a well-bred gentleman;
and though last, not least, he possessed a
patrimony which he was not afraid to risk in the
new speculation. He hoped that his mother and
his uncle John would aid him by their powerful
influence, and to have them acting together on these
boards would be a great event in the history of the
theatre. Mr. Siddons agreed to be content with
half-the profits of the house and a free benefit;
Kernble asked the same terms, and added that he
would be glad to come North and play for some
time. ?It was indeed a brilliant time for the
house when it had Mr. H. Siddons for Archer,
Belcour, and Charles Surface ; Mr. Terry for Sir
Peter Teazle, Sir Anthony Absolute, and Lord
Ogleby; Mr. Mason for stern guardians and snappish
old men in general; William Murray for
almost anything requiring cleverness and good
sense; Mr. Berry for low comedy; Mrs. Henry
Siddons equally for Belvidera and Lady Teazle;
Mrs. Nicol for Mrs. Malaprop, and an endless
variety of inexorable old aunts and duennas ; and
Mrs. William Peirson for Audrey, Priscilla Tomboy,
and William in Rosina ; when Mrs. Joanna Baillie
had a play brought out on our stage, prologued by
Henry Mackenzie and epilogued by Scott, and
whenever the scenery and decorations were in tlie
hands of artists of such reputation as Mr. Nasmyth
and Mr. J. F. Williams. Mrs. Siddons came
in March, 18 I 0, and performed a round of her great
parts-still appearing in the eyes of our fathers
the female Milton of the stage, as she had done
twenty-six years before in the eyes of their fathers.
Mr. John Kemble,? continues this account, written
in 1859, ?? stalked on in July, the first time he had
graced the boards for ten years. . But the glories
of the season were not yet exhausted. The handsome
Irish Johnstone, with his inimitable Major
O?Flaherty and Looney McTwolter ; Emery, with
his face like a great copper kettle, in such English
rustic parts as Tyke and John Lump ; Mrs. Jordan
with her romping vivacity and good-nature in the
Country Girl and other such parts, were among
the rich treats presented to the Edinburgh public
in 1810.?
In 1815 Mr. Henry Siddons, after conducting
the theatre in the same spirited and generous
manner,? died prematurely of hard work and
anxiety, deeply regretted by the Edinburgh people
of every class, and his mot!ier, who had been
living in retirement, and was then in her sixtysecond
year, appeared for a few nights for the
benefit of his family, whom he left somewhat impoverished.
His widow carried on the house in conjunction
with her brother, the well-known WilIiam Murray,
as stage-manager, and it continued still to possess
an excellent company. The beautiful young Irish

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THE LA WNMARKE T. I59
the latter building, consisted of a rudely executed ogee pediment, containing the city
arms, and surmounted by three tron weights. On Queen Mary’s entry to Edinburgh in
1561, this was the scene of some of the most ingenious displays of civic loyalty. Her
Majesty dined in the Castle, and a triumphal arch was erected at the Weigh-house, or
“ butter trone,” where the keys of the city were presented to her by “ane bony barne,
that descendit doun fra a cloude, as it had bene ane angell,” and added to the wonted
gift a Bible and Psalm-book-additions which some contemporary historians hint were
received with no very good grace.’ Cromwell established a guard in the older building
there, while the Castle was held out against him in 1650, and prudently levelled it with
the ground on gaining possession of the fortress, lest it should afford the same cover to
hiis assailants that it had done to himself. The latter erection proved equally serviceable
to the Highlanders of Prince Charles in 1745, when they attempted to blockade the Castle,
and starve out the garrison by stopping all supplies. The first floor of the large done
land, in front of Milne’s Court, was occupied at the same period as the residence and guardroom
for the officers commanding the neighbouring post ; and it is said that the dislodged
occupant,--a zealous Whig,-took his revenge on them after their departure by advertising
for the recovery of missing articles abstracted by his compulsory guests. The court
immediately behind this appears to have been one of the earliest attempts to substitute
an open square of some extent for the narrow closes that had so long afforded the sole
town residences of the Scottish gentry. The main entrance is adorned with a Doric entablature,
and bears the date 1690. The principal house, which forms the north side of the
court, has a handsome entrance, with neat mouldifigs, rising into a small peak in the
centre, like a very flat ogee arch. This style of ornament, which frequently occurs in
buildings of the same period, seems to mark the handiwork of Robert Milne, the builder
of the most recent portions of Holyrood Palace, and seventh Royal Master Mason, whose
uncle’s tomb,-erected by him in the Greyfriars’ Churchyard,-records in quaint rhymes
these hereditary &onours :-
.
Reader, John Milne, who maketh the fourth John,
And, by descent from father unto son,
Sixth Master-Mason, to a royal race
Of seven succesaive kings, sleeps in thia place.
The houses forming the west side of the court are relics of a much earlier period, that
had been delivered from the durance of a particularly narrow close by the march of fashion
and improvement in the seventeenth century. The most northerly of them long formed
the town mansion of the lairds of Comiston, in whose possession it still remains ; while that
to the south, though only partially exposed, presents a singularly irregular and picturesque
Ante, p. 71. “Quhen hir grace come fordwart to the butter trone of the said burgh, the nobilitie and convoy foirsaid
precedand, at the quhilk butter trone thair waa ane port made of tymber, in maiat honourable maner, cullorit with
fyne cullouris, hungin with syndrie armem ; upon the quhii port w88 singand certane barneia in the maiat hevinlie via;
under the quhilk port thair wea ane cloud opynnand with four levis, in the quhik waa put and bony barna And quhen
the queues hienes waa cumand throw the said port, the said cloud opynnit, and the barne dscendit doun as it had beene
ane angell, and deliuent to her hienes the keyis of the toun, togidder with ane Bybd and ane Paalme Buik, couerit with
fyne purpourit veluot ; and efter the said b eha d spoken aome small speitches, he deliuerit alsua tu her hienea thw
writtin@, the tennour thairof is vncertane. That being done, the barne ascendit in the cloua, and the said dud stekit j
- and thairefter the quenia grace come doun to the to1bnith.”-Diurnal of Ocurrenta, p. 68.

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EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT.
Seton, in which James the Sixth was ' graciously pleased to rest himselfe,' the
day on which he journeyed from Holyrood to London, to take possession of
the English Crown.' With the following allusion to that touching incident
Tytler concludes his Hidory of ScotZand:--' As the monarch passed the
House of Seton, near Musselburgh, he was met by the funeral of the Earl of
Winton, a nobleman of high rank; which, with its. solemn movement and
sable trappings, occupied the road, and contrasted strangely and gloomily
with the brilliant pageantry of the royal cavalcade. The Setons were one
of the oldest and proudest families of Scotland; and (the father of) that
Lord whose mortal remains now passed by, had been a faithful adherent of
the King's mother: whose banner he had never deserted, and in whose
cause he had suffered exile and proscription, The meeting was thought
ominous by the people. It appeared, to their excited imagination, as if the
moment had amved when the aristocracy of Scotland was about to merge in
that of Great Britain j as if the Scottish nobles had finished their career of
national glory, and this last representative of their race had been arrested on
THE ROUNDLE.
his road to the grave, to bid farewell to the last of Scotland's kings. As the
mourners moved slowly onward, the monarch himself, participating in these
melancholy feelings, sat down by the wayside, on a stone still pointed out to
the historical pilgrim ; nor did he resume his progress till the gloomy procession
had completely disappeared.'
While Seton Church and Winton House are both about three miles beyond
the eastern border of Midlothian, Niddry Castle, in Linlithgowshireanother
possession of the Seton famiIy-is within a still shorter distance of its
western boundary. Prettily situated on a tributary of the Almond Water, a
The cut of the Roundle in
the text is from a sketch made in 1824. Both the Roundle and the adjoining road were slightly
altered when the North British Railway was constructed in 1845.
1 Si Richard Maitland's Hisfmy of firc Uosrsc of Sqtoun, p. 60.

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-
which it belonged, and annexed to Restalrig. It
stood on high ground, where its ancient square
belfry tower, four storeys in height, was a very
conspicuous object among a group of old trees,
long after the church itself bad passed away, till
it was blown down by a storm in November, 1866.
The effigy of a knight, with hands clasped, in a
full suit of armour, lay amid the foundations of the
old church as lately as 1855.
Tradition avers the tower had been occasionally
Great quantities of fruit, vegetables, and daily
produce are furnished by Lasswade for the city
markets. Save where some primitive rocks rise
up in the Pentland quarter of the parish, the whole
of its area lies upon the various secondary formations,
including sandstone, clays of several kinds,
and a great number of distinct coal-seams, with
their strata of limestone.
On the western side of the Esk the metals stand
much on edge, having a dip of 6 5 O in some
the manse previously in 1.789,
In the burying-ground are interred the first Lord
Melville and his successors.
Lasswade has long been celebrated for the excellence
of its oatmeal, the reputation of which,
through Lord Melville, reached George 111. and
Queen Charlotte, whose family were breakfasted
upon it during childhood, the meal being duly
? sent to the royal household by a miller of the
village, named Mutter.
surmounted its west gable. The vault, or tomb,
hundred and seventy feet.
On the eastern side of the Esk the metals have
a dip so small-amounting to only I in 7 or 8
-that the coal seams, in contradistinction to the
edge-coals, as they are called on the west side,
have obtained the name of ?flat broad coals.?
One of the mines on the boundary of Liberton
was ignited by accident about the year 1770, and
for upwards of twenty years resisted fiercely every
effort made to extinguish its fire. Besides furable
coal seams are twenty-five in number, an8

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B I0 GRAPH I GAL S.KE T C HE S. 185
No. LXXVIII.
THE MARQUIS OF HUNTLY,
AFTERWARDS
DUKE OF GORDON.
THIS Print represents the MARQUISO F HUNTLYw,h en about the age of twentyone.
His first entry
on public life was by adopting the profession of arms, and in being appointed
Captain of an independent company of Highlanders raised by himself in 1790.
and with which he joined the 42d Regiment, or Royal Highlanders, the following
year. Shortly afterwards, the regiment remained nearly a twelvemonth in
Edinburgh Castle, during which period Kay embraced the opportunity of etching
the “ Highland Chieftain.”
In 1792 he entered the 3d Regiment of Foot Guards as Captain-lieutenant.
In 1793, when orders were issued by his Majesty to embody seven regiments of
Scottish fencibles, the Duke of Gordon not only raised the Gordon Fencibles,
but the Marquis made an offer to furnish a regiment for more extended service.
Early in 1794 he accordingly received authority for this purpose, and so much
did the family enter into the spirit of constitutional loyalty, that, besides the
Marquis, both the Duke and Duchess of Gordon “ recruited in their own person.”
The result of such canvassing was soon manifest ; in the course of three months
the requisite numbers were completed, and the corps embodied at Aberdeen on
the 24th June. As a matter of course the Marquis was appointed Lieutenantcolonel
Commandant.
The first movement of the “ Gordon Highlanders” was to England, where
they joined the camp at Netley Common, in Southamptonshire, and were
entered in the list of regular troops as the 100th regiment. They were soon
afterwards despatched to the Mediterranean, where the Marquis acconipanied
them, and where they remained for several years. Leaving his regiment at
Gibraltar, his lordship embarked on board a packet at Corunna, on his passage
home ; but, after having been three days at sea, the vessel was taken by a French
privateer, and the Marquis was plundered of every thing valuable : he was then
He was born at Edinburgh on the 1st of February 1770.
The daring exploit-a race on horseback, from the Abbey Strand, at the foot of the Canongate,
to the Castle gate-betwixt the Marquis and another sporting nobleman, which occurred about this
period, will be remembered by many of the inhabitants of Edinburgh.
2 B

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17451 MACDONALD OF TEINDREICH. 333
landers, after their retreat from England, were besieging
Stirling, Lord Tweeddale wrote to General Guest,
stating that they meant to take the capital again.
On this, the Edinburghers at once held a solemn
council of war, and valiantly resolved to defend the
city; and once more all their plate and valuables
were committed to the care of General Guest. It was
take, Hawley, who had served as a major at
Sheriffniuir, and always expressed contempt 'for
the Highlanders, marched with fourteen battalions,
besides cavalry and artillery, to Falkirk, where his
army was routed as completely as that of Cope
had been, and all his guns were taken, save one
brought off by the 4th Regiment.
CHARLES EDWARD IN HIS LATER YEARS.
(From a Partrait Sy Oeim Humjhy, R.A., iake?a at Fhrme, 1776.)
arranged that a store of provisions should be
immediately laid in, that the cannon should be
mounted on travelling carriages, that the walls and
gates should be more completely fortified, that a
corps of really resolute soldiers should be embodied;
and again arms were issued to the
Seceders, and all who required them ; but on hearing
that Charles had actually made a requisition
for horses to draw his battering train, their courage
evaporated a second time, and all ideas of fighting
were abandoned; but the arrival of General
Hawley's army relieved them from immediate
apprehension.
Erecting an enormous gallows in the Grassmarket,
whereon to hang all prisoners he might
In the Castle he lodged his sole trophy, the
brave Major Donald Macdonald of Teindreich,
who struck the first blow in the revolt at the
Spean Bridge, and who had been captured in the
smoke at Falkirk. He was brought in bound with
ropes,'and kept in a dungeon till he was sent in
chains to Carlisle, to be butchered with many
others. He was a handsome man, and bore his
sufferings with great cheerfulness.
" It was principle, and a thorough conviction of
its being my duty to God, my injured king and
oppressed country," said he, "which induced me
to take up arms under the standard of his Royal
Highness Charles Prince of Wales, and I solemnly
declare I had no bye views in drawing my sword in
'

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OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [North Bridge.
after nnmixous schemes and suggestions, the North
Bridge was widened in 1873, after designs by
Messrs. Stevenson. The average number of footpassengers
traversing this bridge daily is said to
be considerably in excess of go,ooo, and the
number of wheeled vehicles upwards of 2,000.
The ground at the north-east end of the bridge
has been so variously occupied in succession by an
edifice ?named Dingwall?s Castle, by Shakespeare
Square, and the oldTheatre Royal, with its thousand
memories of the drama in Edinburgh, and latterly
Jay the new General Post Office for Scotland, that we must devote a chapter or two to that portion
? of it alone.
CHAPTER XLIII.
EAST SIDE OF THE NORTH BRIDGE.
Diogwall?s Castle-Whitefield?s ? Preachings?-History of the Old Theatre Royal-The Building-David Ross?s Management--Leased to
Mr. Foote-Then to Mr. Digges-Mr. Moss-- Yates-Next Leased to Mr. Jackson-The Siddons Fumre-Reception of the Great
Actress-ME. Baddeley-New Patent-The Playhouse Riot-?The Scottish Roscius ?-A Ghost-Expiry of the Patent.
BUILT no one knows when, but existing during the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there stood
on the site now occupied by the new General Post
Office, an edifice named Dingwall?s Castle. In
1647, Cordon of Rothiemay, in his wonderfully
distinct and detailed bird?s-eye view of the city,
represents it as an open ruin, in form a square
tower with a round one at each angle, save on the
north-east, where one was fallen down in part. All
the sloping bank aiid ground between it and the
Trinity College church are shown as open, but
bordered on the west by a line of houses, which he
names Niniani Suburbium seu nzendicorum Fatea
(known latterly as the Beggar?s Row), and on the
west and north by high walls, the latter crenellated,
and by a road which descends close to the edge
of the loch, and then runs along its bank straight
westward.
This stronghold is supposed to have derived its
name from Sir John Dingwall, who was Provost of
the Trinity College church before the Reformation ;
and hence the conclusion is, that it was a dependency
of that institution. He was one of the
first Lords of Session appointed on the 25th May,
1532, at the formation of the College of Justice,
and his name is third on the list.
Of him nothing more is known, save that he
existed and that is all. . Some fragments of the
castle are still supposed to exist among the buildings
on its site, and some were certainly traced
among the cellars of Shakespeare Square on its demolition
in 1860.
During the year 1584 when the Earl of Arran was
Provost of the city, on the 30th September, the
Council commissioned Michael Chisholm and others
to inquire into the order and condition of an ancient
leper hospital which stood beside Dingwall?s Castle;
but of the former no distinct trace is given in
Cordon?s view.
In Edgar?s map of Edinburgh, in 1765, no indication
of these buildings is given, but the ground
occupied by the future theatre and Shakespeare
Square is shown as an open park or irregular
parallelogam closely bordered by trees, measuring
about 350 feet each way, and lying between the
back of the old Orphan Hospital and the village
of Multrie?s Hill, where now the Register House
stands.
It was in this park, known then as that of the
Trinity Hospital, that the celebrated Whitefield
used yearly to harangue a congregation of all creeds
and classes in the open air, when visiting Edinburgh
in the course of his evangelical tours. On his
coming thither for the first time after the Act
had passed for the extension of the royalty,
great was his horror, surprise, and indignation, to
find the green slope which he had deemed to be
rendered almost sacred by his prelections, enclosed
by fences and sheds, amid which a theatre was in
course of erection.
The ground was being ?appropriated to the
service of Satan. The frantic astonishment of the
Nixie who finds her shrine and fountain desolated
in her absence, was nothing to that of Whitefield.
He went raging about the spot, and contemplated
the rising walls of the playhouse with a sort of grim
despair. He is said to have considered the circumstance
as a positive mark of the increasing wickedness
of society, and to have termed it a plucking up
of God?s standard, and a planting of the devil?s in
its place.?
The edifice which he then saw in course of
erection was destined, for ninety years, to be inseparably
connected with the more recent rise of
the drama in Scotland generally, in Edinburgh in
particular, and to be closely identified with all the
artistic and scenic glories of the stage. It was
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THE BANK OF SCOTLAND. 93 The Mound. J
whereof are to be applied for ever for the support of
decayed and superannuated artists.? This property
consisted mainly of ancient houses, situated in the
old town, the free proceeds ofwhich were only~220.
It was sold, and the whole value of it, amounting
to Lt;5,420 IOS., invested in Bank of Scotland and
Eritish Linen Company Stock, and has been s6
carefully husbanded that the directors now possess
stock to the value of more than A6,618. ?It was
originally given in annuities varying from A;5o to
LIOO a year; but the directors some years ago
thought it advisable to restrict the amount of these,
so as to extend the benefit of the fund over a
larger number of annuitants, and they now do
not give annuities to a Iarger amount than if35,
and they require that the applications for these
shall in all cases be accompanied by a recommendation
from two members of the Royal Scottish
Academy who know the circumstances of the
applicant?
CHAPTER XIV.
THE HEAD OF THE EARTHEN MOUND.
The Bank of Scotland-Its Charter-Rivalry of the Royal Bank Notes for 65 and for 5s.-The New Bank of Scotland-Its Present Aspect-
The Projects of Mr. Trotter and Sir Thomas Dick Lauder-The National Security Savings Bank of Edinburgh-The Free Church
College and Assembly Hall-Their Foundation-Constitution-Library-Museum-Bu~~-Missiona~ and Theological Societies-The
Dining Hall, &.-The West Princes Street Gardens-The Proposed Canal and Seaport-The East Princes Street Gardens--Railway
TerminusWaverley Bridge and Market.
?HOW well the ridge of the old town was set off
by a bank of elms that ran along the front of
Tames?s Court, and stretched eastward over the
ground now partly occupied by the Bank of Scot-
Idnd,? says Cockburn, in his ?Memorials;? but
looking at the locdity now, it is difficult to realise
the idea that such a thing had been; yet Edgar
shows us a pathway running along the slope, between
the foot of the closes and a row of gardens
that bordered the loch.
Bank Street, which was formed in- 1798 a few
yards westward of Dunbar?s Close, occasioning in
its formation the destruction of some buildings of
great antiquity, looks at first sight like a broad
czdde-m blocked up by the front of the Bank of
Scotland, but in reality forms the carriage- way
downward from the head of the Mound to Princes
Street.
While as yet the bank was in the old narrow
alley that so long bore its name, we read in the
2Tddnburgh HeraZd ann! ChronicZe of March, 1800,
?(that the directors of the Bank of Scotland have
purchased from the city an area at the south end
of the Earthen Mound, on which they intend to
erect an elegant building, with commodious apartments
for carrying on their business.?
Elsewhere we have briefly referred to the early
progress of this bank, the oldest of the then old
?chartered banks? which was projected by John
Holland, a retired London merchant, according to
the scheme devised by William Paterson, a native
of Dumfries, who founded the Bank of England.
The Act of the Scottish Parliament for starting
the Bank of Scotland, July, 1695, recites, by way of
exordium, that ?? our sovereign lord, considering
how useful a public bank may be in this kingdom,
according to the custom of other kingdoms and
states, and that the same can only be best set up
and managed by persons in company with a
joint stock, sufficiently endowed with those powers,
authorities, and liberties necessary and usual in
such cases, hath therefore allowed, with the advice
and consent of the Estates of Parliament, a joint
stock of LI,ZOO,OOO money (Scots) to be raised
by the company hereby established for the carrying
on and managing a public bank.?
After an enumeration of the names of those who
were chosen to form the nucleus of the company,
including those of five Edinburgh merchants, the
charter proceeds to state that they have full powers
to receive in a book the subscriptions of either
native Scots or foreigners, ? who shall be willing to
subscribe and pay into the said joint stock, which
subscriptions the aforesaid persons, or their
quorum, are hereby authorised to receive in the
foresaid book, which shall lie open every Tuesday
or Friday, from nine to twelve in the forenoon, and
from three to six in the afternoon, between the
first day of November next and the first day of
January next following, in the public hall or
chamber appointed in the city of Edinburgh ; and
therein all persons shall have liberty to subscribe
for such sums of money as they shall think fit to
adventure in the said joint stock, AI,OOO Scots
being lowest sun1 and ~ 2 0 , 0 0 0 Scots the highest,
and the two-third parts of the said stocks belonging
always to persons residing in Scotland. Likewise,
each and every person, at the time of his subscribing,
shall pay into the hands of the forenamed
persons, or any three of them, ten of the hundred

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Maitland granting a charter to Robert Winton
?of the barony of Hirdmanston, called Curry.?
(Robertson?s Index to Missing Charters.?)
The present bridge of Currie is said to be above
five hundred years old j and the dark pool below
gave rise to the Scottish proverb concerning intense
cunning-? Deep as Currie Brig.?
Currie Church was an outpost of Corstorphine,
and, with Fzla, fomied part of the property given
by Mary of Gueldres to the Trinity College.
NIDDRIE HOUSE.
?? Mr. Adam Letham, minister of Currie, 1568-76,
to be paid as follows: his stipend jc li, with the
Kirkland of Curry. Andrew Robeson, Reidare
(Reader at Curry; his stipend xx lb., but (it.,
without) Kirkland?
After the Reformation there was sometimes only
In the seventeenth century, Mathew Leighton,
nephew of the famous Archbishop of Glasgow, a
prelate of singular piety and benevolence, was
, one minister for four or five parishes.
It was a benefice of the Archdean of Lothian.
Even so late as the reign of Charles I., it does
not appear to have been considered a separate
parish from Corstorphine, for no mention is made of
it in the royal decree for the brief erection of the
see of Edinburgh, though all the adjoining parishes
are noticed.
Till within a few years, ironjougs hung at the
north gate of Currie Churchyard, at Hermiston
(which is a corruption of Herdmanstown), at Malleny,
and at Buteland, near Balerno.
Currie was one of the first rural places in Scotland
which had a Protestant clergyman, as appears
from the Register of Ministers,? published by the
Maitland Club :-
curate of Currie during the reign of Episcopacy ;
and, singular to say, was not expelled from his
incumbency at the Revolution in the year 1688,
but died at an advanced age, and was interred in
the church-yard, where his tomb is still an object
of interest.
The parsonage of Currie is referred to in an Act of
Parliament, under JamesVI., in 1592; and Nether
Currie is referred to in another Act, of date 1587,
granted in favour of Mark, Lord Newbattle.
Cleuchmaidstone is so named from being the
pass to the chapel of St. Katherine in the valley
below, and having a spring, in which, it is said,
pilgrims bathed before entering it.
Some parts of the parish are very elevated.

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your king, and will yield it to no power whatever.
But I respect that of the Parliament, and require
six days to consider its demand; for most important
is my charge, and my councillors, alas ! are
now few,? she added, bursting into tears, probably
as she thought of the many
? Who on Flodden?s trampled sod,
Rendered up their souls to God.?
For their king and for their country,
Alarmed at a refusal so daring, Angus entreated
PLAN OF EDINRURGH, SHOWING THE FLODDEN WALL. (Snscd on &rdon of Rothiemy?s Mnp, 1647.)
her brother, Henry VIII., by complaining that she
had been little else than a captive in the Castle
Edinburgh.
Meanwhile the Duke of Albany had taken UP
his residence at Holyrood, and seems to have proceeded,
between 1515-16, with the enlargement
the royal buildings attached to the Abbey House,
in continuation of the works carried on there by
the late king, till the day of Flodden. Throughout
the minority of James V. Edinburgh continued tO
her to obey the Estates, and took an instrument
to the effect that he had no share in it; but she
remained inexorable, and the mortified delegates
returned to report the unsuccessful issue of their
mission. Aware that she was unable to contend
with the Estates, she secretly retired with her sons
to Stirling, and, after placing them in charge of the
Lords Borthwick and Fleming, returned to her
former residence, though, according to Chalmers,
she had no right of dowry therein. Distrusting the
people, and, as a Tudor, distrusted by them, she
remained aloof from all, until one day, escorted
by Lord Home and fifty lances, she suddenly rode
to the Castle of Blackadder (near Berwick), from
be disturbed by the armed contentions of the
nobles, especially those of Angus and Arran ; and
in a slender endeavour to repress this spirit the
salary of the Provost was augmented, and a small
guard of halberdiers was appointed to attend him.
Among those committed prisoners to the Castle
by Albany were the Lord Home and his brother
William for treason; they escaped, but were retaken,
and beheaded 16th October, 1516, and
their heads were placed on the Tolbooth.* Huntly
and Moray were next prisoners, for fighting at the
head of their vassals in the streets; and the next
was Sir Lewk Stirling, for an armed brawl.
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CHobd. - OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH.
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set at liberty ; but on the suppression of the order
throughout Scotland, their vast possessions were
given to their rivals, the Knights of St. John at
Torphichen.
In 1337, about the time that John 11. was abbot,
sanctuary was given in Holyrood church to a remarkable
fugitive from the Castle of Edinburgh,
which at that time was held by an English garrison
under Thomas Knyton. In one of the forays made
by him in search of supplies, he had been guided
adding, ?that many brethren of the Temple, being
. common people, indifferently absolve excornrnunicated
persons, saying that they derived power from
their lord the Supreme Pontiff;? and also, ?? that
the chapters were held so secretly that none save
a Templar ever had access to them.?
So ended the inquisition at Holyrood, ((which
could not be made more solemn on account of the
weapon that lay near, and so severe was the How
that his blood bespattered the floor. He affected
to bear with this new outrage, and nursing his
wrath, quitted the fortress; but next day, when
Thomas Knyton rode through the gate into the
city with a few attendants, Prendergast rushed
from a place of concealment-probably a Close
head-and passing a long sword through his heart,
dashed him a corpse on the causeway.
He then leaped on Knyton?s horse, and spurring
to a rich booty near Calder Muir by a soldier
named Robert Prendergast, an adherent of Baliol,
who served under the English banner. Upon
returning to the castle, instead of being rewarded,
as he expected, the Scottish traitor, at dinner in
the hall, was placed among the servingmen and
below the salt.
Filled with rage and mortification, he remained
~. .
GROUND PIAN OF THE CHAPEL ROYAL OF HOLYROOD HOUSE.
(From air Engraving irr thx History ofthe A&y,guSlirhed h 1821.)
A, Gmt West Entrance; 6, North Door; C C, Doon from South Aisle to Clo?sters. now walled up; D, Great East Window; E, Stair tm
Rood-loft ; F, Door to the Palace, shut up ; G. Remaining Pillars, north side: H, Screen-work in Stone.

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CANNONGATE
trespasses. This was the case with Mrs. Bellamy.
Her waiting-maid, Anne Waterstone, who is mentioned
in her ?Memoirs,? lived many years after in
Edinburgh, and continued to the last to adore the
memory of her mistress. Nay, shc was, from this
cause, a zealous friend of all players, and would
never allow a slighting replark upon them to pass
unreproved. It was curious to find in a poor old
Scotchwoman of the humbler class such a sympathy
with the follies and eccentricities of the children
of Thespis.?
The erection of the New Theatre Royal in the
extended royalty eclipsed its predecessor in the
MRS. BELLAMY.
in Peter Williamson?s Directory? as an ? Excellent
Shoemaker and Leather Tormentor.?
The adjoining alley, St. John?s Close, is open
towards St. John?s Street. Narrow and ancient, it
shows over a door-lintel on its west side the
legend, within a sunk panel, THE LORD IS ONLY MY
SUPORT.
Near this a spacious elliptical archway gives
access to St. John?s Street, so named with reference
to St. John?s Cross, a broad, airy, and handsome
thoroughfare, ?one of the heralds of the New
Town,? and associated with the names of many of
the Scottish aristocracy who lingered in the old
The doorway is but three feet wide.
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that Mrs. Bellamy was extremely fond of singing
birds, and when visiting Glasgow was wont to have
them carried by a porter all the way, lest they
might suffer by the jolting of a carriage, and
people wondered to hear of ten guineas being
expended for such a purpose. Persons under
the social ban for their irregular lives often win the
love of individuals by their benevolence and sweetness
of disposition-qualities, it is to be remarked,
the old Playhouse Close, is a fine specimen of the
Scottish street architecture in the time of Charles I.
It has a row of dormer windows, with another of
storm-windows on a steep roof, that reminds one
of those in Bruges and Antwerp. Over a doorway
within the close is an ornamental tablet, the
inscription on which has become defaced, and the
old theatre itself has long since given place to
private dwellings, In one of these lived, in 1784,
CHESSEL?S BUILDINGS. (From a Drawirg 6y Sforrr,prtblislred in 1820.)

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The Tolhwth] THE SIGNET ANI) ADVOCATES? LIBRARIES. 123
THE genius of Scott has shed a strange halo around
the memory of the grim and massive Tolbooth
prison, so much so that the creations of his imagination,
such as Jeanie and Effie Deans, take the
place of real persons of flesh? and blood, and suchtraders.
They have been described as being ?a
dramdrinking, news-mongering, facetious set of
citizens, who met every morn about seven o?clock,
and after proceeding to the post-office to ascertain
the news (when the mail arrived), generally adjourned
to a public-house and refreshed themselves
with a libation of brandy.? Unfounded articles of
intelligence that were spread abroad in those days
were usually named ? Lawnmarket Gazettes,? in
allusion to their roguish or waggish originators.
At all periods the Lawnmarket was a residence
for nien of note, and the frequent residence of
English and other foreign ambassadors; and so
long as Edinburgh continued to be the seat of the
Parliament, its vicinity to the House made it a
favourite and convenient resort for the members
of the Estates.
On the ground between Robert Gourlay?s house
and Beith?s Wynd we now find some of those portions
of the new city which have been engrafted on
the old. In Melbourne Place, at the north end of
George IV. Bridge, are situated many important
offices, such as, amongst others, those of the Royal
Medical Society, and the Chamber of Commerce
and Manufactures, built in an undefined style of
architecture, new to Edinburgh. Opposite, with
its back to the bridge, where a part of the line of
Liberton?s Wynd exists, is built the County Hall,
presenting fronts to the Lawnmarket and to St.
Giles?s. The last of these possesses no common
beauty, as it has a very lofty portico of finely-flutcd
columns, overshadowing a flight of steps leading to
the main entrance, which is modelled after the
choragic monument of Thrasyllus, while the ground
plan and style of ornament is an imitation of the
Temple of Erechtheius at Athens. It was erected
in 1817, and contains several spacious and lofty
court-rooms, with apartments for the Sheriff and
other functionaries employed in the business of the
county. The hall contains a fine statue of Lord
Chief Baron Dundas, by Chantrey.
is the power of genius, that with the name of the
Heart of Midlothian we couple the fierce fury of
the Porteous mob. ?Antique in form, gloomy and
haggard in aspect, its black stanchioned windows,
opening through its dingy walls like the apertures
~
Adjoining it and stretching eastward is the library
of the Writers to the Signet. It is of Grecian architecture,
and possesses two long pillared halls of
beautiful proportions, the upper having Corinthian
columns, and a dome wherein are painted the
Muses. It is 132 feet long by about 40 broad,
and was used by George IV. as a drawing-room,
on the day of the royal banquet in the Parliament ,
House. Formed by funds drawn solely from contributions
by Writers to H.M. Signet, it is under
a body of curators. The library contains more
than 60,000 volumes, and is remarkably rich in
British and Irish history.
Southward of it and lying psxallel with it, nearer
the Cowgate, is the Advocates? Library, two long
halls, with oriel windows on the north side. This
library, one of the five in the United Kingdom entitled
to a copy of every work printed in it, was
founded by Sir George Mackenzie, Dean of Faculty
in 168z, and contains some zoo,ooo volumes,
forming the most valuable cpllection of the kind
in Scotland. The volumes of Scottish poetry alone
exceed 400. Among some thousand MSS. are those
of Wodrow, Sir James Balfour, Sir Robert Sibbald,
and others. In one of the lower compartments
may be seen Greenshield?s statue of Sir Walter
Scott, and the original volume of Waverley; two
volumes of original letters written by Mary Queen
of Scots and Charles I.; the Confession of Faith
signed by James VI. and the Scottish nobles in
1589-90; a valuable cabinet from the old Scottish
mint in the Cowgate; the pennon borne by
Sir William Keith at Flodden; and many other
objects of the deepest interest. The office of
librarian has been held by many distinguished
men of letters; among them were Thomas Ruddiman,
in 1702; David Hume, his successor, in,
1752 ; Adani Ferguson ; and David Irving, LL.D.
A somewhat minor edifice in the vicinity forms
the library of the Solicitors before the Supreme
Court

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33 Canongate.] THE EARL OF SEAFIELD-AND THE UNION.
matures were affixed to the Act of Union, while the
cries of the exasperated mob rang in the streets
without the barred gates.
When James VII. so rashly urged those measures
in 1686 which were believed to be a prelude to
the re-establishment of the Catholic hierarchy,
under the guise of toleration, a new Scottish
ministry was formed, but chiefly consisting of
members of the king?s own faith. Among these
w i s the proprietor of this old house, Alexander
Earl of Moray, a recent convert from Protestantism,
then Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament,
and as such the representative of royalty in festive
hall as well as the Senate j and his mansion, being
Lord Lorne?s marriage-that Lorne better known
.as the luckless Earl of Argyle-with Lady Mary
Stuart, of the House of Moray.
In the highest terrace of the old garden an
ancient thorn-tree was pointed out as having been
planted by Queen Mary-a popular delusion, born
of the story that the house had belonged to her
hother, the subtle Regent ; but there.long remained
ahe old stone summer-house, surmounted by two
foul and degrading bribery connected with that
event took place within its walls, may safely be
inferred from the fact that it was the residence of
the Earl of Seafield,.then Lord High Chancellor, and
one of the commissioners for the negotiation of the
treaty, by which he pocketed j64g0, paid by the
Earl of Godolphin: and he it was who, on giving
the royal assent by touching the Act of Union with
I the sceptre, said, with a brutal laugh, ?? There?s an
? end of an auld sang.?
From those days Moray House ceased, like
many others, to be the scene of state pageantries.
For a time it became the ofice of the British Linen
Company?s Bank. Then the entail was broken
in the very centre of what was then the most aristocratic
quarter of the city, was admirably suited
for his courtly receptions, all the more so that
about that period the spacious gardens on the
south were, like those of Heriot?s Hospital, a kind
of public promenade or lounging place, as would
appear chiefly from a play called ? The Assembly,?
written by the witty Dr. Pitcairn in 1692.
The union of the kingdoms is the next historical

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158 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
however-and the consequent regret of those to whom the offer had been made
-may be imagined, when, by due return of post, intelligence was brought that
the very ticket, which had concerned him so much to get rid of, had turned up
a prize of &10,000 !
He died in 1788.
He married the beautiful Miss Chalmers, sister of the late lady of the venerable
Lord Glenlee, and daughter of an extensive grain merchant in Edinburgh. By
this lady he left one son' and six daughters, most of whom were advantageously
married.
Mr. Thomas Cumming (the son) predeceased his father.
No. CCXXVI.
REV. JOHN WESLEY,
DR. HAMILTON, AND THE REV. MR. COLE.
THIS '' Triumvirate of Methodist Clergymen " was etched by Kay when Mr.
Wesley visited Scotland for the last time, in 1790, The three gentlemen are
portrayed as they appeared in company, while returning from the Castle Hill,
where Mr. Wesley had delivered a sermon. The inscription bears-" Ninetyfour
years have I sojourned on the earth, endeavouring to do good ;" but the
artist must have been misled as to the age of the patriarchal preacher, as he
was then only in his eighty-seventh year,
The leading incidents in the life of the REV. JOHN WESLEY have already
been given with his Portrait in a preceding portion of this Work. With respect
to his voluminous writings, we may remark, that many of them are extensively
known and duly appreciated, especially by the very numerous sect of which he
was the founder; but it is perhaps not generally understood that the talents of
this ceFbrated individual were by no means confined to religious topics aIonephilosophy,
medicine, politics, and poetry by turns engrossed his pen j and he
was a strenuous defender of the administration of Lord North.
The stout figure, supporting the right arm of Mr. Wesley, represents DR.
JAIVES HAMILTON, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
Dr. Hamilton was born at Dunbar in 1740 ; and his medical studies, it is
This gentleman, now dead, was in person something like his grandfather ; about the same size,
but had a much greater rotundity of back. He did not, however, possess the old man's penurious
feelings ; on the contrary, he was exceedingly fond of the turf, and was usually on the race-grounds,
although he seldom left his carriage.

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The Water of Leith.] WALTER ROSS, W.S. 73
now at Abbotsford, where Sir Walter Scott took
them in 1824. This tower was divided into two
apartments, an upper and a lower ; the entrance to
the former was by an outside stair, and was used
as a summer-house. On the roof was a wellpainted
subject from the heathen mythology, and
the whole details of the apartment were very handsome.
On the 11th of March, 1789, Mr. ROSS, who
was Registrar of Distillery Licences in Scotland,
of St. Bernard?s. The bower is on the spot where
two lovers were killed by the falling of a sand-bank
upon them.?
For several years after his death the upper part
of the tower was occupied by the person who
acted as night-watchman in this quarter, while the
lower was used as a stable, In 1818, with reference
to future building operations, the remains of
Mr. Ross were taken up, and re-interred in the
West Church burying-ground. The extension of
THE WATER OF LEITH, 1825. (A/%-? Edank.)
and was a man distinguished for talent, humour,
and suavity of manner, dropped down in a fit,
and suddenly expired. He would seem to have
had some prevision of such a fate, as by his
particular request his body was kept eight days,
and was interred near his tower with the coffin-lid
open.
?? Yesterday, at one o?clock,?? says the Edinburgh
Advertiser for March zoth, 1789, ? the remains of
the late Mr. Walter Ross were, agreeable to his
own desire, interred in a bower laid out by himself
for that purpose, and encircled with myrtle, near
the beautiful and romantic tower which he had
been at so much trouble and expense in getting
erected, on the most elevated part of his grounds
106
Anne Street, in 1825, caused the removal of his.
tower to be necessary. It was accordingly demolished,
and most of the sculptures were carted
away as rubbish.
In the ?? Traditions of Edinburgh,? we are told
that after he had finished his pleasure-grounds,
Mr. Ross was much enraged by nightly trespassers,
and advertised spring-guns and man-traps without
avail. At last he conceived the idea of procuring
a human leg from the Royal Infirmary, and
dressing it up with a stocking, shoe, and .buckle,
sent it through the town, borne aloft by the crier,
proclaiming that ? it had been found last night in
Mr. Walter Ross?s policy at Stockbridge, and
offering to restore it to the disconsolate owner.??

... Water of Leith.] WALTER ROSS, W.S. 73 now at Abbotsford, where Sir Walter Scott took them in 1824. This tower ...

Book 5 p. 73
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 241
A good many subscribers were procured for the l1 Retrospect ; ” the manuscript
was nearly completed ; and arrangements for printing it so far entered
into, that the Print by Kay was engraved as a frontispiece to the book.’ The
death of the author, however, prevented the publication. He died on the 16th
of September 1817, in the seventy-fourth year of his age, and the oldest Deacon
of the fourteen Incorporated Trades of Scotland.
The manuscript
remained in the hands of his widow; but on her dea.th in 1832, his
papers unfortunately were so much scattered and destroyed, that almost no
vestige of the work remains.
Mr. Sommers married, first, Joan Douglas, daughter of a glazier who resided
in Libberton’s Wynd ; and, secondly, Jean or Jeanie Fraser, sister of the wife
of Nathaniel Gow, the famous musician.
The (‘ Retrospect ” probably contained much curious matter.
No. CCLI.
MR. FRANCIS ANDERSON, W.S.,
MR. JAMES HUNTER,
AND HIS SON, MR. GEORGE HUNTER.
THIS graphic scene appears from the Print to have occurred in the Parliament
Square, and was probably witnessed by the artist from his own shop window.
Mr. Hunter is in the act of inviting his friend Mr. Anderson to dinner
-the excessive deafness of the latter accounting for the singular posture in
which the parties are placed.
MR. FRANCIS ANDERSON, brother to the banker of that name,
was a Writer to the Signet, and held the appointment of Deputy-Auditor
in the. Exchequer. He resided in George Street, and had his office in the
Royal Exchange. His father, who lived at Stoneyhill,2 was factor to the
Earl of Wemyss, to which situation the subject of our notice latterly BUGceeded.
1 It will be observed, in confirmation of this, that the volume displayed in the hand of the
author contains an outline of the spire of St. Giles. Sornmen’ History was probably suggested by
Creech’s Comparative View of Edinburgh in the yean 1763 and 1783, which wan subsequently
brought down to 1793,
The villa of Stoneyhill is situated on the river Esk, about half s mile above Mnaselburgh. It
was formerly the residence of Sir William Sharp, son of Archbishop Sharp ; and more recently of
the notorious Colonel Charteris.
VOL. 11. 2 1

... SKETCHES. 241 A good many subscribers were procured for the l1 Retrospect ; ” the manuscript was ...

Book 9 p. 322
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 241
A good many subscribers were procured for the l1 Retrospect ; ” the manuscript
was nearly completed ; and arrangements for printing it so far entered
into, that the Print by Kay was engraved as a frontispiece to the book.’ The
death of the author, however, prevented the publication. He died on the 16th
of September 1817, in the seventy-fourth year of his age, and the oldest Deacon
of the fourteen Incorporated Trades of Scotland.
The manuscript
remained in the hands of his widow; but on her dea.th in 1832, his
papers unfortunately were so much scattered and destroyed, that almost no
vestige of the work remains.
Mr. Sommers married, first, Joan Douglas, daughter of a glazier who resided
in Libberton’s Wynd ; and, secondly, Jean or Jeanie Fraser, sister of the wife
of Nathaniel Gow, the famous musician.
The (‘ Retrospect ” probably contained much curious matter.
No. CCLI.
MR. FRANCIS ANDERSON, W.S.,
MR. JAMES HUNTER,
AND HIS SON, MR. GEORGE HUNTER.
THIS graphic scene appears from the Print to have occurred in the Parliament
Square, and was probably witnessed by the artist from his own shop window.
Mr. Hunter is in the act of inviting his friend Mr. Anderson to dinner
-the excessive deafness of the latter accounting for the singular posture in
which the parties are placed.
MR. FRANCIS ANDERSON, brother to the banker of that name,
was a Writer to the Signet, and held the appointment of Deputy-Auditor
in the. Exchequer. He resided in George Street, and had his office in the
Royal Exchange. His father, who lived at Stoneyhill,2 was factor to the
Earl of Wemyss, to which situation the subject of our notice latterly BUGceeded.
1 It will be observed, in confirmation of this, that the volume displayed in the hand of the
author contains an outline of the spire of St. Giles. Sornmen’ History was probably suggested by
Creech’s Comparative View of Edinburgh in the yean 1763 and 1783, which wan subsequently
brought down to 1793,
The villa of Stoneyhill is situated on the river Esk, about half s mile above Mnaselburgh. It
was formerly the residence of Sir William Sharp, son of Archbishop Sharp ; and more recently of
the notorious Colonel Charteris.
VOL. 11. 2 1

... SKETCHES. 241 A good many subscribers were procured for the l1 Retrospect ; ” the manuscript was ...

Book 9 p. 323
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 241
A good many subscribers were procured for the l1 Retrospect ; ” the manuscript
was nearly completed ; and arrangements for printing it so far entered
into, that the Print by Kay was engraved as a frontispiece to the book.’ The
death of the author, however, prevented the publication. He died on the 16th
of September 1817, in the seventy-fourth year of his age, and the oldest Deacon
of the fourteen Incorporated Trades of Scotland.
The manuscript
remained in the hands of his widow; but on her dea.th in 1832, his
papers unfortunately were so much scattered and destroyed, that almost no
vestige of the work remains.
Mr. Sommers married, first, Joan Douglas, daughter of a glazier who resided
in Libberton’s Wynd ; and, secondly, Jean or Jeanie Fraser, sister of the wife
of Nathaniel Gow, the famous musician.
The (‘ Retrospect ” probably contained much curious matter.
No. CCLI.
MR. FRANCIS ANDERSON, W.S.,
MR. JAMES HUNTER,
AND HIS SON, MR. GEORGE HUNTER.
THIS graphic scene appears from the Print to have occurred in the Parliament
Square, and was probably witnessed by the artist from his own shop window.
Mr. Hunter is in the act of inviting his friend Mr. Anderson to dinner
-the excessive deafness of the latter accounting for the singular posture in
which the parties are placed.
MR. FRANCIS ANDERSON, brother to the banker of that name,
was a Writer to the Signet, and held the appointment of Deputy-Auditor
in the. Exchequer. He resided in George Street, and had his office in the
Royal Exchange. His father, who lived at Stoneyhill,2 was factor to the
Earl of Wemyss, to which situation the subject of our notice latterly BUGceeded.
1 It will be observed, in confirmation of this, that the volume displayed in the hand of the
author contains an outline of the spire of St. Giles. Sornmen’ History was probably suggested by
Creech’s Comparative View of Edinburgh in the yean 1763 and 1783, which wan subsequently
brought down to 1793,
The villa of Stoneyhill is situated on the river Esk, about half s mile above Mnaselburgh. It
was formerly the residence of Sir William Sharp, son of Archbishop Sharp ; and more recently of
the notorious Colonel Charteris.
VOL. 11. 2 1

... SKETCHES. 241 A good many subscribers were procured for the l1 Retrospect ; ” the manuscript was ...

Book 9 p. 321
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258 B I0 GR AP HI C AL S KET C HE S.
No. CCLVII.
MR. AND MRS. LEE LEWES,
IN THE CHARACTERS OF ‘‘ GOLDFINCH ” AND ‘‘ WIDOW WARREN.”
NEARLYh alf a century has elapsed since the above performers were in Edinburgh
; yet they are well remembered by many of the old play-going citizens,
who still revert to their early days as the golden age of the Scottish drama.
MR. and MRS. LEE LEWESf,r om the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, made their
first appearance in this city in 1787 ; at which period the Theatre was the
property, and under the management of Mr. Jackson. On the first night of
their engagement, which was limited to four nights, Lee Lewes enacted the part
of Sir John Falstaff ; the next, he appeared in “ Love Makes a Man “-the third,
in the “ Busy Body ”-and on the fourth night, he delivered a comic entertainment,
which was announced as follows :-
“MR. LEE LEWES
WILL EXHIBIT
THE ORIGINAL LECTURE ON HEADS,*
which, with all its whimsical apparatus, he purchased of the late Mr. G. A. Stevens, and lately
revived at the Theatre Iioyal, Covent Garden, several successive nights., with additions by Mr.
Pilon. The whole is a display of upwards of sixty different characters of approved
WIT AND HUMOUR-SATIRAEN D SENTIMENT.”
The success of his lecture was such as to induce a repetition on two subsequent
evenings; and the public were informed, through the medium of the press,
that the lecture, an “ admirable piece of satire,” was to be totally withdrawn
after Saturday night next [2d June]. ‘‘ An entertainment so comic, versatile,
and moral,” continues the paragraph, “ the public have seldom an opportunity
of seeing ; and we hope, for the honour of taste, its last representation will be
crowdedly attended.” Thus terminated the first short season of Lee Lewes on
the Scottish boards.
Jackson, the patentee, having become bankrupt, Mr. Stephen Kemble came
forward, and from the trustees took a lease of the Theatre for one year. This
he did at the suggestion of Mr. Jackson, who, according to a private missive,
was to have an equal interest in the concern. Mr. Kemble, however, refusing
to accept the security produced by Mr. Jackson, retained the sole management
1 That is since 1837, when this was written.
a The first complete edition of this clever jeu d’@t was published by Lee Lewes in 1785, with
an address to the public, written by him, prefixed.

... B I0 GR AP HI C AL S KET C HE S. No. CCLVII. MR. AND MRS. LEE LEWES, IN THE CHARACTERS OF ‘‘ GOLDFINCH ...

Book 9 p. 343
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