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78 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
sale, or pay the juror’s fine, were the alternatives. He resolved that he should
do neither. Shortly after the roll had been called over, he went forward to the
bench, and, w-ith a wo-begone countenance, begged that he might be allowed ta
retire, having been suddenly seized with an urgent illness. ‘‘ 0, most certainlygo
away 1 go away !” said the presiding Judge. Mr. Grinly left the Court amid
the sympathy of his friends-was at Leith in due time for the sale-and, it is said,
displayed more than usual vigour in the discharge of his duty. He was hear4
frequently afterwards to boast how he had once proved a match for the law.
Like many other citizens who were smitten with the military mania. Mr.
Grinly was fond of exhibiting himself in his warlike apparel, and it is said that
hc used to repair to Edinburgh regularly every Wednesday, dressed in his
volunteer uniform, “ showing off ” among the merchants and country people, who
usually assembled at the Cross, opposite the Royal Exchange, on that day.
Having rendered himself somewhat notorious by this pratice, Kay embraced the
advantage of his weekly exhibitions to produce the excellent representation of
the “ Spread Eagle.”
Mr. Grinly was twice married ; and, by his first wife, had a large family.
For several years before his death he became entirely blind, and had to be led
when he went out. He died in 1827, in the eightieth year of his age, and was
buried in the South Leith Parish Churchyard.
No. CXCVII.
THE HON. ALEXANDER LESLIE,
LIEUT.-GENERAL AND COLONEL OF THE NINTH REGIMENT OF FOOT,
GENERALL ESLIEb, rother to the sixth Earl of Leven and Melville, was born in
1731, and commenced his military life as an ensign in the third Foot Guards in
1753. He subsequently held appointments in various regiments, and was promoted
to the rank of Major-General in 1779. In America he eqerienced much
hard service during the War of Independence. He was second in command ‘at
the battle of Guildford, fought on the 15th March 2781, in which the Americans,
under General Green, were defeated. The action was commenced by the division
led on by General Leslie, and proved successful on every point. His intrepidity
and skill were warmly acknowledged by Lord Cornwallis, whb, in one of his
despatches, says-“ I have been particularly indebted to Major-General Leslie
for his gallantry and exertion, as well as his assistance in every other part of
the service.” He was appointed to the command of the 9th Foot in 1782 ; and
from that period held the rank of Lieut.-General in the army.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 55
No. XXIV.
DR. JAMES HUTTON.
DR. HUTTON was an ingenious philosopher, remarkable for the unaffected
simplicity of his manner, and much esteemed by the society in which he moved.
In his dress he very mnch resembled a Quaker, with the exception that he wore
L cocked hat. He was born in the city of Edinburgh, on the 3d June 1726,
and was the son of a merchant there, who died in the infancy of his son. He
was educated at the High School j and, after going through the regular course
at that seminary, he entered the University of Edinburgh in 1740. The
original intention of his friends was, that he should follow the profession of a
Writer to the Signet; and, with this view, he for some time pursued the course
of study enjoined by the regulations of that Society, and accordingly attended
the Humanity (or Latin) Class for two sessions. It would appear, however, that
the early bent of his genius was directed towards chemistry ; for, instead of
prosecuting the study of the law, he was more frequently found amusing the clerks
and apprentices in the office in which he had been placed, with chemical experiments.
His master, therefore, with much kindness; advised him to select some
other avocation more suited to his turn of mind; he, accordingly, fixed on
medicine, and returned to the University. Here, during three sessions, he attended
the requisite classes, but did not graduate. He repaired to Paris, and spent
two years in that city. On his way home he passed through Leyden, and there
took the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in the month of September 1749.
Meanwhile he had formed, in London, an intimate acquaintance with Mr.
John Davie. They entered into a copartnership, and engaged in the mmufacture
of sal-ammoniac from coal-soot, which was carried on in Edinburgh for
many years with considerable success. From his peculiar habits he had little
chance of getting into practice as a doctor of medicine, and he appears to have
relinquished the idea very early. He determined to betake himself to apiculture:
for this purpose he resided for some time with a farmer in the county of Norfolk;
and, in the year 1754, bringing a plough and a ploughman from England,
he took into his own hands a small property which he possessed in Berwickshire.
Having brought his farm into good order, and not feeling the same enthusiasm
for agriculture which he had previously entertained, he removed to Edinburgh
about the ye& 1768, and devoted himself almost ,exclusively to scientific
In 1777, Dr. Hutton’s first book, entitled, “ Considerations on the Nature,
Quality, and Distinctions of Coal and Culm,” was given to the world. He next
published an outline of his ‘‘ Theory of the Earth,” in the first volume of the
“ Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,” Dr. Hutton had, during a
pursuits.

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OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [ Restalrig.
them in my pocket and went up some public staircase
to eat them, without beer or water. In this
manner I lived at the rate of little more than fourpence
a day, including everything." In the following
season he lived in Edinburgh, and added to
his baps a little broth.
In 1760, when only in his nineteenth year,
Adam-one of that army of great men who have
made Scotland what she is to-day-obtained the
head mastership of Watson's Hospital.
This place was the patrimony of the Nisbet
family, already referred to in our account of the
ancient house of Dean, wherein it is related that
Sir Patrick Nisbet of Craigantinnie, who was created
a baronet of Nova Scotia in 1669, was subsequently
designated '' of Dean," having exchanged his paternal
lands for that barony with his second cousin,
Alexander Nisbet.
The latter, having had a quarrel with Macdougall
of Mackerston, went abroad to fight a duel with
1Hti Huudr: OF THE LnGANS OF RESTALRIG, LOCH END. (PUYfh Uftter a Skr4ch by fhe Author J J I ~ C in 1847.)
Year after year Restalrig was the favourite
summer residence of the Rev. Hugh Blair, author
of the well-known " Lectures on Rhetoric and
Belles-lettres," who died on the 27th of December
1800. ,
A little way north-east of Restalrig village stands
the ancient house of Craigantinnie, once a simple
oblong-shaped mansion, about four storeys in height,
with crowstepped gables, and circular turrets ; but
during the early part of this century made much
more ornate, with many handsome additions, and
having a striking aspect-like a gay Scoto-French
chheau-among the old trees near it, and when
viewed from the grassy irrigated meadows that lie
between it and the sea.
him, in 1682, attended by Sir William Scott of
Harden, and Ensign Douglas, of Douglas's Regiment,
the Royal Scots, as seconds. .On their
return the Privy Council placed the whole four in
separate rooms in the Tolbooth, till the matter
should be inquired into ; but the principals were,
upon petition, set at liberty a few days after, on
giving bonds for their reappearance.
On the death of Sir Alexander Nisbet at the
battle of Toumay, unmarried, the estates and title
reverted to his uncle, Sir Alexander, who was succeeded
by his eldest son Sir Henry ; upon whose
decease the title devolved upon his brother Sir
John, who died in 1776.
In that year the latter was succeeded by his

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448 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Mr. Grant was called away from Edinburgh to a charge, we believe, in
‘Westmoreland. From that period he constantly resided in England, where he
died in December 1837, at an advanced age. In the obituary of the Church of
England Magazine he is described as “ the Rev. J. F. Grant, Rector of Wrabness,
Essex, and Morston, Sussex.”
Mr. Grant married, in 1795, Miss Anne Oughterson, youngest daughter of
the Rev. Arthur Oughterson, minister of Wester Kilbride. She was a beautiful
woman ; and the union, though not approved of by his friends, is understood to
have been one of peculiar happiness to both parties. They had several children,
some of whom still survive. While in Edinburgh hlr. Grant resided in
Broughton Street.
No. CCCXXII.
THE CRAFT IN DANGER.
THIS Print affords a partial view of the Old College of Edinburgh and its
entrance. The skeleton of the elephant was prepared by Sir George Ballingall
while serving as assistant-surgeon with the second battalion of the Royals in
India ; was subsequently presented by him to his old master, Dr. Barclay ; and
ultimately bequeathed by the Doctor, along with the rest of his collection, to
the Royal College of Surgeons, in whose valuable Museum it forms a conspicuous
object.
The Plate refers to the proposed institution of a Professorship of Comparative
Anatomy in the University of Edinburgh, in 1817, for which DR. BARCLAY
was at the time considered to be an eligible candidate. He is represented as
riding in at the College gate on the skeleton of the elephant, supported by the
late DR. GREGORYa, nd welcomed by his friend, the late RVBERTJ OHNSTON,
Esq., who were supposed to be favourable to the proposed Professorship, and to
Dr. Barclay’s pretensions to the Chair. He is opposed by DR. HOPE, who fixes
his anchor in the strontian, and resists the entrance of the elephant by means
of the cable passed round his forelegs. He is also opposed with characteristic
weapons, by DR. MONROa nd PROFESSJOARM ESOoNn, whose respective departments
the intended Professorship was supposed to be an encroachment.
JOHN BARCLAY, M.D., long known as an eminent lecturer on anatomy
in this city, was the son of a respectable farmer in Perthshire, and nephew of
John Barclay, the Berean. He was born at Cairn, near Drummaquhance, in
that county, about the year 1760. After acquiring the rudiments of education
at the parish school of Muthill, he studied with a view to the ministry at the
qniversity of St. Andrews, and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of

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North Loch. J T,HE BOARD OF
was almost a permanent place for caravans and
wild beast shows. A row of miserable temporary
workshops, and at one time a little theatre, dis.
figured its western side. Among other edifices that
were there until about 1850 was the huge wooden
peristrophic Rotunda, which was first opened in
1823 to exhibit some great pictures of the battles
of Trafalgar and Waterloo.
In the same year was laid the foundation of the
Royal Institution, after the protracted and laborious
process of driving about 2,000 piles into the site, to
make firm the travelled earth at its southern end.
Though founded in 1823, it was notfinally completed
until 1836, after designs by W. H. Playfair, at a cost
of ~40,000. As shown in the view on the next
page, it was at first without enrichment in the
pediments, and was finished above the cornice,
by a plain parapet all round, with a base and
moulding ; and had eight la?rge pedestals, intended
for statues, against the walls, between the flat
Grecian pilasters. The building was, however,
subsequently largely altered and improved. It is
in the pure Doric style of Pericles, and forms an
oblong, nearly akin in character to that of a
peripteral temple, with fluted columns all rising
from a uniform base of steps, and surmounted by
n pure Greek entablature. There projects from
its north front a triple octostyle portico, and from its
south front a double octostyle portico, and the
pediments of both are filled with beautifully-carved
Greek scroll-work and honeysuckle, From the
flanks of these, at both ends, there projects
a distyle poytico. Behind the apex of the northern
portico, facing Hanover Street, is a colossal
statue of Queen Victoria, seated, with crown,
sceptre, and robes of state, sculptured by Steel.
Eight sphinxes adorn the four angles of this stately
edifice, which, like all others in the New Town, is
built of pure white freestone, and contains a
school of design, a gallery of sculpture, the
antiquarian museum, the apartments of the Royal
Society, and those of the Board of Trustees for
Manufactures in Scotland. We shall treat of the
last first.
By the fifteenth article of the Treaty of Union
with England, among other provisions for giving
Scotland some equivalent for the increase of duties
of Customs and Excise, it was agreed that for some
years Az,ooo per annum should be applied by the
new Imperial Parliament towards the encouragement
and formation of manufactures in the coarse
wool of those counties that produced it, and afterwards
to be wholly employed towards ?? encouraging
and promoting the fisheries and such other
mmufactwes and improvements in Scotland as
MANUFACTURES. 83
may conduce to the general good of the United
Kingdom.?
In 1718 this A2,ooo was made payable for ever
out of the Customs and Excise in Scotland. In
1725 an addition was made to this sum by an Act
which provided that when the produce of threepenceper
bushel to be laid on malt should exceed
~ 2 0 , 0 0 0 per annum, such surplus should be added
to it and applied to the same purposes, In 1726
the Crown was empowered to appoint twenty-one
trustees, who were named in 1727 by letters
patent, which prescribed their duties and the plan
for expending the funds at their disposal in the
encouragement of the woollen, linen, and hempen
manufactures and the Scottish fisheries, which had
always been fostered by the Stuart kings, as numeroys
laws, enacted by the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and
Sixth Jameses, attest.
Bitt in regarding a Scottish institution which
now occupies a place so conspicuous in the eye
of the public, it is curious to trace the difficulties it
had to contend with, in consequence of the lack of
local government and the monetary vacuum caused
byaconflict between the banks. On the 26th of
June, I 7 28, Duncan Forbes, then Lord Advocate,
wrote to the Duke of Newcastle :-? The trustees
appointed by His Majesty for taking care of the
manufactures proceed with great zeal and industry ;
but at present credit is run so low, by a struggle
between the bank lately erected by His Majesty and
the old bank, that money can scarcely be found to
go to market with.?
Matters, however, improved, and the activity
and use of the Board were shown in the promotion
of the linen manufacture, which, under the stimulus
given by premiums, rose from an export sale of
2,183,978 yards in 1727 to 4,666,011 yards in
1738, 3,358,098 yards in 1748, and 12,823,048
yards in 1764.
In 1766 the trustees opened a hall in Edinburgh
(The British Linen Hall) for the custody and sale
of Scottish linens, which the owners thereof might
sell, either personally or by their factors. ?For
whatever period the goods should remain in the
hall unsold,? says Amot, ? their respective owners
pay nothing to the proprietors of the hall; but
upon their being sold, 5 per cent. upon the value
of the linens sold is demanded by way of rent. As
the opening of this hall was found to be attended
with good consequences to the linen manufactures,
so in 1776 the trustees extended it upon the
same terms to the woollen manufactures of Scotland.?
Under these trustees and their successors the
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94 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
appeared his “History of Scotland during the reigns of Queen Mary and
James VI.” The effect this work produced was instantaneous and extraordinary-
congratulatory letters of praise, from the most eminent men of the
time, poured in upon him ; and it is said that the emoluments derived from it
exceeded 2600. Preferment immediately followed, which changed at once
the whole aspect of his fortunes; for in the same year he was appointed
Chaplain to the Garrison of Stirling Castle, in the room of Mr. William Campbell
; next year he was nominated one of his Majesty’s Chaplains for Scotland ;
in the year following (1761), on the death of Principal Goldie, he was elected
Principal of the University of Edinburgh, and translated to the Greyfriars’
Church. Two years afterwards he was appointed by the King Historiographer
for Scotland, with a salary of 3200 a year.
In 1779 Dr. Robertson published, in three volumes quarto, a “History of
the Reign of Charles V.,” which still farther increased the reputation of its
author. For the copyright he received no less than 24500, the largest sum
then known to have been paid for a single work; and which, according to the
calculation of the Rev. Dr Nisbet of Montrose,’ amounted exactly to twopencehalfpenny
for each word in the work.
Dr. Robertson, in 1778, gave to the world his “History of America,” in two
volumes quarto, a work which was well received at the time, and which still
continues to be popular. On this occasion he was elected an honorary member
of the Royal Academy of History in Madrid, who appointed one of their
members to translate the work into Spanish; but after it was considerably
advanced, the Spanish Government interfered and prevented it.
In the year 1781, he was elected one of the Foreign Members of the Academy
of Sciences at Padua, and, in 1783, one of the foreign Members of the
Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburgh.
In 1791 appeared his last work, also in quarto, entitled, “Historical Disquisitions
concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India, and the Progress
of Trade with that country, prior to the Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope.”
No. XLII.
DR. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D.D.,
IN HIS FULL CLERICAL DRESS.^
THE Doctor’s powerful and persuasive eloquence had gained him an influence
in the General Assembly which intimately and conspicuously associated his
name with the Ecclesiastical affairs of Scotland. He was a long time leader of
the Court party in our Ecclesiastical Parliament, and as a speaker, it is said, he
Some time the Principal of the College of Carlisle in Pennsylvania, and a frequent opponent of
Dr. Robertson in the General Assembly.
It waa remarked that Dr. Robertson always appeared to greatest advantage in this attire.

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350 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [North Bridge.
. of the greatest hits in the annals of the Theatre
Royal; and it was announced in the following
day?s advertisements that the success had been so
triumphant that it would be repeated ?every
evening till further notice;? yet it ran only fortyone
nights consecutively, which seems trifling when
compared with the run of many pieces in London.
But the national element delighted the people ;
Mr. Homerton?s dignified Rob Roy, Mrs. Renaud?s
tragic dignity as Helen Macgregor (always an unattractive
part), Duff?s Dougal Cratur, Murray?s
Captain Thornton, and more than all, the Bailie
Jarvie of old Mackay (who now rests in the Calton
burying-ground) were loudly extolled. Sir Walter
Scott was in the boxes with his whole family,
and his loud laugh was heard from time to time,
and he ever after declared that the Bailie was
a complete realisation of his own conception of
the character. All the Waverley dramas, as they
were named, followed in quick succession; the
Scottish feeling of the plays, and the music that
went with them, completed their success ; the
treasury was filled well-nigh to overflowing, and
Mrs. Henry Siddons had no more difficulties with
her patent or lease.
When George IV. visited Edinburgh in August,
$822, he ordered Rob Roy to be played at this
house on the 27th, and scenes such as it had never
presented before were exhibited both within and
witbout the edifice. At an early hour in the
morning vast crowds assembled at every door, and
the rain which fell in torrents till six in the evening
had no effect in diminishing their numbers, and
when the doors were slowly opened, the rush for a
moment was so tremendous that most serious ap
prehensions were entertained, but no lives were
lost ; while the boxes had been let in such a way
as to preclude all reasonable ground of complaint.
In the pit and galleries the audience were so
closely packed, that it would have been difficult,
according to eye-witnesses, to introduce even the
point of a sabre between any two. All the wealth,
rank, and beauty of Scotland, filled the boxes, and
the waving of tartan plaids and plumed bonnets
produced hurricanes of acclamation long before the
arrival of the king, who occupied a species of
throne in the centre box, and behind him stood
the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Fife, and
other nobles. He wore the uniform of a marshal,
and at his entrance nearly the entire audience
joined the orchestra in the national anthem.
On this night Mr. Calcraft (long a Dublin
manager, and formerly an officer of cavalry) played
Rob Roy, and Mrs. Henry Siddons was Diana
Vernon; but the king was observed to applaud
the faithful Dougal as much as any of the others.
Up to 1851 Rub Roy had been acted about four
hundred times in this house; but at Perth, in
1829, it was represented by Ryder?s company for
five hundred nights ! One of the original cast of
the play was ? Old Miss Nicol,? as she was named
in latter years, who then took the part of the girl
Mattie.
To attempt to enumerate all the stars who came
in quick succession to the boards of the old Royal
(as the facilities for travel by land and sea increased)
would be a vain task, but the names of a
few may suffice. Between 1820 and 1830 there
were Vandenhoff, for tragedy, as Sir Giles Overreach,
and Sir William Wallace in the Battle of
Falkirk, &c. ; Jones for Mercutio and Charles
Surface ; the bulky Denham with his thick voice to
play JamesVI. to Murray?s Jingling Geordie; Mason
and Stanley, both excellent in comedy, though
well-nigh forgotten now; and always, of course,
Mrs. Henry Siddons, ?(beautiful and graceful, with
a voice which seemed to penetrate the audience ; ?
and there were Mrs. Renaud for tragedy, Mrs.
Nicol as a leading old lady, Miss Paton, and Miss
Noel with her Scottish melodies ; while the scenery
amid which they moved came from the master-hand
of David Roberts, ?and the orchestra included
hautbois of Mr. T. Fraser, which had witched the
soul and flooded the eyes of Burns.? Among
other favourites was Miss M. Tree (sister of Ellen
the ftiture Mrs. Charles Kean), who used to delight
the playgoers with her Rosina in the Barber d
SmiZZe, or the Maid of Milan, till she retired in
1825, on her mamage with Mr. Bradshaw, some
time M.P. for Canterbury.
Terry, Sinclair, and Russell, were among the
stars in those days. The last took such characters
as Sir Giles Overreach. On his re-appearance
in 1823, after several years? absence, ?to
our surprise,? says the Edinburgh Adverfiser, ?the
audience was thin, but among them we noticed
Sir Walter Scott? Thither came also Maria Foote
(afterwards Countess of Harrington), who took
with success such parts as Rosalind, Imogen, and
Beatrice.
The Edinburgh Theatrical Fund, for the relief
of decayed actors, was instituted at this prosperous
time, and at its first dinner in February, 1827,
under the presidency of Lord Meadowbank, Sir
Walter Scott, ever the player?s friend, avowed
himself, as most readers know, the author of the
? Waverley Novels.? Though it had been shrewdly
suspected by many before, ?(the rapturous feeling
of the company, on hearing the momentous Secret
let for@ from his own lips,? says a writer, ? no one

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anderwent at sea, yet he adds, ?our numbers
amounted to 700, and with the loss of three we
made ourselves masters of the island, defended by
800 English trained to war and accustomed to
slaughter.? The Queen Regent and Monluc, the
Bishop of Valence, visited the island after its recapture,
and, according to the French account, were
rather regaled by the sight of 300 English corpses
strewn about it.
The castle was afterwards demolished by order of
LEITH HARBOUR ABOUT 1700. (Fronr am Oil Paint ng in fhe Tn?ni2y trousu, Lcifh.)
The French troops in Leith, being all trained
veterans, inured to military service in the wars of
Francis I. and Henry II., gave infinite trouble to
the raw levies of the Lords of the Congregation,
who began to blockade the town in October,
1559. Long ere this Mary, Queen of Scots, had
become the bride of Francis of France ; and her
mother, who had upheld the Catholic cause so
vigorously, was on her deathbed in the castle of
Edinburgh.
the Scottish Parliament as useless, and nothing
remains of it now but a stone, bearing the royal
arms, built into the lighthouse ; but the French
troops in Leith conceived such high ideas of the excellent
properties of the grass there, that all their
horses were pastured upon it, and for ten years
*hey always termed it ? L?isZe des Chvaux.?
So pleased was Mary of Lorraine with the presence
of her French soldiers in Leith, that-
:according to Maitland-she erected for herself ? a
?house at the corner of Quality Wynd in the Rotten
Row ;? but Robertson states that ?a general impression
has existed that Queen Street was the site
of the residence of the Queen Dowager.? Above
ithe door of it were the arms of Scotland and Guise.
The Lords of Congregation, before proceeding to
extremities with the French, sent a summons,in
the names of ?their sovereign lord and lady,
Francis and Mary, King and Queen of Scotland
and France, demanding that all Scots and Frenchmen,
of whatever estate or degree, depart out of the
town of Leith within the space of twelve hours.?
To this no answer was returned, so the Scottish
troops prepared for an assault by escalade; but
when they applied their ladders to the wall they
were found to be too short, and the heaiy fire of
the French arquebusiers repelled the assailants
with loss, These unlucky scaling-ladders had been
made in St. Giles?s Church, a circumstance which,
curiously enough, is said to have irritated the

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Leith! THE REV. JOHN LOGAN.
The first Protestant minister of Leith, at the
settlement of the Reformation in 1560, was David
Lindsay, who was Moderator of the Assembly in
1557and 1582, andwho, in the year 1573,attended
Sir William Kirkaldy of Grange on the scaffold.
He accompanied James VI. to Norway, married
him to Anne of Denmark, and baptised their sons :
the Prince Henry, who died young, and the Duke
of Albany, afterwards Charles I. So early as 1597
his inclination to episcopacy alienated him from
his Presbyterian brethren; and in 1600, as a reward
for aiding the king in defence of his royal prerogative,
he was made Bishop of Ross.
He was one of the only two clergymen in all
Scotland who, at the royal command, prayed for
the friendless and defenceless Mary. He died at
Leith in 1613, in his eighty-thud year, and, says
Spottiswood, was buried there ?by his own directions,
as desiring to rest with the people on whom
he had taken great pains during his life.? He was
the lineal descendant of Sir Walter Lindsay of
Edzell, who fell at Flodden.
Walter, first Earl of Buccleuch, commander of
a Scottish regiment under the States of Holland,
having died in London in the winter of 1634, his
body was embalmed, and sent home by sea in a
Kirkcaldy ship, which, after being sorely tempesttossed
and driven to the coast of Norway, reached
Leith in the June of the following year, when the
earl?s remains were placed jn St Mary?s church,
where they lay for twenty days, till the Clan Scott
mustered, and a grand funeral was accorded them
at Hawick, the heraldic magnificence of which
had rarely been seen in Scotland, while the
mourning trumpets wailed along the banks of the
Teviot. A black velvet pall, powdered with silver
tears, covered the coffin, whereon lay ?the defunct?s
helmet and coronet, overlaid with cypress, to show
that he had been a soldier.?
It was not until 1609 that St. Maryk was constituted
by Act of Parliament a parish chuch, and
invested with all the revenues and pertinents of
Xestalrig,
When the troops of Cromwell occupied Leith,
as the parish registers record, Major Pearson, the
town major of the garrison, by order of Timothy
-Wi&es, the English governor-depute, went to James
Stevenson, the kirk treasurer,and demanded the keys
of St. Mary?s, informing him that no Scots minister
was to preach till further orders ; so eventually the
people had to hear. sermons on the Links, with
difficulty getting the gates open, from seven in the
morning till two in the afternoon on Sunday.
In 1656 they sent a petition to Cromwell in
England, praying him ?to restore the church; as
there is no place to meet in but the open fields.?
To this petition no answer seems to have been
returned; but during this period there are, says
Robertson, in his ?Antiquities of Leith,? iqdications
that Oliver?s own chaplains, and even his officers,
conducted services in St. Mary?s church. ?It has
often been asserted,? he adds, ?that at this time
St. Mary?s was converted into a stable to accommodate
the steeds of the troopers of Cromwell j it
has been added, a company of his Ironsides, with
their right hands (i.e., their horses), abased the
temple.? No authority exists for this, save vague
tradition, to which the reader may attach what importance
he may deem fit.?
Previous to the Revolution of 1688 a separation
of the congregation is recorded in the church at
Leith, those who adhered to prelacy occupying the
latter, while the pure Presbyterians formed a separate
party at the Meeting-House Green, ne& the
Sheriff (Shirra) Brae. The latter, belonging to North
as well as South Leith, were permitted to meet
there for prayer and sermon, by special permission
of King James in 1687, Mr. William Wishart being
chosen minister of that congregation.
The Rev. John Logan, the author of various
poetical works, but known as the inglorious and
but lately-detected pirate of some manuscripts of
Michael Bruce, the Scottish Kirk White, was
appointed minister of this church in 2773. He
was certainly a highly-gifted man ; and though his
name is, perhaps, forgotten in South Britain, he
will be remembered in Scotland as long as her
Church uses those beautiful Scripture paraphrases,
the most solemn of which is the hymn, The hour
of my departure ?s come.?
, He was the son of a small farmer near Fala, and
was born in 1748. He delivered a course of
lectures in Edinburgh with much success, and
had a tragedy called ? Runnyrnede ? acted in the
theatre there, when, fortunately for him, the times
were somewhat changed from those when the
production of Home?s ?? Douglas ? excited such a
grotesque ferment ~ in the Scottish Church. He
became latterly addicted to intemperance, the
result of great mental depression, and, proceeding
to London, lived by literary labour bf various
kinds, but did not long survive his transference
to the metropolis, as he died in a lodging in Great
Marlborough Street on the 28th December, 1288.
In the burying-ground attached to St. Mary?s,
John Home, the author of ?Douglas? and other
literary works, a native of Leith, was interred in
September, 1808.
In 1848, during the ri9.m~ of George Aldiston
Machen, fourth Provost of Leith, the old church

... THE REV. JOHN LOGAN. The first Protestant minister of Leith, at the settlement of the Reformation in 1560, ...

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of Strathearn, the Rosabelle of Scott?s beautiful
ballad, which tells us-
? There are twenty of Roslin?s barons bold,
Lie buried in that proud chapelle,
But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle.
With candle, with book, and with bell ;
The dirge of lovely Rosabelle.?
Each one the holy vault doth hold,
And each St. Clair is buried there,
But the sea caves sung, and the wild waves rung,
In 1264, Sir William, sixth of Roslin, was
Sheriff of Edinburgh, Linlithgow, and Haddington
( r r Chamberlain Rolls ?7, and it was his son and successor,
Sir Henry, who obtained from Robert I.,
for his good and faithful services, a charter of
Pentland Muir, and to whom (and not to a Sir William)
the well-known tradition of the famous huntingmatch
thereon, which led to the founding of
the chapel of St. Katherine in the Hope, must
refer. With that muir he obtained other lands,
whjch were ?all erected into a free forestry, for
payment of a tenth part of one soldier yearly, in
His son, Sir William, was one of the chosen
companions of the good Sir James Douglas, whom
he accompanied in the mission to convey Bruce?s
1317.?
heart to Jerusalem, and with whom he perished in
battle with the Moors at Teba, in 1331, He left
an infant son, who, in 1350, was ambassador at the
Court of England, whither he repaired with a train
of sixty armed horse. He married Isabella,
daughter of Malise, Earl of Strathearn, and was
succeeded by his son, Sir Henry Sinclair of Roslin,
who was created Earl of Orkney by Haco, King of
Norway, in 1379-a title confirmed by Robert 11.
According to Douglas, he married Florentina, a
daughter of the King of Denmark. Nisbet adds
that he was made Lord of Shetland and Duke of
Oldenburg (which is considered doubtful), and
that he was Knight of the Thistle, Cockle, and
Golden Fleece.
William, third earl, resigned his earldom of
Orkney in favour of King James IIL, and adopted
that of Caithness, which he resigned in 1476 to
his son TVilliam, who became distinguished by the
baronial grandeur of his household, and was the
founder of the chapel. It is of him that Father
Hay writes as ?a prince,? who maintained at the
Castle of Roslin royal state, and was served at his
table in vessels of gold and silver. Lord Dirleton
was the master of his household, Lord Borthwick

... Strathearn, the Rosabelle of Scott?s beautiful ballad, which tells us- ? There are twenty of Roslin?s barons ...

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NEWHAVEN. 93
the butcher, or it may be some higher official of the port. Perhaps we should
add that on the east of the spacious open area leading on to the foot-of the
pier, is erected a handsome and commodious hotel, with edifices, of a similar
style, on the opposite side, occupied as private residences. Besides, the
important village of Wardie, with its rows of villas and elegantly built houses,
is sufficiently near to be included in Granton.
The large open space
landward, conducting on to the pier, flanked by edifices of ' elegant, massive,
whitesandstone masonry,' with its spacious harbour crowded with craft of
every description and of every country, a forest of masts, blending so agreeably
with the general joyousness of the natural scenery around, contrasts most
favourably with the usual dinginess and dirt of most of the other seaports of
the nation. A walk to the pier-head, on which there is a lighthouse with a
brilliantly distinctive light, or along the breakwater, within 'whose giant arms
the harbour lies so peacefully, is both interesting and refreshing, and is greatly
frequented, especially in the long summer evenings, by the inhabitants of the
city and neighbourhood.
Granton is finely situated, and is a nice airy place.
NEWHAVEN
Is a fishing village with a harbour, and an active and industrious population,
a little to the southeast, in the parish of North Leith. It sprung up during
the reign of James IV., and under his favouring smile was rapidly rising into
importance, when it received a check from the repressive hand of the Edinburgh
Tom-Council. Jealous of its rising consequence, and entertaining fears
lest it might in some manner or way affect the city injuriously, they purchased
from the King, who, like all the Stuart family of royal lineage, was ever in need
of money, the town and harbour, with all their rights and privileges, and so
acquired a sort of absolute power over it, which, as might be expected, was
not wielded to the advantage of the locality,
Shortly after the creation of the village a chapel was erected, which likewise
owed its existence to the King. James, with all his fun and frolic, energy
and chivalry, was terribly superstitious. That untoward circumstance which,
when a mere boy, he was all but forced to take a part in-the rebellion
against, and murder of his father by, his subjects-had ever afterwards a most
unhappy effect upon him. He never could forget it ; often it came up into
his mind, disquieted his conscience, and plunged him into the deepest grief
and melancholy, the only solace to, or relief from, which was in doing penance
and in building chapels, Very p'ossibly it was in one of those fits of religious

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New Town.] ? . WOOD?S FARM. 11.5
Lang Dykes; by the old Queensferry Road that
I descended into the deep hollow, where Bell?s Mills
lie, and by Broughton Loan at the other end of the
northern ridge.
Bearford?s Parks on the west, and Wood?s Farm
on the east, formed the bulk of this portion of the
site; St. George?s Church is now in the centre of
the former, and Wemyss Place of the latter. The
hamlet and manor house of Moultray?s Hill arc now
occupied by the Register House; and where the
Royal Bank stands was a cottage called ?Peace
and Plenty,? from its signboard near Gabriel?s
Road, ? where ambulative citizens regaled themselves
with curds and cream,?? and Broughton was
deemed so far afield that people went there for
the summer months under the belief that they
were some distance from ?town, just as people
used to go to Powburn and Tipperlinn fifty years
later.
Henry Mackenzie, author of ?The Man of
Feeling,? who died in 1831, remembered shooting
snipes, hares, and partridges upon Wood?s Farm.
The latter was a tract of ground extending frGm
Canon Mills on the north, to Bearford?s Parks on
the south, and was long in possession of Mr. Wood,
of Warriston, and in the house thereon, his son,
the famous ?Lang Sandy Wood,? was born in
1725. It stood on the area between where Queen
Street and Heriot Row are now, and ?many still
alive,? says Chambers, writing in 1824, ?remember
of the fields bearing as fair and rich a crop of
wheat as they may now be said to bear houses.
Game used to be plentiful upon these groundsin
particular partridges and hares . . . . . Woodcocks
and snipe were to be had in all the damp
and low-lying situations, such as the Well-house
Tower, the Hunter?s Bog, and the borders of
Canon Mills Loch. Wild ducks were frequently
shot in the meadows, where in winter they are
sometimes yet to be found. Bruntsfield Links,
and the ground towards the Braid Hills abounded
in hares.?
In the list of Fellows of the Royal College of
Surgeons, Alexander Wood and his brother Thomas
are recorded, under date 1756 and 1715 respectively,
as the sons of ?Thomas Wood, farmer on
the north side of Edinburgh, Stockbridge Road,?
now called Church Lane.
A tradition exists, that about 1730 the magistrates
offered to a residenter in Canon Mills all the
ground between Gabriel?s Road and the Gallowlee,
in perpetual fee, at the annual rent of a crown
bowl of punch; but so worthless was the land then,
producing only whim and heather, that the offer
was rejected. (L? Old Houses in Edinburgh.?)
The land referred to is now worth more than
A15,ooo per annum. .
Prior to the commencement of the new town,
the only other edifices. on the site were the Kirkbraehead
House, Drumsheugh House, near the old
Ferry Road, and the Manor House of Coates.
Drumsheugh House, of which nothing now remains
but its ancient rookery in Randolph Crescent,
was removed recently. Therein the famous
Chevaliei Johnstone, Assistant A.D.C. to Prince
Charles; was concealed for a time by Lady Jane
Douglas, after the battle of Culloden, till he escaped
to England, in the disguise of a pedlar.
Alexander Lord Colville of Culross, a distinguished
Admiral of the White, resided there s u b
sequently. He served at Carthagena in 1741, at
Quebec and Louisbourg in the days of Wolfe, and
died at Drumsheugh on the zIst of May, 1770.
His widow, Lady Elizabeth Erskine, daughter of
Alexander Earl of Kellie, resided there for some
years after, together with her brother, the Honourable
Andrew Erskine, an officer of the old 71st,
disbanded in 1763, an eccentric character, who
figures among Kay?s Portraits, and who in
1793 was drowned in the Forth, opposite Caroline
Park. Lady Colville died at Drumsheugh in
the following year, when the house and lands
thereof reverted to her brother-in-law, John Lord
Colville of Culross. And so lately as 1811 the
mansion was occupied by James Erskine, Esq.,.
of Cambus.
Southward of Drumsheugh lay Bearford?s Parks,.
mentioned as ? Terras de Barfurd ? in an Act in.
favour of Lord Newbattle in 1587, named from
Hepburn of Bearford in Haddingtonshire.
In 1767 the Earl of Morton proposed to have a
wooden bridge thrown across the North Loch
from these parks to the foot of Warriston?s Close, but
the magistrates objected, on the plea that the property
at the dose foot was worth A20,ooo. The
proposed bridge was to be on a line with ?the
highest level ground of Robertson?s and Wood?s
Farms.? In the Edinburgh Adnediser for 1783
the magistrates announced that Hallow Fair was
to be ?held in the Middle Bearford?s Park.?
Lord Fountainhall, under dates 1693 and 1695,
records a dispute between Robert Hepburn of
Bearford and the administrators of Heriot?s hospital,
concerning ?the mortified annual rents
acclaimed out of his tenement in Edinburgh, called
the Black Turnpike,? and again in 1710, of an
action he raised against the Duchess of Buccleuch,
in which Sir Robert Hepburn of Bearford,
in I 633, is referred to, all probably of the same family.
The lands and houses of Easter and Wester

... Town.] ? . WOOD?S FARM. 11.5 Lang Dykes; by the old Queensferry Road that I descended into the deep hollow, ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 157
irksome and disadvantageous. In order to rid themselves of the grievance,
they went to law with the Magistrates in lSOS, and again in 1810; but in
both instances they were defeated. In l S l l , however, determined to be no
longer held in bondage, they sold the property of the Society-made a division
of the proceeds-and broke up the union. The city being then provided with
an efficient fire establishment, and deeming it useless to contend with them,
the Magistrates tacitly sanctioned the dispersion of the Tron-men, by refraining
from all attempts to compel their attendance.
No. CCXXV,
WILLIAM CUMMING, ESQ.
THE old gentleman represented in this Etching was a person of eccentric habits.
He was immensely rich, and carried on a very extensive and lucrative business
as a private banker-at one time in the Parliament Close, and latterly, under
the firm of Camming and Son, in the Royal Exchange. He died in 1790. His
demise was thus announced in the periodicals of the day:-“March 27, at
Edinburgh, in an advanced age, William Cumming, Esq., many years an eminent
banker.”
He was reputed to be extremely penurious. When walking on the streets,
he used constantly to keep his arms spread out to prevent the people from
rubbing against his coat, and thereby injuring it. Under a similar apprehension
he never allowed his servant to brush his clothes, lest the process should wear
off the pile ; but made him place them on the back of a chair, and blow the
dust off with a pair of bellows. He not unfrequently wore a scarlet cloak over
his suit of sables. The artist, for an obvious reason, has dispensed with this
ornament in the portraiture. He was generally known by the soubriquet of
“ the Crow.” His manner of walking, with outstretched arms, and the unique
appearance of his whole figure, especially at a distance, presented a striking
resemblance to that bird.
A few
days previous to one of the drawings, he had returned all his unsold tickets
except one, in the confident hope that even at the eleventh hour a stray purchaser
might be found. He for once miscalculated : the decisive day arrived,
and the ticket still remained unsold Deeply grieved, and blaming himself for
his imprudence, he at last made up his mind to sacrifice a trifle, and actually
went out amongst his acquaintances- the shopkeepers of the Lawnmarket
offering the ticket at half price I But, with characteristic caution, not one of
them could be prevailed on to adventure. Much mortified, the banker felt he
had no other resource than quietly to suffer the anticipated loss. His triumph,
Mr. Curnming was for some time an agent of the State lotteries.

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24 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
horsis under the Castle wall, in the barrace,” the Scottish knight’s horse having failed
him in the first onset, they encountered on foot, continuing the contest for a full hour, till
the Dutchman being struck to the ground, the King cast his hat over the Castle wall a8 a
signal to stay the combat, while the heralds and trumpeters proclaimed Sir Patrick the
victor.
A royal experiment, of a more subtle nature, may be worth recording, as a sample of
the manners of the age. The King caused a dumb woman to be transported to the neighbouring
island of Inchkeith, and there being properly lodged and provisioned, two infants
were entrusted to her care, in order to discover by the language they should adopt, what
was the original human tongue. The result seems to have been very satisfactory, as, after
allowing them a suficient time,
it was found that ‘‘ they spak very
guid Ebrew I ”
But it is not alone by knightly
feats of arms, and the rude chivalry
of the Middle Ages, that
the court of James IV. is distinguished.
The Scottish capital,
during his reign, was the residence
of men high in every department
of learning and the arts.
Gawin Douglas, afterwards
Bishop of Dunkeld, the wellknown
author of “ The Palice of
Honour,” and the translator of
Virgil’s Bneid into Scottish
verse, was at this time Provost
of St Giles’s,’ and dedicated his
poem to the
“ Maist gracious Prince ouir Souerain Jamea the Feird,
Supreme honour renoun of cheualrie.”
Dunbar, “ the greatest poet that Scotland has produced,” ’ was in close and familiar
attendance on the court, and with him Kennedy, “ his kindly foe,” and Sir John Ross, and
“ Gentill Roull of Corstorphine,” as well as others afterwards enumerated by Dunbar, in his
“ Lament for the Makaris.” Many characteristic and very graphic allusions to the manners
of the age have been preserved in the poems that still exist, by them affording a curious
insight into the Scottish city and capital of the James’s. Indeed, the local and temporary
allusions that occur in their most serious pieces, are often quaint and amusing, in the highest
degree, as in Kennedy’s “ Passioun of Grist :”-
“ In the Tolbuth then Pilot enterit in,
Callit on Chrid, and sperit gif He wea King I ”
Keith’a Bishops, 8v0, 1824;~. 468. ’ Ellis’ Specimens, Svo, 1845, vol. i. p. 304.
VIGNETTE-North-e118t pillar, St Qiles’s choir.

... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. horsis under the Castle wall, in the barrace,” the Scottish knight’s horse having ...

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274 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Chambers Street.
Britannica? In 1763 he was Treasurer of the
Navy, and died at Marseilles in 1777.
For some years after that period Minto House
was the residence of Sir William Nairne of Dun-
? sinnan, a Judge of the Court of SesGon, who removed
there from one he had long occupied, before
his promotion to the bench, at the head of the
Back Stairs, and in which he had lived as Mr.
Nairne, at that terrible period of his family history,
when his niece, the beautiful Mrs. Ogilvie, was
tried and convicted for murder in 1766.
He was the last of his line ; and when he died, in
1811, at an advanced age, his baronetcy became
extinct, and a nephew, his sister?s son, assumed
the name and arms of Nairne of Dunsinnan.
The principal entrance to Minto House in those
days was from the Horse Wynd, when it was
noted chiefly as a remnant of the dull and antiquated
grandeur of a former age. It was next
divided into a series of small apartments, and let
to people in the humblest rank of life. But it was
not fated to be devoted long to such uses, for the
famous surgeon, Mr. (afterwards Professor) Syme,
had it fitted up in 1829 as a surgical hospital for
street accidents and other cases, Mr. Syme retained
the old name of Minto House, and the surgery
and practice acquired a world-wide celebrity,
Long the scent of demonstrations and prelections
of eminent extramural lecturers, it was swept away
in the city improvements, and its?successor is now
included in Chambers Street, and has become the
6? New Medical Scliool of Minto House,? so that
the later traditions of tbe site ~ l l be perpetuated.
Among other edifices demolished in Argyle
Square, together with the Gaelic? Church, was the
Meeting House of the Scottish Baptists, seated foi
240-one of two sections of that congregation
established in I 766.
Proceeding westward, from the broad site 01
what was once Adam Square, and the other two
squares of which we have just given the history,
Chambers Street opens before us, a thousand feet in
length, With an average of seventy in breadth, extending
from the South Bridge to that of George IV.
It was begun in 1871 under the City Improve
ment Act, and was worthily named in honour 01
the Lord Provost Chambers, the chief promoter 01
the new city improvement scheme. With the
then old squares it includes the sites of North
College Street, and parts of sites of the Horse and
College Wynds, and is edificed into four largc
blocks, three or four storeys high, in ornate example:
of the Italian style, with some specimens of the
French.
Chambers Street was paved with wooden blocks
in 1876, at a cost of nearly A6,000, and on that
occasion 322,000 blocks were used.
On the south side three hundred and sixty feet OF
Chambers Street are occupied by the north front.
of the University. Over West College Street-of
old, the link between the Horse Wynd and.
Potterrow-is thrown a glass-covered bridge, connecting
the University with the Museum of Science.
and Art, which, when completed, will occupy the
remaining 400 feet of the north side to where ?? The
Society ?-besides one of Heriot?s schools-exists.
now in name.
This great and noble museum is in the Venetian
Renaissance style, from a design by Captain
Fowkes of the Royal Engineers. The laying ofthe
foundation-stone of this structure, on the
23rd of October, 1861, was the last public act of
His Royal Highness the Prince Consort. It is
founded on plans similar to those of the Interna--
tional Exhibition buildings in London, and, by theyear
1870, contained-a great hall, 105 feet long,
seventy wide, and seventy-seven in height ; a hail
of natural history, 130 feet long, fifty-seven feet.
wide, and seventy-seven in height ; a south hall,
seventy feet long, fifty feet wide, and seventy-seven,
in height ; and two other great apartments. When
completed it will be one of the noblest buildings
in Scotland.
In 1871-4 the edifice underwent extension, the.
great hall being increased to the length of 270 feet,.
and other apartments being added, which, when
finished, will have a measurement of 400 feet in.
length, 200 feet in width, with an average of ninety
in height Already it contains vast collections in,
natural history, in industrial art, in manufacture,
and in matters connected with physical science.
The great aim of the architect has been to have
every part well-lighted, and for this purpose a glass
roof with open timberwork has been adopted, and
the details of the whole structure made as light as
possible. Externally the front is constructed of
red and white sandstone, and internally a more
elaborate kind of decoration has been carried out.
Altogether the effect of the building is light, rich,.
and elegant. .In the evenings, when open, it is
lighted up by means of: horizontal iron rods in the
roof studded with gas burners, the number of jets.
exceeding 5,000.
The great hall or saloon is a singularly noble
apartment, with two galleries The collection of
industrial art here comprises illustrations of nearly
all the chief manufactures of the British Isles and
foreign countries, and the lafgest collection in the
world of the raw products of commerce. It
possesses sections for mining and quarrying, for
?

... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Chambers Street. Britannica? In 1763 he was Treasurer of the Navy, and died at ...

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diere is no proof that the shallow waters of the
Leith, as they debouched upon the sands of what
must have been on both sides an uncultured waste
of links or moorland, ever formed a shelter for the
galleys of Rome ; and it is strange to think that
there must have been a time when its banks were
covered by furze and the bells of the golden broom,
and when the elk, the red deer, and the white bull
of Drumsheugh, drank of its current amid a voiceless
solitude.
GAYFIELD HOUSE.
the gorge of the Low Calton, and descends Leith
Walk till nearly opposite the old manor house of
Pilrig; it then runs westward to the Water of
Leith, and follows the latter downward to the Firth.
The parish thus includes, besides its landward
district, the Calton Hill, parts of Calton and the
Canongate, Abbey Hill, Norton Place, Jock?s
Lodge, Restalrig, and the whole of South Leith.
? Except on the Calton Hill,? says a statistical
writer, ?the soil not occupied by buildings is all
The actual limits of Leith as a town, prior to
their definition in 1827, are uncertain.
South Leith is bounded on the north-east by the
Firth of Forth, on the south by Duddingston and
the Canongate, on the west by the parishes of the
Royalty of Edinburgh, by St. Cuthbert?s and North
Leith. It is nearly triangular in form, and has an
area of 2,265 acres, The boundary is traced for
some way with Duddingston, by the Fishwives?
Causeway, or old Roman Road; then it passes
nearly along the highway between the city and
Portobello till past Jock?s Lodge, making a projecting
sweep so as to include Parson?s Green ; and
after skirting the royal parks, it runs along the
north back of the Canongate, debouches through
susceptible of high cultivation, and has had imposed
on it dresses of utility and ornament in keep
ing with its close vicinity to the metropolis. Imgated
and very fertile meadows, green and beautiful
esplanades laid out as promenading grounds, neat,
tidy, and extensive nurseries, elegant fruit, flower,
and vegetable gardens, and the little sheet of
Lochend, with a profusion of odoriferous encb
sures, and a rich sprinkling of villas with their
attendant flower-plots, render the open or unedificed
area eminently attractive. The beach, all the
way from South Leith to the eastern boundary is
not a little attractive to sea-bathers ; a fine, clean
sandy bottom, an inclination or slope quite gentle
enough to assure the most timid, and a limpid roll

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New Town.] JAMES CRAIG. I I7
1869 to make way for Grosvenor Street, in excavating
the foundation of which a number of ancient
bronze Caledonian swords were found-the relics
of some pre-historic strife. One was Specially remarkable
for having the hilt and pommel of bronze
cast in one piece with the blade-a form very rare,
there being only one other Scottish example known
-one from Tames, in Aberdeenshire, and now in
the British Museum.
The few houses enumerated alone occupied the
lonely site of the New Town when Gabriel?s Road,
of the poet Thomson, and who engraved thereon
the following appropriate lines from his uncle?s
poem :-
SI August, around, what public works I see !
Lo, stately streets ! 10, squares that court the breeze!
See long canals and
Each part with each, and with the circling main,
whole entwined
nvea join
The names given to the streets and squaresthe
formal array of parallelograms drawn by
Craig-were taken from the royal family chiefly,
latterly a mean, narrow alley, was a delightful
country path, ?? along which,? says Wilson, in I 847,
?some venerable citizens still remember to have
wended their way between green hedges that
skirted the pleasant meadows and cornfields of
Wood?s Farm, and which was in days of yore a
favourite trysting place for lovers, where they
breathed out their teIpder tale of passion beneath
the fragrant hawthorn.?
It ran in an oblique direction through the
ancient hamlet of Silvermills, and its course is yet
indicated by the irregular slant of the garden walls
that separate the little plots behind Duke Street
from the East Queen Street Gardens at the lower
end.
The plan of the proposed new city was prepared
by James Craig, an eminent architect, nephew
? and the tutelary saints of the island, The first
thoroughfare, now-a magnificent terrace, was called
St. Giles Street, after the. ancient patron of the
city ; but on the plan being shown to George 111.
for his approval, he exclaimed, ? Hey, hey !-what,
what!-St. Giles Street !-never do, never do!?
And so, to escape from a vulgar London association
of ideas, it was named Princes Street, after the
future George IV. and the Duke of York.
Craig survived to see his plans only partially
carried out, as he died in 1795, in his fifty-fifth year.
He was the son of Robert Craig, merchant, and
grandson of Robert Craig, who in the beginning of
that century had been a magistrate of Edinburgh.
His mother was Mary, youngest daughter of James
Thomson, minister of Ednam, and sister of the
author of ?The Seasons.?

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Arthur?s Seat.1 ST. ANTHONY?S CHAPEL. 319
farmers, who are maintained in it for six years;
?whom failing, the sons of respectable master
pnnters or booksellers, and the sons of respectable
servants in the agricultural line,? and who, when
admitted, must be of the age of six, and not more
than eight, years. They are taught the ordinary
branches of education, and Latin, Greek, French,
German, and mathematics.
The management of this institution is in the
survivor of certain individuals nominated by the
founder, and in certain e.T-o@cib trustees, viz., the
Lord Provost, the Principal of the University, the
Rector of the High School, the Ministers of Duddingston,
Liberton, Newton, the Laird of Niddrie,
and the factor of the Duke of Abercorn.
On the north-east side of Arthur?s Seat, overhoked
by those portions of it known as the Whinny
Hill and Sampson?s Grave, is the Mansion House
of Parson?s Green, which was terribly shaken by
three distinct shocks of an earthquake on the 30th
September, 1789, that caused a dinner party there
to fly from the table, while the servants also fled
frm the kitchen.
Here the hand of change has been at work, and
though the mansion house and much of its surrounding
timber have been retained, streets have been
run along the slope and close to Piershill Tollbar,
and westward of these was the great dairy,
long known as the Cow palace, and the temporary
railway station for the use of the royal family.
Above the curious little knoll, named the Fairies?
or Haggis Knowe, on a plateau of rock overlooking
St. Margaret?s artificial loch, on the northern
slope of Arthur?s Seat, we find the ruined
chapel and hermitage of St. Anthony-a familiar
feature in the landscape.
The former, which terminated in a square tower,
with two gables at its summit-as shown in the
view of the city in 15444s 36 feet long by 12
inside the walls, and was roofed by three sets of
groined arches that sprang from corbels. It had
two entrance doors, one on the south and one on
the north, where the hole yet remains for the bar that
secured it. Near it was the elegantly-sculptured
font A press, grooved for shelves, yet remains
in the north-east corner; and a stair ascended
to the tower, which rose on groins about forty feet
high.
Nine yards south-east is the ruin of the hermitage,
partly formed of the rock, irregular in shape, but
about I 7 feet by I z in measurement. The hermit who
abode here must, in the days when it was built, have
ied a lonely life indeed, though beneath him lay a
wealthy abbey and a royal palace, from whence a
busy city,gkt by embattled walls, coveredall theslope
to the castled rock. More distant, he could see on
one side the cheerful fields and woods that spread
away towards the Firth of Forth, but elsewhere only
the black basaltic rocks ; and, as a writer has excellentlyexpressedit,
he had butto step a few pacesfrom
the brow of the rock on which his cell and chapel
stood to immure himself in such a grim mountain
solitude as Salvator Rosa might have thought an appropriate
scene forthe temptationsof that saint of the
desert to whom the chapel was dedicated. Kincaid
says that a handsome stone seat projected from the
outside of the wall at the east end, and the whole
appeared to have been enclosed by a stone wall.
So simple is the architecture of the edifice that it
is difficult to assign any precise date for it. There
remains not a single vestige of record to say when,
or by whom, it was erected or endowed, though it
stands in the centre of a tract that for ages has
been a royai park. No reference to it occurs in
the muniments of the Abbey of Holyrood, nor is
there any evidence-though it has often been
asserted-that it was a chaplaincy or pendicle of
the Knights Hospitallers of St. Anthony in Leith.
Yet it is extremely probable that it was in some
wzy connected with them.
Tradition says it was merely founded for the
guardianship of the holy well in its vicinity, and
that it was a spot for watching vessels, the impost
on which formed part of the revenues of the
adjacent abbey, and also that a light was hung in
the tower to guide mariners in the Birth at night,
that, as Grose says in his ?Antiquities,? they might
be induced to make vows to its titular saint.
At the foot of the rock there still bubbles up the
little spring named St. Anthony?s Well, which flows
pleasantly down through the rich grass of the
valley. Originally the spring flowed from under
the little stone arch, but about the year 1674 it
dried up, and after a time broke out lower down,
where we now find it. The well is referred to in
the old song which begins ? 0 waly, waly !? the
Scottish exclamatior, for ? Alas ! ? In Robert
Chambers?s ?Scottish Songs? there is anote upon it,
from which we may give the following passage :-
?This beautiful old song has hitherto been sup
posed to refer to some circumstance in the life of
Queen Mary, or at least to some unfortuna:e love
affair which happened at her Court. It is now discovered,
from a copy which has been found as
forming part of a ballad in the Pepysian Library at
Cambridge (published in Motherwell?s ? Minstrelsy,?
1827, under the title of ?Lord Jamie Douglas?), to
have been occasioned by the affecting tale of Lady
Barbara Erskine, daughter of John (sixteenth Lord
Erskine), ninth Earl of Mar, and wife of James II.,

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Prince Street.] CRAIG OF RICCARTON. ?23
brother of Sir William Jenner, Bart., the eminent
physician.
Princes Street contains most of the best-stocked,
highest-rented, and most handsome business premises
and shops in the city. From its magnificent
situation it is now, par exceZZence, the street for
hotels; and as a proof of the value of property
there, two houses, Nos. 49 and 62, were publicly
sold on the 12th of February, 1879, for
cf26,ooo and Lz4,soo respectively.
No. 53 at an early perid became the Royal
Hotel. In December, 1817, when it was possessed
bya Mr. Macculloch, the Grand Duke Nicholas,
brother of Alexander I., Emperor of Russia, resided
there with a brilliant suite, including Baron
Nicolai, Sir Wilhm Congreve, Count Kutusoff,
and Dr. Crichton-the latter a native of the city,
who died so lately as 1856. He was a member of
the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg and that of
Natural History at Moscow, K.G.C, of St. Anne
and St. Vladimir. He was a grandson of Crichton
of Woodhouselee and Newington. A guard of the
92nd Gordon Highlanders was mounted on the
hotel, and the Grand Duke having expressed a
wish to see the regiment-the costume of which
had greatly impressed him-it was paraded before
him for that purpose on the zznd of December,
on which occasion he expressed his high admiration
of the corps.
No. 64 is now the North British and Mercantile
Insurance Company, established in I 809,
and incorporated by royal charter, with the Duke
of Roxburgh for its present president, and tht
Dukes of Sutherland and Abercorn, as vice-presi,
dents. A handsome statue of St. Andrew, tht
patron of Scotland, on his peculiar cross, adorn5
the front of the building, and is a conspicuou:
object from the street and opposite gardens.
The Life Association of Scotland, founded in
1839, occupies No. 82. It is a magnificent
palatial edifice, erected in 1855-8, after designs by
Sir Charles Barry and Mr. David Rhind, and
consists of three double storeys in florid Koman
style, the first being rusticated Uoric, the second
Ionic, and the third Corinthian. Over its whole
front it exhibits a great profusion of ornament-sa
great, indeed, as to make its appearance somewhat
heavy.
In 1811, and before that period, the Tax Office
occupied No. 84 The Comptroller in those
days was Henry Mackenzie, author of the ?Man
of Feeling,? who obtained that lucrative appoint.
ment from Mr. Pitt, on the recommendation 01
Lord Melvilla and Mr. George Rose, in 1804.
With No. 85, it now forms the site of the New
Club, a large and elegant edifice, with a handsome
Tuscan doorway and projecting windows, erected
by an association of Scottish nobles and gentlenien
for purposes similar to those of the clubs at
the west end of London.
No. 91, which is now occupied as an hotel, was
the residence of the aged Robert Craig, Esq., of
Riccarton, of whom Kay gives us a portrait, seated
at the door thereof, with his long staff and broadbrimmed,
low-crowned hat, while his faithful
attendant, William Scott, is seen behind, carefully
taking ?tent ?? of his old master from the diningroom
window. Mr. Craig had been in early life a
great pedestrian, but as age came upon him his
walks were limited to the mile of Princes Street,
and after a time he would but sit at his door and
enjoy the summer breeze. He wore a plain coat
without any collar, a stock in lieu of a neckcloth,
knee-breeches, rough stockings, and enormous brass
shoe-buckles. He persisted in wearing a hat with
a narrow brim when cocked-hats were the fashion
in Edinburgh, until he was so annoyed by boys
that he adopted the head-dress in which he is
drawn by Kay. He always used a whistle in the
ancient manner, and not a bell, to sumnion his
servant. He died on the 13th of March, 1823.
Pursuant to a deed of entail, Mr. James Gibson, W.S.
(afterwards Sir James Gibson-Craig, Bart., of
Riccarton and Ingliston), succeeded to the estate,
and assumed the name and arms of Craig ; but the
house, No. 91, went to Colonel Gibson.
The record of his demise in the papers of the
time is not without interest :-? Died at his house
in Princes Street (No. gi), on the r3th March, in
the 93rd year of his age, Robert Craig, Esq., of
Riccarton, the last male heir of Sir Thomas Craig
of Riccarton, the great feudal lawyer of Scotland.
Mr. Craig was admitted advocate in 1754, and was
one of the Commissaries of Edinburgh, the duties
of which situation he executed to the entire satisfaction
of every one connected with it. He resigned
the office many years ago, and has long been the
senior member of the Faculty of Advocates. It
is a remarkable circumstance that his father?s elder
brother succeeded to the estate of Riccarton in
January, 1681, so that there has been only one
descent in the family for 142 years.?
No. 100, now occupied as an hotel, was for
many years the house of Lady Mary Clerk of
Pennicuick, known as ?The White Rose of Scotland
.?
This lady, whose maiden name was Ilacre, was
the daughter of a gentleman in Cumberland, and
came into the world in that memorable year when
the Highland army was in possession of Carlisle,
.

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George Street.] THE BLACKWOODS. I39
CHAP,TER XIX.
GEORGE STREET.
Major Andrew Faser-The Father of Miss Femer-Grant of Kilgraston-William Blackwoad and his Magazine-The Mother of Sir Waltn
Scott-Sir John Hay, Banker-Colquhoun of Killermont-Mrs. Murray of Henderland-The Houses of Sir J. W. Gomon, Sir Jam-
Hall. and Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster-St. Andrew's Church-Scene of the Disruption-Physicians' Hall-Glance at the Histcry of thecollege
of Physicians-Sold and Removed-The Commercial Bank-Its Constitution-Assembly Rooms-Rules of 17+Banquet to Black
Watch-" The Author of Waverley"-The Music Hall-The New Union Bank-Its Formation, &c.-The Mlasonic Hall-Watsoa'E
Pictureof Bums-Statues of George IV., Pitt, and Chalmers. .
PREVIOUS to the brilliant streets and squares
erected in the northern and western portions of
new Edinburgh, George Street was said to have no
rival in the world ; and even yet, after having undergone
many changes, for combined length, space,
uniformity, and magnificence of vista, whether
viewed from the east or west, it may well be
pronounced unparalleled. Straight as an arrow
flies, it is like its sister streets, but is 1x5 feet
broad. Here a great fossil tree was found in 1852.
A portion of the street on the south side, near
the west end, long bore the name of the Tontine,
and owing to some legal dispute, which left the
houses there mfinished, they were occupied as
infantry barracks during the war with France.
Nos. 3 and 5 (the latter once the residence of
Major Andrew Fraser and cf William Creech the
eminent bookseller) forni the office of the Standard
Life Assurance Company, in the tympanum of
which, over four fine Corinthian pilasters, is a
sculptured group from the chisel of Sir John Steel,
representing the parable of the Ten Virgins. In
George Street are about thirty different insurance
offices, or their branches, all more or less ornate
in architecture, and several banks.
In No. 19, on the same side, is the Caledonian,
the oldest Scottish insurance company (having
been founded in June, 1805). Previously the
office had been in Bank Street. A royal charter
was granted to the company in May, 1810, and
twenty-three years afterwards the business of life
assurance was added to that of fire insurance.
No. 25 George Street was the residence (from
1784 till his death, in 18zg), of Mr. James Ferrier,
Principal Clerk of Session, and father of Miss
Susan Ferrier, the authoress of " Marriage," &c.
He was a keen whist player, and every night of his
life had a rubber, which occasionally included Lady
Augusta Clavering, daughter of his friend and client
John, fifth Duke of Argyll, and old Dr. Hamilton,
usually designated " Cocked Hat " Hamilton, from
the fact of his being one of the last in Edinburgh
who bore that head-piece. When victorious, he
wcdd snap his fingers and caper about the room,
to tbe manifest indignation of Mr. Ferrier, who
would express it to his partner in the words, "Lady
Augusta, did you ever see such rediculous leevity
in an auld man 7 " Robert Burns used also to be
a guest at No. 25, and was prescnt on one occasion
when some magnificent Gobelins tapestry arrived
there for the Duke of Argyll on its way to Inverary
Castle. Mrs. Piozzi also, when in Edinburgh, dined
there. Next door lived the Misses Edmonstone,
of the Duntreath family, and with them pitched
battles at whist were of frequent nightly occurrence.
These old ladies figure in " Marriage " as
Aunts Jacky, Grizzy, and Nicky; they were grandnieces
of the fourth Duke of Argyll. The eldest
Miss Ferrier was one of the Edinburgh beauties in
her day ; and Bums once happening to meet her,
while turning the corner of George Street, felt suddenly
inspired, and wrote the lines to her enclosed
in an elegy on the death of Sir D. H. Hair. Miss
Ferrier and Miss Penelope, Macdonald of Clanronald,
were rival belles ; the former married
General Graham ot Stirling Castle, the latter Lord
Belhaven.
In No. 32 dwelt Francis Grant of Kilgraston,
father of Sir Francis Grant, President of the Royal
Academy, born in 1803 ; and No. 35, now a shop,
was the town house of the Hairs of Balthayock, in
Perthshire.
No. 45 has long been famous as the establishment
of Messrs. Blackwood, the eminent publishers.
William Blackwood, the founder of the magazine
which stills bears his name, and on the model of
which so many high-class periodicals have been
started in the sister kingdom, was born at Edinburgh
in 1776, and after being apprenticed to the
ancient bookselling firni of Bell and Bradfute, and
engaging in various connections with other bibliopoles,
in 1804 he commenced as a dealer in old
books on the South Bridge, in No. 64, but soon
after became agent for several London publishing
houses. In 1S16 he disposed of his vast stock of
classical and antiquarian books, I 5,000 volumes in
number, and removing to No. 17 Princes Street,
thenceforward devoted his energies to the business
of a-general publisher, and No. 17 is to this day a
bookseller's shop.

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barbarism of the Scottish court. She was magnificent
in her own attire ; she increased the number
of persons in attendance on the king, and caused
him to be served at table in gold and silver plate.
She was canonised by Innocent IV. in 1251. For
several ages the apartment in which she expired
was known as ?ye blessit Margaret?s chalmer? (i.e.,
chamber). A fountain on the west side of the
fortress long bore her name; and a small guardhouse
on the western ramparts is still called the
Queen?s, or St. biargaret?s, Post.
The complete restoration of her oratory (says an
Edinburgh Courant of 1853) ?has been effected
in a very satisfactory manner, under the superintendence
of Mr. Grant. The modern western
entrance has been built up, and an .ancient one
re-opened at the north-west corner of the nave.
Here a new doorway has been built in the same
style with the rest of the building. The three
small round-headed windows have been filled with
stained glass-the light in the south side of the
apse representing St. Margaret, the two in the
side of the nave showing her husband, King
Malcolm Canmore and their son St. David, and
the light in the west gable of the nay having
a cross and the sacred monogram with this inscription
:-Hac ediczda oZim Beafce Margaretce
Regim Scofia, puce obiit M.XCIII., ingrate $atria
izqli&zfia Zapsa, Victorire Rpmz prognatre auspiciis
restitufa, A. D. MUCCCLII..?
St. Margaret had scarcely expired, when Bishop
Turgot, her children, and the whole court, were filled
with terror, on finding the fortress environed by an
army composed of fierce western Highlanders, ?clad
in the dun deer?s hide, striped breacan, and hauberks
(or lurichs) of jingling rings,? and led by
Donald Bane, or the fair-haired, the younger brother
of Malcolm III., who had fled to the Hebrides, as
the latter did to England, on the usurpation by
Macbeth.
Without opposition he had himself proclaimed
king, and ,promised to give the Hebrides and other
isles to Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway, for assistance
if it were required.
He had resolved to put the orphan children of
Malcolm to death, but believing that egress from
the fortress on the steep could only be had by the
gates facing the little town, he guarded them alone.
The children thus escaped by a western postern,
and fled to England, where they found protection
with their uncle, Edgar Atheling. The two princesses
were afterwards married : Mary to Eustace,
Count of Boulogne, the great Crusader; and
Matilda to Henry of England-a union extremely
popular with the Saxon people.
By the same postern Turgot and others carefully
and reverentlyconveyed the body of the queen,
and carried it ? to Dunfermline, in the woods; and
that Heaven might have some share in protecting
remains so sacred, the legendaries record that a
miraculous mist arose frow the earth, concealing
the bishop, the royal corpse, and its awe-stricken
bearers, from the half-savage Donald and his redhaired
Islesmen, and did pot pass away until they
had crossed in safety the Passagkm Repine, or
Queen?s Ferry, nine miles distant, where Margaret
had granted land for the maintenance of a passage
boat ?-a grant still in force.
She was buried at Dunfermline, under the great
block of grey marble which still marks her grave ;
and in the sides thereof may yet be seen the
sockets of the silver lamps which, after her canonisation,
burned there until the Reformation, when the
Abbot of Dunfermline fled to the Castle of Edinburgh
with her head in a jewelled coffer, and gave
it to some Jesuits, who took it to Antwerp. From
thence it was borne to the Escurial in Spain, where
it is still preserved by the monks of St. Jerome.
Her son xdgar, a prince of talent and valour,
recovered the throne by his sword, and took up
his residence in the Castle of Edinburgh, where
he had seen his mother expire, and where he, too,
passed away, on the 8th of January, 1107. The
register of the Priory of St. Andrews, in recording
his demise, has these words :-? Moriuus in Dun-
Edin, est sepuZfus in Dunfe~ndikg.?
On his death-bed he bequeathed that part of
Cumberland which the kings of Scotland possessed
to his younger brother David. Alexander I., surnamed
the Fierce,? eldest brother of the latter,
was disposed to dispute the validity of this donation
; but perceiving that David had won over the
English barons to his interest, he acquiesced in this
partial dismemberment of the kingdom.
It is in the reign of this monarch, in the first
years of the twelfth century, that the first notices
of Edinburgh as a royal city and residence are
most distinctly found, while? in that of his successor,
David I., crowned in 1124 after being long
resident at the court of his sister Matilda, where,
according to Malmesbury, ?his manners were polished
fiom the rust of Scottish barbarity,? and
where he married Matilda daughter of Waltheof,
Earl of Northumberland, we discover the origin
of many of the most important local features still
surviving. He founded the abbey of Holyrood,
called by Fordun ?? Monastmirm Sancfre Cmcis de
Crag.? This convent, the precursor of the great
abbey, he is said to have placed at first within the
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146 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Portoklla
Portobello once belonged, Mr. James Cunningham,
W.S., one of the earliest feuars there, procured the
piece of ground to the westward, whereon he
erected, in the first years of the present century,
the eccentric and incongruous edifice named the
Tower, the window-lintels and cornices of which
were formed of carved stones found in the houses
that were pulled down to make way for the South
Bridge, from the cross of the city, and even from
the cathedral of St. Andrews. For many years
it remained an unfinished and open ruin.
The editor of Kay tells us that Mr.Jamieson,
to whom this locality owes so much, was also contractor
for making the city drains, at an estimate
of LIO,OOO. The rubbish from the excavations was
to be carted to Portobello free of toll at Jock?s
Lodge, as the bar belonged to the Towh Council.
The tollman, insisting on his regular dues, closed
the gate, on which Mr. Jamieson said to the carters,
?? Weel, weel, just coup the carts against the tollbar,?
which was done more than once, to the inconceivable
annoyance of the keeper, who never after
refused the carters the right of free passage.
Portobello, in spite of its name, is no seaport,
and neither has, nor probably ever will have, any
seaward trade. At the mouth of the Figgate Bum a
small harbour was constructed by the enterprising
Mr. Jamieson after his discovery of the clay bed ;
but it was never of any use except for boats. It
became completely ruinous, together with a little
battery that formed a portion of it ; and now their
vestiges can scarcely be traced.
The manufactures, which? consist of brick, lead,
glass, and soap works, and a mustard manufactory,
are of some importance, and employ many hauds,
whose numbers are always varying. Communication
with Princes Street is maintained incessantly
by trains and tramway cars.
On the sands here, in 1822, George IV. reviewed
a great body of Scottish yeomanry cavalry, and a
picturesque force of Highland clans that had come
to Edinburgh in honour of his visit. On the mole
of the little harbour-now vanished-the royal
standard was hoisted, and a battery of guns posted
to fire a royal salute.
On that day, the 23rd of August, the cavalry
were the 3rd Dragoon Guards, the Glasgow Volunteer
Horse, the Peebles, Selkirkshire, Fifeshire,
Berwickshire, East and West Eothian, Midlothian,
and Roxburgh Regiments of Yeomanry, with the
Scots Greys, under the veteran Sir James Stewart
Denholm of Coltness, latterly known as ? the father
of the British army.?
The whole, under Sir Thomas Bradford, formed
a long and magnificent line upon the vast expanse
ofyeliow sands, with the broad blue Firth, Prestos
Bay, and Berwick Law as a background to the
scene, and all under a glorious sunshine. The
King more than once exclaimed, ? This is a fine
sight, Dorset ! ? to the duke of that name, as his
open carriage traversed it, surrounded by a glittering
staff, and amid the acclamations of a mighty
throng. .After the march past and salute, His
Majesty expressed a desire to see the Highlanders ;
and the Duke of Argyle, who commanded them,
formed them in open column, Sir Walter Scott
acting as adjutant-general of the ?Tartan Con- ?
fderacy,? as it was named.
The variety of the tartans, arms, and badges on
this occasion is described as making the display
?? superb, yet half barbaric,? especially as regarded
the Celtic Society, no two of whom were alike,
though their weapons and ornaments were all
magnificent, being all gentlemen of good position.
The clans, of course, were uniform in their own
various tartans.
The Earl of Breadalbane led the Campbells of
his sept, each man having a great badge on his
right arm. Stewart of Ardvoirlich and Graham of
Airth marched next with the Strathfillan Highlanders.
After them came the Macgregors, all in
red tartans, with tufts of pine in their bonnets, led
by Sir Evan Macgregor of that ilk ; then followed
Glengany, with his men, among whom was his tall
and stately brother, Colonel Macdonnel, whose
powerful hand had closed the gate of Hougomont,
all carrying, in addition to targets, claymores, dirks,
and pistols, like the rest, antique muskets of extraordinary
length. The Sutherland Highlanders wore
trews and shoulder plaids. The Drumrnonds, sent
by Lady Gwydir, marched with sprigs of holly in
their bonnets. ?TO these were to have marched
the clans under the Dukes of Athole and Gordon,
Macleod of Macleod, the Earl of Fife, Farquharson
of Invercauld, Clanranald, and other high
chiefs; but it was thought that their numbers
would occasion inconvenience.?
The King surveyed this unusual exhibition with
surprise and pleasure, and drove off to Dalkeith
House under an escort of the Greys, while the
Highlanders returned to Edinburgh, Argyle marching
on foot at the head of the column with his claymore
on his shoulder.
In 1834 Portobello, which quoad CiZliZia belongs
to the parish of Duddingston, was separated from
it by order of the General Assembly.
ceding year, by an Act of William IV., it had been
created a Parliamentary burgh, and is governed Ly
a Provost, two bailies, seven councillors, and other
officials In conjunction with Leith and Musselg
In the pre- ,

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 133
beloved. The second, the Hon. Roger Montgomerie, who was a Lieutenant in
the navy, fell a victim to pestilential disease at Port Royal, Jamaica, in January
1799.
She was remarkable
for every domestic virtue which could adorn the female character; and
during her long residence at Eglinton Castle, a great portion of her time was
occupied in attending the sick and relieving the destitute. To her care her
brother the Earl was intrusted during his early years-a trust which she performed
with the utmost affection and fidelity. Lady Jane was married to
Archibald Hamilton, Esq. of Blackhouse, late of the East India Company’s
service, and resided at Roselle, a seat of the Earl of Eglinton, in the immediate
neighbourhood of Ayr ; where she continued to practise those charitable virtues
which so much distinguished her earlier years.
Lady Lilias was married at Coilsfield, on the 1st February 1796, to Robert
Dundas M‘Queen, Esq., of Braxfield, who died in 1819. Her ladyship afterwards
married Richard Alexander Oswald, Esq., of Auchincruive.
Lady Jane remained unmarried till after her father’s death.
No. CCXV,
REV. JAMES STRUTHERS,
MINISTER OF THE RELIEF CHAPEL, COLLEGE STREET.
MR. STRUTHEwRaSs born at the village of Glassford, in Lanarkshire, in 1770,
He early manifested abilities of no ordinary description ; and, having studied
with success at the University of Glasgow, he was licensed to preach at a period
of life when most other students are only about to commence their course of
divinity. In 1791, ere he had completed his majority, he was ordained to the
Relief Chapel in College Street-the first of that connection erected in Edinburgh,
and which had previously been filled by the Rev. Mr. James Baine.
Mr. Struthers soon became popular, and was considered one of the first
pulpit orators of his day. He was highly esteemed as a man of superior
intelligence; and his premature death, which took place on the 13th July 1507,
was deeply and generally lamented.
Although often importuned to publish his discourses, hfr. Struthers constantly
resisted the proposal. This diffidence was supposed to arise from a
conviction that they were better adapted for the pulpit than the closet ; but, on
on it. On obtaining the management of his own affairs in 1833, his lordship recommenced the
works which had been so long suspended at Ardrossan ; and we learn that that harbour is now the
most prosperous on the whole Ayrshire coast.

... SKETCHES. 133 beloved. The second, the Hon. Roger Montgomerie, who was a Lieutenant in the navy, ...

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56 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Dr. Duncan resided in Adam Square, and died on the 5th July 1828, in the
eighty-fourth year of his age. His funeral was a public one, In February
1771, he married Miss Elizabeth Knox, daughter of Mr. John Knox, surgeon
in the service of the East India Company, by whom he had a family of twelve
children. His son, Dr. Andrew Duncan junior, was long officially connected
with the University of Edinburgh as Principal Librarian and Secretary, and as
Professor of Medical Jurisprudence. In 1819 he was conjoined with his father
in the chair of the Theory of Physic. In July 1821 he was elected Professor
of Materia Medica-an appointment which gave very general satisfaction, as Dr.
Duncan contributed in no small degree by his learning and scientific acquirements
to maintain the reputation of the University. He died in May 1832.
No. CXCII.
MAJOR ANDREW FRASER,
THE HONOURABLE ANDREW ERSKINE,
AND
SIR JOHN WHITEFOORD, BART.
THE figure to the left, MAJOR FBASER-descended of a respectable
family in the north of Scotland-was an officer of some distinction in the
Royal Artillery, and well known for his talents as an engineer. Under his
superintendence the demolition of the harbour and fortifications of Dunkirk,
agreeably to the treaty of 1762, was carried satisfactorily into effect. In 1779
he was placed on the staff in Scotland, as Engineer-in-Chief. Here he superintended,
from his own plans, the building of Fort George ; erected several considerable
bridges in the north ; and, in Edinburgh, the church and spire of St.
Andrews,’ so much admired for its exquisite proportions, stands a monument of
his excellence in design. He interested himself greatly in the improvements
of the city, and frequently presided at public meetings convened for such objects.
He was much esteemed by Sir James Hunter Blair; and through the
influence of that spirited chief magistrate, many of his suggestions were cauied
into execution.
Major Fraser was afterwards appointed Chief Engineer of the West India
The foundation-stone of this church wm laid in 1781. The premium of ten guineaa to the
successful architect was unanimously adjudged by the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council to
Major Fraser ; but he declined accepting the premium, desiring that it might be given to Mr. Robert
Kay, drawingmaster in Edinburgh, whose drawings and sections of a plan of a square building were
deemed highly meritorious.

... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Dr. Duncan resided in Adam Square, and died on the 5th July 1828, in the eighty-fourth ...

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