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with little change of system, save that in 1809
their number was increased from twenty-one to
twenty-eight, and out of that number the Crown
was empowered to appoint seven to be Commissioners
for the Herring Fishery j and from that
time the Fishery Board and the Board of Manufactures
have virtually been separate bodies.
Regarding the Royal Institution, in which it now
has chambers, Lord Cockburn says :-? Strictly, it
ought to have been named after the old historical
THE ROYAL INSTITUTION AS IT WAS IN 1829. (From a Drawkg ay S h @ M )
mental art, and also in taste and design -in manufacture.
In the same year Sir John Shaw Lefevre
was sent down by Government to report on the
constitutionand management of the Board and the
erection of the Galleries of Art in Edinburgh.
Since the Board began to give premiums for the
encouragement of the .linen trade, that branch of
business has made giant strides in Scotland. ?It
takes about six months,? says David Bremner,
?? from the purchase cif the raw material before the
board of trustees, because it was by their money
and for their accommodation chiefly it was made,
and ?the Trustees? Hall? had been the title ever
since the Union, of the place in the old town where
they had met.?
In 1828 new letters patent were issued, giving to
the trustees a wider discretion; and empowering
them to apply their funds to the encouragement not
only of manufactures, but also of such other undertakings
in Scotland as should most conduce to the
general welfare of the United Kingdom.
In 1847 an Act was passed by which the
Treasury was enabled to direct the appropriation
of their funds towards the purposes of education in
the fine arts generaliy, in decorative and ornagoods
can be manufactured and the proceeds drawn,
so that the stock-in-trade of manufacturers and
merchants will amount to ~t;5,ooo,ooo. It would
thus appear that a capital of ~ ~ z , o o o , o o o is required
for carrying on the linen trade of Scotland.?
It was under this Board of Manufactures that
the quality of Scottish linen was improved. One
of their earliest acts was to propose to Nicholas
d?Assaville, a cambric weaver of St. Quintin, in
France, to bring over ten experienced weavers in
cambric, with their families, to settle in Scotland
and teach their art to others. The proposal was
accepted, and the trustees purchased from the
governors of Heriot?s Hospital five acres of ground
eastward of Broughton Loan, whereon were built
-

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92 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Mound.
design, which shall consist of two departments : the
m e appropriated to the remains of ancient sculpture,
and the other to the study of living models.
From that time matters went on peacefully and
pleasantly till 1844, when 8 dispute about entrance
to their galleries ensued with the subordinates of
the Board of Manufactures, in whose building they
were-a dispute ultimately smoothed over. In
1847 another ensued between the directors of the
Royal Institution and the Academy, which led to
some acritnonious correspondence ; but all piques
and jealousies between the Academy and the Royal
Institution were ended by the erection of the Art
Galleries, founded in 1850.
Six months before that event Sir William Allan,
the second president, died on the 2 2nd of February,
after occupying the presidential chair for thirteen
years with much ability. It is to be regretted that
no such good example of his genius as his ?? Death
of Rizzio? finds a place in the Scottish National
Gallery, his principal work there being his large
unfinished picture of the ?? Battle of Bannockburn,?
a patriotic labour of love, showing few of the best
qualities of his master-hand, as it was painted
literally when he was dying. ?TO those who were
with Sir William in his latter days it was sadly
interesting to see him wrapped up in blankets,
cowering by his easel, with this great canvas
stretched out before him, labouring on it assiduously,
it may be truly said, till the day on which he
died,? writes a brother artist, who has since
followed him. ? The constant and only companion
uf his studio, a long-haired, glossy Skye terrier, on
his master?s death, refused to be comforted, to eat,
.or to live.?
His successor was Sir John Watson, who added
the name of Gordon to his own. He was the son of
Captain JamesWatson, RN., who served in Admiral
Digby?s squadron during the first American war,
Among his earlier works were the ? Shipwrecked
Sailor,? ? Queen Margaret and the Robber,? ?A
Boy with a Rabbit,? ?The Sleeping Boy and
Watching Girl? (his own brother and sister); but it
was as a painter of portraits strictly that he made
his high reputation; though it is said that the
veteran, his father, when looking at the ? Venus and
Adonis ? of Paul Veronese, declared it ? hard as
flints,? adding, ?I wouldn?t give my Johnny?s
? Shipwrecked Sailor? for a shipload of such.?
In early life he lived with his father in 27 Anne
Street, which he left regularly every morning at
nine o?clock, ?and walking down the beautidul
and picturesque footpath that skirted the bank
af the Water of Leith, he passed St. Bernard?s,
where almost invariably he was joined by the
portly figure of Sir Henry Raeburn. Engaged in
conversation, no doubt beneficial to the younger
but rising artist, they proceeded to Edinburgh-
Raeburn to his gallery and painting-room, No. 32
York Place, and John Watson to his apartments
in the first flat of No. 19 South St. David Street,
or, latterly, 24 South Frederick Street.??
During his presidency the Art Galleries were
completed and opened. By the Act 13 and 14
Vict., cap. 86, the entire building and property were
vested in the Board of Manufactures, as well as the
appropriation of the buildings when completed,
subject to the approbation of the Treasury, without
the sanction of which no fee for admittance
was to be charged on any occasion, except to the
annual exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy.
?The general custody and maintenance of the
whole building shall be vested in the Board of
Manufactures,?? says the Government minute of
28th February, 1858 ; ?but the Royal Scottish
Academy shall have the entire charge of the councilroom
and library and of the exhibition galleries
during their annual exhibitions.?
After continuing in the exercise of his profession
until within a few weeks of his death, Sir John
Watson died at his house in George Street, 1st
June, 1864, in his seventy-sixth year, having been
born in 1788.
He was succeeded as president and trustee by
Sir George Harvey, born in Stirlingshire in 1805,
and well known as a painter successfully of historical
subjects and fabZeaux de genre, many of them
connected with the stirring events of the Covenant
He became a Scottish Academician in 1829, since
when his popularity spread far and wide by the
dissemination of numerous engravings from his
works. He was president only twelve years, and
died at Edinburgh on the zznd of January, 1876, in
his seventy-first year.
He was succeeded by Sir Daniel Macnee, R.S.A.,
who was also born in Stirlingshire in 1806, and
began early to study at the Trustees? Academy with
Duncan, Lauder, Scott, and other artists of native
repute. He rapidly became a favourite portrait
painter in both countries, and his famous portrait
of the Rev. Dr. Wardlaw won a gold medal at the
Paris International Exhibition of 1855. He has
painted many of the most prominent men of the
time, among them Lord Brougham for the College
of Justice at Edinburgh.
In connection with Scottish art we may here
refer to the Spalding Fund, of which the directors
of the Royal Institution were constituted trustees
by the will of Peter Spalding, who died in 1826,
leaving property, ? the interest or annual proceeds

... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Mound. design, which shall consist of two departments : the m e appropriated to ...

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North Bridge.] THE ORPHAN HOSPITAL 359
c
CHAPTER XLVI:
EAST SIDE OF THE NORTH BRIDGE (concZdeJJ.
The Old Orphan Hospital-Its Foundation. Object, and Removal-Lady Glenorchy?s Chapel-Her Disputes with the Presbytery-Dr. SnelI
Jones-Demolition of the Chapel and School-Old Physic Gardens Formed-The Gardens-Sir Andrew Balfm-James Sutherland-
Inundated in x68pSutherland?s Efforts to Improve the Gardcn-Professor Hope.
ABOUT IOO feet east of the bridge, and the same
distance south of the theatre which Whitefield
to his dismay saw built in the park of the Orphan
Hospital, stood the latter edifice, the slender,
pointed spire of which was a conspicuous object in
this quarter of the city.
A hospital for the maintenance and education
of orphan children was originally designed by Mr.
Andrew Gardiner, merchant, and some other
citizens, in 1732. The suggestion met with the
approval of the Society for the Propagation of
Christian Knowledge, then located in what was
anciently named Bassandyne?s Close ; and it was
moreover assisted by liberal subscriptions and
collections at the church doors. At first a house
was hired, and thirty orphans placed in it. According
to Maitland, in November, 1733, the
hospital was founded; it stood 340 feet northwest
of the Trinity College Church, and in its
formation a part of the burial ground attached to
the latter was used.
In 1738 the Town Council granted the hospital
a seal of cause, and in 1742 they obtained royal
letters patent creating it a corporation, by which
most of the Scottish officers of State, and the heads
of different societies in Edinburgh, are constituent
members. This chanty is so extensive in its
benevolence, that children from any part of the
British Empire have the right of admission, SO far
as the funds will admit-indigence, and the
number of children in a poor family being the
None, however, are admitted under the age of
seven, or retained after they are past fourteen, as
at that time of life the managers are seldom at a
loss to dispose of them, ?the young folks,? says
Arnot, ? choosing to follow trades, and the public
entertaining so good an opinion of the manner in
which they have been brought up, that manufacturers
and others are very ready to take them into
their employment. There are about,? he adds, in
1779, ?one hundred orpham maintained in this
hospital.?
This number was increased in 1781, when Mr.
Thomas Tod, merchant in Edinburgh, became
treasurer. It was then greatly enlarged for the
better accommodation of the children, ?? and to
enable them to perform a variety of work, from the
. best title to it.
produce of which the expenses of their education
and maintenance were lessened, and healthy and
cheerful exercise furnished, suitable to their years.?
It is remarkable,? says Kincaid, ? that from
January, 1784, to January, 1787, out of from 130 to
140 young children not one has died. A particular
account of the rise, progress, present state,
and intended enlargement of this hospital was
publisted by the treasurer (Mr. Tod), wherein is a
print of the elevation, with two wings,.which the
managers intend to build so soon as the funds will
permit, when there will be room for zoo orphans.?
In its slender spire hung two bells, and therein
also stood the ancient clock of the Netherbow
Port, now in use at the Dean.
The revenues were inconsiderable, and it was
chiefly supported by benefactions and collections
made at the churches in the city. Howard, the
philanthropist, who visited it more than once, and
made himself acquainted with the constitution and
management of this hospital, Acknowledged it to be
one of the best and most useful charities in Europe.
A portrait of him hangs in the new Orphan Hospital
at the Dean, the old building we have described
having been removed in 1845 by the operations
of the North British Railway, and consequently
being now a thing of the past, like the chapel of
Lady Glenorchy, which shared the same fate at the
same time.
This edifice stood in the low ground, between
the Orphan Hospital and the Trinity College
Church, about 300 feet eastward of the north arch
of the Bridge.
Wilhelmina Maxwell, Viscountess Dowaget of
John Viscount Glenorchy, who was a kind of
Scottish Countess of Huntingdon in her day, was
the foundress of this chapel, which was a plain,
lofty stone building, but neatly fitted up- within
with two great galleries, that ran round the sides
of the edifice, and was long a conspicuous object
to all who crossed the Bridge. It was seated for
2,000 persons, and the middle was appropriated to
the poor, who sat there gratis to the number of
some hundreds. ?? Whether,? says Arnot, ?before
Lady Glenorchy founded this institution there were
churches sufficient for accommodating the inhabitants
we shall not pretend to determine. Such,
indeed, is the demand for seats, and so little arg

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374 B I OGR APH I GAL S ICE T C H E S.
MR. JAMES DENHOLME, fm he was not entitled to the appellation of
Laird, as applied in its literal sense, was a native of Edinburgh. His father,
a member of the Incorporation of Hatters and Waukers, seems to have been
rather qnsuccessful in trade, for the Laid was educated in Heriot's Hospital,
and afterwards bonnd apprentice to Mr. Hamden Pridie, hat-maker. The latter
appears to have been a youth of careful habits, and was at length enabled to
commence hat-making, in a shop on the North Bridge, on his own account. In
1793 he was first elected Deacon of the Incorporation; and from that period,
with few interruptions, continued to hold a place in the Council till 1820.
He was repeatedly Coivener of the Trades ; and, possessed of much sagacity,
was exceedingly useful in civic matters. In 1814 he was appointed Treasurer
of Heriot's Hospital, with a salary of 5500 per annum. This office he held till
his death, which occurred on the 2d of September 1822, when, in honour of his
having originally been one of the boys of the Institution, as well as in respect
for his good conduct while Treasurer, a handsome marble monument was erected
in the chapel to his memory by the managers.
Mr. Denholme married Miss Stewart, daughter of Mr. David Stewart, glover,
but left no children. She survived him only a few years.
"he figure represented as putting a query to the Laird is intended for
KINCAID MACKENZIE, Esq., Lord Provost of Edinburgh at the time. He
was a partner in the firm of William Hall and Co., wine merchants, Lawnmarket.
His father held a situation in the printing establishment of Provost Alexander
Kincaid, his Majesty's Printer for Scotland. Young Mackenzie, who was named
after this gentleman, was usually styled '' the Provost "-a title which neither
he nor those who applied it had the most distant idea of his ever realising.
When a mere boy, he was taken into the counting-house of Mr. Hall ; and, by
his steady conduct and application, so recommended himself that he was at
length admitted to a share in the business. He subsequently married the
youngest surviving daughter of Mr. Hall.
Mr. Mackenzie entered the Town Council in 1808 ; the following year he
was made a Bailie; afterwards Dean of Guild; and, in 1817, elected Lord
Provost. On the death of Mr. Denholme he was appointed Treasurer to
Heriot's Hospital, with a salary, at first of $500, afterwards augmented to
$600.
Mr. Mackenzie was considered a thorough man of business ; and, in cases of
disput,e among commercial men, he was frequently chosen an arbitrator. Though
defective in education, at least in so far as a classical acquaintance with literature
was concerned, he was nevertheless a man of much mercantile information. He
at one period communicated some propositions on finance and taxation to the
then minister (Pitt), which met the approval of the Premier, and some correspondence
on the subject took place betwixt them-a circumstance highly creditable
to the intelligence of Mackenzie, and of which he was no doubt justly
proud. He died on the 2d day of June 1830. His demise was very sudden.

... B I OGR APH I GAL S ICE T C H E S. MR. JAMES DENHOLME, fm he was not entitled to the appellation of Laird, as ...

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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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372 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
enthusiasm, and prosecuted it with untiring energy. Perhaps there was no one
of whom it could more truly be said, that ‘‘ he went about continually doing
good.”l
With the establishment of that benevolent institution-the Blind Asylum
of Edinburgh-the memory of Dr. Johnston is affectionately associated ; and
so deeply and actively did he interest himself in originating and promoting funds
for the undertaking, that he might with justice be designated its founder. So
much were his feelings bound up in t8he success of the institution, that he
regularly devoted a portion of his time to give it his personal superintendence,
and watched over its progress with all the fondness of a parent.’ This
surveillance he continued every day in the week, except Saturday and Sabbath,
walking to and from Edinburgh ; and, at the extreme age of ninety, gave proof of
the wonderful degree of muscular activity for which he had always been remarkable,
by performing the journey as usual. He disdained the modern effeminacy
of the stage-coach ; and, in going up Leith Walk, generally got ahead of it.
Both in person and in features Dr. Johnston was exceedingly handsome j
and in dress and manners he was a thorough gentleman of the last century. He
The only dilemma in which the good old Doctor is known to have been placed with a portion
of his parishioners, occurred when the old church of North Leith-abandoned to secular purposeswas,
in 1817, supplanted by the present building, with its handsome spire, surniounted by a cvoss.
Some of the out-and-out Presbyterians saw in this emblem an alarming approach to Popish darkness ;
and, not unfrequently, when in the course of his visitations, he found himself in the place of the
catechised. On this subject the Doctor held only one opinion; but in reference to the zealous
declamation of two old women whom he one day encountered, and who had fairly borne him down
by strength of lungs, if not by strength of argument, he at last exclaimed-“Well, well, what
would you have me to do in the matter ?” Do I” replied one of them ; “what wad ye do-but
just put up the auld cock again I ”
a The Abbe Hauy pnblished a very curious work on the Education of the Blind, written in French,
and printed and bound by the blind pupils at the Quinae-vingts in Paris-a benevolent institution
which owed its establishment to the late unfortunate Louis XVI. The types of this work, as published
at Paris ninety years ago, were made to impress the paper so strongly as to produce palpable
letters, in such high relief, that blind people, properly inutructed, might read them by means of
their fingers. The late eminent Dr. Blacklock, who was blind froin his infancy, proposed to have
translated and published this curious wor We have seen
one of the chapters of the translation. I k v e an accurate account of the part which described the
typographical labours of the blind pupils, and the ingenious contrivance for enabling themselves and
others in the aame unhappy predicament to enjoy the benefit and delight of solitary reading. About
forty works in different languages have been published in Pans ; and all the inmates of the Institution
there have been taught to read, many of them with great fluency. Within the last ten years,
the art of printing for the blind has been completely revolutionised by Mr. Gall of Edinburgh. By
modifying the alphabet SO as to make each letter differ in shape aa decidedly as possible from every
other, and more especially by the invention of fretted types, he has reduced the books for the blind
to one-tenth of their former prices. The remarkable simplicity of Mr. Gall’s alphabet may be
imagined from the circumstance, that the blind. are able to read the books throngh four, six, and
gometimes eight plies of a handkerchief laid upon them. The size of the types may be so much
reduced as to have the whole New Testament printed for 8s. 6d. per copy ; and it is expected that
an edition may yet be obtained as low as 5s.
A great number of the blind are now able to read in England, Ireland, and Scotland ; and, as the
object has been warmly taken up by the British and Foreign Bible Society, and the Religious Tract
Society of London, who are publishing books for their use ; and by the Sunday School Union of
England, who are teaching them to read in the Schools; it is hoped that all the blind will very SOOR
enjoy the benefit of Mr. Gall’s valuable labours.
but he died before it was completed.

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64 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. ,The Dean.
Among the old houses here may be mentioned
a mill, or granary, immediately at the southeast
end of the bridge, which has sculptured over its
door, within a panel, two baker?s peels, crossed
with the date 1645, and the almost inevitable
legend--? BZeisit be God for CZZ His g@s.?
Another quaint-old crowstepped double house, with
A mill or mills must have stood here before a
stone of Holyrood was laid, as David I., in his
charter of foundation to that abbey, grants to the
monks ?one of my mills of Dene, a tithe of the mill
of Libertun and of Dene, and of the new mill of
Edinburgh,? A.D. I 143-7.
In 1592, ?the landis of Dene, wt the mylnes
and mure thereof, and their pertinents, lyand
within the Sherifdom of Edinburgh,? were given by
James VI. to James Lord Lindesay, of the Byres.
On the panel are carved a wheatsheaf between
two cherubs? heads, the bakers? arms within a wreath
of oak-leaves, and the motto, God?s Providence is
ovr Inheritance-1677.?
In 1729 a number of Dutch bleachers from
Haarlem commenced a bleach-field somewhere
near the Water of Leith, and soon exhibited to the
village were wont to incarcerate culprits. It is six
storeys in height, including the dormer windows, has
six crowstepped gables, two of which surmount the
square projecting staircases, in the westmost of
which is a handsomely moulded doorway, sur
mounted by a frieze, entablature, and coat of arms
within a square panel. On the frieze is the legend,.
in large Roman letters-
GOD . BLESS. THE . BAXTERS , OF . EDIN .
BRUGH . WHO . BUILT , THIS . HOUSE. 1675.
flights of outside stairs, has a gablet, surmounted
by a well-carved mullet, and the date 1670. It
stands on the west side of the steep path that
winds upward to the Dean, and has evidently been
the abodeof some well-to-do millers inthedaysof old.
On the steep slope, where 2 flight of steps? ascends
to the old Ferry Road, stands the ancient Tolbooth,
wherein the bailies of this once sequestered
gaze and to the imitation of Scotland, the printing
and stamping of all colours on linen fabrics.
Some thirty years after, we find the Cournnt for
December, 1761, announcing to the public ?? that
Isabel Brodie, spouse to William Rankin, in the
Water of Leith, about a mile from Edinburgh, cures
the Emerads? (i.e., Hemorrhoids) and various other
illnesses; forquacksseem tohave existed theqasnow.

... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. ,The Dean. Among the old houses here may be mentioned a mill, or granary, immediately ...

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Since on her dusky summit ranged,
Within its steepy limits pent
By bulwark, line, and battlement,
And flanking towem and laky flood,
Guarded and garrisoned, she stood,
Denying entrance or resort,
Save at each tall embattled port ;
Above whose arch suspended hung
Portcullis, spiked with iron prong,
That long is gone ; but not so long,
U
tains above 24,000 volumes of standard works in
every department of literature and science j and
there is bne of reference, kept in a separate department,
consisting of a valuable collection of encyclopzdias,
geographical, biographical, and scientific
dictionaries, atlases, statistical tables, &c., which
are at all times available to the numerous members
on application.
THE MUSIC HALL,
Since early closed, and opening late,
Jealous revolved the studded gate,
Whose task from eve to morning tide
A wicket churlishly supplied.
Stem then and steel-girt was thy brow,
Dun-Edin ! Oh, how altered now !
When safe amid thy mountain court
Thou sitt'st like empress at her sport,
And liberal, unconfined, and free,
Flinging #icy white m s #o the sm !
Near the east end of Queen Street is the Philosophical
Institution, the late president of which was
Thomas Carlyle. It was founded'in 1848. Here
lectures are delivered on all manner of. scientific
and literary subjects. The programme ef these
for a session averages about thirty subjects. There
are a library, reading-room, news-room, and ladies' I
GEORGE STREET
Classes for Latin, French, German, drawing of
all kinds, mathematics, shorthand, writing, arithmetic,
fencing, and gymnastics, are open on
very moderate terms; and the members of the
Edinburgh Chess Club, who must also be members
of the Philosophical Institution, meet in one of
the apartments, which is open for their use from
11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Adjoining this edifice were the offices of the
United Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
No. 8 Queen Street was built and occupied by
Chief Baron Orde of the Scottish Exchequer, and
in size considerably exceeds and excels the other
houses in its vicinity. Baron Orde, whose
daughter Elizabeth became the second wife of
Lord Braxfield, died in I 777, and was succeeded in

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70 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Water of Leith.
of Badajoz is extolled by Napier, and who died
fort major of Edinburgh Castle. On the opposite
side of the path, a modest stone marks the spot
where lies Captain John Grant, the last survivor
of the old Peninsula Gordon Highlanders, who
covered the retreat at Alba de Tormes, and was
the last officer to quit the town.
Near it is the grave of Captain Charles Gray of
the Royal Marines, the genial author of so many
Scottish songs ; and perhaps one of the most interesting
interments of recent years was that of Lieutenant
John Irving, R.N. (son of John Irving, W.S.,
the schoolfellow and intimate friend of Sir Walter
Scott), one of the officers of the ill-fated Franklin
expedition, who died in 1848 or 1849, and whose
remains were sent home by Lieutenant Sohwatka,
of the United States Navy, and laid in the Dean
Cemetery in January, 1881, after a grand naval and
military funeral, in accordance with his rank as
Lieutenant of the Royal Navy."
CHAPTER VII.
VALLEY OF THE WATER OF LEITH (continlced).
The Dean Bridge-Landslips at Stockbridge-Stone Coffins-Floods in the Leith-Population in 174a-St. Bemard's Estate-Ross's Tower
-I' Christopher North" in Anne Street-De Quincey there-%. Bernard's Well-Cave at Randolph Cliff-Veitch's Square-Chuiches in.
the Localit$-Sir Henry Raebm-Old Deanhiugh-House.
ABOUT a hundred yards west by north of Randolph
Crescent this deep valley is spanned by a stately
bridge, built in 1832, after designs by Telford.
This bridge was erected almost solely at the expense
of the Lord Provost Learmonth of Dean,
to form a direct communication with his property,
with a view to the future feuing of the latter.
It was when an excavation was made for its northern
pier that the Roman urn was found of which
an engraving will be seen on page 10 of the first
volume of this work. Over the bridge, the roadway
passes at the great height of 106 feet above the
rocky bed of the stream. The arches are four in
number, and each is ninety-six feet in span. The
total length is 447 feet, the breadth thirty-nine feet
between the parapets, from which a noble view of
the old Leith village, with its waterfall, is had to
the westward, while on the east the eye travels
along the valley to the distant spires of the seaport.
That portion of it adjoining Stockbridge is still
very beautiful and picturesque, but was far more
so in other days, when, instead of the plain back
Views of Moray Place and Ainslie Place, the steep
green bank was crowned by the stately trees of
Drumsheugh Park, and tangled brakes of bramble
and sweet-smelling hawthorn overhung the water
of the stream, which was then pure, and in some
places abounded with trout. Unconfined by stone
walls, 'the long extent of the mill-lade here was
then conveyed in great wooden ducts, raised upon
posts. These ducts were generally leaky, and
being patched and mended from time to time, and
covered with emerald-green moss and garlands of
creepers and water-plants, added to the rural
aspect of the glen. Between the bridge and the
mineral well, a great saugh tree, shown in one of;
Ewbank's views, overhung the lade and footpath,.
imparting fresh beauty to the landscape.
'' At Stockbridge," says the Edinburgh Advertiser
for 1823, '' we cannot but regret that the rage for
building is fast destroying the delightful scenery
between it and the neighbouring village of the:
Water of Leith, which had so long been a prominent
ornament in the envGons of our ancient
city."
At the southern end of the bridge, where
Randolph Cliff starts abruptly up, dangerous landslips
have more than once occurred ; one notably
so in March, 1881, when a mass of rock and earth
fell down, and completely choked up the lade which
drives the Greenland, Stockbridge, and Canonmills,
flour-mills.
At the north-westem end of the bridge is the
Trinity Episcopal Church, built in 1838, from a.
design by John Henderson, in the later English
style, with nave, aisles, and a square tower. To the
north-eastward an elegant suburb extends away
down the slope until it joins Stockbridge, comprising
crescents, terraces, and streets, built between
1850 and 1877.
The following is a detailed explanation of the woodcut on the
previous page :-I, View looking along the West Wall, showing, on the
right, the monument to Buchanan, founder of the Buchanan Institute,
Glasgow, and on the extreme left, the grave of Mr. Ritchie, of Tlu
Smlmruz (the pyramid at further end of walk is Lord Rutherford's
tomb, and Lord Cockbum's is near to it); z, Sir Archibald Alison's
gave (the larger of the Gothic mural tablets in white marble): 3,
Grave of George Combe ; 1, Monument to Alexander Russel, Editor
>f T/u Scoismm; 5, Tomb, on extreme left, of Lord Rutherford, next
to it that of Lord Jeffrey, the Runic Cross in the path is erected to.
Lieut. Irving of the Franklin Expedition; 6, Grave of Prof. W%on
:obelisk under tree), and of Prof. Aytoun (marble pedestal with crose
>U top).

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82 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Water of Leith.
and verse, the Ireland Scholarship, and a studentship
at Christ Church; but in the midst of his
youth and fame he was suddenly taken away, in a
manner that was a source of deep regret in Scotland
and England alike. He perished by drowning,
when a boat was upset on the Isis, on the 3rd of
March, 1862, when he was in his twenty-sixth
year.
?Oxford has lost one of her most promising
students,? said the London Revim, with reference
to this calamity. ? A. career of such almost uniform
brilliance has seldom been equalled, and never
been surpassed, by any one among the many distinguished
young men who have gone from Scotland
to an English university. Indeed, we only do
him justice when we say that Mr. Luke was one of
?the most remarkable students that ever went to
Oxford. Many leading boys have gone up from
the great English public schools, where they have
been trained with untiring attention, under the careful
eye of the ablest and most experienced teachers
of the day, and they have more than fully rewarded
their masters for the care bestowed upon them ;
but no one has shone out so conspicuously above
his compeers as Mr. Luke has done among those
who have been educated in the comparative obscurity
of a Scotch school and university, where,
owing to the system pursued at these seminaries, a
boy is left almost entirely to himself, and to his own
spontaneous exertions.? This young man, whose
brief career shed such honour on his family and
his native place, was as distinguished for kindness
of heart, probity, and every moral worth, as for
his swift classical attainments.
There are several painters of note now living,
famous alike in the annals of Scottish and British
art, who have made Stockbridge their home and the
scene of their labours. There some of them have
spent their youth, and received the rudiments of
their education, whose names we can but give
-viz., Norman Macbeth, RSA ; Robert Henderson,
R.S.A. ; James Faed, the painter and engraver ;
Thomas Faed, R.A. ; Robert Macbeth ; Alexander
Leggett ; John Proctor, the cartoonist ; and W. L.
Richardson, AAA.
Comely Bank estate, which lies north of Stockbridge,
was the property of Sir William Fettes, Bart.,
Lord Provost of the city, of whom we have given
a memoir, with an accpnt of his trust disposition,
in the chapter on Charlotte Square. On the gentle
slope of Comely Bank, the Fettes College forms a
conspicuous object from almost every point, but
chiefly from the Dean Bridge Road. This grand
edifice was planned and executed by David Bryce,
R.S.A., at the cost of about ~150,000, and is renarkable
for the almost endless diversity and
slegance of its details. The greatest wealth of
;hese is to be found in the centre, a prevailing idea
:worked out into numerous forms, in corbels, gur-
;oils, and mouldings) being that of griffns con-
Lending. Its towers are massive, lofty, and ornate.
;he whole style of architecture being the most florid
:xample of the old Scottish Baronial. The chapel,
which occupies the centre of the structure, is a
most beautiful building, with its due accompaniment
of pinnacles and buttresses, ornamented with
statues on corbels or in canopied niches. -4
tinely-carved stone rail encloses the terrace, which
is surrounded by spacious shrubberies
The building was founded in June, 1863, and
formally opened in October, 1870. The number
of boys to be admitted on the foundation, and
maintained and educated in the college at the expense
of the endowment, was not at any time to
exceed fifty-a nuniber absurdly small to occupy
so vast a palace, for such it is. For the accommodation
of non-foundationers, spacious boardinghouses
have been erected in the grounds, and in
connection with the college, under the superintendence
of the teachers.
Craigleith adjoins Comely Bank on the westward,
and was an old estate, in which Momson the
Younger, of Prestongrange, was entailed 1731.
Here we find the great quarry, from which the
greatest portion of the Kew Town has been built,
covering an area of twelve acres, which is more
than zoo feet deep, and has been worked for
many years When first opened, it was rented for
about 6 5 0 per annum; but between 1820 and
1826 it yielded about A5,51o per annum.
Here, in 1823, there was excavated a stone of
such dimensions and weight, says the Edin6uTh
WeekCyJoumaZ for November of that year, as to
be without parallel in ancient or modern times.
In length it was upwards of 136 feet, averaging
twenty feet in breadth, and its computed weight was
15,000 tons. It was a longitudinal cut from a
stratum of very fine lime rock. The greater part
of it was conveyed to the Calton Hill, where it
now forms the architrave of the National Monument,
and the rest was sent by sea to Buckingham
Palace.
Three large fossil coniferous trees have been
found here, deep down in the heart of the freestone
rock. One of these, discovered about 1830,
excited much the attention of geologists as to
whether it was not standing with root uppermost ;
but after a time it was found to be in its natural
position,
A little to the north of the quarry stands the

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88 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH., [The Mound.
THE NATIONAL GALLERY.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE MOUND (concluded).
The Art Galleries-The National Gallery The Various Collections-The Royal Smttish Academy-Early Scottish Artists-The Institution-
The First Exhibition in Edinburgh-Foundation of the Admy-Presidents: G. Wataon, Sir William Allan. Sir J. W. Godon,
Si Gcorge Harvcy, Sir Daniel bfaatec-The Spalding Fund.
THEIR objects being akin, the Royal Icstitution and
Art Galleries stand in convenient proximity to each
other. The formation of the latter was one of the
results of the Report, referred to, by Sir John Shaw
Lefevre on the constitution of the Board of Manufactures
; and subsequent negotiations with the
Treasury led to the erection of the Galleries, the
foundation stone of which was laid by the Prince
Consort on the 30th of August, 1850, and they
were opened in 1859. The Treasury furnished
;t;30,000, the Board ~oo,ooo, and the city a
portion of the site at a nominal rate. By these
arrangements the Scottish people have a noble
National Gallery of great and increasing value, and
the Royal Scottish Academy has also been provided
with saloons for its annual exhibitions.
Designed by W. H, Playfair, the Galleries are so
situated that a railway tunnel crosses beneath their
foundation and a lofty green bank overlooks the
south end. They form a crucifom edifice, the
main length of which lies north and south, with a
broad and high transept intersecting the centre ;
at the south and north ends, or fronts, are beautiful
Ionic porticoes, and on each face of the transept
is a handsome hexastyle Ionic portico. The
eastern range is occupied by the Royal Scottish
Academy?s Exhibition from February till May in
each year, and the western range is permanently
used as the National Gallery, containing a collection
of paintings by old masters and modern artists and
a few works of sculpture, among which, terminating
the long vista of the saloons, is Flaxman?s fine
statue of Robert Bums. The first of these contains
specimens of the Flemish, Dutch, and French
schools of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ;
the central or second saloon specimens of the
Jtalian, Venetian, Genoese, Florentine, Flemish,
and other schools of the same period; while the
third room is devoted to examples of the Scottish
school.
The collections generally include some fine
specimens of Vandyke, Titian, Tintoretto, Velasquez,
Paul Veronese, Spagnoletto, Rembrandt, and others.
There is also a noble series of portraits by Sir
Thomas Lawrence, Sir Henry Raeburn, George
Watson (first President of the Academy), Sir John
Watson Gordon, and Graham Gilbert. In one
of the rooms set apart for modem works may be

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 269
now directed his attention to the Roman law ; and, after a short time spent in
preparatory study, commenced giving lectures on the subject. He subsequently
gave lectures on Scots law.
In 1781, having qualified himself in the usual manner, he applied to be
admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates. The following information as
to the opposition offered by the Faculty to his entry, is recorded in the minutes
of the 8th December 1781 :-
'' The vice-dean (John Swinton, afterwards Lord Swinton) informed the
Faculty that Mr. John Wright, who for many years had exercised the profession
of a private teacher of the civil and municipal law and mathematics, had called
upon him, and acquainted him that he had presented a petition to the Court of
Session, praying a remit to the Dean and Faculty of Advocates to take him on
his trial. Upon this Mr. Swinton observed that he wished this step postponeda
proposition which was assented to by Mr. Wright-till he had had an opportunity
of mentioning the intention to the Faculty. He added-' that, so far as
ever he could learn, Mr. Wright bore a fair and irreproachable character, and he
did not mean the slightest reflection against him j but that the circumstances
which appearedipeculiar in his case were, that, at his advanced time of life, it
might be presumed he did not mean to take himself entirely to the profession
and practice of the law, but only wished to add the character of advocate to his
present employment.'
" The Hon. Henry Erskine acquainted the Faculty that Mr. Wright had conversed
with him upon this subject, and had authorised him to assure the Faculty
that, in case of his being admitted advocate, he truly intended to follow the profession
of the bar, and to lay aside private teaching of rnathematies, or any other
science, except law ; and even to confine that teaching to private lectures to
such as chose to attend them in his own house."
A considerable difference of opinion appears to have been entertained, but
the good sense of the majority ultimately settled that the Faculty should not
interfere; and Mr. Wright was admitted an advocate upon the 25th January
1783.
It has been said that the real cause of the opposition of Mr. Swinton and
his party originated in their objections to Mr. Wright's humble birth ; and that
the Hon. Henry Erskine bantered them so much, that they at last gave way.
After listening to the observations of the opposition-" Well, well," said Mr.
Erskine, U they say I am the son of the Earl of Bwhan-and you (pointing
to -) are the sm of the Laird of --" , and thus going over the
whole opposition in a strain of inimitable and biting sarcasm, he wound up the
enumeration in his usual forcible manner-" Therefore, no thanks to us for being
here ; because the learning we have got has been hammered into our brains !-
whereas all Mr. Wright's has been acquired by himself; therefore he has more
merit than us all. However, if any of you can put a question to Mr. Wright
that he cannot answer, I will hold that to be a good objection. But, otherwise,
Both sets of lectures were well attended.
The Swintona of Swinton are a Berwickahire family of great antiquity.

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374
*316,317; view below Cramond
Brig, 111. '317
Cramond Bridge, 11. 63, 111. 1x1
CramondChurch 111. 316 '320
Cramond harbou; 111. 31;
Cramond House i11.317,318, *3a2
Cramond Island: 111.315
Cramond Regis, 111. 107, 316
Cramond, Baroness, 111. 315
Cranston, Mn., 111. 161
Cranston Street 11. 17
Cranstoun, Hdn. George, Lord
Corehouse, 11. 6, m7; his
sister 11. .106 111. IOI
Cranstdun, Thd- of, Provost, 11.
278
Cranstoun Geordie thedwarf 11.19
Crawford,'Earls of: I. 62, 68, mg,
Crawford of Jordanhill, Sir Hew,
Crawford'Sir Gregan I.'za
Crawford'of D ~ m s o i 11.181, 111.
11. 354,'III. 194, 222
111. 90- his daughters i6.
zg. 61, IS$ 34
Crawford S l r f V i l l h , 11. 47
Crawford' Captain, and Major
Crawford, S:r John, 111,. 51, 52, 5
Crawford, Thomas, High S c h d
Crawfoid of Jordanhill. Capt.. 111.
somuvhe I. 95
rector II. qa
. _ .
1 9 Crawfurd of Crad.udland, Howie-
CrZC;; j k e s , Provost, 11. a78
Creichtoun of Felde, Deputy Pm
Creighton, Willivn of 11. 47
~ r e e ~ h , william, bo~ise~~er, I. ' 5 5
139 ; portrait of, I. 156 ; Burns'
poem on, i. 156
Crceclr, Lord Provost, and Mh
Burns 11. 158 159
C-h': Land, i. 153. 156 191
"Creech's Levee," I. 156
Crichton, Lord Chancellor, 11. 54
Crichton, Bamn, I. zg, 30, 053
Crichton Castle, 111. 61
Crichton of Lugton, David, 11. 39
Crichton, h. Andrew, 111. 79
Crichtonb Dr. Archbald, 11. 123,
111. 162
Crichton, George, Bishop of Dun.
keld 1. 149 204 11. rj, 47, 48
Crichrbo, Rdhard: architect, 11.94
Crichton of Elliock, Robert, I. 126
Crichton, Lieut.-Col. Patrick, Ill.
161 ; duelhy, 111.16~ ; hisson, d.
Crichton Street, 11. 329, 334 333,
Cr%c%of Brunstane,The,III.xp
Cringletie, Lord, 11. 174
Crisp, Henry, 1. 343
Crispm, Feasts of St., 11. 104
Cruchalh Club, 1. 235, 239, 11.
Cmckat Lieut -General 111 95
Croft-ad-Righ,'m the Gield'of $
cromarty, Earls of, I. 1x1, 11, zg8,
Crombie's Close, 11. 239, 2~
Cromwell, Oher, I. 4, 54, 55. 56,
353. 367, 371. 11. 31, 73. rgz,2~8,
286, 290. 327,367, 375, 383, 111.
186,187, 193, 21% 222, 230, 2s
318,329,33073431 347 ; p r o p 3
statue of 111.72
ter, 1. 34
vost, 11.279
-157, 166, 176, 212, 229, 11. Im
157, 187, 111. IZZ
King, 11. 41, *#
215, 3x0
299. 3532 356 111- 30. I16 2 x 6
741 75, 159, -# %'B 218,227. 298,
439 99, 103, 1x3, 14% 143. 151,
Cromwelrs'tarracks III. 257
'' Crookbacked Dici" of Glouces
Crookshank the historian, I. 101
Crosby, Andrew, advocate, I. 192,
C-4 the City, I. 50, 60, 98, 1x6,
334 11. 2 62.75, 131,111.1~ 72,
146: 755 191. cruel punishments
ihct&l th&e, 1. 150, 151 ;
k q u e t s at the, I. zm; exccuuons
there, 11.14, III.187,268
zm 231.11. IF
122, 146, 152, 195, +03,227, 298,
C T GusewaY, 11. 334, 341, 3451
346
Cross Ke s Tavern I. 251
Cross of &. John iI. z
Cm~~rig, Lord 1.'161, 162, 11. 246
Crown Hotel, h. 118
OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH.
Crown-mom, Edinburgh Castle, I.
Cullayne, Capt. James, I. z6a
Cullen, Lord Robert I. 27, 11. 171
Cullen, Dr., I. 156,'171, 271, 11.
Culloden Battle if &te Battles)
Cumberl;nd, Duke of, I. 332. 334,
* 69
146, 302, 111. 23 35
I. 203 11. 281 111. 15
Cunninglham, si will- 11.153,
Cunnineham of Baberton. House
111. 57
of 11; 162
Curkingham Rev.Dr. 1.87 111.51
Cunninghamk, Dr. deorgk, the
Cunzie House. The, Candlemaker
phycian, 11. 298
. .
Row 11 *= .
CunzidNkk, ?he, 11. 267
Curious dream sto 111. rgz 193
currie, III. 321, ?36; its 1-1
history, 111. 39-333; its ancient
military remaim, 111. 331; the
bridge, III.33?,333; the church,
111. 332; heritors roll of the
parish. 111. 334 : longevity of its
inhabitants, 111. 337
Cnrrie's Close, 11. 236
Currie's Tavern, I. 179
Curriehill. Lord. 11. qm
Curriehil~castle, 111: 334
Currichill How, 11. 01 '' Curses," the Union Bong, I. 164
Custom House, Granton, 111. 14
Custom House, The, Leith, 311.
171. I I, 192, 228, 259, *264, z&
CustomhouxQua ,Lath, 111.273
Cuthbert's Lane, 11: 1.38
D
DArcy, Lady Camlime, 11. ~9
?+r Lord I 274
D+y Rmirw The I. 288 2@
Dalelcish. Bot'hwelis accokdia in
Dak Bailie Duff," 11. 255
Dm-le3smurder 1.263 f11. 6 6
Dalgleish, Nicol kinis& of St.
Cuthbert's Chukh, 11.131
Dalgleish'sClose I. z q 252
Dalhousie, Earl bf, I. :s+, 11. 26,
98, 166, 318, 111. 342 ; Countess
of 11. 318
DalLouie Marquis of 111. 88
Dalkeith, hlsof.11. &, 111. d g .
282,.311
Dalkeith, 11.236, 283, zg1,327, 111.
Dalieith House 111. 146
Dalkeith railwa;, I. 384
Dalkeith Road, 11. 346, 355, 111.
Dalmeny Park, 111. III
Dalry burn, 11. 347
Dalry, Uistrict of, 11.213, 216,217,
Dalry manor-house, II.*217,III. 78
Dalry Road 11. 214 216 217 218
Dalrynple, bavid, iard'Wdthall,
Dalrymple, Hugh,LadDNmmore,
Dalrymple, Sir David, I. 17ir 172,
Dalrymple Sir Hew, 111. 262, 340
Dalrympld Sir James, 11. 327
Dalrymple: Sir John, 11. 26, 86,
Dalrymple Sir Robert, 11. 143
DalrympldofCastleton, Sir Robert,
Dalrymple of Cousland, 11. 348
Dalrymple, William, 11. 293
Dalrymple, Ca t Hugh, 11. 231
WIrymple, JoRn of, Provost, II.
Dalymple, John, Provost, 11. 282,
DalrympL of Stair I. 62 111. 323
Dalrymple, Lady, iI. 342
Ilaliymple's Yard I. 219
Dalyell Sir John braham 11. r6a
Dalyell((or Dalrell), Sir Tiomas, I.
12,334; town mansion of, 11. 19
Dancing girl, Sale of a, I. 201
6r 134, 364
51, 57
111. 27, 35, 9a
I. 222
I. 251
11. 243s 366
272, 335
I. 276
278
I1 . 36
a4 161, m, 378, 11: 75, 354, 111.
Dancing school, The first, m Leith,
Danube Street, 111. 72, 79
Darien Company, 111. 190 ; office
Darien &edition, The, 111. 190
Darien House, 11. 323, 324, *325,
Dark ageofEdinburgh, I. 187,111.
Dark Pit The I. 6g
111. 231
of the 11. 322
326
126
116, 168, m.( 107, 276, 11. 18, 27,
Queen Mary and, I. 46 ; murder
of lI.jw,71 III.~--;r,m,23;emd
l m i n g o f i i s w y , 11.71, 111.7
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David k., 1. ;r, ~ 2 ~ 7 8 . 148,14g, 186:
II.&,III. 86, 26 339, 346,
legendof the d ? ? Z H k , 11.21,
22, 2% 42, 111. 19; charter of
H o l y r d Abbey, 11. 42, 43, 80,
David II., I. &, zk, 11. 3, 47, 53,
9+ '3% 3=5.3=7, 33'. 338, 354
Dand's miraculous cross, King,
11. #
David's Tower, Edinburgh Castle,
1. 26, 33 34, 36,*2# 44? 4% 48,49r
77 a ~i SS
Daad.& 2 Muirhouse 111. 316
Davidson's Close. 11. zi
D-b,'Lord' 1. 45.46. 47, 50, 78,
35, ~ 8 ~ 6 % 67,G% 74,286,III. 59 ;
180 111. 1x5 166 247
. 5 6 58, 278, 3% 111- 35, 41. 421
Davidson's Hook, Ca-tle Hill, I. 55
Davidson's Mains, 111. IIO
Davit: IJeans' Cottage, 1. 383, 384,
11. 310
Dawick, Laud of, I. 1%
Dawney Douglas's Tavern, I. 235 ;
the"CrownRwm,"ib.; lintelof
dqorway is, two views, 1. 235,
236
Dawson the comedian 11.24.
~ean damnia~ family 'of, II. 134
Dean: or Dene, Village of, I. 183,
3591 111- 62,633 642 66, 67, I*
Dean Bank 111.75- theeducaUonaI
institution III. 6
Dean Bridg;, I. 10, 111. 6 3 , y 70,
71, Pkte ZJ ; Roman urn onnd
near, 1,. xo
Dean Bndge Rcad, 111. 82
Dean cemetery, I. 218, IL am, -1
111. 63, 66, 68, '6g
Dean Church 111.67
Dean Farm iII. 67
Dean Haugh I. 366 II.28qIII. 65
Dean manoAhouse: 111. *65, 68;
h a n Orphan H q i t a l , HI. SI
Dean Path 111. 67
Dean Side,'III. 67
Dean Street, 111. 77
Dean Street Church: fh. 75
Dean T e n a a 111. 72,7
Deanhaugh Sireet, Stak%ridge, 11.
Deemster '$he (executioner), 1. ?42
Defencelhss state of the Fifeshire
-3t aftertheunion, III.194,197
DefenceJ of Leith,The, 111. zgc-zg5
De Foe, Daniel I. 216 zp, 11. 79
Degraver, Dr. Pierre, 1. 1x5
Deidchack The I. I 6
Denham, S'u J&es gtewart, 111.
its owners, III.66,67
Ij8, II1. 5, 79
146, 342
Denham, the actor, I. 350
Denham's Land, 11. 324, 325
Dental Hospitaland School, 11. 276
Derby, Countess of, mistress of
Charles II., 11. zr
Desmond Earls of I. 104
Destitute' Childred, Home for, 11.
26
Devil Legend of raising the, 11. 3
nevits Elbow The I. 7'
pwar's Close: 11. 6
Diamond Beetle &se: The j r r
Sesprit of 11. 207
Dick, Sir A l h d e r , 11. 86, 111.57,
1x4
Dick, Sir James, Lord Provost, I.
Dick of Grange, The family of,
Dick fa%,, The, 111. 114
Dick, Lady Anne, Strange habits
111.
of I 254, 111. 114 (rct Royston,
Lbrd)
Dick-Cunningham family 111. 56
Dickens, Charles, in Edinburgh, 11.
Dickison of Winkston. House of
'50
Digges, 3'0 the Zomeddian, I. 34% 343,
11. 23, z4, 111. 241
Dilettanti Socie The I. 108
Dingwall, Lord,?? z62,'III. 62
Dingwall Sir John I. 340
Dingwalis Castle, f. 340, 353
Dirleton Lord, 111. 318, 348
Dirom Colonel 11. 120, 174
Dirtyklub Th; 111. 12
Disruption'of d e Scottist Church,
11. 95, 96, 138, 1441 '45, m.5, 111-
Di%nterr Various sectsof, 111. p
Distress oi the Edinburgh poor UI
Dobdl Sydney 111. 148
Dock gtreet d i t h 111. 255
Dock Place,'Leith,'lII. 259
Doctors of Faculty Club, 111. 123
Dominicanmanasre lI.z50,~8+'
Darnley's body k n d in th;
gardensof 11. 286 288
Don, Sir Aixander,' 11. 159, 111.
1795 11. 283
339
Don, Si William, the actor, I. 351
Don, Lad I1 343, 111. 95
Donacha ha; 1.136
Donaldson'a dospital, I. 318, 11.
Do~ldson's Close. I. 318
Donalds~n, Dr. James, 11. 112, 126
Donaldson, the bookseller, 1. 3x8;
Donaldson. the theatrical author. 1.
214 PMC 10
hw son Jams, 1. 18, 11.214
DOMldSOll, Capt., d. 153
343,. y 5 '
DonnibnstleCastle, I. 246,III.11~
302
Eoo Park, 111. 37
Doubling the Cap," 111. 125
Douglas, Duke of I. 105, 14a, 11.
331, 354 351; buchess of, 11.
351, 111. 124
Douglas, Marquis of, 11. 3x7
Douglas, Earls Of, 2% 30. 31r34r 3%
old mansion ofthr. 11. 257
38. 39. 4 3 43. 258, 111. 133, 338 ;
Douglag Archibald, 'Earl d-Angus,
Douglas,.&hiba?d, Marquis, I I. 350
IJou~Is, Archbald Earl uf, 11.
Provost 11. 27
331,111. 3.2
Douglas, James Marquis of 11. 351
Douglas, James, Earl of harton,
DougL, Sir Archibald, I. 196
Douglas, Sir Archubald and Si
Dounlas. Sir Georee. I. 106
I1 80
Robert, 11. 59
Douglas' Sir am& '11. 283
Douglas' Sir keil, iI. 153
Douglas: Sir Rotprt, the historian.
I. I28,II. 35,37,1I1.11gr 318,348,
301
Douglac of Brackhouse, The family
~odg~as ofcave- I. 271
Douglas ofGlenbervie, Sir Willii,
Douglas of Hawthornden 111. 27
Douglas oCHawthornden,'Sir JoL,
Douglas of Hyvelie William, 111.34
Douglas of Kilspiddie Archibald,
Provost, 11. a79, do; begs the
royal intercession, 11. 280
Douglas of Parkhead, Sir James,
1. 54 I95
Douglas of Parkhead. George, the
murderer of Rizzio, I. 9, 11. 74
235; Provost, 11. 280
Douglas Ladylsabell I 97
Douglas'pcerage, The,?. 98,349--
Douglascs and Hamiltons, Feuds
Dough? of Spott 111. 330
DouglaqofWhitt:nghame, William,
of 111. 193, 315
11. 279, 111. 53
111. 354
35'
between the, 11. 63, 279, 285
1. 259,161

... view below Cramond Brig, 111. '317 Cramond Bridge, 11. 63, 111. 1x1 CramondChurch 111. 316 ...

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53 EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT.
broken at the east end of Princes Street by the tall column of the Melville
Monument. Comparatively modern as this is, it has also a tale to tell. It
is a tale of civic changes, and of the influence of a great legal and political
house over Scotland and over India, until the passing of the first Reform
Bill put power and patronage into other hands.
At the opposite end of the perspective we have St. John’s Chapel, invested,
through Dean Ramsay’s name, with a peculiarly national interest. Few
figures were for half a century better known in Edinburgh than that of the
kindly Scotsman who understood his country-folk so well. The mind of
Dean Ramsay was as a link between the present and the past, and being a
stranger to all party-spirit, his long ministrations were powerfully effective for
the purposes of kindliness and holiness, piety and peace.
It is but just that the most beautiful object in a beautiful city should be
the monument of Sir Walter Scott, for in his head and heart Edinburgh truly
might be said to live. He saw, as in a vision, her kings, her fair women, her
heroes and. her fanatics, her burghers and her nobles, and over her his fancy
has flung all the charm of his marvellous genius, until it has become impossible
for the cultivated traveller to see Edinburgh except through the medium
which he has created. When we approach it we are ready with Marmion
to stand’and call it the fairest scene we e’er surveyed j when we leave it we
almost look for the coach that conveyed the Antiquary and his companion
to Queensfeny, and if our walk is by the ruins of St. Anthony’s Chapel
we find that Scott has been there before us, and returning cityward, it is to
confess that on the Heart of Midlothian his name is engraved for evermore.
. And now, as the writer of these lines closes the ramble which brings this
panorama before his eyes, a few red leaves suddenly rustle to the ground at
his feet. With the mention
of his name we pass from the worlds of history and poetry into the walks of
domestic lie, and awaken regrets and memories which can never be dispelled.
Great in his art and peerless in resource, he had qualities which so attached
and endeared him that the world is a colder and a sadder place since he left
it. The man who fought with the dragon of physical pain and put his foot
upon its neck was one of the most unassuming of the children of genius,
9nd his grave is in keeping with his life. At his own request he was buried
here beside the children whom he had lost and mourned, and in sight of
the town where his name, his fame, his very manners and gestures, will be
remembered with a loving and lasting regret.
Called to the art of healing,.he conceived of it as of the highest of human
They have fallen on Sir James Simpson’s grave.

... EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT. broken at the east end of Princes Street by the tall column of the ...

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vi CONTENTS,
no.
VIII. ARMORIAL BEARINGS,
18. THE RESTORATION. BURNINQ OF CROMWELL, THE POPE, Emay -
X. WEST BOW. MAJOR WEIR, .
XI. OLD BANK CLOBE. ASSASSINATION OF SIR QEORQE LOCRHART BY CHIESLEY OF DALRy,
XII. SIR DAVID LINDSAY, .
XIIL UMFRAVILLE’S CROSS,
XIV. QREYFRIARS’ MONASTERY, .
XVI. ST KATHERINE’S WELL,
XV. THE WHITEFRIARS’ MONABTERY, .
XVII. CLAUDERO, . 0 . .
XVIIL ST BILES‘S CHURCH, ,
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XIX. ANClENT LODGINQB, .
XX. THE PILLORY,
PAW
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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF EDINBURGH.
BY THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN.
THERaEr e various difficulties which press heavily upon a writer who
ventures on such a task as the description of Edinburgh. There is the fact
that it has been so often described before, and that, after a thousand able
efforts to describe it, it remains, unless by Scott, undescribed and indescribable.
There is the kindred fact that there are so many fine points of view, each of
BANK OF SCOTLAND.
which constitutes a beautiful fragment, but to piece a11 of which into a satisfactory
whole-hic Cabor hoc ojus est/ To paint London is felt to be as
impossible as to paint Chaos, but from the comparative smallness and
compactness of Edinburgh it is always alluring the limner to try his hand on
it-too often to his proper discomfiture and disgrace. It must, after all, be
~ - __ -__
A

... DESCRIPTION OF EDINBURGH. BY THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN. THERaEr e various difficulties which press ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 259
in his own hands, and the dispute was only settled towards the close of the
season, by the decreet-arbitral of the Dean of Faculty,
Amongst the performers engaged by Mr. Kemble were Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Lewes, who made their second appearance in Edinburgh on the 28th of February
1792. To this period the Print refers, the “Road to Ruin” having been
performed a few nights after their arrival. In the characters of Goldjnch and
Widow Wawm the parties appeared to great advantage; and it must be
confessed that Kay has done them ample justice in the Etching. The run
of pieces - chiefly comedy - during the season, were “ The Rivals,” “ The
Belle’s Stratagem,” “The Maid of the Mill,” etc.; and a piece called the
‘‘ Aberdeen Orphan ; or, the English Merchant ” (Spatter, Mr. Lee Lewes-
Lady AEton, Mrs, Lee Lewes) was repeated several nights-the locality and
the title probably forming the chief attraction. When the benefits came on,
the following bill of fare was proposed by Mr. Lee Lewes as a banquet for his
friends :-
“MR. LEE LEWES
Most respectfully informs the Public that his BENEFITw ill be on SATURDAYth, e 19th instant
(May), when the evening’s entertainments will be preluded with
COMIC SKETCHES, OR NATURE’S LOOKING-GLASS.
The apparatus is entirely new, and consists of Whole-Length Figures, painted in transparency
by Mr. Hodgins, of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and Mr. Dighton, of Saddler’s Wells :
and is a selection of the laughable part of an entertainment Mr. Lee Lewes has long been yreparing
for the public, and which, at a future period, he means to submit to them on a large scale.
Specturn admissi, riswrn teneatis.
To conclude with a representation of the late
KING OF PRUSSIA AND QENERAL ZEITHEN,
in figures, as large as life, executed at Berlin.
After the prelude will be performed (positively the last time this season)
THE ROAD TO RUIN;
To which will be added
TOM THUMB THE GREAT.
Tickets to be had of Mr. Lee Lewes, No. 6 Shakspeare Square.”
The “Comic Mirror” was repeated on the two subsequent nights. Towards
the close of the season, when Mr. John Kemble played for a few nights, Mrs.
Lee Lewes appeared in the parts of Lady Macbeth and Lady Randolph.
On the termination of the dispute betwixt Jackson and Kemble, by the
decreet of the Dean of Faculty-a decision, however, far from satisfactory to
either party-Mr. Jackson obtained a settlement with the majority of his creditors,
and conceiving himself to have been ill-used by his opponent, contrived,
by a negotiation with Mrs. Eston-(an actress of considerable celebrity on more
accounts than one), t,o disappoint him of a renewal of his lease. In consequence
of this, and aware that he stood pretty high in the estimation of the public,

... SKETCHES. 259 in his own hands, and the dispute was only settled towards the close of the season, by ...

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3 60 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
As soon as the robbery was discovered on Monday morning, the most active
measures were adopted. The robbers were traced to Edinburgh, from whence
Mr. Walkinshaw, belonging to Glasgow, and a city officer, set off in pursuit,
following the route of the robbers all the way, From the direction of a portmanteau-
which Mackcoull had left in charge of the waiter at Welwyn, to
be forwarded by the Stamford coach to London-aided by the Bow Street
officers, the residence of Scoltock the smith was soon found out, where White
was apprehended, Mackcoull narrowly escaping. In order to save White’s
life, and secure themselves against prosecution, a negotiation, on the suggestion
of French, was proposed to restore the money. Mackcoull, who from
the first evidently intended to cheat his associates out of a few thousands of
the spoil, reluctantly, although with the best grace, acceded to the proposal.
Determining, however, not to give all up, he conceived a plan which evinced
no small degree of generalship on his part. This was, to negotiate through
the medium of hlr. Sayer, one of the Bow Street officers appointed to attend
on the person of George the Third, who, from his long service, was believed
to have some little influence at Lord Sidmouth‘s office. He was besides an
old acquaintance of Mrs. Mackcoull, and the more likely, backed by a consideration,
to be prevailed upon by that lady’s eloquence. The contrivance
proved eminently successful. In his anxiety to secure the money, the agent
of the bank acted with improper precipitancy. The terms of restitution were
at once agreed to-White was forgiven, and the other two secured against
prosecution. Mrs. Mackcoull was then despatched with the notes, which, when
counted out, amounted only to f,11,941 odds, instead of ;E20,000. The
agent remonstrated j but of course Mrs. Mackcoull knew nothing of the matter.
Mackcoull had thus played his cards to admiration. White, in pursuance
of his pardon, was sent to the Hulks; and French, although so enraged at
the perfidy of our hero as to threaten his life, could not accuse him without
the certainty of following the fate of Huffey. The Bank was, besides, in a
manner tied down ; and to make matters worse, the officers who were at first
employed were so angry at the job having been taken out of their hands, that
they refused to proceed farther in the business.
Mackcoull now gave out that he had gone to the West Indies ; and the
bank giving up hopes of his apprehension, he farther secured himself from
danger by informing against French, who was seized and transported-to New
South Wales. For nearly a year Mackcoull contrived to enjoy himself in
London Without detection. In 1812, however, he was seized in one of his old
haunts, and, after being detained at Hatton Garden for some time, despatched
for Scotland. As he sat on the coach heavily ironed, previous to leaving the
“Eull and Mouth,” his late conduct having brought him into low esteem
among the honourable members of the fraternity, several of his former acquaintances
stood round jeering him. “Some of them observed that the Captain
looked extremely well after his West Indian. Voyage; others, in allusion to his
nose, that the convoy was about to get under weigh, for the Commodore had

... 60 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. As soon as the robbery was discovered on Monday morning, the most active measures ...

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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
long a place replete with interest, and yet recalls

... AND NEW EDINBURGH. [North Bridge. after nnmixous schemes and suggestions, the North Bridge was widened in ...

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The Mound.] GEORGE WATSON, P.R.S.A. 91
of John Watson of Overmains, in Berwickshire,
his mother being Frances Veitch, of the Elliock
fimily. He was a cousin of Sir Walter Scott?s, and
was born in I 767. He studied art under Nasmyth
and Sir Joshua Reynolds, and before the time of
his election had won a high reputation as a portrait
painter. From 1808 to 1812 he was President of
the Associated Artists of Scotland. His brother,
Captain Watson, R.N., was the, father of Sir John
Watson-Gordon, also a president of the Academy ;
and his nephew, William Stewart Watson, was an
artist of some repute, whose chief work is the
?? Inauguration of Burns as Poet Laureate or Grand
Bard,? now in the Masonic Hall, George Street, and,
as a collection of portraits, is historically curious.
George Watson?s son, W. Smellie Watson, was
also R.S.A., and died in No. 10 Forth Street in
1874, the same house in which his father had held
some early exhibitions about the close of the last
century or beginning of the present. ?
The President and Council resolved that the first
exhibition of their infant Academy should take
place early in February, 1827, in two large galleries
which they rented, in 24 Waterloo Place, for three
months at eighty guineas, and subsequently at
one hundred and thirty pounds per annum.
Opposed by those who should have aided it, the
Academy had a hard struggle for a time in the first
years of its existence. Application was made to
the Home Secretary, the future Sir Robert Peel, for
. a charter of incorporation, and it was favourably
viewed by those in office, and submitted to the
Lord Advocate. Eut though the application was
generously and warmly seconded by Sir Thomas
Lawrence, then President of the Royal Academy of
London, it was put off for two years, ?and
ultimately refused,? says Sir George Harvey ?? on
grounds which the Academy could never learn;
and though they applied for permission to do so,
they were never allowed to peruse the document
which induced his lordship to decide against their
claim. . . . Curiously enough, although the
request of the Academy for a charter of incorporation
was at this time denied, the Institution had
that distinction conferred upon it, and henceforth
came to be designated the Royal Institution.?
The first general exhibition of the Scottish
Academy being advertised for February, 1827,
? the Royal Institution, under the immediatepatronage
of His Mq>siY,?? was, in a spirit of genuine
opposition, advertised to open at the same time ; but
by the time of the third Exhibition, ? the Royal
Institution,? says Sir George, ?? was fairly driven
out of the field ; ? and among the contributors were
the future Sir Francis Grant, John Linnell, and
John Martin, and one of Etty?s magnificent works,
now the property of the Academy, was for the first
time hung upon its walls, while many Scottish
artists in London or elsewhere, watched with patriotic
interest the progress of art in their native land,
and the Institution rapidly began to take a
subordinate position ; and by a minute of the 10th
July, 1829, twenty-four of its artists, weary of its
rule, were admitted as members of the Scottish
Academy, thus raising the numerical force of the
latter to thirty-nine. Eventually the number of
Academicians became forty-two. In the rank of
Associate Engravers was the well-known William
Lizars, for as the law stood then he could not
be elected an Academician, engravers being then
limited to the position of Associate, but after a
time they were rendered eligible to occupy any
rank in the Academy.
George Watson, the first President of the Scottish
Academy, died on the 24th of August, 1837, at
No. 10 Forth Street, in his seventieth year. For
a long time previously his occupation of the chair
had been nominal, his age and declining health
precluding his attendance at council meetings-
A white marble slab in the west .wall of the West
Kirkyard marks his grave and that of ? Rebecca.
Smellie, his spouse, who died 5th May, 1839, aged
74 years.?
In the subsequent November William Allan,
RA. (afterwards knighted), was elected president,
and during his term .of office the long-desired
object was accomplished, and the Academy came
to be designated at last ?The Royal Scottish
Academy,? incorporated by royal charter on the
13th of August, 1838, consisting now of thirty
Academicians and twenty Associates-a consummation
of their wishes for which they were greatly
indebted to the warm and earnest interest of Lord
Cockburn.
By its charter the Academy is to consist of artists
by profession, being men of fair moral character and
of high repute in art, settled and resident in Scotland
at the dates of their elections. It ordains that,
there shall be an annual exhibition of paintings,
sculptures, and designs, in which all artists.of distinguished
merit may be permitted to exhibit their
works, to continue open six weeks or longer. It
likewise ordains that so soon as the funds of the
Academy will allow it, there shall be in the Royal
Scottish Academy professors of painting, sculpture,,
architecture, perspective, and anatomy, elected
according to the laws framed for the Royal Academy
of London; and that there shall be schools to
provide the means of studying the human form with
respect both to anatomical knowledge and taste of

... Mound.] GEORGE WATSON, P.R.S.A. 91 of John Watson of Overmains, in Berwickshire, his mother being Frances ...

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468 INDEX.
Nairn, S i Robert, 193
Katharine, 193
Nairn’s Close, 146, 148
Namur, Count of, 7
Napier of Xerchiston, 208, 348
Tomb of, 393, 428
Lord, 243
Francis Lord, 308
Sir Archibald, 372
of Wrychtishousis. See Il“rychlielrm&
Negro eervants, 290
Nether Bow, 17, 36, 55, 68, 82, 83, 87, 88, 91, 95
Port, 27, 44, 50, 71,110,111,114, 277
Last Speech and Confession of the,
449
New Assembly Close, 248
College, 118, 135
Street, Canongate, 284
Town Antiquities of, 369-376
The Plan of, 371
St James’s Chapel, 368
Newhaven, 49,368
Nicol, Willie, 181
Nicoleon, Lady, 346
Street, 346
Niddry’s Wynd, 55, 89,177,198
Nimmo, Mise, 346
Nisbet of Dirleton, 140, 299
of Dean, 157. See Dean
Alexander, 374
Norman Architecture, 12,128, 129, 379, 405
Norrie, Old, 138, 149, 168, 312
Norrie’s Workshops, 312
Norris of Speke Hall, The Family of, 406
North Bridge, 355
.
Loch, 60, 109, 162, 180, 251, 280, 376, 454,
455
Norwell, Katharine, Widow of Bassendyne the
Printer, 396
Nose Pinching, the Punishment of, 456
Notre Dame, Cathedral of, 60
Nottingham Castle, 9
Ogilvie, S i Alexander, 239
Lady, 123
Oikis House, William, 277
Old Bank, 173
Close, 172,440
Calton BuryingOround, 353
Fishmarket Close, 242
Fleshmarket Close, Canongate, 278
High School Close, Canongate, 279
Stamp Office Close, 242, 243
Kirk, or Old Church, 385,391
Style, 198. See Stinking Style
Oliver, Lord, 283
Oliver’s Land, 282
Orange, Prince of, 105
Orchardfield, 136
Orkney, St Clair, Earl of, 266
Adam Bothwell, Bishop of, 101, 191, 226,280,
Monument of, 409
292,373,405
Ormiston, Laird of, 78
Orphan’s Hospital, 114, 288
Park, 288
Otterburn, Sir Adam, Provost, 50
Palfrey’s Inn, Cowgate, 330
Palmer’s Land, 347
Panmure, Earl of, 301
House, 301
Close, 301
Paoli, General, 160
Paradin’s Emblems, 150
Parliament Close, 108,118, 162,170, 203
House, 89, 97, 361
Stairs, 193,212,325, 330
Riding of, 204
Square, Leith, 361
Paterson, John, 301
Nicol, 302
Bishop, 305
Paterson’s Land, Canongate, 301
Paton, George, the Antiquary, 163, 181,247
Patrick, Alexander, 160
Paulitius, Dr Joanues, 281
Paul‘s Work, 352
Paunch Market, Leith, 363
Peebles Wynd, 246
Pennycuik, Alexander, 20
Perjurers, Boring the Tongues of, 455
Perth, Earl of, 105, 296
Pest. See Plague
Philiphaugh, Lord, 231
Physic Gardens, 117
Physicians’ Hall, Oeorge Street, 376
Picardy, Village of, 375
Piera Leland, 6
Pillans, Professor, 168
Pilrig, 66
Pinkie, Battle of, 52, 406
Pipe’s Close, 143
Piscina, Ancient, 146
Pitcairn, Dr Archibald, 285, 302
Pius II., Pope, 15
Plague, The, 165, 182,205,311
Plainstanes Close, 344
Plantagenet, Richard, 25
Playfair, Profeessor, 143
Playhouse Close, 287
Plays, 44,103
Pleasance, The, 83, 312
Pole, Cardinal, 403
Pope, Burning the, 437
Porteous, Captain, 109,194-196,440
Mob, 211, 433
Portobello Tower, 451
Preston, John, 268
438
Pillory, 74, 454
Port, 312
Sir Michael, 268
of Braigmillar, 381
of Oortoun, 382
Sir Simon, Provost, 79, 245, 396

... INDEX. Nairn, S i Robert, 193 Katharine, 193 Nairn’s Close, 146, 148 Namur, Count of, 7 Napier of ...

Book 10 p. 507
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430 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
The Guard-House, situated in the very centre of the main street, was unquestionably
both an eye-sore and an inconvenience. For many years it had been
regarded as a nuisance j and Fergusson merely expresses the general feeling
when he says, in the name of the‘Causey :-
‘‘ Wad it not fret the hardest stane,
Beneath the Luckenbooths to grane ?
Though magistrates the Cross discard,
It mak’sna when they leave the Guard-
A lumbersome an’ stinkin’ Kggid-
That rides the sairest on my riggin,”’
In 1785, it was resolved that the obnoxious building should cease to exist ;
and, in consequence, the City-Guard took up their rendezvous in the New Assembly
Room, in what is now called the Commercial Bank Close.’ The proprietors of
that portion of the city, alarmed at the proximity of the ‘‘ Town Rats,” took a
protest, and presented a bill of suspension on the subject. The following notice
of this proceeding occurs in the Scots Magazine :-
“On Saturday, Nov. 19 (1785), a bill of suspension was presented to the Court of Session, inname
of the proprietors of houses in the New Assembly Close, Edinburgh, praying for an interdict against
the Magistrates removing the City-Guard to the New Assembly Room, as it would prove an intolerable
nuisance to the inhabitants of that close, as well as deteriorate the property of the proprietors.
The Eon. Henry Erskine was heard on the part of the suspenders, and Mr. George Buchan Hepburn
for the Magistrates. After some reasoning by the Court, their lordships, on account of the present
situation of the nigh Street, and that the kssembly Room was only meant to be a temporary Guard-
House, were pleased to refuse the bill. They at the same time were of opinion, that after taking a
trial, if the inhabitants should consider it as great a nuisance ns they did at present, they should be
at liberty to present another bill of suspension, when their lordships would euter more minutely into
the merits of the cause. In the afternoon the workmen began to pull down the Guard-House.”
Thus, in 1785, the City Guard-House was razed to the ground. The soldiers
ofthe Guard continued only for a limited period to occupy the New Assembly Room,
premises in the Luckenbooths having been finally appropriated for their use.
1 ‘ 4 Mutual Complaint of the Plainstaaes and Causey.”
2 It was termed the New Assembly Close until the Commercial Bank occupied the premises.

... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. The Guard-House, situated in the very centre of the main street, was ...

Book 8 p. 599
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148 BI 0 GRAP HI C Af, SKET C HES.
apprentices, some of them of dissolute habits-having formed themselves into
an organised band, armed with bludgeons, sallied forth about midnight on the
work of mischief-knocking down all who came in their way-robbing the
victims of their watches and money-and maltreating those who resisted in the
most brutal manner. Dugald Campbell, a police officer, died of his wounds next
day ; and Mr. James Campbell, a clerk in an office at Leith, died from the same
cause on the 7th January following. By the exertions of the magistrates, who
were engaged nearly the whole night, several of the depredators were caught in
the act, with the stolen booty in their possession; and the utmost vigilance
was afterwards used, by rewards and otherwise, in order to disband and root
out the dangerous association. Three of the youths-pursuant to a sentence
of the High Court of Justiciary-were executed in the High Street, on the 22d
April 1812, opposite the Stamp Office Close-a gibbet and scaffold having
been erected for the purpose. An immense concourse of people assembled to
witness the execution, which was conducted with more than usual solemnity.
The culprits behaved with becoming propriety and fortitude.
No. CCXXI,
JAMES HUME RIGG, ESQ. OF MORTON,
ISAAC GRANT, ESQ. OF HILTON,
ARCHIBALD MACARTHUR STEWART, ESQ. OF ASCOG,
THE HON. CAPTAIN (AFTERWARDS GENERAL),
JOHN LESLIE,
AND
CAPTAIN IVILLIAM WEMY PS.
THE first individual portrayed in this Print is JAMES HUME RTGG of Morton.
His name was originally Rigg,' that of Hume having been assumed on obtaining,
by the death of a relative, the estate of Gammelshiels, in Haddingtonshire.
He succeeded his elder brother, Thomas Rig, in the estate of Morton about
the year 1780.'
hlr. Rigg was an extensive shareholder in the Bank of Scotland, or "' Old
Bank," as it was commonly called ; but, although possessed of a very ample
fortune, it was rumoured that he was somewhat parsimonious. The young lady
whom he married-a &er of the late Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster-being of a
more liberal disposition, it frequently happened that their opinions in matters
His father, Mr. Sheriff Rigg, married a Miss Cunningham of Enterkin in Ayrshire.

... BI 0 GRAP HI C Af, SKET C HES. apprentices, some of them of dissolute habits-having formed themselves into an ...

Book 9 p. 197
(Score 1.44)

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

... Place.] HAYMARKET STATION. 213 A shot fired from the belfry apprised the multi- &de far down below of ...

Book 4 p. 213
(Score 1.44)

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