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Holyrood.] ROYAT, MARRIAGES. 55
with the Dukes of Savoy and Burgundy. She
landed at Leith amid a vast concourse of all
classes of the people, and, escorted by a bodyguard
of 300 men-at-arms, all cap-d+e, with
the citizens also in their armour, under Patrick
Cockburn of Nevtbigging, Provost of Edinburgh
and Governor of the Castle, was escorted to the
monastery of the Greyfriars, where she was warmly
welcomed by her future husband, then in his
twentietb year, and was visited by the queenmother
on the following day.
The week which intervened between her arrival
and?her marriage was spent in a series of magnificent
entertainments, during which, from her great
beauty and charms of manner, she won the devoted
affection of the loyal nobles and people.
A contemporary chronicler has given a minute
account of one of the many chivalrous tournaments
that took place, in which three Burgundian nobles,
two of them brothers named Lalain, and the thud
HervC Meriadet, challenged any three Scottish
knights to joust with lance, battle-axe, sword, and
dagger, a defiance at once accepted by Sir James
Douglas, James Douglas of Lochleven, and Sir
John Ross of Halkhead, Constable of Renfrew.
Lances were shivered and sword and axe resorted
to with nearly equal fortune, till the king threw
down his truncheon and ended the combat.
The royal marriage, which took place in the
church at Holyrood amid universal joy, concluded
these stirring scenes. At the bridal feast the first
dish was in the form of a boar?s head, painted and
stuck full df tufts of coarse flax, served up on an
enormous platter, with thirty-two banners, bearing
the arms of the king and principal nobles ; and the
flax was set aflame, amid the acclamations of the
numerous assembly that filled the banquet-hall.
Ten years after Holyrood beheld a sorrowful
scene, when, in 1460, James, who had been slain
by the bursting of a cannon at the siege of Roxburgh
on the 3rd August, in his thirtieth year, was
laid in the royal vault, ?with the teares of his
people and his hail1 army,? says Balfour.
In 1467 there came from Rome, dated zznd
February, the bull of Pope Paul II., granting, on
the petition of the provost, bailies, and community
of the city, a con~mission to the Bishop of Galloway,
?et dilectojZio Abbafi Monasterii Sancta Cmcis mini
viuros de Rdynburgh,? to erect the Church of St.
Giles into a collegiate institution.
Two years afterwards Holyrood was again the
scene of nuptial festivities, when the Parliamen!
met, and Margaret of Norway, Denmark, and
Sweden, escorted by the Earl of Arran and a
gallant train of Scottish aad Danish nobles, landed
at Leith in July, 1469. She was in her sixteenth
year, and had as her dowry the isles of Orkney
and Shetland, over which her ancestors had hitherto
claimed feudal superiority. James III., her
husband, had barely completed his eighteenth
year when they were married in the abbey church,
where she was crowned queenconsort. ?? The marriage
and coronation gave occasion to prolonged
festivities in the metropolis and plentiful congratulations
throughout the kingdom. Nor was the
flattering welcome undeserved by the queen ; in the
bloom of youth and beauty, amiable and virtuous,
educated in all the feminine accomplishments of
the age, and so richly endowed, she brought as
valuable an accession of lustre to the court as of
territory to the kingdom.?
In 1477 there arrived ?heir in grate pompe,?
says Balfour, ?Husman, the legate of Pope
Xystus the Fourth,? to enforce the sentence of
deprivation and imprisonment pronounced by Hjs
Holiness upon Patrick Graham, Archbishop of St.
Andrews, an eminent and unfortunate dignitary of
the Church of Scotland. He was the first who
bore that rank, and on making a journey to Rome,
returned as legate, and thus gained the displeasure
of the king and of the clergy, who dreaded his
power. He was shut up in the monastery of Inchcolm,
and finally in the castle of Lochleven. Meanwhile,
in the following year, William Schivez, a
great courtier and favourite of the king, was
solemnly consecrated in Holyrood Church by the
papal legate, from whose hands he received a pall,
the ensign of archiepiscopal dignity, and with great
solemnity was proclaimed ?? Primate and Legate of
the realm of Scotland.? His luckless rival died
of a broken heart, and was buried in St. Serf?s
Isle, where his remains were recently discovered,
buried in a peculiar posture, with the knees drawn
up and the hands down by the side.
In 1531, when Robert Cairncross was abbot,
there occurred an event, known as ? the miracle of
John Scott,? which made some noise in its time.
This man, a citizen of Edinburgh, having taken
shelter from his creditors in the sanctuary of Holyrood,
subsisted there, it is alleged, for forty days
without food of any kind.
Impressed by this circumstance, of which some
exaggerated account had perhaps been given to
him, James V. ordered his apparel to be changed
and strictly searched. He ordered also that he
should be conveyed from Holyrood to a vaulted
room in David?s Tower in the castle, where he was
barred from access by all and closely guarded.
Daily a small allowance of bread and water were
placed before him, but he abstained from both for ... ROYAT, MARRIAGES. 55 with the Dukes of Savoy and Burgundy. She landed at Leith amid a vast concourse ...

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The Mound.] THE SCOTTISH GALLERY. 89 -
seen Sir Noel Paton?s two wonderful pictures of
Oberon and Titania; others by Erskine Nicol,
Herdman, Faed, W. Fettes, Douglas, James Drummond,
Sir George Harvey, Horatio Macculloch,
R. S. Lauder, Roberts, Dyce, and Etty, from whose
brush there are those colossal paintings of U Judith
with the Head of Holofernes ?? and ?The Woman
Interceding for the Vanquished.?
Among the many fine paintings bequeathed to
this Scottish Gallery is Gainsborough?s celebrated
portrait of hfrs. Graham, depicting a proud and
are outlined ; and the great and accurately detailed
picture of the battle of Bannockburn.
There is a small full-length picture of Bums,
painted by Nasmyth, as a memento of the poet,
and another by the same artist, presented by the
poet?s son, Colonel W. Nicol Burns, and a fine
portrait of Sir John Moore, the property of the
officers of the Black Watch,
The choice collection of water colours embraces
some of the best works of I? Grecian ? Rilliams ;
a series of drawings bequeathed to the Gallery
INTERIOR OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY.
beautiful girl, grief for whose death in early fife
caused her husband, the future Lord Lynedoch,
?the hero of Earossa,? to have it covered up that
he might never look upon it again. There are
also some beautiful and delicate works by Greuze,
the gift of Lzdy Murray ; and one by Thomson of
Duddingstone, presented by Lady Stuart of
Allanbank ; and Landseer?s I? Rent Day in the
Wilderness,? a Jacobite subject, bequeathed by
the late Sir Roderick Murchison, Bart.
Not the least interesting works here are a few
that were among the last touched by deceased
artists, and left unfinished on their easels, such as
Wilkie?s ?John Knox Dispensing the Sacrament
at Calder House,? of which a few of the faces alone
00
by Mr. Scott, including examples of Robert
Cattermole, Collins, Cox, Girtin, Prout, Nash,
and Cnstall; and a set of studies of the most
striking peculiarities of the Dutch, Spanish, Venetian,
and Flemish schools. Of great interest, too,
are the waxen models by Michael Angelo.
The Gallery also contains a collection of
marbles and bronzes, bequeathed by Sir James
Erskine of Tome, and a cabinet of medallion
portraits and casts fnm gems, by James and
William Tassie, the celebrated modellers, who,
though born of obscure parents in Renfrewshire,
acquired such fame and reputation that the first
cabinets in Europe were open to their use.
The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting and ... Mound.] THE SCOTTISH GALLERY. 89 - seen Sir Noel Paton?s two wonderful pictures of Oberon and Titania; others ...

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270 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
it would be disgraceful to our character as Scotsmen were such an act of exclusion
recorded in the books of this society. Were he the son of a beggardid
his talents entitle him-he has a right to the highest distinction in the land.”’
No. CIX.
JOHN WRIGHT, ESQ.,
ADVOCATE.
THIS Print represents the subject of our sketch at a later period of life than
the former etching ; and, to judge from his attitude, he may be supposed in the
act of addressing the bench.
He spoke so
very slow that his pleadings were far from being effective. On one occasion
he was engaged in conducting a case before Lord Hailes. Mr. -, the
opposing council, who first addressed the bench, spoke so thick, fast, and indistinct,
that his lordship was under the necessity of requesting him to speak slower,
that he might understand him; but the judge found himself in the adverse
predicament with Mr. Wright. “Get on a little faster,” said his lordship,
addressing the advocate, “ for I am tired following you.” “ If it were possible,”
observed Erskine, solta voce, “ to card the two together, something good might
be made of them both,”
Mr. Wright was unquestionably more fitted for a lecturer than an advocate,
and to his success in the former avocation he was chiefly indebted for a livelihood.
He also derived no inconsiderable income from his literaT labours.
For many years he wrote all the Latin theses. One work on mathematics’
MR. WRIGHTn ever attained to great eminence as a pleader.
That the political principles of Mr. Wright were liberal may be inferred from his intimacy
with, and the friendship shown him by, Mr. Erskine ; but it may not be generally known that he
ever published his sentiments on the subject of Reform. We have, however, accidentally fallen in
with a pamphlet which seems to have been published by Mr. Witght in 1784, entitled “ An Essay
on Parliamentary Representation and the Magistracies of our Royal Boroughs ; showing tht the
abuses at present complained of, respecting both, are late deviations from our constitution, as well as
from common sense ; and the necessity of a speedy Reform.” This pamphlet is anonymous ; but
from the following words, in the handwriting of Mr. Wright, being written on the title-page, there
can be no doubt that the production was his own :-“This Essay ccnatuins the mbstaace of the Author’s
idem on Parle’anwntary Representation. Mr. Alison’a opinion of it would oblige his hwn&le servant
-JOHN WRIQHT.” The Essay is well written, and affords a luminous review of the rise and progress
of feudal government, and the various lawa and enactments which have led to the formation of
what is called the British constitution. His observationa extend to almost every branch of national
economy. [The MT. Alism alluded to waa probably an accountant of that name who lived in St.
James’ Square.]
2 Elements of Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical ; with the Principles of Perspective and Projection
of the Sphere.” In 8v0, Edinblwh, 1772. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. it would be disgraceful to our character as Scotsmen were such an act of ...

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158 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith Walk.
On the east side of the walk, overlooking the
steep and deep Greenside ravine, the huge and
hideous edifice named the ?? Tabernacle,? was long
the scene of the ministrations of the Rev. James
Alexander Haldane, who there, for more than forty
years, devoted himself, gratuitously, and with exemplary
assiduity, to preaching the Gospel. He was
the son of Captain James Haldane of Airthrey, a
descendant of the family of Gleneagles, and his
mother was a sister of Admiral Viscount Duncan.
He commenced life as a midshipman on board
the Dukeof Morztrose, Indiaman, made four voyages
to the East, and in his twenty-fifth year became
captain of the MeZviZZe CasfZe, and was distinguished
for his bravery amid many perils incident to life at
sea. During the mutiny at Spithead, the spirit of
the revolt was spread to the Dutton, a vessel alongside
of Haldane?s, by the captain of fle former
sending a man-ofiwar?s boat to have some of his men
arrested for insubordination. The mutiny broke
out on a dark night-shots were fired, and a man
killed, Oh this, the future pastor of the Tabernacle
lowered a boat with an armed crew, and went off
to the Button, the crew of which threatened him
with death if he did not sheer off; but he boarded
her, sword in hand, and, driving the mutineers forward,
addressed them on the folly of their conduct,
the punishment that was certain to follow, and
eventually overcame them without more bloodshed.
Soon after this he resigned his command in the
East India Company?s Service, and meant to adopt
the life of a country gentleman ; but an intimacy
with Mr. Black, minister of Lady Yester?s, and
Mr. Buchanan, of the Canongate Church, led to a
graver turn of thought, and, resolving to devote his
life to the diffusion of the Gospel, he sold his beautiful
estate at Airthrey to Sir Robert Abercromby,
and failing in a missionary plan he had formed for
India, he began to preach at home, first at Gilmerton
in 1797, and afterwards on the Calton Hill,
where the novelty of a sea-captain addressing them
collected not less than 10,000 persons on more
than one occasion.
Eventually he became minister Of the then recently
erected Tabernacle on the east side of Leith
Walk, and so named from Mr. Whitefield?s places
of worship. Eminent preachers from England frequently
appeared here, and it was always crowded
to excess. The seats were all free, and he derived
no emolument from his office.
At the period he commenced his public career,
towards the end of the. last century, evangelical
d0ctrir.e was at a low ebb, but through the instrumentality
of Mr. Haldane and his brother, also a
preacher, a considerable revival took place.
The Tabernacle has long since been converted
into shops.
Immediately adjoining it on the south is a low
square, squat-looking tower, with a fapde in the
Tudor style forming a new front on an old house,
pierced with the entrance to Lady Glenorchy?s Free
Church, which stands immediately behind it.
Where now we find the New London Road,
running eastward from Leopold Place to Brunton
Place, Ainslie?s plan of 1804 shows us in dotted
line a ? Proposed new road to Haddington,? passing
on the north a tolerably large pond, on the Earl of
Moray?s property near the Easter Road-a pond
only filled up when Regent Place and other similar
streets were recently built at Maryfield-and on
the south the Upper Quarry Holes-hollows still
traceable at the east end of the Royal Terrace
Gardens. A street of some kind of buildings occupied
the site of the present Elm Row, as shown
by a plan in I 787 ; and in the CaZedonian Merncry
for 1812 a premium of three hundred guineas is
offered for the best design for laying out in streets
and squares, the lands in this quarter, on the east
side of the walk, consisting of 300 acres.
Here now we find Windsor Street, a handsome
thoroughfare, built of white freestone, in a simple
but severe style of Greek architecture, with massive
fluted columns at every doorway. No. 23, in the year
1827 became the residence of the well-known Mrs.
Henry Siddons. Previously she had resided at No.
63, York Place, and No. 2, Picardy Place. Three
years after she came to Windsor Street, her twentyone
years? patent of the old Theatre Royal, which
she had camed on with her brother, W. H. Murray,
as stage manager, came to a close, and on the 29th
of March, 1830, this popular and brilliant actress
took her farewell of the Edinburgh stage, in the
character of Lady Towneley in The Provoked NUSb
a d , meaning to spend the remainder of her life
in retirement, leaving the theatre entirely to Mr.
Murray.
She was a beautiful woman, and a charming actress
of a sweet, tender, and pathetic school.
When she took up her residence in Windsor
Street the ground was nearly all meadow land, from
there to Warriston Crescent, says Miss F. A-Kemble,
in her recent ? Reminiscences,? which is rather a
mistake ; but she adds, ?? Mrs. Siddons held a peculiar
position in Edinburgh, her widowhood, condition,
and personal attractions combining to win the
sympathy and admiration of its best society, while
her high character and blameless conduct secured
the respect and esteem of her theatrical subjects
md the general public, with whom she was an
object of almost affectionate personal regard, and ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith Walk. On the east side of the walk, overlooking the steep and deep Greenside ...

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Curs?d be the wretch who seized the throne,
And marred our Constitution ;
,4nd curs?d be they who helped on
That wicked Revolution.
?? Curs?d be those traitorous traitors who
By their perfidious knavely,
Have brought our nation now unto
An everlasting slavery.
Curs?d be the Parliament that day,
Who gave their confirmation ;
And cursed be every whining Whig,
For they have damned the nation ! ?
We have shown what the representation of
Scotland was, in the account of the Riding of the
Parliament. By the Treaty of union the number
was cut down to sixty-one for both Houses, and
the general effects of it were long remembered in
Scotland with bitterness and reprehension, and
generations went to their grave ere the long-promised
prosperity came. Ruin and desolation fell
upon the country; in the towns the grass grew
round the market-crosses ; the east coast trade was
destroyed, and the west was as yet undeveloped ;
all the arsenals were emptied, the fortresses disarmed,
and two royal palaces fell into ruin.
?The departure of the king to London in 1603
caused not the slightest difference in Edinburgh ;
but the Union seemed to achieve the irreparable
ruin of the capital and of the.nation. Of
the? former Robert Chambers says :-?? From the
Union, up to the middle of this century, the
existence of the city seems to have been a perfect
? blank ! No improvements of any sort marked the
period. On the contrary,. an air of gloom and
depression pervaded the city, such as distinguished
its history at 7zu former period. A tinge was communicated
even to ;the manners and fahions of
society, which were ,remarkable for stiff reserve,
precise moral carriage, and a species of decorum
amounting almost to moroseness, sure indications,
it is to be supposed, of a time of adversity and
humiliation. . . . In short, this may be called, no
less appropriately than emphatically, the dark age
of Edinburgh.? 1
Years of national torpor and accepted degradation
followed, and to the Scot who ventured south but
a sorry welcome was accorded ; yet from this state
of things Scotland rose to what she is to-day, by
her own exertions, unaided, and often obstructed.
A return made to the House of Commons in 1710
shows that the proportion of the imperial revenue
contributed by Scotland was only z.4 per cent.,
whereas, by the year 1866, it had risen to 14; per
cent. During that period the revenue of England
increased 800 per cent, while that of Scotland
increased 2,500 per cent., thus showing that there
is no country in Europe which has made such
vast material progress ; and to seek for a parallel
case we must turn to Australia or the United
States of America ; but it is doubtful if those who
sat in the old Parliament House on that 25th of
March, 1707, least of all such patriots as Lord
Banff, when he pocketed his AI I zs., could, in the
UNION CELLAR. ... be the wretch who seized the throne, And marred our Constitution ; ,4nd curs?d be they who helped on That ...

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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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386 OLD AND NEW' EDINBURGH.
'Plague in Leith, The 111. 180,186
Plainstane's close ~ i . 235
Playfair, Dr. Lyo;, 111. 24
Playfair, Professor, 1. 339, 11.106,
1% 1p,z70' monument to,II.rro
Playfaii, W. H., architect, I. 379,
11. 83 88, 97, 106, 110, 2x41 335,
111. ;3, 68, 83
Playhouse Close 11. 23
Pleasance, he, i. 38, 253,278,295.
298, 335, 382-384, 11. 3, 218 135,
240, 301, 3247 330, 337, 3383 345,
111.54 ; origin of thename, I. 382
Plewlands, The, 111. 42
Pocketsleve 111.92
PokerCluh ?he, I . ~ O , Z ~ T , I I I . I ~ ~
Police of Ehinburgh, 11. 120
Police Office, I. 242
Political unions. Illegality of the, . - -
11. 236, 237
Pollok. Robert. 11. ICO
Polton Lord iII. 3;6
PolwAh d d y 11. aog
Pont, dkrt, dinister of St. Cuthbert's
Church 11. 131 I 2
Pont, Robert, hrovost 'o?Trinity
Pontheus, John, the quack doctor,
Poole's Coffee-house, 11. xza
Popular songs of 1745, I. 325
Port Hopetoun, 11.~15~226 ; Edinbur
h Castle from, 11. *a16
Port .ft. Nicholas, 111. 171
Portmus Captain I. 130 111.262
263 ; hHnged b;the mdb, I. 130:
College, 1.305, 307
I. zoo, 201
~. z3i, 11. 2 I, 232
Porteous john, herald painter,
111.4:
Porreou~ riots I. 4 123, 128-1 I
178, 218, 3:g; h n t i n g ~f t2:
111. III .___ ._
Portland, Henrietta Duchess of,
Portland,'Duke of, 111.42
Portland Place 11. zza
Portobello, I. h3, 111. 138, 143-
154165; Romanroadnear I. 10,
fro; view of Portobed, III.
:IN, *152, *r53: plan of, 111. . 147: churchesandchawls. 111.
II.rg1 111.42
- .
147; * 153
Portobello Hut. 111. IM
Portobello review lhe' '111. 146
Portobello Koad '111. ;38
Portobello Sand; 111.145, Plate p
Rortsburgh CO& House, 11. *=I. -
2=4
Porbburgh, The Eastern, I. 3 8 , k
l p , I I . 222 224 226 227,22gr 334
33s ; anciehtly H htirgh, 11. 103
Post Office, The old, I. 274 338,
*356; the new I. 340, 351, 353,
*357,358.364; ;he Scottishpostal
system, I. 353- 58 : itsexpenses
at various periJs, I. 355,356; its
posf-ten 1.354,355,39; the
vanous po&office buildings, I.
358
Post Office Close, I. 358
Potato, The introducer of the, 11. p
Potterrow, The, 1. p, 335,II. 135,
231, =4=r 274. 327, 330, 33% 332,
Potterrow ort, 11. 257, 334 331,
111.3
Poulterer The King's 111.66
Poultry AndS. Dean,'III. 65, 66
Poultry Market The old I. 373
Powburn, The ' 11. 267 ' 111. 29
I 58; its otier names:
Powburn House 111. 51
Powderhall III:88 8g *g3
Powrie, di1liaq 'ac<ornplice ot
Bothwell in the murder of Darnley,
1. 263, 276, 111. 4, 6
Prayer, An ambiguous, 11. 133
Preaching Friar's Vennel, The, I.
Preaching Window," Knox'r
house, I. 214
3331 3 3 4 , p 345, 111. 51
81.:; '
'( p7,258
Pre-historic Edinburgh, I. 9-14
Prendergast's revenqe, 11. 52, 53
.Prentice, Henry, the introducer 01
Presbyterian Church, Re-establish.
.Preston, John, Lord Fentonbams,
the potato, 11. 30
ment of the, 11.246
-1.206 -
Preston, Sir Michael, I. q
&ton of Craigmillar Provost Sir
?reston of Craignillar. Sir Richard.
Henry, 11. 242, 278,'III. 61
111.61
?reston of Craigmillar, Provost Sir
Simon, I. w, 305, 11.279.111.
58, 59, 61, 62, 107
'reston of Valleyfield, Sir Charles,
11. 26, 335
326, 330. ,331: 332.
?reston, Lieut.-General, I. 322,323.
?redon relic, bt. Giles's Cathedral,
I. 140
?restonAeld manor-house, 111. *56,
57, 58
?restongrange, Lord, 11.242, 272,
111.10
?restonpans, 11. 283 16,.340, 111.
IM, 174, a63; the' ishermen of,
111. 300 ; battle of (see Battles)
?reston Street, 111. 50
?retender, Defence of the, 111.194
?rice, Sir Magnus, 1. 117
?nestfield or Prestonfield, I. 3 2 6 3 .
Primrose, Viscount, I. m3,II. 124;
Primrose, Si Archibald, I. 91,111.
?rimrose Lady Dorothea, I. 257
Primus 'khe title 11. 246
Prince 'Anne of benmarks Dragoons
I. 64
Prince kharley's house, Duddmgston
11. *317
Princ;Consort, The, I. 358,II. 79;
memorial to, 11. 175, '77, a84
PrinceofWales, Marrageof, 11.284
Prince of Wales's Graving Dock,
Leith, 111. 286, q8g
358, 3647372r 11- 93, 95, 99s 100,
14, 1x0, 114, 117, 118, 119-130,
176, 182, 191 no6, zog, ?XI, 213,
372, 383,111.'146, 295 ; view from
Scott'smonument, 11.*124: view
looking west, 11. * '25
hinale, Andrew Lord Haining, I.
315, III.5p
Viscountess, I. 104
I06
Princes Street, I.39,a55,295, 339.
131,136, 139, 151, 163, 165, 175,
27;
Pringle, Sir Walter, I. 1%
Pringle, Thomas 11. 140
Pringle of Stichel, Colonel, 111.45;
Printed, Number of, in Edinburgh
Printing-press, The first, in Scot-
Prison& of 'war in Edinburgh
Privy C&ud, Imd Keeper of the,
Proctor John thecartoonist,III. 82
Project' for :urprising Edinburgh
Promisc;ous dancing, Presbyterian
Property Investment Society, I. 123
Protestant Institute, I. zg , 11. z6a
Provost of Edinburgh, Salary and
privileges of the, 11. 281, 111.
270; his first appearance in official
decorations, 11. 282
Provost Stewart's Land. West Bow,
Lady 11. 163
in 1779, I. 318
land I. 142 255
Castle 11. a48
1. 370. 372
Castle I. 67
abhorrence of, I. 315
I. 325
Provosts of Leith, The, 111. q,
Provat's Close, 11. 277
Provost's House. Kirk+f-Field,
219, zm, 270
111.3
Publicopinionin Edinburgh, Weak.
ness of formerly I. 285
PuirFolks'Purses:The,I. 138, 11.6
Pulteney, Sir ames 1. 106 '' Purging *' o/ the Scottish army,
Furitan g&ner,Anecdote ofa, 1.56
Pye, Sir Robert, 111. 260, 261
111. 186 187
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Quadrangle, The, Holymod Palace,
Quality Street. Leith, III.2~1,235,
11. '76
. .
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Quarry Holes, The, 11. 101, zw
Queen Mary (sec Mary Stuart)
111. 173
111. 128, 133, 151
Queen Mary's Apartments, Holyrood
Palace 11. 66, * 67, 74 ; h u
bedchambei, ib.
Queen Mary's Bath, 11. 40, 41
!&.en Mary's Bower, Moray
House 11. *32 33
&een Mary's r&m Dungeon in
Edinburgh Castle below, I. *ZI,
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Q&en Mary's room, Rmeburn
House, 111. 103
Queen Mary's sundial 11. 68, 73
Queen Marys tree i1. 316; her
pear.tree, Mercdiston Castle,
Plate 26 ; her tree at Craigmillar
Castle 111. 59 *60 . Queen itreet, iI. 115, 151-158,
*16o 162 175 186 18 ,194, 199,
Que& d e e t Gardens, 11.185~194.
&eenptreet, k i t h , III.r73,qo,
Queen's Dock Leith 111. 283 285
Queen's Drivi, The, \. XI, 11.'303.
ZW ;U2 d83, iI8, i72, III. 74,106
am
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231, 232
312
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the, Ptate 23
turret near the I. * 49, 78
11. 17
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Queen's Park, Volunteer review in
Queen.s Post, Ancient postern and
Queen's Theatre k d Opera Houl,
Queen $ctoria'svisit to Edinburgh,
11. 354, 362
Queensberry, Duke of, I. 162. 164,
11. 8, 35, 38, 225, 226, 351, 111.
Queensberry Duchess of I 155,
11. 37 ; herleccentric habh,.II. 38
Quernsbeny Earl of, 11. a53
Queensberry'House, Canongate, I.
1058 1'55, 327. 11. 10, 357 36, 37,
38; its present use, 11. 38
Queensberrv Lodge, 11. 38
Queensferry, I. 16, 19,II. 101. I!I.
Q u e e n 2 4 Road, 11. 115,185,sm,
Qneensferry Street, 11. 136
Qqhitncss John of, Provost, 11.278
Quince? +hornas de, 11. 135, 140,
246, 265,365
63,211, 306,307,314 ; theherrug
fishe at 111. p
207, 111. 255 - II.74,359
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Rae: Lady, !I. &, 339
&burn, Sir Henry, I. 119, 159,
a y , 384, 11. 88, go. gz, xzz,1z6,
his stepdaughter, 111. 77
Hadical Road," The, 11. II
I. 285
11. 188
187. 188, 111. 7lr 74, 6, 77, 140;
Raeburn Place, 111.79
Railston Bishop of Dunked, 11.54
Railway;, their influence foreseen,
Ramsay, Allan (see Allan Ramsay:
Ramsay, Allan, the painter, 1. 83,
Ramsay, Sir Alexander 11. 206
Ramsay, Sir Alexander,'Provost, I.
Ramsay of Dalhousie. Sir Alex.
y s Close, 11. I8
'99
ande;, I. 24, 25, 111.354, 355
Ramsay of Abbotshall, Sir Andrew.
I. 311, 11. 74 ; Lord Provost, 11.
,281
Ramsay, Sir George I. 162
Ramsay, Sir John, IiI. 42
Ramsay of Balmain, Sir John, 11.
Ramsay, Sir William 11. 166
Ramsay of Dalhousii, Sir W i l l i i
239
111.94
Ramsay, William, banker, 11. 362
111. 124
Ramsay, Cuthbert, I. 258
Ramsay Dean 11. 126, 205, 206
portrait of, 1;. * 128
Ramsay, Duel between Sir Georgq
and Capt. Macrae, 111. 13-14,
Ramsay, General John, I. 83, I1
I28
camsay, Lady, and Capt. Macrae,
<amay Lady Elizabeth 111.32
Zamsay: Miss Christian,'her fondcamsay,
The Misses, 111. 138
camsay Garden, I. 83, 11.82 ; view
camsay Lane, 1. 87. 91
camsay Lane, Portp,bello 111. *153 <amsnpS, Peter, White Horse
<am$y's Fort, Leith, 111. 171
tandolph Earl of Moray 11.47
candolph' Sir Thomas ; successful
re-captlre of the Castle by, 1. 24
candolph Cliff, 111. 70,75. f'tate 28
candolph Crescent, I. 237, 11. 11.5,
ZW, 2057 2071 20% 209
bnkeillor Street 11. 39
cankenion Club,'The, 11.180
lavelrig, 111. 334
tavelrig Hill, 111. 331
<avelston, I. 331, Ill. 79, 106
tavelston House 111. 106, 108
<wen's Craig ri. 307
<awdon Lad;Elizabeth, 11. 18
<ay Jdhn rectur of the high
Sc~ool, Ii. 290
<eade,Charles, thenovelist, 111.303
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<ay: Lady ElLabTeth Fairlie, 12
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<edhallCastle, 111.313; themanor
tedheughs, 'I he 111. 114,31g,33r
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111. 139--14I
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from Princes Street, Pidr 17
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270
house, 11.43
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Restalrig Lwh, 111. 13
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of the, I. 55, '59, 176, 11.
334
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for the I. 66
Review dfScottish Volunteers, 1860,
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168 ... OLD AND NEW' EDINBURGH. 'Plague in Leith, The 111. 180,186 Plainstane's close ~ i . ...

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8 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
No. CLXXIII.
THE LAWNMARKET COACH ;
A JOURNEY ALONG THE MOUND.
THIS Print is commemorative of an affair connected with the formation of the
Mound, or “ Mud Brig,” as, in olden time, it was not unfrequently called by the
lower classes. The inconvenience arising from the want of direct communication
between the Lawnmarket and Princes Street began to be seriously felt as
the New Town extended towards the west. In 1783, when the Mound was
first projected, Princes Street was built as far as Hanover Street.
Prior to this, some individuals in Edinburgh had formed an association for
the purpose of furthering Burgh Reform. Among the members were Lord
Gardenstone, Robert Grahame of Gartmore, William Charles Little of Liberton,
and several other gentlemen holding similar opinions. This movement in the
capital was speedily responded to in the provinces, and delegates were despatched
from almost all the Royal Burghs in Scotland to co-operate with the
committee formed in Edinburgh. The first Convention was held in Mary’s
Chapel, on the 25th March 1784-Mr. Little of Liberton,’ president-at which
resolutions were passed declaratory of their rights as citizens.
Some of the original promoters of the Burgh Reform Convention, encouraged
by the success of their political exertions, began to agitate on the subject of local
improvements. Residing chiefly either in the Lawnmarket or its neighbourhood,
they had long felt the want of some kind of communication with Princes
Street more direct than by the North Bridge. They at first thought of applying
for aid by petition to the Town Council; but, recollecting how obnoxious
their late proceedings must have rendered them to the corporation, they abandoned
the idea, and resolved to open a subscription, which they did at “ Dunn’s
Hotel,”’ for the purpose of constructing a thoroughfare. The subscription was
Mr. Little lived in a house at the bottom of Brodie’s Close, Lawnmarket, built by his ancestor
William Little, a magistrate of Edinburgh in the reign of James VI., and xhich was entailed in the
family; it wa8 afterwards occupied by Deacon Brodie, from whom the Close obtained its name.
The tenement was demolished to make room for the city improvements. Several of the carved
stones, and other parts of the house, have been taken to Inch House (Mr. Little’s residence near
Liberton), as relics of the habitation of the predecessors of the family. Mr. Little afterwards
resided in a house forming the angle between Potterrow and Bristo Street, which was known, from
its shape, by the name of the Ace of Czuhs.
a A small phblic-house in the Lawnmarket, at the mouth of the uppermost entry to Jam&
Court, kept by Robert Dunn, much frequented by the merchants at that period, and termed
‘‘Dum’s Hotel,” by way of burlesque-Dum’s elegant hotel in Princes Street having been then
newly opened. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. No. CLXXIII. THE LAWNMARKET COACH ; A JOURNEY ALONG THE MOUND. THIS Print is ...

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110 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Lord Abercromby of Aboukir and Tullibody, and married, 27th January 1799,
Montague, third daughter of Henry first Viscount Melville, by whom he has
issue one son and two daughters. His second son, John, G.C.B., died unmarried
in the year 181 7. The third son, James (a Privy Councillor), practised as an
English barrister, and was for many years auditor to the Duke of Devonshire.
He relinquished that employment upon being appointed Judge-Advocate-General,
under Canning’s Administration. He was afterwards appointed (in February
1830) Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, which office he
held until its abolition. It is hardly necessary to mention that James is
presently (1837), M.P. for the city of Edinburgh and Speaker of the House of
Commons. He married, in 1802, Mary Ann, daughter of Egerton Leigh, Esq.,
by whom he has issue one son, Ralph (born 6th April 1803), now (1837)
envoy to Tuscany. The fourth son, Alexander, C.B., who still survives, is
(1837) a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.
’
No. LIII.
LAUCHLAN M‘BAIN.
THIS Print, done in 1791, represents a well-known vendor of roasting-jacks.
Although’ confessing at this period to the venerable age of seventy-five, he was
still “ hale and hearty,” and in the zenith of his professional celebrity.
Lauchlan had been a soldier, and at one time served in the 21st, or Royal
Scots Fusiliers. It is not said whether he had been at the inglorious affair of
Prestonpans, but he hesitated not to state that he was one of the victors at
Culloden. At what period he obtained his discharge is unknown ; but unfortunately
for him his retirement from the army was not accompanied by any
pension. Upon the cessation of his military duties he came to Edinburgh, where
he settled down in civil life by becoming a manufacturer of fly-jacks and
toasting-forks. In this vocation Lauchlan soon acquired notoriety, and became one
of the characters of ‘‘ Auld Reekie.” Those who recollect him, and there are
many, siill remember the fine modulations of his sonorous yet musical voice, as he
sang the “ roasting toasting” ditty; and like Blind Aleck of Glasgow, he was
“ the author of all he made, said, or sung.”
Lauchlan was unquestionably a favourite with the populace ; but as the most
universally esteemed are unable to elbow through the world without sometimes
giving offence, so it happened with the honest vendor of roasting-jacks. His
professional chant, as he frequently winded his way up the back stairs leading
from the Cowgate to the Parliament Square, became exceedingly annoying to
the gentlemen of the long robe, who, though anxious to abate the nuisance,
were unable legally to entangle their tormentor in the meshes of the law.
Lauchlan, sensible that these visits might be turned to account, was most ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Lord Abercromby of Aboukir and Tullibody, and married, 27th January 1799, Montague, ...

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LEITH. 1'3
on the site of the old building, erected in 1555 during the regency of Mary
of Guise, and possesses several pictures of great merit-particularly an interesting
view of Leith in the olden times, an admirable portrait of Admiral Lord
Duncan, a very truthful and highly finished likeness of the Queen-Regent by
Mytens, with Scott's grand and graphic painting of Vasco de Gama passing
the Cape of Good Hope. So the Custom House is another erection of a
large and interesting character, of the same description of building, with
pillars and pediment in front, and having in the tympanum of its pediment a
rather ostentatious sculpture of the Royal Arms. It is situated in North
Leith, just at the west end of the lower drawbridge leading from Bernard
Street into Commercial Place, with its back to the harbour, from which it is
separated by a narrow strip of pier, where small craft are usually found
moorkd.
The Ecclesiastical structures, however, are perhaps still more deserving of
attention, of which there are not a few rather stately fabrics. South Leith
Church which stands on the east side of the Kirkgate, moved back from the
thoroughfare about twenty yards, and surrounded by a graveyard, very neatly
arranged and beautifully kept, in which many af the famed and influential of
the district sleep their long deep sleep, is a noble edifice of the early Gothic
type. It has a very handsome tower, rising from the ground in the north-west
corner, and terminating in an elegant Gothic balustrade, on the right of which,
in the gable of the church fronting the street, is a magnificent window of richly
stained glass, which, when lit up by the rays of the setting sun or by the lights
within, produces a fine effect. The old church, which this has displaced,
was perhaps a still more imposing fabric. In its style it was likewise Gothic,
but cruciform in its construction, with a turret or spire of wood and metal
springing from its summit. It suffered in the conflagration of 1544, cadsed
by the invasion of the Earl of Hertford, and was diminished to the nave.
We may add that on the suppression of the church at Restalrig in 1609, this
became the parochial place of worship, and was originally dedicated to
St. Mary. St. John's Church, at first a chapel of ease, but now erected into
a separate charge, is likewise an interesting building. It has a tower of two
stages, the first quadrangular and adorned with pinnacles at the angles, the
other octangular and surmounted by a balustrade and numerous pinnacles.
Altogether the fabric is rather of the showy or flowery type, and when seen at
a distance has a somewhat gingery or fantastic appearance. Another structure
of the kind, not very far from it but in a different street, is perhaps a still
better specimen of ecclesiastical architecture: we refer to Free St. John's.
P ... 1'3 on the site of the old building, erected in 1555 during the regency of Mary of Guise, and ...

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322 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
In the University of Edinburgh the taste for Grecian literature had been gradually
giving way. Besides, the great fame of Professor Moor of the Glasgow
College, together with the excellent editions of the Greek classics then issuing
from the press of the Foulises, had well-nigh annihilated the reputation of the
capital altogether. The enthusiasm and ability of Professor Dalziel, however,
imparted new life to the study of classical learning; and the various improvements
which he introduced in his system of tuition, tended in an eminent degree
to restore the character of the University, and to draw around him students
from the most distant quarters. The elementary class-books he compiled were
so well adapted to the object for which they were designed, that they soon
found their way into many of the chief schools of England ; and, with certain
modifications and improvements, are still very generally in use.
Professor Dalziel was in the habit of delivering a series of lectures to his
students on Grecian history, antiquities, literature, philosophy, and the fine arts.
These discourses were always well attended, and were deeply interesting even to
the youngest of his auditors. “There was a witchery in his address which
could prevail alike over sloth and over levity,” and never failed to rivet the
attention of his hearers.
When the Royal Society of Edinburgh was instituted in 1783, Mr. Dalziel
was prevailed on to undertake the duties of Secretary to its literary class ; and
to his labours while acting in this capacity, the Society is indebted for several
able essays and other interesting communications.
On the death of Dr. James Robertson, Professor of Oriental Languages in
1795, Mr. Dalziel, who had been associated with him as conjunct Secretary and
Librarian, was appointed Keeper of the College Library, having as his assistant
Mr. Duke Gordon, with whom he lived on terms of great intimacy ; and, on
whose death, in 1802, he did ample justice to his memory, in an exceedingly
well written and very interesting memoir of his life, which he communicated
to the Editor of the Scots Magazine.
After a lingering illness, Mr. Dalziel died on the 8th December 1806. He
was married to a daughter of Dr. Drysdale, his early friend and benefactor-a
lady of distinguished accomplishments and sweetness of temper, by whom he
had several children.
In stature
he was among the tallest of the middle size; his complexion was fair ; his
aspect mild and interesting ; his eyes were blue, and full of vigorous expression ;
and his features plump, without heaviness or grossness. His address was graceful
and impressive. He took little exercise ; but when he did walk, his favourite
resort was the King’s Park. The attitude in which he is portrayed in the
Print represents him in one of his rural excursions. During the latter period
of his life Mr. Dalziel resided within the College, in the house which had been
long occupied by Principal Robertson.
The personal appearance of Professor Dalziel was prepossessing. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. In the University of Edinburgh the taste for Grecian literature had been ...

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6 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
Dederyk, Alderman of Edinburgh, with the whole community of the town, swore fealty to
the usurper.
Immediately after the final triumph of the Bruce, few occurrences of importance, in connection
with Edinburgh, are recorded ; though here, on the 8th March 1327, his Parliament
held its sittings in the Abbey of Holyrood,' and here also his sixteenth and last Parliament
assembled in March 1328. From the glimpses we are able to obtain from time to
time, it may be inferred that it still occupied a very secondary station among the towns
of Scotland; and while the Cast,le was always an object of importance with every rival
power, its situation was much too accessible from the English border to be permanently
chosen as the royal reaidence. In the interregnum, for example, after the death of Margaret,
the Maid of Norway, we find, in 1304, when a general Parliament was summoned
by Edward to be held at Perth, for the settlement of Scotland, sheriffs are appointed for
each of twenty-one burghs named, while Edinburgh is grouped with Haddington and
Linlithgow, under '' Ive de Adeburgh ; " and the recapture of the Castle, on two successive
occasions, by Edward, obtains but a passing notice, amid the stirring interest of the
campaigns d Bruce.
Towards the close of 1312, when the persevering valour of Bruce, and the imbecility of
Edward II., had combined to free nearly every stronghold of Scotland from English garrisons,
we find the Castle of Edinburgh held for the English by Piers Leland, a Gascon
knight; but when Randolph, the nephew of the Bruce, laid it under strict blockade, the
garrison, suspecting his fidelity, thrust him into a dungeon, and prepared, under a newly
chosen commander, to hold out to the last. Matters were in this state, when a romantic
incident restored this important fortress to the Scottish arms. William Frank, a soldier,
who had previously formed one of the Scottish garrison, volunteered to guide the besiegers
by a steep and intricate path up the cliff, by which he had been accustomed in former years
to escape during the night from military durance, to enjoy the society of a fair maiden
of the neighbouring city, of whom he was enamoured. Frequent use had made him familiar
with the perilous ascent ; and, under his guida,nce, Randolph, with thirty men, scaled
the Castle walls at midnight; and after a determined resistance, the garrison was overpowered.
Leland, the imprisoned governor, entered the Scottish service on his release,
and, according to Barbour, was created by the King Viscount of Edinburgh ; but afterwards,
headds, he thought that he had an English heart, and made him to be Aangit and
dramen.'
Acta of Parliament of Scotland, vol. i. fol. Hailes' Annals, vol. i. p. 285.
Ibid., vol. ii. p. 38.
VIGNETTE-Ancient atone from Edinburgh Castle, now in the Antiquarian Museum. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. Dederyk, Alderman of Edinburgh, with the whole community of the town, swore fealty ...

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198 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
“ For worth revered, 10 I full of years,
Amid the sorrowing people’s tears,
Does Hopetoun to the tomb descend,
Who mourn their constant, kindest friend,
Oft have I heard, as o’er hie land
I wandered in my youthful days,
The farmer bless his fostering hand,
And ploughman’s ruder note of praise.
Oft,(too, in Humbie’s fairy vale-
Of Hopetoun have I heard the tale
Romantic vale I so sweetly wild-
Of sorrow soothed or want beguiled.
The mausoleum may arise,
But far superior are the sighs
Displaying well the sculptor’s art ;
That rise from many a wounded heart.
The historic record shall survive,
The legendary tribute live
And unimpaired its meed bestow ;
When time haa laid the structure low.
In early life to warfare trained,
He gained the glory arms can yield ;
When Gallia had her lilies stained
On Minden’s memorable field.
Hsnce wreathed, the titled path he trod-
A path (haw few pursue his plan !)
Bright, marked with piety to God
And warm benevolence to man.
The niche he leaves a brother fills,
Long, long o’er Scotia’s vales and hills
Whose prowess fame has blazoned wide ;
Shall Niddry’s deeds be told with pride !”
Having no male issue, the Earl of Hopetoun was succeeded by his half-brother
John, fourth Earl, G.C.B., and General in the Army, who had distinguished
himself so much by his gallantry and abilities in the West Indies in 1794 ; in
Holland in 1799 j and at the battles of Corunna, Bayonne, Bourdeaux, and
Toulouse. For these services he was created a British Peer in 1814, by the
title of Baron Niddry. A
handsome equestrian statue has lately been erected to his memory in St. Andrew
Square, in front of the Royal Bank, by the citizens of Edinburgh.
. Earl John was twice married,-first, in 1798, to Elizabeth, youngest
.(aughter of Charles Hope Vere of Craighall, who died without issue in 1801 ;
secondly, in 1803, to Louisa Dorothea, third daughter of Sir John Wedderburn
of Ballendean, by whom he had twelve children,’ of whom seven sons and
It will be recollected that when George IV. visited Scotland in 1822, his Majesty embarked at
Port-Edgar, having previously partaken of a repast at Hopetoun House with the Earl, his family,
and a select company assembled for the occasion. While at breakfaat, one of the Earl’s sons, a lively
He died at Paris on the 27th August 1823.
‘ ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. “ For worth revered, 10 I full of years, Amid the sorrowing people’s tears, Does ...

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21 4 B I0 GRAPH I CA L SI< ET C HE S.
popular there. An attempt was at one time very injudiciously made to stop the
players by the tacksman, but ineffectually. About Edinburgh, Musselburgh,
Perth, St. Andrews, and other districts, where no restraints exist, golf maintains a
decided superiority, and seems at the present time to be followed with new spirit.
Indeed the game was never more popular. In addition to the old Clubs in the
districts already mentioned, another was some time ago established at North
Berwick, the meetings of which are numerously attended. St. Andrews, however,
has been denominated the Doncaster of golfing. A great many of the
nobility and gentry of the neighbouring counties are members of the Club, which
bears the name of the tutelar Saint, and the autumn meeting may be said to
continue for a week, during which the crack players from all quarters of the
country have an opportunity of pitting their strength and skill against each
other. On these occasions the Links, crowded with players and spectators, present
a gay and animated scene. Two medals are played for-the one belonging to
the Club, and the other a gift of King William the Fourth-which latter was
competed for at the meeting in 1537 for the first time, and attracted a very
great assemblage of the best golfers. At the ordinaries in the evening, the
parties “ fight their battles o’er again,” and new matches are entered into. The
day on which the King’s medal was played for terminated with a ball, given by
the Club, which was numerously and fashionably attended. In London a society
of golfers still exists, principally composed, we believe, of Scotsmen, called the
“ Blackheath Golf Club,” which was established prior to the year 1745.’
I
ALEXAXDEMR ‘KELLARt,h e “ Cock 0’ the Green”-whom the Print represents
as abofit to strike the ball-was probably one of the most enthusiastic golfplayers
that ever handled a clnb. When the weather would at all permit, he
generally spent the whole day on Bruntsfield Links ; and he was frequently to
be found engaged at the “ short holes ” by lamp light. Even in winter, if the
snow was sufficiently frozen, he might be seen enjoying his favourite exercise
alone, or with any one he could persuade to join him in the pastime. M‘Kellar
thus became well known in the neighbourhood of the green ; and his almost
insane devotion to golf was a matter of much amusement to his acquaintances.
So thoroughly did he enter into the spirit of the game, that every other
consideration seemed obliterated for the time. By the la’ Harry,” or “By
gracious, this won’t go for nothing!” he would exclaim involuntarily, as he
endeavoured to ply his club with scientific skill ; and when victory chanced to
crown his exertions, he used to give way to his joy for a second or two by dancing
round the golf hole. M‘Kellar, however, was not a member of any of the
Clubs ; and, notwithstanding his incessant practice, he was by no means considered
a dexterous player. This is accounted for by the circumstance of his
having been far advanced in years before he had an opportunity of gaining a
1 For the best and most recent account of this game, see “ Golf : A Royal and Ancient Game,”
with Illustrations. Edinburgh : R. & R. Clark. 1875. ... 4 B I0 GRAPH I CA L SI< ET C HE S. popular there. An attempt was at one time very injudiciously made to stop ...

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6 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
The reply brought by the bearer was :-
“ SIR,-~ have just received youm, and have taken no liberties with your character but what I
am able to anawer for. Youra, etc. J. MAOHARQ.”
On receipt of this imprudent answer, although the= dark (about eight o’clock
in the evening of the 26th March), Major Campbell, with a bayonet by his
side, and a small sword in his hand, proceeded to the tent of Macharg, whom
he found sitting without any other arms than a broadswor’d. On demanding
satisfaction-which he did in no very measured terms-the Captain endeavoured
to evade a meeting, on the ground that he had not proper weapons. The Major
thereupon struck him several times with his sword, and, seizing him by the
breast, dragged him to the door of the tent. Being thus compelled to stand
on the defensive in the best way he could, a scuffle ensued, when both parties
fell-the Major uppermost. In this situation the victor tauntingly ordered his
antagonist to beg his life, which the latter did, but almost immediately afterwards
expired. On examination it was found that Macharg had received no
less ,than eleven wounds, two of them mortal. Neither did they appear to
have been all given by the same instrument. One incision evidently had been
by a thrust of the bayonet, which was found unsheathed where the struggle had
occurred.
Major Campbell was immediately put under arrest ; and, on the 6th of April
1762, tried for murder by a court-martial held at Fort-Royal, in the Island
of Martinico. The following is a summary of the evidence given before the
Court :-
“ William Gillespie, who carried the letter from the Major to the Captain, and brought back the
answer, deponed-That he followed him to the Captain’s tent ; that he saw him give the Captain
three or four strokes with the sword, the scabbard being on the blade ; that he asked him to turn out
-who replied that he had not a small sword ; that he then took hold of him by the breast, and bid
him turn out any way; that he hauled him by the breast till he got him ontside the tent, and threw
him down there ; that in struggling both were down together ; that they got up, and both fell a second
time ; and that the Major, while they were on the ground a second time, asked the Captain to leg
his life three or four times.
“ Alexander M‘Kenzie deponed-That he heard the Major say, ‘ Turn out if you be a man ;’ that
he saw them on the ground together, and that the Major said, ‘Beg your life, or you are a dead
man ;’ that the Captain answered, ‘I do beg my life-I am a dead man-send for the surgeon ;’ that
the Major said-immediately after the Captain had said ‘ I am a dead man ’-‘ Is there nobody there
to go for the surgeon ? ’
“ Robert Haldane deponed-That he heard the Major say, ‘You have made free with my character
in tom-turn out immediately ;’ that the Captain replied he had no small sword, and begged he
might get one ; that he saw them struggling together, and fall to the ground ; that the Major said,
‘Beg your life ;’ that the Captain said, ‘I do beg my life ;’ that the Major afterwards asked him
again if he begged his life ? to which he replied, I am a dead man ;’ that then the Major got up and
ordered the surgeon to be sent for.
“Donald Morison deponed-That they came out of the tent on each side of the door pole,
struggling with each other ; that when they were on the ground, the MIajor said, ‘ Do you beg your
life now P’ that the Captain answered-‘Yea ;’ that the Major required him to beg his life a second
and a third time, the Captain still answering-‘Yea ;’ but that at the last time he said he was gone ;
and the surgeon was sent for.”
Major Campbell endeavoured to invalidate the evidence of the witnesses.
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8 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
supply of water. From thence they sallied out from time to time, as occasions offered,
and not only harassed the enemy in the neighbouring capital, but extended their inroads
even as far as into Northumberland.’
In 1341, the Castle was recovered from the English by an ingenious stratagem, planned
by William Bullock, who had previously held the castle of Coupar for Baliol. Under his
directions, one Walter Curry of Dundee received into his ship two hundred Scots, under
the command of William de Douglas, Frazer, and Joachim of Kinbak, and casting anchor
in Leith Roads, he presented himself to the governor of the Castle, as master of an English
vessel, just arrived with a valuable cargo of wines and provisions on board, which he offered
to dispose of for the use of the garrison. “he bait took; and the pretended trader appeared
at the Castle, according to appointment, early on the following morning, attended by a dozen
armed followers, disguised as sailors. Upon entering the Castle, they contrived to overturn
their casks and hampers, so as to obstruct the closing of the gates, and instantly slew
the porter and guard. At an appointed signal, Douglas and his men sprung from their
concealment in the immediate neighbourhood, and, after a fierce conflict, overpowered the
garrison, and took possession of the Castle, in the name of David 11. In the following
month the young King, with his consort, Johanna, landed from France, and, within a short
time, the English were expelled from Scotland. When, a few years afterwards, the disastrous
raid of Durham terminat,ed in the defeat of the Scottish army, and the captivity
of the King, we find, in the treaty for his ransom, the merchants and burgesses of Edinburgh,
along with those of Aberdeen, Perth, and Dundee, are held bound for themselves,
and all the other merchants of Scotland, for its fulfilment. And, ultimately, a Parliament
was held at Edinburgh, in 1357, for final adjustment of the terms of the royal ransom, where
the Regent Robert, the steward of Scotland (afterwards King Robert II.), presided ; at
which, in addition to the clergy and nobles, there were delegates present from seventeen
burghs, among which Edinburgh appears for the first time placed at the head.
After David 11. returned from
England, he resided during his
latter days in the Castle, to
which he made extensive additions,
enlarging the fortifications
so recently rebuilt; and
adding in particular an extensive
building, afterwards known
by the name of David’s
Tower,” which stood for 200
years, till battered to pieces in
the regency of James VI. ; and
here he died on the 22d February
.
1370, in the forty-second year of his age, and was buried in the church of the Abbey of Holyrood,
before the high altar. He was a brave and gifted prince, who in happier times might
1 Caledonia, vol. ii. p. 290.
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so much so, that the publishers presented the author with two additional 6ums
of money, by way of compliment. Not long after its first publication, the
volume attracted the notice of George 111. and his consort--a portion of the
sermons, it is said, having been first read to their Majesties in the royal closet
by the eloquent Earl of Mansfield. So highly did their Majesties esteem the
merits of the author, that a pension of €200 was settled upon him. The
Doctor afterwards published other three volumes of sermons, all of which met
an equally flattering reception, and were translated into almost all the European
languages.
Upon occasion of the publication of Dr. Blair’s Lectures, Logan the poet
addressed a letter to Dr. Gilbert Stuart, at that time editor of the “English
Review and Political Herald,” from which the following beautiful extracts have
been taken : -
I need not
tell you that I am very much interested in the fate and fame of all his works.
Besides his literary merit, he hath borne his faculties so meekly in every situation,
that he is entitled to favour as well as candour. He has never with pedantic
authority opposed the career of other authors, but has, on the contrary, favoured
every literary attempt. He has never studied to push himself immaturely into
the notice of the world, but waited the call of the public for all his productions;
and now, when he retires from the republic of letters into the vale of ease, I
cannot help wishing success to Fingal’ in the last of his fields. * * * *
Your influence to give Dr. Blair his last passport to the public will be very
agreeable to the Ziterati here, and will be a particular favour done to me. It
will still farther enhance the obligation if you will write me such a letter as I
can show him, to quiet his fean.’’
Dr. Blair retired from the Professorship in 1788, in consequence of advanced
age, and in a few years afterwards found himself also unable to discharge the
duties of the pulpit. Such, however, was the vigour of his intellect, that in
1799, when past his eightieth year, he composed and preached one of the most
effective sermons he ever delivered, in behalf of the Fund for the Benefit of the
Sons of the Clergy, the subject of which was-“ The compassionate beneficence
of the Deity.”
In addition to his acquirements in theology and general literature, Dr. Blair
was intimately acquainted with some of the sciences ; while it may be worthy of
remark, he also indulged to a considerable extent in light reading. “The
Arabian Nights’ Entertainments,” and ‘‘ Don Quixote,” were among his especial
favourites. He was also an admirer of Mrs. Anne Radcliffe’s talents for romance,
and honoured Mr. Pratt’s ‘‘ Emma Corbett ” with particular praise. In Church
politics, although the Doctor took no active part, he was, like his intimate friend
Principal Robertson, a decided Moderate, and was zealous to adopt any means
of improving the worship of the Church of Scotland, where such could be done
This allusion, considering the share Dr. Blair had in bringing the worka of Ossian to light, is
“Dr. Blair’s Lectures are to be published sometime in spring.
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erect and alert carriage, together with some oldfashioned
peculiarities of costume, which made her
one of the most noted street figures of her time.
The editor of ?The Book of Days? says that
he is enabled to recall a walk he had one day with
Sir Walter, ending in Constable?s shop, No. 10,
Princes Street, when Lady Clerk was purchasing
some books at a side counter. Sir Walter, passing
through to the stairs by which Mr. Constable?s
room was reached, did not recognise her ladyship,
%rho, catching sight of him as he was about to
PRINCES STREET, LOOKING WEST. (From a Photogmjh ay G. NI. WiZsoti and Co.)
The University Club, to. the westward, was
erected in 1866-7, from designs by Peddie and
Kinnear, in an ornate Italian style, with Grecian
decoration, at the cost of ~14,000, and has ample
accommodation for 650 members. The new Conservative
Club, a nimor edifice, stands a little to
the east of it.
Nos. 129 and 130 are now extensive shop
premises. In 1811 the former was the residence
of Sir Alexander Charles Gibson-Maitland of
Clifton Hall, in Lothian, the first baronet of the
ascend, called out, ? Oh, Sir Walter ! are you really
going to pass me?? He immediately turned to
make his usual cordial Feetings, and apologised
with demurely waggish reference to her odd dress :
?I?m sure, my lady, by this time I might know
your back as well as your face.? ?
No. 104 is now connected with the first attempt
in arcades in Edinburgh. It forms a six-storey
edifice, comprising an hotel, and is an elegant glassroofed
bazaar hall, 105 feet long by 30 feet high.
, It was completed in 1876. In 1830, No. 105
was the residence of the Honourable Baron Clerk
Rattray, It is now a warehouse; and some fifteen
years before that, No. XIO was the residence of
Drummond of Blair Drummond. It is now
Taylor?s Repository. Drummocd of Gairdrum
occupied No. I I 7.
name, who died in 1820; and in No. 136 dwelt
Mr. Henry Siddons of the Theatre Royal.
No. 146 was latterly the Osborne Hotel, which
was nearly destroyed by fire in 1879. In the
following year it was opened as the Scottish
Liberal Club, inaugurated by the Right Hon.
W. E. Gladstone, M.P. for Midlothian.
At the extreme west end of the street, and at its
junction with the Lothian Road, stands St. John?s
Episcopal Chapel, erected in 1817, after a design,
in the somewhat feeble modern Gothic of that day,
by William Burn, though modelled from and partially
detailed after St. George?s Chapel at Windsor.
It is an oblong edifice, consisting of a nave and
aisles, I 13 feet long by 62 feet wide, and has at its
western extremity a square pinnacled tower, 120
feet high. The whole cost, at first, about ,f18,ooo. ... and alert carriage, together with some oldfashioned peculiarities of costume, which made her one of the ...

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96 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
No. XLIV.
COCK-FIGHTING MATCH
BETWEEN THE COUNTIES OF LANARK AND HADDINGTON.
THIS affair was decided in the unfinished kitchen of the Assembly Roams,
in 1785 ; on which occasion the gentlemen cock-fighters of the county of East
Lothian were the victors. Among the audience will be recognised likenesses
of the principal individuals of this fancy at the time. Hay, in his MS. notes,
particularly points out those of Sir James Baird of Newbyth, William Hamilton,
Esq. of Wishaw (afterwards Lord Belhaven), - MacLeod, Esq. of Drimnin,
Lord North the caddy, the noted Deacon Brodie, and several other eminent
cockers. The two figures in the pit represent the persons employed by the
different parties ; the one was an Edinburgh butcher, the other an Englishman.
In allusion to this contest Kay observes, " It cannot but appear surprising
that noblemen and gentlemen, who upon any other occasion will hardly show the
smallest degree of condescension to their inferiors, will, in the prosecution of
this barbarous amusement, demean themselves so far as to associate with the
very lowest characters in society."
Cock-fighting prevailed to a great extent among the Romans, who most
likely adopted it, among other things, from the Greeks, with this addition, that
they used quails as well as the common gamecock. With the Romans cockfighting
is presumed to have been introduced into Britain, although the first
notice me have of it is by Fitz-Stephen, in his Life of the famous Thomas
a-Becket, in the reign of Henry 11. There were several enactments made
against the practice in the reigns of Edward 111. and Henry VIII., but it is
well known that the cock-pit at Whitehall was erected by royalty itself, for the
more magnificent celebration of the sport : it was again prohibited during the .
Protectorship of Cromwell in 1654, and afterwards by the Act 25th Geo. 111.
Notwithstanding the efforts made to put it down, this disreputable amusement
continued in all parts of England to be practised with the utmost wantonness
almost to the present time.
In Scotland, cock-fighting was for many years an ordinary recreation. In
1705 William Machrie, fencing-master in Edinburgh, published " An Essay
upon the Royal Recreation and Art of Cocking. Edinburgh, printed by James
Watson in Craig's Gloss. Sold by Mr. Robert Freebairn in the Parliament
Closs, 1705." 12mo. This tract, which is now exceedingly scarce, is dedicated
to the nobility and gentry of Scotland, who are told that "the sport of cockfighting
is improv'd to a great height; 'tis as much an art as managing of
horses for races or for the field of battle j and tho' it has been in vogue over all
Europe, yet 'twas never esteem'd nor practis'd but by the nobility and gentry.
It was kept up only by people of rank, and never sunk down to the hands of
the commonality, where the art of managing this fierce and warlike bird had ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. No. XLIV. COCK-FIGHTING MATCH BETWEEN THE COUNTIES OF LANARK AND HADDINGTON. THIS ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 105
descendants are now alive.
the 8th July 1800.
Mr. Dickson died, at his house at Stockbridge, on
MR. JAMES TORRY, the pondurn friend of Bailie Dickson, was born about
the year 1746 at Paxton in Berwickshire. His father Mr. John Torry was for
some time governor of Edington Castle, and afterwards factor over the estate of
Mr. Hume of Paxton, and one of the most influential farmers in that countryside.
Mr. Torry came to Edinburgh in early life, and served his apprenticeship
as a clothier with his cousin, Mr. John Black. He afterwards commenced
business in partnership with Mr. Butter, predecessor of the present Mr. Butter
of Fascally, Perthshire. Their shop was the first one on the east side of the
Royal Exchange entry, now (1837) possessed by Mr. Blyth. Mr. Torry married
Miss Jane Halliday, daughter of Mr. James Halliday, brewer, Leith, by whom
he got the estate of Strathore, which he afterwards sold to the father of John
Fergus, Esq., the present proprietor, and Member of Parliament for the Kirkcaldy
district of burghs. He was elected a member of the Town Council in 1772,
and next year was constituted one of the magistrates of the city, which honours
he enjoyed until 1786. He died on the 22d of November 1788, leaving a son,’
and daughter. The former survives, but the latter (Blrs. Major Douglas) died
in Gilmore Place only a few months ago (1837).
No. L.
WILLIAISI DOYLE,
SAMUEL SONE, AND
WILLIAM FOSTER.
THE first of these figures to the left was a Lieutenant Doyle ; the centre one,
Mr. Sone, surgeon, commonly called “ The Little Doctor ;” and the third,
Captain Foster, all of the 24th Regiment; the two last were inseparable
companions, notwithstanding their disparity in point of size.
While here with the Regiment in 1784, they were remarkable for their
attention to the fair sex ; Mr. Kay has accordingly represented them as squireing
three of the most celebrated belles of the day, dressed in the fashion of the
time, along the North Bridge.
d’dschkow, the Lord Provost and Magistrates, and many of the nobility and gentry in the city and
neighbourhood. Next day his Excellency WBS presented with the freedom of the city, on which
occasion the Lord Provost (Dalrymple) gave an elegant entertainment in his own house. On the 9th
of October his Excellency set sail from Leith Roads, on his return to Russia.’’ While on this visit,
tlie Admiral also went to London, where he was introduced to the King.
He was for several years a clothier, under the “ Three Wool Packs,” and well known in the
sporting circles of Edinburgh ; but he latterly retired from business, whether with or without a
fortune we know not. His daughter.Jane married, in June 1832, Henry Lord Cardross, eldest son
of the, Earl of Buchan.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 331
only.’ The truth is, that in those days the practice of midwifery was almost
solely confined to that sex, as it was only in difficult cases that the assistance of
male practitioners was called in ; and hence it very frequently happened that the
labour was found to be too far advanced to admit of their aid being of material
service, and thus from want of skill, the lives of many mothers and children
were lost. The public owe it to the strenuous exertions of Dr. Young (the first
Professor of Midwifery in the College of Edinburgh), and of the subject of this
memoir, that so few fatal cases occur in this way, in the metropolitan districts of
. Scotland. Both of these gentlemen were indefatigable in their efforts to impress
upon the public the necessity and advantages of all who practised midwifery, both
male and female, being regularly instructed in the art. In their days they had
very formidable prejudices to encounter. They had not only to contend with
the gross ignorance of those who were in established practice, and whose interests
were so nearly related to the continuance of the system ; but such was the state
of public feeling, that there were many who pretended to the name of philosophers,
who encouraged the prejudice. The principal argument upon which
they insisted, which happens not to be fact in all cases, was, that nature is the
proper midwife. This, combined with certain fastidious notions of delicacy,
had the effect of confining the obstetrical art to females. But such has been
the gradual improvement of the age in which we live, that we have the highest
authority (even that of the present excellent Professor in the University of
Edinburgh) for affirming that the public conviction of the utility of the art is
so great, that there is now hardly a parish of Scotland the midwife of which
has not been regularly taught ; and it may with truth be added, that the propriety
and advantage of males practising as accoucheurs is now so generally
admitted, as to make it very probable that the employment of females in midwifery
may in time be entirely superseded. In three of the four Universities
of Scotland there are Professors of Midwifery, viz., in Glasgow, Marischal College,
and in Edinburgh, in which city there was established, in 1791, a
Lying-in Hospital,’ under the more immediate patronage of the magistrates,
the Lord Provost being President, and the Professor of Midwifery Ordinary
Physician.
The prefixed Plate contains a striking likeness of the late DR. ALEXANDER
HAMILTONT. his gentleman was born in 1739 at Fordoun, near Montrose,
where his father, who had been a surgeon in the army during Queen Anne’s
wars, was established as a medical practitioner. He came to Edinburgh about the
year 1755, as assistant to Mr. John Straiton, a surgeon then in extensive
practice ; and on that gentleman’s death, in 1762, he was urged by a number of
respectable families to settle in Edinburgh. He accordingly, on application,
was admitted a member of the College of Surgeons in that city, for the Royal
College was not incorporated until 1578. Of an active and bustling disposition,
After him Mr. Robert Smith taught the same class for seventeen yeam.
and, on the anniversary of its institution, used to dine aunually with the Professor.
’ The Earl of Leven and Melville took a very active part in getting this Hospital established ; ... SKETCHES. 331 only.’ The truth is, that in those days the practice of midwifery was almost solely ...

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56 EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT.
On the following day her Majesty unveiled the Albert Memorial in
Charlotte Square. James Smith in his poem-a copy of which the Queen
was graciously pleased to accept-writes :-
’ ‘ Welcome to lair Dunedin’s bowers :
Her lordly halls and regal towers,
Enwreath’d with bannerets and flowers,
Fond wishes breathe to thee.
Hark to the shouts that greet thy name !
Hark to the bugle’s loud acclaim I
Roll on, the chariot of thy fame,
Queen of the Brave and Free I
Through mighty myriads, vast and dense,
Thou rovest void of fear ;
The people’s love thy sure defence,-
Thy buckler, sword, and spear.
God’s blessing possessing,
Thy days illustrious shine
With glory; while o’er thee,
Peace, love, and joy entwine.
Lo I mid the warlike trumpet’s blare,
And cheers that rend the balmy air,
Behold unveil’d a Statue Gr,-
True likeness of the dead !
Calmly majestic and serene;
Prince Albert looks upon his Queen,
Who thinks on all that once hath been,
And lowly bows her head.
Memorial from the hardy North,
Embalm’d in sighs and tears;
Fond tribute to departed worth,
Through all the rolling years
Descending, unending ;
The grandeur, the splendour
Proclaiming, Queen of Fame,
That crowns thy Husband’s name.’
On this occasion the sculptor, John Steell, R.S.A., and Professor Oakeley,
received the honour of knighthood, and Lord Provost Falshaw the dignity
of a Baronetcy.
With reference to an earlier Royal visit to Holyrood, the Queen in her
Diary says:--‘We saw the rooms where Queen Mary lived, her bed, the
dressing-room into which the murderers entered who killed Rizzio, and the
spot where he fell, where, as the old housekeeper said to me, “if the lady
would stand on that side,” I would see that the boards were discoloured by
the blood. Every step is full of historical recollections, and our living here
is quite an epoch in the annals of this old pile, which has seen so many
deeds, more bad, I fear, than good.’
Let 11s now suppose ourselves, as the scene in thk Engraving suggests, by
the Tron Church on a New Year‘s eve. Looking down the street, the house
of John Knox projects a little into the roadway; nearer the eye, on the right
of the picture, a modem turret leaning against the midnight sky marks the
site of old Blackfriars’ Wynd; while in the foreground the tall ‘lands’ on the
left tell us where Fergusson the poet was born, and
’ Whaur . . . Ramsay woo’d the Muses
In days long past.‘
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his father was a native, but his mother was a Scotswoman. He travelled the
country for the purpose of exhibiting his huge persoa When in Edinburgh,
he is said to have had great difllculty in getting up and down the narrow
stabs of the Old Town, being obliged to crawl on all-fours.
. .It is also related of him that he dreadfully alarmed the watchmen on the
North Bridge, early one winter’s morning, by lighting his pipe at one of the
lamps; which he did with the greatest ease, without standing even on tiptoe.
He died 1st June 1783, in Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, London, aged only
twenty-two. His death was occasioned by excessive drinking, to which he was
always addicted, but more particularly after a loss he had sustained of almost
all his savings, amounting to upwards of ;E700.’ In his last moments he
requested that his ponderous remains might be thrown into the sea, in order
that his bones might be placed far out of the reach of the chirurgical fraternity ;
and it was reported that his body was shipped on board a vessel, to be conveyed
to the Downs to be sunk in twenty fathoms of water.
In the Edinburgh Evening Cowant, June 9 and 10, 1’783, the following
notices, relative to the disposal of his body, are to be found :-
“ The coffin of Mr. Charles Byrne, the Irish giant, aged twenty-three years,
measures eight feet five inches within side, and the outside case nine feet four
inches, and the circumference of his shoulders measures three feet four inches.’’
“Yesterday morning, June 6, the body of Byrne, the famous Irish giant
(who died a few days ago), was carried to Margate, in order to be thrown into
the sea, agreeable to his own request, he having been apprehensive that the
surgeons would anatomize him.”
It is to be ‘presumed that this fancy as to the disposal of his body was in
some way obviated, as his skeleton is said to be now in the Hunterian Museum,
Royal , College of Surgeons, Loqdon. A correspondent of the Gentleman’s
Magazine, Vol. XXXIII., p. 541, observes, “That Mr. Byme, in August
1780, measured exactly eight feet ; that in 1782, he had gained two inches ;
and that, after he was dead, he measured eight feet four inches. Neither his
father, mother, brother, nor ,any other person of the family, waa of an extraordinary
size.”
The two Irish giants, who are placed on each side of Byme, visited Edinburgh
in July 1784. Their presence in the northern capital was announced by
various advertisements, ,of which we subjoin the following as a specimen :-
“ IRISH GIANTS.”
“The most surprising Gigantic Twin Brolhrs are just arrived in Edinburgh,
and to be seen in. an elegant apartment at Mr. Rabertson’s, Ladies’
Hair-dresser, No. Zj opposite to the Register Office, Prince’s Street.
. I I .
After the death of By&,, the note for 6700 wm traced to a Mr. Atkion, who insisted that he
had given value for it ; but the Giant’s executor having proved that notice had been given of the theft
previous to the-exchange of the note, an action at law for the amount waa compromised by a payment
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impossible he could properly attend to his pastoral duties. Several meetings of
Presbytery were held on the subject, but the Doctor found ways and means to
smooth down the opposition; and he continued for some time to hold both
appointments. Owing to the discontent of the people, however, he found his
situation extremely irksome and disagreeable. A few years subsequently he
was happily rescued from his difficulties by the Earl of Lauderdale, who gave
him the church of Colinton, about four miles from Edinburgh; where, from
its proximity to the town, he could more easily fulfil the relative duties of his
appointments,
Dr. Walker may almost be said to have been the founder of Natural History
in the University. His predecessor only occasionally delivered lectures ; and
these were never well encouraged, owing no doubt to the little intereat generally
excited at that time on a subject so important. The want of a proper museum
was a radical defect, which the exertions of Dr. Walker were at length in some
measure able to rectify. His lectures also proved very attractive, not so much
from the eloquence with which they were delivered, as from the vast fund of
facts and general information they comprised. Eoth in the pulpit and in lecturing
to his classes, the oratory of Dr. Walker was characterised by a degree of
stiffness and formality.
In 1783, when the Royal Society of Edinburgh was formed, the Professor
was one of its earliest and most interested members. The opposition offered to
the incorporation of the Antiquarian Society, which principally originated in
the objections made to the delivery of a course of lectures on the Philosophy of
Natural history by the late Mr. Smellie, has already been alluded to in our
sketch of that gentleman.
In 1788 Dr. Walker delivered a very excellent course of lectures in the
University on agriculture, which is generally supposed to have suggested to Sir
William Pulteney the ides of founding a professorship for that important branch
of science. In 1792 he published for the use of his students, “Institutes of
Natural History ; containing Heads of the Lectures on Natural History delivered
in the University of Edinburgh ”
Although his talents for literary composition were considerable, it is not
known that the Professor ever appeared before the public as the author of any
separate work of any extent. With the exception of one or two occasional
sermons, and a very curious Treatise on Mineralogy, his contributions were chiefly
limited to the various learned societies of which he was a member. For the
Statistical Account of Scotland he drew up an account of the parish of Colinton,
in a style, and with a degree of accuracy, which fully proved the peculiar talent
he possessed for topographical and statistical subjects. He intended at one
period to have published a Flora of Scotland, but was anticipated by the Scottish
Flora of Lightfoot, Chaplain to the Duchess of Portland, who composed his
Flora during his travels in Scotland with Pennant,
Dr. Walker’s knowledge of plants was not altogether of a theoretical nature.
He made some good experiments on the motion of the sap in trees, which are ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. impossible he could properly attend to his pastoral duties. Several meetings ...

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