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Restalrig.] DRURY?S TREACHERY. x3.z
on it now. Here it probably was that the powerful
Archibald Douglas, fifth Earl of Douglas, Lord
of Bothwell, Galloway, and Annandale, Duke of
Touraine aud Marshal of France, resided in 1440,
in which year he died at Restalrig, of a malignant
fever.
In 1444 Sir John Logan of Restalrig was sheriff
of Edinburgh ; and in 1508 James Logan, of the
same place, was Sheriff-deputy.
Twenty-one years before the latter date an
calsay lyand, and the town desolate.? In the
following year, Holinshed records that ? the Lord
Grey, Lieutenant of the Inglis? armie,? during the
siege of Leith, ?ludged in the town of Lestalrike,
in the Dean?s house, and part of the Demi-lances
and other horsemen lay in the same towne.?
A little way north-westward of Restalrig, midway
between the place named Hawkhill and the upper
Quarry Holes, near the Easter Road, there occurred
on the 16th of June, 1571, a disastrous skirmish, de-
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RESTALRIG CHURCH IN THE PRESENT DAYEnglish
army had encamped at Restalrig, under the
Duke of Gloucester, who spared the city at the
request of the Duke of Albany and on receiving
many rich presents fiom the citizens, while James
III., in the hand of rebel peers, was a species of
captive in the castle of Edinburgh.
In 1559 the then secluded village was the scene
of one of the many skirmishes that took place between
the troops of the Queen Regent and those
of the Lords of the Congregation, in which the
latter were baffled, ?driven through the myre at
Restalrig-worried at the Craigingate ? (i.e., the
Calton), and on the 6th of November,? ? at even
in the nycht,? they departed ?? furth of Edinburgh
to Lynlithgow, and left their artailzerie on the
signated the BZack Saturday, or Drury?s peace,?
as it was sometimes named, through the alleged
treachery of the English ambassador.
Provoked by a bravado on the part of the Earl
of Morton, who held Leith, and who came forth
with horse and foot to the Hawkhill, the Earl of
Huntly, at the head of a body of Queen Mary?s
followers, with a train of guns, issued out of Edinburgh,
and halted at the Quarry Holes, where he
was visited by Sir William Drury, the ambassador
of Queen Elizabeth, who had been with Morton in
Leith during the preceding night. His proposed
object was an amicable adjustment of differences,
to the end that no loss of life should ensue between
those who were countrymen, and, in too

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I10 QUEENSFERRY TO MUSSELBURGH.
principal advisers, have quite disappeared. The house of Lord Balmerino
and part of the mansion of Logan of Restalrig are the only relics of a grey
antiquity that yet survive.
The house of Balmerino has now passed into the possession of the
Roman Catholic church, and is partly occupied as a schoolroom. It enters
by No. 10 Kirkgate, but the building is so shut in that little of it can be
seen except on a close inspection. Here, in 1650, Lord Balmerino had the
honour of entertaining Charles 11. during his short sojourn in Scotland.
According to the Diary ofNicoZZ the King had come from Stirling, where he
was residing, to review the army which was drawn up on the Links. After
that he appears to have gone to Edinburgh, where he was .‘feasted by the
town in the Parliament House,’ and thence returned on foot to Leith,
‘ abyding for the nicht wi‘ Lord Balmerinoch.’
The last Lord of this family was Arthur, who suffered on Towerhill in
1746 for his complicity in the rebellion of the preceding year. He seems
to have been a keen and loyal Jacobite ; was out with Mar in 1715, holding a
command at the battle of Sheriffmuir; was out again in 1745, when he was
taken prisoner at Culloden, camed to London, tried at Westminster, and
sentenced,’along with the Earls of Cromarty and Kilmarnock for the like
offences, to be beheaded. Both before and after his trial, he conducted himself
as became a brave man and a gallant soldier. Maintaining his principles
to the last, he neither sought for nor expected mercy; and when at last led
forth to execution, he surveyed with a calm and gentlemanly mien all the
terrible preparations, inspecting the block with great minuteness, taking
up the axe and testing its edge with his finger, examining the coffin and
reading the inscription on its lid, and then, as if perfectly satisfied that all
was as it should be, calmly and resolutely resigned himself to his fate. Thus
died the last Lord of Balmerino.
The mansion of Logan, again, stood on the crag overhanging the loch of
Lochend. Part of it still survives, and is used as offices in connection with a
large house erected on the site of the old one. Judging from what remains
of it, it must have been a very strong place; and if well armed and provisioned,
capable of holding out and offering a stem resistance to any enemy,
however brave or determined, This family, it would seem, like many of the
nobility and gentry of the time, suffered a heavy reverse of fortune. The last
of the name who held the paternal estates, being deeply involved in the
Gowrie Conipiracy, but dying before his share in it uias fully disclosed, ‘ his
eldest son, and all lineally connected, were summoned to compear before the

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Leith.] THE FORTIFICATIONS. 17r
then at peace. A small force under Monsieur de
la Chapelle Biron had already preceded this main
body, which consisted of between six and seven
thousand well-trained soldiers, all led by officers of
high rank and approved valour.
Andre de Montelambert, Sieur &Esse, commanded
the whole ; 2,000 of these men were of the
regular infantry of France, and were commanded
by Coligny, the Seigneur d?Andelot, who for his
bravery at the siege of Calais, afterwards was presented
with the house of the last English governor,
Lord Dunford. His father, Gaspard de Coligny,
was a marshal of France in 1516. Gaspare di
Strozzi, Prior of Capua, a Florentine cavalier (exiled
by Alessandro I., Grand Duke of Tuscany), was
colonel of the Italians ; the Rhinegrave led 3,000
Germans ; Octavian, an old cavalier of Milan, led
1,000 arquebussiers on horseback ; Dunois was
captain of the Compagrries d?Oru?omance ; Brissac
D?Etanges was colonel of the horse. Another
noble armament, which was to follow under the
Marquis d?Elbeuff, was cast away on the coast of
Holland, and only 900 of its soldiers reached
Scotland, under the Count de Martigues.
In the following year D?Esse was superseded in
the command by Paul de la Barthe, Seigneur de
Termes, a knight of St, Michael, who brought with
him IOO cuirassiers, zoo horse, and 1,000 infantry.
He was appointed marshal of France in 1555.
Prior to the arrival of these auxiliaries, Leith
seems to have been completely an open town ; but
Andre de Montelambert, as a basis for future operations,
at once saw the importance of fortifying it,
dependent as he was almost entirely upon support
from the Continent, and having a necessity for a
place to retreat into in case of reverse; so he at
once proceeded to enclose the seaport with strong
and regular works, carried out on the scientific principles
of the time.
As not a vestige of these works now remain, it is
useless to speculate on the probable height or composition
of the ramparts, which were most probably
massive earthworks, in many places faced
with stone, and must have been furnished with a
ferre-plene all round, to enable the gamson to pass
. and re-pass ; and no doubt the work would be efficiently
done, as the French have ever evinced the
highest talent for military engineering.
The works erected then were of a very irregular
kind, partaking generally of a somewhat triangular
form, the smallest base of which presented to
Leith Links on the eastward a frontage of about
2,000 feet from point to point of the flankers or
bastions.
In the centre of this was one great projecting
bastion, 600 feet in length, in the h e of the present
Constitution Street
Ramsay?s Fort, usually called the first bastion,
adjoined the river in the line of BernarC?s Street
with a curtain nearly 500 feet long, the second
bastion terminating the frontage described as to the
Links. The present line of Leith Walk would seem
to have entered the town by St. Anthony?s Port,
between the third and fourth bastion.
A gate in the walls is indicated by Maitland as
being at the foot of the Bonnington Road, near the
fifth bastion, from whence the works extended to
the riveq which was crossed by a wooden bridge
near the sixth bastion. Port St. Nicholas-so called
from the then adjacent church-entered at the
seventh bastion, which was flanked far out at a very
acute angle, evidently to enclose the church and
burying-ground ; and from thence the fortifications,
with a sea front of 1,200 feet, extended to the eighth
bastion, which adjoined the Sand Port, near where
the Custom House standsnow. The two bastions
at the harbour mouth would no doubt be built
wholly of stone, and heavily armed with guns to
defend the entrance.
Kincaid states that in his time some vestiges of
a ditch and bastion existed westward of the citadel.
Where the Exchange Buildings now stand there
long remained a narrow mound of earth a hundred
yards long and of considerable height, which in the
last century was much frequented by the belles of
Leith as a lofty and airy promenade, to which there
was an ascent by steps. It was called the ? Ladies?
Walk,? and was, no doubt, the remains of the
work adjoining the second bastion of AndI;e de
Montelambert.
The wall near the third bastion, when it became
reduced to a mere mound of earth, formed for a
time a portion of South Leith burying-ground.
? An unfortunate and unthinking wight of a seacaptain,?
sayscampbell, in his ?History,)) ?tempted,
we presume, by the devil, once took it in his head
to ballast his ship with this sacred earth. The consequence,
tradition has it, of this sacrilegious act
was, that neither the wicked captain nor his ship,
after putting to sea, was ever heard of again.?
Montelambert D?Esse could barely have had his
fortifications completed when, as already noted, he
was superseded in the command by a senior officer,
Paul de la Barthe, the Seigneur de Termes, one of
whose first measures was to drive the English out
of Inchkeith, where a detachment of them had been
occupying the old castle. The general operations
of the French army at Haddington and elsewhere,
after being joined by 5,000 Scottish troops under
the Governor, lie apart from the history of Leith;

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PI0 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Melville Street
pr0mot.e the pleasant intercourse of. those who
practise art either professionally or privately ; to
increase facilities for the study and observation of
art, and to obtain more general attention to its
claims.
The association is composed of artists, professional
and amateur, and has exhibitions of paintings,
sculpture, and water-colour drawings, at intervals
during the year, without being antagonistic
in any way to the Royal Scottish Academy.
Lectures are here delivered on art, and the entire
institute is managed by a chairman and executive
council,
In No. 6 Shandwick Place Sir Walter Scott
resided from 1828 to 1830, when he relinquished
his office as clerk of session in the July of the
latter year. This was his Zasf permanent residence
in Edinburgh, where on two future occasions,
however, he resided temporarily. On the 31st of
January, 1831, he came to town from Abbotsford
for the purpose of executing his last will, and on
that occasion he took up his abode at the house of
his bookseller, in Athole Crescent, where he resided
for nine days. At that time No. 6 was the
residence of Mr. Jobson.
No. 11, now a hotel, was for about twenty years
the residence of Lieutenant-General Francis Dundas,
son of the second President Dundas, and
brother of the Lord Chief Baron Dundas. He was
long a colonel in the old Scots Brigade of immortal
memory, in the Dutch service, and which afterwards
came into the British in 1795, when his regiment was
numbered as the 94th of the line. In 1802-3 he was
Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. During the
brief peace of Amiens, in accordance with his instructions
to evacuate the colony, he embarked his
troops on board the British squadron, but on the
same evening, having fortunately received counter
orders, he re-landed the troops and re-captured the
colony, which has ever since belonged to Britain.
In I 809 he was colonel of the 7 I st Highlanders,
and ten years after was Governor of Dumbarton
Castle. He died at Shandwick Place on the 4th
of January, 1824 after a long and painful illness,
?which he supported With the patience of a Christian
and the fortitude of a soldier.?
. At the east end of Shandwick Place is St
George?s Free Church, a handsome and massive
Palladian edifice, built for the congregation of the
celebrated Dr. Candlish, after a design by David
Bryce, RSA, seated for about 1,250 persons, and
erected at a cost, including;t;13,600 for the site, 01
~31,000.
In No. 3 Walker Street, the short thoroughfare
between Coates Crescent and Melville Street, Su
.
Walter Scott resided with his daughter during the
winter of 1826-7, prior to his removal to Shandwick
Place.
Melville Street, which runs parallel with the
latter on the north, at about two hundred yards
distance, is a spacious thoroughfare symmetrically
and beautifully edificed; and is adorned in its
centre, at a rectangular expansion, with a pedestrian
bronze statute of the second Viscount Melville,
ably executed by Steel, on a stone pedestal ; it was
erected in 1557.
This street contains houses which were occupied
by two eminent divines, the Rev. David Welsh and
the Rev. Andrew Thomson, already referred to in
the account of St George?s parish church. In No.
36, Patrick Fraser Tytler, F.R.S.E., the eminent
Scottish historian, resided for many years, and
penned several of his works. He was the youngest
son of Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee,
and thus came of a race distinguished in Scottish
literature. Patrick was called to the bar in 1813,
and six years after published, at Edinburgh, a ?? Life
of the Admirable Crichton,? and in 1826, a ?Life
of WicliK? His able and laborious ? History of
Scotland? first appeared in 1828, and at once won
him fame, for its accuracy, brilliance, and purity
of style ; but his writings did not render him independent,
as he. died, when advanced in lie, in
receipt of an honorary pension from the Civil List.
In Manor Place, at the west end of Melville
Street, lived Mrs. Grant of Laggan, the well-known
authoress of ?? Letters from the Mountains,? and
whose house was, in her time, the resort of
select literav parties ; of whom Professor Wilson
was always one. She had for some time previous
resided in the Old Kirk Brae House. In 1825 an
application was made on her behalf to George IV.
for a pension, which was signed by Scott, Jeffrey,
Mackenzie-? The Man of Feeling ?-and other influential
persons in Edinburgh, and in consequence
she received an annual pension of LIOO from the
Civil Establishment of Scotland.
This, with the emoluments of her literary works,
and liberal bequests by deceased friends, made
easy and independent her latter days, and she died
in Manor Place, on the 7th of November, 1838,
aged 84.
It was not until 1868 that this street was edificed
on its west side partially, Westward and northward
of it a splendid new extension of the city spreads,
erected subsequently to that year, comprising property
now worth nearly&~,ooo,ooo.
This street is named from the adjacent mansion
house of the Walkers of Coates, and is on the property
of the latter name. Lyingimmediately west

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 299
the handsome rooms he occupied in College, as senior Fellow of King's, he
had contrived a kind of upper chamber, hollowed out in the roof, which he used
as his oratory, or place of prayer, whither he retired when he wished to be, as
he expressed it, alone with God; and where he occasionally pursued his studies
with unremitting earnestness. By a small step-ladder he could instantly get
out and walk upon the leads, between the two roofs, where he had the advantage
of ample air and exercise in unbroken privacy, without coming down into the
town at all." Such was his love of retirement; but the novelty of the contrivance
seems to have been dictated by a feeling somewhat opposite. If Mr. Simeon
aimed at distinction, however, it was the ambition to be distinguished for good ;
and charity, which " covereth a multitude of sins," was in him an unfeigned
attribute of Christianity. His kindness to Henry Hirke White is well known ;
and, among other remarkable instances of his generosity, it is stated that to
Thomas Scott (the commentator on the Bible) he sent $590 by one post.
Mr. Simeon neither obtained, and probably never desired any preferment in
the Church ; nor did he hold any prominent office in the University, although
his reputation was great, and he was held in much estimation, He expired on
the 13th November 1836, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. His remains
were interred in the Fellow's Vault of King's College. Besides his friends,
nearly two hundred gentlemen connected with the University, many of them of
the highest influence, attended the funeral.
Nu. CCLXXI.
ARCHIBALD MARTHUR,
PIPER TO THE LATE SIR REGINALD MACDONALD STEWART SETON,
OF TOUCH AND STAFFA, BART.
M'ARTHURw as a native of the island of Mull, and was allowed to be well skilled
in bagpipe music, having been taught by an excellent preceptor, Macrimmon of
Skye. In 181 0, the date of the Print, he exhibited at the annual competition
of pipers in Edinburgh, but failing to carry off the first prize, he refused to accept
the second, thereby debarring himself from again appearing before the Highland
Society on any similar occasion.
When the King visited Edinburgh in 1822, M'Arthur, as a matter of course,
followed in the train of his Chief, from whom he held a cottage with a small
portion of land, in lieu of his services as piper. That part of the Staffa estate
upon which his possession was situated having been sdd some years since,
M'Arthur, though no longer employed in his former capacity, was allowed to
remain by the new proprietor. He died, we believe, in 1834.

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’I 80 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
No. LXXVI.
SIR WILLIAM FORBES OF PITSLIGO,
BANKER IN EDINBURGH.
THE words of the engraving, ‘‘ The good shall mourn a brother-all a friend,”
were never more appropriately applied than in allusion to the character of
Sir William Forbes. In the language of the Rev. Mr. Alison, there was no
person of the age “ who so fully united in himself the same assemblage of the
most estimable qualities of our nature ; the same firmness of piety, with the
same tenderness of charity; the same ardour of public spirit, with the same
disdain of individual interest; the same activity in business, with the same
generosity in its conduct ; the same independence towards the powerful, and the
same humanity towards the lowly ; the same dignity in public life, with the same
gentleness in private society.”
SIR WILLIAMF ORBEwSa s born at Edinburgh on the 5th of April 1739.
He was descended (both paternally and maternally) from the ancient family of
Monymusk, and by his paternal grandmother from the Lords Pitsligo. His
father, who was bred to the bar, died when Sir William was only four years of
age. His mother, thus left with two infant sons, and very slender means of
support, retired among her friends in Aberdeenshire. His younger brother did
not long survive.
Though nurtured in rather straitened circumstances, Sir William by no
means lacked an excellent education, which he received under the superintendence
of his guardians-Lord Forbes, his uncle; Lord Pitsligo, his maternal uncle; Mr.
Morrison of Bogny, and Mr. Urquhart of Meldrum-among whom he was trained
to the habits and ideas of good society; but it was principally to the sedulous
care of his widowed mother, who instilled into his young mind the sentiments
of rectitude and virtue, that, as he frequently in after life declared, he “owed
every thing,” Both his parents belonged to the Scottish Episcopal Church, to
which communion Sir William remained during his life a steady and liberal
adherent.
In 1753 Lady Forbes returned to Edinburgh, with the view of choosing
some profession for her son, who had now attained his fourteenth year.
Fortunately, through the influence of a friend, Mr. Farquharson of Haughton,
he was taken into the banking-house of Messrs. Coutts, and bound apprentice to
the business the following year.
Sir William’s term of servitude lasted for seven years, on the expiry of which
he acted for two years more in the capacity of a clerk in the establishment.
During this time he continued to reside with his mother, and felt much satisfac

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Leith Roads. 1824 . . . . . . . 276
Tlu East and West Piers. Leith . . To facc pup 283
The Edinburgh Dock. Leith . . . . . . . 284
Views in Leith Docks: General Entrance to the
Docks ; Albert Dock. looking north ; Queen?s
Dock ; Albert Dock. looking east ; Victoria Dock 285 . . . . . . . . Inchkeith 293
Newhaven. from the Pier . . . . . . 296
Remaim of St . James?s Chapel. Newhaven . . 297
Main Street. Newhaven . . . . . . 300
Sculptured Stone. Newhaven . . . . . 301
Rev . Dr . Fairbairn . . . . . . . 304
Newhaven Fishwives . . . . . . . 305
Map of Granton and Neighbourhood . . . . 308
Caroliiie Park ; Ruins of Granton Castle ; East Pilton 309
Old Entrance to Royston (now Caroline Park). 1851 . 312
Granton Harbour and Pier . . . . . 313
Cramond . . . . . . Tofacepage 315
The ?Twa Brigs. ?Cramond . . . . . 315
O!d Cramond Brig . . . . . . . 316
View below CramondBrig . . . . . . 317
Old Saughton Bridge ; Old Saughton House ; Earnton
House; Cramond Church . . . . . 320
Coliiiton . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Dreghorn Castle . . . . . . . 324
MapoC the Environs of Edinburgh . . . . 325
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The Battle or Camus Stone. Comiston . . . 326
Liberton . . . . . . To!are$o:e 327
finally Tawer . . . . . . . . 328
Liberton Tower . . . . . . . . 329
Niddrie House . . . . . . . . 332
LennaxTower . . . . . . . 3 533
Currie . . . . . . . . . 336
RullionGreen . . . . . . . 7 337
Inch House . . . . . . . . 340
Knight Teniplar?s Tomb. Currie Churchyard . . 331
Ednionstone House . . . .
Gilmerton . . . . . .
Drum House . . . . .
Roslin Castle and Glen . + .
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Roslin Chapel : The ??Prentice Pillar ? I
Rcslin Chapel : View h n i the Chancel
Lasswade . . . . . . .
Roslin Chapel : Interior . . .
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206 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Ainslie Place.
To the philosopher we have already referred in
our account of Lothian Hut, in the Horse Wynd.
In 1792 he published the first volume of the
?Philosophy of the Human Mind,? and in the
following year he read before the Royal Society of
Edinburgh his account of the life and writings of
Adam Smith.; and his other works are too wellknown
to need enumeration here. On the death
of his wife, in 1787, he married Helen D?Arcy
Cranstoun, daughter of the Hon. George Cranstoun,
who, it is said, was his equal in intellect, if
superior in blood. She was the sister of the
Countess Purgstall (the subject of Basil Hall?s
? Schloss Hainfeldt ?) and of Lord Corehouse, the
tiiend of Sir Walter Scott.
Though the least beautiful of a family iq which
beauty is hereditary, she had (according to the
Quarter& Review, No. 133) the best essence of
beauty, expression, a bright eye beaming with intelligence,
a manner the most distinguished, yet
soft, feminine, and singularly winning. On her illfavoured
Professor she doted with a love-match
devotion; to his studies and night lucubrations
she sacrificed her health and rest; she was his
amanuensis and corrector at a time when he was
singularly fortunate in his pupils, who never forgot
the charm of her presence, the instruction they
won, and the society they enjoyed, in the house of
Dugald Stewart Among these were the Lords
Dudley, Lansdowne, Palmerston, Kinnaird, and
Ashburton. In all his after-life he maintained a
good fellowship with them, and, in 1806, obtained
the sinecure office of Gazefie writer for Scotland,
with A600 per annum.
Her talent, wit, and beautymade the wife of the
Professor one of the most attractive women in the
city. ?( No wonder, therefore,? says the Quarfero,
?that her saloons were the resort of all that was
the best of Edinburgh, the house to which strangers
most eagerly sought introduction. In her Lord
Dudley found indeed a friend, she was to him in
the place of a mother. His respect for her was
unbounded, and continued to the close; often
have we seen him, when she was stricken in years,
seated near her for whole evenings, clasping her
hand in both of his. Into her faithful ear he
poured his hopes and his fears, and unbosomed his
inner soul ; and with her he maintained a constant
correspondence to the last.?
Her marriage with the Professor came about in a
singular manner. When Miss Cranstoun, she had
written a poem, which was accidentally shown by
her cousin, the Earl of Lothian, to Dugald Stewart,
then his private tutor, and unknown to fame ; and
?he was so enraptured with it, and so warm in his
commendations, that the authoress and her critic
fell in love by a species of second-sight, before their
first interview, and in due time were made one.
Dugald Stewart died at his house in Ainslie
Place, on Wednesday, the 11th June, 1828, after a
short but painful illness, when in the seventy-fifth
year of his age, having been born in the old College
of Edinburgh in 1753, when his father was professor
of mathematics. His long life had been
devoted to literature and science. He had acquired
a vast amount of information, profound as it was
exact, and possessed the faculty of memory in a
singular degree. As a public teacher he was
fluent, animated, and impressive, with great dignity
and grace in his manner.
He was buried in the Canongate churchyard.
The funeral procession proceeded as a private one
from Ainslie Place at, three in the afternoon ; but
on reaching the head of the North Bridge it was
joined by the Senatus Academicus in their gowns
(preceded by the mace bearer) two and two, the
junior members in front, the Rev. Principal Baird
in the rear, together with the Lord Provost, magistrates
and council, with their officers and regalia.
He left a widow and two children, a son and
daughter, the former of whom, Lieutenant-Colonel
Matthew Stewart, published an able pamphlet on
Indian affairs. His widow, who holds a high
place among writers of Scottish song, survived him
ten years, dying in July, 1838.
The Very Rev. Edward Bannerman Ramsay,
LL.D. and F.R.S.E., a genial writer on several
subjects, but chiefly known for his ? Reminiscences
of Scottish Life and Character,? was long the occupant
of No. 23. He was the fourth son of Sir
Alexander Ramsay, Bart., of Balmaine, in Kincardineshire,
and was a graduate of St. John?s College,
Cambridge. His degree of LL.D. was given him
by the University of Edinburgh, on the installation
of Mr. Gladstone as Lord Rector in 1859. He
held English orders, and for seven years had been
a curate in Somersetshire. His last and most
successful contribution to literature was derived
from his long knowledge of Scottish character. He
was for many years Dean of the Episcopal Church
in Scotland, and as a Churchman he always advocated
moderate opinions, both in ritual and doctrine.
He died on the 27th December, 1872, in
the seventy-ninth year of hi5 age.
In the summer of 1879 amemorial to his memory
was erected at the west end of Princes Street,
eastward of St. John?s Church, wherein he so long
officiated. It is a cross of Shap granite, twenty-six
feet in height, having a width of eight feet six
inches from end to end of the arms. At the height
.

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the blood of the Trojans. In Albanye (now called
Scotland) he edified the Castell of Alclude, which
is Dumbreyton j he made the Castell of Maydens,
now called Edinburgh; he also made the Castell
.of Banburgh, in the twenty-third year of his reign.?
All these events occurred, according to Stow, in
the year 989 beJore Christ ; and the information is
quite as veracious as much else that has been
written concerning the remote history of Scotland.
From sources that can scarcely be doabted, a
? fortress of some kind upon the rock would seem to
have been occupied by the Picts, from whom it
was captured in 452 by the Saxons of Northumbria
under Octa and Ebusa; and from that time
down to the reign of Malcolm 11. its history
exhibits but a constant struggle for its possession
between them and the Picts, each being victorious
in turn; and Edwin, one of these Northumbrian
invaders, is said to have rebuilt it in 626. Terri-
* tories seemed so easily overrun in those times, that
the latter, with the Scots, in the year 638, under
the reign of Valentinian I., penetrated as far as
London, but were repulsed by Theodosius, father
of the Emperor of the same name. This is the
Edwin whose pagan high-priest Coifi was converted
to Christianity by Paulinus, in 627, and who, according
to Bede, destroyed the heathen temples
and altars. A curious and very old tradition still
exists in Midlothian, that the stones used in the
construction of the castle were taken from a quarry
near Craigmillar, the Craig-moiZard of antiquity.
Camden says, ?The Britons called it CasfeZ
Mynedh Agnedh-the maidens? or virgins? castlebecause
certain young maidens of the royal blood
were kept there in old times.? The source of this
Oft-repeated story has probably been the assertion
of Conchubhranus, that an Irish saint, or recluse,
named Monena, late in the fifth century founded
seven churches in Scotland, on the heights of
Dun Edin, Dumbarton, and elsewhere. This may
have been the St. Monena of Sliabh-Cuillin, who
died in 5r8. The site of her edifice is supposed
to be that now occupied by the present chapel
of St. Margaret-the most ancient piece of masonry
in the Scottish capital; and it is a curious
circumstance, with special reference to the fable
of the Pictish princesses, that close by it (as recorded
in the CaZedonian Mercury of 26th September,
1853), when some excavations were made,
a number of human bones, apparently aZZ of
females, were found, together with the remains of
several coffins.
? Castmm PuelZarum,? says Chalmers, ?? was the
learned and diplomatic name of the place, as
appears from existing charters and documents
Edinburgh, its vulgar appellation f while Buchanan
asserts that its ancient names of the Dolorous
Valley and Maiden Castle were borrowed from .
ancient French romances, ? devised within the
space of three hundred years ? from his time.
The Castle was the nucleus, so to speak, around
which the city grew, a fact that explains the triple
towers in the arms of the latter-three great
towers connected by a curtain wall-being the
form it presented prior to the erection of the
Half-Moon Battery, in Queen Mary?s time.
Edwin, the most powerful of the petty kings of
Northumberland, largely extended the Saxon conquests
in the Scottish border counties; and his
possessions reached ultimately from the waters of
Abios to those of Bodoria-i.e., from Humber to
Forth ; but Egfrid, one of his successors, lost these
territories, together with his liie, in battle with the
Pictish King Bridei, or Brude, who totally defeated
him at Dun-nechtan, with temble slaughter. This
was a fatal blow to the Northumbrian monarchy,
which never regained its previous ascendency, and
was henceforth confined to the country south of
Tweed. Lodonia (a Teutonic name signifying
marshes or borders) became finally a part of the
Pichsh dominiops, Dunedin being its stronghold, and
both the Dalriadic Scots and Strathclyde Britons
were thus freed from the inroads of the Saxons.
This battle was fought in the year 685, the
epoch of the bishopric of Lindisfasne, and as the
Church of St. Giles was a chaplainry of that
ancient see, we may infer that some kind of townof
huts, doubtless-had begun to cluster round the
church, which was a wooden edifice of a primitive
kind, for as the world was expected to end in the
year 1000, sacred edifices of stone were generally
deemed unnecessary. From the time of the
Saxon expulsion to the days of Malcolm 11.-a
period of nearly four hundred years-everything
connected with the castle and town of Edinburgh
is steeped in obscurity or dim tradition.
According to a curious old tradition, preserved
in the statistical account of the parish of Tweedmuir,
the wife of Grime, the usurper, had her
residence in the Castle while he was absent
fighting against the invading Danes. He is said
to have granted, by charter, his hunting seat of
Polmood, in that parish, to one of his attendants
named Hunter, whose race were to possess it while
wood grew and water ran. But, as Hogg says
in his ?Winter Evening Tales,? ?There is one
remarkable circumstance connected with the place
that has rendered it unfamous of late years, and
seems to justify an ancient prediction that the
hunters of Polmood were mer foprospr..?

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Queen Street.] SIR JAMES YOUNG SIMPSON. I53
office by Sir James Montgomery of Stanhope.
Early in the next century the house was the
residence of Sir William Cunningham, Bart, and in
more recent years had as an occupant the gallant
Sir Neil Douglas, Commander of the Forces in
Scotland and Governor of Edinburgh Castle, who
commanded the Cameron Highlanders in the war
with France, and was contused by a ball at Quatre
Bras. It is now occupied by tlic Edinburgh Institution
for Education, the head of which is Dr.
Fergusson, F.R.S.E.
Nos. g and 10 were removed in 1844 to make
way for the present hall of the Royal College of
Physicians, on the demolition of the former one in
George Street. The foundation stone was laid on
the 8th of August, 1844, by the then president,
Dr. Renton, in presence of the Fellows of the
college and others. In it were deposited a copy of
the first edition of the ? Edinburgn Pharmacopeia,?
containing a list .of the Fellows of the college; a
work concerning its private affairs, printed several
years before ; an Edinburgh Almanac for the
current year; several British coins, and a silver
plate with a suitable Latin inscription.
It was designed by Thomas Hamilton, and ?is
adorned in front with an Attic Corinthian tetrastyle,
sunqounted by a common Corinthian distyle, and
is handsomely adorned by colossal statues of
iBsculapius, Hippocrates, and Hygeia ; but it was
barely completed when, ample though its accommodation
appeared to be, the rapid additions to
its library and the great increase in the number of
Fellows, consequent on a reduction of the money
entry, and other changes, seemed to .render an
extension necessary.
In No. 11 are the offices of the E&hurgh
Gazette, the representative of the paper started by
Captain Donaldson in 1699, and re-issued by the
same person in March, I 707.
Sir Henry Wellwood Moncriff, Bart., D.D., a
distinguished divine, wha for half a century was
one .of the brightest ornaments of the Scottish
Church, resided in No. 13 during the first years of
the present century. He died in August, 1827,
and his second, son, James, a senator, under the
title of Lord Moncrieff, succeeded to the baronetcy,
which is one of the oldest in Scotland, having
been conferred by Charles I. in 1626.
It was afterwards occupied by the Scottish
Heritable Security Company.
-The next house westward was the residence, at
the same time, of William Honeyman of Graemsay,
who was elevated to the bench as Lord Armadale,
and created a baronet in 1804. He had been pre.
viously Sheriff of the county of Lanarkshire. ?He mar.
88
*ied a daughter of Lord Braxfield, and died in 1825,
eaving ,behind him a reputation for considerable
dent and sound judgment, both as a barrister and
udge. He had two sons in the army-Patrick,
who served in the old -28th Light Dragoons, and
Robert, who died in Jamaica in 1809, Lieutenant-
Clolonel of the 18th Royal Irish.
His house is now occupied by the site of the
Zaledonian United Service Club, erected in 1853.
In 1811 No. 27 was the residence of General
Sraham Stirling, an old and distinguished officer,
whose family still occupy it. In the same year
4lexander Keith of Ravelston, Hereditary Knight
Marshal of Scotland, occupied No. 43. Behind the
louse line stands St. Luke?s Free Church, which has
i fictitious street front in the Tudor style, with two
-ichly crocketed finials.
No. 38 was the house of George Paton, ?Advocate,
md afterwards Lord Justice Clerk, whose suicide
nade much sensation in Edinburgh a few years
1go.
In No. 52 lived and died one of the most illus-
:rious citizens of Edinburgh-Professor Sir James .
Young Sirnpson, Bart., who came to Edinburgh a
poor and nearly friendless student, yet in time
ittained, as Professor of Midwifery in the University
and as the discoverer of extended uses of chlorolorm,
a colossal fame, not only in Europe, but
wherever the English language is spoken. He
obtained the chair of midwifery in r840, and seven
years after made his great discovery. In 1849 he
was elected President of the Edinburgh College
of Physicians; in 1852 President of the Medico-
Chirurgical Society ; and ?in the following year,
under circumstances of the greatest klat, Foreign
Associate of the French Academy of Medicine ?
In 1856 the French Academy of Sciences awarded
him the ? Monthyon Prize ? of 2,000 francs for the
benefits he conferred on humanity by the introduction
of anmthesia by chloroform into the practice
of surgery and midwifery.
A few weeks earlief, for the same noble cause, he
won the royal order of St. Olaf, from Oscar, King
of Sweden, and in 1866 was created a baronet of
Great Britain. His ,professional writings are too
numerous to be recorded here, suffice it to say
that they have been translated into every European
language.
No man ever attracted so many visitors to Edinburgh
as Sir James Simpson, for many Came to see
him who were not invalids. His house in Queeu
Street was the centre of attraction for men -of
letters and science from all parts of the worldphysicians,
naturalists, antiquarians, and literati of
all kinds were daily to be met at his table. His

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OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Craigmillar.
-- 58
competition, the first prize for the chapel, &c., was
awarded to James Grant, Hope Park End.
Skirting the cemetery on the west, the Powburn
here tums south, and running under Cameron
Bridge, after a bend, turns acutely north, and
flows through the grounds of Prestonfield towards
Duddingston Loch.
Out of his lands of Cameron, Sir Simon Preston
of Craigmillar, in 1474, gave an annual rent of
ten marks to a chaplain in the church of Musselburgh.
Craigmillar Park and Craigmillar Road take
their name from the adjacent ruined castle ; and at
Bridge-end, at the base of the slope on which it
stands, James V. had a hunting-lodge and chapel,
some traces of which still exist in the form of a
stable.
On the summit of an eminence, visible from the
whole surrounding country-the crazg-moiZwd of
antiquity (the high bare rock, no doubt, it once was)
-stands the venerable Castle of Craigmillar, with a
history nearly as long as that of Holyrood, and
which is inseparably connected with that of Edinburgh,
having its silent records of royalty and
rank-its imperishable memories of much that has
perished for ever.
The hill on which it stands, in view of tile
encroaching city-which ? bids fair some day to
surround it-is richly planted with young wood ;
but in the immediate vicinity of the ruin some of
the old ancestral trees remain, where they have
braved the storms of centuries. Craigmillar is
remarkable as being the only family mansion in
Scotland systematically built on the principles
of fortification in use during the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries. In the centre tower, the square
donjon keep is of the earliest age of baronial architecture,
built we know not when, or by whom, and
surrounded now by an external wall, high and strong,
enclosing a considerable area, with round flanking
towers about sixty feet apart in front, to protect the
curtains between-all raised in. those ages of strife
and bloodshed when our Scottish nobles-
?Carved at the meal with gloves of steel,
And drank aeir wine through the helmet barredr?
Its lofty and stately vaulted hall measures
thirty-six feet long by twenty-two feet in breadth,
with a noble fireplace eleven feet wide, and on the
lower portions of it some remnants of old paintings
may be traced, and on the stone slab of one 01
the windows a diagram for playing an old knightly
game called ?Troy.? There are below it several
gloomy dungeons, in one of which John Pinkerton,
Advocate, and Mr. Irvine, W.S., discovered in
1813 a human skeleton, built into the wall upright.
What dark secrets the old walls of this castle could
tell, had their stones tongues ! for an old, old
house it is, full of thrilling historical and warlike
memories. Besides the keep and the older towers,
there is within the walls a structure of more modern
sppearance, built in the seventeenth century. This
is towards the west, where a line of six handsome
gableted dormer windows on each side of a projecting
chimney has almost entirely disappeared ;
one bore the date MDC. Here a stair led to the
castle gardens, in which can be traced a large
pond in the form of a p, the initial letter of the
old proprietor?s name. Here, says Balfour, in
I 509, ?? there were two scorpions found, one dead,
the other alive.?
There are the dilapidated remains of a chapel,
measuring thirty feet by twenty feet, with a large
square and handsomely-mullioned window, and a
mutilated font. It was built by Sir +John Gilmour,
who had influence enough to obtain a special
?? indulgence ? therefor from King James VII. It
is a stable now.
?? On the boundary wall,? says Sir Walter Scott,
?may be seen the arms of Cockburn of Ormiston,
Congalton of Congalton, Mowbray of Barnbougle,
and Otterbum of Redford, allies of the Prestons
of Craigmillar. In one corner of the court, over
a portal arch, are the arms of the family: three
unicorns? heads coupid, with a cheese-press and
barrel, or tun-a wretched rebus, to express their
name of Preston.?
This sculptured fragment bears the date 1510.
The Prestons of Craigmillar carried their shield
above the gate, in the fashion called by the Italians
smdopmdente, which is deemed more honourable
than those carried square, according to Rosehaugh?s
? Science of Heraldry.?
On the south the castle is built on a perpendicular
rock. Round the exterior walls was
a deep moat, and one of the advanced round
towers-the Dovecot-has loopholes for arrows
or musketry.
The earliest possessor of whom we have record
is ?Henry de Craigmillar,? or William Fitz-
Henry, of whom there is extant a charter of gift
of a certain toft of land in Craigmillar, near the
church of Liberton, to the monastery of Dunfermline,
in I z I 2, during the reign of King Alexander 11.
The nearer we conie to the epoch of the long and
glorious War of Independence, the more generally
do we find the lands in the south of Scotland in
the hands of Scoto-Nbrman settlers. John de
Capella was Lord of Craigmillar, from whose
family the estate passed into the hands of Simon
Preston, in 1374, he receiving a charter, under

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

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94 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
appeared his “History of Scotland during the reigns of Queen Mary and
James VI.” The effect this work produced was instantaneous and extraordinary-
congratulatory letters of praise, from the most eminent men of the
time, poured in upon him ; and it is said that the emoluments derived from it
exceeded 2600. Preferment immediately followed, which changed at once
the whole aspect of his fortunes; for in the same year he was appointed
Chaplain to the Garrison of Stirling Castle, in the room of Mr. William Campbell
; next year he was nominated one of his Majesty’s Chaplains for Scotland ;
in the year following (1761), on the death of Principal Goldie, he was elected
Principal of the University of Edinburgh, and translated to the Greyfriars’
Church. Two years afterwards he was appointed by the King Historiographer
for Scotland, with a salary of 3200 a year.
In 1779 Dr. Robertson published, in three volumes quarto, a “History of
the Reign of Charles V.,” which still farther increased the reputation of its
author. For the copyright he received no less than 24500, the largest sum
then known to have been paid for a single work; and which, according to the
calculation of the Rev. Dr Nisbet of Montrose,’ amounted exactly to twopencehalfpenny
for each word in the work.
Dr. Robertson, in 1778, gave to the world his “History of America,” in two
volumes quarto, a work which was well received at the time, and which still
continues to be popular. On this occasion he was elected an honorary member
of the Royal Academy of History in Madrid, who appointed one of their
members to translate the work into Spanish; but after it was considerably
advanced, the Spanish Government interfered and prevented it.
In the year 1781, he was elected one of the Foreign Members of the Academy
of Sciences at Padua, and, in 1783, one of the foreign Members of the
Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburgh.
In 1791 appeared his last work, also in quarto, entitled, “Historical Disquisitions
concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India, and the Progress
of Trade with that country, prior to the Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope.”
No. XLII.
DR. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D.D.,
IN HIS FULL CLERICAL DRESS.^
THE Doctor’s powerful and persuasive eloquence had gained him an influence
in the General Assembly which intimately and conspicuously associated his
name with the Ecclesiastical affairs of Scotland. He was a long time leader of
the Court party in our Ecclesiastical Parliament, and as a speaker, it is said, he
Some time the Principal of the College of Carlisle in Pennsylvania, and a frequent opponent of
Dr. Robertson in the General Assembly.
It waa remarked that Dr. Robertson always appeared to greatest advantage in this attire.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 329
the 26th of December 1835. Throughout life Sir Robert maintained an untainted
character, and was universally respected as a most humane, benevolent,
and excellent man.
The full-length figure, with the military hat and veil, which he wore in ridicule
of the ladies, represents the eccentric CAPTAIN HAY, or “the Daft
Captain,” as he was usually styled.
His father, Mr. John
Hay, who had early settled there as a general merchant, was a Scotsman, and
descended from a highly respectable family. He had two sons and a daughter.
The eldest, Mr. John Hay, came to this country when about the age of twenty,
as Prussian Consul to the port of Leith, where he also transacted business as
a foreign merchant, but was never very successful. Like most Germans of any
respectability, he had acquired a musical education ; and, being of industrious
habits, sought to better his income by obtaining the appointment of performer
on the musical bells of St. Giles’s Church, Edinburgh ; which office he enjoyed
until his demise. At that period there were two musicians employed, and his
coadjutor was Mr. Alexander Robertson, engyaver. We may mention, for the
information of those at a distance, that in St. Giles’s there is a very complete set
of musical bells, which are played upon every day between the hours of one and
two o’clock,’
The second son, Captain Hay, was a bachelor ; and, after being placed upon
half-pay, took up his residence in Edinburgh. At that time the principal promenade
was the Meadows, where he almost daily appeared to ogle the ladies ;
and being somewhat short-sighted, and not wearing glasses, he approached sometimes
closer than was agreeable, staring them hard in the face. When they
saw him advancing, they frequently drew down their veils ; and this giving the
gallant Captain offence, he retaliated by sporting a veil, which he occasionally
wore thrown up over his hat ; and if he noticed any lady who had pulled down
her veil in approaching him, he was sure to return the compliment, muttering
as he did so-
This gentleman was born at Dantzic, in Prussia.
‘‘ I know what you mean ;
I’m too ugly to be seen.”
He did not always wear uniform, but more frequently appeared in plain clothes ;
and we have sometimes seen him veiled with his ro&d hat on. He was seldom
observed on the streets in company, and seemed to have a particular pleasure in
walking alone. It was not uncommon for him to kiss his hand to ladies whom
he admired in passing, and he would even take off his hat to others, but never
attempted to speak to them.
The Captain died in Edinburgh about the year 1804. His brother, who left
behind him two SOUS and a daughter, survived him a few years. The eldest
son, Mr. Frederick Hay, an eminent engraver, long settled in London, succeeded
Both he and his brother spoke broken English.
From one to two was the dinner hour of the citizens in former t i e s .
VOL II. 2 uBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 329
the 26th of December 1835. Throughout life Sir Robert maintained an untainted
character, and was universally respected as a most humane, benevolent,
and excellent man.
The full-length figure, with the military hat and veil, which he wore in ridicule
of the ladies, represents the eccentric CAPTAIN HAY, or “the Daft
Captain,” as he was usually styled.
His father, Mr. John
Hay, who had early settled there as a general merchant, was a Scotsman, and
descended from a highly respectable family. He had two sons and a daughter.
The eldest, Mr. John Hay, came to this country when about the age of twenty,
as Prussian Consul to the port of Leith, where he also transacted business as
a foreign merchant, but was never very successful. Like most Germans of any
respectability, he had acquired a musical education ; and, being of industrious
habits, sought to better his income by obtaining the appointment of performer
on the musical bells of St. Giles’s Church, Edinburgh ; which office he enjoyed
until his demise. At that period there were two musicians employed, and his
coadjutor was Mr. Alexander Robertson, engyaver. We may mention, for the
information of those at a distance, that in St. Giles’s there is a very complete set
of musical bells, which are played upon every day between the hours of one and
two o’clock,’
The second son, Captain Hay, was a bachelor ; and, after being placed upon
half-pay, took up his residence in Edinburgh. At that time the principal promenade
was the Meadows, where he almost daily appeared to ogle the ladies ;
and being somewhat short-sighted, and not wearing glasses, he approached sometimes
closer than was agreeable, staring them hard in the face. When they
saw him advancing, they frequently drew down their veils ; and this giving the
gallant Captain offence, he retaliated by sporting a veil, which he occasionally
wore thrown up over his hat ; and if he noticed any lady who had pulled down
her veil in approaching him, he was sure to return the compliment, muttering
as he did so-
This gentleman was born at Dantzic, in Prussia.
‘‘ I know what you mean ;
I’m too ugly to be seen.”
He did not always wear uniform, but more frequently appeared in plain clothes ;
and we have sometimes seen him veiled with his ro&d hat on. He was seldom
observed on the streets in company, and seemed to have a particular pleasure in
walking alone. It was not uncommon for him to kiss his hand to ladies whom
he admired in passing, and he would even take off his hat to others, but never
attempted to speak to them.
The Captain died in Edinburgh about the year 1804. His brother, who left
behind him two SOUS and a daughter, survived him a few years. The eldest
son, Mr. Frederick Hay, an eminent engraver, long settled in London, succeeded
Both he and his brother spoke broken English.
From one to two was the dinner hour of the citizens in former t i e s .
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28 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Burghmuir.
great forest of Drumsheugh, wherein the white.
bull, the Caledonian boar, the elk and red deer
roamed, and where broken and lawless men had
their haunt in later times.
Yet some clearances of timber must have been
made there before 1482, when James Iii. mustered
on it, in July, 50,000 men under the royal standad
for an invasion of England, which brought about
the rebellious raid of Lauder. On the 6th
October, 1508, his son James IV., by a charter
Among those who then got lands here were Sir
Alexander Lauder of Blyth, Provost of the City,
and George Towers of the line of Inverleith, whose
name was long connected with the annals of the
city.
It was on this ground-the Campus Martius of
the Scottish hosts-that James IV. mustered, in the
summer of 1513, an army of IOO,OOO men, the
most formidable that ever marched against England;
and a fragment of the hare-stane, or bore-
THE LIBRARY AAI.I., EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY.
under the Great Seal, leased the Burghmuir to
the council and community of Edinburgh (City
Charters, I 143-1540) empowering them to farm and
cIear it of wood, which led to the erection within
the city of those quaint timber-fronted houses,
many of which still remain in the closes and wynds,
and even in the High Street. In 1510 we find,
from the Burgh Records, that the persons to whom
certain acres were let there, were bound to build
thereon ?dwelling-houses, malt-barns, and cow-bills,
and to have servants for the making of malt betwixt
(30th April) and Michaelmas, I 5 I 2 ; and failing to
do so, to pay to the common works of the
town; and also to pay 6 5 for every acre of the
three acres set to them.?
stane, in which the royal standard was planted,
on this and many similar occasions, is still preserved,
and may be seen built into a wall, at
Banner Place, near Morningside Church. As
Drummond records, the place was then ? spacious
and made delightful by the shade of many stately
and aged oaks.?
?? There were assembled,? says Pitscottie, ? all his
earls, lords, barons, and burgesses ; and all manner
of men between sixty and sixteen, spiritual and
temporal, burgh and land, islesmen and others, to
the number of a hundred thousand, not reckoning
carriagemen and artillerymen, who had charge of
fifty shot-cannons.? When some houses were
built in the adjacent School Lane in 1825, hundreds

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NioiLson Street.] JOHN MACLAREN. 337
spend a portion of each day in education, often
passing an hour or more daily in learning to read
by means of raised letters, under the direction of
the chaplain.
One of the most remarkable inmates here was
John Maclaren, who deserves to be recorded for
his wonderful memory. He was a native of Edinburgh,
and lost his sight by small-pox in infancy.
He was admitted into the first asylum ir. Shakespeare
Square in 1793, and was the last survivor
In West Richmond Street, which opens off the
east side of Nicolson Street, is the McCrie Free
Church, so named from being long the scene of
the labours of Dr. Thomas McCric, the zealous
biographer of Knox and Melville. Near it, a large
archway leads into a small and dingy-looking court,
named Simon Square, crowded by a humble, but
dense population ; yet it has associations intimately
connected with literature and the fine arts, for
there a poor young student from Rnnandale, named
SURGEONS? HALL.
of the original members. With little exception,
he had committed the whole of the Scriptures to
memory, and was most earnest in his pious efforts
to instruct the blind boys of the institution in portions
of the sacred volume. He could repeat an
entire passage of the Bible, naming chapter and
verse, wherever it might be opened for him. As
age came upon him the later events of his life eluded
his memory, while all that it had secured of the
earlier remained distinct to the last. Throughout
his long career he was distinguished by his zeal
in promoting the spiritual welfare and temporal
comfort of the little community of which he was
a member, and also for 3 life of increasing industry,
which closed on the 14th of November, 1840.
91
Thomas Carlyle, lodged when he first came to
Edinburgh, and in a narrow alley called Paul
Street David Wilkie took up his abode on his
arrival in Edinburgh in 1799.
He was then in his fourteenth year; and so little
was thought of his turn for art, that it required all
the powerful influence of the kind old Earl of
Leven to obtain him admission as a student at the
Academy of the Board of Trustees. The room he
occupied in Paul Street was a little back one, about
ten feet square, at the top of a common stair on
the south side of the alley, and near the Pleasance.
From this he removed to a better lodging in East
Richmond Street, and from thence to an attic in
Palmer?s Lane, West Nicolson Street, where hq

... Street.] JOHN MACLAREN. 337 spend a portion of each day in education, often passing an hour or more ...

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194 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
No. LXXX.
REV. GREVILLE EWING.
AS the subject of this sketch is still alive, and engaged in public service, propriety
forbids our entering into the minuter details of his personal history,
He is a native of Edinburgh, where he was born in 1767. Being originally designed
for a secular profession, he was, at the usual age, bound apprentice to an
engraver. A strong desire, however, to be engaged in the work of the ministry
induced him, at the close of his apprenticeship, to relinquish his intended profession
and devote himself to study. He accordingly entered the University of
Edinburgh, where he passed through the usual curriculum of preparatory discipline
; and, in the year 1792, he was licensed to preach in connection with the
National Church by the Presbytery of Hamilton. A few months after this he
was ordained, as colleague with Dr. Jones, to the office of minister of Lady
Glenorchy’s Chapel, Edinburgh.
A deep interest in the cause of missions seems, at an early period of Mr.
Ewing’s ministry, to have occupied his mind. At that time such enterprises
were to a great degree novelties in this country; and even, by many who
wished them well, great doubts were entertained of their ultimate success. By
his exertions and writings he contributed much to excite a strong feeling in regard
to them in Edinburgh ; nor did he content himself with this, but, fired with
a spirit of true disinterested zeal, he determined to devote himself to the work
of preaching the gospel to the heathen. For this purpose he united with a
party of friends, like-minded with himself, who had formed a plan of going out
to India and settling themselves there as teachers of Christianity to the native
population. The individuals principally engaged in this undertaking besides
Alr. Ewing, were the Rev. David Bogue, D.D., of Gosport; the Rev. William
Innes, then one of the ministers of Stirling, now of Edinburgh; and Robert
Haldane, Esq. of Airthrey, near Stirling,-by the latter of whom the expenses
of the mission were to be defrayed. With the exception of Dr. Bogue, all these
gentlemen still survive. The peremptory refusal of the East India Company,
after repeated applications and memorials on the subject, to permit their going
out, caused the ultimate abandonment of this scheme. Mr. Ewing, however, and
his associates, feeling themselves pledged to the missionary cause, and seeing no
opening for going abroad, began to exert themselves for the promotion of religion
at home. A periodical, under the title of The Missionary Magazine, was started
in Edinburgh, of which Mr. Ewing undertook the editorship, the duties of
which office he discharged in the most efficient manner for the first three years
.

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THE OLD WORKHOUSE. 325 Bristo Street.]
cambrick ? bears the earl?s coronet above his
initial R. Three guineas? reward was offered for
any one who would return Polly ?to her owner,?
either at John?s Coffee House, ?or the Earl of
Rosebeme at Denham?s Land, Bristow, and no
questions will be asked. She is a London girl,
and what they call a Cockney.? There are in
the advertisement a great many arguments and
inducements used by the earl to induce the fair
was a park called Forglens Park, upon part of
which the New Bridge is built,? says a writer in
1775, ?and the rest feued out by the magistrates
to different persons, upon which there are now
many good houses erected This park used to
pay AI o yearly.?
At midsummer, in 1743, this house was opened
for the reception of the poor, who were employed
according to their ability, and allowed twopence
DARIEN HOUSE, 1750.
one to return, and the whole are wound up by the
following elegant couplet :-
? My Lord desires Polly Rich,
To mind on Lord Roseberrie?s dear little Fish.?
(Scottish/ournal, Vol. I.)
Westward of Bristo Street, in the large open field
described, there was erected in 1743 the Workhouse.
It was four storeys in height, very spacious, but plain,
massive, and dingy, with a pedimented or gabled
centre, whereat hung a huge bell, and in which
there were three tall arched windows of the chapel
or hall. It stood zoo feet south-west of the Bristo
Port, on a part of the ground then denominated
the High Riggs, and the expense of the edifice was
defrayed by the voluntary contributions of the
inhabitants ; and for its use, ?among other subjects,
out of every shilling they earned. The annual
expense of maintaining each person in those days
amounted to A4 IOS., and was defrayed by a tax
of two per cent. on the valued rents of the city, the
dues of the dead, or the passing bell, burial
warrants, green turfs, half the profits of the Ladies?
Assembly Room, the collections at the church
doors, and other voluntary contributions. It was
early proposed to establish a permanent poor rate,
but this was opposed by the members of the College
of Justice, on the plea that they were not liable to
local burdens.
The number maintained in this now defunct
edifice from the 1st of January, 1777, to the 1st
of January, 1778, was only 484 adults, of both
sexes, of whom 52 died; 180 children, of whom

... OLD WORKHOUSE. 325 Bristo Street.] cambrick ? bears the earl?s coronet above his initial R. Three guineas? ...

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

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136 ROSLIN, HAWTHORNDEN,
most massive and impressive fellows he had ever met, his private feeling, as
he sat opposite, watching the vast bulk in the chair, and the lighting up of his
surly visage as he swilled off .glass after glass, must have been ‘‘ Can this
really be the accepted living chief of British Literature 1”’
Drummond lived at Hawthornden from the time he was four-and-twenty
till his death at the age of sixty-three. He composed here his Teares ow fhe
Death of Mdiades, his Ebrfh Peasfing, his FZozwes af Sion, and his Cypress Grove.
He also made a valuable collection of English and foreign books, some portion
of which he afterwards presented to the library of Edinburgh University, where
he had been educated He married in the year 1632, and two or three
years later enlarged and rebuilt Hawthornden.
, ‘The new house was completed in 1638, when Drummond, to commemorate
the event, caused this inscription to he carved over the new
doorway : Dizino mut2t-n GuZieZmus Drummondus ab Huw+wrden, Joannis,
Eguifis Aurafi, Filius, ut honesto ofw quiesccref, sibi et mccessoribus itutauravit,
1638 ” (‘‘ By the divine favour, William Drummond of Hawthornden, son of
Sir John Drummond, Knight, that he might rest in honourable ease, founded
this house for himself and his successors.’) Accordingly, the mansion of
Hawthornden which tourists now ‘admire, peaked so picturesquely on its high
rock in the romantic glen of the Esk, is not the identical house which Ben
Jonson saw, and in which he and Drummond had their immortal colloquies,
but Drummonds enlarged edifice of 1638, preserving in it one hardly knows
what fragments of the older building.’
A biographer of Drummond, writing in the year 1711, thus records the
poet’s death:-‘In the year 1649, when rebellion was prosperous and
triumphant in ’the utmost degree, the best of kings and men, under a sham
pretence of justice, was barbarously murdered at his own palace gate by the
.worst of subjects and the worst of men. Our author, who was much weakened
with close studying and diseases, was so pverwhelmed with extreme grief and
anguish that he died the 4th of December, wanting only nine days of sixtyfour
years of age, to the great grief and loss of all learned and good men ; and
was honourably buried in his own aisle in the church of Lasswade, near to his
house of Hawthornden.’
This statement of the cause of Drummond’s death is not quite correct.
‘ Of Drummond’s deep feeling,’ says Professor Masson, ‘ about the death of

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BIOGMAPHICAL SKETCHES. 397
There is now ranging up and down
The meanest face e’er came to town :
The pimping officer starts the sport,’
By taking the widow’s stock too short ;
The Supervisor comes with a smile,
Says God be praised-a sweet beguile ;
The widow and children they do cry-
Never mind though they should die ;
The God of Heaven is fast asleep,
Let us make hay whde widows weep ;
We’ll send a present to the Board,
And all complaints will then be smoored ;
And since by faith to heaven we are whiled,
We’ll leave our conscience in this world.”
A little farther on are four lines descriptive of “A Fine Lady, who paid
for one hundred copies: and rides with an embroidered saddle-cloth :‘I-
“ When you mount your horse, my eyes go blind,
When you ride away, all grows dark behind ;
Your slender hand has kindled a flame,
And raised the muse to the summit of fame.”
The price of “ one hundred copies’’ would be an acceptable offering, and a sure
way to be enrolled in the “ Book of Fame.” The author appears to have been
then soliciting subscriptions for his embryo publication. Among other n‘ames
honoured with his high approval, we find that of the Hon. Charles James Fox-
“ Whose memory for ever lives,
The enemy of Revenue Thieves !”
Mrs. Clarke also finds a niche in his temple of British worthies :-
‘ I In spite of pimping lawyer sages,
For truth she stands the rock of ages ;
They laid their traps to make her faUBy
the god of war she foil’d them all !”
The “Book of Fame,” do. II., is more indicative of the Doctor’s eccentric
tenets in politics and religion. The titles of a few leading pieces are-“On
Revenue Thieves”--“ On the Fast-day ”- ‘‘ On the War ”-‘‘ The Millennium,
upon the Principle of Cause and Effect, universal peace must be preceded by
universal monarchy ;” and in order to fix the subject more permanently on the
minds of his hearers, he calls in the aid of melody, and directs his disquisitions
to be sung to the tune of “Johnnie Cope :‘I*-
‘‘ Your thundering guns shall roar, roar, roar,
Your fame extend to every shore ;
And you shall conquer more and more,
Till mankind is free in the morning !”
1 Of the author’s book, we presume.
This musical hint is too good to be lost. Only think what an effect would be produced if
“ Church Endowment” were warbled to the tune of Maqgie Lauder, or “ Vote by Ballot” to that of
Morgan Raltlrr.

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90 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Bonnington.
In April, 1747, the Countess of Hugh, third Earl
of Marchmont (Anne Western of London), died in
Redbraes House; and we may add that ?Lord
Polwarth of Redbraes ? was one of the titles of Sir
Patrick Hume when raised to the Scottish peerage
as Earl of Marchmont.
We afterwards find Sir Hew Crawford, Bart. of
Jordanhill, resident proprietor at Redbraes. Here,
in 1775, his eldest daughter Mary was married to
General, Campbell of Boquhan (previously known
as Fletcher of Saltoun), and here he would seem
to have been still when another of his daughters
found her way into the caricatures of Kay, a subject
whichmade a great noise in its time as a local scandal.
In the Abbey Hill .there then resided an ambitious
little grocer named Mr. Alexander Thomson,
locally known as ?Ruffles,? from the long
loose appendages of lace he wore at his sleeves.
With a view to his aggrandisement he hoped to
connect himself with some aristocratic family, and
cast his eyes on Miss Crawford, a lady rather fantastic
in her dress and manners, but the daughter
of a man of high and indomitable pride. She kept
? Ruffles ? at a proper distance, though he followed
her like her shadow, and so they appeared
in the same print of Kay.
The lady did not seem to be always so fastidious,
as she formed what was deemed then a
terrible mbaZZiunce by marrying John Fortune, a
surgeon, who went abroad. Fortune?s brother,
Matthew, kept the Tontine tavern in Princes
Street, and his father a famous old inn in the High
Street, the resort of all the higher ranks in Scotland
about the close of the last century, as has already
been seen in an earlier chapter of this work.
Her brother, Captain Crawford, threatened to
cudgel Kay, who in turn caricatured hinz. Sir Hew
Crawford?s family originally consisted of fifteen,
most of whom died young. The baronetcy, which
dated from 1701, is now supposed to be extinct.
In their day the grounds of Redbraes were
deemed so beautiful, that mullioned openings were
made in the boundary wall to permit passers-by to
peep in.
In 1800 the Edinburgh papers announced proposals
?? for converting the beautiful villa of Redbraes
into a Vauxhall, the entertainment to consist
of a concert of vocal and instrumental music, to be
conducted by Mr. Urbani-a band to play between
the acts of the concert, at the entrance, &c. The
gardens and grounds to be decorated with statues
and transparencies ; and a pavilion to be erected to
serve as a temporary retreat in case of rain, and
boxes and other conveniences to be erected for
serving cold collations.?
This scheme was never carried out. Latterly
Redbraes became a nursery garden.
Below Redbraes lies Bonnington, a small and
nearly absorbed village on the banks of the Water
of Leith, which is there crossed by a narrow bridge.
There are several mills and other works here, and
in the vicinity an extensive distillery. The once
arable estate of Hill-house Field, which adjoins it,
is all now laid out in streets, and forms a suburb
of North Leith. The river here attains some
depth.
We read that about April, 1652, dissent began
to take new and hitherto little known forms. There
were Antitrinitarians, Antinomians, Familists (a
small sect who held that families alone were a
proper congregation), Brownists, as well as Independents,
Seekers, and so forth ; and where there were
formerly no avowed Anabaptists, these abounded
so much, that ? thrice weekly,? says Nicoll, in his
Diary, ?namely, on Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday, there were some dippit at Bonnington Mill,
betwixt Leith and Edinburgh, both men and
women of good rank. Some days there would be
sundry hundred persons attending that action, and
fifteen persons baptised in one day by the Anabap
tists. Among the converts was Lady Craigie-
Wallace, a lady in the west country.?
In the middle of the last century there resided
at his villa of Bonnyhaugh, in this quarter, Robert,
called Bishop Keith, an eminent scholar and antiquary,
the foster-brother of Robert Viscount Arbuthnot,
and who came to Edinburgh in February,
1713, when he was invited by the small congregation
of Scottish Episcopalians to become their
pastor. His talents and learning had already
attracted considerable attention, and procured him
influence in that Church, of which he was a zealous
supporter ; yet he was extremely liberal, gentle, and
tolerant in his religious sentiments. In January,
1727, he was raised to the Episcopate, and entrusted
with the care of Caithness, Orkney, and the
Isles, and in I 733 was preferred to that of Fife. For
more than twenty years after that time he continued
to exercise the duties of his office, filling a high and
dignified place in Edinburgh, while busy with
those many historical works which have given him
no common place in Scottish literature.
It is now well known that, previous to the rising
of 1745, he was in close correspondence with
Prince Charles Edward, but chiefly on subjects
relating to his depressed and suffering communion,
and that the latter, ?as the supposed head of a
supposed Church, gave? the con$ d?kZire necessary
for the election of individuals to exercise the epis.
copal office.?

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THE PALACE BURNED AND REPAIRED. 73
~
gesse !?? Then the castle fired a salute, while
silver was scattered to the multitude. Three years
afterwards the king and court had departed, and
Holyrood was consigned to silence and gloom.
On James VI. re-visiting Scotland in 1617, the
palace was fitted up for him with considerable
splendour, but his project of putting up statues
of the apostles in the chapel caused great excitement
in the city. Taylor, the Water-poet, who was
at Holyrood in the following year, states that he
~~
the gardens known as Queen Mary?s sundial,
although the cyphers of Charles, his queen, and
eldest son appear upon it. Cromwell quartered
a body of his infantry in the palace, and by accident
they set it on fire, on the 13th November,
1650, when it wzs destroyed, all save the Tower of
James V., with its furniture and decorations.
Of this palace a drawing by Gordon of
Rothiemay has been preserved, which shows the
main entrance to have been where we find it
HOLYROOD PALACE AKD ABBEY CHURCH, FROM THE SOUTH-EAST.
saw this legend over the royal arms at the gate :
CC4Nobis hec invicta misanf 106 proovi.? I inquired
what the English of it was. It was told me
as followeth, which I thought worthy to be recorded :
-6 106 foreJ&%ws h i e I& this to ux unconpumed..? ?
When Charles I. visited Edinburgh, in 1633,
the magistrates employed the famous Jameson to
paint portraits of the Scottish monarchs, and,
imitative of his master Rubens, he wore his
hat when Charles I. sat to him ; but it is probable
that after the latter?s last visit, in 1641, the palace
must have become somewhat dilapidated, otherwise
Cromwell would have taken up his residence
there. The improvements effected by Charles
were considerable, and among other memorials of
his residence still remaining, is the beautiful dial in
68
now. Round embattled towers flank it, with bow
windows in them, and above the grand gate are
the royal arms of Scotland. On either side is a
large range of buildings having great windows ;
and the now empty panels in the Tower of James V.
appear to have been filled in with armorial bearings,
doubtless destroyed by Cromwell. In his map of
1657 the same artist shows a louyingdn-stone in
the centre of the palace yard.
The palace was rebuilt to a certain extent, by
order of Cromwell, in 1658, but the whole of his
work, at the Restoration, was pulled down by
royal warrant two years after, as the work ? built
by the usurper, and doth darken the court?
Engrafted on the part that survived the conflagration,
and designed, it is said, after the noble

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432 INDEX TO THE PORTRAITS. ETC .
No . Pap.
Dalzel. Andrew. A.M., F.R.S., Professor
of Greek in the University ......... cxxxi 32(
Davidson. Rev . Dr . Thomas. of the Tolbooth
Church .......................... cliv 386
Davidson. John. Esq., W.S ............... xcix 242
Devotees. Three Legal ..................... cxix 291
Dhu. John. or Dow. alim Macdonald ...... ii 8
Dhn. John. of the City Guard ...............x c 218
Dhu. Corporal John ........................ clxx 429
Dickson. Bailie James ..................... xlix 10 4
Donaldson. James. a half-witted baker .. .xlv 97
Downie. Mr . David, goldsmith. tried
for High Treason along with Robert
Watt in 1794 ........................... cxli 352
Doyle. William. of the 24th Regiment ...... 1 105
Duf. Jamie. an idiot ........................... ii 7
Duncan. Right Hon . Lord Viscount ... cxlv 360
Duncan.Admira1. ontheQuarter-Deck ... cxlvi 362
Dundas. the Hon . Robert. of Arniston.
Lord Chief Baronof the Court of
Exchequer .............................. xlviii 103
Dundas. the Hon . Robert. of Amiston.
Lord Advocate of Scotland ......... cxxix 316
Duudas. Henry. Viscount Melville. in
the uniform of the Royal Edinburgh
Volunteers .............................. cxvii 289
Dundas. Henry ................................. cl 376
E
Edgar. Janies. Esq., .Commissioner of
Customs ................................. cliii 385
Eiston, Dr., Surgeon ........................ cxx 292
Elder. Thomas. Esq . of Forneth. Lord
Provost ................................. exliv 358
Errol. Earl of .............................. lxxxiv 203
Erskine. Rev . Dr . John. of Carnock ...... xxx 67
Erskine. Hon . Henry. advocate ............ xxx 67
Erskine. Hon . Henry. Dean of the Faculty
of Advocates ..................... lviii 124
Erskine. Rev . Dr . John. of the old Greyfriars'
Church .......................... Jxxiii 171
Erskine. Rev . Dr . John .................. lxxiv 175
Ewing. Rev . Greville. of Lady Glenorchy's
Chapel. Edinburgh. afterwards
ofNileStreetChape1. Glasgowlxxx 194
F
Fairholme. George. Esq . of Greenhill ... clxiv 416
Fergusson. Neil. Esq., advocate ...... cxxxiii 386
Fisher. Major. of the 55th Regiment ...... xxi 51
Forbes. Sir William. Bart . of Pitsligo.
banker ................................... lxxvi 180
Forbes. Sir William. Bart . of Pitsligo.
banker ...................................... cii 251
Fmter. William. of the 24th Regiment ...... 1 105
Praser. Thomas. (a Natural) ...........l.x xvii 184
Fairholme. George. Esq . of Greenhill ... clxii 413
Fergusson. George. Lord Hermand ...... clvi 392
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Garden. Francis. Lord Gardenstone ......... vii 22
Gerard. Dr . Alexander ..................... XXXP 77
Giants. Three Irish (two of them twin
.brothers). with a group of spectators ... iv 10
Gilchrist. Mr . Archibald. of the Royal
Edinburgh Volunteers ...............x cviii 241
Gingerbread Jock .............................. viii 25
Glen. Dr .......................................... ix 26
Gordon. Right Hon . Lord Adam. on
horseback ........................... lxxxviii 212
Cordon. Right Hon . Lord Adam. arm-inarm
with the Count D'Artois ... lxxxix 214
Gordon. Alexander. Lord Rockville ... xxxiii 72
Gordon. Professor Thomas. King's College.
Aberdeen ........................ xxxv 78
Gordon. CaptainGeorge. ofthecity Guard ... lvi 118
Graham. the Most NobletheMarquisof ... cxvi 285
Graham. Dr . James. going along the
North Bridge in a high wind .........x i 30
Graham. Dr . James lecturing ............... xii 33
Grant. Sir James. of Grant. Bart., with
a view of his regiment. the Strathspey
or Grant Fencibles ............... cxiii 277
Grant. Colquhoun. Esq., W.S. ............ clxv 418
Grrgory. James, M.D., Professor of the
Practice of Medicine in the University
....................................... cxxxv 339
Gregory. Dr . James. in the uniform of
the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers . cxxxvii 342
Grieve. John. Esq., Lord Provost ......... Ivi 118
Grose. Francis. Esq., F . A.S., of London
and Perth ................................. xviii 46
Guard.House. the C i g ..................... clxx 429
H
Haddington. the Right Hon . the Earl of ... cii 251
Haddo. the Bight Hon . Lord ............l xxxiv 204
Hailes. Lord. one of the Judges of the
Court of Session ..................... cxlvii 364
Hamilton. Dr . Alexander. Professor of
Midwifery ........................... cxxxiv 330
Hart. Mr . Orlando ........................... xciii 223
Hay. Charles. Esq., advocate. taken a
short time before his elevation to
the bench .............................. lxxxii 199
Hay. Dr . James, deacon of the surgeons ... xciii 226
3ay. Dr . James. of Hayston ............ clxvii 426
lay. Miss. of Montblairp .................. xlvii 99
Teads. an Exchange of ..................... lxvi 157
Tenderland. Lord ........................... xcix 243
lenderson. Mr . John. in the character
of .. Sir John Falstaff ................. lxiii 146
3ercules. the Modern-Dr . Carlyle destroying
the Hydra of Fanaticism ... xxx 67
€igh Street, Levelling of the ............ xciii 222
€ill. Rev . Rowland. A.M., delivering one
of hisSermonsontheCaltonH ill ... cxxxv 333

... INDEX TO THE PORTRAITS. ETC . No . Pap. Dalzel. Andrew. A.M., F.R.S., Professor of Greek in the University ...

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