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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 219
was executed upon Patrick Ogilvie,’ in the Gmsmarket of Edinburgh; but
Catherine Nairne, whose sentence had been delayed in consequence of pregnancy,
made her escape from the tolbooth soon after her accouchement. She
effected this by assuming the garb and demeanour of the midwife, Mrs. Shiells,
who had for several days previously attended on her patient with her head
muffled up, under pretence of a violent attack of toothache.
There is every reason to believe that the stratagem was matured under the
connivance of her uncle Sir William, then Mr. Nairne; and at least some of
the prison guards were not ignorant of what was to take place. There have
been various conjectures as to the precise time Catherine Nairne quitted the
city-some asserting that she remained concealed in Edinburgh for some days
prior to her fight to the Continent. It, appears almost certain, however, that
she left the city the same night (Saturday the 15th March 1766) on which she
escaped from the jail;-a carriage was in waiting at the foot of the Horse
Wynd; in which was Mr. Nairne’s clerk-the late Mr. James Bremner, afterwards
Solicitor of Stamps-who accompanied Mrs. Ogdvie as far as Dover, on
her way to France.
Notwithstanding her very criticalIsituation, Mr. Bremner was in momentary
dread all the way of a discovery, in consequence of her extreme frivolity of
behaviour, as she was continually putting her head out of the window and
laughing immoderately. She was, as previously noticed, very young, and had
only been married in January 1765 j and the crime for which she was tried was
completed, by the death of’ her husband, in the month of June following. She
was described, in the proclamation issued for her apprehension by the magistrates
of Edinburgh, as attired in ‘‘ an officer’s habit, with a hat slouched in the
cocks, and a cockade in it j ” and “ about twenty-two years of age, middle-sized
and strong made; has a high nose, black eyebrows, and a pale complexion.”
Two rewards were offered for her apprehension,-one by Government, and another
by the city of Edinburgh, of one hundred pounds each. It is said she
was afterwards very fortunate, having been married to a Dutch gentleman, by
whom she had a numerous family. Rumour also represents her as having ultimately
retired to a convent and taken the veil ; and adds, that she survived the
French Revolution, and died in England in the present century.
* He was 8 great player on the violin ; and the interval between his condemnation and execution
wa almost exclusively devoted to his performance on that instrument. Great influence waa used to
save him ; but the feeling waa 80 strong against him, that the efforts of his friends were wholly
ineffectual.
It is now
enclosed, and used &B a furniture waiwroom.
9 The principal entrance, at that period, to Minto House, waa from the Horse Wynd. ... SKETCHES. 219 was executed upon Patrick Ogilvie,’ in the Gmsmarket of Edinburgh; but Catherine ...

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500 INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC.
M'Kenzie, Bliss Jan.net, 336
M'Kinlay, Andrew, 432
M'Kinnon, Mr. Roderick, 334
M'Knight, Dr. Thomas, 141, l!
M'Lachlan, Rev. Mr., 331
M'Lean, Mr., 77
M'Lean, Adjutant, 79
M'Lean, Mr. Donald, 213
M'Lellan, Mr., 332
M'Leod, Rev. Dr. Norman, 114
M'Leod, Colonel Norman, 168
N'Leod, Mr. Alexander, 334
M'Leod, Mr. Donald, 334
M'Leod, Mr. Alexander, 334
M'Leod, Mr. Angus, 334
M'Leod, Mr. Lachlan, 334
BI'Leod, Roderick, Esq., W.S.
BI 'Leod, Mr., of Muiravonsidc
M'Lure, -, 128
M'Millan, Jeanie, 366
N'Millan, Neil, 406, 407
M'Nab, Mr., W.S., 466
Sf'Queen, Robort, Lord Justice
Clerk, 47, 163, 217
M'Queen, Miss Mav, 163
K'Queen, Robert Dundas, Esq.
E'Yicar, Rev. Neil, 192
L'Whirter, Mr., 287
370
370
133
N
TAIRNE, Catharine, 156
Taismith, Mr., 260
Teale, John, Esq., 475
iecker, James, Prime Afinistei
Tecker, Madame, 64
iecker, Mademoiselle, 64
ieil, Tarn, 34,
Seil, Mary, 169
relson, Lord, 292, 293
leville, Captain, 379
lewton, Rev. Isaac, 40
rewton, Sir Isaac, 309
rewton, Lord, 402, 418, 462
kol, Mr. Wm., of the High
School, 1
of France, 64
Nicolas, Sir N. H., 142
Nisbet, William, Esq., of Dirle-
Yisbet, Archibald, Esq., 424
Yisbet, Hamilton, Esq., 458
Yisbet, Mrs., 458
Tiven, Mr. David, 98
ton, 22
Muir, Thomas, Esq., younger
Huntershill, 47, 112, 121, 1
168
Munro, President, 164
Nunro, -, 369
Munro, John, 419
Murphy, the Irish piper, 273
Murray, Archibald, Esq., 91
Murray, Miss Susan-Mary, 91
Murray, Lord John, 101
Murray, Mr., 141
Murray, John, Esq., 150
Murray, Miss Mary, 150
Murray, Dr. Alexander, 269,41
Murray, General Lord John, 25
Murray, Lady Augusta, 304
Murray, Sir Robert, Bart., 325
Afurray, Miss Elizabeth, 325
Murray, lfungo, Esq., 325
Murray, Miss Enphemia Ameli
llurray, Sir William, of Ochte
Murray, William, Esq., 330
Murray, William, Esq., of
11 'Auslin and Austin, DIcssrs
N'Cleish, Dr., 470
If 'Cormick, Samuel, Esq., senio
M 'Cormick, Samuel, Esq., junioi
N'Crie, Rev. Dr., 245
M'Donald, Rev. Patrick, 100
M'Donald, Lieut.-Colonel, 226
M'Donell, Ranald, Esq., 100
M'Dougal, Sir H. H., 295
M'Dowell, Alexander, 174
M'Dowell, William, 174
M'Ewan, Peter, senior, 216
M'Ewan, Peter, junior, 211
M'Fadyen, Nr. J., 100
M'Farlan, J. F., Esq., 105
M'GilI, Rev. Dr., of Ayr, 313
M'Glwhan, Donald, 367
M'llquham, Messrs., 377
M'Intosh, William, Esq., 467
M'Eay, Mr., of Strathy, 162
M'Hay, Niss Margaret, 162
N'Kellar, Mrs., 215
M'Kenzie, Alexander, 6
M'Kenzie, Rev. Mr., 266
M'Kenzie, Rev. Mr. Neil, 335
M'Kenzie, Kenneth, Esq., 336
j 435
325
tyre, 325
Henderland, 389
378
437
438
Noble, Rev. Mr., 310
North, Lord, 63, 158
North, Mr., 437
Northumberland, Duchess of, 469
Norton, Hon. Fletcher, 99
0
O'CONNELLD, aniel, Esq., 345
Ogilvie, Mr. Alexander, 93
Ogilvie, Miss Margaret, 93
Ogilvie, Captain, 156
Ogilvie, Sir William, Bart. 433
Ogilvy, Captain, 389
O'Eeeffe, John, 92, 261
Oliphant, Charles, Esq., 450
Oliver and Boyd, Messrs., 99,357
Oman, Mr. 310
Orkney, Bishop of, 162
Ormelie, John Earl of, 234
3rr, John, Esq., 444
Isborne, Alex., Esq., 197, 457
Iswald, Richard Alexander, Esq.,
lughterson, Rev. Arthur, 448
lughterson, Miss Anne, 448
lusely, Sir Gore, Bart., 300, 301,
133, 426
303, 304, 306
P
'AINE, Mr. Thomas, 50
'almer, Rev. Thomas Fyshe, 121
'almerston, Lord, 226, 432
'anmure, Lord, 22, 164, 165
'anmure, Patrick first Earl of,
'anmure, James fourth Earl of,
'anmure, William Earl of, 427
'ardon, Monsieur, 171
'arker, Miss, 316
'arker, John, Esq., S.S.C., 425
'arry, Captain, 453
'aterson, Dr. 42
aterson, Deacon James, 372,373
aterson, Adam, Esq., W.S., 425
aterson, Miss Deborah, 436
atersone, John, 208, 209
aton, Mr. George, 1, 3
aton, Mr. John, 35
%ton, Mr. John, 66
Iton, Mr., 202
aton, Rev. John, 266
ml, Rev. William, 290, 311,
434
iul, R., Esq., 105
tul, Rev. John, 105, 435
427
427 ... INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. M'Kenzie, Bliss Jan.net, 336 M'Kinlay, Andrew, 432 M'Kinnon, Mr. ...

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TU Cowpate.] THE HAMMERMEN. 263
reference to those trades which form the United
Incorporation of Hammermen, and to the old city
companies and trades in generaL
?6 The Hammerer?s Seill of Cause,? was issued
on the 2nd Nay, 1483, by Sir Patrick Baron of
Spittalfield, Knight, Provost ?of the City, Patrick
Balbirge of that ilk, David Crawford of St. Giles?s
Grange, and Archibald Todrig, being bailies ; and
under the general name are?included at that time,
blacksmiths, goldsmiths, lorimers, saddlers, cutlers,
buckler-makers, armourers, (( and all others
within the said burgh of Edinburgh.? Pewterers
were afterwards included, and a heckle-maker so
lately as 1609. By the rule of the corporation it
was statute and ordained, that ?? na hammerman,
maister, feitman, servand, nor utheris, tak vpon
hand fra this tyme furth, to exercise or use ony
mair craftis but alanerly ane, and to live thairupon,
sua that his brether craftismen be not hurt throu
his large exercitation and exceeding of boundis,?
Src. And all the privileges of the haminermen
were ratified by Act of Parliament so recently
as September, 1681, when shearsmiths appear as
members of the corporation. In those days all the
operations of industry were treated as secrets.
Each trade was a craft, and those who followed
it were called craftsmen ; and skilled artisans were
?? cunning men.? (Smiles.)
The Hammermen?s seal bears the effigyof St.
Eloi, in apostolical vestments, in a church porch
surmounted by five pinnacles, holding in one hand
a hammer, and in the other a key, with the legend,
(( Sig2lum commune artis tudiatorum.?
By the end of the 16th century the manufacture
of offensive weapons predominated over all other
trades in the city. The essay-piece ofa cutler, prior
to his admission to the corporation, was a wellfinished
?quhinzier,? or sword; and there were
gaird-makers, whose business consisted in fashioning
the hilts ; dalmascars, who gilded weapons and
armour. In 1582 sword blades were damascened
at Edinburgh ; but ?? Hew Vans, dalmascar, was
ordained not to buy blades to sell again,? his business
being confined to gilding steel. There were
also the belt-makers, who wrought military girdles ;
dag-makers, who made hackbutts (short guns),
and dags, or pistols ; but all these various trades
became associated in the general one of armourers
or gunsmiths, as the wearing of weapons
began to fall into desuetude, and other arts connected
with civilisation and luxury began to take
their places.
In 1586 a locksmith is first found in Edinburgh,
where he was the cnly one, and could only make
a ?? kist-lock.? Tirling-pins, wooden latches, and
transom bars, were the appurtenances of doors
before his time generally. But by 1609, ?as the
security of property increased,? says Chambers,
the essay was a kist-lock and a hing and bois
lock with ane double plate lock ;? and, in 1644,
?? a key and sprent band were added to the essay.?
In 1682 ?a cruik and cruik band? were further
added; and in 1728, for the safety of the liegeq
the locksmiths? essay was appointed to be ?? a cruik
and cruik-band, a pass-lock with a round filled
bridge, not cut or broke in the backside, with nobs
and jamb bound.? The trade of a shearsmith
appears first in 1595 in Edinburgh, and in 1613
Thomas Duncan, the first tinkler in the city was
admitted a hammerman. The trade of a pewterer
is found as far back as 1588; the first knockmaker
(or clockmaker) appears in 1647, but his
business was so limited that he added thereto
the making of locks. (? Traditions of Edin.?) In
1664 the first white iron smith was admitted a
hammerman, and the first harnessmaker, though
lorimers-manufacturers of the iron-work used in
saddlery-were members. since 1483. The first
maker of surgical instruments in Edinburgh was
Paul Martin, a French Protestant refugee, in 1691.
In 1720 the first pin-maker appears ; and in 1764
the first edge-tool maker, and the first manufacturer
of fish-hooks.
By the first charter of the hammermen all a p
plicants for admission were examined by the
deacons and masters of their respective arts, as to
their qualifications ; and any member found guilty
of a bre?ch of any one of the articles contained in
their charter, was fined eight shillings Scots towards
the support of the corporation?s altar of St. Eloi in
St Giles?s Church and the chaplain thereof. The
goldsmiths were separated from the hammermen in
1581 ; but since then many other crafts have joined
them, including gunsmiths, watchmakers, founders,
braziers, and coppersmiths.
The cordiners, or shoemakers, were first created
into a society by the magistrates on the 28th of
July, 1449 (according to Maitland), in terms of
which each master of the trade who kept a booth
within the town, paid one penny Scots, and the;.
servants one halfpenny, towards the support of
their altar of St. Crispin, in St. Giles?s Church. A
new seal of cause was granted to them in 1509, and
another in 1586, which enacted that their shops were
not to be open on Sundays after g AM., and that no
work was to be done on that day under pain of twenty
shillings fine. It also regulated the days of the
week on which leather boots and shoes could be sold
by strangers in booths. This charter was confirmed
on 6th March, 1598, by James VI., in considera ... Cowpate.] THE HAMMERMEN. 263 reference to those trades which form the United Incorporation of Hammermen, and ...

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371 Heriot?s Ho.pital.1 THE EDINBURGH VOLUNTEERS.
By the Act of Parliament referred to, the governors
were empowered to erect from this surplus
revenue their elementary schools withiin the city,
for educating, free of all expense : rst, the children
of all burgesses and freemen in poor circumstances
; znd, the children of burgesses and freemen
who were unable to provide for their sup
port; 3rd, the children of poor citizens of Eclinburgh,
resident within its boundaries. They were
also empowered by the same Act, ? to allow to any
boys, in the course of their education at such
schools, being sons of burgesses and freemen, such
uniform fixed sum of money, in lieu and place
of maintenance, and such uniform fixed sum for fee
as apprentices after their education at the said
schools is completed, as shall be determined.?
There are now sixteen of these free Heriot
schools, in different quarters of Edinburgh, all more
or less elegant and ornate in the details of their
architecture copied from the parent hospitaL . These
schools are attended by upwards of 4,400 boys and
girls.
There are also nine schools in various parts of
the city, open for free instruction in reading,
writing, arithmetic, grammar, French, German, and
drawing, attended by about 1,400 young men and
women.
There are five infant schools maintained from
the surplus funds of the same noble and gefierous
institution. ? On the report of the Bursary Committee
being given in,? at the meeting of governors
in Noveniber 1879, ?? Bailie Tawse stated that they
had at present eighteea of their young men at
college. For the month ending 20th October last,
therewere 4,907 pupils on the roll in George Heriot?s
schools, and r,075 in connectiori with the Hospital
evening classes.?
In the old volunteering times, about the last
years of the eighteenth century and the first years
of the present, the green before the hospital was
the favourite place for the musters, parades, and
other displays of the civic forces. Here theii
colours were presented, from here they were
trooped home to the Colonel?s house, when Edinburgh
possessed, per cent. of the population, a
much greater number of enrolled volunteers than
she has now.
But other exhibitions took place in Heriot?s
Bowling Green, such as when the famous aeronaut,
Vincent Lunardi, made his ascent therefiom, on
the 5th of October, 1785. On that occasion, we
are told, above 80,ooo spectators assembled, and
all business in the city was suspended for the
greatest portion pf the day. At noon a flag wa:
hoisted on the castle, and a cannon, brought from
Leith Fort, was discharged in Heriot?s Green, to
announce that the process of filling the balloon had
begun, and by half-past two it was fully inflated.
Lunardi-attired, strange to say, in a scarlet uniform
faced with blue, sword, epaulettes, powdered
wig, and three-cocked hat-entered the cage, with a
Union Jack in his hand, and amid a roaf of acclamation
from the startled people, who were but
little used to strange sights in that dull time, he
ascended at ten minutes to three P.M.
He passed over the lofty ridge of the old town,
at a vast height, waving his flag as the balloon
soared skyward. It took a north-easterly direction
near Inch Keith, and came down almost into the
Forth; but as he threw out the ballast, it rose
higher than ever. The wind bore him over North
Berwick, and from there to Leven and Largo, after
which a SSW. breeze brought him to where he
descended, a mile east from Ceres in Fifeshire,
Where the balloon. was at its greatest altitude
-three miles-the barometer stood at eighteen
inches five tenths, yet Lunardi experienced no difficulty
in respiration. He passed through several
clouds of snow, which hid from him alike the sea
and land.
Some reapers in a field near Ceres, when they
heard the sound of Lunardi?s trumpet, and saw his
balloon, the nature of which was utterly beyond
their comprehension, were . filled with dreadful
alarm, believing that the end of all things was at
hand; and the Rev. Mr. Arnot, the ministet of
Ceres, who had been previously aware of Lunardi?s
ascent, required some persuasion to convince them
that what they beheld was not supernatural.
A number of gentlemen who collected at Ceres,
set the church bell ringing, and conveyed the bold
aeronaut with all honour to the manse, where a
crowd awaited him. His next ascent was from
Kelso.
On the 26th of September, 1794, there mustered
on Heriot?s Green, to receive their colours, the
Royal Regiment of Edinburgh Volunteers, under
Lieutenant-Colonel Elder (the old provost) and
Colonel William Maxwell, afterwards a general.
The corps consisted of eight companies with thirtytwo
officers, fifteen of whom had belonged to the
regular army; but all ranks were clothed alike,
the sergeants being indicated by their pikes and
the officers by their swords. The corps numbered
about 785, all told
Their uniform was a blue coat, lapelled With
black velvet, cut away from below the breast, With
broad heavy square skirts, a row of buttons round
the cuff, gold epaulettes for all ranks, white cassi.
mere vest and breeches, with white cotton stockings, ... Heriot?s Ho.pital.1 THE EDINBURGH VOLUNTEERS. By the Act of Parliament referred to, the governors were ...

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

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230 OLD AND NEW EDINBUXGH. [High Street.
?; two such animals in the whole island of Great
Britain.?
Between the back and front tenements occupied
of old by Andro Hart is a house, once a famous
tavern, which formed the meeting-place of the Cape
Club, one of the most noted of those wherein the
leading men of ? Auld Reekie? were wont to seek
relaxation-one celebrated in Fergusson?s poem on
the city, and where a system of ? high jinks ? was
kept up with an ardour that never abated.
In this tavern, then, the IsZe of Man Arms, kept
by James Mann, in Craig?s Close, the ? Cape
Club? was nightly inaugurated, each member receiving
on his election some grotesque name and
character, which he was expected to retain and
maintain for the future. From its minutes, which
are preserved in the Antiquarian Museum, the club
appears to have been formally constituted in 1764,
though it had existed long before. Its insignia
were a cape, or crown, worn by the Soverezgn of the
Cape on State occasions, when certain other members
wore badges, or jewels of office, and two
maces in the form of huge steel pokers, engraven
with mottoes, and still preserved in Edinburgh,
formed the sword and sceptre of the King in Cape
Hall, when the jovial fraternity met for high jinks,
and Tom Lancashire the comedian, Robert Fergusson
the poet, David Herd, Alexander Runciman,
Jacob More, Walter Ross the antiquary,
Gavin Wilson the poetical shoemaker, the Laird
of Cardrona a ban zivani of the last century, Sir
Henry Raeburn, and, strange to say, the notorious
Deacon Brodie, met round the ?flowing bowl.?
Tom Lancashire-on whom Fergusson wrote a
witty epitaph-was the first sovereign of the club
after 1764, as Sir Cape, while the title of Sir Poker
belonged to its oldest member, James Aitken.
David Herd, the ingenious collector of Scottish
ballad poetry, succeeded Lancashire (who was a
celebrated comedian in his day), under the sobriquet
of Sir Scrape, having as secretary Jacob More,
who attained fame as a landscape painter in Rome ;
and doubtless his pencil and that of Runciman, produced
many of the illustrations and caricatures
with which the old MS. books of the club abound.
When a knight of the Cape was inaugurated he
was led forward by his sponsors, and kneeling
before the sovereign, had to grasp the poker, and
take an oath of fidelity, the knights standing by
uncovered :-
.
? I devoutly swear by this light.
With all my might,
Both day and night,
To be a tme and faithful knight,
So help me Poker !?
The knights presented his Majesty with a contribution
of IOO guineas to assist in raising troops in
1778. The entrance-fee to this amusing club was
originally half-a-crown, and eventually it rose to a
guinea ; but so economical were the mevbers, that
among the last entries in their minutes was one to
the effect that the suppers should be at ?the old
price ? of 44d. a head. Lancashire the comedian,
leaving the stage, seems to have eked out a meagre
subsistence by opening in the Canongate a tavern,
where he was kindly patronised by the knights of
the Cape, and they subsequently paid him visits at
? Comedy Hut, New Edinburgh,? a place of entertainment
which he opened somewhere beyond the
bank of the North Loch ; and soon after this convivial
club-one of the many wherein grave citizens
and learned counsellors cast aside their powdered
wigs, and betook them to what may now seem madcap
revelry in very contrast to the rigid decorum
of everyday life-passed completely away j but a
foot-note to Wilson?s ? Memorials ? informs us that
? Provincial Cape Clubs, deriving their authority
and diplomas from the parent body, were successively
formed in Glasgow, Manchester, and London,
and in Charleston, South Carolina, each of
which was formally established in virtue of a royal
commission granted by the Sovereign of the Cape.
The American off-shoot of this old Edinburgh fra
ternity is said to be still flourishing in the Southern
States.?
In the ?Life of Lord Kames,? by Lord Woodhouselee,
we have an account of the Poker Club,
which held its meetings near this spot, at ?? our old
landlord of the Diversorium, Tom Nicholson?s, near
the cross. The dinner was on the table at two
o?clock ; we drank the best claret and sherry ; and
the reckoning was punctually called at six o?clock.
After the first fifteen, who were chosen by nomination,
the members were elected by ballot, and two
black balls excluded a candidate.?
A political question-on the expediency of establishing
a Scottish militia (while Charles Edward and
Cardinal York were living in Rome)-divided the
Scottish public mind greatly between 1760 and
1762, and gave rise to the club in the latter yean
and it subsisted in vigour and celebrity till 1784,
and continued its weekly meetings with great replarity,
long after the object of its institution had
ceased to engage attention; and it can scarcely be
doubted that its influence was considerable in fostering
talent and promoting elegant literature in
Edinburgh, though the few publications of a literary
nature that had been published under the auspices
of the club were, like most of that nature, ephemeral,
and are now utterly forgotten. ... OLD AND NEW EDINBUXGH. [High Street. ?; two such animals in the whole island of Great Britain.? Between the ...

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Onmond.1 HARBOUR AND ISLAND. 31.5
In the reign of David 11. Roger Greenlaw
obtained a royal charter of the Butterland in the
town of Cramond, ? quhilk? William Bartlemow
resigned ;? and Robert 11. granted, at Edinburgh,
in the eighteenth year of his reign, a charter of
certain lands in King?s Cramond to William
Napier, on their resignation by John, son of Simon
Rede, in presence of the Chancellor, John, Bishop
of Dunkeld, and others.
In 1587 Patrick Douglas of Kilspindie became
the south as the Pinnacle. In December, 1769,
a whale, fifty-four feet long, was stranded upon it
by the waves. About a mile northward and east
of it, lies another rocky islet, three or four furlongs
in circumferkhce, named Inchmickery, only remarkable
for a valuable oyster bed on its shore,
and for the rich profusion of sea-weed, mosses,
and lichens, on its beach and surface.
North from the point known as the Hunter?s
Craig or Eagle?s Rock, westward of the harbour,
THE ?TWA BRIGS,? CRAMOND.
caution for John Douglas, in Cramond, and his son
Alexander, that they would not molest certain
parishioners there, nor ?? their wives, bairns, or
servants.?
The little harbour of Cramond is specified in the
Exchequer Records as a creek within the port of
Leith. It possesses generally only a few boats,
but in 1791 had seven sloops, measuring 288 tons,
employed by the iron works. Cramond Island, 19
acres in extent, lies 1,440 yards NNE of the
pretty village. It rises high in the centre, with
steep granite cliffs on the east, formerly abounded
with rabbits, and is generally accessible on foot
at low water. It now belongs to Lord Rosebery.
The north point of the isle is known as the Binks;
the stretch known as the Drum Sands extends for
more than a mile.
In 1639, Alexander, sixth Earl of Eglinton, h,$ed
for two days at Cramond with his contingent for
the Scottish army, consisting of zoo horse and
1,800 foot, en route for?Leith.
In the time of Charles I. Cramond gave a title
in the Scottish peerage, when Dame Elizabeth Beaumont,
the wife of Sir Thomas Richardson, Lord
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in England,
was, for some reason now unknown, created
Baroness Cramond for life, with the title of baron
to the Chief Justice?s son and his heirs male; ??in
failure of which, to the heirs male of his father?s
body?-the first female creation on record in ... HARBOUR AND ISLAND. 31.5 In the reign of David 11. Roger Greenlaw obtained a royal charter of the ...

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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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INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. 437
Clarkson, Major, 196
Clavering, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Wm.,
Clavering, Miss Mark-Margaret,
Cleeve, Rev. Mr., 261
Cleghorn, Mr. Thomas, 261
Clerk, Sir George, of Penycuik,
Clerk, John (Lord Eldin) 53
Clerk, Lieutenant-Colonel, 212
Clive, Lord, 378, 379
Coalston, Lord, 75, 168, 366
Cochrane, William, Esq. of Ochil-
Cochrane, Euphemia, 29
Cochrane, Sir John, of Oehiltree,
Cochrane, Mrs., 385
Cockburn, Mr., 263
Cockburn, Baron, 383
Cockburn, Lord, 383, 390
Cockburn, Mrs., 396
Collins, Mr., 66
Colman, Mr., 147, 149
Colquhoun, Sir George, 327
Colquhoun, Lady, 283
Colquhoun, Sir James, 283, 284
Colquhoun, Rev. Mr., 300
Compagni, Chevalier Gerardo, 83
Constable, Mr. Archibald, 137,
144, 210, 220, 221, 245, 304
Cope, Sir John, 22, 65, 93
Corbett, Mr., 258
Cornwallis, Lord, 95, 187
Corriand Sutherland, Messrs., 16,
Coulter, Provost William, 237,
Courtenay, Mr., 376
Courtenay, William,Viscount,381
Coutts, Mr. John, 62
Coutts, Messrs., 180, 181
Coventry, Dr., 250
Covington, Lord, 202, 378
Cowan, Rev. Mr., 156
Craig, Messrs., 284
Craig, Dr. William, 302
Craig, Miss, of Dalmair, 413
Craig, Sir James, 413
Crawford, Sir Hew, 98
Crawford, Miss Mary, 99
Crawford, Miss Lucken, 99
Crawford, Captain, 99
Crawford, Mrs., 114
Crawford, Mr. James, 355
409
409
53
tree, 29, 384
385
293, 294
390
Crawfurd, Nisses, 316
Creech, Bailie, 111, 121, 127,
141, 158, 223, 246, 261, 343
Crichton, Captain Patrick, 237
Crichton, Mr, Alexander, 390
Crichton, Sir Alexander, 392
Crichton, Gall, and Thomson,
Messrs., 391
Cringletie, Lord, 260
Cripps, Mr., 147
Cromwell, Oliver, 96, 280
Crosfield, R. T., 227
Cross and Barclay, Messrs., 22
Cruickshanks, Mr., 58, 249
Culbertson,zRev. Mr., 300
Cullen, Dr., 15, 52, 53, 58, 59,
Cullen, Dr. Henry, 255
Cullen, Lord, 254, 255, 303
Cumberland, Duke of, 81,385,425
Cumming, Miss Sarah, 58
Cumming, Charles, of Roseisle,
131
Gumming, Mr. James, of the
Lyon Office, 246
Currie, Dr., 278
Cutler, Sir John, 409
60, 163, 339, 340
D
DAENDELLG, eneral, 107
Dalhousie, Earl of, 27, 193
Dalhousie, Countess of, 225
Dalkeith, Lord, 214
Dalling, Sir Charles, 373
Ddrymple, David, of Westhall, 72
Dalrymple, Lord Provost, 105
Dalrymple, Mr. William, 307
Dalrymple, Sir Hugh Hamilton
Dalrymple, Miss Janet, 363
Dalrymple, Sir James, Bart., 364
Dalzel, Professor, 44,256, 300
Darrell, Rev. William, 48
Daschkow, Prince, 104
Davidson, John, Esq., 205
Davidson, Rev. Dr., 173, 282, 305,
Davidson, Mr. William, 388
Davidson, Captain William, 390
Davie, Mr. John, 55
Davies, Mr., 228
Dawson, John, Esq., 3811
Dawson, Miss Betty Anne, 381
Degravers, Dr. Peter, 262, 263
Dempster, Mr. George, 217
223, 366
363
320
lempster. Mr. James, 402
levonshire, Duke of, 110, 329
3evonshire, Duchess of, 329
Jhu, John, 119, 305
Dick, Professor Robert, 52
lickenson, -, 172
Dickson, Mr. William, 152
Dickson, Mr. James, 237.
Dickson, Maggie, 263
Dickson, Mr. James, 307
Dickson, Rev. Dr., 373
Digges, Ivlr, 150
Dockray, Eenjamin, 35
Doig, Dr., 323
Donaldson, hfrs. Sophia, 252
Donaldson, Mr. Robert, 261
Donaldson, Mr. James, 261
Donaldson, Rev. Mr., 427
Douglas, Margaret, 73
Douglas, Mr., of Strathenry, 73
Douglas, Sir James, 81
Douglas, Mrs. Major, 105
Douglas, Lord, 169, 170
Douglas, Mr., 271
Douglas, Rev. Neil, 427
Douglas Cause, the, 20, 379
Dowie, Johnnie, 246
Dreghorn, Lord, 387
Drennan, Dr., 427 .
Drummond, Bishop Abernethy,
Drummond, Rev. William Aureol
Drummond, John, Esq., 213
Drummond, Jane, 213
Drummond, George, Esq., 224
Drummond, Mr. Home, 233
Drummond, Provost, 244
Drysdale, Rev. Dr., 299,300, 321,
Dumfries and Stair, Countess of,
Duff, Alexander, Esq., 279
Duff, Miss Jane, 279
Dun, Dr. Patrick, 339
Dunbar, Mr., advocate, 155
Dunbar, Sir James, Bart., 30
Dunbar, Miss, 30
Duncan, Alexander, Esq., 360
Duncan, Sir Henry, 363
Duncan, Lord Viscount, 375
Duncan, Dr., 44, 255
Dundag Sir Laurence, 42,119,285
Dundas, Thomas, 42
Dundaa, Lord, of Aske, Yorkshire,
Dundas, Miss Dorothea, 75
Hay, 179
322
72
42 ... TO THE NAMES, ETC. 437 Clarkson, Major, 196 Clavering, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Wm., Clavering, Miss ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 417
Besides the Professorship, Dr. Hope held the appointment of Physician to
the Royal Infirmary ; and in this department of his public duty, his humane
and enlightened attention to the diseases of the patients under his care, and his
judicious prescriptions for curing and alleviating their disorders, were most
exemplary and instructive.
About the year 1760 Dr. Hope married Juliana, daughter of Dr. Stevenson,
physician in Edinburgh, by whom he had four sons and a daughter. After
long enjoying mnch domestic felicity and high honour in his profession, both
as a physician and professor, he died, while President of the Royal College of
Physicians, after a short illness, on the 10th November 1786, in the sixty-second
year of his age. His third son, Dr. Thomas Charles Hope, afterwards (1837)
filled the chair of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh.
No. CCCXII.
SECOND DIVISION OF THE COURT OF SESSION.
TEE Senators composing this Sitting (beginning at the left), are LORDS
ARMADALWE, OODHOUSELEGEL,E NLEEM, EADOWBANRKO, BERTSONan, d GILLIES
-the LORDJ USTICE-CLER{KB OYLEp) residing in the centre. The Print bears
the date of March 1812, yet three of the seven Judges represented still survive.'
namely, Lord Glenlee, the Lord Justice-clerk, and Lord Gillies. Save the two
last mentioned, Portraits of the other Senators have successively appeared in the
course of this Work.
THER IGHT HON. DAVID BOYLE, LORDJ USTICE-CLERKth,e fourth, but
only surviving, son of the Hon. Patrick Boyle of Shewalton (third son of John
the second Earl of Glasgow) was born in 1772. Mr. Boyle, after the usual
course of study requisite for the Scottish bar, passed advocate in December
1793. He was constituted Solicitor-General for Scotland in 1807, and the
same year elected member of Parliament for the county of Ayr, which he continued
to represent until his elevation to the bench in 1811. He was at the
same time nominated a Lord of Justiciary; and in November of that year
appointed Lord Justice-clerk in the room of the Right Hon. Charles Hope,
who had been Promoted to the Presidency.
Throughout the long period during which the Lord Justice-clerk filled this
office he efficiently qscharged its important duties, both as a criminal and a
civil judge. Not content with making himself fully master of the different civil
cwes coming before him, by a previous diligent perusal of the printed records
and pleadings, he carefully noted down any observations of importance
At the date of the first edition of this work, 1837-8,
VOL. IL 3 H ... SKETCHES. 417 Besides the Professorship, Dr. Hope held the appointment of Physician to the Royal ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 43
career, towards the end of the last century, evangelical doctrine was at a very
law ebb in Scotland; and t4hrough their instrumentality, it was owing, in no small
degree, that so striking a revival has since taken place. Both brothers were
authors of theological works highly esteemed in their day. James wrote on the
Nature and Doctrine of the Atonement, and an Exposition of the Epistle to the
Galatians. Robert’s writings consist of Works on the Evidence of Divine
Revelation and Inspiration of Scripture, and an Exposition of the Epistle to the
Romans. Robert died in 1842, and James in 1851. Their lives, by Alexander
Haldane of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-law, were published in 1852, and
the work reached a second edition,
No. CLXXXV.
SERGEANT-MAJOR PATRICH GOULD,
AND
AN EDINBURGH VOLUNTEER.
THIS is an accurate representation of the late SERGEANT -MAJOR
GOULD, in the act of teaching “the young idea how to shoot.” Gould (or
rather Guild) was a native of Alva, in Clackmannanshire, one of the little villages
located at the foot of the Ochils, where both his grandfather and father appear
to have successively held the situation of vilhge piper. His father, John Guild,
was twice married.’ Patrick, the youngest of thirteen children, was born on
the 31st of January 1749. On the death of his father, which occurred suddenly,
the widowed mother removed with her young faniily (four of whom survived)
to Glasgow, where the future Sergeant-Major was brought up as a tailor ; but
having a strong desire to be a soldier, and entertaining no great partiality for
the board, very soon after completing his apprenticeship he enlisted in the Foot
Guards, where his activity procured him promotion.
In 179 3, Gould was appointed Drill-Sergeant to the Argyleshire Fencibles,
then about to be embodied ; and the year following he was transfemed to the
First Regiment of Edinburgh Volunteers. How well the Sergeant-Major
discharged the duties of his office is in the recollection of many citizens,of
Edinburgh who profited by his instructions. He was accurate, attentive, and
active ; and as a drill none could surpass him. During his connection with the
Volunteers--a period of twenty-one years-he trained upwards of two thousand
men to military exercises. Gould added materially to his income by private
drilling, many families being in the habit of employing him to give ‘‘ the young
folks ” a proper carriage, as they termed it. His manner to a pupil was some-
Gould was related (but the precise degree of relationship is unknown, nor indeed does it matter
much) to certain persons of a name almost similar, of considerable opulence in the district where he
wag born. Latterly they fell back in the world j and some of them had charges of no very creditable
description brought against them. ... SKETCHES. 43 career, towards the end of the last century, evangelical doctrine was at a very law ebb ...

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493 INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC.
Bellaniy, Mrs., 33
Bennet, Mr., surgeon, 25
Berri, Due de, 198
Berri, Duchesse de, 199
Bertrani, Rev. Mr., 107, 108
Reugo, the engraver, 411
Beveridge, Mr. David, 403, 407
Binning, Lord, 125
Birnie, Patie, 410
Bisset, Mr., 124
Blacas, Due de, 201
Black, Rev. Mr., 39
Black, Dr., 75, 450, 451
Black, Rev. Thomas, 192
Black, Rev. Mr., 245
Black, Air. John, 407
Black, Alr. John, junior, 407
Black, Mr., surgeon, 471
Blackenay, General, 271
Blacklock, Dr., 136
Blackwood, air. Jsmes, 403
Hair, Sir James Hunter, 56, 29f
Blair, Robert, Esq., of $ventor
(afterwards Lord President), 91
251, 380, 433, 439
Blair, Rev. Hugh, D.D., 93, 41:
Blair, Villiam, Esq., 130
Blair, Colonel, of Blair, 412
Blakeman, -, 362
Blncher, hiarshall, 296
Bogue, Kev. Dr., 39
Eonaparte, Napoleon, 51, 52, 67.
Ronar, Mr. John, 19
Bonar, John, Esq., of Ratho, 10:
Bonar, Alexander, Esq., 105
Bond, Oliver, 176, 177
Bordeaux, Due de, 198, 202
Boswell, James, Esq., 20, 57, 58,
Boswell, Sir Alexander, 99, 277,
Boswell, John, Esq., 277
Boue, Dr., 454
Boyd, Mr. George, 10
Boyd, Dr., 14
Boyd and Oliver, Messrs., 99, 357
Boyd, Justice, 173
Boyle, Hon. David, Lord Justice-
Boyle, Hon. Patrick, 417
Boyle, John, Esq., 418
Boyle, Patrick, Esq., 418
Bradford, Sir Thomas, K.B., 307
Braidwood, Mr., 11
Braidwood, Nr. William, 122
68, 198, 261
380
463
Clerk, 326
Braidwood, Mr. William, of th
Baptist Congregation, 124
Braidwood, Dir. James, 124
Braidwood, Mr. William, 124
Brain, George, 43
Bransby, Professor, 452
Ereadalbane, Earl of, 411
Bremner, Mr. James, 121
Breton, Eliab, Esq., 246
Brewster, Sir David, 142, 453
Briggs, Dr., 134
Bright, Dr., 452
Brodie, Deacon, 8, 120, 121, 28t
Brothers, Richard, 309
Brongham, Lord, 21, 142, 388
413, 414, 432, 447
Brown, Mr., 9
Brown, Dr., 33
Brown, -, carter, 78
Brown, Mr. Robert, 87
Brown, Rev. Dr. William Law
Brown, Walter, Esq., 105
Brown, Dr. Andrew, 110
Brown, Rev. John, 237, 279, 35:
Brown, Rev. Robert, 279
Brown, Rev. Dr. John, 280, 281
Brown, Archibald, 323, 325
Brown, Professor Thomas, 388
Brown, Nr., 454
Brown, William Henry, Esq., 45:
Browne, Citizen M. C., 191
Browne, James, LL.D., advocate
Rrownlee, James, Esq., 322
Bruce, Professor John, 19
Bruce, Captain, 76
Brnce, Mr., of Kennett, 76
Bruce, Rev. Professor, 244
Bruce, Nessrs., 286
Bruce, King Robert, 317, 328
Brnce, John, 406
Bnice, James, the Abyssinian
traveller, 466
Brune, General, 189
Brunswick, Duke of, 115
Bryce, Mr., 124
Bryce, Rev. Dr., 458
hccleuch, Duke of, 25, 45, 139,
140, 239, 273, 341
hccleuch, Duchess of, 138
3uchan, Mr. John, W.S., 4
hchan, Earl of, 65, 154,195, 449
k h a n , Mr., 334
hchanan, Rev. Dr., 39, 311, 223
luchanan, George, 191
rence, 104
202
Buchanan, Pipe-Major, 273
Buchanan, James, 368
Bugon, Dr., 199
Bulloch, Miss Isabella, 278
Burgoyne, General Sir John, 467
Burke, Edmund, 184
Burn, Mr. Robert, 94
Burns, Robert, the poet, 1, 59,
93, 94, 128, 132, 136, 313, 325,
384, 400, 422, 423, 430
Burns, Rev. Dr. George, 134
Bnrnside, Rev. Mr., 223
Burnett, Mrs., 135
Rurnett, Miss, 135, 136, 137
Burnett, William, Esq., 436
Burnett, Miss Elizabeth, 436
Burnett, Miss Anne, 436
Burnett, Miss Robert Dundas,
Burnett, Birs., 437
Rurt, Dr., 101
Bustard, Mr., 13
Bute, James second Earl of, 72
Bute, John third Earl of, 72, 181
Butler, Hon. Sirnon, 121, 168,
Butler, Hon. Edwnrd Lynch, I77
Butter, Mr., senior, 32, 92
Butter, Miss Helm, 35
Butter, Miss Anne, 35
Butter, Miss Janet, 35
Butter, Miss Jane, 35
3yron, Admiral, 106
3yron, Lord, 391
C
:ADELL, Robert, publisher, 475
>adelk Mr. of Tranent, 446
>ajan, the giant, 115
hllander, John, Esq., of Craig-
>allander, Colonel Janies, 51
:allander, air., 361
:allender, Dr., 447
hllender, Miss, 447
hlvin, John, 420
:amage, William, 177
hmeron, Jean, 218
lameron, Colonel, 273
lameron, Messrs. J. and P., 314,
'ameron, Chief of Lochiel, 349
hmpbell, Major-General, 7
!ampbell, Lady Charlotte, 25
'ampbell, Captain John, 35
!ampbell, Archibald, Esq., 35
437
171
forth, 51
315 ... INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. Bellaniy, Mrs., 33 Bennet, Mr., surgeon, 25 Berri, Due de, 198 Berri, Duchesse de, ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 93
No. XLI.
THE REV. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D.D.,
AUTHOR OF THE “HISTORY OF SCOTLAND,” AND “CHARLES v.”
THIS eminent divine resided within the old College, at the south gate, nearly
on the spot where the centre of the library now is. He was born in the year
1721, in the manse of Borthwick, of which parish his father, also called William,
was then minister, but who was afterwards presented to the Old Greyfriars’
Church, Edinburgh. His mother was Eleanor, daughter of David Pitcairn,
Esq. of Dreghorn ; by the father’s side he was descended from the Robertsons
of Gladney in Fife, a branch of the ancient house of Strowan. Dr. Robertson
received the first rudiments of his education at Dalkeith, under Mr. Leslie ; and,
in 1733, when his father removed to Edinburgh, he commenced his course of
academical study, which he completed at the University of Edinburgh in 1741.
In the same year he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Dalkeith ; and
in 1743 was, by the Earl of Hopetoun, presented to the living of Gladsmuir in
East Lothian. Soon after this, his father and mother died within a few hours
of each other, when six sisters,’ and a younger brother,” were left almost wholly
dependent on him. He immediately took them home to his humble residence
at Gladsmuir, where his stipend amounted to little more than 260 a year, and
devoted his leisure hours to the superintendence of their education. After
seeing them all respectably settled in the world, he married, in 1751, his cousin
Mary, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Nisbet, one of the ministers of Edinburgh.
In the Rebellion of 1745, when Edinburgh was threatened by the Highlanders,
he hastened into the city, and joined a corps of Volunteers raised for its
defence ; and when it was resolved to deliver up the city without resistance, he,
with a small band, tendered his assistance to General Cope, who lay with the
royal army at Haddington-an offer which the General (fortunately for the
Doctor and his party) declined. He then returned to the sacred duties of his
parish, where he was much beloved ; and soon afterwards began to display his
talents in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, where he became
the object of universal attention and applause. It was about this time that Dr.
Robertson so ably defended his friend Mr. Home, the author of the tragedy of
Douglas, from the proceedings adopted against him in the clerical courts.
The first publication of Dr. Robertson was a sermon, which was preached by
him before the Society for propagating Christian Knowledge, in 1755 ; and to
it may be attributed the unanimity of his call to the charge of Lady Yester’s
Church in Edinburgh, to which he was translated in 1758. InFebruary 1759,
One of his sisters, Mrs. Syme, who lived at the head of the Cowgate, waa the grandmother of
’ Mr. Patrick Fbbertaon, who was bred a jeweller, and was very successful in businaw in Edinburgh.
Lord Brougham and Vaux. ... SKETCHES. 93 No. XLI. THE REV. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D.D., AUTHOR OF THE “HISTORY OF SCOTLAND,” ...

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Cowgate.] ANCIENT
Both these relics are now preserved in the
Museum of Antiquities.
An act of the Privy Council in 1616 describes
Edinburgh as infested by strong and idle vagabonds,
having their resorts ?in some parts of the Cowgate,
Canongate, Potterrow, West Port, &c., where
they ordinarily convene every night, and pass their
time in all kind of not and filthy lechery, to the
offence and displeasure of God,? lying all day on
CLOSES. 241
Close in 1514; Todrig?s Wynd is mentioned in
1456, when Patrick Donald granted two merks
yearly from his tenement therein for repairing the
altar of St. Hubert, and in 1500 a bailie named
Todrig, was assaulted with drawn swords in his
own house by two men, who were taken to the Tron,
and had their hands stricken through.
Carrubber?s Close was probably named from
? William of Caribris,? one of the three bailies in
THE COWGATE, FROM THE PORT TO COLLEGE WYND, 1646. ( A f b cfdsthumay.)
17. The Cowgate ; 44, Peebles Wynd ; 45, Merlin?s Wynd ; 46, Niddry?s Wynd ; 47, Dickson?s Close : 50, Gnfs Wynd ; 5% St Mad5 w p d ;
h St Mary?s Wpd Suburbs ; I; Cov&e Port ; g, Si M a j s Wynd Port ; 53, The College Wynd ; 54. Robertson?s Wynd ; 55. High
School Wynd ; q, Lady Yeser?s Kirk ; .r, The High School ; w, The College ; y, S i M;uy of the Fields, or the Kirk of Fields ; 25, The
Town Wall.
the causeway, extorting alms with ? shameful exclamations,?
to such an extent that passengers could
neither walk nor confer in the streets without being
impeded and pestered by them ; hence the magistrates
gave orders to expel them wholesale from the
city and keep it clear of them.
The Burgh Records throw some light on the
names of certain of the oldest closes-those running
between the central street and the Cowgate, as being
the residences or erections of old and influential
citizens. Thus Niddry?s Wynd is doubtless connected
with Robert Niddry, a magistrate in 1437 ;
Cant?s Close with Adam Cant, who was Dean of
Guild in 1450, though it is called Alexander Cant?s
79
1454, as doubtless Con?s Close was from John Con,
a wealthy flesher of 1508. William Foular?s Close
is mentioned in 1521, when Bessie Symourtoun
is ordered to be burned there on the cheeks and
banished for passing gear infected with the pest ;
and Mauchan?s Close was no doubt connected
with the name of John Mauchane, one of the bailies
in 1523; Lord Eorthwick?s Close is frequently
mentioned before 1530, and Francis Bell?s Close
occurs in the City Treasurer?s Accounts, under date
1554. Liberton?s Wynd is mentioned in a charter
by James 111. in 1474, and the old protocol books of
the city refer to it frequently in the twelve years
preceding Flodden ; William Liberton?s heirs are ... ANCIENT Both these relics are now preserved in the Museum of Antiquities. An act of the Privy Council ...

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162
of the apostolic Wesley, and of the great work which God had wrought in his day
never failed to inspire him with the deepest feelings of veneration and delight,
of gratitude and praise. The infirmities of age compelled him, in the year 181 5,
to retire from the labours of itinerancy. He then selected Caermarthen for his
residence j where, surrounded by friends whom he had long known, and by whom
he was deservedly esteemed, he continued to pursue his Master’s work, till his
vigorous constitution sank under the ravages of a disease, originally produced
by frequent and long rides, in excessive rain and cold, while travelling from
place to place in order to publish the Gospel of peace. Full of the hopes and
consolations inspired by that Gospel, he finished his course with joy on the
Lord‘s Day, January 8, 1826, in the seventyeighth year of his age.”
B I 0 G RAP H I CA L S K E T C HE S.
No. CCXXVII.
SIR WILLIAM HONYMAN, BART.,
OF ARYADALE
WILLIAMH ONYMAeNld, est son of Patrick Honyman of Graemsay, by Margaret,
daughter and heiress of M‘Kay of Strathy,’ was born in December 1756. He
was the fourth in descent from Andrew Honyman, Bishop of Orkney, the
founder of the family; who, on the streets of Edinburgh, July 1668, was
wounded in the arm by a poisoned bullet, intended for Archbishop Sharpe, of
St. Andrews, whose coach he was in the act of stepping into at the moment.’
Mr. Honyman was admitted to the bar in 1777, and appointed Sheriff-depute
of Lanarkshire in 1786, in the room of Mr. Robert Sinclair, who resigned. On
the death of Lord Dreghorn, in 1797, he was promoted to the bench, and
assumed the title of Lord Armadale-from a landed property he inherited by
his mother, in the county of Sutherland. In 1799, on the promotion of Lord
Eskgrove, he was named one of the Lords of Justiciary; and in 1804 had the
honour of baronetcy conferred on him.
Sir William Honyman, both as a lawyer and a judge, displayed very considerable
talents, as well as sound judgment. A specimen of his judicial argument is to
be found in the Appendix to Hutcheson’s “ Treatise on the Offices of a Justice
of the Peace,” etc. in the case of <‘ His Majesty’s Advocate, o. James Taylor,
and other Journeymen Paper-makers,” decided in 1808. These persons had
combined to procure a rise of wages, and were indicted to stand trial before
the High Court of Justiciary. On the relevancy of the indictment, the bench
She was cousin to Donald Lord Reay.
2 The bullet waa fired by one Mitchell, who had been engaged at the affair of Pentland Eills.
The Bishop never entirely recovered from the effects of the wound, and died in February 1676. ... the apostolic Wesley, and of the great work which God had wrought in his day never failed to inspire him ...

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liferent, and to his children in fee, and a dispute
in law occurred about the division of the property.
Buccleuch Place, branching westward off the old
Carlisle Road, as it was named, was formed between
1766 and 1780, as part of a new and aristocratic
quarter, and in rivalry to the New Town. Among
the first residents there was Elizabeth Fairlie,
dowager of George, fifth Lord Reay, who?died in
1768. She died in Buccleuch Place on,the 10th
November, 1800.
The street is of uniform architecture, 270 yards
long, but has a chilling and forsaken aspect. The
large and isolated tenement facing the south-east
entrance to GeorgeSquare was built, and used for
many years as Assembly Rooms for the aristocratic
denizens of this quarter. ?In these beautiful
rooms,? says Lord Cockburn, ?were to be seen
the last remains of the stately ball-room discipline
of the preceding age.? Now they are occupied as
dwelling-houses.
Jeffrey, on marrying a second cousin of his own
in 1801, began housekeeping in the third flat of a - - - -
common stair here, No. 18, at a time when, as
he wrote to his brother, his profession had never
brought in a hundred a year; and there he and his
wife were living in 1802, when in March, Brougham
and Sydney Smith niet at his house, and it was proposed
to start the Edinburgh Xeview; and these,
the first three, were joined in meeting with Murray,
Honier, Brown, Lord Webb Seymour, and John and
Thomas Thomson, and negotiations were opened
with Manners and Millar, the publishers in the
Parliament Close ; and-as is well known-Jeffrey
was for many years the editor of, as well as chief
contributor to, that celebrated periodical.
Where the Meadows now lie there lay for ages a
loch coeval with that at Uuddingstone, some threequarters
of a mile long from Lochrin, and where
the old house of Drumdryan stands on the west,
to the road that led to the convent of Sienna on
the east, and about a quarter of a mile in breadth *
-a sheet of water wherein, in remote times, the
Caledonian bull, the stag, and the elk that roamed
in the great oak forest of Drumsheugh, were
wont to quench their thirst, and where, amid the
deposit of mar1 at its bottom, their bones have
been found from time to time during trenching and
draining operations. The skull and horns of one
-
gigantic stag (Cetvus eZ@has), that must have found
a grave amidst its waters, were dug up below the
root of an ancient tree in one of the Meadow
Parks in 1781, and are now in the Antiquarian
Museum.
In 1537 the land lying on its south bank was
feued by the sisters of the Cistercian convent, and
in July, 1552, the provost, bailies, and council,
ordered that no person should ?wesch ony claithis
at the Burrow Loch in tyrne cummyng, and dischargis
the burnmen to tak ony bum at ony wells
in the burgh under sic pains as the jugis ples
imput to them?
On the 25th of May, 1554, the magistrates and
council ordained that the Burgh Loch should be
inclosed, ? biggit up ? in such a manner as would
prevent its overflow (Ibid). In April, 1556, they
again ordained the city treasurer to build up the
western end of it, ?and hold the watter thairof,?
though in the preceding January they had ordered
its water ?to be lattin forth, and the dyke thairof
stoppit, so that it may ryn quhair it ran before?
(? Burgh Records.?)
Dr. J. A. Sidey kindly supplieo a description of the original of the
engraving on p. 349, taken from the Merchant Company?s Catalogue.
? View of George Watsan?s hospital and grounds from the south, with
the castle and a portion of the town of Edinburgh in the distance One
of the two fine fresoos which originally adorned the walls of the
Governor?s Board Roomin said hospital. . . The paints is believed to
have ken Alexander Runciman, the celebrated Scottish artist. He died
on the zxst October, 1785. His younger brother John dicd in 1768,
pged *?
Pasche nixt to cum,? when they should consider
whether the water, which seemed to occasion
some trouble to the bailies, ?be lattin furth or
holden in as it is now.?
In 1690 the rental of the loch and its ?broad
meadows? is given at A66 13s. 4d. sterling, in
common good of the city. Early in the seventeenth
century an attempt was boldly made to drain this
loch, and so far did the attempt succeed that in
1658 the place, with its adjacent marshes, was let
to John Straiton, on a lease of nineteen years,
for the annual rent of LI,OOO Scots, and from him
it for a time received the name of Straiton?s Loch,
by which it was known in 1722, when it was let
for L80o Scots to Mr. Thomas Hope of Rankeillor,
on a fifty-seven years? lease.
Hope was president of U The Honourable Society
of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in
Scotland,? who met once a fortnight in a house
near what is now called Hope Park, where they re.
ceived and answered queries from country people
on fanning subjects. Mr. Hope had travelled in
Holland, France, and England, where he picked
up the best hints on agriculture, and was indefatigable
in his efforts to get them adopted in
Scotland.
In consideration of the moderate rent, he bound
himself to drain the loch entirely, and to make a
walk round it, to be enclosed with a hedge, a row
of lime-trees, and a narrow canal, nine feet broad,
on each side of it; and in this order the meadows
remained unchanged till about 1840, always a ... and to his children in fee, and a dispute in law occurred about the division of the property. Buccleuch ...

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22 EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT.
treading a measure in Holyrood :-Knox, the most powerful preacher since
Paul, w& thundering in the pulpit of St. Giles’ ; George Buchanan collecting
materials for his temble Detecfio, and afterwards for his superb Histoory 4
. Scotland; Bothwell passing through its streets like a grim spectre ; Murray
and Morton conducting its councils ; Kirkcaldy of Grange leading its troops ;
Lindsay of the Byres and Sir James Melville leaving it with troubled looks
for Lochleven on a melancholy embassy I It was the centre then of great
events, and formed a nucleus of extraordinary men. Gavin Douglas, Drummond
of Hawthornden, and Sir David Lindsay were alse long resident in Edinburgh.
In the next age, under the reigning trio of Stewarts-bad, worse,
and worst-the Crafty, the Careless, and the Cantankerous-Charles I.,
Charles II., and James II.,-there appeared in and about Edinburgh
some very remarkable persons on all sides : Montrose, Lauderdale, Rothes,
Mackenzie, Argyll, Dalzell, Claverhouse, Monmouth, and Perth ; Baillie
of Jerviswoode, Henderson of Leuchars, Sharp, Leighton, Samuel Rutherfurd,
Gillespie, William Carstairs, Sir Patrick Hume of Burnet, and latterly
the noble army of martyrs, who, dragged along Edinburgh streets to suffer
at the Grassmarket, seemed surrounded by unseen seraphim, and waited
for by fiery chariots, and who, dying themselves, left behind a deathless
glory which hovers over the place still. Sparser shine the luminaries in
the beginning of the eighteenth century, although we can note, apart from
distinguished natives, one immortal stranger pacing its streets and marking
its bulwarks well, seeking to number the martyrs in the bypast persecution,
but failing in the attempt, and referring us to ‘ the roll of their number kept
under the altar and before the throne’-Daniel Defoe namely, the most
ingenious and creative spirit then extant in Britain. On him, as on a stepping-
stone, we pass to Allan Ramsay, the poetic periwig-maker, who may be
called emphatically the AuZd--Reekie Laureate, and who in his best poem
goes no farther from her than the Pentlands and Habbie’s Howe. Then we
see somewhat earlier, but still contemporary, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun,
the heroic patriot, who may be taken as a worthy representative of the
Scottish Parliament and its many illustrious men. Ruddiman too and
Pitcairn were eminent among scholars. Then we meet two very distinguished
poets, one born in Edinburgh, and the other educated there,
and who sailed thence to London with Wiktey in his pocket,-Robert Blair
of Th Grave, and James Thomson of 2% Sasons. Nearer the middle
of the century we find poor Robert Fergusson, who was &us d in cufe an
Edinburgh bard, in which city too he now reposes, with one bright smile from ... EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT. treading a measure in Holyrood :-Knox, the most powerful preacher since Paul, ...

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LEITH. '05
taneous shout from the assembled multitudes, mingling with the martial music
of the Highland bagpipe which a band of young gentlemen of Leith at that
instant struck up, proclaimed in most impressive utterance the warmth of his
welcome. Next the Custom-house was reached, and when quite abreast of it
a band from the Canongate stationed there burst forth with the National
Anthem-the magistrates, deacons, and trades at the same time advancing
with lowered standards-while, just as his Majesty touched the landing-place,
three well-timed and strongly-vociferated cheers were given by the sailors who
manned the shipping in the harbour, caught up and rung out again and again
by the thousands that lined the shore, filled the windows, swarmed on the
house-tops, and stood and clung wherever there was standing or clinging room.
His Majesty was greatly affected by these hearty manifestations of loyalty and
welcome, and frequently acknowledged them with a grace and condescension
which but "intensified the feeling, and drew forth, if possible, louder shouts of
joy and acclamation.
Here, after the performance of some short imposing ceremony, the King
was conducted towards his carriage. With the post-admiral and senior
magistrates on his right, he walked along the platform, his path strewn with
flowers, with a firm and dignified step, amid deafening peals which again
saluted him on all sides. The procession then moved forwards, a showy and
imposing pageant, becoming increasingly so as it gradually spread out and
extended itselfin the distance. The Earl of Kinnoul, as Lord-Lyon, preceding,
curveted and caprioled his noble charger, followed by a cloud of heralds and
richly-dressed cavaliers-his brow circled with his golden coronet, his crimson
mantle flowing in graceful folds to the ground, and his broidered boots and
golden spurs indicating his nobility and proclaiming his rank : next came Sir
Alexander Keith, as Knight-Marshal, accompanied by his grooms and esquires,
all in splendid liveries ; and after him, as White-Rod, Sir Patrick Walker, with
his attendant equemes handsomely mounted and magnificently accoutred,
making an appearance and producing an effect little inferior to that of the
Lord-Lyon himself; then followed a long train of cavalry and infantry, with
city dignitaries, and picturesque Highlanders, in the rear of which appeared
the King in an Admiral's uniform, with a thistle and sprig of heath in his hat,
and on his breast the St. Andrew's cross which had been presented to him
by Sir Walter Scott in name of the ladies of Edinburgh, surrounded by a
royal guard of Archers, Glengarry and his household retainers, and a whole
galaxy of starred and scarletcovered aides-decamp and generals. Onward
it moved with slow and measured pace along Bernard and Constitution
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385 B I0 GBAP HICAL SRET CHE S.
and the author ; the former asserting that many of the ideas he had promulgated
in his " Translation of the Gospels," published a short time before, were
appropriated without acknowledpent in the Essay of the latter. Mr. Tytler,
however, proved satisfactorily that no such thing as plagiarism could have been
the case ; and that the extraordinary similarity was alone the result of a unison
of sentiment. Of this the Doctor, although at first somewhat sceptical, was so
thoroughly satisfied, that a warm friendship between the parties was the agreeable
result.
In 1790 Mr. Tytler was appointed Judge-Advocate of Scotland, an office
which he filled in the most conscientious manner, performing the duties personally,
and in several instances displaying a creditable degree of humanity,
by procuring a mitigation of punishment, in cases where the sentence of the
Courts-Martial appeared unnecessarily severe.
In 1792 he succeeded, by the demise of his father, to the estate of Woodhouselee,
where he afterwards continued to reside, and for a few years enjoyed
the utmost felicity in improving and ornamenting his much-loved paternal
residence. A dangerous illness with which he was seized in 1795 nearly proved
fa,tal, and confined him for a length of time. His hours of convalescence and
leisure, however, were sedulously devoted to literary pursuits, and to this period
several productions of his pen are due.
On the death of Lord Stonefield, in 1805, Mr. Tytler was promoted to the
bench; and appointed a Lord of Justiciary in 1811. Shortly after returning
from London, the following year, whither he had gone to make arrangements
respecting some property bequeathed him by his relative, Sir James Craig,
Governor-General of British North America, he was attacked by a return of
his former disorder. To have the advantage of prompt medical assistance, he
was induced to remove from Woodhouselee to Edinburgh ; but, notwithstanding
every effort, the malady made daily progress. " Feeling that he had not long
to live, although perhaps not aware that the period was to be so brief, he
desired his coachman to drive him out on the road in the direction of Woodhouselee,
the scene of the greater portion of the happiness which he had enjoyed
through life, that he might obtain a last sight of his beloved retreat. On
coming within view of the well-known grounds, his eyes beamed with a momentary
feeling of delight. He returned home-ascended the stairs which led to
his study with unwonted vigour-gained the apartmentsank on the floor, and
expired without a groan. Lord Woodhouselee died on the 5th January 1813,
in the sixty-sixth year of his age ; leaving a name which will not soon be forgotten,
and a reputation for taste, talent, and personal worth, which will not
often be surpassed.
One of his sons, Patrick Fraser Tytler, Esq.,
advocate, attained considerable reputation by a valuable History of Scotland,
and other historical and biographical works.
He left several children.
The following is a list of Lord Wooclhouselee's writings :- ... B I0 GBAP HICAL SRET CHE S. and the author ; the former asserting that many of the ideas he had ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 95
might have ranked with the first names in the British Senate. He retired from
the business of the Church Courts in 1780, but still continued his pastoral duties,
preaching when his health permitted, till within a few months of his death,
which took place at Grange House, near Edinburgh, on the 11th June 1793.
His colleague Dr, John Erskine, in a sermon preached after his death, said,
“ Few minds were naturally so large and capacious as Dr, Robertson’s, or stored
by study, experience, and observation, with so rich furniture. His imagination
was correct, his judgment sound, his memory tenacious, his temper agreeable,
his knowledge extensive, and his acquaintance with the world and the heart of
man very remarkable.”
Dr. Robertson is said to have excited the enmity of Dr. Gilbert Stuart, in
consequence of his assumed opposition to the appointment of that clever, but
vindictive personage, to one of the Law chairs in the University. Whether the
Principal really interfered is not certain, but Stuart believed he had done so,
and that was quite sufficient to induce him to take every means in his power to
annoy his imagined enemy. The “View of Society in Europe,” is in direct
opposition to the luminous introduction to Dr. Robertson’s ‘‘ History of Charles
V.,” and the ‘‘ History of Scotland, from the Reformation to the Death of Queen
Mary,” is an undisguised and virulent hypercritical attack on the “History
of Scotland ” by the same eminent writer, and does no great credit to the talents
of Dr. Stuart. The Empress Catherine of Russia was so delighted with Dr.
Robertson’s works, that she presented him with a handsome gold enamelled snuffbox,
richly set with diamonds, through Dr. Rogerson, which is still in possession
of the family.
The eldest son, a Lord
of Session, retired some years ago from the Bench ; he lived in Charlotte Square,
and died only last year (1836). The next son, Lieutenant-General James, who
distinguished himself under Lord Conmallis, still lives at Canaan Bank, near
Edinburgh. The third son was also in the army, but, having ’married the
heiress of Kinloch-Moidart, now (1837) resides almost entirely on his eshte.
The eldest daughter married Patrick Brydone, Esq. of Lennel House, author of’
a “ Tour through Sicily and Malta,” one of whose daughters became Countess
of Minto; and another, the wife of Admiral Sir Charles Adam, K.B. The
youngest daughter married John Russell, Esq., Writer to the Signet.
Dr. Robertson left three sons and two daughters.
No. XIlIII.
QUARTERMASTER TAYLOR.
THIS gentleman was an officer in the 7th Regiment of Foot, and served under
General Elliot, afterwards Lord Heathfield, during the memorable siege of Gibraltar
by the Spaniards. While in Edinburgh, during the year 1788, his
extreme corpulency rendered him very conspicuous, and induced Mr. Kay to
make him the subject of the present etching. It is said that the night before
his death he was offered €400 for his commission, which he refused ... SKETCHES. 95 might have ranked with the first names in the British Senate. He retired from the ...

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divided Lords Craig, Cullen, and Hermand argued against; and Lords
Armadale, Meadowbank, and the Lord Justice-clerk for the relevancy ; but, as
the latter had only a casting vote, the libel was found “not relevant”4nd the
parties were dismissed.
On resigning his offices in the Courts of Session and Justiciary in 18l1,
Lord Armadale retired to Smyllum Park, his residence in Lanarkshire, where
he died on the 5th June 1825. Be married Mary, eldest daughter of the Lord
Justice-Clerk, M‘Queen, of Braxfield, by whom he had a numerous family. His
two eldest sons, Patrick and Robert, entered the army. The former served in
the 28th Light Dragoons ; and the latter, who died in Jamaica on the 20th
November 1809-deeply regretted as an officer of much gallantry and the
highest promise-was Lieut.-Colonel of the 18th Regiment of Foot. The
following notice of his demise appeared in the journals :-
“ In Jamaica, Lieut.-Colonel Robed Honyman, second son of Lord Armadale. He served as
a volunteer during the campaign in Egypt, where he was honoured with the approbation of Sir
Ralph Abercromby, and acquired the esteem and friendship of Sir John Moore, Generals Hope,
Spencer, and other distinguished otficers. At the attack on the Dutch lines, at the capture of
the Cape of Good Hope, he, under Sir David Baird, led on the 93d Regiment, of which he was
Major, and was severely wounded. As Lieut.-Colonel of the 18th Foot, he lately received the
thanks of the Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Jamaica, for his active services in suppressing
a mutiny of the black troops in that Island, where he has since fallen a victim to the fever of
the countrg, at the age of twenty-seven.”
No. CCXXVIII.
REV. DR. ALEXANDER TURNBULL,
OF DALLADIES.
DR. ALEXANDETRU RNBULwLa s the eldest son of Mr. George Turnbull, Writer
to the Signet, a gentleman of good family (being a descendant of the Turnbulls
of Stracathro, in Forfarshire), and of considerable eminence in his profession.
By his mother’s side, he was related in a distant degree to the celebrated
Charles James Fox..’ He was born in Merlin’s Wynd (subsequently removed
on the erection of the South Bridge), in the month of February 1748. While
yet a minor, he had the misfortune to lose his father, but the loss was
mitigated by the good offices of Lord Gardenstone, whom Mr, Turnbull had
appointed guardian to his children. At the usual age the subject of this notice
was apprenticed to Mr. Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet, father of Sir Walter
Scott, a gentleman of whom he was accustomed to speak in terms of affection
The rise of the family of Fox is curious. Though there are peerages, viz nchaster and Holland,
in the family, the founder, Si Stephen Fox, w~as originally B footman, in the reign of Charles IL ... SKETCHES. 163 divided Lords Craig, Cullen, and Hermand argued against; and Lords Armadale, ...

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High Street.] SCOTTISH COINAGE. 269
~~ ~ ~ ~~~ ~ ~~~
crown for Mary of Guise, and inclosed with arches
the present crown of Scotland.
The early .gold coins of Mary?s reign were of
native ore, and, during the minority of James VI.,
Cornelius de Vos, a Dutchman, who had licence to
seek for gold and silver, obtained considerable
quantities, according to the records relating to
mines and mining in Scotland, published by Mr.
Cochran-Patrick.
The oldest gold coin found in Scotland bears
- ~~
under pain of death. The coins current in Scotland
in the reign of James 111. were named the
demi, the lion, the groat of the crown, the groat
of the fleur-de-lis, the penny, farthing, and plack.
English coins were also current, but their value
was regulated by the estates. From ?Miscelleanea
Scotica? we learn that in 1512 Sir Alexander
Napier of Merchiston found gold in the Pentland
Hills, and from the Balcarres MSS. (in the Advocates?
Library) he and his son figure conspicuously
3
2
RELICS OF THE OLD SCOTTISH MINT.
I, Delicate Set of Balances, 2, Dies ; 3, hnch : 4. Implements for Knarling the Coins : 5, Large Tiding-pin of the Great Door : 6, Roller for
Flattening the Silver; 7, Key of the Mint Door. (From Origiwlr am ia fhr ScottW Antiyuarzizn Musrum.)
the nameof Robert, but which of the three monarchs
so called is uncertain. Gold was not coined in
England till 1257. The first gold coins struck in
Scotland were of a broad surface and very thin.
There is some doubt about when copper coinage
was introduced, but in 1466, during the reign of
James III., an Act was passed to the effect that,
for the benefit 6f the poor, ?there be cuinyied
copper money, four to the (silver) penny, having on
the one part the cross of St. Andrew and the crown,
and on the other part the subscription of Edinburgh,?
together with JAMES R.
The same monarch issued a silver coin containing
an alloy of copper, which went under the name
of black money, and to ensure the circulation of
this depreciated coin the parliament ordained that
no counterfeits of it be taken in payment, or used,
in connection With the Mint, of which the latter was
general for some years after 1592.
In 1572 the Regent Morton coined base money
in his castle at Dalkeith, and by proclamation
made it pass current for thrice its real value ; and
having got rid of it all in 1575, by paying workmen
in the repair of Edinburgh Castle and other public
places, he issued a council order reducing it to its
intrinsic value, an act of oppression which won him
the hatred of the people. In the reign of James
VI., all the silver coin, extending to two hundred
and eleven stone ten pounds in weight, was called
in, and a coin was issued from the Mint in Gray?s
Close, ?in ten shilling pieces of eleven pennies
fine,? having on one side his effigywith the inscription,
JZZU~US YI., Da? Gratia Rex Scofomm,
on the other the royal arms, crowned. In hisreign ... Street.] SCOTTISH COINAGE. 269 ~~ ~ ~ ~~~ ~ ~~~ crown for Mary of Guise, and inclosed with arches the ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 427
thing very striking. In 1789 he purchased a cornetcy in the 11th Dragoons,
and shortly afterwards raised an independent company of Foot, which, however,
was disbanded in 1791. He was first elected member of Parliament for the
county of Forfar in 1796, which he continued to represent for many years.
In Parliament he adopted, and consistently maintained, the principles of Fox.
In 1831, a short time after the accession of the Whigs to power, the title of
Panmure was revived in his person, as the reward of long and stedfast adherence
to his principles.
The chief residence of the family is the ancient Castle of Brechin, in
Forfarshire, celebrated for its noble defence of twenty days, under the gallant
Sir Thomas Maule, against the army of Edward I. It is situated in a “romantic
manner on a high and abrupt bank, or rather precipice, overhanging the river,
South Esk, which forms a deep pool beneath.” Part of the old walls are still
standing, but the Castle was rebuilt about the beginning of the seventeenth
century by Patrick, first Earl of Panmure. The title and estates were forfeited
by James, the fourth Earl, who took part in the rebellion of 1715.’ The
representation of the family devolved on his nephew, William, who was created
an Irish Peer by the title of Earl Panmure, with remainder to his brother
John. By him the forfeited family estates were re-acquired and strictly entailed.
Earl William died without issue in 1782, when the estate devolved, as heir of
entail, upon his grand-nephew, the subject of the present notice.
Another estate in Forfarshire, that of Kellp and its ancient Castle, also
belongs to the family of Maule. About the beginning of last century it was
possessed by Henry Maule-a gentleman of considerable literary accomplishments.
Here the Hon. Captain Ramsay (sometime a General in India), brother
to his lordship, built a neat modern house in 1804, A jovial splore, termed
in Scotland the “heating 0’ the house,” was held on its completion. The
following verses, written for the occasion by the Duke of Gordon, were sung
with the greatest applause by his noble representative, the Marquis of Huntly
(the late Duke) :-
“ What pleasure I feel to this house to repair,
With good friends and old claret to drown every care ;
Grant me strength, give me power, kind Bacchus, I pray,
To swig down four bottles to honour this day,
“ May the go& on this fabric each blessing bestow,
Derry, down, down, etc.
And happiness reign here, above and below ;
May heaven on our host and hia family smile,
And each comfort enjoy with his charming De Lisle.*
But still have a bottle to give to a friend ;
From this hall ne’er let Bacchua his thyrsis mmove,
And may Venus preside in the chambers above.
“ May the stock in his cellar ne’er run to an end,
He died without issue. The Honourable Mrs. Ramsay. ... SKETCHES. 427 thing very striking. In 1789 he purchased a cornetcy in the 11th Dragoons, and shortly ...

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BI 0 GRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 93
but the Italian exhibited a degree of considerate partiality for the musical
brothers, by affording them instructions at half-price. By degrees Mr. Campbell
acquired some celebrity as an amateur vocalist, and having become favourably
known to the Rev. Robert Walker (the colleague of Blair), he was recommended
by that gentleman to the Rev. Dr. Macfarlan of the Canongate Church, who
procured for him, in 1775, the situation of precentor.
While studying under Tenducci, the aptitude and obliging disposition of the
scholar had been such as to gain the respect and esteem of his tutor. To the
friendship of that foreigner-displayed in a novel and characteristic manner-
Mr. Campbell attributed his first start, as well as his future success, as a teacher
of music. When about to leave Edinburgh he hrevailed on the latter to sit
to Allan for a portrait ; but for what purpose he did not explain. This he had
engraved on a small scale, with the initials “C-p-11, P-n-r, C-g-e
C-11 ” beneath, copies of which he inclosed in circulars to all his employers
in high life, among whom were the witty Duchess of Gordon, the volatile Lady
Wallace, the Earl of Hopetoun, Sir John Halket, and other equally distinguished
persons. Tenducci having left the city without giving the smallest hint of what
he had done, Campbell was astonished to find letters dropping into him every
other day from the families of the nobility, requesting his professional services’;
and some time elapsed ere he became aware of the obligation under which he
lay to his benefactor. Thus encouraged, in conjunction with his brother Alexander,
he devoted himself exclusively to teaching, and rapidly attained
professional reputation and respectability.
Having fairly overcome his early difficulties, Mr. Campbell married in 1776
Margaret, daughter of Alexander Ogilvie, glover in Edinburgh. Not many
years after this his prosperity received a severe check by the flight of a brotherin-
law, for whom, along with another individual, he had become security to the
amount of a thousand pounds. From the creditors, however, he experienced
such sympathy as rendered the settlement comparatively easy.
Early skeled against misfortunes, Mr. Campbell possessed a happy equanimity
of mind, with philosophy enough, in as far as possible, to render the various
occurrences of life subservient to his own and the happiness of all within his
circle. The poet Burns, while starring
among the “Embro Gentles,” was a frequent and welcome guest at the table of
He was of a kind and social disposition.
Tenducci in Dublin, in AT~UCinB ‘ Artaxerxes,’ which I had seen in London on its first coming out
in 1762. His singing Water Parted ’ was the great attraction, as were the airs he sung as the first
spirit in Comus, The
frolicsome Dublin boys used to sing about the streets, to the old tune of ‘Over the Hills and far away,’
At his benefits there, he had thirty, forty, and fifty guinea8 for a single ticket.
(‘ ‘ Tenducci was 8 piper’s son,
And he waa in love when he was young ;
And all the tuna that he could play,
Was (( Water parted from the Say I’ ”
In 1784, Thew Tenducci in London, when he set to music Captain Jephson’s ‘ Campaign.’ ”
Father of Dr. Patrick Macfarlan of Greenock. ... 0 GRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 93 but the Italian exhibited a degree of considerate partiality for the ...

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