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EIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 189
the ghost; but hlr. Smellie, still keeping ahead with a timepiece in his hand,
so coaxed and encouraged his portly friend, that he continued his exertions, and
actually gained the top of the hill within half-a-minute of the prescribed period.
The moment he achieved the victory, he threw himself, or rather fell down, and
lay for some time like an expiring porpoise-neither able to stir nor speak a
single word. While thus extended at full length, a young cockney student, who
had been amusing himself on the hill, came forward, and holding up his hands,
exclaimed, as he gazed in amazement at the Captain-“ Good heavens ! what an
immense fellow to climb such a hill ! ” When Mr. Burnet had sufficiently recovered,
Mr. Smellie and he returned victorious to their friends ; and it need
not be doubted, potations deep were drunk in honour of the feat.
Few men of his time enjoyed their bottle with greater zest than Captain
Burnet ; and at the civic feasts, with which these palmy times abounded, no one
did greater execution with the knife and fork. He seldom retired with less
than two bottles under his belt, and that too without at all deranging the order
of his “ upper story.” “ Two-and-a-half here,” was a frequent exclamation,
as he clapped his hand on his portly paunch, if he chanced to meet a quondam
ban vivant, on his way home from the festive board.
The Captain was altogether a jolly, free sort of fellow, and much fonder of
a stroll to the country on a summer Sunday, than of being pent up in a crowded
church. In a clever retrospective article in Chai,ibers’ Journal, he is alluded to
as one of the “ Turners,” so called from their habit of taking a turn (a walk) on
the Sabbath afternoon. “ About one o’clock,’’ says the paper alluded to, “ Mr.
J[ohn] L[ittle] might be seen cooling it through Straiton,’ in the midst of a slow
procession of bellied men-his hat and wig perhaps borne aloft on the end of his
stick, and a myriad of flies buzzing and humming in the shape of a pennon from
behind his shining POW. Perhaps Captain B[urnet], of the City Guard, is of
the set. He has a brother a farmer about Woodhouselee,’ and they intend to
call there and be treated to a check of lamb, or something of that kind, with a
glass of spirits and water ; for really the day is very warm. The talk is of Sir
Ralph Abercromby, and General Brune, and the Duke of York, and the Texal :
or a more interesting subject still, the last week’s proceedings of the Edinburgh
Volunteers in the Links.”
Captai6 Burnet was also one of the well-known Lawnmarket Club, described
in the Traditions as a dram-drinking, newsmongering, facetious set of citizens,
who met every morning about seven o’clock ; and after proceeding to the Post
Office to ascertain the news, generally adjourned to a public-house, and refreshed
themselves with a libation of brandy.”
In the parish of Liberton, about four miles south of Edinburgh, on the road to Penicuik,
Straiton, possessed by Mr. Jamieson, waa the property of James Johnstone, Esq., M.P. for the
Stirling district of burghs.
The writer of this haa been under a mistake.
Although this may have been the practice of the Club, it is proper to atate that Mr. Burnet
He was, however, a keen
Mr. Burnet’s brother waa a farmer at Seton.
was au exception.
politician, and much interested in’ the news of the day.
He waa not known to indulge in morning drama.

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208 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith
One of the greatest events of its time in Leith
was the landing there of George IV., on the 15th
of August, 1822.
The king was on board the Royal George, which
was towed into the Roads by two steam-packets,
followed by the escorting frigates, which fired
salutes that were answered by the flagship and
Forte frigate; and a salute from the battery announced
that all had come to anchor. Among the
first to go off to the royal yacht was Sir Walter
Scott, to present the king with a famous silver star,
the gift of the ladies of Edinburgh. Sir Walter
on Scottish ground, save the exiled Charles of
France.
The cannon of the ships and battery pealed forth
their salutes, and the combined cheers of the
mighty multitude filled up the pauses. An immense
fleet of private boats followed the royal barge,
forming an aquatic procession such as Leith had
never seen before, and a band of pipers on the
pier struck up as it rounded the head of the latter.
As the king approached the landing stage three
distinct and well-timed cheers came from the
manned yards of the shipping, while the magis-
LEITH PIER, FROM THE WEST, 1775. (Afler Clerk ofEldif.1
remained in conversation with the king an hour, in
the exuberance of his loyalty pocketing as a relic a
glass from which His Majesty had drunk wine;
but soon after the author of ?r Waverley,? in forgetfulness,
sat down on it and crushed it in pieces.
Leith was crowded beyond all description on the
day of the landing ; every window was filled with
faces, if a view could be commanded ; the ships?
yards were manned, their rigging swarmed with
human figures; and the very roofs of the houses
were covered. Guarded by the Royal Archers and
Scots Greys, a floating platform was at the foot of
Bernard Street, covered with cloth and strewn with
flowers; and when a single gun from the royal
yacht announced that the king had stepped into his
barge, the acclamations of the enthusiastic people,
all unused to the presence of royalty, then seemed
to rend heaven.
Since the time of Charles 11. no king had been
trates, deacons, and trades, advanced, the latter
with all their standards lowered. So hearty and
prolonged were the glad shouts of the people that
even George 1V.-the most heartless king that
ever wore a crown-was visibly affected.
He was clad in the uniform of an admiral, and
was received by the magistrates of Leith and Edinburgh
and the usual high officials, civil and military
; but the Highland chief Glengarry, bursting
through the throng, exclaimed, bonnet in hand,
? Your Majesty is welcome to Scotland ! ??
The procession preceding the royal carriage now
set out, ?the Earl of Kinnoul, as Lord Lyon,
on a horse capnoling in front of a cloud of
heralds and cavaliers-his golden coronet, crimson
mantle flowing to the ground, his embroidered
boots, and golden spurs, would have been irresistible
in the eyes of a dame of the twelfth century.? Sir
Alexander Keith, as Knight-Marischal, with his

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 127
they were assembled round a small hill or knoll 2t the village called HoodshiZl,
where the Colonel had caused breakfast to be prepared for them, and where a
vast crowd had assembled to witness their departure. Mrs, Montgomerie and
her two daughters, the latter of whom were attired in scarlet riding-habits, with
Highland bonnets, together with the Colonel and several of the neighbouring
gentry, also breakfasted in a tent set apart for them, When breakfast was
finished, and the soldiers marshalled in close order, the lady of Coilsfield,
ascending a proper eminence on the hill, addressed them in a neat and appropriate
speech. She regretted the occurrence of circumstances by which they
were called from their homes ; but she hoped that Scotland would never lack
the hearty support of her sons when a foreign foe threatened invasion. To ;the
women-some of whom were assembled no doubt to take leave of their husbands
or lovers-she observed that, however disagreeable parting might be,
it was a bereavement which she herself, in common with them all, had to submit
to, and which it became them to endure with becoming resolution. Mrs.
Montgomerie concluded her address, during which she was repeatedly cheered,
by expressing a hope that peace would soon restore their friends. The volunteers,
who were in regimentals, and presented a very fine appearance, then
deployed in marching order, the villagers following and cheering them for
several miles.
Immediately after the West Lowland Fencibles had been embodied, Colonel
Montgomerie raised another corps for more extended service, called the “ Glasgow
Regiment,” which was disbanded in 1795, the men being drafted into
other regiments of the line. About this time the Colonel was appointed Lieut.-
Governor of Edinburgh Castle, in the room of Lord Elphinston.
In 17’96 he was again returned Member of Parliament for the county of
Ayr ; but his seat became vacated almost immediately after, having succeeded
to the earldom of Eglinton, upon the death of his cousin Archibald,’ t.ho eleventh
Earl, on the 30th October of the same year.
While limited to the patrimonial revenue of Coilsfield,P the Colonel was
doubt, uncornmonly expeditious ; in proof of which it is told that on some particular occasion he
had made a coat in one day ; but then his “ steeks” were prodigiously long, and with him fashion
was out of the question, abiding 3s he always did by the “good old plan.” The result was, that,
while his brethren of the needle were paid eightpence a day, Sannders acknowledged his inferiority
by claiming no more than sixpence ! The military ardour of the poet was somewhat evanescent.
Whether the duties were too fatiguing, or whether his compatriots had no relish for poetical excitements,
we know not ; but true it is that, in the dusk of a summer evening, some few weeks after
the departure of the Fencibles, Saunders WBS seen entering the village, leading a goat which he had
procured in his travels, and followed by a band of youngsten, who had gone to meet him on his
approach. “ Sawney Tait ” lived to a great age ; and retained his spirit and activity to the last.
Brother.to Alexauder, the tenth Earl, who was shot in the well-known affair with Mungo
Campbell. Their mother was the celebrated Countess of Eglinton, no less famed for her mental
accomplishments than her beauty. She w a ~th e patron of Allan Ramsay, who dedicated “The
Gentle Shepherd” to her, and a great patroness of literature.
* The old family of Coilsfield are still remembered for their homely manner and kind attention
to the people in the neighbourhood. During the winter season, it was no uncommon thing to see
the old Laird at the loch, surrounded by a number of his elderly tenanta, in keen “curling contest
against the Najor, with an equal number of the more youthful villagers. These contests were

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Arthut?s Seat] ? THE WILD MACRAAS.? 307
The Edinburgh Evening Courant of the 29th
of October, 1728, contains the following reference
to the Craigs, or the chasm, there named the
Catnick :-? A person who frequents the (King?s)
Park, having noticed a man come from a cleft
towards the north-west of Salisbury Rocks, had the
curiosity to climb the precipice, if possibly he
might discover something that could invite him
there, He found a shallow pit, which delivered
him into a little snug room or vault hung with
dressed leather, lighted from the roof, the window
covered with a bladder. It is thought to have been
the cave of a hermit of ancient times, though now
the hiding-place of a gang of thieves.?
The long, deep, and tremendous rift in the wes
t e n slope of Arthur?s Seat (locally known as the
Gutiit Haddie) was caused by a mighty waterspout,
on the 13th of September, 1744. ?Dividing its
force ?-says the ? Old Statistical -4ccount ?-?? it
discharged one part upon the western side, and
tore up a channel or chasm, which still remains a
monument of its violence ; the other division took
its direction towards the village of Duddingston,
carried away the gable .of the most westerly cottage,
and flooded the loch over the adjacent meadows.?
On the steep sloping shoulder of Arthur?s Seat,
south-westward, under the Rock of Dunsappie, the
Highland army encamped in September before
the battle of Prestonpans, and from thence it was
-after the Prince had held a council of his chief5
and nobles-the march began at daybreak on the
morning of the 20th through the old hedgerow:
and woods of Duddingston, with pipes playing
and colours flying, after Charles, in front of thc
he, had significantly drawn his claymore and flung
away the scabbard.
From a letter which appears in the Advertiser foi
the 15th of January, 1765, the entrance to tne Park
from St. Anne?s Yard to the Duke?s Walk having
become impassable, was privately repaired at tht
expense of a couple of classical wits, whose name:
were unknown, but who placed upon the entrance
the following inscription :-
Ite nunc faciles per gaudia uestra,
3 Cpuepecun sua re@&durn cur.
CaLIan. MD.C.CLXl?
rJ*i faciant ut haec smpiusjunf.
QUIRITES
Mungo Campbell (formerly officer of Excise ai
Saltcoats), who shot Archibald, tenth Earl oj
Eglinton, committed suicide in the Tolbooth ic
1770, on the day after he had been sentenced
to death, when the judge also directed that hi2
body should be given to the professor of anatomy,
His counsel having interposed on the plea that dip
section was not a legal penalty for self-murder, it
was privately interred at the foot of Salisbury Craigs.
But the Edinburgh mob, who were exasperated by
the manner in which he had shot the earl in a
poaching affray, took the .body out of the grave,
tossed it about till they were tired, and eventually
flung it over the cliffs. After this, to prevent
further indecency and outrage, Campbell?s friends
caused the body to be conveyed in a boat from
Leith and sank it in the Firth of Forth. (Caldwell
Papers ; S o t s Mug., Vol. XXXII.)
Southward of the coue of Arthur?s Seat are the
Raven?s Craig and the Nether Hill, or Lion?s
Haunch ; between the latter and the cone can still
be traced the trench and breastwork formed by the
Seaforth Highlanders when they revolted in 1778-
an event which created a profound sensation in
Scotland.
In the July of that year they had marched into
the Castle, replacing the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers,
or 80th Regiment of the Line, a corps
which was raised by General Sir William Erskme in
1777, and was disbanded in 1783-5.
Kenneth Mackenzie, Earl of Seaforth, had
recently raised his noble regiment, which was then
numbered as the 78th (but is now known as the
Duke of Albany?s Own Highlanders), among his
clansmen in the district of Kintail and Applecross,
Kilcoy, and Redcastle ; of these Soawere from his
own estate; the rest were all from the others
named, and the corps mustered 1,130 bayonets at
its first parade in Elgin in the May of 1778 ; but
from a great number of another sept who were
in its ranks, the subsequent mutiny was known at
first as the afair of the WiZd Mwaas.
The latter was an ancient but subordinate tribe
of the west, who had followed the ? Caber Feigh,?
or banner of Seaforth, since the days when Black
Murdoch of Kintail carried it in the wars of
Robert I., and now many of its best men were
enrolled in Earl Kenneth?s new Fencible regiment,
perfect subordination in the ranks of which was
maintained in the Castle until the 5th of August,
when an order was issued for marching at an hour?s
notice. A landing of a French force being expected
near Greenock, zoo of them, with seven
9-pounders, marched there with the greatest enthusiasm
to meet the foe, who never appeared; but
by the time these two companies returned, transports
to convey the whole for foreign service had come
to anchor in Leith Roads.
Where the scene of that service lay the men
knew not. It was kept a mystery from them and
their officers. The former would not believe a
rumour spread that it was to be tine Isle of Guern

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 25
CLXXX.
THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
ADDRESSIXG THE EDINBURGH SPEARMEN.
THIS scene, with Duddingston Househis lordship's residencein the distance,
refers to what has been already related in our notice of Mr. Bennet, Lieut.-
Colonel Commandant of the battalion of Spearmen. The appointment of the
Earl to the Command in Scotland gave a new impulse to the warlike spirit of
the volunteers. The following graphic sketch of that stirring era occurs in
'' Lockhart's Life of Scott :I'
" Edinburgh Was converted into B camp : independently of a large garrison of regular troops,
nearly ten thousand Fencibles and Volunteen were almost constantly under arms. The lawyer wore
his uniform under his gown; the shopkeeper measured out his wares in scarlet; in short, the
citizens of all classes made more use for several months of the military than of any other dress ;
and the new Commander-in-Chief consulted equally his own gratification and theirs by devising a
succession of manceumes, which presented a vivid image of the art of war, conducted on a large and
scientific scale. In the sham battles and sham sieges of 1805, Craigmillar, Preston, Gilmerton, the
Crosscauseway, and other formidable positions in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, were the scenes
of many a dashing assault and resolute defence; and, occasionally, the spirits of the mock-combatants-
English and Scotch, or Lowland and Highland-became so much excited that there was
some difficulty in preventing the rough mockery of warfare from passing into its realities. The
Highlanders, in particular, were very hard to be dealt with; and once, at least, Lord Moira was
forced to alter, at the eleventh hour, his programme of battle, because a battalion of kilted Fencibles
could not, or would not, understand that it was their duty to be beat."
At one of the King's birth-day assemblages, which were then numerously
attended in the Parliament House, on the health of the Commander-in-Chief
being given, Lord Moira addressed the meeting, congratulating them on the
spirit and unanimity which pervaded the country, and concluded by proposing
the following toast :-" May that man never enjoy the land 0' cakes, who is not
willing to shed his blood in defence of it." During his stay at Edinburgh, his
lordship was highly popular ; and much gaitp prevailed. The following notice
of one of the entertainments we find in a journal of the day :-
" On Friday evening (June 14, 1805) the Countess of Loudon and Afoiral gave a grand fite at
Duddingston House, to above three hundred of the nobility and gentry in and about the cityamong
whom were, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Errol, Earl of Dalhousie, Earl of Roden, Lord
Elcho, Count Piper, Sir John Stuart, Sir William Forbes, Sir Alexander Pumes, Sir James Hall,
Countess of Errol, Countess Dowager of Dalhousie, Lady Charlotte Campbell, Lady Elizabeth
Rawdon, Lady Helen Hall, Lady Stuart, Lady Fettes, Admiral Vashon, and a great number of the
naval and military gentlemen, most of the judges, etc. The saloon was elegantly fitted up with
festoons of flowers, and embellished with an emblematical naval pillar, on which were the namw of
Hme, Duncan, St. Vincent, and Nelson. The dancing commenced at ten o'clock, and was
The Counted wm the first, north of the Tweed, to introduce those laconic invitation cards,
now common enough. Their concise style-"The Countess of London and Moira at home"-
astonished and puzzled several of the good folke of Edinburgh to whom they were forwarded.
VOL. 11. E

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IS2 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
the nynt day of Aprile, the zeir of God 1566 zeris, Johne Sinclare, be the mercie of God
bischope of Brechin and Dean of Redalrig, deceissit in James Mosmanis hous in Frosteris
Wpd, ane honest and cunning letterit man, and president of the College of Justice
the tyme of his deceiss, &c.’” Another diarist records, in describing the firing of the
town by the garrison of the Castle, under Sir William Kirkaldy, in 1572, “ the fyre
happit fra hous to hous throw the maisterie of ane grit wynd, and come eist the gait
to Bess Wynd at the kirk end of Sanct Geill,” e in consequence of which ther wee
ane proclamatioun maid, that all thak houssia suld be tirrit,’ and all hedder stakis
to be transportit at thair awine bounds and brunt; and ilk man in Edinburgh to haue
his lumes full of watter in the nycht, wnder the pane of deid ; ” a very graphic picture of
the High Street in the sixteenth century, with the majority of the buildings on either
side covered with thatch, and the main street encumbered by piles of heather and other
fuel accumulated before each door, for the use of the inhabitants ; and, from amid these,
we may add the stately ecclesiastical edifices of the period, and the Eubstantial mansions
of the nobility, towering with all the more imposing effect, in contrast to their homely
neighbourhood.
The venerable alley called Bess or Beth’s Wynd, after suffering greatly from the slow
dilapidation of time, was nearly destroyed by successive fires in the years 1786 and 1788.
On the latter occasion it was proposed to purchase and pull down the whole of its buildings
extending from the Lawnmarket to the Cowgate, in order to open up the Parliament
House.* This was not effected, however, till 1809, when the whole were swept away in
preparing the site for the Advocate’s Library. ‘‘ All the houses in Beth’s Wynd,” says
Chambers, “ were exceedingly old and crazy ; and some mysterious ‘looking cellar doors
were shown in it, which the old wives of the wynd believe to have been kept shut since
the time of t4.e plague.” The same superstitious belief was prevalent in regard to some
grim and ancient uninhabited dwellings in Mary King’s Close, part of which now remain.
An old gentleman has often described to us his visits to the latter close, along with his
companions, when a schoolboy. The most courageous of them would approach these dread
abodes of mystery, and after shouting through the keyhole or broken window-shutter,
they would run off with palpitating hearts,-
‘‘ Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round, walks on
And turns no more his head ;
Because he know a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.”
The popular opinion was, that if these houses were opened, the imprisoned pestilence
would burst out, spreading disease and death through the land,-a belief that was probably
thrown into discredit on the peaceful demolition of the former wynd.
A house at the head of Beth’s Wynd, fronting the Old Tolbooth, was the residence of
Mr Andrew Maclure, writing-master, one of the civic heroes of 1745. He joined the
reluctant corps of volunteers who marched to meet the Highland aruy ou its approach
towards Corstorphine ; but they had scarcely left the town walls a mile behind, when their
Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 98. Ibid, Part 11. p. 326.
. a i.e., All thatched houses should be unroofed. 4 Caledonian MeTcuTy, 17th JanuaT 1788.

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310 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Arthur?s L t .
General Robert Skene, the Adjutant-General there,
summoned all the troops they could collect to
attack ? the wild Macraas,? and next day the I Ith
Dragoons, under Colonel Ralph Dundas, zoo of
the Fencible Regiment ofHenry Duke of Buccleuch,
and 400 of the Royal Glasgow Regiment of Volunteers,
or old 83rC Foot, commanded by Colonel
Alexander Fotheringham Ogilvie, all marched into
Edinburgh, and were deemed sufficient to storm
Arthur?s Seat.
On that day the Earl of Dunmore, Duncan Lord
Macdonald and General Oughton, visited the revolters,
who received them with military honours,
while they ceased not to inveigh against their officers,
whom they accused of peculation, and of having
basely sold them to the India Company.
In their ranks at this time there was an unfortunate
fellow named Charles Salmon, who had been
born in Edinburgh about 1745, and had filled a
subordinate position in the Canongate theatre,
after being in the service of Ruddiman the printer.
He was a companion of the poet Fergusson, and
became a local poet of some note himself, He
was laureate of the Jacobite Club, and author of
many Jacobite songs; but his irregular habits
led to his enlistment in the Seaforth Highland
Regiment.
His superior education and address now pointed
him out as a fit person to manage for his comrades
the negotiations which ultimately led to a peaceful
sequel to the dispute ; but after the corps went to
India poor Stmayf Salmon, as he called himself,
was heard of no more. On the 29th of September
this revolt, which promised to have so tragic an
end, was satisfactorily adjusted by the temperate
prudence of the Duke of Buccleuch and others.
The Earl of Dunmore again visited the revolters,
presented them with a bond containing a pardon,
and promise of all arrears of pay. They then
formed in column by sections of threes, and with
the Earl and the pipers at their head,they descended
by the Hunter?s Bog to the Palace Yard, where they
gave Sir Adolphus Oughton three cheers, and threw
all their bonnets in the air. He then formed them
in hollow square, and addressed them briefly, but
earnestly exhorting them to behave well and
obediently. On that night they all sailed from
Leith to Guernsey, from whence they were soon aftei
despatched toIndia-a fatal voyage to the poor 78th,
for Lord Seaforth died ere St. Helena was in sight,
then a great grief, with the maC du pays, fell upon
his clansmen, and of 1,100 who sailed from Ports.
mouth, 230 perished at sea, and only 390 were able
to any arms, when, in April 1782, they began the
march for Chingleput.
In 1783 an eccentric named Dr. James Graham,
then lecturing in Edinburgh, in Carrubbeis Close
chiefly, the projector of a Temple of Health, and a
man who made some noise in his time as a species
of talented quack, who asserted that our diseases
were chiefly caused by too much heat, and who
wore no woollen clothes, and slept on a bare
mattress with all his windows open, was actually in
terms with the tacksman of the King?s Park for
liberty to build a huge house on the summit of
Arthur?s Seat, in order to try how far the utmost
degree of cold in the locality of Edinburgh could
be borne ; but, fortunately, he was not permitted
to test his cool regimen to such an extent.
Two localities near Arthur?s Seat, invariably
pointed out to tourists, are Muschat?s Cairn, and
the supposed site of Davie Deans? cottage, where
an old one answering the description of Scott still
overlooks the deep grassy and long sequestered dell,
where gallants of past times were wont to discuss
points of honour with the sword, and where Butler,
on his way to visit Jeanie, encounters Effie?s lover,
and receives the message to convey to the former
to meet him at Muschat?s Cairn ? when the moon
rises.?
Muschat?s Cairn, a pile of stones adjacent to
the Duke?s Walk, long marked the spot where
Nicol Muschat of Boghall, a surgeon, a debauched
and profligate wretch, murdered his wife in 1720.
On arraignment he pled guilty, and his declaration
is one of the most horrible tissues of crime imaginable.
He mamed his wife, whose name was Hall,
after an acquaintance of three weeks, and, soon
tiring of her, he with three other miscreants, his
aiders and abettors in schemes which we cannot
record, resolved to get rid of her. At one time it
was proposed to murder the hapless young woman
as she was going down Dickson?s Close, for which
the perpetrators were to have twenty guineas.
Through Campbell of Burnbank, then storekeeper
in Edinburgh Castle, one of his profligate friends,
Muschat hoped to free himself of his wife by a
divorce, and an obligation was passed between
them in November, 1719, whereby a claim of
Burnbank, for an old debt of go0 merks, was to be
paid by Muschat, as soon as the former should be
able to furnish evidence to criminate the wife.
This scheme failing, Burnbank then suggested
poison, which James Muschat and his wife, a
couple in poor circumstances undertook to administer,
and several doses were given, but in vain.
The project for criminating the victim was revived
again, but also without effect.
Then it was that James undertook to kill her in
nickson?s Close, but this plan too failed. These

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X CONTENTS.
111.
EDINBURGH FROM WARRISTON CEMETERY,
AS SEEN FROM THE GRAVE OF SIR JAMES Y. SIMPSON.
By the Author of ‘ lhe Hotel du Petit St. Jean,’ ‘ VJra,’ etc.
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-Paris-Rome-Venice-Florence-keneva-Edinburgh perhaps the
most beautiful City-Natural Scenery-Inferior Climate-Queen Mary
-John Knox and other Celebrities-Dean Ramsay-Sir Walter Scott
-Professor Sipson, . . . . . . . . . . 4954
IV.
HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES.
BY WILLIAM BALLINGALL.
Royal Exchange-Presentation of the Keys of the City to Queen Victoria-
Unveiling of the Albert Memorial-New Year’s Eve at the Tron Church
-Tradition concerning the Signing of the Articles of Union between
England and Scotland-Cockburn Street-North Bridge-Historical
Associations-St. Giles’ Cathedral-New Royal Infirmary-Park Place
-Archbishop of Canterbury-Convent of St. Catherine of Sienna-
Bruntsfield Links --Merchiston Castle-Dr. Chalmers-New Royal
Blind Asylum-The University-Reminiscences of the High School
Wynd-The Old High School-Cowgate-Canongate-Boswell-Dr.
Johnson-Adam Smith-The Setons Earls of Winton-John Coutts
-Baroness Burdett Coutts-The Dean Cemetery-Water of Leith-
Botanic Gardens-Waniston Cemetery-Scott’s House in Castle Street, 55-78
V.
MODERN DWELLINGS OF;,THE PEOPLE.
BY H. G. REID,
Author of ‘ Pnsf and Present,’ &LVe of the Rev: rohn Skinner,’ etc.
Falling of the Old Tenement in the High Street in 1861-Desertion of the
Old Town Mansions-Overcrowding-The origin of the movement to
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" I have seldom addressed this House ; and much less did I expect that I should have been
obliged now to defend myself from the charge of wilful injustice and oppression. These are
charges I am not accustomed to have made against me ; and I will say, the words injustice and
oppression have never before been coupled with the name I bear. I am very happy that this
charge has been brought by a gentleman not acquainted with me, or with my character. The
House, too, is unacquainted with me ; but I will venture to say, that in my own country, where I
am known, it would not be believed that I had acted with wilful injustice or oppression against
any man. Was the Hon. gentleman to represent me so in the city where I principally reside
(Edinburgh), there would be an hundred thousand tongues ready to repel the charge, and probably
several arms raised against him who made it."
* * * *
" Before I enter into the consideration of Mr. Morrison's conduct and of mine, it will be
necessary to put the House in possession of the peculiar and critical situation of Scotland at the
time that letter was written, It will be necessary for me to inform them what are the nature
and duties of the office of Advocate-General of Scotland ; what is the responsibility attached at
all times to the situation, but more peculiarly so in the times and circumstances at the period
to which the charge refers."
He then described the defenceless state of the country, and continued-
" Under these circumstances, I would act as the safety of the State required, and not
measure my responsibility by the frigid rules of strict law. I acted under the full conviction,
that if the enemy were to land in the north, the salvation of Scotland coiild only be achieved
by its volunteers ; and it appeared more probable that they would land in the north, than
direct their attacks against Edinburgh itself. Letters had been received by all the lord-lieutenants
of counties, from the Secretary of State, that the information of Government vras such, that an
immediate attempt was to be expected on the part of the enemy : this information arrived in
Scotland only a few days before my writing this letter. Lord Moira attached such credit to it
that lie would not sleep out of Edinburgh a single night ; and positively refused to pass a night
at Dalkeith (only six miles distant), lest, in case of invasion, it might delay an hour the orders
for the troops to march, He conferred with me upon the subject ; and I, too, considered the
country in such a crisis, that though it was in the Christmas holidays, when everybody left
Edinburgh that could leave it, I did not think it safe to sleep a night out of town. Such was
our opinion at the time in which I wrote that letter ; and I declare, sir, upon my honour, that,
when I wrote it, I did expect the French would land in Scotland before the Sheriff of Banffshire
had received my letter.
" Under such circumstances, I do not so much speak of the legality of the act as of the necessity
of it. I come now to speak of the nature and duties of the situation of Lord Advocate of
Scotland : it is by no means an office so dry, formal, and precise, in its nature, as the office of
Attorney-General in England. I wish
the hon. gentleman could define them, as there are no burdens he could possibly lay on me,
which I suppose would be equal to what are, in my opinion, the duties of a Lord Advocate.
Formerly the Government of Scotland was carried on by a Cabinet Council, composed of the
Great Officers of State. Soon after the Union in 1707, the Privy Council of Scotland was
abolished, the office of Chancellor was also abolished, and the whole powers of the resident
Government of Scotland devolved upon the Lord Advocate and Lord Justice-clerk ; but the
Lord Justice-clerk has been merely a criminal judge, and the Lord Advocate in Scotland
exercises the whole power of the Government. Every different department of Government looks to
me for advice and assistance, even in military matters, which are most foreign to my professional
studies, and the Generals of the forces daily confer with me." * * * * In
England the different departments of the State are so arranged, that everybody knows where
he should apply on an emergency. It is not ao in Scotland. The weight of all the departments
of the State rests upon the shoulders of the Lord Advocate. If I have written one letter, I
have written at least eight hundred letters to magistrates, with respect to the instructions
received from Government.
" In order to give the House some idea of the powers which have been always assumed by
the Lord Advocates of Scotland, I shall mention one or two instances.
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454 BI 0 GRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
specimens brought home, a sketch of the geology of the different coasts disy
covered and touched upon by our enterprising navigators, which was published,
together with the botanical observations of his friends Brown and Hooker, and
formed the scientific companion to Parry’s interesting narrative.”
During the thirty-four years of his Professorship Mr. Jarneson had the
honour of sending forth from his class-room many pupils who afterwards
acquired a name in the world; and not a few of whom filled distinguished
places in the seminaries and scientific institutions of Europe. It wonld be
tedious to enumerate a tithe of these illustrious names ; but among others may
be mentioned-Dr. Flitton, late President of the Geological Society of London ;
Sir George Mackenzie, author of “ Travels in Iceland ;” Dr. Boue, President
of the Geological Society of France ; Dr. Daubeny, Professor of Chemistry at
Oxford; Dr. Grant, Professor of Zoology in the University of London; Dr.
Turner, Professor of Chemistry in the same seminary ; Dr. Hibbert, author of
the “ History of the Shetland Isles,” etc. etc.
Professor Jameson, equally respected at home and abroad, was connected,
lionorarily or otherwise, with almost every society for the promotion of natural
history throughout the world. He was a fellow of the Royal Societies of
London and Edinburgh ; President of the Wernerian, and fellow of the Antiquarian,
Koyal-Medical, Royal-Physical, Plinian, Highland, and Horticultural
Societies of Edinburgh ; honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy, and
of the Royal Society of Dublin; fellow of the Royal LinnEan, and Royal
Geological Societies of London; honorary member of the Asiatic Society of
Calcutta, etc. etc.’ .
ROBERT JOHNSTON, Esq., the extreme figure to the right, behind
Professor Jameson, was an active, public-minded citizen. His father, Robert
Johnston, at one period a banker, but latterly a grocer on the North Bridge,
and his uncle, the late Dr. Johnston, minister of North Leith, have both been
described in a previous part of this Work. Mr. Johnston was born in 1765.
Though not destined for any of the learned professions, he received an excellent
education, and possessed a taste and extent of information decidedly
superior to the generality of men in a mercantile sphere of life.’ On the death
of his father he succeeded to the business, which he carried on throughout a
period of nearly forty years with considerable success.
Mr. Johnston first became a member of the Town-Council in 1810, and was
elected one of the Bailies in 1812. In 1814 he was chosen Dean of Guild,
the duties of which office he discharged in an efficient manner, effecting many
improvements throughout the city, even in districts beyond the proper range of
Professor Jameson died at Edinburgh on 17th April 1854, in the fiftieth year of his Professor-
An inteiwting memoir of him by his son, Laurence Jame-
His bust by Sir
He was a member of the Antiquarian Society, and on terms of intimacy with Sir Walter Scott,
Sir Walter presented him
ship, and the eightieth year of his age.
son, was published in the “ Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal for July 1854.
John Steel1 may be seen in the University library.
whose school-fellow he had been, and by whom he was highly respected.
with a copy of hi8 poetical works, accoinpanied by a very flattering letter.

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introduction of steam-vessels, was a serious obstacle to the growing commerce
of Glasgow. The bay of Ardrossan presented many natural advantages for an
extensive harbour, having at its entrance a depth of six fathoms at low water,
and five to three fathoms for more than one-half of its extent, with good
anchorage, wherein the largest frigates, as well as merchantmen, might ride in
safety ; while, by cutting a canal to Glasgow, a ready transit for commerce with
the west was anticipated, besides opening an internal communication through
the most populous and important districts of the country. The line of canal,
as well as the harbour and docks, were surveyed and estimated by the celebrated
Mr. Telford. According to the plan, the canal was to commence at Tradestown
in the suburbs of Glasgow ; thence stretching along by the manufacturing districts
of Paisley, Johnstone, etc., traversed one of the most remarkable seams
of coal, being from seventy to ninety feet in thickness. There were to be in
all thirty-one locks on the canal. In short, it was anticipated that Ardrossan
would become to Glasgow what Liverpool is to Manchester.
The Earl immediately set about the immense undertaking, by procuring two
Acts of Parliament-one for the harbour, and another for the canal ; and on the
31st July 1806, being the anniversary of the birth of his eldest son, Lord Montgomerie,
the foundation stone of the harbour was laid with more than usual
masonic ceremony, and amid a vast concourse of spectators.
“ On the summit of the rocks Lord Eglinton caused tents to be erected, in one of which were
tables for thret hundred persons ; there was also an elegant tent for the reception of the ladies.
The Freemasons of the ancient mother lodge, Kilwinning, with their Grand Master, William
Blair of Blair, Esq., and a party of the Saltcoats Volunteers, with the band of the Ayrshire
Rifle Battalion, proceeded from the town of Saltcoats along the shore to Ardrossan. Before the
procession arrived at the harbour, they were joined by the Earl of Eglinton, accompanied by a
number of the most respectable gentlemen of the country and neighbourhood -by Mr. Telford,
the engineer, etc. At the moment the procession, amidst crowds of spectators, arrived at the
pier, the Countess of Eglinton, attended by Lady Montgomerie, and above fifty ladies of the
first rank and distinction in the country, appeared on the point of an eminence near the old
Castle of Ardrossan, which overlooks the bay. At three o’clock the principal foundation stone,
at the point where the pier is connected with the shore, was laid by the Grand Master, with the
usual solemnities. The Earl of Eglinton then addressed the company in a very neat speech, in
which his lordship stated that though, in the course of nature, he could not expect to see these
works at the summit of their prosperity, he had no doubt that, long after he and many of those
who had given aid to the measure were gone, the country would reap the advantages of them,
and estimate their true value. Then, after a very impressive and suitable prayer waa given by
the Rev. Mr. Duncan, minister of Ardrossan, and immediately on a flag being hoisted in the
adjacent mason’s shed, where the stone had been prepared, a round was fired from eight fieldpieces
placed near the old Castle, and returned from two of his Majesty’s cutters, which were
stationed in the bay, with twenty-one guns. Two tables, each a hundred and twenty feet long,
were laid, and upwards of two hundred persons eat doxn to a splendid dinner, with choice
wines and every fruit of the season, provided by the Earl of Eglinton. After dinner several
loyal and appropriate toasts were given. About seven o’clock the Earl and his Countess proceeded
to Eglinton Castle, where a splendid ball concluded the evening‘; at Saltc:oats also
various parties spent the evening in dancing and festivity.”
The cost of the harbour of Ardrossan was originally estimated at S40,OOO ;
but the work was not long begun before it was evident, from unforeseen
obstructions, that that sum would not half complete it,, while the merchants of

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200
the reign of James 111. there were two or three
vessels called ?royal,? and among them often
appears the name of this famous Ydow Caravel,
latterly called Admiral Wood?s ship, as if it were
his own private, and at other times a royal, vessel.
The supposition has been that she belonged originally
to either Wood or Barton, who sold her
to King James.
Wood had been a faithful servant to the latter,
says Scotstarvit, and was knighted by him in 1482,
OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH,
have taken place in r481. Prior to 1487 Sir
Andrew Wood is supposed to have relinquished
commerce for the king?s service, and to have
married a lady, Elizabeth Lundie (supposed to be
of the Balgonie family), by whom he had several
sons, two of whom became men of eminence in after
years.
Thus, from being a merchant skipper of North
Leith, he became an opulent and enterprising
trader by his own talent and the course of public
[Leith.
LEITH HARBOUR, 1829. (Afier Sk)hcrd.)
when there was granted to him (Alexander Duke
of Albany being then Lord High Admiral) a iach
of the estate of Largo to keep his ship in repair,
and on the tenure that he should be ready at the
call of the King to pilot and convey him and the
queen to the shrine and well of St. Adrian in the
Isle of May. James afterwards gave him the heritage
of the estate on which he had been born by
a charter under the Great Seal, which recites his
good service by sea and land. This was confirmed
by James IV. in 1497, with the addition that one
of his most eminent deeds of arms had been his
successful defence of the castle of Dumbarton
against the English navy, an exploit buried in
obscurity, and which Pidkerton suggests must
events, ??a brave warrior and skilful naval commander,?
says Tytler, ? an able financialist, intimately
acquainted with the management of commercial
transactions, and a stalwart feudal baron,
who, without abating anything of his pride or his
prerogative, refused not to adopt in the management
of his estates those improvements whose good
effects he had observed in his travels over various
parts of the continent?
He was blunt in manner yet honest of purpose,
and most loyal in heart to his royal master, lames
111. ; and when the troubles of the latter began
in his fierce war with the lawless, proud, and turbulent
Scottish barons-troubles that ended so tragically
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AFTER the royal marriage and coronation of
Tames 111. with Margaret of Oldenburg-both of
which ceremonies took place with great pomp at
Edinburgh in 1476, he unfortunately contrived to
lisgust his proud nobility by receiving into favour
many persons of inferior rank. Thus, deep and
dangerous intrigues were formed against him, and
by those minions he was soon made aware that his
brothers-Alexander Duke of Albany, and John
Earl of Mar-were forming a conspiracy against
him, and that the former aimed at nothing less than
wresting the sceptre from his hand, and getting
himself, with English aid, crowned as Alexander IV.,
King of Scotland and the Isles-a fact since proved
by authentic documents.
Instead of employing his authority as Warden of
the Marches in the repression of outrage, Albany
THE ROYAL LODGING OR PALACE, FROM THE GRAND PARADE.
I than once; he slew John of Scougal in East
Lothian; and surrounded himself with a band of
desperadoes, who at his behest executed the most
nefarious crimes.
The dark accusations under which he lay roused
at length the suspicions of the king, who ordered
the arrest of both him and Mar. Over the latter's
fate there hangs a strange mystery. One historian
declares that he died of fever in the Canongate,
under the spells of witches who were burned
therefor. Another records that he was bled to
death in Craigmillar Castle; and the singular discovery
there in 1818 of a man's skeleton built erect
into the north wall was thought to warrant the
adoption of the last account.
In 1482 Albany was committed to the Castle
of Edinburgh, a close prisoner in the hands of

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264 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
No. CCLIX.
COLONEL MONRO,
A WELL KNOWN BLUE-GOWN BEGGAR.
THE name of “COLONELM ONRO,”a s applied to a half-crazed old man who
used to frequent the streets of Edinburgh, is familiar to many of the older
inhabitants, but almost nothing is known of his history. He obtained the
soubriquet of “ Colonel ” from having fought under the banners of Prince Charles
Edward ; and to the last he continued to profess his devotion to the house of
Stuart. In token of his sympathy for the fallen race, he always wore a white
cockade in his bonnet or hat. His Jacobitical predilections, however, did not
prevent him from participating in the bounty of the reigning dynasty ; hence
the lines of the artist-
(‘ Behold courageous Colonel Monro,
A Highland hero, turned a Blue-Gown beau.”
Of the Blue-Gowns, or Bedesmen, whose dress and appearance are represented
in the Print, Sir Walter Scott has given the following account in his notes
to the Antiquary :-
“ These Bedesmen are an order of paupers, to whom the Kings of Scotland were in the
custom of distributing a certain alms, in conformity with the ordinances of the Catholic Church,
and who were expected in return to pray for the royal welfare and that of the State. This order
is still kept up. Their number is equal to the number of years which his Majesty has lived ;
and one Blue-Gown is put on the roll for every returning royal birthday. On the same auapicious
era, each Bedesnian receives a new cloak, or gown, of coarse cloth, the colour light-blue,
with a pewter badge, which confers on them the general privilege of seeking alms through all
Scotland, all laws against sorning, masterful begging, and every other species of mendicity
being suspended in favour of this privileged class. With his cloak each receives a leathern purse,
containing as many shillings Scots (videlicet, pennies sterling) as the Sovereign is years old-the
zeal of their intercession for the King’s long life receiving, it is to be supposed, a great stimulus
from their own present and increasing interest in the object of their prayers. On the same occasion,
one of the Royal Chaplains preaches a sermon to the Bedesmen, who (as one of the Rev.
gentlemen expressed himself) are the most impatient and inattentive audience in the world.
Something of this may arise from a feeling, on the part of the Bedesmen, that they are paid for
their own devotions, not for listening to those of others. Or more probably it arises from impatience,
natural, though indecorous in men bearing so venerable a character, to arrive at the conclusion
of the ceremonial of the royal birthday, which as far as they are concerned, ends in &
lusty breakfast of bread and ale ;I the whole moral and religious exhibition terminating in the
advice of Johnson’s ‘ Hermit hoar ’ to his proselyte,-
‘ Come, my lad, and drink some beer.’ ”
The “ lusty breakfast ” latterly conaiated of a single halfpenny hup, and a very small modicum
of beer.

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so OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [North Loch.
THE garden wherein St. David budded trees and
cultivated such fruits and flowers as were then
known in Britain is a place of flowers and shrubs
again, save where it is intersected by the prosaic
railway or the transverse Earthen Mound; but
those who see the valley now may find it difficult
to realise, that for 300 years it was an impassable
lake, formed for the defence of the city on the
north, when the wall of 1450 was built ; but the
well that fed it is flowing still, as when David
referred to it in his Holyrood charter. Fed by it
and other springs, the loch was retained by a dam
and sluice at the foot of Halkerston's Wynd-the
dam being a passable footway from the city to the
northern fields.
In the royal gardens a tournament was held in
1394 by order of Annabel Drummond, queen of
Robert III., at which, according to Bower, the
continuator of Fordun, her eldest son, David, Duke
HOLPROOI) PALACE, WEST FRONT.
of Rothesay, the same prince who penshed so
miserably at Falkland, presided when in his
twentieth year.
In 1538, prior to committing the effigy of St.
Giles to the flames, the Reformers ducked it in
the loch-it being the legal place for sousing all
offenders against the seventh commandment.
In 1562 the Town Council enacted that all
persons of loose life should be ducked in a certain
part of the loch, wherein a pillar and basin were
formed for the purpose; but this not having the
desired effect, all such persons were ordered to be
committed, without distinction, to the iron room of
the Tolbooth, to be kept therein for a month on
tread and water, and to be then whipped out of
the city at a cart's tail. The deacon of the fleshers
having fallen under this law, the crafts, deeming it
an indignity to their order, assembled in arms,
broke open the prison, and released him.
C H A P T E R X I I .
THE MOUND.
The North Loch used for Sousings and Duckings-The Boats, Swans, Ducks, and Eels-Accidents in the Loch--Last Appearance of the Loch
-Formation of the Mound-" Gcordie Boyd's Mud Brig"-The Rotunda--Royal Irrstitution-Board of Manufactures-History of the Baard
-The Equivalent Money-% J. Shaw Lefevre's Report-School of Design-Gallery of Sculpture--Royal Society of Edinburgh-Museum
of Antiquiua.

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

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The Water of Leith.] THE?HOLE I? THE WA?. 77
appointed Limner for Scutland. He always resided
in the old house at St. Bernard?s. The
last pictures on which he was engaged were two
portraits of Sir Walter Scott, one for himself and
the other for Lord Montague. He died, after a
short illness, from a general decay of the system,
on the 8th of July, 1823, at St. Bernard?s, little
more than a stone?s throw from where he was born.
His loss, said Sir Thomas Lawrence, had left a
blank in the Royal Academy, as well as Scotland,
which could not be filled up, By his wife, who
:survived him ten years, he had two sons : Peter,
who died in his nineteenth year ; and Henry, who,
with his wife and family, lived under the same roof
with his father, and to whose children the latter
,of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the Imperial
Academy of Florence, of the Royal Academy of
London, and other Societies. The number of
-portraits he painted is immense, and he was still
hale and vigorous, spending his time between his
studio, his gardens, and the pleasures of domestic
3ociety, when George IV. came to Edinburgh in the
year 1822, and knighted him at Hopetoun House.
The sword used by the king was that of Sir
Alexander Hope. In the following May he was
century it was occupied by Count Leslie. Mrs
Ann Inglis, Sir Henry Raeburn?s stepdaughter,
conthued to occupy the house, together with her
sons. In this house was born, it is said, Admiral
Deans Dundas, commander of the British fleet in
the Black Sea during the Crimean war. Latterly
it was the residence of working people, every room
being occupied by a separate family.
In Dean Street there long stood a little cottage
known as the Hole r? the Wu?, a great resort of
school-boys for apples, pears, and gooseberries,
retailed there by old ?? Lucky Hazlewood,? who
lived to be ninety years of age. It was overshadowed
by birch-trees of great size and
beauty.
left the bulk of his fortune, consisting of groundrents
on his property at St. Bernard?s, which, in his
later years, had occupied much of his leisure time
by planning it out in streets and villas.
Old Deanhaugh House, which was pulled down
in 1880, to make room for the extension of Leslie
Place, was the most venerable mansion in the
locality, standing back a little way from the Water
of Leith j a short avenue branching off from that of i St. Bernard?s led to it. About the middle of this

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iv .OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH.
CHAPTER VIII.
HOLYROOD ABBEY (mnrZu&d).
PAGE
Charter of W X i I.-Trial of the Scottish TemplarsPrendergast?s Reveng-ters by ROM 11. and 111.-The Lord of the Isles
--Coronation of Jams IL-Muliaper of Jam- 11. and III.-Church, &c, burned by the English-Plundered by them-Its
Restoration by Jam- VII.-The Koyal Vault-Dexription of the Chapel Royal-Plundered at the Revolution-Ruined in r+The
West Front-The Belhaven Monument--The Churchyard-Extent of Present Ruin-The Sanctuary-The Abbey Bells . . . . 50
CHAPTER ,IX.
HOLYROOD PALACE.
First Notice of its History-Marriage of James 1V.-The Scots of the Days of Flodden-A Bnwl in the Palace-James V.?s Tower-The
Gudeman of Ballengeich-His MarriageDeath of Queen Magdalene-The Council of November, 192-A Standing h y Proposed-
The Muscovite Ambarradon Entermined by the Queen Regent . . - . . . . . , . . . . . . 60
CHAPTER X.
HOLYROOD PALACE (continued). .
Queen Mary?a Apartments-Her Arrival in Edinburgh-Riot in the Chapel Royal-?The Queen?s Manes?-Interview with Knox-
Mary?s Marriage with Darnley-The Podtion of G o - T h e Murder of Rizrio-Burial of Darnley-Marriage of Mary and Bothwell-
Mary?s Last Visit to Holyd-Jams VI. and the ? Mad? Earl of BothweU-Baptism of the Queen of Bohemia and Charles I.-
Taylor the Water-poet at Holyrood-Charles I.?s Imprisonment-Palace Burned and Re-built-The Palace before 165eThe F?resent
Palace-The Quadrangle-The Galluyof the Kings-The Tapestry-The Audiepce-Chamber . . . . . . . . . 66
.
CHAPTER XI.
HOLYROOD PALACE (comZu&dJ.
The King?s Birthday in 166~-Jams Duke of Alhany-The Duchess of Alhany and General Dabell-Funeral of the Duke of Rothes-
A Gladiatorial Exhibition-Depamuc of the Scottish Household Troops-The Hunters? Company?s Balls-First and Second
Via of the p y a l Family of France-Recent Impropunents-St. h e ? s Yard removed-The Ornamental Fountain built . . , 74 . . . .
CHAPTER XII.
THE MOUND.
The North Loch used for Sousings and DuckinPThe Boats, Swans, Ducks, and Eels-Accidents in the Loch-Last Appearance of the
Loch-Formation of the Mound--? Geordie Boyd?s Mud Brif-The Rotunda-Royal Institution-Board of Manufactures-History of
the Board-The Equivalent Money-Sii J. Shaw Lefenr?s Report-School of Design-Gallery of Sculpture-Royal Society of
Edinburgh-Museum of Antiquities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
CHAPTER XIII.
THE MOUND (conduded).
The Art Galleries-The National Gallery-The Various Collections-The Royal Scottish Academy-Early Scottish Artists-The Institntion-
The First Exhibition in Edinburgh-Foundation of the Academy-Presidents : G. Watson, Si Wdliam Allan, Si J. W.
Gordon, Sir Carge Harvey, Si Daniel Macnee-The Spaldmg Fund , . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
- CHAPTER XIV.
THE HEAD OF THE MOUND.
The Bank of Scotland-Its Charter-%dry of the Royal Bank Notes for L5 and for *-The New Bank of Scotland-Its Present Aspect
-The Projects of Mr. Trotter and Sir Thomas Dick Lauder-The National Security Savings Bank of Edinburgh-The Fm
Church College and Assembly Hall-Their Foundation-Constitution-Library-Museum-B and Theological
Societies-The Dining Hall, &.-The West Princes Street Gardens-The Proposed Canal and Seaport-The East F?rince~ Street . Gardens-Railway Terminus-Waverley Bridge and Market . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . 93

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126 BI 0 GRAPH I CA L S KET C HE S.
who had sat in the former Parliament.’ He was again returned for the
same county in 1784, but “vacated his seat in 1789, by accephg the office
of Inspector of Military Roads ; the duties of which he performed for some
years with assiduity, travelling on foot over extensive tracts of rugged ground
in the Highlands, for the purpose of ascertaining the proper courses for the
roads, to the great advantage of the public, by rendering the lines shorter, and
avoiding the expense of several bridges deemed necessary under the former
plans.”
On the declaration of war by the French Convention against Great Britain
and Holland, in 1793, seven regiments of Fencibles were ordered to be raised in
Scotland for the internal defence of the country. One of these, the West Lowland
Fencibles, being under the immediate patronage of the Eglinton and Coilsfield
families, Major Montgomerie was appointed Colonel, Glasgow was fixed
as the head-quarters of this regiment. The Colonel lost no time in beating up
for recruits throughout the west country, and especially in Ayrshire, where he
was eminently successful. At the village of Tarbolton alone, in the immediate
neighbourhood of his paternal seat of Coilsfield, a company of volunteers were
soon congregated ; and the circumstance of their departure for head-quarters is
still remembered as a day of note in the annals of the village.8 In the morning
On this occasion an expedient was resorted to by the candidates, in order to prevent their friends
among the freeholders, who might have troublesome creditors, from being laid hold of at the critical
moment of election. The advertisement, which appeared in the newspapers of the day, ia as
follows :-“In order to prevent vexations diligences being used against individuals in the shire of
Ayr, by attacking the electors of either party, at the eve of the Michaelmas Head Court, or upon
the day of election, in hopes of that critical period to recover payment, Sir Adam Fergusson and
Major Montgomerie, the two candidates, hare agreed that, in the event of any of the friends of
either party being attacked, a real voter present, in the interest of the opposite party, shall retire
out of Court ; which renders it vain for any person to think they shall have a better chance of recovering
payment, by using rash means, at this particular time.”
a Douglas’s Peerage, by Wood.
Among others who “followed to the field” was an eccentric personage of the name of Tait.
He was a tailor, and in stature somewhat beneath the military standard ; but he was a poet, and
zealous in the cause of loyalty, He had sung the deeds of the Montgomeries in many a couplet ;
and, having animated the villagers with his loyal strains, resolsed, like a second Tyrtsus, to
encourage his companions at arms to victory by the fire and vigour of his verses. It is said he
could not write, nevertheless he actually published a small volume of poems. These have long ago
sunk into oblivion. He was a bachelor ; and,
like a true son of genius, occupied an attic of very small dimensions. At the “June fair,” when
the village waa crowded, Saunders, by a tolerated infringement of the excise laws, annually converted
hi8 “ poet’s corner” into a temple for the worship of Bacchus, and became publican in a small way.
He was himself the presiding genius, and his apartment was always well frequented, especially by
the younger portion of the country people, who were amused with his oddities. He sang with
peculiar animation ; and failed not to give due recitative effect to the more lengthy productions of
his muse :-it might he in celebration of a honspiel, in which the curlers of Tarbolton had been
victorious over those of the parish of Stair-of a love-match-or such other local matter calculated
to interest his rustic hearers ; by whom his poems were highly applauded 89 being “unco wee1 put
thegither.” One in particular, on In.
Alexander of Ballochmyle, ww much talked of, probably from the circumstance of the lady having
condeacended to patronise the village laureate, by requesting his attendance at Ballochmyle, where
he recited the piece-was rewarded-and afterwards continued to be a privileged frequenter of the
hall. He was, no
Still I ‘ Sawney Tait the tailor ” is well remembered.
Some of his songs obtained a temporary popularity.
Poor Smmders, unluckily, waa more in repute for his songs than his needle.

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No. XC.
JOHN DHU.
THIS is another likeness of the renowned civic guardsman, of whom a short
notice has been given in No. 11. The warlike career of the well-known flhhon,
however, had not always been confined to the quelling of mob# and drunken
squabbles : he was
“A soldier in his youth, and fought in famous battles,”
having originally belonged to the 42d Regiment, in which he was right-hand
man of the grenadiers. He was in every respect a capital specimen of one of
those doughty heroes to whom Burns alludes in his “Earnest Cry and
Prayer,”
“ But bring a Scotsman frae his hill-
Clap in his cheek a Highland gi11-
Say such is Royal George’s will,
An’ there’s the foe-
He has nae thocht but how to kill
Twa at a blow.”
John nobly supported the character of his countrymen at the attack on
Ticonderago, in North America, where the U Royal Highlanders ” were distinguished
by most unexampled gallantry - although they at the same time
suffered severely for their temerity.
After sharing in the manifold fatigues of the Canadian war, John was discharged;
and, as stated in the former notice, became one of the Edinburgh
Town Guard. While in this situation he was met one very warm day, whilst
going down to Leith Races, by Captain Charles Menzies, who had been a
cadet in the Royal Highlanders in 1758. Not having seen his old comrade
for a long time, the Captain accosted him in a very friendly manner-a
condescension highly gratifying to John-and, after a short congratulation,
observed, as they were about to part, “ that it was a very hot day.” “ Och, och,
Captain,” replied ShOn--“no half siccan a warm day as we had at Ticonderago
! ”
Although he had been an undaunted soldier, and was a terror to the mobocracy
of Edinburgh, he was altogether a man of kind feelings, and by no means
overstepped the limits of his duty, unless very much provoked. Many yet
remember his conduct towards those young delinquents, whose petty depredations
brought them under his surveillance. After detaining them in the
guard-house for a short time, and having administered a little wholesome terror
by way of caution, should they “ ever do the like again,” Shm would open the
half-door of the guard-room, and push them out with a gentle slap on the
breech, saying-“ There noo, pe off; an’ I11 say you’ll didna rin awaymeaning
that he wquld make an excuse for them.
John was the intimate friend of Stewart, the original Serjeant-major of the
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Ckmtess of Loudoun, etc., amongst whose paternal honours it is not least that
she is the representative of the ancient family of Crawfurd of Loudoun, one
of whom gave birth to the renowned and immortal Wallace.” In the introductory
sketches of the lives of Earbour and Henry, if the author has failed
in adding any previously unknown facts, he has been happy enough to expose
several gross inaccuracies of former biographers ; and while the text is revised
with the utmost care, many doubtful passages are explained and illustrated
in copious notes by the Editor. Two notable events in the life of Wallacethe
‘(burning of the barns, or barracks of Ayr,” and his betrayal by ‘‘ the
false Menteith,” as related by Henry -he effectually vindicates from the
scepticism of the learned author of the “Annals of Scotland.” Were it
not for the length to which they extend, we could willingly quote Dr. Jamieson’s
remarks on these popular incidents, not only because the work itself is
scarce, but as a specimen of the writer’s felicity of argument in matters of
controversy.
In 1851 Dr. Jamieson published his “Historical Account of the Ancient
Culdees of Iona” ‘-a work characterised by the author’s usual depth of research.
Though somewhat heavy, and probably defective in style, the antiquarian reader
is amply repaid for his perusal, by the erudition and ingenuity with which the
author contends for the apostolic mode of church government which prevailed
while Christianity flourished in this country under the propagation of the
nionastics of Icolmkill.
In 1827 Dr. Jamieson was admitted a member of the Bannatyne Club,
which was founded by Sir Walter Scott. This literary Society is strictly limited
in number ; and it is almost as difficult to procure adinission as it is to obtain
a seat in Parliament. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh;
of the American Antiquarian Society ; of the Society of Northern Literature
of Copenhagen ; and an Associate of the First Class of Royal Associates of the
Royal Society of Literature of London.
The ‘(Views of the Royal Palaces of Scotland,” which appeared in 1828,
we believe,. was the last acknowledged publication by the venerable author. In
1830, in consequence of old age and increasing infirmities, Dr. Jamieson
resigned the charge of the congregation over which he had so long presided, and
in whose affections his learning, piety, and benevolence secured for him a lasting
hold. It is gratifying to think that his literary labours, directed as they were
chiefly to subjects of antiquity, and less likely to prove remunerative than the
works of more popular authors, were not entirely overlooked by Government.
The small pension he enjoyed was no more than a just appreciation of his
arduous historical researches and laborious philological investigations.
Dr. Jamieson married, in 1781, Charlotte, daughter of Robert Watson, Esq.
of Easter Rhind, Perthshire. Out of a family of seventeen children only two
In Lockhart’a Life of Scott it is mentioned that the publishers lost considerably by the limited
sale of this work.

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I 8 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
Edinburgh, that in requital thereof, he granted to them a charter, empowering the free
citizens to trade to any part of England, subject to no other duties than those payable
by the most highly favoured natives: in acknowledgment, as he states, of the humane and
honourable treatment he had received from the provost, ministers, and burgesses of
Edinburgh. As, however, the house of Lancaster never regained the crown, the charter
survived only as an honourable acknowledgment of their services.
About this time it whs that the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity, and the Hospital
attached to it, were founded by the Queen Dowager, Mary of Guelders : and here the
royal foundress was interred in the year 1463.
In 1471, the Scottish capital again witnessed a royal marriage and coronation ; Margaret,
Princess of Denmark, having landed at Leith in the month of July of that year,
where she was received with every demonstration of welcome and rejoicing. The courtly
historians of the period describe her as winning the favour of both Prince and people, by
a beauty and grace rarely equalled among the ladies of the age. Lindsay of Pitscottie
adds-“The gentlevoman being bot twelff yeires of age at the tyme.”’ The alliance
was further rendered acceptable to the nation, by the royal bridegroom, King James III.,
having ‘‘ gatt with the King of Denmarkis dochter, in tocher guid, the landis of Orkney
and Zetland.” To all this we may add, from Abercromby ’-“ The very sight of such a
Queen could not but endear her to all ranks of people, who, to congratulate her happy
arrival, and to create in her a good opinion of themselves and the country, entertained her
and her princely train for many days, with such variety of shows, and such delicious and
costly feasts, that Ferrerius, a foreigner, who had seen all the gallantry and pomp of the
Courts of France and Savoy, tells us that no pen can describe them so much to the advantage
as they deserve.” It is to be regretted that a more detailed account of this royal
reception has not been given, as it would better than any other have served to convey a
lively picture of the manners of the citizens, and the character of the Scottish capital at
this period.
These joyous proceedings speedily gave place to others of a very different character.
The historians, in accordance with the credulity of the times, have preserved the tradition
of numerous prophecies and omens, wherewith the king was forewarned of the troubles that
awaited him, and his jealousy excited against his brothers. The youngest of them, the
Earl of Mar, was committed a prisoner to Craigmillar Castle, from whence he was afterwards
permittet to remove to the Canongnte, when suffering under a violent fever, of
which he died there, under the care of the King’s physician ; not without suspicion of foul
play, After his death, some reputed witches were tried‘ at Edinburgh, and condemned to
the stake, for plotting, along with him, the death of the King ; and these, according to the
historians of the time, confessed that the Earl had dealt with them to have him taken away
by incantation-‘‘ For the King’s image being framed in wax, and with many spells and
incantations baptized, and set unto a fire, they persuaded themselves the King’s person
should fall away as it consumed.”’
The successful confederacy against Cochrane, the succeeding Earl of Mar, and the other
royal favourites, belong not to our subject. But immediately thereafter, in 1481, we find
the King a captive in the Castle of Edinburgh, which served alternately as a palace and a
Pitscottie, vol. i. p. 178. Nartial Achierements, vol. i i p. 407. a Drum. of Hawthornden, p. 48.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 97
been either lost or slighted.”
which we learn that
Some verses, signed ‘‘ T. C.,” are prefixed, from
‘‘ The sword has always flonrish’d, and the bow,
So long neglected, claims ita birthright now,
And our cockmatches owe their rise to you.”
From which it may be inferred that this species of amuselhent had been introduced
into Scotland by Machrie, who terms it “ a very Innocent, Noble, and
highly Heroiclc Game ! ! ”
The style of this curious publication is highly inflated, and the attempt to
confer dignity upon this wretched and cruel sport is ludicrous enough. After
very minute researches into the antiquity of the ‘‘ royal recreation,” the history
of the cock and its habits, the proper mode of treatment, etc., the author concludes--“
I am not ashamed to declare to the *odd that 1 have a special veneration
and esteem for those gentlemen within and about this city who have
entered on society for propagating and establishing the royal recreation of
cocking (in order to which, they have already erected a Cockpit in the links
of Leith), and I earnestly wish that their generous and laudable example may
be imitated to that degree, that (in cock-war) village may be engaged against
village, city againet city, kingdom against kingdom-nay, the father against the
son, until all the wars in &rope, wherein so much Christian blood is spilt, be
turned into that of the innocent pastime of Cocking.”
From the date of Tdachrie’s work until recently, the practice of cockfighting
seems to have been pretty general, especially in gdinburgh, where
a regular cock-pit was erected, and liberally supported for many years. On
turning over the files of the Edinburgh journals, the names of gentlemen still
alive are to be found, who now, it is to be presumed, would not be disposed
to consider their former ‘( cocking ’’ propensities with much complacency. An
attempt was made two or three years since to revive the “royal recreation” in
a certain city in the west, but it was very properly put down by the magistracy.
No. XLV.
JADIES DONALDSON,
THIS Print represents a half-witted journeyman baker, whom Kay has thought
worthy of immortality, on account of his enormous strength.
Many instances of this simpleton’s extraordinary physical powers are remembered
: Amongst these is the fact of his having frequently, for the amusement
of himself and the butchers, knocked down a strong bull-calf with one blow of
his prodigious fist. His good nature, however, was often imposed upon by
fools as great as himself, who used to load him with burdens sufficient for any
three ordinary men.
The Print has been entitled I‘ 0 Dronth ! ” by the limner, being a far-fetched
allusion to Jamie’s thirsty employment.
0

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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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