did not correspond in paint of date with the
shirts they accompanied.? Lord Napier died in
1823.
His house, together with Nos. 70 and 72 (in the
early part of the century the abode of John Mill,
Esq., of Noranside), became afterwards one large
private hotel, attached to the Hopetoun Rooms.
In the former the late Duchess of Kent and others
ff note frequently put up, and in the latter many
important meetings and banquets have been held.
Among these notably was the one given to Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton in 1854 on the occasion
of his inauguration as President of the Associated
Societies of the University. Sk William Stirling
of Keir, M.P., occupied the chair, and the croupiers
were Sir Jarnes Y. Simpson and Professor
Blackie. When the army and navy were proposed,
Professor -4ytoun facetiously responded for the
latter as ? Admiral of Orkney,? being sheriff of
those isles, and in reply to an eloquent address of
Bulwer?s, which he closed by coupling the health of
CHAPTER XXI.
THE STREETS CROSSING GEORGE STREET, AND THOSE PARALLEL WITH IT.
Sir Archibald -4lison with the literature of Scotland,
the latter replied, and introduced some political
and anti-national remarks that caused disapprobation.
The whole street front of the three houses is now
occupied by the Edinburgh Educational Institution,
or Ladies? College, where above 1,000 pupils
(under the care of the Merchant Company) receive
a course of study embracing English, French,
German, Latin, and all the usual branches of
literature, to which are added calisthenics, dancing,
needlework, and cookery. The edifice was opened
in October, 1876, and has as life governor the
Earl of Mar and Kellie.
After the formation of Queen Street, the now
beautiful gardens that lie between it and Heriot
Row and Abercrombie Place were long a neglected
waste. It was not until 1823 that they were enclosed
by parapet walls and iron railings, and were
laid out in pleasure-walks and shrubberies for the
inhabitants of these lodties.
Rose Street-Miss Bums and Bailie Creech-Sir Egerton high-Robert Pollok-Thistle Street-The Dispensary-Hill Stmt-Count
d?Albany-SL Andnw Street-Hugo Amot-David, Earl of Buchan-St. David Street-David Hum-Sir Walter Scott and Basil Hall-
Hanover Street-% J. Gnham Dalyell-Offices of Association for the Improvement of the Poor-Frederick Strat-Granr of Corrimony-
Castle Street-A Dinnu with Sir Wdter Scott-Skcne of Rubislaw-key N a p i e r a t l e Street and Charlotte Street.
IN 1784 the magistrates made several deviations
from the plan and elevations for building in the
New Town; and at that time the names and
designs for the two Meuse Lanes, running parallel
with George Street, but on the south and north
sides thereof, were changed to Rose Street and
Thistle Street. These were accordingly built in an
inferior style of architecture and of rougher work,
for the accommodation of shopkeepers and others,
with narrower lanes for stabling purposes behind
them.
Rose Street and Thistle Street lie thus on each
side of the great central street of the first New
Town, at the distance of zoo feet, and are, like it,
2,430 feet long, but only thirty broad.
The first inhabitants were at least people of the
respectable class; but one lady who resided in
Rose Street in 1789 obtained a grotesque notoriety
from the manner in which she became embroiled
with the magistrates, and bad her named linked
with that of Bailie-afterwards Lord Provost-
Creech. Miss Burns was a native of Durham,
where her father had been a man of wealth, but
became unfortunate ; thus his family were thrown
on the world. His daughter appeared in Edinburgh
in 1789, when she had barely completed her
twentieth year, and there ?her youth, her remarkable
beauty, and the extreme length to which she
camed the then extravagant mode of dress, .attracted
such notice on the evening promenades
that she was brought before the ?bailies at the
instance of some of her neighbours, more particularly
Lord Swinton,-who died in 1799, and whose
back windows faced hers in Rose Street ; and she
was banished the city, with the threat from Bailie
Creech that if she returned she would get six
months in the House of Correction, and thereafter
be drummed out.
Against this severe decision she appealed to the
Court of Session, presenting a Bill of Suspension
to the Lordordinary (Dreghorn), which was refused ;
it came before the whole bench eventually, and
?the court was pleased to remit to the Lord
Ordinzry to pass the Bill.?
The papers now became filled with squibs at the
expense of Bailie Creech, and a London journal
