EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. VOL. I. Contents. mann. 72 ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. The Wyfe of Auchtermuchtiesummanamon 67 Account of the Highland Host (1678)....68 Extract from A Mock Poem upon the On the Sculpture of the Greeks...mmmm9 Expedition of the Highland Host,' by Present State of the City of Venicemow.16 On the Constitution and Moral Effects of Banks for the Savings of Industry.com 17 The Desolate Village a Reverie.mamma 70 Tales and Anecdotes of the Pastoral Life, -22 Verses recited by the Author, in a Party Observations on the Culture of the Sugar of his Countrymen, on the day that the news arrived of our final victory over Memorandums of a View-Hunter.no 27 Account of the American Steam Frigate..30 On sitting below the Saltmamaman 33 A Series of Discourses on the Christian Observations on the late Pamphlets of the Modern Astronomy. By Thomas 73 Harold the Dauntless; a Poem, in six, Remarks on Greek Tragedy, No I. (Æs- Notices concerning the Scottish Gypsies..43 | Stories for Children ; selected from the History of England, from the Conquest Account of Colonel Beaufoy's Journey to the Summit of Mount Blancmmmmm.59 Account of the remarkable Case of Mar- Quarterly Review, No 31.commun w83 garet Lyall, who continued in a state of sleep nearly six weeks..macammm...61 ANTIQUARIAN REPERTORY. WORKS PREPARING for PUBLICATION 88 Grant of the Lands of Kyrkenes to the TIONS men Culdees of Lochleven, by Macbeth son of Finlach, and Gruoch daughter of Bodhe, King and Queen of Scotland. 65 FOREIGN INTELLIGENCEmanmama 96 Writ of Privy Seal in favour of · Johnne PROCEEDINGS OF PARLIAMENT.. 102 Faw, Lord and Erle of Litill Egipt,' BRITISH CHRONICLE. granted by King James the Fifth, Feb. Commercial Report. wib. Agricultural Reportrarnain Act of Privy Council anent some Egyp- Meteorological Tablemas around 18 tianis' amon As it is the wish of the Editors to render this Work a REPOSITORY of whatever may be supposed to be most interesting to general readers, they beg leave to offer one or two remarks, on what is new in the plan they have adopted, and on the specimen of it now subinitted to the Public. Under the title of Antiquarian Repertory, they have reason to hope, from the access that has been most liberally allowed them to unpublished manuscripts, both in the national and in family repositories, that they shall for a long period be able, not only to lay before their readers articles calculated to gratify curiosity, but also to rescue from oblivion such materials as may throw some light on the disputed points in British history, and on such minute features in the state of society in former ages, as must necessarily be excluded from the pages of the historian. 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If the Editors shall be able to realize their own wishes and expectations, the Register will comprise a greater variety of information than is to be found at present in any monthly publication. Rash as it may appear, they will venture to declare, that it is their ambition to give such a view of Foreign and Domestic Affairs, as may in a great measure supersede the necessity of resorting to Annual Registers, or other more voluminous and expensive works, for the period which their labours may embrace. But as their limits had been almost reached before they began to print this their last branch, the Editors must request their Readers to take the present as but an imperfect specimen of what they mean it to contain. Every division of it has been curtailed; and the Public Papers and Accounts, as well as the list of Patents, Promotions, &c. have been unavoidably postponed. All these, however, shall be given, from the commencement of the year, in the early Numbers of the Magazine. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Memoir of an eminent and favourite Scottish Author, lately deceased, will appear in an early Number." Observations,” &c. concerning the progress of Scottish Literature and the article on Hospitals by Q.,-in our next. The Review Articles, by W. A. and B. W., and the communication from “ An Unknown Friend,” are unavoidably delayed till next month. The two communications from L. N. have been duly received. We are sorry to assure him, that the process described in his first cannot at all benefit or interest the public as a discovery. It has been well known, and generally practised, for the last fifty yeurs. The paper by · Junius' is in many respects interesting, but it is unfortunately so overloaded with “ fine writing," as to be quite unfit for our humble Miscellany in its present shape. *** No II. will be published in Edinburgh on the 20th of May, and in London on the 1st of June. BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. No I. APRIL 1817. VOL. I. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. NER. MEMOIR OF THE LATE FRANCIS HOR- most unimpeachable honour. Where now, alas ! shall good men search for, or searching find, a union so inestimOf the many eminent and good men able of intellectual and moral excelwhom Great Britain may proudly lence, to cheer their hopes, and conboast of having produced, who have firm their virtuous purposes, in these dedicated their lives to the service of times of political difficulty and of rethe state,-and have ministered to the laxing principle. improvementand the happiness of their Splendid, however, as these his pubcountrymen, not less by the exercise lic virtues were, the knowledge of of splendid talents in the public coun- them served only to enhance the pleacils of the nation, than by the bright sure, which it was the peculiar happiexample they have afforded in private ness of his relations and friends to enlife, of inflexible integrity, and the joy, from the contemplation of his pripracticeof every amiable virtue, there vate worth. Dutiful, affectionate, and is certainly not one whose death has social ; gentle, cheerful, and unassum, excited a deeper or more universal re- ing; full of kindness and full of charigret, than that of Me Francis Hor- ty; he was the joy and pride of his To the nation at large, as well family, dear to every friend, and a peras to those fortunate, though now af- fect pattern of goodness in all the reflicted, individuals, who were attached lations of domestic life. For these sorto him by the dearer ties of consan- rowing individuals, this only consolaguinity and friendship, the loss of this tion now remains - silently to dwell excellent man is indeed irreparable. on the remembrance of his numerous Statesmen beheld in him an exam- virtues, and to fix the love of them ple ever to be admired, and ever to be for ever on their hearts. emulated, of great parts, and still great- Of the exalted estimation in which er worth, wholly and sincerely devoted Mr Horner's character was univerto the attainment of the noblest of sally held, no testimony can be more objects,-our country's good, and the gratifying or more unequivocal, than general improvement of mankind. It the tone of deep and feeling regret was their delight to contemplate, in with which his death was announced this highly-gifted individual, a com- in all the public prints; and the strain bination almost without a parallel, of of unexampled eulogy which was every virtue, and every acquirement, poured forth on his high attainments, which can dignify and adorn the char- and his generous nature, in the House acter of a public man ;-a powerful of Commons, by political opponents as understanding,~-various and profound well as by private friends, on the meknowledge, a sound and penetrating lancholy occasion of moving for a new judgment, -original and enlightened writ for the borough which he repreviews,--a correct and elegant taste, sented in Parliament. an impressive yet modest eloquence,- The following paragraph, admirable a fervent but chastened zeal,-never- alike for its elegance and its truth, failing discretion,--a high and inde- appeared in the Morning Chronicle of pendent feeling, -and, above all, a Friday, the 28th of February 1817. 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