THE

SCOTS MAGAZINE,

AND

EDINBURGH

LITERARY MISCELLANY:

BEING

A General Repository

OF

LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND POLITICS,

FOR 1815.

Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.

THE

SCOTS MAGAZINE,

AND

Edinburgh Literary Miscellany,

FOR JANUARY 1815,

With a View of EGLINTON CASTLE.

CONTENTS:

Page

ib.

8

Register of the Weather for January,... 2

High Water at Leith for February,...... ib.

Description of Eglinton Castle,............ 3

Observations on the Advantages of Pa-

rish or Savings Banks,.........

An Account of the Life and Adventures

of Sir Humpkin Buz, and his Jour-

ney to the City of Nubibub,..........................

Account of a curious Russian Medal

found at Libberton,........

Account of the grave of Louis XVI.,... 10

Monthly Memoranda in Nat. History,.. 11

Improvements and New Institutions

throughout Scotland,........

Eminent Persons recently deceased,...... 15

-The late Wiltiam Creech, Esq......... ib.
-Lieut.-Col. Gordon,........

9

PROCEEDINGS OF PARLIAMENT.

House of Lords,.............................................

57

ib.

ib.

14

16

Letter, descriptive of an Eruption of the

Geysers of Iceland,..........

17

HISTORICAL AFFAIRS.

West Indies.-St Domingo,.

America.

19

25

26

Trial, before the High Court of Justi-

ciary, of John Paterson and George

Charles, for Sheep-stealing,........

-Speech of the Lord Justice Clerk to

Paterson and Charles,.........

Trial of Thomas Kelly and Henry O'Neil,

for Highway Robbery,....

-Lord Justice Clerk's Aduress to the

Prisoners in pronouncing Sentence,... 30

Eulogy of Delille, the celebrated French

Poet, by M. Campenon,..........................

Manners and Situation of the Laplan-

ders of Finmark,.........

Particulars respecting the Invention of

a New Printing Machine,.............

Anecdotes of Cook, the Miser,........

36

40

42

Treaty of Peace,.....................................

-American Congress,.

-Operations in Canada,......................................................... 64

Late Occurrences in France,.............. 65

Accounts from some quarters in Spain,. 66

Intelligence respecting the Congress at

Vienna,.......

ib.

Domestic Intelligence.-Letter from Sir

Francis Burdett to the Inhabitants of

Westminster, respecting the Property

Tax,..........

ib.

Account of the Death and Dissection of

Joanna Southcott,

67

.......

Ireland. Some account of serious Riots

in the Dublin Theatre,.....

SCOTTISH CHRONICLE.

High Court of Justiciary,...........

Account of a Meeting of the Members

of the Speculative Society,.............. ib.

of a dreadful Gale and Storm,.. 71

Office-bearers of the Caledonian Hunt,.. 73

of the Edinburgh Astrono-

mical Institution,........

of the Wernerian Society, ib.

Directors of the Commercial Bank of

Scotland,.........

ib.

Office-bearers of the Scottish Antiquaries, 74

Appointments, by the Prince Regent,... ib.

Births and Marriages,,

Deaths,

...... 51

Stocks and Markets,.

....

75

80

STATE