SCOTS MAGAZINE,

AND

EDINBURGH

LITERARY MISCELLANY:

BEING

A General Repository

OF

LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND POLITICS.

POLITI

FOR 1812.

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

VOL. LXXIV.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY,

By J. Ruthven and Sons,

SCOTS MAGAZINE,

AND

Edinburgh Literary Miscellany,

FOR JANUARY 1812.

With a View of the Railway from Kilmarnock to the Harbour of Troon."

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