SCOTS MAGAZINE,

AND

EDINBURGH

LITERARY MISCELLANY:

BEING

A General Repository

OF

LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND POLITICS.

FOR 1812.

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

SCOTS MAGAZINE,

AND

Edinburgh Literary Miscellany,

FOR JANUARY 1812.

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

From the Italian..........................................................

Chronological Account of Remarkable

Occurrences during the year 1811 11

On a certain species of Inhospitality.. 15

Proceedings of the Wernerian Society 16

Memoirs of the late Dr Robert Whytt,

Professor of Medicine in the Univer-

sity of Edinburgh..................... 17

Remarks on the Prejudices entertain--

ed against the House of Stuart...... 21

The Observer. No. XXIII............ 22.

Account of Syrian Churches recently

found in the heart of Syria. From

Buchanan's Christian Researches... 25

Critical Remarks, by Mr Fox, on the

most eminent Greek Poets. From

Letters appended to Trotter's Me-

moirs of Fox.......... ............... 30

Notices of Distinguished French Ladies

-Madame de Deffant- Madame

Geoffrin-Madame Necker......... 38

Character of the late Lord Newton...

Table exhibiting the present State of

Roads, Bridges, and Harbours, car-

rying on or completed, in the High-

lands of Scotland. From the last

Report presented to the House of

Commons...

36

Page

SCOTTISH REVIEW.

Travels in the Island of Iceland, dur-

ing the Summer of the year 1810.

By Sir George Steuart Mackenzie,

Bart. F. R. S. Edinburgh............. 43

New Works published in Edinburgh 59

Literary Intelligence......

ib.

POETRY.

Fourteen prudential Maxims, written

by George Buchanan, the famous

Scots Historian and Poet, for the

benefit of his pupil King James..... 55

Stanzas on the death of Dr John Ley-

den.........................

56

PROCEEDINGS OF PARLIAMENT.

House of Lords........................... 57