X. Letter-Lord Milton to the Marquis of Tweedale Brun- XII. Letter-Marquis of Tweedale to Lord Milton. Whitehall, XV. Letter from the Marquis of Tweedale to Lord Milton. XVI. Letter-Lord Milton to the Marquis of Tweedale. Edin- XVII. Letter-Lord Milton to the Marquis of Tweedale. XX. Letter from the Marquis of Tweedale to Lord Milton. XXV. Letter-General Guest to Lord Milton. Thursday XXVII. Letter concerning the Arms of the Highlanders, XXVIII. Instructions for Mr Alexander Macleod, Advocate. 310 XXX. Queries sent to Mr Patullo, with his Answers.-Patullo 223 XXXIV. Letter from Macpherson of Cluny to one of his XXXVII. Letter from the Duke of Newcastle to the Lord XXXIX. Address from the Chiefs to Charles, after the Bat- tle of Falkirk, advising a Retreat to the North. Falkirk, 29th XL. John Hay's Account of the Retreat from Stirling XLII. Copy Letter-Lord George Murray, calling himself De XLVI. Cluny's Account of Lochiel and himself, after the lived with them, till he received notice that two French Fri- gates were arrived at Lochnanuagh XLVII. Resolutions by the Rebel Chiefs, after the Battle of Culloden. Muirlaggan, 8th May, 1746 L. Letter from Lochiel to some of the Chiefs, who had agreed 875 LI. Extracts from his Majesty's State Papers, relative to Scot- ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF MR JOHN HOME.* THE HE biography of literary men is generally little more than a chronological account of their works, with a few private anecdotes, which, except being connected with, and, as it were, ennobled by their works, it could not be an object to record. But with that connection in their favour, the else unvalued circumstances of their lives acquire an interest with the reader proportionate to that which the writings of the author have excited; and we are anxious to know every little occurrence which befel him who was giving, at the period when these occurrences took place, the product of hist mind to the public. We are anxious to know how the world treated the man who was labouring for its instruction or amusement, as well as the effect *Read at the Royal Society, on Monday, 22d June 1812. which his private circumstances had on his literary productions, or the complexion, as one may term it, which those productions borrowed from the incidents of his life. The above considerations afford an apology for the narratives of the comparatively unimportant occupations which the world peruses with so much attention and interest; they help that personification of an author which the reader of his work so naturally indulges; and if they sometimes put that reader right in his estimate of the influence of genius or feeling upon conduct, they serve at the same time as a moral lesson on the subject, and mark, as it were, one of the unexpected shores or islands, sometimes it may be rocks or quicksands, on the chart of life. The subject of the Memoir which I now take the liberty of laying before the Society, is somewhat more entitled to notice than the common biography of mere literary men, from the peculiar circumstances in which the person of whom it treats was placed; and more particularly as he began to write in the dawn of that period of literary eminence which our countrymen have so much illustrated, and was extremely intimate with most of those men to whom Scotland owes so much of its reputation in the world of letters. It is on this ground chiefly that I venture to submit it to the Society, not as a thing of any va |