EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,

OR

LITERARY MISCELLANY,

FOR MARCH 1794;

With a View of CORRA LINN, on the River Clyde.

CONTENTS:

Page

Register of the Weather for Mar.164

Defcription of the View, 165

Memoirs of the Count de Hordt, ibid.

Trial of Jof. Gerald for Sedition, 167

Account of the Celebrated Dr

Archibald Pitcairne,

171

Account of the Establishment of

the Advocates Library at Edin.

burgh,

Effay on the Comparative Learn-

ing and Morality of the An-

cients and Moderns: (continu-

from page 134,)

Obfervations on the State of the

Clergy in Scotland,

Extracts from the Statistical Ac-

count of Scotland, Vol. IV.

173

ibid.

179

183

Parish of Kinross, Fifeshire, ibid.

Parish of North Knapdale,

Argyleshire,

Anecdotes of Magliabechi,

Account of the Vifit of Catherine

Queen of Sweden to the French

Academy,

Page

Origin of the University of

Leyden,

198

*197

On the Manufacture of Indigo at

Ambore; by Lieutenant Co.

lonel Claude Martin,

Extract of a Treatife on the Ma-
nufacture of Indigo at Am-
bore; by Mr de Coffigny,

An Account of the Ancient Bu-

rying-ground of the Innocents

at Paris,

Anecdotes of Longevity,

199

ibid.

207

of Dr Paul Hiffernan, 210

State Paper, tranfmitted by Lord

Robert Fitzgerald, Minifter Ple-

nipotentiary of his Britannic

Majefty to the Swiss Cantons,

to the Helvetic Body,

The Effects of Senfibility; a True

Ode on Summer,

215

217

224

ibid.

225

185

.{

187

POETRY.

MONTHLY REGISTER.

Foreign Intelligence.

Proceedings of the National Con-

vention of France,

Domestic Intelligence.

227

Proceedings of the Fourth Seffion

Widow of J. J. Rousseau,

ibid.

Character of Rouffeau,

195

Interefting Intelligence from the

London Gazette,

238

ris,-Young's Narciffu, ibid. Scotland-Deaths,

State of the BAROMETER in inches and decimals, and of Farenheit's THER MOMETER in the open air, taken in the morning before fun-rife, and at noon; and the quantity of rain-water fallen, in inches and decimals, from 28 Feb. to March 30th, within one mile of the Caftle of Edinburgh.

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THE

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

OR

LITERARY MISCELLANY,
FOR MARCH 1794;
With a View of CORRA LINN.

DESCRIPTION OF THE VIEW.

ing towards a mirror on the oppofite fide of the room, the tremendons cataract appears as if it were pouring on your head. The fides are bounded by vaft rocks cloathed on their tops with trees; on the fummit and verge of one is a ruinous tower, and in the front a wood overtopt by a verdant hill. A path leads down to the beginning of the fall, into which projects a high rock in the floods infulated by the waters, and from the top is a tremendous view of the furious ftream. In the cliffs of this favage retreat the brave Wallace is faid to have concealed himself, meditating revenge for his injured country, When the fun fhines on the fouthern bank a rainbow is perpetually feen forming itself from the mift, and fogs arifing from the violent dafhing of the waters,

[The memoirs of the Count de Hordt, a Swedish Officer of high rank, contain many valuable anecdotes of the revolutions of the Swedish Government, of the Duke of Cumberland, uncle of our prefent king of the great Frederick of Pruffia,of Peter of Ruffia, late husband of the prefent Empress,-and of various other illuftrious public characters, which have not been yet published in English. We intend therefore to gratify our readers by publishing, in portions, from time to time, in our Magazine, a tranflation of thofe interefting and agreeably-written memoirs.]

MEMOIRS OF THE COUNT DE HORDT.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.-NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH.

I Am defcended from an ancient fa- the nobility of Sweden. Almost all mily, of diftinguished rank among my ancestors were of the military profeffion,