on Naval Tactics. 173 



of naval tactics, though by no means disposed to refuse my tribute of respect 

 for the ability and industry evinced by the acute but inexperienced commen- 

 tator—the ingenious but erring amateur." 



Instead of sketching the argumentation of Sir Howard Dou- 

 glas, we have, by these quotations, rather chosen to make him 

 speak for himself, and consequently there is little cause to fear 

 that we have misrepresented his reasoning; and we terminate 

 our present remarks with the following paragraph from p. 77. 



" To the Editor of the Edinburgh Review I have peculiar, and, I trust, 

 praiseworthy, motives for transmitting him a copy of this memoir. The 

 writer tells us, page .3, that the reviewers, being Scotchmen, are disposed to 

 maintain their original opinion, that their countryman Mr Clerk was the ori- 

 ginal proposer to the profession of the manoeuvre of breaking the line ; — ^that 

 if it had not been for that learned gentleman, it never would have been 

 known ; — that Professor Playfair's record is true ; and that, therefore, the vic- 

 tory gained on the great day in question is chiefly to be ascribed to Mr Clerk. 

 Now I, being a Scotchman too, have no less disposition to prove that opinion 

 to have been made up on erroneous and utterly untrue hypotheses ; and de- 

 termine, accordingly, to shew cause why that opinion cannot, consistently 

 with truth and justice, be maintained. I call upon the editor of that journal, 

 in particular, and upon the public press every where in the land of my sires^ 

 to hear me — to read me — to consider my facts ; and then to say, whether an 

 opinion formed ecc parte, upon hearsay, inference, manifest mistake, and ground, 

 less record, is to prevail, to the prejudice of, I think, as good and true a Scot 

 as ever lived. I love and honour my country ; I laid my father's ashes in the 

 dust there ; and I do hope, with the blessing of God, and a just regard of my 

 efforts by those who preside over the public journals, to gather his remains 

 together, in an honorary sense, and deposit them in one of the niches of that 

 temple which is destined to adorn the capital, and perpetuate the fame of the 

 heroes and worthies of Caledonia.'* 



Description of several New or Rare Plants which have lately 

 Jloxvered in the neighbrntrltood of Edinburgh^ and chiefiy 

 in the Royal Botanic Garden. By Dr Graham, Profes- 

 sor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh. 



Dec. 10. 1832. 

 Manettia cordifolia. 



M. cordifolia ; glaberrima ; caule suffruticoso, volubili, ramis teretibus ; 

 foliis cordatis, acuminatis, utrinque nitidis ; stipulis amplexicaulibus, 

 acuminatis ; pedunculis axillaribus, unifloris, folio longioribus ; calyce 

 4.1obo, lobulis minimis interjectis ; corolla fauce nuda, dilatata. 



Manettia cordifolia. Mart. Spec. Mat. Med. Bras. 1. 19. t. 7 — De CaiuL 

 Prodr. iv. 363.— fiot Mag. 3202. 



Manettia glabra, Chamissoet Schlecht, Linn. 1829, p. 169 — De Cand, Prodr. 

 iv. 363. 



