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Account of guiilied hiinlelf by an. early proficiency in thofe claflical llu- 

 dies, which, to the lateft period of his life, were the occupation 

 of his leifure hours, and a principal fource of his mental en- 

 joyments. 



In the year 1731, he attended the academical ledlures of Mr: 

 Alexander Bayne, ProfelTor of Municipal Law in the Uni- 

 verfity of Edinburgh, a gentleman diftinguiflied alike for his 

 profeflional knowledge, his literary accomplifhments, and the 

 elegance of his tafte. The Profelfor found in his pupil a con- 

 genial fpirit, and their connedlion, nocwithftandiag the dil'pa- 

 rity of their years, was foon ripened into all the intimacy of 

 the ftri(5left friendfhip. So flrong indeed became at length that 

 tie of afFedlion, that the worthy Profeflbr, in his latter years, 

 not only made him the companion of his ftudies, but when at 

 length the vidlim of a lingering difeafe, chofe him as the com- 

 forter of thofe many painful and melancholy hours which pre- 

 ceded his death. 



At the age of thirty-one, Mr Tytler was admitted into the 

 Society of Writers to his Majejly'' s Signet, and continued the prac- 

 tice of that profeffion with very good fuccefs, and with equal 

 refpedl from his clients and the public, till his death, which 

 happened on the 12th of September 1792. He married, iii- 

 September 1745, Anne Craig, daughter of Mr James Craig 

 of Dalnair, writer to the Signet, by whom he has left two fons, 

 Alexander Fraser Tytler, his Majefly's Judge-Advocate 

 for Scotland, and Profeffor of Civil Hiftory in the Univerfity of 

 Edinburgh, and Major Patrick Tytler, Fort-Major of the 

 Caltle of Stirling ; and one daughter, Mifs Christina Tytler. 

 His wife died about nine years before him, and previoufly ta 

 that period, he had loft a fon and a daughter, both grown to 

 maturity. 



It is perhaps only in fmaller communities, like that of Edin- 

 btirghy that the union of bufinefs and literary ftudies can eafily- 

 take place. In larger focieties, fuch as tliat of London, here 



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