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him in the confideration of it ; and it is a circumftance rather ^r.?^:^:^,. 

 fmgular, that while he has generaUy been charged with Tory,fm 

 by one party, he fl.onld, on the other hand, be accufed by nn- 

 pUcation of if.Av^//...v.>; in this qneftion on the hiftory ot the 

 unfortunate -Queen of Scots. tv^ ^r ^rx.« 



The other iUuflrious hiflorian, whofe opinions Mr Tytler 

 controverted in his Enquiry, though of oppofite fentiments 

 from Mr Tytler as an author, Uved with him in habits ot 

 private friendfhip and famlUar intercourfe. The kft tune Mr 

 Tytler dined at Dr Robertson's, he faw with pecuhar ia- 

 tisfaaion Hamilton's hiftorical pifture of Queen Mary, with 

 the portrait of the Dodor on one fide, and his own upon the 

 other. Dr Robertson, talking accidentally with the wnter^of 

 this account on the fubjed of the Marian controverfy^J^xA 

 have told Mr Tytler, that nothing but a regard for what 1 

 conceive to be hiftorical triith, could have given my hiftory 

 that complexion which is fo different from what he thinks it 

 ihould have worn. Mary was the natural heroine of my hi- 

 ftory if truth had allowed me to make her fo." 



Such would have been the natural vanity of an author ; nor 

 was the national vanity of a Scptfman lefs interefted in the fate 

 of this beautiful and unfortunate Queen, whom her evil de- 

 ftiny tranfplanted from the funlhine of a gay and gallant court 

 to a barbarous and unfriendly clime ; to a clime, flaaken by the 

 ftorms of faaion, and defolated by the fiirious contentions of a 

 tyrannical and favage ariftocracy. It has been matter of regret 

 with fome who feel for the Princefs in this view of her hiftory, 

 that her advocates have not left her caufe to thofe feelings, but 

 have puflied very far her pretenfions to unimpeachable conduA 

 and princely virtues, inftead of pleading an apology for error or 

 weaknefs, from the circumftances of the times and the intrica- 

 cies of her fituation. Even in the pages of Robertson, after 

 all that he has allowed of prefumptive evidence for her impru- 

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