298—2 htnts to the patrons of the Bee. Aug, 29. 



connections formed with a generous, active, and industri- 

 ous nation, to which it had been formerly Ijostile, de- 

 serves to become the subject of minute discufsion by 

 those rare spirits who know how to analise the causes of 

 the wealth and happinefs of nations, and to connect the 

 discufsion with brilliant and entertaining remark and re- 

 flection. 



I know of no method so likely to place such interest- 

 ing disquisitions in a proper point of view, as the lives of 

 those illustrious and worthy citizens who have contribu- 

 ted signally to the melioration or ornament of their na- 

 tive country j and among such 1 fhall beg leave to suggest 

 a few, whose lives might afford the description of the pro- 

 grefs made in the various clafses and departments of use. 

 ful knowledge and art, during the present century. 



Cockburn of Ormiston is an article under which tvcsy 

 thing relating to the improved agriculture of East Lo- 

 thian might be arranged, and under which due honour 

 might be done to the memories of all his cotemporaries, 

 %Tho in Scotland have promoted the judicious cultare of 

 land •, and this article fliould have for its decoration, por- 

 traits of Cockburn, lord Kaims, and others, whose charac- 

 ters come into the fore ground of the landscape. 



In the line of manufactures, lord Milton, and the es- 

 tablilhers of spirited works at Glasgow, Paisley, Aber- 

 deen, Canon, and Leith, well deserve to be chronologi- 

 cally described, und x such names of the principal subjects 

 that may be most agreeable to the compilers. 



In architecture. Sir William Bruce of Kinrofs is 

 well worthy of the highest place, with a portrait, and an 

 exact catalogue of all his works ; and after discufsing the 

 elder Adam Milne, and others entitled to notice, to give 

 a view of the introduction of a new taste in building, 

 ■wherein the late earl of Marr's beautiful designs, and the 



