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“WEDNESDAY; NOVEMBER 7 1792. 
"MEMOIRS OF SIR W. LOCKHART, OF LEE, 
COMMONLY'CALLED AMBASSADOR LOCKHART. 
With a portrait. 
‘Brocrarny may be termed the history of the human 
»mind, by the study of which men may become ac- 
quainted with characters, and the different manner in 
‘which peculiar mental energies operate and influence 
“the conduct of individuals. 
Sir William Lockhart, commonly called ambafsa- 
-dor Lockhart, descended from an illustrious line of 
ancestors, who had long acted a conspicuous part in 
Lanarkfhire, was the third son of Sir James Lockhart 
of Lee, one of the senators of the College of Justice, 
in the reign of Charles I. was born in 1621, died 1676. 
The first incident that tended to mark the charac- 
ter of this singular man, occurred at a very early 
period of his fe. He had been put under the care 
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