THE BEE, 



LITERART WEEKLT IN7ELLIGENCER, 



WEDNESDAY, September 14, 1791. 



To the Editor of the Bee. 



Sketch of the Life of the late Sir Janies Stewart Denham, 

 Baronetf Author of the Principles of Political Oeco- 

 nomy, and many other valuable Writings^ by Alba- 

 NICUS. 



With a Portrait. 



Sir, 



It is with great fatisfaftion that I comply with 

 your requeft, to accompany the portrait of Sir James 

 Stewart's perfon with fome account of his life and of 

 his writings. He was the fon of Sir James Stewart of 

 Goodtrees, baronet, folicitor-general for Scotland, by 

 Anne Dalrymple, daughter of Sir Hugh Dalrymple of 

 North-Berwick, baronet, prefident of the gollege of 

 juftice, and was born -on the loth ofO^ober, O. S. in 

 the year 1713, at Edinburgh. 



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