X79^* THREE LUMINARIES OF THE ROMANS. I41 



In his early days he dedicated himfelf to a learned 

 profeffion, and was candidate for tl\e chair of a profcl- 

 forlhip in the univerfity at Edinburgh : afterwards he 

 became an officer in the army, and ferved with great 

 honour and gallantry, both in India and Portugal. Had 

 he remained in the former, he would probably have oc- 

 cupied a great and lucrative fituation, which his high 

 fpirit and nice fenfe of military honour prevented him 

 from obtaining. After the peace he left Portugal, and 

 retired to his paternal acres of CoUinton, where he de- 

 dicated himfelf to ftudy, and the correfpondenceof the 

 learned. 



He was eminent in philological learning ; and with 

 a view to the more perfeft undcrftanding of ancient 

 languages, acquix'ed in his old age the Gaelic, and ap- 

 plied his knowledge of it to the examination of the 

 Arabic and Greek primitives, and the primitives of the 

 other ancient languages of Europe. May thefe lines 

 remain, and be handed down to diftant pofterity as a 

 memorial of the friendfhip of 



ALBANICUS. 



On the Emigrations from Scotland. 



To the Editor of the Beey 

 Sib, 



VV E boaft of our philanthropy as individuals, of our 

 wifdom as politicians, of our fkill as manufacturers, and 

 of our knowledge as merchants ; but I would fain wifh 

 to know how all thefe epithets can be applied to a na- 

 tion who can quietly fit ilill, and, with an unconcern- 

 ed apathy of mind, behold without emotion, many hun- 

 dreds of their bed people leaving their homes for ever, 

 and going elfewhere to find that fubfiilence that their 

 ou-a native country refufes them ? That thefe emi- 



