I792» on TJjomson. 237 



Broughton near Edinburgh, where he occupies a 

 small piece of ground, that he feued from the late Mr 

 Hunter merchant in Edinburgh; but I do not believe 

 that either of these gardners lived with Mr Thom- 

 son; as I have reason to think they always prosecu- 

 ted their own businefs with afsiduity, and attention, 

 ou their own funds, so that if any such persons 

 lived with Mr Thomson, it must have been some- 

 body else, who, I iliould suppose, were not related 

 at all to him. 



Perhaps it may not be deemed superfluous to re- 

 mark, that the above mentioned Marjiy the last sur- 

 viving sister of the poet, was buried at Edinburgh, 

 September 22. 1790, her brother's birth-day; on that 

 very day Thomson's birth was commemorated at Ed~ 

 num, the place of his nativity, by the earlof Buchan, 

 and a select party. The preses sat in the arm chair 

 in which he used to sit when he wrote his Winter. 



It is now in the pofsefsion of Mr Elliot of 



On tliat day likewise, Thomson's anniversary was 

 celebrated by a very numerous meeting of the Cape 

 club, at Edinburgh, where Mr Woods the comedian 

 recited a spirited ode, composed by himself for the 

 occasion. But Mr Thomson's anniversary has been 

 celebrated in Scotland by so many others since, tliat 

 it would be impertinent to take- farther notice of 

 them. I am, 



Sir, 



a friend to -thomson and tq justice. 



