VH1 MEMOIR. 



a printer of a newspaper, for which he was 

 well qualified from his previous educa- 

 tion, being a good Latin scholar, and par- 

 ticularly well read in history and the 

 belles lettres; he had, besides, studied his 

 own language grammatically, and wrote 

 it with great correctness and purity. In 

 these new employments, both character 

 and ease of circumstances were acquired 

 by him ; in consequence of the latter, he 

 was enabled to send my elder brother, 

 nearly five years older than myself, to a 

 considerable grammar-school at Dumfries, 

 which was then kept by a Mr. George 

 Chapman. 



I was always my father's favourite, and 

 he, fearing that I should become tainted 

 with the disloyal principles which began 

 immediately after the peace of 1763 to 

 prevail throughout America, obliged me 

 to wear a tartan coat, and a blue Scotch 

 bonnet ; hoping, by these means, to make 



