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ACCOUNT OF A BOY 



NO. IV. 



While employed in revising this concluding sheet, I had 

 the pleasure of receiving the following letter from my friend 

 Sir James Mackintosh. It is unnecessary for me to mention 

 the satisfaction I feel in attracting that notice to the Subject of 

 my Memoir which his name cannot fail to ensure. 



Letter from Sir James Mackintosh to Mr Stewart. 



Edinburgh, 5th November 1812. 

 My dear Sir, 



In consequence of our conversation at Kinneil in August, I 

 called on Mrs Mitchell after my arrival in Nairnshire, and on 

 the 9th of October I had an interview with James Mitchell, 

 and his sister Miss Mitchell, which lasted for several hours. 

 I directed my inquiries to every point which seemed important, 

 in the corporeal or mental state of this unfortunately interest- 

 ing young man. 



The result, however, is little more than a needless corrobo- 

 ration of the accounts which you have already received ; espe- 

 cially those from Dr Gordon, who seems to have conducted 

 his observations with much philosophical discernment and ac- 

 curacy. 



During the vacancy in his father's parish, the parishioners 

 assembled on Sunday for public worship and mutual instruc- 

 tion, and one of the elders prayed with a loud and shrill 

 voice, which was observed to give great uneasiness to Mit- 

 chell. 



