' (i8) His'ToRr of the- sociErr: 



Account^ of guiilied himfelf by an early proficiency in thofe claflical {In- 

 dies, which, to the latefl period of his Hfe, were the occupation 

 ' of his leifure hours, and a principal fource of his mental en- 



joyments. 



In the year 1731, he attended the academical lecflures of Mr 

 Alexander Bayne, Profeflbr of Municipal Law in the Uni- 

 verlity of Edinburgh, a gentleman diflinguifhed alike for his 

 profeflional knowledge, his literary accomplifhinents, and the 

 elegance of his tafte. The ProfelTor found in his pupil a con- 

 genial fpirit, and their connedlion, notwithfl'anding the difpa- 

 rity of their years, was foon ripened into all the intimacy of 

 the ftridleft friendfhip. So ftrong indeed became at length that 

 tie of affecftion, that the worthy ProfelTor, in his latter years, 

 not ojjly made him the companion of his fludies, but when at 

 length the vidlim of a lingering difeafe, chofe him as the com- 

 forter of thofe many painful and melancholy hours which pre- 

 ceded his death. 



At the age of thirty-one, Mr Tytler was admitted into the 

 Society of Writers to his Majejiy'' s Signet, and continued the prac- 

 tice of that profellion with very good fuccefs, and with equal 

 refpe(ft from his clients and the public, till his death, which 

 happened on the 12th of September 1792. He married, in- 

 September 1745, Anne Craig, daughter of Mr James Craig 

 of Dalnair, writer to the Signet, by whom he has left two fbns, 

 Alexander Fraser Tytler, his Majefty's Judge-Advocate 

 for Scotland, and ProfelTor of Civil Hifhory in the Univerfity of 

 Edinburgh, and Major Patrick Tytler, Fort-Major of the 

 Gallle of Stirling ; and one daughter, Mifs Christina Tytler. 

 His wife died about nine years before him, and previoufly to 

 that period, h« had loft a fon and a daughter, both grown ta 

 maturity. 



It is perhaps only in fmaller communities, like that of Edin- 

 burgh^ that the union of bulinefs and literary ftudies can eafily 

 take place. In larger focieties, fuch as tliat of London, here 



the 



