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Mr Elphinston with the most grateful and affectionate regard. 

 He continued ever afterwards occasionally to correspond with 

 him ; and so little did the lapse of time, or the business of ma- 

 ture life, diminish the remembrance of early obligations, that 

 when Mr Elphinston died, he had the satisfaction of associa- 

 ting himself, with his respectable widow, in erecting, in the 

 church-yard of Battersea, a monument to his memory. 



In the close of the year 1765, Mr Tytler entered the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh, and upon a new field of knowledge and 

 of study. 



The profession to which his own disposition, and the wishes 

 of his father inclined him, was that of the Law; the profes- 

 sion, of all others connected with literature, most .attractive to 

 the ambition of a young man, both by the variety of powers 

 which it demands, and the importance of the distinctions to 

 which it leads. It was to this end, accordingly, that his stu- 

 dies were now chiefly directed ; and although he attended the 

 lectures of Mr Russell upon Natural Philosophy, and of Dr 

 Black upon Chemistry, yet he seems to have limited himself 

 to a general knowledge upon the subject of physical science, 

 and to have reserved the vigour of his attention for those clas- 

 ses that more immediately related to his future profession. 

 While he was pursuing, therefore, the study of Civil Law, un- 

 der the tuition of Dr Dick, and afterwards of Municipal Law, 

 under that of Mr Wallace, he followed with interest the use- 

 ful and perspicuous prelections of Dr Stevenson in the science 

 of Logic : he improved his taste by the celebrated lectures 

 which Dr Blair was then delivering upon the subject of Rhe- 

 toric and Belles Lettres ; and he listened with ardour to that 

 memorable course of Moral Science, in which Dr Ferguson il- 

 lustrated, with congenial power, the various systems of ancient 



philosophy^ 



