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the revision of the case : his opinion coincided in ever}^ respect 

 with that of Mr Tytler; and to the letter in which Sir Charles 

 communicated to him his Majesty's disapprobation of the sen- 

 tence, Mr Tytler added the following note : " I have thus 

 " had the satisfaction of procuring from his Majesty a disap- 

 " proval of this very unjust sentence, and a rectification of it 

 " in every point where it was wrong." 



In the year 1792, Mr Tytler had the misfortune to lose his 

 father, at the advanced age of eighty-one. Of the character of 

 this excellent man, the Society already possesses a description 

 by Mr Mackenzie, which no one will attempt to improve. The 

 loss to his son was of a kind which it is the fortune of few men 

 to experience. Their connection had subsisted for the long 

 period of forty-five years, undiminished by distance, and un- 

 broken by misunderstanding ; and there was so singular a cor- 

 respondence in their tastes, their pursuits, their principles, and 

 even their prejudices, that Mr Tytler felt he had not only lost 

 a father, but his best and oldest friend. His first employment 

 was to design a little monument to his memory, which he soon 

 after erected in the pleasure-grounds of Woodhouselee, upon a 

 spot which his father had particularly loved ; and he engraved 

 upon it the following inscription, which so well expresses the 

 filial tenderness of the author, and so happily obeys that pro- 

 found and merciful propensity of sorrow, which leads us still 

 to fill the scenes we love, with the presence of those we have 

 lost. 



M. 



