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MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR. 



of his life had so materially affected his health, that he 

 was obhged, bj the advice of the late Dr Gregory, his 

 principal raedical adviser, to employ himself in more active 

 out-of-door occupations, with the view of restoring and 

 preserving his health. A constitutional tendency to severe 

 headachs, increased by his sedentary habits, induced Sir 

 Henry accordingly to devote his attention more closely 

 than ever to his favourite employment of transplanting, 

 which, as already remarked, more or less occupied him 

 during the remainder of his life. He occasionally, how- 

 ever wrote for the Anti- Jacobin, and other leading perio- 

 dicals of the day; and among his papers are to be found 

 several uncompleted manuscripts, ranging in theu^ dates 

 from the publication of Sallust through a period of 

 upwards of twenty years, consisting of a History of the 

 Rebellion of 1745, the commencement of a History of 

 Scotland, and several astronomical and other works. At 

 a considerably later period he contributed many of the 

 materials which he had collected for his History of the 

 RebeUion to Mr Chambers, for his interesting " J acobite 

 Memoirs'' of that period, published in 1834. 



Soon after his translation of Sallust was made public, 

 Sir Henry received the honorary degree of LL.D. from a 

 Scottish university, and also about the same period was 

 appointed a Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Socie- 

 ties of Edinburgh. In 1814, he was created a baronet 

 of Great Britain, the patent bearing date 27th December 

 1814, with remainder to his only daughter and son-in- 

 law Reginald Macdonald of Staffa, Esq., and their heirs 

 male. From a manuscript history of the family, quoted 

 in Crawford's " History of Renfrewshire," in an edition 

 pubhshed by Robertson in 1818, we learn that, in the 

 year 1687, the offer of a baronetage was made to Sir 

 Henry's ancestor, William Steuart of AUanton, through 



