

ayes 
be viewed by the injured parties them- 
elves; and he laments that the apology 
which he is capable of making is infuffici- 
ent toatone for offences, which even theve- 
gret and contrition, that, to the laff hour of 
his life, he mu? have, though they may, 
perhaps, extenuate them in the breaits 
of humanity, never can thoroughly wath 
away. 
Defiring forgivenefs of every individual 
of the Clan-Alpin Regiment and of the 
name of Mac Gregor, he has thrown bim- 
felf entirely upon the mercy and placability 
of the parties chiefly injured; and he con- 
fiders himfelf as deeply indebted to them 
for the magnaninity and humenity, with 
which they have accepted of, and declared 
themfelves fatisfied with, thefle /iacere con- 
ceffions of the OFFENDER. 

Newington Green, March 20th, 1800. 
SIR, 
BEG leave to inform you that I am well 
acquainted with the perfon and handwri- 
ting of the author of the paper which appear- 
ed in your Magazine, dated the 1ft of Auguft 
aft ; and that } am defired by the writer of 
that paper to tranfmit for infertion in the 
next number of your Magazine the accom- 
panying holograph, declaration, and apology, 
of which a fubfcribed tranfcript has been de- 
livered by him to the parties principally of- 
fended, who have difpenfed with the publi- 
cation of his name. With the apology you 
-will be kind enough to print this atteftation 
from, ° Sit, 
Your moft obedient Servant, 
JAMES LINDSAY. 
== 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
LIST OF SCOTTICISMS. 
(Concluded from our laft Number, p. 239+) 
Ty OURTHLY, The following are a 
4b’) few of the many inftances in which 
our Northern neighbours mifapply verbs, 
both principal and auxiliary. 
All perfons are bereby prohibited and dif- 
charged from throwing rubbifh, Gc. ‘The 
word dicharge is thus ufed, in many of the 
prohibitory advertifements of magiftrates 
in Scotland. -It is certainly to be ranked 
among law-terms. But it were to be 
wifhed, that their honeurs and worfhips 
would difcharge all other perfons from 
fpeakine or writing the word in this 
fenfe; for it is almoft as commonly uled 
by parents in commanding their children, 
as by magiftrates in regulating matters of 
police. 
He challenged the boy for playing the 
truant, means, He rated or reprimanded 
him tor playing truant. 
Step in to the fire; Lometimes’ pronounced 
Lift of Scotticifras. 
[May r, 
haftily flep into the fire, means in Scotland © 
** Come, or go, to the fire.” 
A Scotchwoman, who was reckoned 
godly, very much furprized her Englifh 
neighbour by faying, that the ewer minded 
Sermons. Her meaning was, that fhe sever 
remembered fermans. 
He fiays in the Canongate, means, He 
lives in that fuburb. 
To caft out avith a 
out with him,, : 
Zo cry upon a perfon, means, to) call 
him. 
He 1s turned a fine boy, means, He is 
become a fine boy. 
He is in ufe to rife early, means, He 
ufually rifes carly. But furely this Scot- 
ticifm is not inferior to the inexplicable 
vulgarifm fometimes heard in England, He 
moft an end rifes early. I have even feenr 
this ftupid phrafe in print. It is to be 
found in the Englifh tranflation of the 
excellent Barrow’s Leétures on Elementary 
Geometry. 
The tub runs out, means,The tub leakes. 
Io take the book, or to make exercife, 
means, to perform family worfhip. A pro- 
pos: An old man, in my native place, who 
did not read remarkably well, on taking tha 
book, camie, in the order of his reading, to 
a chapter full of Hebrew names, which he 
could not manage. ¢* Marion,” faid he to 
his wife, « this is an waco kittle (very dif- 
ficult) chapter, and we had better turn 
o’er the leaf.” Hence, turning o’er the 
leaf, is become a phrafe, in that place, for 
any change of fyftem.—-Perhaps the con- 
querors of a certain country will be obli- 
ged, at laft, to turn o’er the Jeaf. 
When a perfon has juft expired, the 
Scotch commonly fay, He is removed. 
This expreffion has always appeared té 
me peculiarly proper. It feems to imply 
a {trong hope that the deceafed is gone to 
a better world—a world,’ ** avhere the 
wicked ceafe from .# ubling, and where the 
weary Ue at ref? ; where the fervant (Nave) 
2s free from his mafler, and hears not the 
voice of the oppreffor.”” 
Tell my fervant to [peak to me, faid a 
Scotch gentleman to the waicer at an Eng- 
hih inn. What fliall I tell him to fay? 
aiked the waiter. The gentleman’s mean- 
ing would have been underftood if he had 
faid, ‘Tell my fervant I want to fpeak to 
him, 
It you ring the bell at a Scotch inn, 
the waiter, fometimes called there the 
drawer, comes and aiks you, ** What's 
pour will, Sir?” I have heard this ex- 
preffion mentioned, as a proof of the ab- 
jeck humility with which the Scotch mult 
haxe 
perfon, means, to fall 
