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not regard what they hear at Philadelphia, 
&c. about Kentucky. They will hear 
many ftalfe accounts againft it.——~-We 
are all well. We move a little way into 
the country in a fortnight. We have 
brewed good beer. Ihope to grow my 
own barley and hops. Our winter has 
been colder than I expeéted. Much the 
fame as in England, except that there are 
very fine days now and then, 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HAVE lately read the Life of the Earl 
of Mansfield, written by Mr. Holiday, 
and find that gentleman has been very ill- 
informed in faying, that his Lordthip left 
Scotland at three years of age, and re- 
eeived the whole of his education in Eng- 
land; but I have been informed by num- 
bers of people, who were at different 
fchools in Scotland with him, and knew 
him well, that he never was out of Scot- 
Jand till he went to Weftminfter School, 
in the year 1719. 
Scoon, the feat of Lord Stormont, where 
the family generally refided at the time of 
Lord Mansfield’s birth, is within two 
miles of this place; but they had alfo a 
houfe in this town where they refided oc- 
cafionally, and it has been believed, that 
his Lordfhip was born in Perth, and this 
I think was put beyond all doubt by 
Lord Mansfield himfelf, in a converfation 
he had with Sir William Blackftone ; for 
Sir William had told him, that he was 
furprifed they called his Lordfhip a 
Scotchman, when he could prove he was 
an Englifhman by his name being entered 
in the books of Chrift’s Church College at 
Oxford, as being bern in the City of Bath; 
to which his Lordfhip replied, that he 
was not born in Bath but in Perth. And 
the inhabitants of Perth ever looked upon 
him as their townfman; and that he re- 
ceived a part of his education at Perth 
School, is moft certain. — 
When his Lordfhip was very young, 
he, with an elder brother, was fent to the 
School of Methven, in the neighbourhood, 
~ which {chool was then under the care of 
Mr. Henry Young, a noted {choolmafter, 
who boarded many gentlemen’s fons ; and 
I have known many people who remem- 
bered him at that fchool. 
From Methven School, he was fent to 
the Grammar School of Perth, then in a 
very fiourifhing ftate, under Mr. John 
Martin, the Rector, who had the charac- 
ter of being one of the belt fchoolmafters 
of his time; and a number of gentlemen’s 
Anecdotes of the Cheat Earl of Mansfield. 
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fons, from all parts of Scotland, were 
educated at that fchool. 
How long his Lordfhip remained at 
Perth School cannot now be pofitively de- 
termined ; but agentleman, who was born 
in 1706, has often told me, that he him- 
felf was entered to Perth School in the 
year 1714, and there he found Lord Mans- 
field, and that his Lordfhip continued at 
that f{chool a year after, and left it in. 
1715, and that he was an excellent fcho- 
lar, which was confirmed by all his {chool- 
fellows ; and this gentleman, from Lord 
Mansfield’s fize, and the clafs he was in, 
believed him to be three years older than 
himfelf, which brings the time of his birth 
to the year-1703, which, from many cir- 
cumftances I have heard, I believe is the 
truth. 
Now, as it is pretty certain, that Lord 
Mansfield left Perth School in 1715, aid 
was only entered to Weftminfter School in 
1719, in what manner did he pafs the four - 
years, from leaving Perth School, to his | 
entry to Weftminfter School? This I fhall 
endeavour to an{wer in a fatisfactory man- 
ner. 
I had always heard, that when Lord 
Mansfield left Perth School, he had gone 
to fome of the Colleges of St. Andrews, 
and, to be certain of this, application was 
made to a very refpeétable number of 
that Univerfity, who has been at the 
trouble of making the neceffary enquiries, 
the refult of which is, that be always 
heard from the oldeft members of the 
Univerfity, and from the oldeft inhabi- 
tants, that Lord Mansfield was put under — 
the care of Mr. Ninian Young, Profetor 
of Humanity, in St. Leonard’s College, 
where he continued till he went to Weit- 
mintter School ; and that while at St. An- 
drews, he attended no other clafs but that 
of humanity, under Mr. Young. 
A young lady, who then livedin Mr. 
Young's family, who was born in 
1703, and was afterwards married to 
one of the Profeffors of the Univerfity, 
often told her family many things about 
Lord Mansfield, when he refided in St. 
Andrews; and this lady has a daughter 
fill living in St. Andrew's, who:remem- 
bers her mother often fpeaking of him. 
And it feems Lord Mansfield had not for- 
got her; for many years afterwards, when 
he me met with any perfon from St. An- 
drews, or that neighbourhood, he enquir- 
ed after her by her maiden name; and 
even after he was Lord Chief Juftice, he 
had not forgot her: for Sir John Pringle, 
who had’ ftudied at St. Andrew's, was a 
frequent correfpondent of this lady’s huf- 
band, 
