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sidered as the author himself. No one, how- 
ever, could suspect him to be the writer of 
these papers, as his opinions were well known 
to be of an opposite tendency to those in- 
culcated therein. The Sheriff desired him to 
consider of the matter, and cautioned him 
against the evil consequence of persisting in 
a refusal to disclose the real author. He was 
summoned a second anda third time; but 
steadily adhered to his first answer, and was 
permitted to withdraw. At length all his 
people in the printing and Bee offices were 
called upon; he accompanied them to the 
Court, and, in the presence of the magis- 
trates, addressed them, saying, ** My lads, 
"you are my servants, and bound to keep your 
master’s secrets ; 1 therefore enjoin you, on 
no account to discover who is the author of 
the Political Progress of Great Britain, and 
T will hold you harmless for so doing.” 
They all adhered to his directions, and so 
great was the respect in which he was held, 
that the magistrates, though frustrated in this 
cavalier manner, refrained from taking any 
step against him. Inthe mean while Mr. 
C. the real author of these essays, thought 
it most prudent to retire from the risk of 
prosecution to America; but before his de- 
parture, for what reason was best known to 
himself, he waited on the magistrates and 
deposed, that he himself was not the author; 
that he knew who was; but that motives of 
delicacy and gratitude prevented him from 
divulging his name. This insiduous declara- 
tion produced the effect for which it was 
intended; for it being well known that Lord 
Gardenstone, from whose country residence 
the papers were dated, had lavished many 
kindnesses on this unworthy man, under the 
mistaken opinion of his being a literary cha- 
racter of great merit, and also that his lord- 
shia was a warm friend of Dr. Anderson, and 
a great patronizer of the Bee, it was conclu- 
ded that the allusion could be intended for 
none otherthan him. Immediately on hear- 
ing of this base proceeding, Dr. Anderson, 
determining that his friend’s reputation shoulé 
not suffer by the impression of such a false- 
hood going abroad, went and declared that 
Mr. C. was the sole author of the papers in 
question, and that he was certain Lord Gar- 
denstone, so far from having any concern in 
writing them, never had so much as seen 
them till published in the Bee. It is but 
justice tothe deceased to say, that the only 
part of these papers of a seditious cast had 
been siruck out by him, and Mr. C. went to 
the printer’s in his absence and prevailed on 
them to insert the passage, contrary to Dr. 
Anderson’s directions, whose opinions of 
the value of our government as it exists, and 
of the danger of the then prevailing revelu- 
tionary doctrines were such, that he never 
- would have consented to admit them into his 
publicationif he had considered them at ailofa 
“dangerous tendency. The greater number of 
his sogs haying left Scotland yand as little re- 
Account of the late Dr. James Anderson: 
[Aptil tf, 
mained in it to exeite any other than melan- 
choly feelings, he removed to the vicinity of 
London about the year 1797. Being no 
stranger here among literary men, he found 
great “satisfaction i in their society. Prevailed 
on by his friends, he once more engaged in 
the service of the public, and produced in 
April 1799, the first number of his Recre- 
ations, a tdiscolianedae monthly publication, 
having for its principal objects agricultute 
and natural history. Although the work 
contains a number of communications from 
others, yet the greater part of it is written by 
himself. It met with the greatest encou- 
ragement from the public; but complaining 
of the irregularity of his printers and book- 
sellersas being intolerable, he dropt it at the 
end of the sixth volume. He now began to 
relish ease and quiet. Having been ‘always 
fond of horticulture, his garden now more 
than ever became a source of amusement, and 
employed a Jarge portion of his time: yet still. 
unwilling to wittidtaw from the service of 
mankind, he had it in contemplation to go 
to the continent to obtain facts relating to 
agriculture and civil polity, particularly i In 
the low countries; baving in view a digest 
of the system of legislation, and of the causes 
ofthe highly flourishing state of agriculture 
in that part of Europe; but this was prevent- 
ed by the relentless dominion and tyranny of 
France. During the publication of his Re- 
creations, he wrote and printed separately 
his correspondence with General Washington y_ 
and a calm investigation on the scarcity of 
grain. The thirty-seventh number of his 
Recreations is his last publication, in March, 
1802, after which he consigned himself ra “ 
quiet retirement, at a time when he foresaw 
the decline of his own powers approaching; 
these were hastened to decay by being o over- 
worked. He died on the 15th October last, 
aged 69, one-half of which time was devoted 
to the benefit of his fellow creatures. He 
had engaged a second time in matrimony with 
a worthy lady in 1801. Both parties being 
in the autumn of life, this contract seemed 
intended solely for the purpose it fully served 
namely, that of promoting théir mutual 
comforts. In the decline of life, those ser- 
vices and attentions are requisite which are 
not to be obtained from menial hands: it came 
to his lot to stand in the need of such assist- 
ance; and for its faithful administration his 
friends will doubtless be ever grateful to his 
surviving widow, Asa practical farmer, it 
is acknowledged by all who knew him, thac 
he not only understood how to turn the modes 
of culture usually followed by others to the 
greatest advantage, by judiciously selecting 
them and applying them according to the ciz- 
cumstances of the case, but also that he had 
powerful resources within his own mind in 
the invention of new practices, many of which, 
and of those followed in distant countries, he 
introduced with the greatest success. Of the 
bencfits arising from his example, the people 
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