David Downie
No.CXLI.
MR DAVID DOWNIE,
GOLDSMITH IN EDINBURGH TRIED FOR HIGH TREASON ALONG WITH
ROBERT WATT IN 1794.TOWARDS the end of 1793, several meetings of
the British Convention were held in Edinburgh. At one of them (5th
December) the Magistrates interfered, dispersed the Convention, and
apprehended ten or twelve of the members, among whom were several
English delegates ; but who, after examination, were liberated on
bail. £18
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Plate 73
No. LXXIII.
THE REV. DR JOHN ERSKINE,
LATE OF THE OLD GREVFRIAR'S CHURCH, EDINBURGH. THIS is a very
faithful representation of the above worthy man and no less
excellent divine. The attitude in which he is delineated is that
which he invariably assumed on entering upon his discourse, and is
remarkably in unison with the description of the "colleague of Dr
Robertson," furnished by the graphic pen of Sir Walter Scott, in
the novel of Guy Mannering.* DR ERSKINE, born on the 2d of June
1721, was the eldest son of John
Erskine, Esq. of Carnock, Professor of Scots Law in the University
of Edinburgh, and well known as the author of the Institutes of the
Law of Scotland. £12
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Plate
67
No.LXVII.
THE REV. JOHN M'LURE.
CHAPLAIN TO THE GRAND LODGE.Ma M'LunE was originally educated for
the church, and obtained the clerical title by being licensed to
preach, after undergoing the usual trials. Itwas not his fortune,
however, to obtain a kirk. A few embarrassing years of "
hopes deferred" entirely deadened his ambition for the pulpit; and
at last, abandoning all intention of "clinging by the horns of the
altar," he settled down in Edinburgh as a teacher of writing,
arithmetic, and book-keeping.
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Plate 87
No.LXXXVII.
TIIE RIGHT HONOURABLE DAVID EARL OF LEVEN AND MELVILLE.
DAVID, sixth EARL of LEVEN and fifth of MELVILLE, was the only son
of Alexander fifth Earl of Leven, by Mary, daughter of Colonel
Erskine of Carnock, and was born in 1722. His lordship entered the
army in 1744, and held a company in the 16th regiment of foot; but
he left the military service on succeeding to the family titles and
estates, by the demise of his father, in 1751. For a series of
years his lordship seems to have interfered little in public
matters. In 1773 he was appointed one of the Lords of Police, an
office which he held till the abolition of that Board in 1782
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Plate 110/ No.CX.
THE REV. WILLIAM BEAT, MINISTER OF KILKENNY.
THIS likeness of the Reverend gentleman was taken from a drawing
executed by himself, and communicated to the artist by Mr Douglas,
one of his friends. MR BEAT was long pastor of the parish of
Kilrenny, in the county of Fife, and died at the Manse there on the
21st December 1797, in the eighty-seventlh year of his age, and
fifty-second of his ministry. A funeral sermon was preached at
Kilrenny the Sabbath following by the Rev. Dr Hill, principal of St
Mary's College. £15
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The
lawyer; the client'. . . this reveals
the lawyer one way up and if inverted the client an early puzzle
pic £12
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Plate 49/No XLIX
No. XLIX.
BAILIE JAMES DICKSON AND BAILIE JAMES TORRY.
THE first of these city dignitaries, MR JAMES DICKSON, was for a
long time a bookseller and stationer in Edinburgh. His shop was on
the west side of the front of the Royal Exchange entry, and was
much frequented by clerical gentlemen, Mr Dickson himself having
been a licentiate of the Presbytery of Edinburgh.. 315
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Plate 41/No. XLI.
THE REV. WILLIAM RQBERTSON, D.D.,
AUTHOR OF THE " HISTORY Of SCOTLAND," AND " CHARLES V." THIS
eminent divine resided within the old College, at the south gate,
nearly on the spot where the centre of the library now is. He was
born in the year 1721, in the manse of Borthwick, of which parish
his father, also called William, was then minister, but who was
afterwards presented to the Old Greyfriars' Church, Edinburgh. His
mother was Eleanor, daughter of David Pitcairn,nEsq. of Dreghorn ;
by the father's side he was descended from the Robertsons of
Gladney in Fife, a branch of the ancient house of Strowan. Dr
Robertsonnreceived the first rudiments of his education at
Dalkeith, under Mr Leslie; and, in 1733, when his father removed to
Edinburgh, he commenced his course ofnacademical study, which he
completed at the University of Edinburgh in
1741. £12
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Plate 45
No. XLV.
JAMES DONALDSON.
THIS Print represents a half-witted journeyman baker, whom Kay has
thought worthy of immortality, on account of his enormous strength.
Many instances of this simpleton's extraordinary physical powers
are remembered : Amongst these is the fact of his having
frequently, for the amusement of himself and the butchers, knocked
down a strong bull-calf with one blow of his prodigious fist. His
good nature, however, was often imposed upon by fools as great as
himself, who used to load him with burdens sufficient for any
three ordinary men. The Print has been entitled "O Drouth !" by the
limner, being a far-fetched allusion to Jamie's thirsty
employment.£12
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Plate 22
Sorry as yet unatributed so £8
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No.CXXVII.
MR JOHN AUSTIN,
AUTHOR OF A " SYSTEM OP STENOGRAPHIC MUSIC."MR AUSTIN was born at
Craigton,* where his father was gardener to John Baird, Esq. ; but
what were his means of education, or in what capacity he at first
entered upon active life, we have not ascertained. At an early
period he became a citizen of Glasgow, and was long known, in an
extended circle of acquaintances, for his musical skill, and an
inventive, speculative genius. Possessed of a jovial disposition,
his company was greatly prized, and he was ever ready to take part
in a catch or glee. It was not till comparatively late in life that
Mr Austin produced his " System of Stenographic Music" — -a
work of
considerable ability, though his ideas of improvement were probably
more theoretical than sound or practicable. The principal object of
the author was to simplify the prevailing method of notation. In
place of five lines, his system consisted of only one, written upon
by certain
characters, (six in number,) which, " reversed and inverted," were
held capable of expressing every variety in
music. £12
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Plate
169
No. CLXIX.
TWO TURKS.
OF these two disciples of Mahomet very little is known. They came
to
Edinburgh in 1784, and brought with them recommendations from
gentlemen of rank in different parts of the world. The old man,
with the long beard, was reputed to be the father of the younger
person. He was known by the name of MAHOMET, and the son by that of
ABRAHAM. They were shoe or slipper- makers by profession, had been
great travellers, and at one period, it is said, had aided in some
way or other the interests of Great Britain. In consequence of
their letters of recommendation, they received very great attention
from the inhabitants of Edinburgh ; and, being freemasons, were
admitted as brethren into all the different lodges of the city . .
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No.CXXI.
DR ANDREW HUNTER,
PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN THE UNIVERSITY, AND MINISTER OF
THETRON
CHURCH, EDINBURGH.
DR ANDREW HUNTER was the eldest son of
Andrew Hunter, Esq.
of Park,*Writer to the Signet. His mother, Grisel Maxwell, was a
daughter of General Maxwell of Cardoness, in the stewartry of
Kirkcudbright a gentleman alike distinguished for his bravery and
his piety. He was a zealous supporter of the Protestant interest ;
and, at the Revolution in 1688, was one of those who accompanied
the Prince of Orange from Holland.
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Plate 136
No.CXXXVI.
JAMES GREGORY, M.D.,
PROFESSOR OP THE PRACTICE OP MEDICINE IN THE UNIVERSITY
OP EDINBURGH. DR JAMES GREGORY, the son of Dr John Gregory,
sometime Professor of Medicine in King's College, Aberdeen, and
afterwards in the University of
Edinburgh, was bom in the former city, in 1753, and received the
earlier part of his education at the grammar school instituted by
Dr Patrick Dun. In consequence of his father's removal to Edinburgh
in 1765, he subsequently studied at the University there, and took
his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1774.
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Plate 165
No.
CLXV.ALLAN MACDOUGALL, ESQ. OF GALL AN
ACH; ALEXANDER WATSON, ESQ. OF GLENTURKIE & COLQUHOUN GRANT,
ESQ.
THESE gentlemen were intimate friends, and of one profession
Writers to the Signet. They are here represented in the prosecution
of one of their many walks in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh,
where, at some snug house of entertainment, they were regularly, at
least once a-week, in the habit of enjoying a social dinner
together. £15
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Plate 101
No. CI./101
FRANCIS HOME, M.D.,
PROFESSOR OF MATERIA MEDICA IN THE UNIVERSITY OP EDINBURGH,
AND ONE OF THE KING'S PHYSICIANS FOR SCOTLAND. DK HOME was born on
the 17th November 1719. He was the third son of Mr Home of Eccles,
an advocate, and author of several works, professional and
historical. He placed his son under the charge of Mr Cruickshanks
of Dunse, then esteemed one of the best classical scholars and
teachers.. . £15
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Plate 114
/ No.CXIV.
DR ALEXANDER MONRO, SECUNDUS,
PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY.
THE father of this celebrated anatomist was the first efficient
professor of the science in the University of Edinburgh, and may be
considered as the founder of the medical school for which it has
been subsequently so justly famed.* He was a descendant of the
Munros of Milntoun, and grandson ofSir Alexander Monro of
Beerscroft a strenuous opponent of Oliver Cromwell.MONRO, secundus,
was born in this city in 1732 . £10
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Plate 109
No. CIX.
JOHN WRIGHT, ESQ., ADVOCATE.
THIS Print represents the subject of our
sketch at a later
period of life than
the former etching ; and, to judge from his attitude, he may be
supposed in the
act of addressing the bench.
MR WRIGHT never attained to great eminence as a pleader. He spoke
so
very slow that his pleadings were far from being effective.£10
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Plate
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Plate 125/ No. CXXV.
THOMAS MUIR, ESQ. YOUNGER OF HUNTERSHILL.
THE foregoing Print is allowed to be an excellent likeness of this
" PoliticalMartyr of 1793." The facts and circumstances of his
brief but eventful life have of late been so prominently brought
forward,* that a mere recapitulation is only necessary. MR THOMAS
MUIR, whose father was a wealthy merchant in Glasgow, and
proprietor of the small estate of Huntershill, in the parish of
Calder, was bom in 1765. He studied at the University of his native
city, where, it is said, he was distinguished not less for talent
than gentleness of disposition £15
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John Erskine by John Kay
etching, 1793
Sitter John Erskine (floruit 1789), Minister. £8
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No. CI./101
FRANCIS HOME, M.D.,
PROFESSOR OF MATERIA MEDICA IN THE UNIVERSITY OP EDINBURGH,
AND ONE OF THE KING'S PHYSICIANS FOR SCOTLAND. DK HOME was born on
the 17th November 1719. He was the third son of Mr Home of Eccles,
an advocate, and author of several works, professional and
historical. He placed his son under the charge of Mr Cruickshanks
of Dunse, then esteemed one of the best classical scholars and
teachers.. . £15 (2nd copy)
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No. CXXI.
DR ANDREW HUNTER,
PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN THE UNIVERSITY, AND MINISTER OF THE TRON
CHURCH, EDINBURGH.DR ANDREW HUNTER was the eldest son of Andrew
Hunter, Esq. of Park,* Writer to the Signet. His mother, Grisel
Maxwell, was a daughter of General Maxwell of Cardoness, in the
stewartry of Kirkcudbright a gentleman alike distinguished for his
bravery and his piety. He was a zealous supporter of the Protestant
interest ; and, at the Revolution in 1688, was one of those who
accompanied the Prince of Orange from Holland £12
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Cleric 6 No.CXIV.
DR ALEXANDER MONRO, SECUNDUS,
PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY.
THE father of this celebrated anatomist was the first efficient
professor of the science in the University of Edinburgh, and may be
considered as the founder of the medical school for which it has
been subsequently so justly famed.* He was a descendant of the
Munros of Milntoun, and grandson ofSir Alexander Monro of
Beerscroft a strenuous opponent of Oliver Cromwell.MONRO, secundus,
was born in this city in 1732 . 2nd copy £12
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No. LXXV.
REV. DR JOHN COLQUHOUN,
OF THE CHAPEL OF EASE (NOW ST JOHN'S CHURCH) LEITH. *
DR COLQUHOUN was the son of a small farmer on the estate of Sir
James Colquhoun, Bart, of Luss, Dumbartonshire, where he was born
on the first of January 1748. He received the rudiments of
education at a neighbouring school under the Society for
Propagating Christian Knowledge in Scotland ; £12
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No. CXX.
JAMEs MACKCOULL,..ALIAS CAPTAIN MOFFAT,
AT THE BAR OF THE HIGH COURT OP JUSTICIARY.THIS notorious
individual was the son of a pocket-book maker, who for some time
had a small shop near the Church of St Sepulchre, London, in which
city the subject of the Print was born in 1703. His father is said
to have been an industrious, well-meaning man, but his mother was a
female of abandoned habits, and long known as a shop-lifter and
thief of the lowest grade. She had three sons and three daughters,
all of whom, under her maternal instruction, became adepts in the
art of pilfering. The career of Ben, the youngest son, was short,
as he was executed for robbery in 1786. John Mackcoull, the eldest,
was'a well-known character at Bow Street. He was a person of good
education, and the author of a volume entitled^" Abuses of
Justice," which he published in 1819, on his acquittal from a
charge of forgery.* £15
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No. CXXXIX.
REV. GEORGE HUSBAND BAIRD, D.D.,
PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY, AND ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE
HIGH CHURCH OF EDINBURGH. THE subject of this sketch, now in his
seventy-eighth year, was born, in 1761. in the parish of
Borrowstounness, where his father at the time, although a
considerable proprietor in the county of Stirling, rented a farm
from the Duke of Hamilton. DR BAIRD received the rudiments of
education, first at the parish
school of Borrowstounness, and subsequently, upon his father
acquiring and
removing to the property of Manuel, in the same county, at the
Grammar School of Linlithgow. £8
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dalkeith
The father of this gentleman was
at one period a teacher
at Lasswade and afterward a Minister of the Gospel in connection
with the Relief. H a v i n g s t u d i e
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No. LXXXII.
REV. ROBERT CULBERTSON,
OF THE ASSOCIATE CONGREGATION, LEITH.
MR CrLBERTsoN was born at Morebattle, on the 21st September 1765.
Hisfather, Mr James Culbertson, was a farmer and feuar there, an
influential memberof the Secession congregation, and much respected
for his piety and worth.He died in January 1826, at the advanced
age of ninety-eight. £12
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.No. CXV.
REV. JOHN KEMP, D.D.,
ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE TOLBOOTH CHURCH, EDINBURGH.THE subject
of this Etching, born in 1745, was the son of the Rev. David Kemp,
minister of Gask, in Perthshire, a man of piety and worth. By
hismfather he was at an early period designed for the clerical
profession, and passednthrough his academical studies at the
University of St Andrew's with considerable credit £15
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No.
CXLVIII.
REV. DR DAVID JOHNSTON,
MINISTER OF NORTH LE1TH. IT may be said of this excellent man,
that he inherited the virtues of the clerical character by
descent. His father was minister of Arngask, in the county of Fife,
and his maternal grandfather, the Rev. Mr David Williamson, of the
parish of St Cuthberfs, Edinburgh, was a celebrated clergyman in
the days of the persecution.* " MR DAVID JOHNSTON was born in 1733.
His early years were sedulously devoted to the study of those
acquirements necessary for the important office * Mr Williamson was
the son of a respectable glover in St Andrews. He was ordained to
the West Kirk in 1661 £12
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No. CLTV.
REV. DR THOMAS DAVIDSON,
LATE OP THE TOLBOOTH CHURCH, EDINBURGH.THIS gentleman's own name
was Randall, Davidson having been assumed by him on his accession
to his uncle's* property of Muirhouse, situated in the parish of
Cramond, and shire of Edinburgh. He was the son of the Rev. Thomas
Randall, minister of Inchture, (afterwards one of the ministers of
Stirling,) whose father and grandfather were also clergymen of the
Church of Scotland. MR DAVIDSON was born at Inchture in 1747, and
passed through the academical classes at the College of Glasgow.
£10 .
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