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mind that omnipotent being who makes the clouds his chariot, and rides on the wings of the wind. Instead of the sensations of hunger and fatigue, which the moment before made me uneasy, I perceived a secret enjoyment, a calm satisfaction, and a glow of love to God and to the creatures of his hand, which no language can express. When I saw Peterhead on the east, at the distance of near sixty miles, and thousands of variegated intervening objects; on the north, the wide extended ocean, as far as the eye could reach; and towards the west, Inverness, the hills of Lovat, Urquhart, and all the beautiful county of Murray, with villages and towns, scattered here and there; appearing no more than small specks, astonishment seized upon my mind, and I stood long motionless admiring the grandeur of the scene."

Not many miles from Castle Grant, Mr. H. found a gentleman who was not displeased that a couple of eagles, whose nest Mr. H. went to see regularly every summer, built one on a rock in a hill, not far from the gentleman's house. There was a stone with in a few yards of it, about six feet long, and nearly as broad, and upon this stone, almost constantly, but always when they had young, the gentleman and his servants found a number of muir fowl, partridges, hares, rabbits, ducks, suipes, ptarmacans, rats, mice, &c. and sometimes kids, fawns, and lambs. When the young eagles were able to hop the length of this stone, to which there was a narrow road hanging over a dreadful precipice, as a cat brings live mice to her kittens, and teaches them to kill them, so the eagles, I learned, often brought hares, rabbits,

&c. alive; and, placing them before their young, taught them to kill and tear them to pieces. As the eagles kept what might be called an excellent larder, when any visitors surprized the gentleman, he was absolutely in the habit, as he told me himself, of sending his servants to see what their neighbours had to spare; and that they scarcely ever returned without something very good for the table. It is well enough known, that game of all kinds is not the worse, but the better for being kept for a very considerable time.

Mr. H. pursues his journey by Rothes, Elgin, and Forres, to Inverness. At fort Augustus, he crossed Lochness, and landed on the north side at castle Urquhart, once the seat of the Cummings, situated on a promontory of solid rock, jutting into the lake. From thence he proceeded to Cromarty, Dornoch, and by Wick and Thurso, to Cape Wrath, the north-west point of Scotland, through a country, of which, among other observations, he says, that "Were the British legislature to enact that delinquents from the parish of St. Giles, in London, and other parts, to be transported there instead of Botany Bay, it would be an improvement in our code of laws." The hardiness of the people in the most northerly counties of Scotland, and the harduess of their fare will scarcely appear credible to any other than a Scotchman. At Cape Wrath they have a foot post, who, weekly, summer and winter, though it be near sixty miles, runs between the cape and Thurso: which he often does, wading to the middle in snow.

"The people of Caithness," says Mr. H. "are stunted creatures with sharp

sharp visages, indicative of both intelligence and want. I was at pains to inquire into the diet of these poor people." Breakfast, meal and bree, that is water-gruel, not the substantial porridge of the Lowlanders.

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Dinner, meal and bree kail, or a kind of soup meagre, in which there is boiled, perhaps, some barley or grits, with some kail, and a scanty allowance of barley-cakes. Supper, meal and bree: or, in place of this, sowens, a kind of frumarty, made from the husks of grits, or oatmeal. On Sundays, or other festivals, they have, after their meal and bree, some milk, or perhaps two eggs. If any farmer is reported to eat flesh; the laird considers this as a fraud on him. "I must look sharp after this man: he has his farm too cheap. They tell me he eats flesh-meat.

"It is a common thing for labour ers, or farmers' servants, to stipulate with their masters, that, besides their meal and bree, or soup meagre for dinner, they shall have a certain number of stocks of kail to be eaten with bread and salt. This must appear to an Englishman wholly incredible; as being altogether insufficient to keep soul and body together. Nevertheless, there is nothing more

certain, and I dare to appeal for the truth of it to any one acquainted with Caithness.”

Mr. H. leaving Cape Wrath, an immense rock, but not quite so stupendous as the Red-head in Angus, went back to Thurso; and from thence crossing the Pentland Frith to the Orkneys, and took up his head quarters at the house of his old acquaintance, the Rev. Mr. Allison, minister of St. Andrews, and Deer

Dess.

He did not go to the Shellands, but an account of the present state of these islands, was communis cated to him by a minister of a parish there; which, indeed, forms the most interesting and valuable part of his publication. Leaving the Orkneys, he set sail to the Hebrides; where he found a class of mortals called Scollags, a kind of prædial slaves, in a condition still more wretched than that of the labouring class of people in Caitliness. From the Hebrides he set sail for Fort William. From thence he went to Inverary, and from Inverary by Lochlomond and Dunbarton to Glasgow. From Glasgow he went up the course or valley of the Clyde, as far as Lanark, and from thence returned to Edinburgh.

CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

HISTORY OF EUROPE.

CHAP. 1.

General Aspect of Europe.-Resources of the opposite Belligerent Powers-and Views.-Fragility of Confederations.-General Maxims and Measures of Buonaparte.-Position and Strength of the French and Russian Armies.-Military Force remaining to the King of Prussia after the Battles of Jena and Pultusk.-The general Plans of the opposite Armies.-Battles of Mohringen-Bergfried - Deppen -Hoff-and Eylau.-Retreat of the French on the Vistula-and of the Russians behind the Pregel...

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Relative Positions in which the French and Russian Armies were placed after the Battle of Eylau.-Pacific Overtures by Buonaparte— Rejected.-Artifices of Buonaparte.-The Russians persevere their System of acting on the offensive.Battle of Ostrolenka. Skirmishes.-Triumphant Proclamation, or Address of Buonaparte to his Army-Positions of the French Army in their Quarters.-Bridges and Tetes-du-Pont on the Vistula.-Continued Skirmishes.-The most important of these.-Artillery taken from the Enemy by the French since their Arrival on the Vistula.— Progress of the Allies of the French, under Jerome Buonaparte, in the reduction of Silesia.-Siege of Dantzig.-Disposition of the grand French Army for protecting the besieging Army.-Dantzig defended by Nature and by Art.-Arrival of the Russian Emperor at Memel Followed by that of the Archduke Constantine with a Reinforcement to the Russian Army.-Grand Council of War concerning the Relief of Dantzig.-Of two Plans, that which was adopted.-Prussian Force sent for the Relief of Dantzig, defeated.Attacks of the Russians on the whole Line of the French-Intended to prevent them from reinforcing the Army besieging Dantzig.Dantzig surrendered on Capitulation-Conditions of this.-State of VOL. XLIX.

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The insatiable Ambition and insiduous Policy of France.-No Alternative

for Britain between Resistance and Submission.-The first Attentions

of the Legislature called to the State of the Army and Navy.-

Ordnance Estimates moved in the House of Commons, by Mr. Calcraft.

-Resolutions moved thereon-agreed to.-Motions by Lord Castle-

reagh, for the Returns of the Effective State of our Military

Establishment-agreed to.-Army Estimates.--Number and Disposition

of the Volunteers.-Result of the Alteration that had been made in

the Recruiting System.-Observations by Lord Castlereagh on the

Statements that had been laid before the House by the Secretary at

War.-Reply to Lord Castlereagh, by Mr. Windham.-New System

for Recruiting the Army vindicated.-Strictures on that System

by Mr. Perceval.-Mr. Perceval answered, and the New System

defended by Lord Howick.-Remarks by Sir James Pulteney.-Speech

of Sir John Doyle.-Observations by Mr. Johnstone-Mr Rose-

and Mr. Thornton.-The New System defended by Lord H. Petty-

The Resolutions agreed to.-Navy Estimates moved by Mr. Thomas

Grenville.-New Arrangement proposed for a clear Statement of the

Naval Estimates in future.-Resolutions moved by Mr. Grenville,

agreed to.-Sums for Miscellaneous Services moved by Mr. Vansittart-

among these a Sum in Addition to what had been granted before to

the Roman Catholic college at Maynooth-Which gives rise to anima-

ted conversations on this Subject:-The Speakers; Mr. Perceval-Mr.

Banks-Lord Stanley-Sir John Newport-Mr. Grattan-Lord

Mahon-Mr. Wilberforce-and Lord Howick.-All the Resolutions

moved by Mr. Vansittart, agreed to...••

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