SCOTS MAGAZINE;

AND

EDINBURGH

LITERARY MISCELLANY:

BEING

A GENERAL REPOSITORY

OF

LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND POLITICS,

FOR 1808.

Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.

VOL. LXX.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY,

BY J. RUTHVEN AND SONS.

1808.

SCOTS MAGAZINE,

AND

Edinburgh Literary Miscellany,

FOR JANUARY 1808:

With a Map of BRAZIL, and Plan of R10 JANEIRO.

CONTENTS:

Page

Register of the Weather for January, 2

High Water at Leith for February, ib.

Description of the Map of Brasil, and

3

Plan of Rio Janeiro, ...

References to the Plan of the City, ib.

Account of the Discovery, Conquest,

... II

and present state of Brasil,

Some Account of the Plan for estab.

hishing a Lunatic Asylum at Edin-

bargh,..

!

List of Subscriptions for building

ditto,

Account of an old Pamphlet, entit-

led, Presbyterian Inquisition, as it

was practised against the Professors

of the College of Edinburgh, 1691, 13

Caelic Etymologies,.

Curious fact regarding Congelation, 18

Tour to the Island of Arran,

Some Account of a Journey to the

Frozen Sea, and the Discovery of

the Remains of a Mammoth,

23

Query concerning a species of Sing-

ing Bird,

16

..

19

29

Extracts from Mouette's Travels in
Barbary, in 1670,

-Sale and Treatment of slaves,

-Intrigues of a Moorish Lady,

-Singular Villany of a Spanish Rene-

... .33

gado,.

37

34
Monthly Memoranda in Natural His-
tory,..

Celestial Phenomena for February, 38

Memoirs of the Progress of Manu-

factures, Chemistry, Science, and

the Fine Arts,..

. ib.

SCOTTISH REVIEW.

1. Rennie's Essays on the Natural His-

tory and Origin of Peat Moss, ..

II. Irving's Memoirs of the Life and

Writings of George Buchanan, .

39

... 41

...

9

30

ib.

Page

New Works published in Edinburgh,. 44

Scottish Literary Intelligence,. . . . ib.

Literary Intelligence, English and

Foreign,

45

POETRY.

Ode for the New Year, 1808,.

Parting,

...

Two unpublished Poems by Burns, 48

-Adam A's Prayer,

-Song,

ib.

···

ib.

-Declaration against Russia,

Naval Intelligence,

-Capture of Madeira,

Scottish Chronicle,

-Faculty of Advocates,

-New Bill touching the Administra-

tion of Justice in Scotland,

-Glasgow Public Meeting,

-High Court of Justiciary,

-Births,

-Deaths,

-Stocks and Markets,

47

ib.

49

ib.

53

56

ib.

57

59

61

ib.

65

ib.

69

ib.

ih.

72

74

77

78

80

State