stage in this enquiry, and that many people have their eyes upon you. This is a new motive for rendering your proofs as complete as possible. I cannot conceive any objection, which a man, even of the gravest character, could have to your publication of his letters, which will only attest a plain fact, known to him. Such scruples, if they occur, you must endeavour to remove.
the judgment of the public finally depend.
Lord Bathe, who was in the company, agreed with me, that such documents of authenticity are entirely necessary and indispensible.
Please to write to me as soon as you make any advances, that I may have something to say on the subject to the literati of Paris. I beg my compliments to all those who may bear that character at Edinburgh. I cannot but look upon them as my friends. I am yours sincerely,
Extract of a Letter from Bishop Warburton to Mr. Mason. Dated Prior Park, Jan. 12, 1762.
I read Fingal with vast pleasure, but amidst my enjoyment of it, comes a letter from our critic, with such convincing arguments of the forgery, that the visionary scene slips from me, as the pleasing dream of another life did from Bolingbroke.
On the other hand, several fragments in these poems. have been heard, by living witnesses, sung to the harp both in the Highlands and in Ireland. My solution of the difficulty is this, that on these, and from these fragments, the forgery has been erected.
You may judge of its force, when he says, he builds the least on the unsatisfactory account the editor gives of his fairly coming by this treasure, both in his preface, and in
DISSERTATION ON OSSIAN'S POEMS.
conversation with some of his friends. You will say it is a work infinitely above one of those tame cheaters, we call a sophist. I do not know how it is, but mimicry is a species of poetic imitation so different from the true, that we have seen excellent copies in painting, from originals of great masters, (by those) whose own designs were all sign post daubings: the most celebrated mimics on the stage, as East- court and Foot, were the most miserable actors: and, to come a little nearer, the book written by Burke against Civil Society, under the name and character of Bolingbroke, is far superior to any other of his compositions.
N. B. The Roman Numerals refer to the Volume, and the Figures to the Page.
ABERDEEN sacked by Montrose, iii. 263. Surrenders to
earl of, chancellor, iv. 129. Undermined at court, 141. His defection from the country party carries the vote for a treaty of union, 313.
Aboyn, lord, second son of the earl of Huntley, besieged in Carlisle, iii. 264. Joins Montrose, 310. note.
Accession of James VI. to the throne of England, iii. 2. 4. Accommodations between Charles I. and the Scottish parliament, iii. 203. Concluded, 208.
Advocates banished from Edinburgh, iv. 70.
African and India company established, iv. 249. Unsuitable to Scotland, 253. Opposed in London, 254.
Hamburgh 256. The Scots persist in the scheme, 257. See Darien.
Agriculture of Scotland in the 17th century, iii. 472.
Airdsmoss, Cameronians surprised at, iv. 108.
Airley, earl of, joins Montrose with his two sons, iii. 262. Alexander, sir William, earl of Stirling, secretary, his poetry, Obtains a grant of Nova Scotia, with the disposal of titles of baronet among the adventurers, ib.
Annandale, earl of, engaged in the revolution, iv. 187. In Mont- gomery's plots, 225. Betrays Ferguson and Nevile Pain to government, 230. Displaced from the office of secretary, 324. Opposes the union, 348.
Anne of Denmark, queen of James VI. her death and character, iii. 80.
-, queen, daughter of James VII. her accession, iv. 276. By the jacobites expected to secure the succession to her bro- ther, 277. Supposed to be secretly averse to the succession of the house of Hanover, 301. Assents to the act of security, 304. Not insensible to the glory of atchieving the union, 320. Suspected of a design to introduce her brother into Scotland, 383.
Annexation of church lands to the crown dissolved, iii. 32. Antrim, earl of, iii. 153. Taken prisoner, 240.
Argyle ravaged by Montrose, iii. 265;
Argyle,, earl of, employed to chastise the Macgregors, iii. 48. Archibald, earl of, his son joins the covenanters, iii. 152. Created marquis, 208. His and Hamilton's arrest intended by the incident, 215. Pursues Montrose, 264. Is almost intercepted, 265. Defeated at Inverlochy with his whole clan, 275. His exertions to resist Montrose, 309. Opposes the engagement, 372. Against which he takes arms, 380. Treats with Cromwell, 382. Opposes Huntley's death in parliament, 412. Declines to vote or assist in the condem- nation of Montrose, at whose death he secretly exults, 420. Promotes the recall of Charles II. to Scotland, 423. 547. Assists at his coronation, 437. Opposes his march into Eng- land, 441. Retires to his estate, 442. His spirited conduct on the reduction of Scotland, 450. Obnoxious to government during the usurpation, 460. Returned as a commoner to Richard's parliament, ib. His situation during the usurpa- tion, 485. Arrested, tried, and executed on the restoration, iv. 11. 14. His sentence and character examined, 16.
earl of, his son, (see Lorn,) is restored to the title of earl, iv. 18. His opposition to the test in parliament, 117. His explanation of the test, 120. For which he is accused, Tried, 122. And convicted of treason, 125. Motives of his trial, ib. His escape from prison, 126. Effects of his trial on the public mind, 127. Lands and begins an in- surrection in Argyleshire, 162. Taken prisoner and executed on his former sentence, 164.
earl of, his son, afterwards duke, engaged in the revolu- tion, iv. 187. Deputed by the nobility to tender the crown to William and Mary, 208. Not engaged in Montgomery's plots, 228. note.
John, duke of, commissioned to parliament, iv. 310. His prudent management, 315. His motives for an union, 323. Created an English peer, 332. Supports the motion to dis- solve the union, 382. Suppresses the rebellion, 386. His motives for an union realized, 388. Arminianism, outcry against, iii. 105. Army, English, its discontent and mutinous petitions, iii. 351. Seizes the king, 354. Reduces the parliament, 356. Its negociations with Charles, 358. Enters London, 361. Seizes the king's person again, on its return from the north, 390. Arran, earl of, the duke of Hamilton's son, attends James VII. to Rochester, and proposes to recall him, iv. 196. See Hamilton.
Articles, lords of, iii. 29. Mode of their election altered, 81. 102. Regulated, 173. And suppressed, 209. Revived after the restoration, iv. 34. Lords of articles represented as a grievance at the revolution, 208. And abolished for ver, 231.
Articles of Perth, the five articles proposed by James VI. an
explanation of them, iii. 71. 77. Confirmed in parliament, 71.77. 82. Repealed by the assemblies of Glasgow and Edinburgh, 153. 171.
Arts in Scotland, their situation, iii. 471.
Assembly, general, of the church of Scotland, its powers, iii. 20. Assembly at Aberdeen prohibited, and declared un- lawful, 26. Assembly at Linlithgow, 38. And at Glas- gow to promote episcopacy, 58. Assembly of Perth adopts' the five articles, 78. Assembly at Glasgow, 149. Dissolved by Hamilton, but refuses to disperse, 152. Abrogates pre- lacy, 153. Assembly at Edinburgh, 171. Commission of assembly, the authority which it assumed, 278. Authorities of assemblies annulled at the restoration, iv. 22. Assemblies restored after the revolution, 232. 246. Atholl, earl of, prisoner to Argyle, iii. 199.
-, earl and marquis of, justice-general, iv. 64. Employed to suppress Argyle's insurrection, 164. His cruelties in Argyleshire, 167. His connection with the prince of Orange explained, 191. Promotes the revolution at first, 192. Afterwards renews his intrigues with the jacobites, 198. duke of, accused by Fraser of the Scot's plot, iv. 299. Undertook to rise in arms against the union, 358. Engaged for the pretender, 374.
Baillie, lieutenant-general of the Scottish army, iii. 248. Re- called from England with five regiments to oppose Montrose, 306. Defeated at Alford, 308. And again at Kilsyth, 311. Surrenders the foot at Warrington after Hamilton's defeat at Preston, 380.
of Jerviswood, imprisoned and fined by a judicial for- gery, iv. 72. His share in the Ryehouse plot, 133. His trial and execution, 137.
Balcarras, earl of, retires to the highlands, iii. 449. Capitu- lates with Overton, 450. Takes arms against the usurpa- tion, 454.
earl of, treasurer, present at the address to the prince of Orange, iv. 195. Arrested with his friends before Dundee took arms, 218.
Balloting, act of, to incapacitate Lauderdale, iv. 28. Balmerino, lord, secretary, iii. 5. His treason, 55. Attainted, 56. , lord, his son, his trial for leasing-making, iii. 107. Condemned to death, but pardoned, 110. Consequences of his trial, 113. A leading covenanter, 135. Neglected by the king, 208.
Bargeny, lord, witnesses suborned by ministry to convict him. of treason, iv. 115. note.
Bedford, earl of, his death interrupts a negotiation between Charles I. and the popular leaders, for their introduction into office, iii.
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