THE

EDINBURGH

ANNUAL REGISTER,

FOR 1808.

VOL. FIRST-PART SECOND.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.

FOR JOHN BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH;
LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME; CADELL AND DAVIES;
WILLIAM MILLER; JOHN MURRAY; AND

ROBERT SCHOLEY, LONDON.

1810.

LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
DAVIS

CONTENTS

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PART SECOND.

PAGE.

CHRONICLE, containing brief Accounts of the various public Occurrences of the

Year,-Prices of Stocks,-Lists of Births, Marriages, and Deaths,-Principal

Promotions,

The Drama,

Fine Arts,

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View of the Changes proposed and adopted in the Administration of Justice in

Scotland,

History of the Physical Sciences,

General View of Literature,

POETRY.

The Alderman's Funeral, an English Eclogue, (Southey,)

King Ramiro,

(ibid.)

Queen Orraca,

(ibid.)

ix

The Curse of Moy, a Highland Tale, (J. B. S. Morritt,)

xiv

The Bard's Incantation,

To a Lady, with Flowers from a Roman Wall, (ibid.)

The Violet,

(Walter Scott,)

xxiii

(ibid.)

ib.

The Nymph of the Mountain Stream, (Mrs Hunter,)

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To the Evening Primrose,

How d'ye do and Good-bye,

(Hon. R. W. Spencer,)

(ibid.)

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Epitaph on the Year 1806,

Hunting Song, (Walter Scott,)

Ballad, (Sir Gilbert Elliot,)

The Banks of Esk, (Richardson,)

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(ibid.)

ib.

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