M: Smellies Hand Writing:

I have the honour to be

My lond, Your Lord bhajú mort eléged and most refpectfit fumble ferentes

Mitham Pmelie

Hand Writing of MdeBuffon.

Yotre tris humble et très
obeifaut Serurteur

fecite de Buffon

Hand Writing of Lord Hailes.

jar ser your motobloged

Humble servant
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Queries by M.Smellie on a Proof Sheet of the Elements of Criticism.
with answers by Lord Kames in his own Hand Writing

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x pleofe confeder whether attract from proper

Httract to is more I have allered it to pleass you.

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OF THE

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LIFE,

1822. S
WRITINGS, & CORRESPONDENCE

OF

WILLIAM SMELLIE,

F.R. S. & F, A.S.

LATE PRINTER IN EDINBURGH,
SEERETARY AND SUPERINTENDANT OF NATURAL HISTORY TO THE

SOCIETY OF SCOTISH ANTIQUARIES, &c.

BY ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & F. A.S. Ed.

HONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, & BROWN, LONDON.

Aler. Smellie, Printer.

MEMOIRS

OF THE

LIFE, WRITINGS; AND CORRESPONDENCE

ÖF

WILLIAM SMELLIE.

On the failure of the Edinburgh Magazine and Review, of which an account has been given at the close of the former volume, Dr Stuart went again to London, and engaged in the Political Herald and English Review, in the employment of Mr John MURRAY, a very respectable bookseller in London, formerly mentioned. He conducted both of these works with much spirit and ştrong talents, but with his accustomed keen severity. Continuing his usual dissipation, he at length became dropsical, and was obliged to give up his literary labours at London. Vol. II.

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He returned to Scotland, in the slight hope of being benefited by his native air, and took up

his residence in his fathers house at Musselburgh; where, a short time before his death, his medical attendants deemed it advisable to relieve him temporarily from the oppressive effects of the dropsy, by the operation of tapping. Even in this latter scene of his life, at which Mr Smellie was present, who related the circumstance to his son Mr ALEXANDER SMELLIE, Dr Stuart evinced his keen inveteracy against Dr RoberTSON in a very singular manner. He entreated the assistants at the operation, to bottle up the fluid they were then draining from his abdomen, that it might be sent to the Principal, to use as a purge.

Dr STUART soon after died, in 1786, aged only forty-four.

Besides his juvenile performance already mentioned, and the share he took in the Monthly Review, Edinburgh Magazine and Review, Political Herald, and English Review, which have all been adverted to, Dr Stuart published, 1. A View of Society in Europe ; 2. Observations concerning the Public Law and Constitution of Scotland;