narratives have that pleasing character which marks the compositions of men who write on a subject with which they are familiarly acquainted, and in which they feel a deep interest. Brysson's Memoir is by far the best written of the whole; and, indeed, it appears to me to be a masterpiece of the kind, for unaffected simplicity and the natural picturesque in historical description. In the Appendix some papers are inserted which do not bear a very intimate relation to the narratives in the preceding part of the work, but which I thought worthy of being brought to light. Of this kind are the letters which contain a notification of the seizure of the registers of the Church of Scotland, and which give an account of the printing of Calderwood's History. It appears from these documents that the last-mentioned work, though in a form much more contracted than that in which it was originally compiled, was exactly printed from a manuscript which the author himself had carefully prepared for the press; and, consequently, it can no longer be viewed either as of doubtful authority or as an abridgement made by a different hand. EDINBURGH, 16th May, 1825. No. VII. From the King, liberating Mr. William Veitch, 504 No. X.-Rules and Ordinances by the Parliament of New Caledonia, for the good government of the Colony, MEMOIRS OF MR. WILLIAM VEITCH, MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, CONTAINING A SHORT ACCOUNT OF HIS EXTRACTION AND RELATIONS; AND OF SEVERAL REMARKABLE PROVIDENCES, AND SINGULAR DELIVERANCES, HE WAS TRYSTED WITH IN SCOTLAND, ENGLAND, AND HOLLAND, WHERE HE TRAVELLED AND PREACHED TWENTY-TWO YEARS, BEING FORFEITED LIFE AND FORTUNE ; ALSO THE TIME HE PREACHED IN WHITTON MEETING-HOUSE NEAR KELSO THREE YEARS, IN THE TIME OF KING JAMES HIS LIBERTY; AFTER THAT SETTLED FOUR YEARS IN PEEBLES; AND THEN MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AT DUMFRIES: IN ALL ABOVE FIFTY YEARS. |