THE SCOTS MAGAZINE, , AND Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, FOR DECEMBER 1813. With a View of BLACKNESS CASTLE. 888 CONTENTS: Page Register of the Weather for December .. 881 Memoirs of the Progress of Manufac. High Water at Leith for January 1814, ib. tures, Chemistry, Science, and the Description of Blackness Castle,......... 883 fine Artsy........... 934 Account of Zerah Colburn, the wohder. POETRY. ful Arithmetician,........ 884 Orange Boven-Hurra! Hurra!...... 935 Monthly Memoranda in Natural His. The Boatswain's Epitaph, 936 tory,............ 886 Scottish literary Notices, .................. ib. PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. Commercial Intelligence ....... House of Lords, 937 -Formula of the Bills of Credit between House of Commons........................ ib. his Britannic Majesty, his Prussian -Militia volunteering Bill............... 938 Majesty, and the Emperor of all the -The New Loan, Public Treaties,... 939 Russias, ..... ib. 940 Description of the Castle of the Seven HISTORICAL AFFAIRS. Tozeers, or Turkish State Prisons,... 889 AMERICAN WAR,......................... 941 -The Bagnio, ..... 861 South America.............................. 943 Present State of the English Catholics, 894 West Indies. France.................... 944 Report by William Rue, Esq. Sheriff- The Northern War..... 945 depute of the County of Edinburgh, -Disastrous Retreat of the French to the Commissioners for erecting a from Leipsic,....... ib. New Jail, &c. in the City of Edin- Holland. - Proclamation of William burgh,........... 896 Frederic, Pance of Orange and Nas. Observations on the Reply to A. B.'s sau, ......... 947 Defence of the Situation of the New Spain, 950 Police Office, Edinburgh, 900 SCOTTISH CHRONICLE. Description of the Mainotti, or Pirates Iligh Court of Justiciary,--Trial of of the Morca,.......... **;...... 908 Christian Sinclair for Child Murder... 953 -Grecian Women 908 ............ 954 Anecdotes and Characters, from the St Andrew's Day,- Office Bearers of Correspondence of Grimn, ............ 911 the Grand Lodge of Scotland ........... ib. The Pretender,--Raynal............... ib. Royal Society,-Speculative Society, -Count Cagliostro,......... 912 Royal College of Physicians.......... .255 Contemplation of the Fabric of the Uni Royal Medical Society,—Royal Physi. verse. From the Spanish of Peijoo, 913 cal Society,-Wernerian Nat. Hist. Narrative of a Visit to Nukahiiva, Society, Edinburgh Subscription one of the Washington Islandsg....... 914 Library,Dean of Guild Court, Edinburgh Lancastrian School SoMad. Stael's Germany,........ ciety,...... 956 Appointments,-Births,-Marriages.. 958 "Deaths, 959 New Works published in Edinburgh... 932 Stocks and Markets ........................ 960 Literary Intelligence.............. ib. Index for 1813,........... ........................... 961 STATE ......... 923 STATE OF THE BAROMETER, &c. From Nov. 26th to Dec. 25th 1813, in the vicinity of Edinburgh. Sa. 14 Dec. 1 29.9 26 41 High Water at Leith for January 1814. Days. Morn. | Eten. H. M. H. M. Sa. 1 9 34 10 9 Su. 210 45 11 19 M. S11 5312 23 Tu. 4 12 54 W. 5 1 24 1 49 Th. 6 2 15 2 40 Fr. 7 3 5 3 28 8 3 50 4 11 Su. 9 4 33 4 53 M. 10 5 5 34 Tu. Il 5 55 6 14 W. 12 6 38 6 59 Th. 13 7 29 7 49 Fr. 14 8 17 8 47 Sa. 15 9 2310 1 Su. 1610 36 11 9 M. 1711 41 12 9 Tu. 1812 34 12 55 1 17 Th. 20 1 95 156 Fr. 31 2 14 2 92 Sa. 22 2 49 3 8 Su. 23 3 24 M. 24 4 0 4 18 Tu. 25 4 38 4 58 W. 26 5 17 5 SS Th. 27 5 58 6 20 Fr. 28 6 45 7 13 Sa. 29 7 43 8 16 Su. 30 8 541 935 M. 31 10 17 10 58 W, 19 :- 1813. Barom.Thermom. Rain. Weather. Nov. M. N. I. P. Clear 38 40 41 0.41 9 30.21 39 410.15 10 30.4 Cloudy 11 (30.37 35 35 12 30.21 | 35 37 13 30. 32 Clear 14 30. 35 41 15 29.9 33 42 16 29.61 32 33 17 29.49| 40 18 29.31 43 50 0.01 Showers 1929.91 42 47 Clear Clear 43 0.03 Showers 24 29.9 44 47 Clear 25 30.1 37 44 37 39 33 | 44 0.14 Rain MOON'S PHASES For JANUARY IS14 Apparent time at Edinburgh D. H. M. Full Moon 6. 7 1 more. Last Quart. 13. 8 59 morn New Moon 21. 2 12 after. First Qrart. 29. 222 morn Quantity of Rain,.............1.63 January 7. Princess Charlotte of Wales born (1796. 18. Queen's birth-day kept. THE Scots Magazine, AND EDINBURGH LITERARY MISCELLANY, For DECEMBER 1813. 66 There were,' Description of BLACKNESS CASTLE. The Nobles, irritated by the igno. ble conduct of James, took up arms. BLACKNESS CASTLE is situated in the course of military operations, on a projecting point on the they met his troops near Blackness, southern coast of the Firth of Forth, and a skirmish ensued, which termiin the parish of Carriden, and county nating to the disadvantage of the of Liviithgow. It is a fortress of great antiquity, the first erection of king, he concluded with them the which is involved in obscarity. The pacification of Blackness *, which, however, did not produce any lasting town and port of Blackness were anciently of great distinction, and harmony. formed the principal emporium of this Somerset into Scotland under the During the victorious expedition of part of Scotland. says Sir Robert Sibbald, “ many rich reigo of Edward. ill. of England, men masters of ships lying there ; and attack. The result is stated by Pat Blackness was one of the objects of she cities of Glasgow, Stirling, and attack. The result is stated by PatLinlithgow, had a great trade from ten, in his narrative of this expedi tion. thence with Holland, Bremen, Hamburgh, Queensburgh, and Dantzick, miral of this filete, taking with him “My Lord Clynton, hye Adand furnished all the West country ihe galley (whearof one Broke is with goods they imported from these places, and were loaded outwards Captain) and iii or v of our smaller evith the product of our own country* vessels besides, all well appointed with municion and men, rowed up The attack of the port of Blackness was a principal object with the Enig- the frith a ten myle vyestward, to a lish in their expeditions into the Firth Shore called Blacknestes, whereat, to south of Forth. In 1481, under the reign wardes the water syde is a castel of a of James III. they burnt the town with a store ship which was lying in pretty strength. As nye whear unthe harbour to 'as the depth of the water thear woold suffer, the Skots, for savegard, had Sibbald's Linlithgow, p. 17. + Lesley de origine, kr. Scotorum, p. Chalmers's Caledonia, III 854. 321 |