THE Edincargh Institution for the Encou- Vew of the Prices of Grain, Land, La- bour, and the Necessaries of Life, from A. D. 1000 to A. D. 1760...... Claim by Mr Kerr to the Invention of able Occurrences for the Year 1815, 19 On the State of the Art of Dancing in Particulars respecting the Behaviour of Bepic before and after his Abdi- cation: from Miss Williams's pre- M: Phillips's Reply to the Edinburgh Repeat of curious Cases recently decid- . 22 24 28 Meteorological Table for 1815, from the Register kept at Kinfauns Castle, 40 Journey into the Interior of New South Wales, across the Blue Mountains; performed by his Excellency Colonel The Wanderer in Norway; with other Poems: by Thomas Brown, M. D., Sonnet, To Dr John Leyden,.......... 56 America.-President's Message to both Convention, to regulate the Com- merce between the Territories of the 58 61 Intelligence from Buenos Ayres........ Interesting Particulars relative to Bona- parte's landing, situation, and beha- -Description of St Helena, and Bona- France.-Documents connected with -Note, delivered in by Viscount Cas- tlereagh to the Allied Ministers re- specting the restoration of the Works of Art belonging to their respective -Account of the Escape of M. Lavalette from Prison, by means of his Wife, Amnesty Bill proposed by the French Ministers, with a State of the Par- -Question respecting the Persecution THE Scots Magazine, AND EDINBURGH LITERARY MISCELLANY, For JANUARY 1816. Description of CRICHTON CASTLE. THE annexed View represents the present state of this very large and ancient edifice, which is situated about seven miles from Edinburgh, on the banks of the Tyne. It belonged originally to the Chancellor, Sir Wil liam Crichton, from whom it was taken by the Earl of Douglas, who considered the Chancellor as having occasioned the death of his predecessor, Ea William, in 1440. It is reported to have been demolished upon that occasion: but the present state of the ruins proves it rather to have been enlarged. In 1488, it was held by Lord Cricuton against James III. The Hepborus, Earls of Bothwell, succeeded the Crichtons in the possession; and from them it passed successively to the Duke of Buccleugh, to the Pringles of Clifton, and finally, to Sir John Callender, Bart. The oldest part of the building is a narrow keep, or tower, such as formed the mansion of a lesser Scot tish baron; bat many buildings, of various ages, have been added. The eastern front of the court is raised above a portico, and adorned with entablatures, bearing anchors. The inside appears to have contained a very long and magnificent gallery, access to which was given by a splendid staircase, now totally destroyed. Beneath there is a dungeon vault, called the Massy More. The following very poetical description of this Castle is given by Mr Scott, in the fifth canto of Mar mion: Crichtoun! although thy miry court Have been the Minstrel's loved resort. Of mouldering shields the mystic sense, Scutcheons of honour, or pretence, Quartered in old armorial sort, Remains of rude magnificence: Adorn thy ruined stair. Still rises unimpaired, below, Their pointed diamond form- To shield them from the storm. Where oft whilome were captives pent, The darkness of thy Massy Mor Or, from thy grass-grown battlement, May trace, in undulating line, The sluggish mazes of the Tyne. On the Origin and Antiquities of the Castle and City of EDINBURGH. From the Introduction to the IIistory of the Ancient Kingdom of STRATHCLUYD in SCOTLAND-a Work now preparing for Publication. (Continued from page 839.) TO THE EDITOR. SIR, IN a late Number of your valuable Miscellany, I endeavoured to trace the origin of the name of Edinburgh, as |