Autograph of New. J. E Biber, & nation of Germany; hat settled as a cargy Brgyman gyman of the Estat. licher Church in England, I auther of a Kerrew of Bf. Blomfield, administrates of the Geocese of London, I of several site works. ity are Selected & The Reflections of Duncan Forbes on Micah. inserted in "Epays the cloqual . Ongenal Edited by John Roma" "Rin't. 1853, where may be found a saluath beographical mother of Forbes, I of ar an arbel in the Edent. Monier tum, as also of a life of him, conten by John Hell Burton ! PRINTED FOR OGLES, DUNCAN, AND COCHRAN, J. OGLE, EDINBURGH; AND M. OGLE, GLASGOW. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE DUNCAN FORBES, OF CULLODEN. "When I went out to the gate, through the city, when I prepared my seat on the street, the young men saw and hid themselves, and the aged arose and stood up; the Princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth; the nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of the man that was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness and it clothed me. My judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not I searched out.".. Job, chap. 29, ver. 7, &c. AMONG the many illustrious characters Scotland has produced, the subject of this Memoir is unqueftionably in the first rank, considered as a Scholar, a Lawyer, a Crown-Officer, a Legislator, a Judge, a Patriot, a Chriftian, a Man. In feveral of these characters he may have been equalled; in fome he may have been furpaffed; but we may challenge the history of this, or, we even say, any other country to produce an instance of an individual poffeffing such a combination of talent and virtue. That the family of FOREES has flourished in Scotland above 500 years, appears both from our histo A |