0913 1815

10-7-54MFP

English

Grant 9.1454 89877

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Essays and Sketches contained in this volume, chiefly written by the late Mr CREECH, were originally published in the periodical works of the day. A considerable part of them was first collected and published in a volume, in the year 1791, under the title of " EDINBURGH FUGITIVE PIECES," and some part was afterwards inserted in the Statistical Account of Scotland. The volume in which they at first appeared as a collection having been long out of print, it is now republished, with several pieces which were not in the former edition; and it is hoped will not be unac

ceptable to the public. There is prefixed, a short Account of Mr CREECH'S Life, together with his Portrait, engraved from an excellent picture, painted by Mr Raeburn in the year 1806.

Edinburgh, August 1815.

CONTENTS.

LIFE of Mr Creech.................................................................

Resolutions of the Citizens of Edinburgh, on the
change of Ministry, when Lord North retired......

A debate on the loyal address proposed to be made on

occasion of a change of men and measures................................

Advertisement of an universal warehouse for all sorts of

.goods......

Cato Censor's letters...........................................................................................................................................

Casualties during a week..................

The Jezebel Club.............

Resolutions occasioned by the proposal for killing the

dogs, in the scarcity of provisions in 1783.

Verses by a penitent prostitute......................................

Letters containing a comparative view of Edinburgh in

the years 1763, 1783, and 1793-respecting the modes

of living-trade-manners, &c. ....

The letters of Horatius on the foregoing comparison...... 128

A comparison similar to that of Edinburgh, from a

country parish......................................

......

139

A comparison of the British nation in 1763 and 1783...... 143

Men are in every respect like books.......................................................................................... 156

On the character and tendency of Rousseau's writings,

with a prophecy

Two letters from Constantia Phillips, at the age of forty,

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to Lord Chesterfield, on female education............... 167 ́

On indelicacy in conversation before Ladies................... 178

A letter occasioned by a sentiment of Lord Kames, on

the observance of Sunday, by Pascal........................ 181

An answer to the above, containing an account of a

Sunday passed in Westmoreland, by Eusebius............ 183

A reply to the above by Pascal.................
192

Another letter on the same subject, by Philo-Sabbaticus 198

A letter respecting the situation of the schoolmasters of

Scotland

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216

209

A poetical epistle, on Mrs Siddons's first appearance on

the Edinburgh Stage........................................................................................................... 212

On singular fashions in dress...........

Stanzas to Dr Beattie, the author of the Minstrel.............. 221

Verses to the author of the Man of Feeling.................. 223

A receipt for happiness.......
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Lines written on a window. བ.༢༠༠༢༠༠-༠བལྟསབད་ར་-...-.......་་བ--

Return to a card, on the first of April.....

Abridgement of a sermon on Man is born to trouble......... 226

On a letter by a clergyman respecting the American

loyalists

On the tax on bachelors....................................................................................................

225

225

ib.

A letter from Asiaticus, describing himself and the

woman he would wish to marry.. ............................................................ 233

Reflections on the case of a young woman who took poison

in consequence of a disappointment in marriage......... 238

Advertisement of masquerade dresses............................ 243

The letters of Belzebub, on modern education............... 247

A letter on female seduction............................................................................................ 299

A letter from Peter Peascod, contrasting the manners

of the town with those of the country.........................................................

302