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. ...............................................................●●●●●●●●●●●●●● .......................................... Resolutions of the Citizens of Edinburgh, on the Advertisement of an universal warehouse for all sorts of Resolutions occasioned by the proposal for killing the 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 2. ................................ ......................................................... A comparison of the British nation in 1763 and 1783...... 143 9 25 33 44 47 51 59 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................. An answer to the above, containing an account of a Sunday passed in Westmoreland, by Eusebius............ 183 A reply to the above by Pascal............ Another letter on the same subject, by Philo-Sabbaticus 198 On singular fashions in dress........................................ 216 Stanzas to Dr Beattie, the author of the Minstrel............ 221 Return to a card, on the first of April................ Abridgement of a sermon on Man is born to trouble......... 226 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 |