THE SCOTS M A GAZINE, AND EDINBURGH LITERARY MISCELLANY: BEING A General Repository OF LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND POLITICS, FOR 1813. Ne quid falsı dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, By J. Ruthven & Sons, THE Register of the Weather for January... 2 High Water at Leith for February...... ib. Lines to a French Officer............. 56 Dexription of Fordel House........... 3 Accounts of the Mode of transplanting Fruit Trees, and of preserving Fruit, ib. House of Lords......................... 57 Proceedings of the Edinburgh Institute 5 Monthly Memoranda in Nat. History, 7 Population of Wales from 1700 to 1811 8 Critical Sketches of living Poetical Cha. AMERICAN WAR--President's Message 9 to Congress, and Correspondence re- Abstract of the Report of the Highland Society, on the Means of introducing an Uniformity of Weights and Mea- NORTHERN WAR-I'rench accounts... ib. Memorial respecting the present State FRANCE-Bonaparte's return to Paris, of the Edinburgh Charity Work- and Decree for raising 350,000 more house, with a view of its Funds..... 16 Account of a Widows' Fund established SPAIN and PORTUGAL--Lord Welling- ton's Journey to Cadiz......... ib. View of the Principles of Pantomime. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE--Capture of Account of the Mode of manufacturing Salt from Sea-Sand, or Slcech........ 29 -Capture and re-capture of the Frolic Roman Rouds through Dumfries-shire. 31 Particulars of the Case of Ann Moore, Loss of the Alban Cutter........... 70 called the Fasting Woman of Tut- DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE-Trials at York' for Marder and Rioting....... ib. Account of the Inhabitants and State _Trial of the Marquis of Stiga-Trial for Crim. Con. Extraordinary 'Trial, 71 Proceedings of the Highland Society of -Pavinent of Otlicers' Widows' Pen- Scotland... 42 sions ....... 72 IRELAND-Caurt of Common Pieas... ib. SCOTTISH REVIEW. Rukeby; a Poem. By H'ulter Scott, SCOTTISH CHRONICLE. Esq.......... 46 Presbytery of Edinunrgh--llepiune, v. the Kirk-Session or Canongate......... 73 New Works published in Edinburgh... 51 High Court of Justiciary. 75 Literary Intelligence..... ib. Appointments--Births 76 Memoirs of the Progress of Manufac Marriages... tures, Chemistry, Science, and the Deaths...... 78 fine Arts....... 53 Stocks and Markes. STATE .... M. 1813. STATE OF THE BAROMETER, &c. High Water at Leith for February 1813. Days. | Morn. Even. in the vicinity of Edinburgh. H. H. M. M. 1 2 23 2 43 Tu. 2 3 3 3 24 3 3 43 2 1812. Barom. Thermom. Rain. Weather Th. 4 4 23 4' 43 De. M. Fr. 5 5 4 5 25 26 30.6 3438 Cloudy Sa. 6 5 48 6 11 27 30.5 32 | 35 Su. 7 6 36 7 2 28 30.25 44 45 0.1 Rain M. 8 7 32 8 5 29 30,1 45 | 47 Cloudy Tu. 9 8 42 9 24 30 30.05 | 46 | 47 Clear W. 10 10 710 48 31 29.7 46 49 Th. 11 11 29 Jan. 129.85 34 42 Fr. 12 0 5 0 33 2 30. 37 | 45 Sa. 13 1 0 1 25 3 30.25 | 36 43 0.02 Showers Su. 14 1 47 2 8 4 30,2 42 47 Clear M. 15 2 26 2 42 5 | 29.9 42 46 0.03 Showers Tu. 16 3 0 3 16 6 29.5 49 | 50 0.25 Rain W. 17 3 3 48 729.91 36 42 Clear 4 5 4 21 8 29.35 | 39 40 0.01 Showers Fr. 19 4 36 4 51 929.66 | 35 | 36 0.02 Sa. 20 5 7 5 23 10 30. 32 40 Clear Su. 21 5 40 5 58 11 | 29.71 36 41 0.31 Rain M. 22 6 17 6 37 12 29.85 32 40 Clear Tu. 23 7 2 7 31 13 | 29.65 33 42 W. 24 8 6 48 14 | 29.91 35 38 0.18 Snow Th.' 25 9 32 10 17 15 29.9 84 39 Clear Fr. 26 10 5711 32 1629.9 33 40 | 0.04 Rain Sa. 27 0 Clear 0 57 38 39 0.38 Snow Clear MOON'S PHASES For FEBRUARY 1813, 24 30.49 33 40 Apparent time at Edinburgh 25 | 30.56 24 / 34 New Moon 1. 8 37 morn. Full Moon 15. 8 45 morn. Last Quart. 23. 9 45 morn. 32 D. H. M. THE Scots Magazine, AND EDINBURGH LITERARY MISCELLANY, For JA NU A RY 1813. Description of FORDEL HOUSE. to be of a size sufficient to admit of FORDEL House is the Seat of Sir the roots being spread out at full John Henderson, Bart. ; a Gen- length, with two feet additional, for tleman well known by his extensive encouraging the growth of new roots. property, and political influence. It If the trees are to be planted in boris situated in the western part of the ders which have been previously occounty of Fife, a few miles to the cupied by other trees, the soil should, north of Inverkeithing, and to the if possible, be renewed; but if thať west of Dunfermline. A large pro cannot be accomplished, as was the portion of the coal, which is so abun. case at Pinkie, a cart-load, at least, dant in this district, is found within of fresh, good soil, from some old pasthe limits of Sir John Henderson's ture, or ground that has not been in property, and it makes a very import- cultivation, (loam, if good, is to be ant addition to the family estate. preferred,) with a quantity of wellrotted dung, should be allowed to each tree, mixing the whole well with the old soil. Accounts of the Mode of transplanting In transplanting large wall trees, Fruit Trees, and preserving Fruit. begin with drawing a semicircle,.of From Memoirs of the Caledanian Horticul. extent according to the size of the tural Society. No. II. tree : should the branches cover from. 150 to 250 square feet of a wall, On transplanting large Fruit Trees, it may be eight fcet in circumference, whether Wall Trees, Espaliers, or measuring from the trunk of the tree Standards. each way. Dig a trench round the seBy Mr JAMES STEWART, Gardener to Sir micircle ihrce feet wide, and six inchJonx HOPE, Bart. Pinkie. es below the roots: be careful in pre serving the whole, and work out the (Read Sept. 3. 1811.) earth from amongst them with a blunt THE first thing claiming atten- three-pronged fork, throwing out the tion, is to prepare proper pits for loose mould with the spade. Proceed t'ie reception of the trees. They ought thus till you have got fully under the THE |
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