REVIEW OF MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF AUGUSTUS; BY THOMAS BLACKWELL, J.U.D. PRINCIPAL OF MARISCHAL COLLEGE, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN .

We shall not be long of being at Marischal College.

We went and saw the Marischal College, and at one o'clock we waited on the magistrates in the town hall, as they had invited us in order to present Dr. Johnson with the freedom of the town, which Provost Jopp did with a very good grace.

I should have said, 'It will not be long before we shall be at Marischal College.'

Beattie was Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in Marischal College.

'One of its ornaments [i.e. of Marischal College] is the picture of Arthur Johnston, who was principal of the college, and who holds among the Latin Poets of Scotland the next place to the elegant Buchanan.' Johnson's Works, ix.

'Lord Marischal,' writes Hume, 'had a very bad opinion of this unfortunate prince; and thought there was no vice so mean or atrocious of which he was not capable; of which he gave me several instances.'

At the age of fourteen, he was sent to Marischal College, Aberdeen, where he attended the Greek class, taught by Dr. Blackwell, author of the Memoirs of the Court of Augustus, and was by him singled out as the most promising of his scholars.

The professorship of Natural Philosophy in the Marischal College, where he had lately been a student, being vacant in 1760, Mr. Arbuthnot, one of his friends, exerted himself with so much zeal in the behalf of Beattie, that he obtained that appointment; although the promotion was such as his most sanguine wishes did not aspire to.

Of these the names of Reid, author of An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Senseand Campbell, Principal of Marischal College, author of An Essay on Miracles, are the most distinguished.

This banner, along with that of the Earl Marischal, still conspicuous in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, was honourably brought back from Flodden, and certainly never could have been displayed in a more memorable field.

CAMPBELL, Rev. Dr. George, Principal of Marischal College, Aberdeen, v. 90.

183, n. 2. Mariamne, i. 102, n. 2. MARIE ANTOINETTE, seen by Johnson, ii. 385, 394-5. MARISCHAL, Lord, v. 200, n. 1.