CIV ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND

If I have thoughts, and can’t exprefs ’em,Gibbon fliall teach me how to drefs ’emIn words feleft and terfe:

Jones teach me modefty and Greek,Smith how to think, Burke how to speak,And Beau clerc to converse

In confeqnence of Mr. Smith’s appointment tothe Board of Cuftoms, he removed, in 1778, toEdinburgh , where he spent the laft twelve yearsof his life; enjoying an affluence which was morethan equal to all his wants ; and , what was to himof Bill greater value , the profpeél of palling theremainder of his days among he companions ofhis youth.

His mother, who, though nowin extreme oldage, Bill possessed a considerable degree of health,and retained all her faculties unimpaired, accom-panied him to town; and his coufm Miss JaneDouglas, (who had formerly been a member ofhis family at Glasgow , and for whom he had al-ways felt the affecfion of a brother, ) while fhedivided with him thofe tender attentions whichher aunt’s infirmities required , relieved him of acharge for which he was peculiarly ill qualified ,by her friendly fuperintendance of his domeftic(Economy.

* See Annual Regifter for the year 177Ü.