MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE HONOURABLE HENRY HOME OF KAMES, ONE OF THE SENATORS OF THE COLLEGE OF JUSTICE, AND ONE OF CONTAINING SKETCHES OF THE PROGRESS OF LITERATURE AND GENERAL IMPROVEMENT THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. C'est pécher contre le Public que de taire la vertu des Hommes illustres : C'est envier Paneg. du D. de Sully, par le President DE CHEVRY. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR WILLIAM CREECH; AND T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, LONDON. 1807. CONTENTS OF VOLUME IL LORD KAMES appointed a Lord of Justiciary.-His character in that department.-His Correspondence with Dr Tucker-with Mr Harris of Salisbury-with Dr Franklin renewed-with Dr Succession to the Estate of Blair-Drummond.-Lord Kames's Agri- cultural improvements.-Extraordinary plan of improvement on Lord Kames's Pamphlet on the Linen-manufacture in Scotland.- He prompts the great Landholders to encourage Manufactures and Industry.-Project of a Canal between the Forth and Clyde.-Other undertakings of the same kind.Lord Kames publishes Remarkable Decisions of the Court of Session.-His |