published by his clerical friends.

REV. Dr Robert Small, who, as already r had the honour of having been born in loan in Kinnesswood where the young poe Bruce was born, states that he had take weighed the conflicting claims of Bruce a At the time this was done he used the wo Walter Scott in another cause and consi contention "a gangin plea." But my doctor, so cautious generally and so cor other respects, has fairly put an end to th what he has stated regarding it, whil rendered a great service to the case, part assisting to maintain an interest in Bruc intending it, at the same time contending He puts it thus :

"Matters of literary interest are inv the moral character' of one of the

eigh the evidence submitted, and to form for elf conclusions between the interests of the parties. There is, however, forced upon us the ion-Has Logan any moral character to d? Can the man who has been proved to have at defiance all regard for morality, truth and y, have any claim to the defence of doctors of ity of such high standing in letters? After what R. Small now knows of Logan's "moral char"if he has not withdrawn from his defence he A have done so. So long as there was a mere possiof defending or producing substantial materials ng to set the case in a more favourable light in n's interest it was right he should decline to adlefeat, but it would be impossible to continue a al pleading on the distinct test of "moral charThere is, however, another of the doctor's estions that is worthy of serious consideration, "May it not be possible, through minute analysis e entire materials, to reach a clear and definite

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mention is made by Logan in the prefac
poems, "as wrote by different authors."
Dr Robertson of Dalmeny was respons
statement that Logan had said to him th
Sir James Foulis. Yet, as already stated
twenty-one years from the time it was fir
till 1791, when Foulis died, he cannot be
been aware of this honour or to have
nor can it be discovered that he was th
any poem whatever. The most curious
this is, that it was not till about a mor
James Foulis's death that his name was coup
poem. Thus the only evidence adduc
the statement was accepted as correct i
testimony of John Logan, who had died

Reference is made to "Paoli," anoth
poems published by Logan in the first
Bruce's poems.
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und in Bruce's other pieces. Till 1766 the ry literature of the country was full of stateanent that unequal but eventful conflict, all ich Bruce would be fully alive to. In the man's Magazine an excellent article appeared example of others, full of particulars fitted to t the case as it stood, as well as to anticipate t happened shortly afterwards.

is readily admitted that if certain lines are by themselves, such as those quoted by Dr R. they appear to bear out his contention. Yet st be borne in mind that a poetic license will a prospective as well as a retrospective aspect case, as in the present instance. Take some e lines of the poem and compare these with are admitted to have been Bruce's and the case better foundation, viz. :

s the lone shepherd hides him in the rocks

When high heav'n thunders; as the tim'rous flocks rom the descending torrent flee."

make her free. His sympathies went in his brave struggle, and he burst stirring words already quoted :

"Oh liberty! to man a guardian giv

Doubtless, when this poem was bein the spirit of Scotland's greatest king, hi was upon him, coursing in his usually as he writes :

"Thy sons shall lay the proud oppressor

Bruce could have composed such 1 not John Logan-the man who writes letters to Rev. Dr Carlyle, " We Engli

Coming now to the "Danish Od these for Bruce. Logan did not appr though Dr R. Small states, "they are