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 Robinet, ‘Code des Lois des Gentoux,’ Paris, 1778, 4to. Halhed's preface was criticised by George Costard [q. v.] 3. ‘A Grammar of the Bengal Language,’ &c., Hoogly (sic), 1778, 4to. 4. ‘A Narrative of the Events … in Bombay and Bengal relative to the Mahratta Empire,’ &c., 1779, 8vo. 5. ‘A Letter to Governor Johnstone on Indian Affairs,’ &c., 1783, 8vo (signed ‘Detector’). 6. ‘The Letters of Detector on the Seventh and Eighth Reports of the Libel Committee,’ &c., 1783, 8vo. 7. ‘Imitations of some of the Epigrams of Martial,’ &c., 1793, 4to (anon.; Latin and English). His contributions to the Brothers literature, all 1795, 8vo, are: 8. ‘A Testimony of the Authenticity of the Prophecies of R. Brothers,’ &c. 9. ‘The Whole of the Testimonies to the Authenticity of the Prophecies,’ &c. (prefixed is Halhed's portrait, engraved by White from a drawing by I. Cruikshank). 10. ‘A Word of Admonition to the Rt. Hon. Wm. Pitt,’ &c. 11. ‘Two Letters to the Rt. Hon. Lord Loughborough,’ &c. 12. ‘Speech in the House of Commons,’ &c. (31 March; two editions, same year). 13. ‘The Second Speech,’ &c. (21 April; two editions, same year). 14. ‘Liberty and Equality, a Sermon or Essay,’ &c. 15. ‘A Calculation of the Millenium … Reply to Dr. Horne,’ &c. (three editions, same year; contains also No. 12). 16. ‘An Answer to Dr. Horne's Second Pamphlet,’ &c. (contains also No. 14).

[The World, 18 June 1790; Teignmouth's Memoirs of Sir W. Jones, 1804; Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors, 1816; Moore's Memoirs of Sheridan, 1825; Impey's Memoirs, 1846; information from W. B. Halhed, esq.]  HALIBURTON, GEORGE (1616–1665), bishop of Dunkeld, was the son of George Haliburton, minister of Glenisla, Forfarshire, from 1615 to 1651 (, Fasti, vi. 748). Graduating at King's College, Aberdeen, in 1636, he was on 1 Aug. 1642 presented by the general assembly to the parish of Menmuir in his native county, and in the year following attended the Scots army at Newcastle. He was translated to the second or collegiate charge at Perth in 1644, and was at Perth when it surrendered to Montrose after his victory at Tippermuir (1 Sept. 1644). For ‘conversing, eating, drinking, and asking a grace at dinner with’ the excommunicated marquis he was deposed by the commission of the general assembly on 27 Nov. 1644. The assembly ratified the sentence (26 Feb. 1644–5), but on making submission on his knees to the presbytery he was reponed by the assembly in June of the same year. In December 1651 he was silenced by the English garrison at Perth, and forbidden to preach ‘for preaching in the king's interest notwithstanding his defeat at Worcester.’ On the Restoration he was nominated (1661), along with James Sharp and others, a parliamentary commissioner for visiting the universities and colleges of Aberdeen. He was spoken of for the see of the Isles, but was appointed to that of Dunkeld, to which he was consecrated (without re-ordination, though he was only in presbyterian orders) at Holyrood on 7 May 1662. He had no liking for harsh measures, but strictly enforced the law, depriving his own kinsman, George Halyburton, minister of Aberdalgie, Perthshire, the father of Thomas Halyburton [q. v.] He died at his own house in Perth on 5 April 1665, leaving two sons, James and George, by his marriage with Catherine Lindsay. Keith calls him ‘a very good, worthy man;’ writers of the other side admitted he was a ‘man of utterance,’ but inferred insincerity from his frequent changes. He had been a zealous covenanter, and ended by accepting a bishopric, but he was all along a royalist.

[Haliburton's Memoirs; Lamont's Diary; Keith's Catalogue; Hew Scott's Fasti, iv. 615, 838, vi. 841–2; Grub's Eccl. Hist., &c.]  HALIBURTON, GEORGE (1628–1715), bishop successively of Brechin and Aberdeen, son of William Haliburton, A.M., minister of Collace, Perthshire, was born at Collace in 1628. His father was brother-german to James Haliburton of Enteryse, and was connected with the notable family of the Haliburtons of Pitcur, while his mother was a daughter of Archbishop Gladstanes of St. Andrews. Having studied at St. Andrews University, George took his degree as master of arts in 1646, and two years afterwards he was presented to the parish of Coupar-Angus. His strong episcopalian proclivities brought about his suspension from this charge in September 1650; but this sentence was reversed in November 1652, and he continued to retain his position as minister of Coupar-Angus long after he had gained high ecclesiastical preferment. In 1673 the degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by the university of St. Andrews, and he was promoted by Charles II to the bishopric of Brechin on 30 May 1678. The revenues of this bishopric, though once very extensive, had been greatly reduced at the Reformation, and it appears from the ‘Register of the Privy Seal’ that on 28 Jan. 1680 the king presented Haliburton to the additional parish of Farnell in Forfarshire, on the ground of the poverty of the bishopric. Haliburton retained this plurality of benefices until he