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23 continue to preside over it, on account of the exhausted state of his health; and, on the 9th November, admitted Mr James Lawson, formerly professor of philosophy at Aberdeen, to be his successor.

From this time until the 24th of the same month, when he expired, about eleven o'clock at night, in the 67th year of his age; his principal employment was reading the Scriptures and conversing with his friends and over his remains, which were accompanied to the church-yard by the-Earl of Morton, the Regent, and a number of other noblemen, and people of all ranks, his lordship pronounced the following eulogium:-"Here lies a man, who in his life never feared the face of man; who hath been often threatened with dag and dagger, but yet hath ended his days in peace and honour."

Such was the inveteracy the Catholics held to this stern and determined Reformer of their religion, that even in death they did not desist from defaming his name, and the following account of his death, as quoted by M'Cree, is given as a specimen of the shifts to which they had recourse to give his labours a different appearance to what they were, and happily for his country they turned out to be:-"The opening of his mouth was drawn out to such a length of deformity, that his face resembled that of a dog, as his voice also did the barking of that animal. The voice failed from that tongue, which had been the cause of so much mischief, and his death, most grateful to his country, soon followed. When a number of his friends, who held him in the greatest veneration, were assembled in his chamber, and anxious to hear from him something tending to the confirmation of