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 burgh, W. 5. 14. espouses the episcopalian cause with more inveteracy than ingenuity, and inscribes his poems to Graham of Claverhouse, in the following lines:

In this style proceeds the invective of this Goth, or Vandal, or Hun; for in point of Latinity it is scarcely possible to be more barbarous; who appears to have been one of the last Scotish poets who employed the Latin language, and certainly one of them who least deserves to be known. How inferior is his style to that of the elegant Pitcairn! It must have been a great satisfaction to a Presbyterian of the old school, to see so much viru-