Mrs R. Gordon, President, the Daughters of Caledonia of Fort Harrismith Caledonian Society, Orange River Colony Kinross Jolly Beggars Club ... Kalgoorlie Caledonian Society Caledonian Society of Pretoria Caledonian Society of Melbourne Leicester Caledonian Society... ... ... : : The Admirers of the Auld Brig, at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan ... ... ... : Glasgow Herald Fund, per Joseph Martin, Esq., Secretary of the Glasgow Herald Shilling Subscription Fund, per J. A. Martin, Solicitor, Glasgow ... Hamilton Burns Club subscriptions.. ... 2 I 3 2 10 O 18 I I O CASH RECEIVED BY JOSEPH BROCKIE FOR AYR AULD BRIG RESTORATION FUND. 1907. Jan. 31.-To Kilmarnock Burns Club, No. o, per Sheets Nos. "HONEST ALLA N." (Conclusion.) H AVING completed the Nithsdale and Galloway song forgeries, Allan Cunningham went to London, where his doings can only be baldly catalogued. He wrote (see Fraser for June, 1843), for Sir Francis Chantrey, a letter to Sir Robert Peel, knowing that several statements in it were untrue. De Quincey tells of his speaking in contempt of Wordsworth at a time when he "knew nothing at all of Wordsworth's works." In 1820 he appeared in Blackwood as "Mark Macrabin,' with a clumsy satire upon the Buchanite fanatics. It purports to be an account of a twenty-four hours' visit to the camp of the sect. That, although a native of the district, he confounds Lagg Hill, of Grierson fame, with Larghill; that he repeats himself, that he is not above pilfering, that he mingles. fact with invention, is all set forth in "The Buchanite Delusion" of Mr John Cameron. He detects in the description of the translation fiasco on Templand Hill a wholesale crib " from Hossack's, as appearing in Joseph Train's work on the Buchanites. Macrabin" tells this story of Luckie Buchan's attempts to win converts: 'James,' said our Lady to a north country gardener, and a shrewd man, 'leave off tilling Mr Copland's garden, and come and dig in the garden of the Lord.' "Ma conscience!' said the irreverent Highlander, 'he wasna owre kind to the last gardener he had '-referring, no doubt, to the expulsion of Adam from Paradise." The same story is told with slight variations in the note to Burns's letter of August, 1784, to his Montrose cousin. (Cunningham's Burns, VI., 48.) This gives rise to a question |