POSTSCRIPT. THE Compilation of this Memoir has proved a melancholy undertaking: how melancholy, few can imagine who have never tried to put together some memorials of a dear friend departed. Slumbering recollections are aroused so effectually that they disturb and distress the heart. There is too much peeping and prying into what is secret and sacred: while the question, How much of this ought to be printed? is a truly uncongenial one to be for ever asking oneself in the examination of documents which, from beginning to end, one is profoundly conscious were never intended for the public eye at all. But perhaps the most painful thing to a biographer is the effect of a protracted study of those many private letters which are sent to him for perusal, and which constitute his chief materials. The air of living earnestness, the startling freshness, with which everything is expressed, affects the imagination very powerfully; contrasting as it does with the sad conviction that the writer, and not unfrequently his correspondent, as well as the individual of whom he writes,all sleep in dust. Anxieties, fears, hopes, rejoicings: births, marriages, illnesses, funerals: success and triumph to-day, disappointment and affliction to-morrow:-how does it all pass before one like some strange feverish dream; apparently without results, and apparently without reality! This has been particularly the case in the present instance. At a period of life comparatively premature, all the chief personages here mentioned have left the scene and three of those to whom the foregoing sheets would have been of supreme interest, have departed while I have been putting together the materials which they had themselves supplied. My own personal recollections again, are of the brightest, sunniest kind imaginable: while the concluding portion of my narrative is full of unmingled sadness and dreary retrospect. Only one word more, and I will gladly lay down my pen. I have often observed that it is best not to search too curiously into the lives of illustrious men whose Memoirs are already before the public. Enough, for the most part, has been revealed; and the penalty of turning at random a fresh page in their histories, is commonly to make a discovery which charity would willingly have ignored. Of this friend, however, I may truly say that the more I have looked into his private history, the more I have learned to appreciate the purity of his character. His stray letters, wherever preserved; the reminiscences of friends, wherever they may have known him; the casual reference made to his character by others;-all will be found to harmonize with the portrait here attempted to be drawn. No one could correspond with Mr. Tytler, without contracting affection for him; no one could know him, without speedily learning to love him likewise: and I have heard those who knew him best, declare that in him they beheld the truest impersonation of their ideal of a Christian Gentleman. 349 GENERAL INDEX. ABBOTSFORD, p. 174-181. (Speaker,) p. 236. Aberdona, p. 330. Abrantes, (Junot Duc d',) p. 95. Albert, (H. R. H. Prince,) p. 324- Aldourie, p. 37-8: 279: 286: 310. Letters to, p. 122: 127: 167: 194. (Sir Archibald,) p. 38, 39: (Dr. William,) p. 38, 39: (Margaret,) p. 299. Allen, (Mr.,) p. 205. (the Misses,) p. 335. the old housekeeper, p. 253, Allies (the) at Paris, p. 89-114. 141 143: 151: 153, 154: 299. Apollo Belvedere, p. 92, 93: 114. Artois, (Duc d',) p. 97. Aune, (Glen and Loch,) p. 272-7. p. 112. Austria, (Emperor of,) Baillie, (Mrs. Agnes,) p. 259, 260. Balmacarra, p. 283. Balvenie Bridge, p. 272. Bannatyne Club, p. 162, 163: See Barrow, (Norwegian,) p. 282, 283. Bell, (Joseph,) p. 209. Bernadotte, (King,) p. 152-4. 23, 24 verses by, p. 25, 26: no- Bonaparte's system, p. 100: 114, Bonnets d'or, p. 113. Cairn at Skye, p. 282, 283. Cairn Gorm, p. 277. Cambridge, (Duke of,) p. 325. Campbell, the sculptor, p. 171: 191: 203: 219-220: 227: 233. (Sir Will.,) p. 264: 266, 267. Children, p. 132, 133. Chobham, p. 46-48. Christison, (Professor,) p. 17. Christy, (Aunt,) p. 124. Cockburn, p. 205. (Col.,) p. 168. Consort, (H. R. H. p. 324-328. The Prince,) (Dr. W.,) p. 92, 93: 98: 100: 105, 106. Cringeltie, (Lord,) p. 208. Crusades, (Debate on,) p. 55. Cullen, p. 74. Culloden, p. 279: 285. Dalmahoy, p. 204. Darnley Jewel, p. 319: 328. Debating Society, p. 55. De Lancey, (Sir William,) p. 22. (Sir T. L.,) p. 165. Dinner, (a Russian,) p. 98-100. Dionysius' Ear, p. 334. Dog, (anecdote of a,) p. 140. Dresden, p. 340. (Lady,) p. 334. Duroc, (Marshal,) p. 108. Dyde and Scribe, p. 256, 257. Eccalobeon, p. 304, 305. Eil, (Loch,) p. 280. Elgersburgh, p. 340. Elizabeth, (Queen,) p. 309. Elphinstone, (Mr.,) p. 9. Emperor, see Alexander: Austria: Bonaparte. Encyclopædia Britannica, p. 267. English Historical Society, p. 246-7. (Thomas,) p. 74. Eskadale, p. 286. Espionage (system of) under Bona- (Mr. Kirkman), p. 95. Finnan, (Glen,) p. 281. Fort Darras, (M. le Comte del,) p. 87. Frampe, (Count and Countess,) p. France under Bonaparte, p. 101. See (James Baillie,) p. 13: 125: (Mrs. J. B.,) p. 13: 120: 203. (Mrs.,) senr., p. 286. Frederick the Great, p. 107. French Dresses, p. 92: Army, 109: Frondeville, (Marquis and Marquise Gardie, (Comte de la,) p. 152, 153. Gath, (General,) p. 58. Gentleman's Magazine, p. 283: 298. Georgia, (Prince of,) p. 93. Gilpin's 'Forest Scenery,' p. 165. Glach Ossian, p. 285. Glencowe, p. 272. 'GOD save the King,' p. 97. (Basil,) p. 22: 168: 170-3: (James,) p. 168-171: 203: 308. Hardy, (T. D.,) Esq., p. 246: 258. Hazlitt, (Mr.,) p. 134. Hepburn, (Sir John,) p. 190: 195. Hesse-Philipstal, (Prince of,) p. 96. Highlands, (Expedition to the,) p. Hill, (Lord,) p. 204, 205. Hillyer, (Sir James,) p. 224. (Thomas,) Esq., p. 47, 48: 164, |