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SIRE,

With the profoundest sense of your Majesty’s gracious condescension, the Author of this work has now the honour to lay it, by permission, at your Majesty’s feet.

It belongs to a series of sketches, in which he has attempted to describe characters and manners peculiar to the most ancient, and most loyal, portion of all your Majesty’s dominions; – it embraces a great part of the last century, the most prosperous period in the annals of Scotland, and singularly glorious to the administration of your Majesty’s Illustrious Family; – it has been written since the era of your Majesty’s joyous Visit to the venerable home of your Royal Ancestors; – and it is presented as a humble memorial of the feelings with which the Author, in common with all his countrymen, did homage to the King at Holyrood.

He has the happiness to be,

SIRE,

Your Majesty’s

Most dutiful and most faithful

Subject and Servant.

Edinburgh, 3d December 1822.