EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, OR Register of the Weather for Mar.164 Memoirs of the Count de Hordt, ibid. Trial of Jof. Gerald for Sedition, 167 Account of the Establishment of the Advocates Library at Edin. Effay on the Comparative Learn- Obfervations on the State of the On the Manufacture of Indigo at Extract of a Treatife on the Ma- State of the BAROMETER in inches and decimals, and of Farenheit's THER MOMETER in the open air, taken in the morning before fun-rife, and at noon; and the quantity of rain-water fallen, in inches and decimals, from 28 Feb. to March 30th, within one mile of the Caftle of Edinburgh. 1 THE EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. OR LITERARY MISCELLANY, DESCRIPTION OF THE VIEW. ing towards a mirror on the oppofite fide of the room, the tremendons cataract appears as if it were pouring on your head. The fides are bounded by vaft rocks cloathed on their tops with trees; on the fummit and verge of one is a ruinous tower, and in the front a wood overtopt by a verdant hill. A path leads down to the beginning of the fall, into which projects a high rock in the floods infulated by the waters, and from the top is a tremendous view of the furious ftream. In the cliffs of this favage retreat the brave Wallace is faid to have concealed himself, meditating revenge for his injured country, When the fun fhines on the fouthern bank a rainbow is perpetually feen forming itself from the mift, and fogs arifing from the violent dafhing of the waters, [The memoirs of the Count de Hordt, a Swedish Officer of high rank, contain many valuable anecdotes of the revolutions of the Swedish Government, of the Duke of Cumberland, uncle of our prefent king of the great Frederick of Pruffia,of Peter of Ruffia, late husband of the prefent Empress,-and of various other illuftrious public characters, which have not been yet published in English. We intend therefore to gratify our readers by publishing, in portions, from time to time, in our Magazine, a tranflation of thofe interefting and agreeably-written memoirs.] MEMOIRS OF THE COUNT DE HORDT. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.-NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH. I Am defcended from an ancient fa- the nobility of Sweden. Almost all mily, of diftinguished rank among my ancestors were of the military profeffion, |