SCOTS MAGAZINE;

AND

EDINBURGH

LITERARY MISCELLANY:

BEING

A GENERAL REPOSITORY

OF

LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND POLITICS,

FOR 1808.

Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.

VOL. LXX.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY,

BY J. RUTHVEN AND SONS.

1808.

SCOTS MAGAZINE,

AND

Edinburgh Literary Miscellany,

FOR JANUARY 1808:

With a Map of BRAZIL, and Plan of RIO JANEIRO.

Feb. 2. Candlemas.

8. Queen Mary beheaded, (1587)