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An act to grant additional stampduties in Ireland.

For regulating the duties and price of sugars,

For permitting Portugal wines to be landed without payment of duties for a limited time."

To continue several revenue acts on tobacco, auctions, glass, paper, spirits, &c.

Irish liquor-licence act. For regulating the trade of the Isle of Man.

To render valid the orders of the privy-council respecting bills of exchange drawn in Russia, and the freight of Russia, Swedish, and Danish ships.

For declaring what persons shall sit in the commons house of parliament.

For preventing the forgery of bankers' paper.

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BIOGRAPHICAL

ANECDOTES AND CHARACTERS.

A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF DR. HUGI BLAIR, BY DR. JAMES FINLAYSON.

[From SERMONS by Dr. BLAIR, Vol. V.]

R. Hugh Blair was born in

man is pious, prudent, learned, and

D Edinburgh, on the 7th day of a meek and moderate calm tem

of April 1718. His father, John per.'-His talents seem to have deBlair, a respectable merchant in scended as an inheritance to his that city, was a descendant of the posterity. For, of the two sons ancient family of Blair, in Ayrshire, who survived him, David, the eldest, and grandson of the famous Mr. was a clergyman of eminence in Robert Blair, minister of St. An- Edinburgh, father to Mr. Robert drew's, chaplain to Charles I, and Blair, minister of Athelstonford, the one of the most zealous and dis- celebrated author of the poem entinguished clergymen of the period titled The Grave; and grandfather in which he lived. This worthy to his majesty's solicitor-general for man, though firmly attached to the Scotland, whose masculine elocause of freedom and to the pres-quence and profound knowledge byterian form of church govern- of law have, in the public estimament; and though actively engaged tion, placed him indisputably at the in all the measures adopted for their head of the Scottish bar. From his support; yet by his steady, tem- youngest son Hugh, who engaged perate conduct, commanded the rein business as a merchant, and had spect even of his opponents. In the honour to fill a high station in preference to all the other ecclesi- the magistracy of Edinburgh, sprung astical leaders of the covenanting the learned clergyman who is the party, he was selected by the king subject of this narrative. himself to fill an office which, from the circumstances of the time, gave frequent access to the royal person; 'because,' said his majesty, that

"The views of Dr. Blair, from his earliest youth, were turned towards the church, and his education received a suitable direction. After

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