pronunciation and emphasis; and he read and recited with a taste and feeling, that gave the author a force and effect not perceived when read by another. He did not, however, speak in public when he had to stretch his voice beyond the tone of conversation, but early confined himself exclusively to written pleadings and giving opinions-a division of professional labour in which he had no example, and has had no successor. He intermeddled little with politics. But in the year 1790 and 1791, when he apprehended danger to the country, from the spreading of the democratical principles engendered by the French Revolution, he thought it his duty to depart from his usual habits, and give the weight and sanction of his name to the measures which appeared to him necessary for repelling the danger. He was always an admirer of Mr Pitt, and a personal friend of the late Lord Melville, to whom he was much attached, and, from the purest motives, a steady and decided approver of their public measures. It does not indeed appear that he ever regarded anything in the power of ministers as an object of ambition. He was repeatedly asked to accept a seat on the Bench as a Judge of the Court of Session prior to 1796; when he was strongly solicited by Lord Chief Baron Dundas, then Lord Advocate, no longer "to resist the general wish of the court, and indeed of the country;" and he declined a similar offer after the division of the court into two chambers. He had for some time before been abridging his business, and he soon after withdrew from practice altogether-when his health and faculties were still entire, his line of practice most enviable, and his consideration at the bar as high as ever. This he did, from no disgust or discontent, but from the conviction that, with the competence he had acquired, he could pass his remaining years in a manner more suited to his inclination and time of life. He had, some time before, been appointed one of the Directors of the Bank of Scotland, and he continued for several years to devote a good deal of attention to its affairs. On the death of Patrick Miller, Esq. of Dalswinton, he was appointed Deputy-Governor. He delighted to relax occasionally in the society of a few select friends. His conversation was instructive, lively, and fascinating. His knowledge and good taste were not confined to philology and polite literature, but extended through the whole circle of the liberal arts. A threatening of an attack of apoplexy a few years after his retirement, and his increasing deafness, made him afterwards seclude himself in a great measure from general company. But he continued to the last to keep up with the increasing knowledge of the age, took a warm interest in the public and private occurrences of the day, and was always ready to countenance by his name, and aid by munificent donations, every charitable plan that appeared to him to be recommended by its utility. His charities, both of a public and private kind, were liberal and extensive, and many who were relieved by his bounty will lament his death. He was a zealous Presbyterian, and regularly attended public worship until his deafness rendered him incapable of hearing. The Sunday he carefully kept sacred both from business and company. Amid the unceasing round of engagements, great, he said, was the benefit he had derived from that rule which gave him the command of a portion of time to himself. From this state of dignified and useful retirement, and in the enjoyment of general respect and esteem, Mr Rolland was removed by the attack of his last illness, in the 85th year of his age. Polite, cheerful, affable, benevolent, regular, orderly, and dignified-his character was strikingly portrayed by his personal appearance-a little above the middle size; erect, without any tendency to stoop, even in his declining years; his features as well as person elegantly formed, with a graceful demeanour and fine expression of countenance; exact in his dress without any approach to frivolity-a finished gentleman of the former age; but without any of that peevish nonconformity with the present time, which is often the weakness of age, but which lessens that usefulness which men so respectable as Mr Rolland have always in their power, and which he never failed to exercise to his friends, his neighbours, and the public. Legacies to the following amount have been left by this distinguished person to the undermentioned charitable institutions:-Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge, £1000; Lunatic Asylum, £1000; Society for Relief of the Destitute Sick, £1000; and other Legacies;-amounting in all to £13,000. Gateway or Pends, 113-14. Altars, in ancient church, 114, 126-27, Amry, Queen Anne's, at Logie House, Anderson, Mr David, chemise and shirt Dr, of Newburgh, 65. Monasteries and Priories in Andrew, abbot, 178, 189-90. Fife, a list of, 165-66. Parks, 157-58. Walk, a poem, 531-32. Abbot, its derivation, 176, note. Abbot's Boat on Lochleven, 213. Abercromby Chapel and Church, 183, Adie, Mr Robert, magistrate, epitaph Admiral, heritable, 260. I., King, interment of, at III., King, and his Queen Bishop of Caithness, 307, 493. Annals, MS., of Dunfermline, Dr E. Anne, Queen of James VI., marriage- Annunciation stone, on Palace window, Antiquities: Malcolm Canmore's Tower, Bagimont, papal legate, 184. Baine, Mr John, engineer, Dunferm- Balfour, Sir James, of Denmill and Baliol, Edward, 264; John, King, 511. Bible Society, 413. Bill of mortality, 538-39. Binks, rock, 88, 485. Births, registrations of, 331-32. Blackwood, Messrs Adam, George, and Blaes, Red, description of, 35. ... Blak, John, abbot, 178, 187. Boece (Hector), historian, 20, 127. Botany of parish, 68-70. | Bridges, 403; under Bridge Street, 90-1. Bruce, Robert I., King, death at Car- 266. .... James, bishop of Dunkeld, &c, Sir George, of Carnock, 288-89. Bulls of Popes, 72, 75; of Alexander 498. Burial in kirks, Act against, 563-64; C Cairncubie Spring, 15. |