ADVERTISEMENT. THE Essays and Sketches contained in this volume, chiefly written by the late Mr CREECH, were originally published in the periodical works of the day. A considerable part of them was first collected and published in a volume, in the year 1791, under the title of " EDINBURGH FUGITIVE PIECES," and some part was afterwards inserted in the Statistical Account of Scotland. The volume in which they at first appeared as a collection having been long out of print, it is now republished, with several pieces which were not in the former edition; and it is hoped will not be unac vi ADVERTISEMENT. ceptable to the public. There is prefixed, a short Account of Mr CREECH'S Life, together with his Portrait, engraved from an excellent picture, painted by Mr Raeburn in the year 1806. Edinburgh, August 1815. CONTENTS. Page Resolutions of the Citizens of Edinburgh, on the A debate on the loyal address proposed to be made on Resolutions occasioned by the proposal for killing the Verses by a penitent prostitute.......... Letters containing a comparative view of Edinburgh in to Lord Chesterfield, on female education............... 167 On indelicacy in conversation before Ladies.................. 178 A letter occasioned by a sentiment of Lord Kames, on the observance of Sunday, by Pascal................. An answer to the above, containing an account of a Sunday passed in Westmoreland, by Eusebius............. 183 A reply to the above by Pascal.......... Another letter on the same subject, by Philo-Sabbaticus 198 Stanzas to Dr Beattie, the author of the Minstrel............ 221 Verses to the author of the Man of Feeling................. 223 Return to a card, on the first of April............................................. in consequence of a disappointment in marriage.........238 |