[19] Life and various Vicissitudes of Peter Williamson.
[20] Book of Bon Accord, 90.
[21] Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen, i. 296.
[22] A representation of it will be found in the Scots Magazine for 1762, p. 404.
[23] This advertisement, with other curious newspaper-scraps regarding Williamson, is preserved in the biographical notices of Kay's Portraits, i. 137.
[24] As this paper was being printed, we were struck with the coincidence between the general idea contained in it and two striking articles in the Times newspaper. We know that the writer of the present article had not, when he wrote it, seen the articles in the Times. But these views, in our opinion, cannot be too often impressed on the attention of the reflecting portion of the Irish people.
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