THE Scots Magazine, AND EDINBURGH LITERARY MISCELLANY, FOR MARCH 1808. IN Description of the PLAN of the EDINBURGH LUNATIC ASYLUM. a former number we published an áddress to the public respecting the establishment of a Lunatic Asylum in the city of Edinburgh. In this number will be found the general Plan of the Buildings proposed to be erected for that purpose, with a sketch of the Elevation intended for the range of buildings forming one side of the square shewn in the general plan. The detailed plans of the buildings, A, contain accommodation for forty patients, with the requisite cookingplaces and conveniences in each building, as likewise apartments for an under keeper and servants. These buildings are intended to be occupied by distinct classes of patients, according to their rank in life, and means of contributing to the establishment; and each class again subdivided according to the nature of their disorder. The corner buildings, B, are proposed for the accommodation of patients of a higher rank than those occupying the large buildings, and whose disorder admits of their being indulged with a greater degree of liberty than the others. The buildings marked C are for patients of a still higher rank than those intended to be lodged in the buildings B, and whose friends may wish them to have more extensive accommodation for themselves and servants: it is intended the patients of both these classes should have access to the garden ground to walk in, and which would be subdivided accordingly. The buildings marked D are the house and offices at present on the ground, and purchased along with the property; it is intended they shall be appropriated as lodgings for the governor, or principal keeper; and also for the accommodation of a few particular patients, who may be boarded with him. The small buildings, E, are the privies for the use of the patients allowed to walk in the court yard; and F is a tunnel from the pit below them, for dissipating the foul air, high enough to prevent its being offensive, round which is a passage for the keeper to each building. This plan exhibits a greater quantity of accommodation than can be expected to be obtained for many years; it is, however, purposely so arranged, that it may with propriety be partially executed as circumstances will permit. PICTURE of the Court of Session in 1704, as represented in the Sederunt Book of the Heritors and Kirk Session of the parish of DALRY, GAL LOWAYSHIRE. THE following extrast from this record, exhibits a very curious account of proceedings, in a process between this parish and the executors of a Doctor Johnston, who had, by codicill to his will, in 1639, granted the sum of three thousand pounds, towards establishing and maintaining a free grammar school in that parish.The payment of this donation was, it would appear, resisted by a Mr Joissy, one of the executors, which brought the subject before the court. 66 46 -"Mr Joissy, and Mr Alex. Gib"son of Dury, one of the principall "clerks of Session, as his friend and "associat, took upon him most vigo"rously the carrying on of the plea a"gainst the paroch; and yet the same was as vigorously defended on the "other side; and the better, that the right honourable the Earl of Galloway, the most considerable heritour "of the paroch, did join with them, and 66 espouse the paroch's quarrel: and, "as ane evidence of this, without fur"ther dipping into the cause itself, it "will not be unfitt to give a true ac"count of a little passage that fell "out in the heat of the debateing of "the cause before the Lords, which was as follows: 66 66 "Mr Joissy and his friends haveing so fixt some of the Lords, that "in every point, generally, that came "in to be discust, they were against "the paroch; which indeed occasion"ed others of the Lords to stand up "the more vigorously to gett some "justice done to the paroch in the "matter; so that there was scarce a "time that this cause came in before "the hail Lords, either by a hearing "in presence, or report, but, by ob"serving what Lords were sitting on "However, accidentally, they have"ing appointed a perremptor day, a"bout the beginning of February "1704, for reporting and decyding "in the cause, both parties concluded "that the paroch would then gain it, "since one of Mr Joissy's Lords came "to be then absent. For, as my "Lord Anstruther's hour in the out"er house was betwixt 9 and 10 of "the cloak, in the morning; so, the "Earle of Lauderdal, as ordinary in "the outer-house, behooved to sit "from 10 to 12 in the forenoon; for, 66 by the 21 act of the 4 session of "the 1 parliament of K. William and "Q. Mary, its statu'd expressly, that "if the Lord Ordinary in the outer"house, sit and reason, or voat in any 44 66 66 46 "The paroch's doers, in answer to "their trust, could not but complain "of this; being founded in ane express act of Parliament. And, therefore, Mr John Menzies of Cambo, "Advocate, the ordinary lawier in "the cause, drew a declinator of the "said Lord Lauderdal, be James Fergusone of Cairoch, for himself, and "in name of said paroch,-REPRESENTING, that he being commissionate, be "the rest of the heritors, minister, "and elders of the paroch, to come to Edinburgh, and oversee the management of the plea, he could not, "in discharge of his duty, omit any "thing that tended for the paroch's "interest; and being certainly in"formt, that the right honourable the "Earle of Lauderdal, did, contrair "to the foresaid act of parliament, "sitt and voat against the paroch, af"ter 10 a cloak, when he ought to "have been sitting in judgement in "the outer house,-the said James "Fergusone did, with all humility, " and deference, for ever decline the "the said Earle from voating hereaf"ter in this cause. "This Declinator being subscribed "be Cairoch, copies thereof were gi"ven in the Lord's boxes, and the "principall to the clerk; and the "more readily, that, some of the Lords "that quarrelled the Earl's sitting and "voating, desired it to be done : how"ever the next day, in the morning, "so soon as the Lords mett, with "closs doors, the President and the 66 46 rest of the party were so high upon "it, that nothing would serve, but to "disgrace all that had a hand in it; and, "my Lord Lauderdale haveing several "friends, even amongst these Lords, "that used to be for the paroch, there "was immediately issued out a war 66 rand, for citing of Cairoch, Mr John "Menzies, and Alexander Guthrie, "writer to the signet, to compeir the "next day, at nine a cloak, before "the haill Lords as criminals: But "Cairoch, haveing by good luck ta"ken his horse for Galloway, about 66 ane hour before the macer came to "his stable, to summond him, Mr "John Menzies and Alexander Guth"rie were only cited, and did compeir "accordingly; and the speat was so high against the paroch, and them "att the time, that they behooved to "employ all their friends, and solicit 66 66 a very particular Lord that morn"ing, before they went to the house : "and my Lord President was so high "upon't, that when Cambo told him, "that my Lord Lauderdal, contrair to "the act of Parliament, satt after 10 66 a cloak, his Lordship very unman"nerly told Cambo, as good a gentleman as himself, that it was a d--d lye: And Cambo and Alexander "Guthrie, by this od usage, expecting "imprisonment, or some harder fate, "both of them declared, that as they were informed so they wrotte, and 66 66 66 were willing it were admitted to "their probation; whereupon the Lords "caused remove them, and keep them "in the custodie of macers as priso66 ners, and then call them in again as "malifactors, who stood at the bar, " and received their sentence to this "purpose:-The Lords having consi"dered the Declinator, they find no cause or reason for it; and appoint " and ordain Cambo and Alex. Guth"rie, as haveing a hand in it, to acknowledge the wrong, and in pre66 sence of the haill Lords to crave my Lord Lauderdal pardon, which "they behoved to doc by a bow, and "so retired. 66 "The misery at that time was the "Lords were in effect absolute, for "they did as they pleased, and when 66 any tooke courage to protest for re "meid of law to the Scots Parlia"ment, they were seldom or never "ony |