. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. the blind poetsworks, published for the benefit of his widow. In1808 he brought out a complete edition of his ownworks, in eight volumes 8vo. In 1812 he read tothe Royal Society his Life of John Home; andas a sort of supplement to it, he then added someCritical Essays, chiefly on dramatic poetry, whichhave not been published, but the Life itself ap-peared in 1822. Mr. Mackenzie himself attempt-ed dramatic writing, but without success. Atragedy, composed in his early youth
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. the blind poetsworks, published for the benefit of his widow. In1808 he brought out a complete edition of his ownworks, in eight volumes 8vo. In 1812 he read tothe Royal Society his Life of John Home; andas a sort of supplement to it, he then added someCritical Essays, chiefly on dramatic poetry, whichhave not been published, but the Life itself ap-peared in 1822. Mr. Mackenzie himself attempt-ed dramatic writing, but without success. Atragedy, composed in his early youth, entitledThe Spanish Father, was rejected by Garrick,and never represented. In 1773 another tragedyof his, styled The Prince of Tunis, was per-formed with applause for six nights at the Edin-burgh theatre. A third tragedy, founded onLillys Fatal Curiosity, called The Shipwreck,and two comedies, The Force of Fashion, and The White Hypocrite, were produced at CoventGarden successively, but they proved completefailures. His portrait, from a painting by SirHenry Raebum, will be found on next page. MACKENZIE. 25 Mr. Mackenzie was the last of those eminentmen who shed such a lustre upon the literature oftheir country in the latter part of the eighteenthcentury In his youth he enjoyed the intimacy ofRobertson and Hume, and Fergusson and AdamSmith, all of whom he long survived. He diedJanuary 14, 1831, after having been confined tohis room for a considerable period by the generaldecay attending old age. In 1776 he marriedPenuel, daughter of Sir Ludovick Grant of Grant,baronet, and Lady Margaret Ogilvy, by whom hehad eleven children. His eldest son, Joshua Henry Mackenzie, aneminent judge under the title of Lord Mackenzie,was born in 1777 ; admitted advocate in 1799;appointed sheriff of Linlithgowshire in 1811, anda lord of session in 1822. In 1824 he was con-stituted a judge in the high court of justiciary,and in 1825 a commissioner of the jury court. Hemarried in 1821, the
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