A DETECTION OF THE LOVE-LETTERS LATELY ATTRIBUTED IN HUGH CAMPBELL'S WORK ΤΟ MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS; WHEREIN HIS PLAGIARISMS ARE PROVED, LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1825. The Scribbler, pinch'd with hunger, writes to dine, To OSSIAN'S genius, yet, must conform his line. PRINTED BY W. NICOL, CLEVELAND-ROW, ST. JAMES'S. A DETECTION, &c. HE who belies female' innocence does an act of baseness; and he who slanders a lady, who is also a queen, does that, which induces every woman to raise her voice, and every man his hand. To those reflections we were incited, by the late publication of the Love Letters of Mary Queen of Scots, by Hugh Campbell, calling himself a Doctor of Laws and Fellow of the Antiquary Society. These Letters, says the Editor, came into his hands by accident. The manuscript, he adds, appears to judges to be upwards of one hundred years old; but, I should take the language, continues Hugh Campbell, to be antecedent to the classical days of Addison. But, during this discussion, the Editor seems to forget, that the language before him is English, which the Queen of Scots could not write; now, this B |