BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, &c.

HENRY MACKENZIE.

FOR the biographical part of the following Memoir, we are chiefly indebted to a short sketch of the life of our distinguished contemporary, compiled from the most authentic sources, and prefixed to a beautiful duodecimo edition of The Man of Feeling, printed at Paris a few years since.1 We have had the farther advantage of correcting and enlarging the statements which it contains, from undoubted authority.

HENRY MACKENZIE, Esq. was born at Edinburgh, in August 1745, on the same day on which Prince Charles Stuart landed in Scotland.2 His father was Dr Joshua Mackenzie, of that city; and his mother, Margaret, the eldest daughter of Mr Rose of Kilravock, of a very ancient family in

1 1 [The original source of the memoir alluded to, is the publication entitled "The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits. London, 1808," &c.]

2 [" Prince Charles Stuart landed in Scotland on the 25th of July, 1745,-but he raised his standard on the 19th of August."]