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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854. Excerpt: ... stretching over the hills, that property which had been purchased by Lady Janet for L.8000, he sold to Mr Horne for about L.40,000. Great was the regret of Sir John's tenantry when thus transferred to another; and the first time the new proprietor appeared in his pew at church, the parish clergyman, who was deeply attached to Sir John, looked full at the newly-arrived successor, and gave out his text from the Psalms: 'Lift not up your Horne on high.'--Psalm lxxv. 5. Mr Rush, the American ambassador, in his description of England, mentions that on his arrival there, he asked Mr Coke, of Norfolk, what was the best work on agriculture, when he was referred to Sir John Sinclair's; and when the newly-arrived stranger next inquired of Mr Vansittart, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, what book he ought to study on British finance, the answer was a strong recommendation of Sir John's History of the Public Revenue--a volume exhibiting extraordinary research, of which many editions are yet in circulation. No subject connected with the public interest came amiss to the active energy of Sir J ohn, who was the first to bring over from France a plan for distilling in cylinders the wood employed in making gunpowder, which produced a saving to government of L.100,000 per annum. He communicated the discovery to that eminent chemist, as well as divine, his friend Bishop W atson, whom he took with him, and introduced to the Duke of Richmond, then Master of the Ordnance; and by their united representations, this important economy in the finances of the country was at once adopted. When Sir John became member for Caithness, that extensive county had the right of election only for each alternate parliament with the small island of Bute. It is alleged that this slight was put u...
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