was removed soon after his birth to Gosford Mains, East Lothian, and received his early education at the Grammar School of Musselburgh. In 1762 he entered the Univ. of Edinburgh, where he excelled in classics and English literature. He was for a time tutor at Ulbster to John, afterwards the celebrated Sir John Sinclair, Bart.; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 27th Sept. 1770; he received, in the year following, a presentation to this parish, but a competing presentation delayed his settlement until the matter came before the Court of Session, which gave judgment in his favour. He was accordingly ordained 2nd April 1773. In 1775 he became a member of the Assembly's Committee on the Paraphrases, and was the largest contributor to the collection. During the college sessions, 1779-80 and 1780-81, he delivered a series of Lectures on History, which the Edinburgh literati regarded with much favour. The presentation of his tragedy of Runnamede at an Edinburgh theatre, in 1783, gave offence to his parishioners and to many of the public so pronounced, indeed, was the feeling against him that for this, and other reasons, he found it expedient to demit his charge, 27th Dec. 1786. He had an annuity of £40 from the stipend. The remainder of his life was spent in London, where he occupied himself with literary pursuits. He died unmarr., on Christmas Day 1788. As a preacher he was considered one of the most eloquent of his time. It is around his reputation as a poet that the main interest centres. In 1770 he published the Poems of his friend and fellow-student, Michael Bruce, adding “some poems written by different authors." The “Ode to the Cuckoo " was the second last piece of the collection. Eleven years later he issued a volume of Poems under his own name, in which the "Cuckoo" ode had first place. Then began the long Logan-Bruce controversy, which is not likely to be ever satisfactorily settled. The charge against Logan of appropriating both Bruce's "Hymns" and "Ode to the Cuckoo"' has been renewed from time to time, and the assertion is

made that all the Paraphrases which he furnished to the Church were also the work of his friend. Logan, however, was a genuine poet, and in spite of circumstances which militate against his claims, a good case can be made out in his behalf. He was probably the sole author of Pars. viii., ix., x., xi., xviii., xxxi., xxxviii., liii., lvii., and of Hymn v.; and he may have revised (or assisted to revise) Pars. i., ii., xxiii., xxv., xxviii., x1viii., and 1xiii. Publications-Verses on the Esk (Scots wag., lxv.); ed. Poems by Michael Bruce (Edinburgh, 1770); Elements of the Philosophy of History, Part i. (London, 1781); Essay on the Manners of Asia, 1781 Poems (London, 1781; new ed., with Life, 1807); Runnamede, a Tragedy (London, 1783); A Review of the Principal Charges against Warren Hastings, Esq., late Governor-General of Bengal (London, 1788); he is also said to have written A View of Ancient History, by William Rutherford, D.D., Head of an Academy at Uxbridge, 2 vols. (London, 1788-93); Sermons, 2 vols., with a Memoir (London, 1790-1) (which have gone through many editions).- [Anderson's Brit. Poets, xi.; Chambers's Biog. Dict., iii.; Robertson's Lethendy Case, Maclagan's Scottish Paraphrases, Young's Metrical Psalms and Paraphrases; Laing's Ode to the Cuckoo, with Remarks on its Authorship; John Small's (Librarian, Edin. Univ.) "Michael Bruce and the Authorship of the Ode to the Cuckoo," in British and Foreign Evangelical Review, July 1877; Rev. Robert Small's “Michael Bruce versus John Logan "-two articles in British and Foreign Evangelical Review, April 1878 and Oct. 1879; Principal Shairp's “Michael Bruce," etc., in Good Words, Nov. 1873; Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1787 ROBERT DICKSON, pres. by the Magistrates, Incorporations, and Kirk-session Jan., and ord. 17th July 1787; trans. to First Charge 29th Sept. 1790.

1791 THOMAS MACKNIGHT, pres. by the Magistrates Nov. 1790; ord. 17th Feb. 1791; trans. to Trinity Parish, Edinburgh, 21st June 1804.-[Anderson's