The Waverley novels, by Sir Walter Scott, complete in 12 vol., printed from the latest English ed., embracing the author's last corrections, prefaces & notes.

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of liveliness which rendered him grateful. He would propose the health of
his friend Bailie Nicol Jarvie, (loud applause)-and he was sure, that when
the author of Waverley and Rob Roy drinks to Nicol Jarvie, it would be
received with that degree of applause to which that gentleman has always
been accustomed, and that they would take care that on the present occasion it should be PRODIGIOUS! (Long and vehement applause.)
MR. MACKAY, who here spoke with great humour in the character of
Bailie Jarvie. -My conscience! My worthy father the deacon could not
have believed that his son could hae had sic a compliment paid to him by
the Great Unknown!
SIR WALTER SCOTT.- The Small Known now, Mr. Bailie.
MR. MACKAY.- He had been long identified with the Bailie, and he was
vain of the cognomen which he had now worn for eight years; and he questioned if any of his brethren in the Council had given such universal satisfaction. (Loud laughter and applause.) Before he sat down, he begged to
propose " The Lord Provost, and the City of Edinburgh."
SIR WALTER SCOTT apologized for the absence of the Lord Provost, who
had gone to London on public business.
Tune-" Within a mile of Edinburgh town."
SIR WALTER SCOTT gave, " The Duke of Wellington and the army."
Glee -" How merrily we live."
" Lord Melville and the Navy, that fought till they left nobody to fight
with, like an arch sportsman who clears all and goes after the game."
MR. PAT. ROBERTSON. - They had heard this evening a toast, which had
been received with intense delight, which will be published in every newspaper, and will be hailed with joy by all Europe. He had one toast assigned
him which he had great pleasure in giving. He was sure that the stage
had in all ages a great effect on the morals and manners of the people. It
was very desirable that the stage should be well regulated; and there was
no criterion by which its regulation could be better determined than by the
moral character and personal respectability of the performers. He was
not one of those stern moralists who objected to the Theatre. The most
fastidious moralist could not possibly apprehend any injury from the stage
of Edinburgh, as it was presently managed, and so long as it was adorned
by that illustrious individual, Mrs. Henry Siddons, whose public exhibitions
were not more remarkable for feminine grace and delicacy, than was her
private character for every virtue which could be admired in domestic life.
He would conclude with reciting a few words from Shakspeare, in a spirit
not of contradiction to those stern moralists who disliked the Theatre, but
of meekness:-" Good, my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? do
you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time." He then gave "Mrs. Henry Siddons, and success to
the Theatre-Royal of Edinburgh."
MR. MURRAY. - Gentlemen, I rise to return thanks for the honour you
have done Mrs. Siddons, in doing which I am somewhat difficulted, from
the extreme delicacy which attends a brother's expatiating upon a sister's
claims to honours publicly paid-(hear, hear)-yet, Gentlemen, your kindness imboldens me to say, that were I to give utterance to all a brother's
feelings, I should not exaggerate those claims. (Loud applause.) I therefore, Gentlemen, thank you most cordially for the honour you have done
her, and shall now request permission to make an observation on the establishment of the Edinburgh Theatrical Fund. Mr. Mackay has done Mrs.
Henry Siddons and myself the honour to ascribe the establishment to us;
but no, Gentlemen, it owes its origin to a higher source-the publication of
the novel of Rob Roy-the unprecedented success of the opera adapted from
that popular production. (Hear, hear.) It was that success which relieved
the Edinburgh Theatre from its difficulties, and enabled Mrs. Siddons to
carry into effect the establishment of a fund she had long desired, but was