PUBLISHED BY COLLINS AND HANNAY, COLLINS AND CO., J. & J.. HARPER, PRINŢERS. 1825.. 4 THE NEW YORK 160874 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899. Southern District of New-York, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 19th day of February, in the forty ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, J. & J. HARPER, of the said District, have deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "Goslington Shadow: a Romance of the Nineteenth Century. By Mungo Coultershoggle, Esq. In two volumes." In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned;" and also to an Act, entitled "An Act, supplementary to an Act, entifled An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints,” ADVERTISEMENT. By the arrival of the last British packet, I received from my quondam, old and intimate, cis-Atlantic friend, Mungo Coultershoggle, a kind and affectionate epistle, together with a bundle of papers, containing a faithful narrative of the life and various fortunes of Goslington Shadow, illustrated with historical sketches of the Shadow family; and also of various other distinguished personages and families therein mentioned. The whole of which he requested me, forthwith and without delay, to publish in this western hemisphere, that the sons and daughters of this land of liberty might see, veluti in speculum, a specimen of the ups and downs, which, within these few years, have taken place among folks on the other side of the water, namely, in that part of His Most Gracious Majesty's dominions, called Scotland. Great and manifold are the obligations which I lie under to this worthy old man, who first taught me to thrash the corn,hold the plough,-skail the muck,—and plant the potatoes,-with the other vocations of a gentleman farmer; and as I am |