To Elizabeth Montagu from Aberdeen Little to say of himself to give her pleasure except that Montagu is succesful in his studies and in tolerable health. Beattie has engaged a young man as his assistant in College. The assistant was formerly Beattie's disciple, and one of his deceased son's most intimate friends. The son of a clergyman and what in Scotland is called a probationer, that is licensed to preach but not in full orders. He assists Montagu in his studies. Beattie pleased with success of subscription for flannel for our brave countrymen in Flanders. That advertisement has done more good than all his other works and passed through as many editions as the Pilgrim's Progress. In this contry £1500 is already subscribed. Sedition still busy in north Britain. Two more trials in which the jury was unanimous in finding the charges proved and banished the criminals for fourteen years. 31 January 1794