The trial of Archibald Stewart, esq; late Lord Provost of Edinburgh, before the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland, for neglect of duty... at the time the rebels got possession of that city in the month of September, 1745
The trial of Archibald Stewart, esq; late Lord Provost of Edinburgh, before the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland, for neglect of duty... at the time the rebels got possession of that city in the month of September, 1745.
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Three poems from the collection read on NPR on Garrison Keillor's "The Writer's Almanac" Kenyon Review Holiday Reading Recommendation Pick "Vanderberg [shows] remarkable restraint when telling stories. She trusts her reader enough to leave these spare images uncluttered with explanation. More important, her reader can trust that fine writing and poetic logic will carry these poems as they travel across the wide spaces between what we understand." -- Elizabeth Hoover, Minneapolis Star Tribune "It's not an arrangement of poems that serve as settings for a few gems: every poem, it seems, is a standout." -- Jake Adam York, Kenyon Review "Vandenberg's second collection takes the alphabet and its evolution as form and reservoir of associations as its subject...This is a rich subject...The flashes of inspiration--"if antlers / are trees in silhouette"--are genuine. -- Michael Autrey, Booklist "Thanks to Katrina's clear crystalline poems, all women will remember adolescence as it moves through family, and all men will have something new to understand. Vandenberg's calm observations create a harmony of thought in this lyrical and resonant collection. Each poem is a story with a stunning purpose." --Washington Independent Review of Books Praise for Katrina Vandenberg "Katrina Vandenberg uses playfully intoxicating metaphors to launder the simplicities and eccentricities of life." --Flaunt Praise for Atlas "Katrina has always traced the patterns and rhythms she discovers so readily in life. In Atlas, she translates those patterns and rhythms into poetry." --Paula Evans Neuman, The News-Herald "The debut poetry collection of Katrina Vandenberg employs a language and flair for expression that transcends time while drawing upon personal family artifacts, memories, ideas, and friends." --Betsy L. Hogan, Midwest Book Review "What a gift to have these poems in the world! Katrina Vandenberg is an expert witness to the verities, pathologies and moments. The stain of blood on this Atlas is exquisite. Here is the record of an honest pilgrim--a book of treasure maps and vital stats--a mighty work in words." --Thomas Lynch, author of The Undertaking
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Edinburgh: Printed for Gideon Crawfurd Bookseller
Published:
01/1747
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English
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Very Good. Fine binding. Octavo. 178, 203 p. Bound in modern 3/4 light brown leather. Gilt ruled, red leather spine label. Marbled boards. New end pages. Fine binding and cover. Pages lightly tanned. Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1745, Archibald Stewart tried to organize an effective defense of Edinburgh against Prince Charles Edward, who attempted to retake the English and Scottish crowns in the Jacobite Uprising in 1745. He felt it treason to raise troop without the King's warrant and sent for the King's Sanction. This request was granted and received 8 days prior Prince Charles entered Edinburgh. However, though troops were raised, Charles entered the city without much difficultly after negotiations failed. Stewart was afterwards arrested and taken before the Privy Council in London on 7 Dec. The consent of the House of Commons to his detention having been obtained on 10 Dec., he was imprisoned in the Tower from 13 Dec. 1745 till 23 Jan. 1747, when he was released on bail. Charged with neglect of duty and misbehavior in the execution of his office, he was found not guilty on 2 Nov. 1747 after a protracted trial in Edinburgh. Though Stewart was marked by the Whigs as a traitor, among some of his supporters was David Hume, who wrote a pamphlet in 1748 called The True Account of the Behaviour and Conduct of the Archibald Stewart, Esq. It was found later that, what allowed Prince Charles to overtake the city with virtually no opposition, was that the 2nd deputation, upon returning from another failed negotiation, was followed by Donald Cameron of Lochiel with half the Prince's army, and upon the gate being lifted to allow them to enter, Lochiel seized the opportunity and stormed the gate, taking the city bloodlessly.