ADVERTISEMENT.

« We are authorifed by Dr. Anderfon, to inform the public, that a paper which has been printed and circulated by the Board of Agriculture, purporting to be written by the late Dr. Cullen, of Edinburgh, and commented upon as a genuine performance of that eminent man, is not a work of Dr. Cullen, who never wrote or corrected one fyllable of it; that every word of that paper was written by Dr. James An- derfon, being the fubftance of very imperfect notes taken by him, while yet a boy of little more than fifteen years of age, from the extempore difcourfes of Dr. Cullen, which was his fir{t attempt to take notes of any kind. Confcious of the extreme inaccuracy of thefe notes, the pupil took care not only to mark this particular in the very title, by the words, * errores funt difcipuli,”’ but alfo to ftate it more clearly in a fhort advertifement prefixed(all of which have been fup- preffed in the printed copy) warning every perion into whofe hands it might fall, not to fuffer the errors of the pu- pil to injure the character of the preceptor; but he farther tcok care never fince to allow the MS. to be out of his pof- feffion, unlefs to two of Dr. Cullen’s fons alone, to whom he lent it under the ftri&eft injunctions, not to allow it to be feen or copied by any perfon whatever. Sir John Sin- clair having heard that this MS. was in the pofleflion of

fr. Cullen(now Lord Cullen) applied to that gentleman, through various channels, for permiffion to take a copy of it, which he pofitively refufed to do, or to give his confent to its being publithed, could a copy of it be even obtained. Sir John afterwards, however, found means(which it is fuppofed ae does not defire to have publicly developed) to obtain a copy of that: MS. and immediately publifhed it, to the no{mall attonifftment of Mr. Cullen, as well as to that of the owner of the MS. No fooner did Dr. Ander- fon fee a copy of that publication, and came to an explana- tion with Mr. Cullen on the fubjeét, than he ftated his claim to the MS. ina letter to Sir John Sinclair, and foon after to the Board of Agricul If

ulture alfo, requiring that a far- ther publication of it might be ftepped, as being his own private property; and alfo, witha view to do juftice to the character of Dr. Cullen, requefted that the Board would be pleafed to make fome public intimation of the miftake it had inadvertently fallen into in afcribing it to him. This the Board at laft declined to do, in confequence of which this fhort flatement of faéts is made public, in the mean time, till more effectual means for obtaining redrefs be adopted.