Gilbert Stuart, a Scottish author, born in Edinburgh in 1742 or 1746, died in Musselburgh, Aug. 13, 1786. He was educated at the university of Edinburgh, and in 1767 published a " Historical Disquisition concerning the Antiquity of the British Constitution," which procured him the degree of LL. I)., and in 1768 "View of Society in Europe in its Progress from Rudeness to Refinement." He failed to procure a professorship in Edinburgh on account of his dissipation, spent several years in London, and in 1773 started the "Edinburgh Magazine and Review," in which for four years he published savage attacks upon prominent Scottish authors. He afterward again lived for some time in London. His remaining works are: " Observations concerning the Public Law and Constitutional History of Scotland" (8vo, Edinburgh, 1770), an attack on Dr. Robertson, whom he especially hated; " History of the Establishment of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland" (4to, London, 1780); and "History of Scotland from the Reformation to the Death of Queen Mary" (2 vols. 8vo, London, 1782).