Crossword-Solution: RIDDEL 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

This belief became confirmed, and was indeed rendered probable, when the direful intelligence reached the village that Jotham Riddel, the miner, was found in his hole, nearly dead with suffocation, and burnt to such a degree that no hopes were entertained of his life.

Riddel of Glenriddel, in his collection of Border tunes, respecting an air called the 'Dandling of the Bairns,' for which a certain Gallovidian laird is said to have evinced this strong mark of partiality.

Riddel, Robert Ainslie, and Robert Graham, afford valuable lights and shades to the outline, and with numerous others, help to a touch here, and fill-in there, of poet and poems.

Captain Riddel gave his infant society a great many of his old books, else I had written you on that subject; but, one of these days, I shall trouble you with a commission for "The Monkland Friendly Society," a copy of _The Spectator_, _Mirror_, and _Lounger_, _Man of Feeling_, _Man of the World_, _Guthrie's Geographical Grammar_, with some religious pieces, will likely be our first order.

Farewell! _A Dieu, le bon Dieu, je vous commende!_ [Footnote 104: A maid servant at Loudon house.] * * * * * CXXXVIL--To CAPTAIN RIDDEL, FRIARS CARSE.