In a folio published this day by Captain James Donaldson, under the title of the _Edinburgh Courant Reviewed_, we learn that the _Edinburgh Gazette_, which, as we have seen, was commenced in 1699, had now succumbed to fate: damaged by the persevering policy of Adam Boig of the _Courant_, the _Gazette_ ‘of late has been laid aside, as a thing that cannot be profitably carried on.’ Donaldson here reviews the charges made against his paper, as to partiality and staleness of news, defends it to some extent, but practically admits the latter fault, by stating that he was about to remedy it. He was going to recommence the _Edinburgh Gazette_ in a new series, in which he would ‘take a little more liberty, and give stories as they come,’ without waiting, as before, for their authentication, though taking care where they were doubtful to intimate as much. The _Gazette_ did, accordingly, resume its existence on the 25th of the same month, as a twice-a-week paper. The first number contains three advertisements, one of a sale of house-property, another of the wares of the Leith glass-work, and a third as follows: ‘There is a gentleman in town, who has an secret which was imparted to him by his father, an eminent physician in this kingdom, which by the blessing of God cures the Phrensie and Convulsion Fits. He takes no reward for his pains till the cure be perfyted. He will be found at the Caledonian Coffee-house.’ In a series of the _Gazette_ extending from the commencement to the 140th number, published on the 2d September 1708, there is a remarkable sterility of home-news, and anything that is [Sidenote: 1707.] told is told, in a dry and sententious way. The following alone seem worthy of transcription: ‘LEITH, _May 19_ [1707].—Last Saturday, about 50 merchant-ships, bound for Holland, sailed from our Road, under convoy of two Dutch men-of-war.’ ‘EDINBURGH, _August 5_.—This day the Equivalent Money came in here from South Britain, in thirteen waggons drawn by six horses.’ _Sep. 30._—‘_Dyer’s Letter_ says: Daniel de Foe is believed by this time in the hands of justice at the complaint of the Swedish minister, and now a certain man of law may have an opportunity to reckon with him for a crime which made him trip to Scotland, and make him oblige the world with another _Hymn to the Pillory_.’ Strange to say, less than three years after this date, namely, in February 1710, the ‘unabashed Defoe’ was conducting the rival newspaper in Edinburgh—the _Courant_—succeeding in this office Adam Boig, who had died in the preceding month. The authority of Defoe for his editorship appears in the following decree of the Town Council: ‘Att Edinburgh the first day of February j^m. vij^c. and ten years: