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342 B I0 GR A P HI C d L SKETCHES.
examination of original documents, and the various public records. This work
indeed forms part only of his contemplated scheme, for, had his life been spared,
he intended to have followed it up with another volume relating to the other
great division, or the Central Highlands, which could not have failed to have
proved of even greater historical interest, independently of what he purposed
to have prefixed-“A Dissertation on the Manners, Customs, and Laws of the
Highlanders,” at an early period ; and for which, we believe, he had collected
very important materials.
No. CXXXVII.
DR. JAMES GREGORY,
IN THE UNIFORX OF THE ROYAL EDINBURGH VOLUhTEERS.
WHEN this loyal corps was formed, in 1793, DR. GREGORYe ntered warmly
into the spirit of the design, and was among the first to enrol himself in the
ranks. The
well-known Sergeant Gould used to say, “he might be a good physician, but he
was a very awkward soldier.” At drill he was either very absent or very
inquisitive, and put so many questions, that Gould, out of temper, often said-
“D-n it, sir, you are here to obey orders, and not to ask reasons; there is
nothing in the King’s orders about reasons !”
Aware of his deficiency, the Doctor was not only punctual in attending all
regimental field-days, but frequently had the Sergeant-Major at his own house
to give him instructions, On one of these occasions, the Sergeant, out of all
patience with the awkwardness and inquisitiveness of his learned pupil, exclaimed
in B rage-“Hold your tongue, sir; I would rather drill ten clowns than one
philosopher !”
Small parties of the volunteers were drilled privately in the Circus (afterwards
the Adelphi Theatre). On one of these occasions, while marching across the stage,
the trap-door used by the players haviig been inadvertently left unbolted, the
Doctor suddenly disappeared to the ‘‘ shades below;” upon which a wag
belonging to the corps exclaimed-“ Exit Gregor’s Ghost ! ”I
He never, however, attained eminence in his military capacity.
An allusion to a popdar Scotch ballad called “Young Gregor’s Ghost.”

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for the time being ; and it was the wish of the volunteers that the commissions
should, as far as possible, be held by gentlemen who had served with reputation
in his Majesty's regular forces. An exception, however, which at once testified
their estimation of his character, was made in the case of Provost Elder, for the
volunteers unanimously recommended him to his Ma,jesty to be their First
Lieutenant-Colonel.
In 1P97 the Principal and Professors of the University requested him to
sit for his portrait, to be preserved in the University library. Mr. Elder accordingly
sat to the late Sir Henry Raeliurn, who finished an excellent likeness in
his best style-from which a mezzotinto engraving was afterwards published.
Provost Elder merited this compliment, which had previously only been conferred
on men eminent for learning or science, by being, in addition to his general
usefulness as a magistrate and citizen, prominelitly instrumental in maturing
the design of rebuilding the College, which probably would have been finished
during his lifetime, had it not been for the exigencies of the war.
In 1795 Mr. Elder was appointed Postmaster-General for Scotland--an
honour which testified that his services had been highly appreciated by his
Majesty, and which was considered by his fellow-citizens as ho more than a
proper reward.
Throughout the whole course of his life, both in public and private business,
Mr. Elder displayed " great and persevering activity in all his undertakings,
inflexible integrity in his conduct, and perfect firmness in what he judged to be
right. These talents and virtues were exerted without pomp or aflectation ; on
the contrary, with the utmost openness and simplicity of manners ; and it was
often remarked of him that he could refuse with a better grace than many others
could confer a favour." Under his guidance the political measures of the city
were regulated with much tact and propriety ; and the interest of the rdin,a
party was never more firmly or honourably maintained.
Mr. Elder's acceptance of the provostship the third time, was looked upon
with a degree of uneasiness by his friends. His health had been visibly impaired
by the harassing nature of his duties while formerly in ofice ; and they were
afraid a renewal of the anxiety and fatigue inseparable from the situation of
Chief Magistrate, even in the quietest times, would prove too much for his
weakened constitution. Mr. Elder was himself aware of the danger, but he
could not " decline the task consistently with his strict notions of public duty."
His strength continued
gradually to decline, and before the end of 1798 his health was altogether in
a hopeless state.
Mr. Elder was the eldest son of Mr. William Elder of Loaning, and married
in 1765 Emilia Husband, eldest daughter of Mr. Paul Husband of Logie,
merchant in Edinburgh, by whom he left a son and four daughters.'
He carried on business as a wine merchant in the premises opposite the Tron
The fears of his friends were too well founded.
He died at Forneth on the 29th May 1799, aged sixty-two.
1 The eldesB was married to the Rev. Principal Baird ; the second to the late John M'Ritchie
Esq. of Craigton.

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Few men ever enjoyed a course of uninterrupted good health equal to Mr. Sym.
When confined to the house for a few days in the latter part of his life, he used
to say that no medical man had ever felt hispulse, and that he did not remember
having ever in his life taken 6reakfast in bed. Truly B favoured son of Hygeia,
he attributed his exemption from disease chieffy to regular living, and to his
fondness for early morning exercise.
He and
Osborne (formerly noticed) were the right-hand men of the grenadiers; and
from his stature (six feet four inches), the former had to procure a firelock
considerably longer than the common regimental ones. He acted for some time
as fugleman to the first regiment; and it is told that, in his anxiety on one
occasion to perform his part well, he so twisted his body, while his arms were
poised above his head, as to be completely Zoclce&incapable of movement. In
tliis painful predicament he stood a few moments, till aided by the famous
Major Gould, who, on observing the circumstance, ran to his assistance.
Mr. Sym belonged to the old school of Tories, and was intimate with Lord
Melville, Chief Baron Dundas, and the other contemporary leaders of the
party. The well-known Editor of Blackwood’s Magazine, Professor Wilson, was
his nephew; as were also Robert Sym Wilson, Esq., Secretary to the Royal
Bank ; James Wilson, Esq., of Woodville, the eminent Ornithologist ; and the
Rev. John Sym, one of the ministers of the Old Greyfriar’s Church, Edinburgh.
Though in his younger years a gallant of no mean pretension, and in high
favour with the ladies, Mr. Sym continued all his life a bachelor. At one
period he resided in the buildings denominated “ The Society,” Brown Square,
but for the last forty years and upwards he was an inhabitant of George
Square.
Mr. Sym was a member of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers.
No. CCCXXIV.
REV. HENRY GREY, AM.,
MINISTER OF ST. MARY’S CHURCH, EDINBURGH.
MR. GREY was born at Alnwick, in the county of Northumberland, in the year
1778. In early life
he was left to the care of a kind and pious mother, who watched over her son
with the most tender and anxious assiduity, and lived to receive the reward of
her love and devotedness in her son’s clerical reputation and unceasing affection.
Mr. Grey received the elements of English education at a private school in his
native town. When eight years old he was placed at a seminary in Highhedgely,
conducted by an intelligent curate of the Church of England, where he
His father was a gentleman of the medical profession.
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I 88 OLD ANI) NEW EDINBURGH. [York Place
His lordship was so fond of card-playing that
he was wont to say, laughingly, ?Cards are my
profession-the law my amusement.? He died
at Powrie, in Forfarshire, on the 19th of October,
18IL
In 1795 Sir Henry Raeburn built the large house
No. 32, the upper part of which had been lighted
from the roof and fitted up as a gallery for exhibiting
pictures, while. the lower was divided into convenient
painting rooms, but his residence was then
at Stockbridge.
Mr. Alexander Osborne, a commissioner of the
Board of Customs, resided in No. 40 for niany
years, and died there. He was of great stature,
and was the right-hand man of the Grenadiers of
the First Regiment of Royal Edinburgh Volunteers,
proverbially a battalion of tall men, and his personal
appearance was long familiar in the streets of
the city. In bulk he was remarkable as well as in
stature, his legs in particular being nearly as large
in circumference as the body of an ordinary person,
The editor of Kay mentions that shortly after the
volunteers had been embodied, Lord Melville preseqted
his gigantic countryman to George III.,
who on witnessing such a herculean specimen of
his loyal defenders in Scotland, was somewhat
excited and curious. ??-4re all the Edinburgh
volunteers like you?? he asked, Osborne mistaking
the jocular construction of the question,
and supposing it referred to their status in society,
replied, ?They are so, please your Majesty.?
?? Astonishing !? exclaimed the King, lifting up his
hands in wonder.
In his youth he is said to have had a prodigious
appetite, being able to consume nine pounds of
steak at a meal. His father, who died at Aberdeen,
comptroller of the Customs in 1785, is said ta
have beena man of even more colossal proportions.
Mr. Osborne lived long in Richmond Street
prior to removing to York Place, where he died in
his 74th year.
During the early years of this century Lady Sinclair
of Murkle occupied No. 61, and at the same
time No. 47 was the residence of Alexandex
Nasmyth, landscape painter, father of Peter, who
won himself the name of ? the English Hobbima,JJ
and who, in fact, was the father of the Scottish school
of landscape painting. In his youth, the pupil of
Allan Ramsay, and afterwards of the best artists in
Rome and England, he returned to his native city,
Edinburgh, where he had been born in 1758 ; and
to his friendship with Bums the world is indebted
for the only authentic portrait which exists of our
national poet His compositions were chaste and
elegant, and his industry unceasing ; thus he numbered
among his early employers the chief of the
Scottish nobZesse. Most of the living landscape
painters of Scotland, and many of the dead ones,
have sprung from the school of Nasmyth, who, in
his extreme age, became an honorary member of
the then new Scottish Academy.
The firmness of his intellect, and the freshness of
his fancy continued uninterrupted to the end of his
labours; his last work was the touching little
picture called ? Going Home ;I? and he died soon
after at Edinburgh in the eighty-third year of his
age, in 1840. He married a daughter of Sir James
Foulis, Bart., of Colinton and that ilk, by whom he
had a large family, all more or less inheriting the
genius of their father, particularly his son Peter,
who predeceased him at London in 1831, aged
forty-five years.
On the north side of York Place is St. Paul?s
Episcopal church, built in that style of Gothic
which prevailed in the time of Henry VI. of England,
and of which the best specimen may be seen
in King?s College, Cambridge. The building consists
of a nave with four octagon towers at the
angles, with north and south aisles. The pulpit is
at the east end, and immediately before the communion-
table. The organ is at the west end, and
above the main entrance, which faces York Lanea
remnant of Broughton Loan. In the north-west
angle of the edifice is the vestry, The length of
the church is about 123 feet by 73 feet, external
measurement. The nave is 109 feet 9 inches in
length by 26 feet broad, and 46 feet in height; and
the aisles are 79 feet long by zg feet in height.
The ceiling of the nave is a flat Gothic arch,
covered with ornamental tracery, as are also the
ceilings of the aisles. The great eastern window
is beautifully filled in with stained glass by Egginton
of Birmingham. This handsome church-in its
time the best example of Gothic erected in Edinburgh
since the Reformation-was built from a design
by Archibald Elliot, and doesconsiderablecredit
to the taste and geqius of that eminent architect.
It was begun in February, 1816, and finished in
June, 1818, for the use of the congregation which
had previously occupied the great church in the
Cowgate, and who contributed ~ 1 2 , o o o for its
erection. The well-known Archibald Alison, author
of (? Essays on Taste,? and father of the historian
of Europe, long officiated here. He was the son
of a magistrate of the city of Edinburgh, where he
was born in 1757, but graduated at Oxford; and
on the invitation of Sir William Forbes and others,
in 1800, became senior incumbent of the Cowgate
chapel. After the removal of the congregation to
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44 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
what abrupt, and his language not remarkable for its refinement ; but, after two
or three lessons, the first unfavourable impressions subsided, and the Sergeant
gradually became a favourite. Indeed there was a something so peculiar in his
countenance, and more especially in the most prominent feature of it, where
I‘ One rich carbuncle shone before,
With many a glowing ruby round,”
that it was impossible to be long in bad humour with him.
Among others whose patronage the good conduct and military talents of the
SergeanbMajor secured, was that of the Lord President Hope, then Iieutenant-
Colonel of the regiment. The high opinion entertained of him by his lordship
was manifested in various acts of kindness ; and he promised, on the disembodying
of the regiment in 1814, to lay his head in the grave. This mark of
respect his lordship faithfully performed, on the death of the Sergeant-Major,
which occurred on the 22d September 1815. His remains were interred-all
the officers of the late corps attending the funeral-in the Greyfriars’ Churchyard,
where a stone is erected to his memory.’
From “ Lines Elegiac,” composed on the death of the veteran by a local
poet, we give the following stanzas :-
“ ’Tis but the dross of Gould lies here j
His sterling part claims not a tear ;
Wing’d, 89 we’d hope, where glory gleams
More splendid than the warrior’s dreams I
And soothe the widow’s drooping woe-
Who has no cherub Gould to smile,
Her heavy moments to beguile.”
‘I Hope stay us who are left below,
The figure of an Edinburgh Volunteer, of such ample breadth of back, to
whom the Sergeant-Major is imparting instruction, is a burlesque on the Bellygerents,
as the corps was waggishly denominated by Gould. A gentleman once
put the question-“Pray, Gould, who is that you are drilling in the Print
done by Kay P” The answer was highly characteristic-“ I can’t say, sir, unless
you turn him to the right about face!’la
Our worthy friend Bailie Smellie informs us that on one occasion when he
resided at the Castle Hill, he was astonished to hear Gould calling loudly from a
green behind the house-“ The battalion will advance ! ” The Bailie, unable
to‘comprehend what had brought, as he thought, the Volunteers there, hastened
1 A full-length portrait of Sergeant-Major Gould, with a view of the First Regiment of Volunteers
in the background, by Mr. George Watson, is preserved in the Council Room of the City Chambers.
This painting waa for some time suspended in the lobby leading into the Council Chambers, where it
was subject to the ill usage of every idle lounger. In 1818, when Mr. Smellie, printer, waa in the
magistracy, he made various attempts to have it brought into the Council-Room ; and, among others
to whom he applied was the then Lord Provost (Sir John Marjoribanks), who remarked that it was
utterly absurd to permit the portrait of a Sergeant to he placed in the Council-Room. Mr, Smellie
at last found an argument which proved successful. This was, that the picture was not to be estimated
simply ns affording a Portrait of Sergeant Gould, but ns preserving the recollection of a corps
of loyal citizens, to whom the country was greatly indebted.
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United States had been achieved, he again went abroad ; allured, like hundreds
of his countrymen, by the brilliant prospects that then began to dawn. He
had previously visited all the States, and published the result of his observations
in a now scarce volume, entitled “A View of North America,” etc. The
profession of a land-surveyor, in which he now engaged, afforded facilities that
were at once made available when Congress determined to proceed with the
building of the city. He had submitted his ideas to Washington himself prior
to 1799, and they were unanimously adopted by Congress, which decreed that
the plan of the city (by a French officer) should be marked out on the ground.
The great tide of emigration has long since continued to roll to the far West,
and left Washington in the words of Moore-
“ That famed metropolis, where fancy sees-
Squares in morasses, obelisks in trees ! ’’
Still the propriety of its being fixed where it was is creditable to the sagacity
of the individual who proposed it. His name was George Walker, the son of a
farmer at Sheardale, in the parish of Dollar, Clackmannanshire ; and having been
induced to purchase an extensive tract of land, including the Eastern Capital
and great part of the site, he reasonably anticipated that future grandeur of
the American metropolis which would have rewarded his enterprise, but which
has never been realised. We may close this episode by a quotation from a letter
written by Jefferson to Lord Buohan :-“ I feel a pride in the justice which
your lordship’s sentiments render to the character of my illustrious countryman-
Washington. The moderation of his desires, and the strength of his
judgment enabled him to calculate correctly, that the road to that glory which
never dies, is to use power for the support of the laws and liberties of our
country, not for their destruction ; and his will accordingly survive the wreck of
everything now living.”
No. CCXL.
MAJOR -GENERAL AYTOUN,
AND
THE DUC D’ANGOULEME.
TRIS Sketch, entitled “The Great and the Small,” was ‘published in 1797.
The Duc d‘Angouleme, then residing at Holyrood, constantly attended the
Saturday drills of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers, whose uniform-blue with
red facings-very much resembled that of the French National Guards j and

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371 Heriot?s Ho.pital.1 THE EDINBURGH VOLUNTEERS.
By the Act of Parliament referred to, the governors
were empowered to erect from this surplus
revenue their elementary schools withiin the city,
for educating, free of all expense : rst, the children
of all burgesses and freemen in poor circumstances
; znd, the children of burgesses and freemen
who were unable to provide for their sup
port; 3rd, the children of poor citizens of Eclinburgh,
resident within its boundaries. They were
also empowered by the same Act, ? to allow to any
boys, in the course of their education at such
schools, being sons of burgesses and freemen, such
uniform fixed sum of money, in lieu and place
of maintenance, and such uniform fixed sum for fee
as apprentices after their education at the said
schools is completed, as shall be determined.?
There are now sixteen of these free Heriot
schools, in different quarters of Edinburgh, all more
or less elegant and ornate in the details of their
architecture copied from the parent hospitaL . These
schools are attended by upwards of 4,400 boys and
girls.
There are also nine schools in various parts of
the city, open for free instruction in reading,
writing, arithmetic, grammar, French, German, and
drawing, attended by about 1,400 young men and
women.
There are five infant schools maintained from
the surplus funds of the same noble and gefierous
institution. ? On the report of the Bursary Committee
being given in,? at the meeting of governors
in Noveniber 1879, ?? Bailie Tawse stated that they
had at present eighteea of their young men at
college. For the month ending 20th October last,
therewere 4,907 pupils on the roll in George Heriot?s
schools, and r,075 in connectiori with the Hospital
evening classes.?
In the old volunteering times, about the last
years of the eighteenth century and the first years
of the present, the green before the hospital was
the favourite place for the musters, parades, and
other displays of the civic forces. Here theii
colours were presented, from here they were
trooped home to the Colonel?s house, when Edinburgh
possessed, per cent. of the population, a
much greater number of enrolled volunteers than
she has now.
But other exhibitions took place in Heriot?s
Bowling Green, such as when the famous aeronaut,
Vincent Lunardi, made his ascent therefiom, on
the 5th of October, 1785. On that occasion, we
are told, above 80,ooo spectators assembled, and
all business in the city was suspended for the
greatest portion pf the day. At noon a flag wa:
hoisted on the castle, and a cannon, brought from
Leith Fort, was discharged in Heriot?s Green, to
announce that the process of filling the balloon had
begun, and by half-past two it was fully inflated.
Lunardi-attired, strange to say, in a scarlet uniform
faced with blue, sword, epaulettes, powdered
wig, and three-cocked hat-entered the cage, with a
Union Jack in his hand, and amid a roaf of acclamation
from the startled people, who were but
little used to strange sights in that dull time, he
ascended at ten minutes to three P.M.
He passed over the lofty ridge of the old town,
at a vast height, waving his flag as the balloon
soared skyward. It took a north-easterly direction
near Inch Keith, and came down almost into the
Forth; but as he threw out the ballast, it rose
higher than ever. The wind bore him over North
Berwick, and from there to Leven and Largo, after
which a SSW. breeze brought him to where he
descended, a mile east from Ceres in Fifeshire,
Where the balloon. was at its greatest altitude
-three miles-the barometer stood at eighteen
inches five tenths, yet Lunardi experienced no difficulty
in respiration. He passed through several
clouds of snow, which hid from him alike the sea
and land.
Some reapers in a field near Ceres, when they
heard the sound of Lunardi?s trumpet, and saw his
balloon, the nature of which was utterly beyond
their comprehension, were . filled with dreadful
alarm, believing that the end of all things was at
hand; and the Rev. Mr. Arnot, the ministet of
Ceres, who had been previously aware of Lunardi?s
ascent, required some persuasion to convince them
that what they beheld was not supernatural.
A number of gentlemen who collected at Ceres,
set the church bell ringing, and conveyed the bold
aeronaut with all honour to the manse, where a
crowd awaited him. His next ascent was from
Kelso.
On the 26th of September, 1794, there mustered
on Heriot?s Green, to receive their colours, the
Royal Regiment of Edinburgh Volunteers, under
Lieutenant-Colonel Elder (the old provost) and
Colonel William Maxwell, afterwards a general.
The corps consisted of eight companies with thirtytwo
officers, fifteen of whom had belonged to the
regular army; but all ranks were clothed alike,
the sergeants being indicated by their pikes and
the officers by their swords. The corps numbered
about 785, all told
Their uniform was a blue coat, lapelled With
black velvet, cut away from below the breast, With
broad heavy square skirts, a row of buttons round
the cuff, gold epaulettes for all ranks, white cassi.
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William Arbuthnot, who twice held the chair in
1815, and again in 1821. He was created a
baronet by the King in person on the 24th of
August, 1822, at the banquet given to his Majesty
by the City in the Parliament House; but the
patent bore date, 3rd April, 1823. He was a son
of Arbuthnor of Haddo, who, like himself, had
been an official in the Trustees office. In the
interim Kincaid Mackenzie and John Manderston
had been Lords Provost-the former in 1817. He
was a wine merchant in the Lawnmarket, and while
in office had the honour of entertaining at his house
in Gayfield Square, first, the Russian Grand Duke
Michael, and subsequently Prince Leopold, the
future King of the Belgians.
Among the most eminent Lords Provost of later
years we may refer to Sir James Forrest, Bart., of
Comiston, who received his title in rS38. During
his reign Queen Victoria paid her first visit to her
Scottish metropolis in 1842. He was worthily
succeeded in 1843 by the late Adam Black, M.P.,
the distinguished publisher,
In 1848 the Lord Provost was the eminent
engraver William Johnstone, who was knighted in
1851, when he was succeeded by Duncan
M?Laren, a wealthy draper in the High Street,
afterwards M.P. for the city, and well known as a
steady upholder of Scottish interests in the House.
On the 7th August, 1860, during the prorostry of
Francis Brown Douglas, Advocate, there took place
thegreat review before the Queen and Royal Family
in Holyrood Park of 22,ooo Scottish Volunteers,
? merchants perhaps in Scotland, and who had the
honour to entertain at his house, 35, George Square,
the Prince and Princess of Wales. It was during
Mr. Lawson?s reign that, on the 10th of hfarch,
1863, the Prince?s marriage took place, an occasion
that gave rise to the great and magnificent illumination
of the city-a spectacle the like of which has
never been seen, before or since, in this country.
His successor, in 1865, was William Chambers,
LL. D., the well-known Scottish writer, and member
of the eminent publishing firm of W. and
R. Chambers, High Street, during whose double
tenure of office the work of demolition in connection
with the city improvements commenced
in the block of buildings between St. Mary?s Wynd
and Gullan?s Close, Cannongate, on the 15th June,
1868. A grand review and sham-fight of volunteers
and regulars, to the number of 10,000 men, took
place in the royal park on the 4th July ; and subsequently
the freedom of the City was bestowed
upon Lord Napier of Magdala, and upon that
far-famed orator, John Bright, M.P. In 1874
James Falshaw was elected to the chair, the j ~ s t
Englishman who ever held such an office in Edinburgh.
He was created a baronet of the United
Kingdom in 1876 on the occasion of the unveiling
by the Queen of the Scottish National Memorial of
the late Prince Consort in Charlotte Square. He
was preceded in the chair by William Law, and
succeeded in 1877 by Sir Thomas Jamieson Boyd,
the well-known publisher, who was knighted in
1881 on the occasion of the Volunteer Review.
CHAPTER XXXV.
INFIRMARY STREET AND THE OLD HIGH SCHOOL.
Blackfriars Monastq-Its Formdation-Destrpyed by Fire-John Black the Dominican-The Friary Gardens- Lady Yester : her Church
and TomLThe Buryiug Ground-The Old High School--The Ancient Grammar School-David Vocat-School Founded-Hercules
RdlLlock-Early ClassesThe House Destroyed hy the English-The Bleis-Silver-David Malloch-The Old High Schml-Thomas
Ruddiman, Rector-Barclay?s Class-Henry Mackenzii?s Reminiscences-Dr. Addam, Rector : his Grammar-New Edifice Proposcd
and Erected-The School-boy Days of Sir Water Scott-Allan Masterton-The School in 1803-Death of Rector Adam-James
Pdans, M.A., and A R Canon, RectorsThe New Schwl Projected-The Old one Abandoned.
INFIRMARY STREET is now a continuation of
Chambers Street to the eastward, and is a thoroughfare
of great antiquity, as it led from the north
side of the Kirk-of-field, past the Dominican
Monastery and &to the Old High School Wynd.
In 1647 it was a double street with one long continuous
line of houses, occupyiing the whole front- ! Dominican or Blackfriars? Monastery, founded in
age of the future infirmary, and having six long
abutments (or short closes) running south towards
the south-eastem flank of the City wall.
On the exact site of the Old Surgical Hospital
there stood for nearly four hundred years a great
edifice of which now not a trace remains, the

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Beechwood.] SIR ROBERT DUNDAS OF BEECHWOOD. 105
to the Castle of Edinburgh under a strong escort of
their comrades.
General Leslie, and Lieutenant MacLean the
adjutant, having accompanied this party a little
way out of Glasgow, were, on their return, assailed
by a mob which sympathised with the Highlanders
and accused them of being active in sending
away the prisoners. The tumult increased,
stones were thrown ; General Leslie was knocked
down, and he and MacLean had to seek shelter
these documents were not formally executed, were
confused in their terms, and good for nothing in a
legal sense, Mrs. Rutherford of Edgerstoun very
generously fulfilled to the utmost what she conceived
to be the intentions of her father.
Sir Robert Dundas, Bart., of Beechwood, like the
preceding, figures in the pages of Kay. He was
one of the principal Clerks of Session, and Deputy
Lord Privy Seal of Scotland. He was born in
June, 1761, and was descended from the Dundases
BEECHWOOD.
in the house of the Lord Provost till peace
officers came, and a company of Fencibles. One
of the mutineers was shot, by sentence of a
court-martial. The others were sent to America.
On his way back to Edinburgh General Leslie
was seized with a dangerous illness, and died at
' Beechwood House on the 27th of December,
'794.
No will could be found among the General's repositories
at Beechwood, and it was presumed that
he had died intestate. However, a few days after
the filneral, two holograph papers were discovered,
bequeathing legacies to the amount of L7,ooo
among some of his relations and friends, particularly
.&I,OOO each to two natural daughters. Although
110
of Amiston, the common ancestor of whom was
knighted by Charles I., and appointed to the
bench by Charles 11. Educated as a Writer to
the Signet, he was made deputy-keeper of Sashes,
and in 1820 a principal Clerk of Session. He was
one of the original members of the old Royal
Edinburgh Volunteers, of which corps he was a
lieutenant in 1794. He purchased from Lord
Melville the estate of Dunira in Perthshire, and
succeeded to the baronetcy and the estate of
Beechwood on the death of his uncle General Sir
David Dundas, G.C.B., who was for some time
Commander-in-Chief of the forces. Sir Robert
died in 1835.
A winding rural carriage-way, umbrageous and

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 283
ever ; took out his license as a sportsman ; and, to the astonishment of every
one, survived for ten years afterwards. Mr. Bell died at his house, north side
of the Canongate, on the 6th of May 1807.
The vintner’s boy was the late MR. CHARLES OMAN, the first tenant
of the extensive premises called the Waterloo Hotel, for which he paid the
enormous sum of S1500 per annum. Mr. Oman waa a native of Caithness,
but came to Edinburgh in early life. On leaving the ‘‘ Star and Garter Tavern,”
in Writers’ Court, he was appointed Keeper of the Archers’ Hall, and
subsequently succeeded the well-known Buyle, as tenant of the coffee-house in
Shakspeare Square. From thence Mr. Oman removed to more commodious
premises in West Register Street. Here he remained till his entering on the
lease of the Waterloo Hotel, which he held till May 1825, when he removed
to Charlotte Square. The
hotel was afterwards kept by his widow.
He died there in the month of August following.
MR. JOHN RAE, who figures as bottle-holder, and who had been one of
the social party when the pedestrian match was entered into, possessed a spirit
of joviality and good-humour that could well relish the amusement of such an
enterprise. He was a younger son of Mr. James Rae, formerly described in
this Work, and was brought up under his father’s tuition to the medical profession.
He entered the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in the year
1781, and was Deacon of the Incorporation, and their President during the
years 1804-5. Mr. Rae was considered a good surgeon, but he more particularly
confined himself to the dental branch, and was certainly the most scientific
and extensively employed dentist in Edinburgh. He peculiarly excelled in extracting
teeth ; insomuch that, witnessing his dexterity on one occasion, the Hon.
Henry Erskine characterised the operation as suaviter in modo et fortiter in RE.
He served at
one time as fugleman to the First Regiment of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers,
and no one could have acquitted himself with greater ability in that
capacity. Thoroughly acquainted with the manual exercise, his activity and
expertness were such as forcibly to remind the onlookers of Jmtiee Shallow’s
paragon of a soldier :-“ I remember at Milne-End Green there was a little
quiver fellow, and--would manage you his piece thus ; and-a-would
about, and about, and come you in, and come you in; rub, tuk, tuk, woulda-
sing ; bounce would-a-say ; and away again would-ego, and again
would-a-come : I shall never see such a fellow !”
Mr. Rae was afterwards Captain-Lieutenant and Surgeon of the Second Battalion
; and latterly Captain of a corps of sharp-shooters. He held this commission
at the time of his death, which occurred in the spring of the year 1808,
in consequence of an apoplectic attack : he was buried with military honours.
He married a daughter of Mr. John Fraser, W.S., by whom he had two daughters
who survived.
During the Volunteer system Mr. Rae took an active part.
He was understood to leave considerable property.

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BIOGRAPHICBL SKETCHES. 41 1
No. CLXII.
MR. WILLIAM SCOTT,
MR. JAMES SIBBALD, GEORGE FAIRHOLME, ESQ.,
AND
JAMES KERR, ESQ.
THE first figure in this group of amateurs is MR. WILLIAM SCOTT, plumber,
who is represented looking through his glass at a print of the “ Three Graces.”
Mr. Scott’s ancestors were considerable landed proprietors in the county of
Northumberland, in England. His father, who had been bred a plumber-a
business then little known in Scotland-settled in Edinburgh early in the eighteenth
century, where the subject of our sketch was born in 1739. He received
a regular academical education, and was intended for the army ; but, in consequence
of greatly extended business, and his father having fallen into a
delicate state of health, he was induced to abandon his views of a military life.
He retired
from business many years before his death. He was a man of domestic habits ;
and, having a taste for the arts, amused himself in collecting engravings, of
which he had an extensive and valuable collection, embracing many productions
of the ancient masters: Being a member
of hlary’s Chapel, he for some time held the office of Treasurer, and twice
represented that incorporation as Deacon in the Town Council of Edinburgh.
He was a member of the Kirk Session of Haddo’s Hole, now called the New
North Church, for nearly half a century. He was Commandant of the
Lieutenants of the Train Band, one of the Majors of the Edinburgh Defensive
Band, and a member of the First Regiment of Royal Edinburgh Volunteers.
He died in 1816.
Mr. Scott was twice married, and had a family by each marriage.
He had also a well-selected library.
The next figure in the group is MR. JAMES SIBBALD, bookseller, holding
in his hand the print of the “Three Graces,” which he is contemplating
apparently with much satisfaction.
It is said Mr. Scott’s propensity for collecting arose from his having learned that an immense
aum had been got at the sale of a nobleman’s paintings and engravings. It immediately occurred to
him that a large si1111 might be realised for his family in a similar manner. Some years prior to his
death, he disposed of his collection of engravings to Mr. Vernon, a well-known picture-dealer then
resident in Edinburgh, who, by extensive purchases, greatly increased it both as to extent and value,
until it surpassed anything of the kind that has been seen in this country. The collection, however,
NZIEsu bsequently taken to England, and disposed of by public suction.

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Firinburgh Castle.] THE. REGIMENT OF EDINBURGH. 63
and all loyalists to quit the city. ?At the head
of his forlorn band, consisting of sixty cavalier
troopers-Guardsmenand Greys mingled-Dundee,
the idol of his party, quitted Edinburgh by the
Leith Wynd Port; and, through a telescope, the
Duke of Gordon watched them as they wound
past the venerable church of, the Holy Trinity,
among the cottages and gardens of Moutries Hill,
and as they rode westward by the Lang Gate, a solitary
roadway bordered by fields and farmhouses.?
According to Balcarres this was on the 18th of
March, 1689, and as Gordon wished to confer with
the viscount, the latter, on seeing a red flag waved
at the western postern, rode down the Kirk Brae,
and, quitting his horse, all heavily accoutred as he
was, climbed the steep rock to hold that conference
of which so little was ever known. He is said to
have advised the?duke to leave the Castle in charge
of Winram, on whom they could depend, and seek
their fortunes together among the loyal clans in the
north. But the duke declined, adding, ?Whither
?Wherever the shade of Montrose may direct
me,? was the pensive and poetical reply, and then
they parted to meet no more. But the moment
Dundee was gone the drums of the Cameroniaas
beat to ;urns, and they came swarming out of theix
places of concealment, mustering for immediate
ackioion, while, in the name of the Estates, the Earl$
of Tweeddale arid Lothian appeared at the gate d
the fortress, requesting the duke to surrender ii
within four-and-twenty houm, and daringly offering
a year?s pay to every soldier who would desert him.
?? My lords,? said he, ?without the express order?
of my royal master, James VII., I cannot surrendei
this castle.?
By the heralds and pursuivants the Duke 01
Gordon was now, as the only alternative, declarec
a traitor. He tossed them some guineas to drink
the health of James VII., adding, with a laugh, ??I
would advise you not to proclaim men traitors whc
wear the king?s coat till they have turned it?
Under the highest penalties, all persons were non
forbidden to correspond with him or his garrison
and the Earl of Leven was ordered to blockadethc
rock with his Cameronians, to whom were addec
300 Highlanders under Argyle. Out of this bodj
there were formed in one day two battalions of thc
line, which still exist-the 25th, or old Edinburgt
regiment, which bears on its colours the tripk
castle, with the motto, ?? Nisi Dominus Frustra,?*
go you ? ?
-
There was a second regiment, called the bth. or Royal Edinburgl
Volunteers, raised by Major-General Sir William Erskine. Bart., in 1777
It served rinder Cornwallis in the American War, and wasdibanded ai
the close thereof. Its Lieuteoant-Colooel was Dundas of Fingask, wh<
died at Guadaoupe
and the 26th, or Cameronians, whose appointments
bear the five-pointed mullet-the .arms of their
first colonel ; while three battalions of the Scots
Brigade, from Holland, were on their march, under
Lieutenant-General Hugh Mackay of Scoury, to
press the siege. Daily matters looked darker and
darker for the gallant Gordon, for now seventy-four
rank and file demanded their discharges, and were,
like their predecessors, stripped and expelled.
The gates were then barricaded, and preparations
made for resistance to the last; but though Sir
James Grant of Dalvey (fomierly King?s Advocate),
and Gordon of Edintore, contrived to throw in a
supply of provisions, the
that he could not hold
out beyond the month
of June unless relieved.
The entire strength
of the garrison, including
okers and gentlemen-
volunteers, was
only eighty-six men,
who had to work
twentv-two Dieces of
@j duke wrote King James -
(exclusive of FACSIMILE OF THE MEDAL
OF THE EDINBURGH REfield-
pieces) ranging VOLUTION CLUB.
from 42 to I a-pounders.
They had no doctor, no
engineer, no money, Mnrl in 1688.)
(=nick in 1753 in ~ommn~mmtiom
a d ~,ztrtu 6,. Wiziiam aw
of the recmwy of tkir Rrligwr
and only thirty barrels of powder in actual quantity.
It was truly a desperate hazard !
By the 18th the entire rock was fully and hopelessly
invested by the Earl of Leven, a Brandenburg
colonel, who displayed a great want of skill; and on
the following night the battlements were blazing
with bonfires and tar barrels in honour of King
Jam& safe arrival in Ireland, of which tidings had
probably been given by Grant of Dalvey. On the
25th came Mackay, with the three battalions of
the Scots Brigade, each consisting of twelve companies,
all splendidly-trained soldiers, a brigade of
guns, and a great quantity of woolpacks with
which to form breastworks. A11 within the Castle
who had gun-shot wounds suffered greatly from
the want of medical attendance, till the duke?s
family physician contrived to join him, probably by
the postern.
On the 13th of March he heavily cannonaded the
western entrenchments, and by dint of shot and
shell retnded the working parties; but General
Mackay now formed a battery of 18-pounders, at
the Highnggs, opposed to the royal lodging and
the half-moon. On the 3rd of April the Duke discovered
that the house of Coates, the ancient

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Firinburgh Castle.] THE. REGIMENT OF EDINBURGH. 63
and all loyalists to quit the city. ?At the head
of his forlorn band, consisting of sixty cavalier
troopers-Guardsmenand Greys mingled-Dundee,
the idol of his party, quitted Edinburgh by the
Leith Wynd Port; and, through a telescope, the
Duke of Gordon watched them as they wound
past the venerable church of, the Holy Trinity,
among the cottages and gardens of Moutries Hill,
and as they rode westward by the Lang Gate, a solitary
roadway bordered by fields and farmhouses.?
According to Balcarres this was on the 18th of
March, 1689, and as Gordon wished to confer with
the viscount, the latter, on seeing a red flag waved
at the western postern, rode down the Kirk Brae,
and, quitting his horse, all heavily accoutred as he
was, climbed the steep rock to hold that conference
of which so little was ever known. He is said to
have advised the?duke to leave the Castle in charge
of Winram, on whom they could depend, and seek
their fortunes together among the loyal clans in the
north. But the duke declined, adding, ?Whither
?Wherever the shade of Montrose may direct
me,? was the pensive and poetical reply, and then
they parted to meet no more. But the moment
Dundee was gone the drums of the Cameroniaas
beat to ;urns, and they came swarming out of theix
places of concealment, mustering for immediate
ackioion, while, in the name of the Estates, the Earl$
of Tweeddale arid Lothian appeared at the gate d
the fortress, requesting the duke to surrender ii
within four-and-twenty houm, and daringly offering
a year?s pay to every soldier who would desert him.
?? My lords,? said he, ?without the express order?
of my royal master, James VII., I cannot surrendei
this castle.?
By the heralds and pursuivants the Duke 01
Gordon was now, as the only alternative, declarec
a traitor. He tossed them some guineas to drink
the health of James VII., adding, with a laugh, ??I
would advise you not to proclaim men traitors whc
wear the king?s coat till they have turned it?
Under the highest penalties, all persons were non
forbidden to correspond with him or his garrison
and the Earl of Leven was ordered to blockadethc
rock with his Cameronians, to whom were addec
300 Highlanders under Argyle. Out of this bodj
there were formed in one day two battalions of thc
line, which still exist-the 25th, or old Edinburgt
regiment, which bears on its colours the tripk
castle, with the motto, ?? Nisi Dominus Frustra,?*
go you ? ?
-
There was a second regiment, called the bth. or Royal Edinburgl
Volunteers, raised by Major-General Sir William Erskine. Bart., in 1777
It served rinder Cornwallis in the American War, and wasdibanded ai
the close thereof. Its Lieuteoant-Colooel was Dundas of Fingask, wh<
died at Guadaoupe
and the 26th, or Cameronians, whose appointments
bear the five-pointed mullet-the .arms of their
first colonel ; while three battalions of the Scots
Brigade, from Holland, were on their march, under
Lieutenant-General Hugh Mackay of Scoury, to
press the siege. Daily matters looked darker and
darker for the gallant Gordon, for now seventy-four
rank and file demanded their discharges, and were,
like their predecessors, stripped and expelled.
The gates were then barricaded, and preparations
made for resistance to the last; but though Sir
James Grant of Dalvey (fomierly King?s Advocate),
and Gordon of Edintore, contrived to throw in a
supply of provisions, the
that he could not hold
out beyond the month
of June unless relieved.
The entire strength
of the garrison, including
okers and gentlemen-
volunteers, was
only eighty-six men,
who had to work
twentv-two Dieces of
@j duke wrote King James -
(exclusive of FACSIMILE OF THE MEDAL
OF THE EDINBURGH REfield-
pieces) ranging VOLUTION CLUB.
from 42 to I a-pounders.
They had no doctor, no
engineer, no money, Mnrl in 1688.)
(=nick in 1753 in ~ommn~mmtiom
a d ~,ztrtu 6,. Wiziiam aw
of the recmwy of tkir Rrligwr
and only thirty barrels of powder in actual quantity.
It was truly a desperate hazard !
By the 18th the entire rock was fully and hopelessly
invested by the Earl of Leven, a Brandenburg
colonel, who displayed a great want of skill; and on
the following night the battlements were blazing
with bonfires and tar barrels in honour of King
Jam& safe arrival in Ireland, of which tidings had
probably been given by Grant of Dalvey. On the
25th came Mackay, with the three battalions of
the Scots Brigade, each consisting of twelve companies,
all splendidly-trained soldiers, a brigade of
guns, and a great quantity of woolpacks with
which to form breastworks. A11 within the Castle
who had gun-shot wounds suffered greatly from
the want of medical attendance, till the duke?s
family physician contrived to join him, probably by
the postern.
On the 13th of March he heavily cannonaded the
western entrenchments, and by dint of shot and
shell retnded the working parties; but General
Mackay now formed a battery of 18-pounders, at
the Highnggs, opposed to the royal lodging and
the half-moon. On the 3rd of April the Duke discovered
that the house of Coates, the ancient

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290 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
On the formation of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers, Mr. Pringle was
appointed Lieutenant of the Left Grenadiers, and afterwards promoted to a
Captaincy. He lived at that time in “ the Society,” Brown Square.
The Clerk seated at the table, of whom only a back view is afforded, is Mr.
JOSEPH MACK, who for many years officiated as a Clerk in the Sheriff
Court. His father was one of the officials of
St. Cuthbert’s Church, under the late Rev. Sir Henry MoncreifT and Mr. Paul.
As an amanuensis, or copyist, Mr. Joseph was remarkably expeditious. He
died on the 1st of October 1801, the day on which the account of the peace
of Amiens arrived in Edinburgh,
He was a native of Edinburgh.
No. CCLXVII.
THE HON. SIR NASH GROSE,
ONE OF THE JUDGES OF THE COURT OF KING’S BENCH?
NASH GROSE, son of Edward Grose, Esq., of the city of London, was born in
1740. Admitted of Lincoln’s Inn in 1756, he was called to the bar in
1766 ; and, by the display of considerable professional abilities, speedily established
himself in extensive business.
After eight years’ practice as a barrister he obtained the degree of Sergeant,
and for many years took the lead in the Court of Common Pleas. He was
also allowed to be an excellent Nisi Prius advocate ; and, as a special pleader,
he had distinguished himself by blending with the formal nature of his duties
a degree of eloquence seldom associated with the office.
The elevation of Mr. Grose to a judicial seat, in 1780, was generally regarded
as a just appreciation of his talents and rectitude of conduct; and, while he
continued on the bench, he is universally allowed to have maintained an
uprightness, integrity, and freedom from political bias, which with one or two
exceptions, has been the proud characteristic of the English judges since the
Revolution. Shortly after his elevation the honour of knighthood was conferred
on him by his Majesty George the Third.
Sir Nash Grose retired from the bench in 1813, and died suddenly the
following year. He was at the time (the 6th of June) on his return to his seat in
the Isle of Wight, and had scarcely entered the room when he fell on a sofa,
and expired in a few minutes afterwards, His remains were interred in the Isle
of Wight.
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Lord Provost?.] THE DUNDAS RIOTS. 281
daughter of the head of the firm. When he took
ofice politics ran high, The much-needed reform
of the royal burghs had been keenly agitated
for some time previous, and a motion on the subject,
negatived in the House of Commons by a
majority of 26, incensed the Scottish public to a
great degree, while Lord Melville, Secretary of
State, by his opposition to the question, rendered
himself so obnoxious, that in many parts of Scotland
he was burned in effigy. In this state of excitement
Provost Stirling and others in authority at
Edinburgh looked forward to the King?s birthdaythe
4th of June, 1792-with considerable uneasiness,
and provoked mischief by inaugurating the festival by
sending strong patrols of cavalry through the streets
at a quick pace with swords drawn. Instead of
having the desired effect, the people became furious
at this display, and hissed and hooted the cavalry
with mocking cries of ?Johnnie Cope.? In the
afternoon, when the provost and magistrates were
assembled in the Parliament House to drink the
usual loyal toasts, a mob mustered in the square, and
amused themselves after a custom long peculiar to
Edinburgh on this day, of throwing dead cats at
each other, and at the City Guard who were under
arms to fire volleys after every toast.
Some cavalry officers incautiously appeared at this
time, and, on being insulted, brought up their men
to clear the streets, and, after considerable stonethrowing,
the mob dispersed. Next evening it
re-assembled before the house of Mr. Dundas in
George Square, with a figure of straw hung from a
pole. When about to burn the effigy they were
attacked by some of Mr. Dundas?s friends-among
others, it is said, by his neighbours, the naval hero
of Camperdown, and Sir Patrick Murray of
Ochtertyre. These gentlemen retired to Dundas?s
house, the windows of which were smashed by the
mob, which next attacked the residence of the
Lord Advocate, Dundas of Amiston. On this it
became necessary to bring down the 53rd Re$-
ment from the Castle ; the Riot Act was read, the
people were fired on, and many fell wounded, some
mortally, who were found dead next day in the
Meadows and elsewhere. This put an end to the
disturbances for that night ; but on Wednesday
evening the mob assembled in the New Town with
the intention of destroying the house of Provost
Stirling at the south-east corner of St. Andrew
Square, where they broke the City Guards? sentry
boxes to pieces. But, as an appointed signal, the
ancient beacon-fire, was set aflame in the Castle,
the Bind frigate sent ashore her marines at Leith,
and the cavalry came galloping ih from the eastward,
an which the mob separated finally.
By this time Provost Stirling had sought shelter
In the Castle from the mob, who were on the point
Jf throwing Dr. Alexander Wood (known as Lang
Sandy) over the North Bridge in mistake for him.
For his zeal, however, he was made a baronet of
Great Britain. The year 1795 was one of great
listress in the city ; Lord Cockbum tells us that
16,000 persons (about an eighth of the population)
were fed by charity, and the exact quantity of food
each family should consume was specified by public
proclamation. In 1793 a penny post was established
in Edinburgh, extending to Leith, Musselburgh,
Dalkeith, and Prestonpans. Sir James
Stirling latterly resided at the west end of Queen
Street, and died in February, 1805.
Sir William Fettes, Lord Provost in 1800 and
1804, we have elsewhere referred to ; but William
Coulter, a wealthy hosier in the High Street, who
succeeded to the civic chair in 1808, was chiefly remarkable
for dying in office, like Alexander Kina
i d thirty years before, and for the magnificence
with which his funeral obsequies were celebrated.
He died at Morningside Lodge, and the cortkge
was preceded by the First R E. Volunteers, and
the officers of the three Regiments of Edinburgh
local militia, and the body was in a canopied
hearse, drawn by six horses, each led by a groom in
deep mourning. On it lay the chain of office, and
his sword and sash as colonel of the volunteers.
A man of great stature, in a peculiar costume,
bore the banner of the City. When the body was
lowered into the grave, the senior herald broke and
threw therein the rod of office, while the volunteers,
drawn up in a line near the Greyfriars? Church,
fired three funeral volleys.
Sir John Marjoribanks, Bart., Lord Provost in
1813, was the son of Marjoribanks of Lees, an
eminent wine merchant in Bordeaux, and his
mother was the daughter of Archibald Stewart, Lord
Provost of the city in the memorable ?45. Sir John
was a partner in the banking-house of Mansfield,
Ranisay, and Co., and while in the civic chair was
the chief promoter of the Regent Bridge and Calton
Gaol, though the former had been projected by Sir
James Hunter Blair in 1784 When the freedom
of thedty was given to Lord Lynedoch, ?the gallant
Graham,? Sir John gave h k a magnificent dinner,
on the 12th of August, I815-two months after
Waterloo. There were present the Earl of Morton,
Lord Audley, Sir David Dundas, the Lord Chief
Baron, the Lord Chief Commissioner, Sir James
Douglas, Sir Howard Elphinstone, and about a
hundred of the most notable men in Edinburgh,
the freedom of which was presented to Lord
Lynedoch in a box of gold ; and at the conclusion

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410 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
the army at an early period, and was present at the siege of Havannah in 1762.
In 1803, shortly after the Fencible regiments were disbanded, Major Clarkson
obtained the majority of the Berwickshire Militia, which commission he held
till his death, which took place in 1811 or 1812. His daughter, an only child,
married Lieutenant Norton of the Royals; and the wife of Mr. Sinclair, the
vocalist, is the offspring of that marriage.’
No. CLXI.
MR. JOHN ADARIS,
NASTER OF THE ROYAL RIDING MENAGE.
MR. ADAMS, who is here represented in the uniform of the Royal Mid-Lothian
Volunteer Cavalry, originally belonged to the 16th Light Dragoons, of which
regiment he was Quartermaster. He was subsequently a Lieutenant of the
Cinque Port Light Dragoons, commanded by the Earl of Liverpool, then
Colonel Jenkinson ; which corps was embodied in 1794, and had their colours
presented, in a field before Walmer Castle, the seat of the Lord Warden of the
Cinque Ports, by Lord Viscount Melville, then Mr. Secretary Dundas.
In 1797 Mr. Adams was brought to Edinburgh for the purpose of drilling
and organising the Mid-Lothian Cavalry, then about to be formed; and to
which regiment he was appointed adjutant. The duties of this situation he
discharged to the entire satisfaction of that highly respectable corps ; and when
old Tremamondo retired from the Riding-School,’ he was chosen his successor.
He died at the premature
age of forty-six, on the 18th of May 1804. His remains were interred in the
Greyfriars Churchyard with military honours-a company of the Edinburgh
Volunteers forming the firing party.
Adams was succeeded by Colonel Letham, whose son, Captain Letham,
afterwards held the appointment.
Mr. Adams did not long enjoy the Mastership.
1 A daughter of Mr. and Nrs. Sinclair was married, 23d June 1837, to Mr. Forrest, the celebrated
American tragedian.
a “he Riding-School was established in 1763, and Mr. Angelo wra the first master.-In a periodical
work of that year we find the following notice of the institution :-“A branch of education, not
formerly taught in this country, is lately established at Edinburgh-homemanship, or the art of
riding. For the purpose, a menage is erected by subscription ; and, at a general meeting, held 12th
December, the ordinary directors having reported that the building of the Riding-School and stables
was nearly finished, and that a sufficient number of homes, both foreign and English, was provided,
and several of them properly dressed by Mr. Angelo, it was agreed that the menage should be opened
for the reception of scholars on the first Monday of January. Each scholar pays four guineas the
first month, and two guineas every other month ; sixteen teaching days in the month. Gentlemen,
whose business will not allow them to attend regularly, get sixteen tickets for amonth, and pay three
guineas for the fist month, and two pounds six shillings for every other month.”

... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. the army at an early period, and was present at the siege of Havannah in 1762. In ...

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CONTENTS. ix
CHAPTER XLII.
JAURISTON.
The New UniveAity Buildmgs-The Estimates and Ammmodation-George Watsods HospitaI-Fonnded-Opencd and Sold-The New
Royal Infirmary-Its Capabilities for Accommodation-Simpn Memorial Hospital-Sii children?s Hospital-Merchant Maiden
H a s p i t a l - W ~ n ? s S c h w ~ ~ s t o n U n i t e d P r r s b ~ ~ h u r c h - S ~ C p t h u i m ? s ~ ~ . . . - . - . .355
CHAPTER XLIII.
GEORGE HERIOT?S HOSPITAL AND THE GREYFRIARS CHURCH.
Norice o f h r g e Heriot-Dies Childless-His Wd--The Hospital founded-Its Pmgrcss-The Marter Masons--Opmed-Number of
Scholars-Dr. Ralcanquall-Alterations-The EdificcThe Amhit- of it-Heriot?s Day and Inht Schools in the City-Luudi?s
Balloon Ascent-Royal Edinburgh Volunteers-The Heriot Breweryald Greyfriars Church-The Cwcnant-The Cromwellii-The
Coveuanting Prisoners-The Martyr?s Tomb-New Greyfriars-Dr. Wallace--I)I. RobeWn-Dr. E r s k i n 4 l d Tombs in the Church
-Grant by Queen Marg-Morton Interred-State of the Ground in 177pThe Gravea of B u c k and others-Roneo from SL Giles?s
Church - . . . . , . . . . , . . . . . . . - . .36j
ERRATA.
Page 135 col I, lines 3,+ from foot, for ?he preached on the death of Dr,,? k, read ?preached at hi4
Page 145 col. 2, delete lines 14 to 25 tium top.
Page I#, col. I, delete Lines 3 to 6 from top.
Page 156, COL a, line 10 from foot, for ? w? read ?is?
Page 158, col. I, lie 13 from top, for ?? 1876? read 4? 1871.-
Page 168, col. I, line 22 from top, for ?was till 1879 ? read ? is.?
Page 168, COL i, line 31 from top, for ?now? read ?was till 1879.-
Page ~m col. 2, line 4 from top, for ? Provident Institntion,? read ?Scottish Union and National Insuranc-
z Company;? and for ?6?read ?47, George Street, and24 st. Andrew Squan, these two
companies having been amalgamated in 1879.?
Page 171, col. I, line 10 from top, for ?west ? read ?( east.?
Page r71, col. I, l i e 12 from top, for I? Provident Institntion I* read ?Scottish Unim and National Insuranc-
z Company.?
Page 172. The engraving repmnts the ?Scottish Union and National Iosurancc Company? and not
the ?Scottish Provident Institution.?
Nom-Mr. Hugh James Ro110, W.S., factor for the Walker trustees, Mites:-?At page 1x1 it is IC.
presented that a capital of &mow was bequeathed by the Mims Walker for the erection d S t .
Mary?s Cathedral, whereas the amount of personal estate left was about ,&&,om, besides heritage
very valuable for feuing purposes, which at the death of Miss Mary Walker yielded an income
of about .44,om a year. The income at preseat is about .46,504 the first charge on which is a
sum of f;1,4oo for stipends to clergy of the cathedral, bursaries to students, and allowance to the
poor of the cathedral. Then there is a sum of & I , X ~ to be anndly set aside for thirty year4
to repay part of the cost of the cathedral, and the interest on this &minish;ng loam The surplus
income is at the d e of the trustees for behoof of the Episcopd Church in Scotland, the City of
Edinburgh having always a p?cf- The ultimate income will be about L8,om a yeu.?
death by Dr.,? &c.

... Day and Inht Schools in the City-Luudi?s Balloon Ascent- Royal Edinburgh Volunteers -The Heriot Breweryald ...

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3 44 OLD AND NEW? EDINBURGH. [Gilmerton.
succeeding to the estate of Inverleith. Sir Francis,
who entailed the Edinburgh estate of Gilmerton,
died and March, I 747, and Sir James and Sir David
succeeded in succession to Gilmerton, and died in
1795, at a place of the same name in Haddingtonshire.
Sir Francis was Governor of the British
Linen Company and Writer to the Privy Seal of
Scotland. By his wife, Harriet Cockburn of Langton,
he had five sons-Francis, his successor ;
Archibald Kinloch Gordon, a major in the army,
lunatic, and the title devolved upon his elder
brother, who became Sir Francis, sixth baronet.
The old Place of Gilmerton has long since been
deserted by the family, which took up their residence
at the house of the sa?me name in East
Lothian.
A mile south of the old mansion iS Gilmerton
Grange, which had of old the name of Burndale, or
Burntdale, from a tragic occurrence, which suggested
to Scott his fine ballad of ?The Gray
GILYERTON.
who assumed that name on succeeding to an estate;
David, who served under Cornwallis in the
American War, in the 80th Regiment or Royal
Edinburgh Volunteers; Alexander, Collector of Customs
at Prestonpans; and John, whodied unmarried.
Sir Francis survived his father by only a short
time, as the ? Scottish Register ?I for the year I 796
records that he was killed by a pistol-shot in
his forty-eighth year at Gilmerton, ?fired by his
brother, Major Archibald Kinloch Gordon, who
was brought under a strong guard to the Tolbooth
of Edinburgh to take his trial.?
This unfortunate man, who had been captain in
the 65th in 1774, and major in the old 90th Regiment
in 1779, was eventually proved to be a
Brother.? The tradition, as related to him by John
Clerk of Eldin, author of the ?Essay on Naval
Tactics,? was as follows :
When Gilmerton belonged to a baron named
Heron, he had one daughter, eminent for her
beauty. ?? This young lady was seduced,? says Sir
Walter, ? by the Abbot of Newbattle, a richly endowed
abbey upon the banks of the South Esk,
now a seat of the Marquis of Lothian. Heron
came to the knowledge of this circumstance, and
learned also that the lovers carried on their intercourse
by the connivance of the lady?s nurse, who
lived at this house of Gilmerton Grange, or Burndale.
He formed a resolution of bloody vengeance,
undeterred by the supposed sanctity of the clerical

... 44 OLD AND NEW? EDINBURGH. [Gilmerton. succeeding to the estate of Inverleith. Sir Francis, who entailed the ...

Book 6 p. 344
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358 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
No. BXLIV.
THOMAS ELDER, ESQ. OF FORNETH,
LATE LORD PRQVOST OF ERINBURGH.
TRIS gentleman held the office of Chief Magistrate of Edinburgh at the
following different periods-first, from 1788 till 1790; again, from 1792 till
1794; and, lastly from 1796 till 1798.
Great responsibility WCLS attachable to the office during the second period of
his pravostship, in consequence of the disturbed state of the country, and the
measures of agitation resorted to by the “Friends of the People.” Provost
Elder exerted himself vigorously to check the inroad of democracy, Although
the troops then scattered over Scotland were under two thousand, he ventured,
assisted by a few only of the more respectable citizens of Edinburgh, to
suppress the meeting of the memorable British Convention, held on the 5th
December 1793, taking ten or twelve of the principal members prisoners; and,
in a similar manner, on the 12th of December, he dissolved another meeting,
held in the cock-pit at the Grassmarket.
On the 13th January 1794 an immense crowd had assembled on occasion of
the trial of Maurice Margarot, for the purpose of accompanying him to the
Court of Justiciary. In anticipation of this, the Magistrates, City-Guard, and
constables, with a number of respectable inhabitants, met at an early hour
in the Merchants’ Hall, and sallying forth, with the Chief Magistrate at their
head, about ten o’clock, they met Margarot and a number of his friends walking
in procession under an ornamental arch, on which the words “Liberty,
Justice,” etc. were inscribed. The canopy was instantly seized and thrown over
the east side of the North Bridge; and, with the assistance of the crew of a
frigate lying in Leith Roads, the crowd was dispersed, and the two arch-bearers
captured.
At ameeting of the Town Council on the 9th September, immediately previous
to the annual change in that body, they “unanimously returned their
thanks, and voted a piece of plate to the Right Hon. the Lord Provost, for his
spirited and prudent conduct while in office, and especially during the late commotions.”
On the formation of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers, in the summer of
1794, Mr. Elder intended, on retiring from the provostship, to enter tbe ranks
as a common volunteer ; but this resolution was rendered nugatory by a mark
of distinction emanating from the members of the association. For obvious
reasons the commission of Colonel was to be invested in the Chief Maa&trate

... during the late commotions.” On the formation of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers , in the summer of 1794, Mr. ...

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328 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Blind ; one of the Committee of Management of the Deaf and Dumb Institution ;
one of the Extraordinary Directors of the House of Refuge; and one of
the Ordinary Managers of the Royal Infirmary, and of the Royal Public
Dispensary.
To the Society of Antiquaries, Sir Henry communicated an interesting
account of the opening of the grave of King Robert the Bruce, which took place
at Dunfermline, in presence of the Barons of Exchequer and other gentlemen,
on the 5th of November 1819.’
i
The other figure with the volunteer cap, immediately in the rear of Sir
Henry, is the late SIR ROBERT DUNDAS of Beechwood, Bart., one of the
Principal Clerks of Session, and Deputy to the Lord Privy Seal of Scotland.
He was born in June 1761, and descended of the Arniston family, whose
common ancestor, Sir James .Dundas, was knighted by Charles I., and
appointed a Senator of the College of Justice by Charles 11. His father, the
Rev. Robert Dundas, brother to the late General Sir David Dundas, K.G.C.B.,
and some years Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty’s Forces, was a clergyman
of the Established Church, and some time minister of the parish of Humbie, in
the county of Haddington. Sir Robert-the subject of our notice-was educated
as a Writer to the Signet, After a few years’ practice, he was made
Deputy Keeper of Sashes; and, in 1820, appointed one of the Principal
Clerks of Session. He succeeded to the baronetage and the estate of Beechw9od
(near Edinburgh) on the death of his uncle, General Sir David Dundas.
He acquired by purc)ase, from, Lord Viscount Melville, the beautiful estate of
Dunira, in Perthshire.
Sir Robert was an original member of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers, and
held the commission of Lieutenant in 1794. In 1792, he married Matilda,
daughter of Baron Cockburn, by whom he had eight children. He died on
1 The communication of Sir Henry appeared in the Society’s Tyamactiom, printed in 1823, vol.
ii. part ii., together with a drawing of the coftin, and a facsimile of a plate of copper supposed to
have been attached to it. This relic is stated to have been found by the workmen a few days a f h
the opening of the grave, and is described as “ five and a half inches in length, and four in breadth,
and about one-eighth of an inch in thickness, with holes at each corner for fixing it on the coffin,
bearing this inscription, Robertus Xcotomm Rex; the letters resemble those on the coins of this
King [Bruce]. A cross is placed under the inscription, with a mullet or star in each angle, with the
crown, precisely of the form iu those coins. It was found among the rubbish which had been
removed on the 5th, close to the vault on the east side, and most probably had been adhering to thc
atones of the vault, and had thus escaped our notice at the time.” The plate, so minutely and
gravely described, was forwarded by Provost Wilson of Dunfermline, and duly deposited in the
Museum of the Scottish Antiquaries ; but it afterwards transpired that the “important fragment,”
as it was termed, was nothing more than an ingenious device, the work of a blacksmith, contrived
for the purpose of hoaxing the Antiquariev ! The success of his attempt waa complete ; and but for
his own imprudence, or rather an irresistible desire to enjoy the laugh at the expense of the Society,
the deception might have remained undiscovered.
It may not be unworthy of notice that Sir Henry wiw one of the commissioners appointed, along
with Sir Walter Scott and others, to open the chest which contained the Regalia of Scotland,
deposited in Edinburgh Castle, but which, according to rumour, had been carried to the Tower of
London, and that he had the high gratification of being the first to lay hands upon the Crown, which
he held up to the view of the spectators. It was found on the 4th of February 1818.

... in Perthshire. Sir Robert was an original member of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers , and held the commission of ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 93
No. XLI.
THE REV. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D.D.,
AUTHOR OF THE “HISTORY OF SCOTLAND,” AND “CHARLES v.”
THIS eminent divine resided within the old College, at the south gate, nearly
on the spot where the centre of the library now is. He was born in the year
1721, in the manse of Borthwick, of which parish his father, also called William,
was then minister, but who was afterwards presented to the Old Greyfriars’
Church, Edinburgh. His mother was Eleanor, daughter of David Pitcairn,
Esq. of Dreghorn ; by the father’s side he was descended from the Robertsons
of Gladney in Fife, a branch of the ancient house of Strowan. Dr. Robertson
received the first rudiments of his education at Dalkeith, under Mr. Leslie ; and,
in 1733, when his father removed to Edinburgh, he commenced his course of
academical study, which he completed at the University of Edinburgh in 1741.
In the same year he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Dalkeith ; and
in 1743 was, by the Earl of Hopetoun, presented to the living of Gladsmuir in
East Lothian. Soon after this, his father and mother died within a few hours
of each other, when six sisters,’ and a younger brother,” were left almost wholly
dependent on him. He immediately took them home to his humble residence
at Gladsmuir, where his stipend amounted to little more than 260 a year, and
devoted his leisure hours to the superintendence of their education. After
seeing them all respectably settled in the world, he married, in 1751, his cousin
Mary, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Nisbet, one of the ministers of Edinburgh.
In the Rebellion of 1745, when Edinburgh was threatened by the Highlanders,
he hastened into the city, and joined a corps of Volunteers raised for its
defence ; and when it was resolved to deliver up the city without resistance, he,
with a small band, tendered his assistance to General Cope, who lay with the
royal army at Haddington-an offer which the General (fortunately for the
Doctor and his party) declined. He then returned to the sacred duties of his
parish, where he was much beloved ; and soon afterwards began to display his
talents in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, where he became
the object of universal attention and applause. It was about this time that Dr.
Robertson so ably defended his friend Mr. Home, the author of the tragedy of
Douglas, from the proceedings adopted against him in the clerical courts.
The first publication of Dr. Robertson was a sermon, which was preached by
him before the Society for propagating Christian Knowledge, in 1755 ; and to
it may be attributed the unanimity of his call to the charge of Lady Yester’s
Church in Edinburgh, to which he was translated in 1758. InFebruary 1759,
One of his sisters, Mrs. Syme, who lived at the head of the Cowgate, waa the grandmother of
’ Mr. Patrick Fbbertaon, who was bred a jeweller, and was very successful in businaw in Edinburgh.
Lord Brougham and Vaux.

... SKETCHES. 93 No. XLI. THE REV. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D.D., AUTHOR OF THE “HISTORY OF SCOTLAND,” ...

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THE LA WNMARKET. I77
King being ludgit in Robert Gourlay’s ludging, he came to the sermone, and ther, in presence
of the haill peipill, he promest to reuenge God’s cause, to banische all the papists,
and y’ requystet the haill peiple to gang with him against Boduell, quha wes in Leith for
the tyme.” His Majesty’s pathetic exhortation, and promises of pious zeal in the cause
of the kirk, soon mustered a force of civic volunteers, who proceeded to Leith, where
Bothwell lay with a body of five hundred horse. The King gallantly headed his recruits so
long as the Earl retreated before them, first ‘(t o the Halkhill, besyde Lesteric,” * and then
away through Duddingston: but no sooner did Bothwell turn his horsemen to face them,
than his Majesty showed (‘ the better part of valour ” by a precipitate retreat, and never
drew bridle, we may presume, till he found himself once more safely sheltered within the
pend of Gourlay’s Close, Holyrood Abbey being much too near the recent quarters of
the rebellious Earl to be ventured on for the royal abode.
From the various incidents adduced, it appears evident that Robert Gourlay waO not
only a subservient courtier, but also that he waa so far dependent on the King-whatever
may have been the nature of his office-as to place his house at his Majesty’s free disposal,
whenever it suited his convenience? It is well known that King James waa very condescending
in his favours to his loyal citizens of Edinburgh, making no scruple, when the
larder of Holyrood grew lean, and the privy purse was exhausted, to give up housekeeping
for a time, and honour one or other of the substantial burghers of his capital with a visit of
himself and household ; or when the straitened mansions within the closes of old Edinburgh
proved insuf6cient singly to accommodate the hungry train of courtiers, he would
very considerately distribute his favours through the whole length of the close I In
January 1591, for example, as we learn from Moysie: when ‘‘ the King and Queen%
Majesties lodged themselves in Nicol. Edward’s house, in Niddry’s Wynd,” the Chancellor
withdrew to Alexander Clark’s house, at the same wynd head ; and, it is added, “on
the 7th of February, the Earl of Huntly, with his friends, to the number of five or six
score horse, passed from his Majesty’s said house in Edinburgh, intending to pass to a
horse race in Leith.” We are not quite sure if we are to understand that the whole six score
were actually lodgers in the wynd, but it is quite obvious, at least, that his Majesty found
his quarters there much too comfortable to be likely to quit ‘‘ his said house ” in a hurry.
The free use, however, which was made of Gourlay’s mansion, lacked such royal condescension
to sweeten the sacrifice ; it was only when its massive walls gave greater promise of
safety in the time of danger that the King made it his abode; and we may presume its
owner to have enjoyed some more substantial benefits in return for such varied encroachments
on his housekeeping.
In the year 1637, David Gourlay, the grandson of the builder, sold this ancient fabric
to Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, the courageous and intrepid adviser of the recusant clergy
in 1606, when the politic lawyers of older standing declined risking King James’s dhpleasure
by appearing in their behalf. In 1626 he was created King’s Advocate by Charles
Birrell’a Diary, p. 32. Restalrig.
a We are indebted to Mr R. Chambem for the following interesting note on thia subject In the Second Book of
Chartera in the Canongate Council House, I find Adam, Bishop of Orkney, giving to &bed Qourlay, messenger, ‘our
familiar semitor,’ the office of messenger, or officer-at-arms, to the Abbey, with a salary of forty pounds and other perquisite?.”
‘ Moysie’s Yemoirg p. 182. Ante, p. 89.
2

... LA WNMARKET. I77 King being ludgit in Robert Gourlay’s ludging, he came to the sermone, and ther, in ...

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323 *la.] ADV.4NCE OF THE * HIGHLANDERS, -__
appointed thereto in 1716), mustered the outpensioners
of Chelsea, and officered them, locally,
from the half-pay list.
Doubtful of the faith of Preston, as a Scotsman,
the Government superseded him in command, and
sent in his place Lieutenant-General Joshua Guest,
an Englishman, who proved a staunch Jacobite,
and on the approach of the Highlanders he was
the first to propose a capitulation, a measure
vigorously opposed by Preston, a resolute Whig 01
the old King William school, who thereupon undertook
the defence, with a gamson which consisted
only of the old Castle company, the two companies
of the 47th, each mustering about seventy bayonets,
under Major Robertson, the Chelsea Pensioners,
and Lieutenant Brydone?s artillery company, which
had landed at Leith on the 4th of September, and
marched in with a great quantity of the munitions
of war.
The other troops in Scotland at this time consisted
only of the 13th and 14th Light Dragoons
at Edinburgh, the company of the Royals captured
at Spean Bridge, the 6th Foot at Aberdeen, two
companies of the 21st Scots Fusiliers at Glasgow,
the 25th Edinburgh regiment in Fifeshire, two
companies of the 4znd at Crieff, five of the 44th
in the West, and another five at Berwick, the 46th
(known as ?? Murray?s Bucks ?) scattered over the
Highlands, Loudon?s Highlanders (disbanded in
1749) stationed in the north ; in all not quite 4,ooc
men ; but, collecting these, Sir John Cope prepared
to bar the Prince?s way into the Lowlands.
Quitting Perth at the head of little more than
2,000 men,* only the half of whom had arms, the
latter, on the 11th September, resumed his adventurous
march southward, and crossing the Forth
by the perilous fords of Frew, to avoid the guns
of Stirling, he held on his way by the Scottish
Marathon, by the Torwood and Linlithgow, traversing
scenes that he, the heir of the ancient regal
line, could not have beheld without emotion, engaged,
as he was, on an enterprise more daring
and more desperate than had ever been undertaken
by any of his ancestors since Bruce fought
the battle of Dalry.
On the 1,gth he was at Corstorphine, less than
A true account of thestrengthof the Highland army, aph August, 1745.
Lochiel ........................... 700
Clanmnald, having men of his Islands ...... 050
The Stewarts of Appin under Ardsheil ...... a50
Keppoch ........................... 260
and the Grants of Glenmorriston ...... 600
, Glengawy?s men, induding Knoydart, Glencoe.
2 . h
(? Culloden Papers. ?3
?The Highlanders were not more than 1,800, and the half of them only
Were armed.? (?Autobiography of Dr. Carlyle of Inveresk?)
lour miles distant from the capital, and to avoid
exposing his troops to the Castle guns in advancing,
he wheeled southward towards Slateford, and fixed
his quarters at Gray?s Mill, two miles from the
city.
Great was now the excitement within the walls.
The militia, called the trained bands, consisted of
sixteen companies, or 1,000 men, entirely undisciplined,
and many of them entirely disloyal to the
Hanoverian cause. In their own armoury the
citizens had 1,259 muskets and zoo bayonets, 300
sets of accoutrements, a considerable quantity of
ammunition, with seventy-five stand of arms and
Lochaber axes belonging to the City Guard. On
Sunday, 16th September, Hislop, keeper of this
arsenal, issued 500 rounds of ball ammunition and
sixty firelocks to each company of the trained
bands, thirty-nine firelocks to the additional
company of the City Guard, and twenty-four to the
company of the Canongate-head, 500 rounds of
ball to the Seceders, whose muster-place was the
Infirmary, and 450 Ibs. of powder for the cannon on
the walls. All the rest he sent to the Castle. The
banner borne by the Seceders is now in the Museum
3f Antiquities, and was once used at Bothwell
Brig. It is blue, with a white St. Andrew?s saltire,
charged with five roses, and the motto, Cmenanfs,
Ueligion, Kin& and Kingdoms.
Towards the end of the preceding month the
nore zealous citizens had proposed to raise a
regiment 1,000 strong for the defence of the town ;
but the royal permission therefor was not accorded
till the 9th of September, and by the time that
the Prince drew near only zoo men had been
enrolled, all of the most dissolute character, and
tempted by the proffered pay alone. In addition
to these was the regiment of Edinburgh Volunteers,
400 strong, divided into six companies, and drilled
regularly twice daily. Cannon from the ships at
Leith were mounted on the walls together with
swivels or pateraroes (i.e., small cannon). The ports
were barricaded ; there was much military bluster,
with much Singing of psalms ; but as the Highlanders
drew nearer all this show of valour died away.
When the Prince?s vanguard was at Kirkliston, it
was proposed by General Guest that the two Light
Dragoon regiments, supported by the City Guard,
the so-called Edinburgh Regiment, and 250 volunteers,
should march out and give battle to the
insurgents !
The signal was given ; on the forenoon of Sunday
the 15th of September the clang of the alarm
bells came during sermon, and the people rushed
rorth from the churches to find the detailed force
&-awn up under arms ia the High Street; but the

... *la.] ADV.4NCE OF THE * HIGHLANDERS, -__ appointed thereto in 1716), mustered the outpensioners of Chelsea, ...

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Well from Restalrig, where it had been all hut
buried under the workshops of the North British
Railway ; but now a limpid perennial rill from the
Craigs flows into its ancient basin, the Gothic archway
to which is closed by an open iron gate.
The old solitude and amenity of the Hunter's
Bog, after 1858, were destroyed by the necessary
erection of four rifle ranges, two of 300 yards, and
two of 600 yards, for the use of the garrison and
DUDDINGSTON CHURCH (INTERIOR).
volunteers, and the construction of two unornamental
powder magazines. The danger signal is
always hoisted in !he gorge known as the Hause ;
the rocky ridge named the Dasses overlooks these
ranges on the east.
Leaving the Echoing Rock, an isolated eminence,
and following the old road round the hill,
under Samson's Ribs, a superb range of pentagonal
greenstone columns sixty feet long by five in
dkmeter, the Fox's Holes, and the rugged stony
slope named the Sclyvers, we come to a lofty
knoll named the Girnel Craig, and another named
the Hangman's Craig or Knowe, from the following
circumstance. About the reign of Charles II.,
the office of public executioner was taken by a
reduced gentleman, the last member of an old
88
reprobate could not altogether forget his former
tastes and habits. He would occasionally resume
the garb of a gentleman, and mingle in the parties
of citizens who played at golf in the evenings on
Bruntsfield Links. Being at length recognised,
he was chased from the ground with shouts of execration
and loathing, which affected him so much
that he retired to the solitude of the King's Park,
and was next day found dead at the bottom of a
precipice, over which he is supposed to have thrown
himself in despair. The rock was afterwards
called the Hangman's Grae."
The deep gorge between it and the Sclyvers is
named the Windy Goule, and through it winds the
ancient path that leads direct to the hamlet of
Duddingston, which, with the loch of that name,'

... from Restalrig, where it had been all hut buried under the workshops of the North British Railway ; but now ...

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