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100 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
No. XLVIII.
HENRY VISCOUNT MELVILLE
AND
THE HON. ROBERT DUNDAS OF ARNISTON,
LORD CHIEF BARON OF THE COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
THE first figure in this Print represents the Right Honourable HENRY
DUNDAS, Viscount Melville and Barop Dunira.
Mr. Dundas was second son of Robert Dundas of Arniston, Lord President
of the Court of Session,’ by Anne, daughter of Sir William Gordon of Invergordon,
his lordship’s second wife, and was borq an the 28th April 1742.
After completing his education at the University of Edinburgh with the
usual course of legal st,udy, he was admitted a Member of the Faculty of Advocates
in the year 1763,
At this period it has been said, that, after paying the expense of his education
and admission to the faculty, Mr. Dundas had just sixty pounds remaining of
his patrimony.
Mr. Dundas began his splendid public career in the comparatively humble
capacity of an assessor to the Magistrates of Edinburgh. The office of one of his
Majesty’s Depute-Advocates was then conferred upon him j and subsequently
he was appointed Solicitor-General for Scotland.
To these situations he recommended himself by his superior talents, which
were early displayed, and which obtained for him the highest consideration of
the Bench and Bar. But the ambition of Mr. Dundas was directed to higher objects
than were to be attained even by the most brilliant success at the Scotch
bar, where the only honour that would follow the most successful exertion of
talent, would be a seat on the bench. He accordingly resolved to try his fortunes
in the sister kingdom, and with this view, in the year 1774, successfully
contested the county of Mid-Lothian with the Ministerial candidate. He, however,
afterwards joined the party then in power-became a zealous and able
supporter of Lord North‘s Administration-and was, as a reward for his services,
appointed Lord Advocate of Scotland in 1775. Two years afterwards, he
obtained the appointment of Keeper of his Majesty’s Signet for Scotland.
1 To prevent any misconception, it may be right to mention that there were two Presidents of
the Court of Session hearing the name of Robert Dundas. The first, who waa born on the 9th
December 1685, and died on the 26th August 1753, was the father of Lord Viscount Melville. The
second, who was born on the 18th July 1713, and died, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, on the
13th December 1787, waa the eldest son of the preceding judge by his first marriage with Elizabeth,
daughter of Robert Watson, Esq. of Xuirhouse, and in this way was the “half-brother ” (to use a
Scotticism) of Lord Melville.

... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. No. XLVIII. HENRY VISCOUNT MELVILLE AND THE HON. ROBERT DUNDAS OF ARNISTON, LORD ...

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Dr. Duncan resided in Adam Square, and died on the 5th July 1828, in the
eighty-fourth year of his age. His funeral was a public one, In February
1771, he married Miss Elizabeth Knox, daughter of Mr. John Knox, surgeon
in the service of the East India Company, by whom he had a family of twelve
children. His son, Dr. Andrew Duncan junior, was long officially connected
with the University of Edinburgh as Principal Librarian and Secretary, and as
Professor of Medical Jurisprudence. In 1819 he was conjoined with his father
in the chair of the Theory of Physic. In July 1821 he was elected Professor
of Materia Medica-an appointment which gave very general satisfaction, as Dr.
Duncan contributed in no small degree by his learning and scientific acquirements
to maintain the reputation of the University. He died in May 1832.
No. CXCII.
MAJOR ANDREW FRASER,
THE HONOURABLE ANDREW ERSKINE,
AND
SIR JOHN WHITEFOORD, BART.
THE figure to the left, MAJOR FBASER-descended of a respectable
family in the north of Scotland-was an officer of some distinction in the
Royal Artillery, and well known for his talents as an engineer. Under his
superintendence the demolition of the harbour and fortifications of Dunkirk,
agreeably to the treaty of 1762, was carried satisfactorily into effect. In 1779
he was placed on the staff in Scotland, as Engineer-in-Chief. Here he superintended,
from his own plans, the building of Fort George ; erected several considerable
bridges in the north ; and, in Edinburgh, the church and spire of St.
Andrews,’ so much admired for its exquisite proportions, stands a monument of
his excellence in design. He interested himself greatly in the improvements
of the city, and frequently presided at public meetings convened for such objects.
He was much esteemed by Sir James Hunter Blair; and through the
influence of that spirited chief magistrate, many of his suggestions were cauied
into execution.
Major Fraser was afterwards appointed Chief Engineer of the West India
The foundation-stone of this church wm laid in 1781. The premium of ten guineaa to the
successful architect was unanimously adjudged by the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council to
Major Fraser ; but he declined accepting the premium, desiring that it might be given to Mr. Robert
Kay, drawingmaster in Edinburgh, whose drawings and sections of a plan of a square building were
deemed highly meritorious.

... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Dr. Duncan resided in Adam Square, and died on the 5th July 1828, in the eighty-fourth ...

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INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. 503
Stirling, Gilbert, Esq. , 263
Stirling, Major, 272, 273
Stocks, Johnnie, 410
Stonefield, Lord, 233, 382
Stoddart, Provost, 236
Strathnaver, William Lord, 61
Struthers, Rev. James Syme,
Struthers, Ivlr. John Pitcairn,
Stuart, Sir John, 25
Stuart, Lady, 25
Stuart, Lady Grace, 72
Stuart, Dr. Charles, 19, 231
Stuart, James, Esq., 231, 277
Stuart, Hope, Esq., 443
Stuart, Sir James, 452
Sultan, Tippoo, 72
Sutherland, Earl of, 18, 22
Sutherland, Duchess of, 151
Sutherland, Lady Janet, 61
Sutherland, Alexander, 79
Sutherland, William, the giant,
Sunly, -, 426
Suttie, Sir Jaines, 112
Suttie, Margaret, 166
Swan, Mr. George, 403, 407
Sweetman, Mr., 174
Swift, Dean, 82
Swinton, Lord, 336, 370, 400
Sym, Rev. John, 457
Syme, Mr., 284
Syme, Professor, 452
D.D., 134
134
115 *
T
TABEEBM,i rza Jiafer, 307
Taggart, Robert, 408
Tait and Guthrie, Messrs., 31,
Tait, Crawford, Esq., 91
Tait, Swaney, the poet, 126
Tait, Mr., 140
Tait, John, Esq., W.S. , 144, 145,
Tait, William, Esq., 410
Talleyrand, Prince, 164
Tallib, MZirzaAbu, 306
Tandy, James Napper, 171, 172,
Tannahill, Robert, the poet, 27,
Tannoch, Rev. J., 435
Tawse, John, Esq., 105
Taylor, Rev. Joseph, 159
Taylor, James, 162
32
146
174
99, 100
Taylor, John, Esq. , 446
Teignmouth, Lord, 301
Telford, Mr. Thomas, 130
Tenducci, the vocalist, 93
Thallon, Elizabeth, 227
Thomas, Colonel, 348
Thomson, Dr. Andrew, 10, 311,
Thomson, Dr. William, 141
Thomson, John, 227
Thomson, Rev. Dr. John, 311
Thomson, Mr. Robert, 377
Thomson, Mr. Henry, 403
Thomson, Rev. Mr., 404, 405
Thorpe, Dr., 110
Thym, M. Berbiguier de Terreneuve
du, 399
Tone, Wolfe Theobald, 174, 176
Tooke, Horne, 390
Topham, Edward, 213
Topham, Miss Anne, 467
Touch, Dr., 434, 435
Townsend, Mr., 262
Traill, Professor, 451, 452
Trelawney, Rev. Sir Harry, 102
Trollope, Mrs., 309
Trotter, General Alexander, 466
Trotter, Miss, 466
Trotter, Mr., of Mortonhall, 466
Troup, John, Esq., 467
Tullidelph, Walter, Esq., 79
Turgot, A. K. J., 386
Turnbull, Yr., 132
Turnbull, Xr. George, 163
Turner, Dr., 451, 452, 454
Turner, Rev. William, 458
Tytler, William, Esq., 178, 208,
Tytler, J. F., Esq., 322
Tytler, Alex. Fraser, Lord Wood.
houselee, 380, 386, 417
Tytler, William F., Esq., 381
Tytler, Patrick F., Esq., 382
Tweedie, John, Esq., W.S., 424
Twopenny, Captain, 436
436, 460
380
U
URQUHARTD,a vid, Esq., 244
V
VASHONA, dmiral, 25
Vaughan, Mr., 301
Venters, Jamea, 227
Vernon, Jamie, 166
VICTORIAH, er Majesty Queen,
253
Vyse, General, 273
Vyse, Archdeacon, 349
W
WADE,M arshal, 270
Waite, David, 74
Wales, Prince of, 22,24,26,66,67
Walker, Rev. Mr., 206
Walker, Rev. Dr. John, 452
Walker, Rev. Robert, 93
Walker, Mr. George, 195
Walker, Rev. David, 278
Walker, Mr. James, 349
Walker, Mr. Josiah, 411
Walkinshaw, blr. , 360
Wallace, Mr., of Ellerslie, 89
Wallace, Miss Helen, 89
Wallace, Sir William, 320
Wallace, Lady, 93, 330
Walpole, Lord, 304
Ward, Mrs., 33
Ward, Mr., 402
Wardlaw, Mr. Thomas, 403
Wardlaw, Mr. James, 403
Washington, General, 71, 194,
Water Willie, 36
Watson, Mr. George, 44
Watson, Joseph, 74
Watson, Hobert, Esq., 320
Watt, Robert, 104, 419
Wauchope, Yr. , of Niddry, 181
Webster, David, 398
Weddell, Mr., 287, 289
Weddell, Mm. , 287
Wedgwood, Mr. Thomas, 141
Wellesley, Marquis, 300, 302
Wellington, Duke of, 57, 160,
Wellwood, Robert, Esq., 20
Wellwood, Miss Elizabeth, 20
Wellwood, Rev. Sir Henry Moncreiff,
Bart., 118, 141, 141,
230, 290, 311, 413, 435,436
Wemyss, Mr. Robert, 28
Wemyas and Blarch, Earl of, 109,
Wemyss, Lady Louisa, 109
Wemyss, Earl of, 137, 200
Wemyss, Captain James, M.P.,
Wemyss, William, Esq., 406,
Werner, Professor, 452
Wesley, Rev. John, 159, 161
Wheeler, Captain, 159
195
274, 275, 295, 326
242
151
407, 408

... TO THE NAMES, ETC. 503 Stirling, Gilbert, Esq. , 263 Stirling, Major, 272, 273 Stocks, Johnnie, ...

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474 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
peared on the 10th October 1S02. His intimacy with Sir Walter Scott, which
continued until death with little interruption, was attended by large results. The
first work that was the harbinger of a series of literary productions destined to
astonish the world was the Minstrelsy of the Xcottish Border, which appeared in
January 1802, and the publication of which he shared with Messrs. Longman
of London. This was afterwards followed up by the other poems, and by the
Waverley Novels. Besides these there were books of a more solid and learned
character which engaged his attention. Among them were that useful work of
reference The Annual Register, and the philosophical and scientific works of Dugald
Stewart, Brown, Playfair, and Leslie (all of whom were friends and habitues of
the High Street rendezvous), and last, though not least, came the Encyclopcedia
Brilannica, the copyright of which he purchased in 1812. This great work was
as yet in its infancy, but he added six supplementary volumes containing the
celebrated scientific dissertation by Stewart, Playfair, and Brande. He took
special interest in Scottish literature, and issued many rare works in t,hat
department including those of his friend Sir John Graham Dalzell, of whom
Kay has given a biography in this volume. Passing over many other literary
adventures, it may be sufficient here to notice one of his latest projects, Constable’s
Miscellany, a work set on foot in 1825, and intended to popularise wholesome
literature-a result it attained with no small measure of success. It was soon
after this that the cloud of pecuniary difficulties which had been gathering overhead
culminated and broke, obliging the firm to stop payment under a pressure
of liabilities exceeding 3250,000. How such a calamity could have befallen so
fair a structure it is difficult to conjecture. Possibly it can be accounted for by
the supposition that the huge vessel was overweighted, and sunk under the
burden of its precious cargo-a cargo the dismembered portions of which were
sufficient to enrich others who succeeded to them. But the architect does not
always live t,o see the accomplishment of his great design. So Constable was
doomed to take the last view of his splendidly constructed business with feelings
of disappointment. From this time his health gave way, the hitherto robust
frame broke up, and he died of a dropsical complaint, from which he had for some
time suffered, at his house in Park Place on the 21st July 1827. His death
was felt as a great blow to Edinburgh, as shown by the numerous obituary
notices which appeared after his decease, and from one of which we make the
following extract :-
“We are concerned to learn that Mr. Constable, our late eminent Publisher, who had for
some time suffered severely under a dropsical complaint, expired suddenly, at his house in Park
Place, on the afternoon of Saturday. This event has, we confess, excited in our minds a train
of melancholy recollections and regrets ; and we cannot refrain from thus publicly expressing
our respect for the memory of a man who, notwithstanding the disastrous termination of his
professional career, must long be remembered as a liberal friend of literary merit, and active
promoter of those literary enterprises which, during the last twenty-five years, have redounded
so much to the advantage and fame of this city. We do not scruple to say, that we have
nationality enough to have derived B lively satisfaction from seeing it become an object of
desire among the literati of the south to contribute to its literary undertakings, and to resort to
it as an advantageous mart of publication ; and, convinced BS we are, that this was in no small

... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. peared on the 10th October 1S02. His intimacy with Sir Walter Scott, which continued ...

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246 BIOQRAPHIUAL SKETCHES.
These, embracing the two latter of the three heads into which Revelation is
usually divided, were so favourably received that the author was induced to
undertake the elucidation of the first division of the subject. He had collected
ample materials for this purpose, but did not live to see the additional volume
put to press. While attending a meeting of Presbytery at Edinburgh, he was
seized with an illness, and died nine days afterwards, on the 13th December
1823.
A new edit& of his Lectures on Revelation, in three volumes, was published
in 1826, containing a memoir of the author, and dedicated to the Marchioness
of Huntly, by James Culbertson, his son.
Mr. Culbertson married, in 1793, Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. John
Richmond, seed-merchant in Edinburgh, by whom he had a family of five sons
and four daughters.
No. CCLIII.
THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES HOPE OF GRANTON,
WHEN LORD ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND.
CHARLES HOPE, Lord President of the Court of Session, was born in 1763.
His father, John Hope,’ sometime an eminent merchant in London, and M.P.
for the county of Linlithgow, was grandson of the first Earl of Hopetoun j and
his mother was a daughter of Eliab Breton of Norton and Fortyhall, in the
county of Middlesex. After obtaining the rudiments of education at Enfield
School, in that county, he was placed at the High School of Edinburgh,
where he was distinguished as dux of the highest class. Designed for a profession,
in which several of his ancestors had risen to distinction, his studies
at the University were directed for the Scottish bar, and he was admitted a
member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1784. Two years subsequently he was
nominated Judge-Advocate of Scotland; in 1791 Sheriff of Orkney and Zetland;
and in 1801 Lord Advocate of Scotland. Shortly afterwards he was
presented with the freedom of Edinburgh, together with a piece of plate of one
hundred guineas value, for his services in drawing out, and otherwise aiding the
Magistrates in obtaining a Poor’s Bill for the city. At the general election in
1802 he had been returned member of Parliament for the Burgh of Dumfries ;
but in December of the same year, in consequence of the elevation of Mr.
Dundas to the Peerage, he was unanimously chosen member for the city of
Edinburgh.
During the few years he continued in Parliament, the Lord Advocate was
Mr. Hope cultivated the muse, and produced a volume of poems in 8v0, entitled “Thoughts
in Prose and Verse, started in his walks.” Stockton, 1780. One of the pieces is addressed “To
Captain Fraser, superintending the Demolition of Dunkirk,” of whom a portrait appears in a
previous part of thie Work.

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246 BIOQRAPHIUAL SKETCHES.
These, embracing the two latter of the three heads into which Revelation is
usually divided, were so favourably received that the author was induced to
undertake the elucidation of the first division of the subject. He had collected
ample materials for this purpose, but did not live to see the additional volume
put to press. While attending a meeting of Presbytery at Edinburgh, he was
seized with an illness, and died nine days afterwards, on the 13th December
1823.
A new edit& of his Lectures on Revelation, in three volumes, was published
in 1826, containing a memoir of the author, and dedicated to the Marchioness
of Huntly, by James Culbertson, his son.
Mr. Culbertson married, in 1793, Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. John
Richmond, seed-merchant in Edinburgh, by whom he had a family of five sons
and four daughters.
No. CCLIII.
THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES HOPE OF GRANTON,
WHEN LORD ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND.
CHARLES HOPE, Lord President of the Court of Session, was born in 1763.
His father, John Hope,’ sometime an eminent merchant in London, and M.P.
for the county of Linlithgow, was grandson of the first Earl of Hopetoun j and
his mother was a daughter of Eliab Breton of Norton and Fortyhall, in the
county of Middlesex. After obtaining the rudiments of education at Enfield
School, in that county, he was placed at the High School of Edinburgh,
where he was distinguished as dux of the highest class. Designed for a profession,
in which several of his ancestors had risen to distinction, his studies
at the University were directed for the Scottish bar, and he was admitted a
member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1784. Two years subsequently he was
nominated Judge-Advocate of Scotland; in 1791 Sheriff of Orkney and Zetland;
and in 1801 Lord Advocate of Scotland. Shortly afterwards he was
presented with the freedom of Edinburgh, together with a piece of plate of one
hundred guineas value, for his services in drawing out, and otherwise aiding the
Magistrates in obtaining a Poor’s Bill for the city. At the general election in
1802 he had been returned member of Parliament for the Burgh of Dumfries ;
but in December of the same year, in consequence of the elevation of Mr.
Dundas to the Peerage, he was unanimously chosen member for the city of
Edinburgh.
During the few years he continued in Parliament, the Lord Advocate was
Mr. Hope cultivated the muse, and produced a volume of poems in 8v0, entitled “Thoughts
in Prose and Verse, started in his walks.” Stockton, 1780. One of the pieces is addressed “To
Captain Fraser, superintending the Demolition of Dunkirk,” of whom a portrait appears in a
previous part of thie Work.

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INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC.
Robertson, Mr., 142
Robertson, Miss Katherine, 142
Robertson, Rev. Joseph, 154
Robertsoo, Miss Jam, 206
Robertson, Rev. Dr., 225
Robertson, Mr. Hugh, 237
Robertson, Mr. George, 246
Robertson, Mr. Archibald, 287
Robertson, Dr. James, 322
Robison, Professor, 64
Rockville, Lord, 204
Rocheid, James, Esq. , 307
Rodney, Sir George, 360
Roebuck, Dr., 53
Rogerson, Dr., 95
Rogerson, -, 427, 428
Romney, Mr., 403
Koscoe, William, F.L.S., 221
Ross, Mr., 76
Ross, David, of Inverchadey, 248
Row Mr., 348
Ross, Mr., of Pitcalnie, 421
Ross, George, the pugilist, 427,
Row, Rev. Mr. Williani, 120
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton,
Roxburghe, Duke of, 58
Runciman, Alexander, thepainter,
Ruasell, Professor, 52
Russell, John, Esq., 95
Itussell, Mr., 228
Ruthven, Mr. John, 86, 367
Rutland, Duke and Duchws of,
428
Esq., 307
143, 289
151
S
SABDIITIAK, ing of, 215
Sassen, Madame, 427
Sawbridge, Alderman, 30
Schetkey, Mr., 405
Schomberg, Dr., 147
Scott, General, 75
Scott, Mr., advocate, 155
Scott, Sir Walter, 162, 165, 171,
181, 188, 221, 317, 393, 408,
412
Scott, Miss Margaret, 2
Scott, Robert, Esq., 192
Scott, Miss Margaret, 192
Scotf, Yr. James, 300
Scott, William, of Raeburn, 317
Scott, J., Eq., of Logie, 404
Scott, Mrs., of Logie, 402
Selby, Mr., 84
Q
QUEENSBERBY, Duke of, 192
R
RADCLIFFE, Mrs. Anne, 122
Rae, Dr., 82
Rae, Mr. John, 237, 424
Rae, Rev. David, 350
Rae, Lieut.-Colonel David, 351
Rae, Sir William, 351
Raeburn, Sir Henry, 199, 303,
359, 401, 403
Ramage, Mr., 397
Ramsay, Sir George, 37, 38, 39
Ramsay, Lady, 37
Ramsay, Sir William, Bart., 39
Ramsay, Mr. Peter, 184
Ramsay, Willism, Esq., 184
Ramsay, Lady Elizabeth, 193
Ramsay, Dr., 208
Ramsay, William, Esq., 373
Ramsay, Bonar, and Co., 373
Ramsay, Allan, the poet, 412
Randall, Rev. Thomas, 388
Rankeillor, Lord, 311
Rannie, David, Esq., 103
Rannie, Miss Elizabeth, 103
Rattray and Congalton, Messrs.,
Rattray, Mr., surgeon, 249
Rawdon, Lord, 90, 91
Reay, Lord, 173
Redman, Mr., 71
Reid, Mr. David, 237 :
Reid, Miss, 332
Reid, Mr., 384
Reid, Commissioner, 387, 388
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 74,183,289
Richardson, Professor, 303
Richmond, Duke of, 187, 308
Riddel, -, Esq., of Glenriddel,
Riddell, Mrs., 278
Ritchie, Yr. John, printer, 334
Ritchie, Mr. James, 429
Ritson, Josepk, Esq., 245
Roache, Captain, 326, 327
Robertson, Mr., 11
Robertaon, Principal, 65, 66, 78,
122, 171, 172, 174, 211, 215,
243, 245, 256, 299, 322, 382,
405, 406
161
' Reston, Lord, 75
245
Robertson, Mr. Patrick, 93
Robertson, Lieut.-General James,
95
Sharp, Mr. Francis, 261
Sharpe, C. K,, Esq., 234
Shaw, Mr. Fredeiick, 379
Shelburne, Lord, 101
Sheridan, Mr., 149, 374
Sheriff, Mr. Matthew, 260, 263
Sheriff, Rev. Mr., 400
Shiells, Mm., 219
Sibbald, Mr. William, 412
Siddons, Mm., 148, 150, 165
Sidmouth, Lord, 74
Sidney, Rev. Edwin, 334
Simond, the French traveller,
Simpson, Convener, 224
Simpson, Bailie Andrew, 224
Simpson, Rev. Dr., 301
Simpson, Miss, 283
Sinclair, Sir John, 67, 208
Sinclair, Mr., the vocalist, 410
Singleton, Anketil, Esq., 47
Skene, Es., of Rubislaw, 183
Skene, Mr., of Skene, 294
Skene, General, 295
Skirving, William, 168,169,309,
Smellie, Yr. William, 20, 44,
Smellie, Mr. Alexander, 20, 424
Smellie, John, 206
Smith, Mr., 30
Smith, Mr., 112
Smith, Dr., 128
Smith, O., 147
Smith, Dr. Adam, 299, 382, 386
Smith, Yr. Donald,123,307,398,
Smith, Alexander, Esq., 399
Smith, Mr. Robert, 331
Smith, George, 257, 258, 259,
Smollett, Dr. Tobias, 66
Smythe, David, Lord Methven,
Snell, Yr., 73
Sommerville, Rev. Dr., 298
Sommers, Mr. Thomas, 143,229,
Sommers, Mr. Thomas, vintner,
Southey, Dr., 274
Spencer, Earl, 361, 407, 408
Syens, Miss Janet, 274
Spittal, Si James, 241, 317
Stair, Viscount, 364
Stephena, Mm., 53
201
351, 352, 353
202, 226, 286, 366, 417
399
261, 262, 264
200
403
418
443

... TO THE NAMES, ETC. Robertson, Mr., 142 Robertson, Miss Katherine, 142 Robertson, Rev. Joseph, ...

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INDEX TO THE NAMES,
Macharg, Quintin and Isobel, 7
Mackay, Jamea, Esq., 18
Mackay, Hon. General Alexander,
Mackay, Lieut.-General, 22
Mackcoull, Ben, 354
Mackcoull, John, 354,362
Mackcoull, Mrs., 358, 360
Mackenzie, Mr. Henry, 19, 99,
Mackenzie, Dr., 60
Mackenzie, Kincaid, Lord Pro-
Mackenzie, Francis Eumberston,
Mackenzie, Sir George, 454
Mackintosh, Sir James, 409
Macklin, Charles, 261
Macknight, Rev. Mr., 76
Maclachlan, R.obert, Esq., 235
Maclachlan, Miss Mary, 235
Macneil, John, Esq., 91
Maconochie, Mr. Alexander, 19 ’
Macpherson, Mr. William, 471
Macrimmon, the piper, 299
Madan, Dr., 350
Maitland, Alexander, Esq., 62
Maitland, Miss Sarah, 62
Maitland, Lady Elizabeth, 234
Makolm, General, 300
Manderston, Lord Provost, 307,
Manners, Bailie, 307
Mansfield, Hunter, and Ranisay,
Messrs., 13, 294
Mansfield, Lord, 20
Mar, Earl of, 404
Margamt, Maurice, 47, 191
Majoribanks, Sir John, 44, 454
Marjoribanks, Edward, Esq., 294
Marjoribanks, William, Esq., 296
MaGoribanks, John, 296
Majoribanks, Edward, Esq., 296
Marshall, Mr., 244
Marshall, &a, 244
Marshall, Dr., 449
Marshall, Dr., 452
Martin, Mr. George, 1, 4
Martin, the portrait painter, 4
Martin, Dr. George, 53
Martin, Miss, 242
Martin, Thomas, Esq., 254
Mason, Mr. Hector, 82
Masterton, Mr. Allan, 1
Masterton, Colonel, 404, 405
Mathewson, Jam- 267
18
110, 370
vost, 372
Esq., 411
308, 458
Mathias, P. Luma and Co.,
Mathison, &. Thomas, 209
Maturin, Rev. C. R., 99
Maule, Sir Thomas, 427
Maule, Henry, Esq., 427
Maule, Hon. Fox, 431
Maxwell, William, Esq., 226
Maxwell, Miss Isabells, 226
Maxwell, Xis, 279
Maxwell, Sir William, 330
Mayne, William, 207
Meadowbank, Lord, senior, 163,
Meadowbank, Lord, junior, 21,
bredwyn, Lord, 466
Megget, Mr., 124
Meikle, Mr., 66
Melancthon, Philip (the Reformer),
229
Melvill, James, 207
Menzies, John, Esq., 201
Mercer, Archibald, Esq., 461
Mercer, Miss, 461
Methuen, Lord, 432
Methven, Lord, 21, 384, 387,
Meyer and Quiller, Messrs., 243
Michael, Russian Princc, 375
Miller, Professor, 61, 445
Miller, Sir Thomas, 90, 346
Miller, Lieut. -Col one1 William,
Miller, &., 286
Miller, James, Esq., 443
Mills, Captain, 307
Milne, Captain, 342
Minto, Lord, 300
Mitchell, Mr. John, 13
Mitchell, Miss Charlotte, 13
MitcheU, Mk, 124
Mitchell, -, 162
Mitchell, Mr., 434
Moffat, Mr. William, 168, 176
Moffat, Mr., 421
Moir, Jamea, Esq., 263
Moir, Rev. James, 278
Moira, Earl of, 64, 67, 248
Xoligny, Abbe de, 199
Monboddo, Lord, 20, 368, 436,
Monckton, General, 7
Moncreiff. Rev. Sir William,
MoncreX, Jamea, Esq., 437 1
Messrs., 306, 307
380, 384, 385, 417, 432
450, 451
418
347, 348
438
Bart., 267
ETC. 49 9
Moncreiff. Lord, 437
Moncreiff, Mr. Robert, 230
MoncreiE, Mr. Scott, 140
Monro, Dr., primus, 387
Monro, Dr., Becu1Gdus, 415
Monro, Lieutenant Alexander,
Monro, Dr. Jameq 452
Monro, Mr. Henry, 452
Monro, Dr. David, 452
Monro, Lieutenant William, 452
Monro, Alexander, Esq., 452
Montague, Duke of, 47
Monteith, Mr. James, 377
Bfontgolfier, Monsieur, 64
Montgomerie,Alex. ,Esq.,of Coils-
Montgomerie, Colonel James, 125
Montgomerie, Mrs., 127
Montgomerie, Lord Archibald,
Montgomerie, Lady, 130, 132
Montgomerie, Hon. Roger, 133
Montgomerie, Lady Jane, 133
Montgornerie, Lady Lilias, 133
Montgomerie, Alexander, Esq.,
Montgomerie, Miss Elizabeth, 418
Montmse, Duke of, 82,253, 469
Monypenny, Captain, 22
Moodie, Provost James, 403, 407,
Moodie, Colonel, 403
Moodie, Rev. Dr. William, 435
Moore, Rev. Henry, 159
Moore, Sir John, 163, 274
Moore, Thomas, Esq., 391
More, J. S., Esq., 105
More, Rev. Mr., 245
Morier, Mr., 300, 301, 302, 305
Morier, Mrs., 302
Morier, Misses, 302
Morison, Donald, 6
Morrison, Mii Nancy, 35
MorrieOn, Mr., 247, 248, 249
Morrison, Mr., 421
Morthland, John, Esq., 446
Morton, Earl of, 295, 308, 341
Moseq Mrs., 160
M m a n , , 128
Kwman, Mr. Rugh, I49
Kossop, Mr., 205
Konntgarref Viscount Lord, 176,
452
field, 125
132
418
408
177
kfoyeq Dr., 458
Kut€ling, Baron, 68

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INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. 501
Paxton, Mr., 282
Peacock, Mr., 122
Peddie, Rev. Dr., 245, 279
Peddie, Rev. William, 352
Peel, Sir Robert, 69
Pendleton, Mr., 193
Pennant, Thomas, 180
Perceval, Right Hon. Spencer,
Percy, Mr., 306
Persia, King of, 300, 303, 305
Perth, Lady, 24
Philippe, Louis, 200
Philp, Jameq Esq., 178
Philp, Mr., 235
Picton, General, 275
Pierie, Lieutenant John, 411
Pillans, Professor, 424
Pilon, Mr., 258
Pindar, Peter, 188
Piper, Count, 25
Pitcairn, Robert, Esq. , 239
Pitcairne, Dr. , 209
Pitmilly, Lord, 363
Pitt, Hon. William, 22, 37, 64,
Playfair, Professor, 141, 142, 367
Polignac, Duc de, 198
Polkemmet, Lord, 61, 380, 384,
Pompadour, Madame de, 183
Ponsonby, Lord, 433
Porteous, Dr. , Bishop of London,
Porteous, Captain, 123, 186
Porteous, Rev. Dr., 352
Portland, Duke of, 128
Portland, Duchess of, 180
Potter, Dr. Michael, 82
Potter, Miss, 82
Powell, Mr., 204
Powis, Henry-Arthur Earl of
Preston, Sir Robert, Bart., 52
Pridie, Mr. Hamden, 374
Pringle, Mr., 4
Pringle, Sir John, Bart. , 234
Pringle, Thomas, W.S., 289
Pringle, Robert, Esq., 289
Pringle, Professor John, 381
Pruasia, King of, 115, 259
Prussia, Frederick of, 196, 350
Pulteney, Sir William, 180
Pulteney, Sir Jam- Murray,
26, 67
65, 67, 248, 249, 374
386
24
469
106
Bart., 325
'urves, Sir Alexander, 25
'nrves, Mr., 105
Q
~UILLERa nd Meyer, Meam. ,2 43
R
AD STOCK, Lord, 301, 308
be, Mr. James, 283
iae, Mr. John, 197
be, Sir David, Lord Justice-
Clerk, 250, 286
Eae, Sir Wdliam, Bart., M.P.,
308
Xaeburn, Sir Henry, 4, 53, 109,
131
Zamsay, Mr. John, 26
Ramage, Mr., 88
Ramsag, Mr., of Messrs. Mansfield,
Hunter, and Ramsay, 13,
294
Ramsay, Miss, 294
Ramsay, Allan the poet, 27,
Ramsay, Mr. David, 30, 120
Ramsay, George, Esq., 120
Ramsay, Dr., 179
Ramsay, Kirsty, 199
Ramsay, Sir Andrew, 265
Ramsay, Hon. Captain, 427
Ramsay, Hon. Mrs., 427
Randall, Rev. Mr., 152
Randolph, Messrs. , 141
Rankeillor, Lord, 415
Rankine, Convener, 12
Rankine, Mr. John, 128
Rattray, Mr. John, 210
Rawdon, Lord, 27
Rawdon, Lady Elizabeth, 25
Read, Justice, 391
Reay, Donald Lord, 162
Reekie, Deacon, 17
Regent, Prince, 252, 295, 303
Reichstadt, Duc de, 309
Reid and Son, Messrs. , 30
Reid, Jamie, 138, 139
Reid, Tom, 138
Reid, hIajor,'.271
Reid, James, Esq., 379
Reston, Lord, 140, 433
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 239
Richardson, Mr. , of Pitfour, 19'
Richardson and Co., Bfwm
Richmond, Mr. John, 246
127
304, 305
Ralph, 218
Lichmond, Miss Elizabeth, 246
liddell, Sir Walter, 73
liddell, Miss Helen, f3
tigg, Mr. Sheriff, 148
tigg, James Hume, Esq., 61
tigg, Mrs. Hume, 149
Eigg, Mr. Thomas, 145
iigg, Patick, Esq., 149
Eigg, Miss Mally, 149
titchie, Mr. Alexander, 11
iitchie, John, Esq., 78
Zitchie, Miss Isabella, 78
Xobertson, Mr. George, 3
Robertson, Kiss Marion, 13
Robertson, Principal, 13, 119,
268, 383, 384, 411, 457
Robertson, Rev. Dr., of Leith,
78, 152
Robertson, James, 88
Robertson, Rev. Mi-., 103
Robertson, Robert, 207
Robertson, Laird, 218
Robertson, Mr. John, 292
Robertson, Mr. Alexander, 329
Robertaon, Lord, 417, 462
Robinson, George, Esq., 465
Robison, John, Esq., 202
Roden, Earl of, 25
Rodney, Admiral, 62, 439
Rollo, Lord, 196
RoUo, Hon. Isabella, 196
Romilly, Sir S., 433
Rose, Lieut.-Colonel Hugh, 467 *
Rose, Mr. Alexander, 467
Rose, Mr. Robert, 467
Rose, General Sir John, K.C.B. ,
Rose, Miss Catharine, 467
Rose, Miss Grace, 467
Rose, Miss Jane, 467
Rose, Miss Helen, 467
Rose, Miss Charlotte, 467
Rose, Miss Anne, 467
Rm8, Mr. Walter, 221, 222, 282
Ross, Miss Georgina, 336
ROM, Colonel Andrew, 437
Ross, Miss, 437
Ross, Charles, Esq., 442
Row, Mathew, Esq., 456
Rosslyn, Earl of, 403
Rothes, Earl of, 401
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 181
Rowan, Hamilton, Esq., 121,
Rowan, hIra. Hamilton, 174
ROP~S, -, 446
467
177

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 273
The same paragraph thus briefly relates the story of the standard, which had
caused so much speculation :-
“ On the celebrated 21st of March, when the French Invincibles found their retreat entirely
cut off by the Highlanders, two French officers advanced to Major Stirling and delivered their
standard into his hands, who immediately committed it to the charge of Sergeant Sinclair. Sinclair
being afterwards wounded, it was picked up in the field by a private of the Minorca corps, who
carried it to his own regiment. The standard was marked with the names of the different victories
of the Hero of Italy, but considerably worn. The name of the battle of Lodi was scarcely
visible.”
The following short account of the third monthly meeting of the Highland
Society of London, on the 23d of April 1802, is from a newspaper of that
period, and may not be deemed unentertaining :-
“ The meeting was held at the Shakspeare Tavern, Covent Garden, Lord Macdonald, president
for the year, in the chair. The company was very numerous, among whom appeared Lieut.-
Colonel Dickson, and thirteen officers of the 42d Regiment, in their uniforms, wearing the gold
medals presented to them by the Grand Signior. An elegant dinner was served at half-past six
o’clock, during which several national airs on the pipe were performed by the pipers of the
Society ; and a few pibrochs, with wonderful skill and execution, by Biichsnan, Pipe-Major of
the 42d Regiment. After dinner, severalloyal and appropriate toasts were given in the Gaelic
language, and many plaintive and martial songs were sung ; and the greatest harmony and
conviviality prevailed during the evening.‘ On the complimentary toast to the 42d Regiment,
and the two other Highland corps on the Egyptian service, having bcen given, the following
Stanza, the exemptore composition of a member present, was introduced by Digoum in the
characteristic air of ‘ The Garb of Old Gaul :’-
‘ The Pillar of Pompey, and famed Pyramids,
Have witnessed our valour and triumphant deeds ;
Th‘ Invincible standard from Frenchmen we bore,
In the land of the Reys, the laurels we wore ;
For such the fire of Highlanders, when brought into the field,
That Bonaparte’s Invincibles must perish, or must yield ;
We’ll bravely fight, like heroes bold, for honour and applause,
And we defy the Consul and the world to alter oiir laws.’ ”
The “Royal Highlanders ” returned to Scotland h 1802, and experienced
the most gratifying reception in all the towns as they marched from England
towards the capital of their own country, where they were welcomed with excess
of kindness and applause. During their stay in Edinburgh at this period the
regiment was presented with a new set of colours, on which were the figure of
a sphinx, and the word Egypt, as emblematic memorials of their gallant services
in the campaign of 1801. The interesting ceremony took place on the
Castle Hill, where, the regiment having been formed, the Rev. Principal Baird
delivered an appropriate prayer ; after which the Commander-in-Chief, General
Vyse, presented the colours to Colonel Dickson, and addressed his “ brother
soldiers of the 42d Regiment ” in a very energetic harangue. A vast concourse
of spectators were present on the occasion, amongst whom were the Duke of
Buccleuch, General Don, Colonels Cameron, Scott, Eaillie, Graham, and
several other military officers.
Gow’s band of ins€rumental music, Murphy the Irish piper, together with the vocal strains
of Dignum, and other public singers, added much to the general festivity.
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Onmond.1 HARBOUR AND ISLAND. 31.5
In the reign of David 11. Roger Greenlaw
obtained a royal charter of the Butterland in the
town of Cramond, ? quhilk? William Bartlemow
resigned ;? and Robert 11. granted, at Edinburgh,
in the eighteenth year of his reign, a charter of
certain lands in King?s Cramond to William
Napier, on their resignation by John, son of Simon
Rede, in presence of the Chancellor, John, Bishop
of Dunkeld, and others.
In 1587 Patrick Douglas of Kilspindie became
the south as the Pinnacle. In December, 1769,
a whale, fifty-four feet long, was stranded upon it
by the waves. About a mile northward and east
of it, lies another rocky islet, three or four furlongs
in circumferkhce, named Inchmickery, only remarkable
for a valuable oyster bed on its shore,
and for the rich profusion of sea-weed, mosses,
and lichens, on its beach and surface.
North from the point known as the Hunter?s
Craig or Eagle?s Rock, westward of the harbour,
THE ?TWA BRIGS,? CRAMOND.
caution for John Douglas, in Cramond, and his son
Alexander, that they would not molest certain
parishioners there, nor ?? their wives, bairns, or
servants.?
The little harbour of Cramond is specified in the
Exchequer Records as a creek within the port of
Leith. It possesses generally only a few boats,
but in 1791 had seven sloops, measuring 288 tons,
employed by the iron works. Cramond Island, 19
acres in extent, lies 1,440 yards NNE of the
pretty village. It rises high in the centre, with
steep granite cliffs on the east, formerly abounded
with rabbits, and is generally accessible on foot
at low water. It now belongs to Lord Rosebery.
The north point of the isle is known as the Binks;
the stretch known as the Drum Sands extends for
more than a mile.
In 1639, Alexander, sixth Earl of Eglinton, h,$ed
for two days at Cramond with his contingent for
the Scottish army, consisting of zoo horse and
1,800 foot, en route for?Leith.
In the time of Charles I. Cramond gave a title
in the Scottish peerage, when Dame Elizabeth Beaumont,
the wife of Sir Thomas Richardson, Lord
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in England,
was, for some reason now unknown, created
Baroness Cramond for life, with the title of baron
to the Chief Justice?s son and his heirs male; ??in
failure of which, to the heirs male of his father?s
body?-the first female creation on record in

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Edinburgh Castle.] KIRKALDY?S SURRENDER. 49
fourth, under Sir Henry Lee, were somewhere near
St. Cuthbeds church ; while the fifth, under Sir
Thomas?Sutton, was on the line of Princes Street,
and faced King Davids Tower.
All these guns opened simultaneously on Sunday,
the 17th of May, by salvoes; and the shrieks of
the women in the Castle were distinctly heard
in the camp of the Regent and in the city.
The fire was maintained on both sides with unabated
vigour-nor were the arquebuses idle-till
the 23rd, when Sutton?s guns having breached
sieged depended chiefly for water. This great
battery then covered half of the Esplanade
Holinshed mentions another spring, St. Margaret?s
Well, from which Kirkaldy?s men secretly obtained
water till the besiegers poisoned it ! By this time
the survivors were so exhausted by toil and want
of food as to be scarcely able to bear armour, or
work the remaining guns. On the 28th Kirkaldy
requested a parley by beat of drum, and was
lowered over the ruins by ropes in his armour, to
arrange a capitulation ; but Morton would hear
ANCIENT POSTERN hND TURRET NEAR THE QUEEN?S POST.
Davfd?s Tower, the enormous mass, with all its
guns and men, and with a roar as of thunder, came
crashing over the rocks, and masses of it must have
fallen into the loch zoo feet below. The Gate
Tower with the portcullis and Wallace?s Tower,
were battered down by the 24th. The guns of
the queen?s garrison were nearly silenced, now, and
cries of despair were heard. The great square
Peel and the Constable?s Tower, with the curtain
between, armed with brass cannon-dikes of
great antiquity-came crashing down in succession,
and their d&is choked up the still existing drawwells.
Still the garrison did not quite lose
heart, until the besiegers got passession of the
Spur, within which was the well on which the bea
of nothing now save an unconditional surrender,
so the red flag of defiance was pulled down on the
following day. By the Regent?s order the Scottish
companies occupied the breaches, with orders to
exclude all Englishmen. ?The governor delivered
his sword to Sir William Drury on receiving the
?solemn assurance of being restored to his estatc
and liberty at the intercession of Q-ueen Elizabeth
The remnant of his gamson marched into the city
in armour with banners displayed ; there came
forth, with the Lord Home, twelve knights, zoo
soldiers, and ten boys, with several ladies, including
the Countess of Argyle.? The brave commander
was basely delivered up by Drury to the
I vindictive power of the Regent j and he and his

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Duddingston.] DUDDINGSTON HOUSE 317
Commissioner for the Plantation of Kirks and Valuation
of Benefices in 1672; but the title is now
extinct, and in 1674 the barony had become the
property of the atrocious Duke of Lauderdale,
from whom it passed with a daughter of his first
duchess, as pin money, to her husband, Archibald,
tenth earl, and first Duke of Argyle.
This lady was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Lionel
Talmash of Helingham, and her mother was the
daughter and heiress of William Murray, Earl of
mansion house upon it. It was completed in
1768, from designs furnished by the architect of
Somerset House, in the Strand, Sir William Chambers,
the son of Scottish parents, but born in
Stockholm in 1726. It cost ~30,000, and is an
elegant edifice .of a somewhat Grecian style, surrounded
by plantabons, canals, and gardens, but
in a situation too low for any extensive vien-.
Duddingston House was for years the favourite
residence of Francis, Earl of Moira, a veteran of
PRINCE CHARLIE?S HOUSE, DUDDINGSTON.
(From Uu Engraving in I& Roxburgh Edition of ?? Waverky,?? puhlirkrd b9 Mesm. A. & C. BZack.1
Dysart. The celebrated John and Archibald,
successively Dukes of Argyle, passed much of their
time here, and it is said received most of their
education from their mother, who resided constantly
in this, then, secluded village prior to 1734
In 1745 Duddingston was sold by Archibald,
Duke of Argyle, to James, Earl of Abercorn, whose
ducal descendants still hold it; but if was not
until 1751 that this beautiful and valuable estate
was subdivided, enclosed, and improved by
James, the eighth earl, who built commodious farmhouses,
planted hedgerows and coppice in places
where the land, prior to 1746, rented at only ten
shillings per acre !
In 1763, after the estate had been thoroughly
enclosed, the earl began to build the present
the American War, who, in 1803, was appointed
Commander-in-chief in Scotland, where he was
long deservedly popular with the people, and
where he married, in 1804, Flora Mina Campbell
(in herown right), Countess of Loudon, who was
the first, north of the Tweed, to introduce those
laconic invitation cards now so common, and the
concise style of which-? The Countess of Loudon
and Moira at Home?-so puzzled the Edinburgh
folk to whom they wete issued.
On the 14th of June, 1805, one of these ?At
Homes ? is thus noticed in a print of the day :- .
?On Friday evening the Countess of Loudon
and Moka gave a grand fSte at Duddingston
House, to receive three hundred of the nobility
and gentry in and about the city-among whom

... DUDDINGSTON HOUSE 317 Commissioner for the Plantation of Kirks and Valuation of Benefices in 1672; ...

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.BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 197
by some of the more desperate members of the British Convention to seduce
the soldiers from their allegiance, or at all events to sow the seeds of discontent
among them, but without effect.
At Dumfries, where the corps was quartered in 1794, the following curious
circumstance occurred :-“ One of the Hopetoun Fencibles, now quartered in
that town,” says a newspaper of the day, “ was discovered to be a woman,
after having been upwards of eighteen months in the service. The discovery
was made by the tailor, when he was trying on the new clothes. It is remarkable
that she has concealed her sex so long, considering she always slept with a
comrade, and sometimes with two. She went by the name of John Nicolson,
but her real name was Jean Clark. Previous to her assuming the character of
a soldier, it seems she had accustomed herself to the dress and habits of a
man; having been bred to the business of a weaver at Closeburn, and employed
as a man-servant at Ecclefechan.”
The services of the Hopetoun Fencibles were at first limited to Scotland,
but were afterwards extended to England. They remained embodied till 1798,
when they were disbanded, after the regular militia had been organised.
His lordship afterwards, as Lord Lieutenant of the county of Linlithgow,
embodied a yeomanry corps and a regiment of volunteer infantry, both of
which were among the first that tendered their services to Government. These
he commanded as Colonel, and took a deep interest and a very active part in
training them, and rendering them efficient for the public service. During
those times of alarm, when the country was threatened by foreign invasion, his
influence, his fortune, and his personal exertions were steadily devoted to the
public safety; and so much were his services appreciated by the Executive, that
he was created a Baron of the United Kingdom in 1809, by the name, style,
and title of Baron Hopetoun of Hopetoun.
The Earl died at Hopetoun House, on the 29th May 1816, at the advanced
age of 75. He married, in 1756, Elizabeth, daughter of the Earl of Northesk,
by whom he had six daughters. They all died prior to himself, except Lady
Anne, upon whom the Annandale estates devolved, and who married Admiral
Sir William Johnstone.
Inheriting from his ancestors high rank and ample fortune, Lord Hopetoun
maintained the dignity and noble bearing of the ancient Scotch baron, with the
humility of a Christian, esteeming the religious character of his family to be its
highest distinction; and he was not more eminent for the regularity of his
attendance on all the ordinances of religion, than for the sincerity and reverence
with which he engaged in them. He was an indulgent landlord, a most munificent
benefactor to the poor, and a friend to all who lived within the limits
of his extensive domains.
The following lines, written at the period of his death, describe his estimable
character in glowing and forcible language :-

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 193.
Mft. MONCRIEF of Moredun, the venerablelooking old gentleman on the
right, entered as a member of the Faculty of Advocates a.t an early age, but he
never made a distinguished figure as a lawyer. His temper was naturally
distant and reserved ; and, far from seeking those intimacies which usually
contribute to bring many a person of inferior ability into practice, he rather
shunned than courted society.
He was very early promoted to the office of King’s Remembrancer in the
Exchequer Court, the duties of which he discharged for many years with fidelity
and attention. He was then preferred to the more elevated station of a Baron
of the Exchequer, and in this situation fully maintained the character which he
had previously acquired for regularity and despatch of business.
Baron Moncrief continued all his life a bachelor ; and, although by no means
parsimonious, amassed a considerable fortune. He took much pleasure in cultivating
the garden at Moredun,’ which, with great labour and expense, he brought
to the highest state of perfection. He was for many years most attentive in
presenting His Grace the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly
with such rarities as his garden afforded. Prior to his removal to Moredun, Mr.
Moncrief occupied that self-contained house in the Horse Wynd, next door to
the shop of Mr. Paton, carver and gilder.
Sir Thomas Moncrief, Baronet, of that Ilk, was the Baron’s nephew, and
nearest heir. Mr. Kay, in his MS. notes, mentions that the uncle, being
anxious to engage his nephew in a matrimonial alliance of his own choosing,
succeeded in completing a match between Sir Thomas and Lady Elizabeth
Ramsay, sister of the Earl of Dalhousie. On the celebration of the marriage
the Baron was very liberal, and presented all the domestics of Sir Thomas with
handsome presents, in honour of the auspicious occasion : but as
“ The best laid schemes of men and mice
Gang aft agee, ”
so in this case the marriage did not realise that domestic felicity which the goodhearted
bachelor had so fondly anticipated.
It is possible that neither party had consulted their own feelings in the
matter ; but, be that as it may, the Baron conceived that the lady had been
indifferently treated by his nephew, and he did not hesitate to declare so. At
his death-as a substantial proof of his esteem for the one, and his disapprobation
of the conduct of the other-he left the lady his estate of Moredun, and all
the other property of which he could deprive his heir-at-law.
Moredun is in the parish of Liberton, and about three miles from Edinburgh. It is now the
property of David Anderson, Esq., of the firm of Sir William Forbes and Company, banken in
Edinburgh. The garden, so much the favourite of the Baron, is still cultivated with peculiar care,
and does great credit to its present proprietor.
2 c

... SKETCHES. 193. Mft. MONCRIEF of Moredun, the venerablelooking old gentleman on the right, entered as ...

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272 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. IArgyle square.
Many professors succeeded Blair as tenants of
the same house; among them, Alexander Chris
tison, Professor of Humanity, between 1806 and
1820, father of the great chemist, Professor Sir
Robert Christison, Bart.
In the north-western extremity of the square
was the mansion of Sir George Suttie, Bart. of
that ilk, and Balgone in Haddingtonshire, who
married Janet, daughter of William Grant, Lord
the two squares which was described as prevailing
in their amusements-tea-drinking and little fetes.
at a time when manners in Edinburgh were starched,
stately, and old-fashioned, as the customs and ideas.
that were retained, when dying out elsewhere.
On the east side of this square was the old
Trades Maiden Hospital, a plain substantial
edifice, consisting of a central block, having a great
arched door, to which a flight of steps ascended,
OLD HOUSES, SOCIETY, 1852. (From a Drawing by Gewp U'. Sim~o#.)
Prestongrange ; and here also resided his son, Sir
James, who, in 1818, succeeded his aunt, Janet
Grant, Countess of Hyndford, as heir of the line
of Prestongrange, and assumed thereby in consequence
the additional name and arms of Grant.
Their neighbour was Lady Mary Cochrane,
dwghter of Thomas sixth Earl of Dundonald, who
died unmarried at an old age.
In 1795 among the residents in -4rgyle Square
were Sir John Da!rymple, the Ladies Rae, Sutton
(dowager), and Reay, Elizabeth Fairlie (dowager of
George Lord Keay, who died in 1768). Isolated
from the rising New Town on the north by. the
great mass of the ancient city, and viewing it with
a species of antagonism and rivalry, we may well
imagine the exclusiveness of the little coteries in
and wings, with a frontage of about 150 feet. It
was intended for the daughters of decayed trades
men, and was a noble institution, founded in 1704
by the charitable Mrs. Mary Erskine, the liberal
contributor to the Merchant Maiden Hospital, and
who was indeed the joint foundress of both.
In 1794 fifty girls were maintained in the
hospital, paying AI 13s. 4d. on entrance, and receiving
when they left it a bounty of ;E5 16s. 69d.,
for then its revenue amounted to only A600 per
annum. In the process of making Chambers
Street this edifice was demolished, and the institution
removed to Rillbank near the Meadows.
It stood immediately opposite Minto House, a
handsome and spacious edifice on the north side
of the square, forty-five feet square, on the slope

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. The two waiting-men, Brown and Scott, both of whom had been nearly
forty years in the establishment, were amply provided for by the long-continued
munificence of their aged masters. Scott purchased a property in Leopold
Place, where he and Brown resided. The latter bought a small estate in
Inverness-shire.
No. CCLXXIX.
DAVID SMYTHE, LORD METHVEN.
LORD METHVEN was the son of David Smythe of Methven, and born in
1746. In possession of the
family estates, to which he succeeded on the death of his father in 1764, he
did not seek to obtain practice at the bar, but resided entirely in Perthshire,
and took an active and influential part in everything that related to the local
interests of that county. It was not until after the death of his first wife, in
1795, that he returned to Edinburgh, and betook himself to the law as a profession.'
He was shortly afterwards appointed Sheriff-Depute of Perthshire,
which office he held until he was promoted to the bench on the death of Lord
Gardenstone in 1763. He was appointed one of the Commissioners of Justiciary
in the room of Lord Abercromby in 1796.
As a judge Lord Methven is represented to have possessed extensive general
knowledge and soundness of understanding. He resigned his appointment as
a Justiciary Lord in 1804; and died on the 30th of January 1806. His
death was remarkably sudden. He was taken ill while walking on the street,
and expired in half an hour after having been carried home. His remains were
interred in the Canongate churchyard ; and the great attendance at his funeral
testified the general esteem in which he had been held.
He was twice married ; first
to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Murray of Hillhead, Bart., and sister to
General Sir James Murray Pulteney, Bart. ; secondly, to Euphemia Amelia,
daughter of Mungo Murray, Esq. of Lintrose.' He had large families by
both marriages, of whom there survived three sons, Robert Smythe, Esq.
He studied law, and passed advocate in 1769.
Lord Methven lived in St. Andrew Square.
1 His practice aa an advocate was limited. In speaking, he hesitated considerably, appearing
frequently at a loss for a word ; consequently, although his judicial qualifications were respectable,
he appeared to great disadvantage among his brethren.
!a This lady was distinguished, on account of her beauty, by the appropriate appellation of the
Flower of Strathmore ; and celebrated by Burns in his song of " Blithe waa she," having been seen
by that poet when on a visit to her relative, Si William Murray of Ochtertyre.-Mmy of Lintrose
waa succeeded by Mnngo Murray, Esq., late of Mumy and Cochrane, printem, Edinburgh.

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“ For worth revered, 10 I full of years,
Amid the sorrowing people’s tears,
Does Hopetoun to the tomb descend,
Who mourn their constant, kindest friend,
Oft have I heard, as o’er hie land
I wandered in my youthful days,
The farmer bless his fostering hand,
And ploughman’s ruder note of praise.
Oft,(too, in Humbie’s fairy vale-
Of Hopetoun have I heard the tale
Romantic vale I so sweetly wild-
Of sorrow soothed or want beguiled.
The mausoleum may arise,
But far superior are the sighs
Displaying well the sculptor’s art ;
That rise from many a wounded heart.
The historic record shall survive,
The legendary tribute live
And unimpaired its meed bestow ;
When time haa laid the structure low.
In early life to warfare trained,
He gained the glory arms can yield ;
When Gallia had her lilies stained
On Minden’s memorable field.
Hsnce wreathed, the titled path he trod-
A path (haw few pursue his plan !)
Bright, marked with piety to God
And warm benevolence to man.
The niche he leaves a brother fills,
Long, long o’er Scotia’s vales and hills
Whose prowess fame has blazoned wide ;
Shall Niddry’s deeds be told with pride !”
Having no male issue, the Earl of Hopetoun was succeeded by his half-brother
John, fourth Earl, G.C.B., and General in the Army, who had distinguished
himself so much by his gallantry and abilities in the West Indies in 1794 ; in
Holland in 1799 j and at the battles of Corunna, Bayonne, Bourdeaux, and
Toulouse. For these services he was created a British Peer in 1814, by the
title of Baron Niddry. A
handsome equestrian statue has lately been erected to his memory in St. Andrew
Square, in front of the Royal Bank, by the citizens of Edinburgh.
. Earl John was twice married,-first, in 1798, to Elizabeth, youngest
.(aughter of Charles Hope Vere of Craighall, who died without issue in 1801 ;
secondly, in 1803, to Louisa Dorothea, third daughter of Sir John Wedderburn
of Ballendean, by whom he had twelve children,’ of whom seven sons and
It will be recollected that when George IV. visited Scotland in 1822, his Majesty embarked at
Port-Edgar, having previously partaken of a repast at Hopetoun House with the Earl, his family,
and a select company assembled for the occasion. While at breakfaat, one of the Earl’s sons, a lively
He died at Paris on the 27th August 1823.
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“ His celebrated ancestor, the Marquis of Montrose, scarcely exhibited more
devotion to the cause of Charles I. in the field, than his descendant displayed
for George the Third in the House of Commons. Nor did he want great energy,
as well as activity of mind and body. During the progress of the French
Revolution, when the fabric of our constitution was threatened by internal and
external attacks, Lord Graham, then become Duke of Montrose, enrolled himself
as a private soldier in the City Light Horse. During several successive years he
did duty in that capacity, night and day, sacrificing to it his ease and his time ;
thus holding out an example worthy of imitation to the British nobility.”
His Grace died on December 30, 1836, being, strange to say, the third
individual who had held the family honours since the accession of his grandfather
to them in 1684, in the reign of Charles 11.-a period of a hundred
and fifty-three years. He was twice married, and left two sons and three
daughters. He was succmded by James (4th Duke), eldest son of the second
marriage.
THE EARL OF BUCHAN was born in 1742, and succeeded to the title
and estates of the family in 1767. His course of education being completed at
the University of Glasgow, he soon after entered the army, in which he rose to
the rank of lieutenant ; but, disliking the profession of arms, he did not continue
long in the service. In 1’766, he was appointed Secretary to the Eritish Embassy
in Spain; but, on the death of his father the year following, he returned to
his native land, resolved to prosecute pursuits more congenial to his strong
literary bias.
The first instance of the Earl’s activity was the formation of the Society of
Scottish Antiquaries in 1780.’ The want of such a Society had long been felt j
yet it is strange his lordship experienced illiberal oppositim from parties, who
In 1792, the first volume of their transactions was published ; and the following discourses by
the Earl appear in it :--“Memoirs of the Life of Sir James Stiiart Denham”-“ Account of the
Parish of Uphall”-“Account of the Island of 1colmkiln”-and “A Life of Mr. James Short, optician.”
Besides various fugitive pieces, in prose and verse, he printed, in conjunction with Dr. Walter Minto,
“An Account of the Life, Writings, and Inventions of Napier of Merchiston.”
In addition to the other objects of this Society, it was resolved to establish a mwem of natural
history, for the better cultivation of that science, and of which museum Mr. Smellie wm appointed
curator. He was likewise permitted to deliver the projected course of lectures on the philosophy of
natural history in the hall of the museum. The Society at the time having applied for a RoyaLCharter
of incorporation, an unexpected opposition arose (already alluded to in our notice of Mr. Smellie) from
Dr. Walker, Professor of Natural History in the University, and also from the Senatus Academicus a8
a body, who memorialised the Lord Advocate (Mr. Henry Dundas, afterwards Lord Viscount Melville)
against the proposed grant of a charter, alleging that the Society would intercept the communication
of many specimens and objects of natural history which would otherwise h d their way to the College
Museum, as well as documents tending to illustrate the history, antiquities, and laws of Scotland,
which ought to be deposited in the Advocates’ Library. They likewise noticed that the possession of
a museum of natural history might induce the Society to institute a lectureship on that science, in
opposition to the professorship in the University, The Faculty of Advocates and other public bodies
also joined in thia opposition ; but, after an elaborate reply on the part of the Antiquaries, the Lord
Advocate signified his approval of their request ; and, on the very next day, the royal warrant passed
the privy seal, in which his Majesty voluntarily declared himself Patron of the Society.
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personal knowledge possessed by the artist, and rumour has not assigned any
particular circumstance matrimonial as a foundation for the caricature.’ His
lordship was universally known to be a very excellent and patriotic man-goodnatured,
though not so to a fault ; and we are not aware that the Countess had
a more inordinate desire of domination than is common to most other ladies of
spirit.
JOHN FIRST MARQUIS OF BREADALBANE, EARL OF ORMELIE, etc.,
was born in 1762. He was the eldest son of Colin Campbell of Carwhin, by
Elizabeth, daughter of Archibald Campbell of Stonefield, Sheriff of Argyleshire,
and sister to Lord Stonefield, one of the Senators of the College of Justice.
He was educated at Westminster School; and afterwards resided for some
time at Lausanne, in Switzerland. He succeeded to the earldom and estates of
Breadalbane on the death of his cousin (father of the late Countess de Grey)
in 1783.
In 1784 his lordship was elected one of the sixteen representative Peers of
Scotland; and until created a British Peer in 1806, by the title of Baron
Breadalbane, was rechosen at all the subsequent elections.
In 17 9 3 he raised the Breadalbane Regiment of Fencibles,whichwas afterwards
increased to four battalions. One of these was enrolled, as the 11 6th Regiment,
in the regular service, and his lordship appointed Colonel of the corps. He
subsequently held the rank of a field officer, and was created a Marquis in 1831,
at the coronation of William IV.
The habits and disposition of the noble lord were not such as to make him
ostentatiously forward in public affairs. His attention was chiefly devoted to
the improvement of his immense estates, great portions of which, being unfitted
for cultivation he laid out in plantations. In 1805 he received the gold medal
of the Society of Arts for his success in planting forty-four acres of waste
land, in the parish of Kenmore, with Scots and larch firs, a species of rather
precarious growth, and adapted only to peculiar soils. In the magnificent
improvements at Taymouth his lordship displayed much taste ; and the Park
has been frequently described as one of the most extensive and beautiful in the
country.
Prince Leopold (afterwards King of the Belgians), when on a tour through
part of Scotland in 1819, paid a visit to Taymouth, where he was received with
all the hospitality characteristic of the olden times. His lordship’s tenantry
being summoned to attend in honour of the distinguished guest, about two
thousand men assembled in front of the Castle,
“ All plaided and plumed in their tartan array,”
where they performed a variety of evolutions very much to the gratification of
the Prince.
1 It ww said the Print waa suggested by some of the officem of the Fencibles, who, having been
refused leave of absence, attributed their want of success to the interference of Lady Breadalbane.
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another occasion, he had received an appointment as Third Officer of the
Foullis Indiaman. He was detained in Scotland longer than he expected,
and when he arrived in London the Foullis had sailed. This was a great disappointment
; but it turned out to be a most providential circumstance, as the
Foullis was never more heard of, and is supposed to have been burned at sea.
Various other incidents of the same kind might be related, which were calculated
to make an impression on a reflecting mind, and inspire a sense of the providence
of God, and the importance of being prepared for eternity.
Immediately after his appointment as Captain of the Jlelville Castle, Captain
Haldane married Miss Mary Joass, the only daughter of Alexander Joass, Esq.,
of Colleinwart, in Banffshire, by Elizabeth, the eldest sister of the celebrated
General Sir Ralph Abercromby. The circumstance of his marriage was calculated
to foster a desire to remain at home ; but the situation he held as Captain
of an East Indiaman was at that period the sure road to fortune, and more
especially in the case of Mr. Haldane, who had the double support of his own
and his wife’s connections-the former securing to him the patronage of Lord
Melville, the President of the Board of Control-and the latter, the patronage
of Sir Robert Abercromby, the Governor of Bombay and Commander-in-Chief
of the Forces in India.
During the months Mr. Haldane remained in command of the Jfelville
Castle at Spithead, a mutiny took place on board the Dutton, which gave occasion
for the display of that daring courage and presence of mind for which he
was at all times conspicuous. It was occasioned by the Captain of the Dutton
sending a man-of-war’s boat to have several of his men pressed for some real
or alleged act of insubordination. The mutiny broke out in the nightshots
were fired-and one man was killed. It was under these circumstances that
Captain Haldane ordered out his boat, and went alongside the Dutton. The
mutineers threatened him with death if he attempted to come on board. The
officers and their supporters, on the contrary, invited his assistance. By the
exercise of the greatest determination he succeeded in boarding the Dutton,
amidst the clamour and menaces of the mutineers, and the cheers of the other
party, who now invited him to put himself at their head, and, sword in hand,
drive the mutinous crew beneath the hatches. This proposal, however, he
declined j and, going forward alone into the midst of the mutineers, he addressed
them on the folly of their conduct, and the certain punishment which would
follow if they were successful in overcoming their officers. The result was,
Chat order was restored without further bloodshed ; and Captain Haldane, who
had always been popular as an officer, was on all hands complimented for this
service.
It was, however, about this time that a great change was effected in the
mind of Captain Haldane. The following
is his own simple and interesting account, in a letter to one of his messmates
:-“I had a book by me which, from prejudice of education, and not
from any rational conviction, I called the Word of God. I never got so
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who had come to pity, there were more than a
hundred whose hearts were filled with a tiger-like
ferocity, which the clergy had inspired to a dangerous
degree, and for the most ungenerous purpose.?
The women of the kail-market and the ?? saints
of the Bowhead? were all there, their tongues
trembling with abuse, and their hands full of stones
or mud to launch at the head of the fallen Cavalier,
who passed through the Water Gate at four in
the afternoon, greeted by a storm of yells. Seated
on a lofty hurdle, he was bound with cords so
tightly that he was unable to raise his hands to
save his face; preceded by the magistrates in
their robes, he was bareheaded, his hat having
been tom from him. Though in the prime of manhood
and perfection of manly beauty, we are told
that he ? looked pale, worn, and hollow-eyed, for
many of the wounds he had received at Invercarron
were yet green and smarting. A single
horse drew the hurdle, and thereon sat the executioner
of the city, clad in his ghastly and sable
livery, and wearing his bonnet as a mark of disrespect.??
He was escorted by the city guard, under
the notorious Major Weir-Weir the wizard, whose
terrible fate has been recorded elsewhere.
In front marched a number of Cavalier prisoners,
bareheaded and bound with cords. Many
of the people now shed tears on witnessing this
spectacle ; but, says Khcaid, they were publicly
rebuked by the clergy, ? who declaimed against
this movement of rebel nature, and reproached
them with their profane tenderness ; ? while the
?Wigton Papers ? state that how even the widows
and the mothers of those who had fallen in his
wars wept for Montrose, who looked around him
With the profoundest serenity as he proceeded
up the Canongate, even when he came to Moray
House-
?Then, as the Graham looked upward, he met the ugly
was one living mass of human beings ; but for one I where, by an unparalleled baseness, Argyle, with
the chief men of his cabal, who never durst look
Montrose in the face while he had his sword in
his hand, appeared in the balcony in order to feed
merrily their sight with a spectacle which struck
horror into all good men. But Montrose astonished
them with his looks, and his resolution confounded
them.?
Then with broad vulgarity the marchioness spat
full in his face ! Argyle shrank back at this, and
an English Cavalier who stood among the crowd
below reviled him sharply, while Lorne and his
bride continued to toy and smile in the face of
the people. (? Wigton Papers.?)
So protracted was this melancholy spectacle that
seven o?clock had struck before the hurdle reached
the gate of the Tolbooth, where Montrose, when
unbound, gave the executioner a gold coin, saying
-?? This-is your reward, my man, for driving the
cart.?
On the following day, Sunday, the ministers in
their pulpits, according to Wishart, rebuked the
people for not having stoned him. One declared
that ?he was a faggot of hell, and that he already
saw him burning,? while he was constantly
taunted by Major Weir as ?a dog, .atheist, and
murderer.?
The story of Montrose?s execution on the z1st
of May, when he was hanged at the Cross on a
gibbet thirty feet high, with the record of his
battles suspended from his neck, how he died
with glorious magnanimity and was barbarously
quartered, belongs to the general annals of the
nation ; but the City Treasurer?s account contains
some curious items connected with that great legal
tragedy :-
1650. Ffebruar. To making a scaffold at ye Cross
for burning ye Earl of Montrose?s papers . 2 8 0
May 13. For making a seat on a cart to carry him
from ve Water Gate to ve Tolbooth . IZ 16 o
?
into the street was Argyle, with a gay bridal party
in their brave dresses. His son, Lord Lorne, had
just been wedded to the Earl of Moray?s daughter,
deeperand covering it again . . I 16 0
Pd. for sharping the axe for striking
away the head, legs, and arms from
the body. . . . . . o 12 0
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is," said Lord Douglas, " but my butler teIls me it is not good."-" Let's pree't,"
said Braxfield, in his favourite dialect. A bottle of the claret having been
instantly produced and circulated, all present were unanimous in pronouncing
it excellent. '' I propose," said the facetious old judge, addressing himself to
Dr. M'Cubbin, the parish clergyman, who was present, "as a fama clanosa
has gone forth against this wine, that you absolve it."--" I know," replied the
Doctor, at once perceiving the allusion to Church-court phraseology, " that
you are a very good judge in cases of civil and criminal law ; but I see you do
not understand the laws of the Church. We Eever absolve till after three several
appearances!" Nobody could relish better than Lord Braxfield the wit or the
condition of absolution.
After a laborious and very useful life, Lord Braxfield died on the 30th of May
1799, in the 78th year of his age. He was twice married. By his first wife,
Miss Mary Agnew, niece of the late Sir Andrew Agnew, he had two sons and
two daughters. By his second wife, Miss Elizabeth Ord, daughter of the late
Lord Chief-Baron Ord, he had no children.
His eldest son, Robert Dundas M'Queen, inherited the estate of Braxfield,
and married Lady Lilias Montgomery, daughter of the late Earl of Eglinton.
The second entered the army, and was latterly a Captain in the 18th Regiment of
Foot. The eldest daughter, Mary, was married to William Honyman, Esq.
of Graemsay, afterwarda elevated to the bench by the title of Lord Annandale,
and created a Baronet in 1804. The second, Catherine, was married to John
Macdonald, Esq. of Clanronald.
No. LXXII.
GEORGE PRATT (THE TOWN-CRIER).
THIS person was Town-Crier of Edinburgh about the pear 1784, and made
himself remarkable for the manner of his address in discharging the duties of
his office. This singularity consisted in an extremely pompous delivery, which
proceeded from the very high opinion he entertained of the importance and
dignity of his situation as a public officer.
Deeply imbued with this sentiment, George gave forth his intimations to the
inhabitants-it might be to announce the arrival of a fresh supply of skate-with
an air and manner at once extremely imposing and edifying. It is painful to add,
however, that he utterly failed in impressing the boys of the town with the same
respect for his person and his office that he entertained himself. So far from
this, the irreverent young rogues took every opportunity of annoying him. They
laughed at his dignity, and persecuted him with the cry of " Quack, quack !"-a
monosyllable which was particularly offensive to his ears. This cry @as sometimes
varied into " Swallow's nest, " a phrase which he also abominated, as it made an
allusion to a personal deformity. Thia was a large excrescence, or wen, that
grew beneath his chin.
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should return to the granter, his nearest heirs-male, and assignees whatsoever.
The immediate heirs of Robert Hunter, after the alienation of the family estate,
gradually sank into obscurity, so that when Thomas Hunter died it became
difficult to discover any traces of them. However, two parties came forward, the
one an old man called Adam Hunter, subsequently a well-known individual in
the Scottish courts, and a persqn of the name of Taylor, who afterwards withdrew
his claim. Legal proceedings were instituted, but, after nearly fifty years’
keen contest, the aged competitor was defeated, t&e Court of Session and House
of Lords deciding that he had not established his pedigree.
Hogg, in his Winter Evening Tales,‘ remarks, “You ask who is the
owner of Polmood? This, it seems, is a hard question, since all the lawyers
and judges in Scotland have not been able to determine it in the course of half
a century. It is a positive and lamentable fact, that though it is as apparent to
whom the estate of Polmood belongs, as it is to whom this hand belongs, it has
been a subject of litigation, and depending in our Courts of Session these fifty
years.-This is one remarkable circumstance connected with the place, which
has rendered it unfamous of late years, and seems in part to justify an ancient
prediction, that the Hunters of Polmood were never to prosper.”
To the correctness of the first part of this statement it is impossible to assent ;
for, however strong the moral evidence may have been in favour of Adam
Hunter, the legal proof of his pedigree was unquestionably defective,
Mr. Alexander Hunter died at Edinburgh, 22d January 1786, and was
succeeded by his nephew Walter, whose daughter Elizabeth, Lady Forbes, is
presently (1837) in possession of Polmood.
The other figure is ROGER HOG, Esq. of Newliston, formerly a merchant in
London. Beside his
landed property, he died possessed of personal estate to a vast amount, the succession
to which was contested, and gave rise’to the celebrated case of Lashley
against Hog. It is said that Mr. Hog, amongst other economical habits, used to
dispose of his poultry, and in order to superintend the trade himself, he usually
brought them to market in his carriage. HG son and heir going one day to Newliston,
to visit his father, met him on his way to town. The servants knowing
that their master was short-sighted, drove the carriage close up, that they might
converse together. The son, in popping his head in at the carriage window,
was, to his infinite astonishment, immediately seized by the nose by an enraged
turkey-cock which was being conveyed to the market.
He was
a great admirer of Dr. Grahram, and a constant attendant during his lectures.
He was accustomed to preface anything he uttered with “I say,” a peculiarity
noticed by Mr. Kay in this Print.
Being very parsimonious, he amassed a large fortune.
Mr. Hog was remarkably corpulent, and very careless in his dress.
He died at Newliston, 19th March 1789.
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