Duke of Dmmlanrig ! ? He died in Queensberry
House.
His daughter, Anne Countess of Wemyss, died z
miserable death on the 16th of February, 1700.
She set fire accidentally to her apron, ?nightrail,
and steinkirk. Her nose was burnt off and
the flame
throat.?
His son
his many
he fled from Edinburgh, but was elected as one of
the peers to represent Scotland. On his return to.
London he was met by a cavalcade of noblemen
and gentlemen, and was preceded to his house at
Kensington by forty coaches and four hundred.
horsemen. .Next day he was presented to the:
EAST END OF THE CANONGATE. (From Cadon of Rot/z;enmv?s Maj.)
8, the Canongate : 31, the Tennis Court; k, the Water Port.
went in and burnt her tongue and
James, the second duke, resigned all
appointments under James VII., including
the command of the Scots Horse Guards,
and was received by William of Orange with great
cordiality. He made him a captain in his Dutch
Guards, and Lord of the Bedchamber and Treasury.
He was one of the commissioners for the Treaty
of Union, to achieve which the sum of AGIZ,~ZS
was paid him by the Earl of Godolphin, and then
created him Duke of Dover, Marquis of Beverley,,
and Baron Ripon.
Connected with his residence in Queensberry
House, against which the whole fury and maledictions
of the mobs were directed at the time ofthe
Union, there is a tale of awful mystery and
horror. His eldest son, James Earl of Drumlanrig,
is simply stated in the old peerages ?te?
have died young.? It is now proved, however,
that he was an idiot of the most wretched kind,.
rabid and gluttonous as a wild animal, and grew
