104 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Beechwood.
Henry Dundas, appointed Lord Advocate. After
being Member for Peebles, he was raised to the
bench, assuming the title of Lord Henderland, from
an estate he possessed in that county. He was
what is called a double-gowned Senator. He also
held the office of Clerk of the Pipe in the Scottish
Exchequer Court, an office which, through the
interest of Lord Melville, was subsequently held
by his sons. He died of cholera morbus in 1796.
He saw much hard service during the American
War of Independence, and was second in command
at the battle of Guildford, when the colonists,
under General Green, were defeated on the 15th of
March, 1781. He commenced the action at the
head of his division, the movements of which were
successful on every point. ? I have been particularly
indebted to Major-General Leslie for his
gallantry and exertion, as well as his assistance in
ROSEBURN HOUSE.
Westward of Murrayfield, on the southern slope
of Corstorphine Hill, is Beechwood, embosomed
among trees, the beautiful seat of the Dundases,
Baronets of Dunira and Comrie, Perthshire. It
is said that it caught the eye of the Duke of
Cumberland, when marching past it in 1746, and
he remarked that ?it was the handsomest villa
he had seen, and most like those in England.?
In the last century it was the property and
residence of Lieutenant-General the Hon. Alexander
Leslie, Colonei of the 9th Regiment, brother
of the 6th Earl of Leven and Melville, who began
his military career as an ensign in the Scots Foot
Guards in 1753, and attained the rank of Major-
General in 1779. His mother was a daughter of
Monypenny of Pitmilly, in Fifeshire.
every other part of the service,? wrote Lord Cornwallis
in one of his despatches.
Leslie was appointed to the command of the
9th Foot on the 4th July, 1788, and from that
time held the rank of Lieutenant-GeneraL In
1794, while second in command of the forces in
Scotland, in consequence of a mutiny among the
Breadalbane Highland Fencibles at Glasgow, he
left Edinburgh with Sir James Stewart and Colonel
Montgomerie (afterwards Earl of Eglinton) to take
command of the troops collected to enforce order.
By the judicious conduct of Lord Adam Gordon,
the Commander-in-Chief, who knew enough of the
recently raised regiment to be aware ? that Highlanders
may be led, not driven,? an appeal to force
was avoided, and the four ringleaders were brought
