OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [ Restalrig.
them in my pocket and went up some public staircase
to eat them, without beer or water. In this
manner I lived at the rate of little more than fourpence
a day, including everything." In the following
season he lived in Edinburgh, and added to
his baps a little broth.
In 1760, when only in his nineteenth year,
Adam-one of that army of great men who have
made Scotland what she is to-day-obtained the
head mastership of Watson's Hospital.
This place was the patrimony of the Nisbet
family, already referred to in our account of the
ancient house of Dean, wherein it is related that
Sir Patrick Nisbet of Craigantinnie, who was created
a baronet of Nova Scotia in 1669, was subsequently
designated '' of Dean," having exchanged his paternal
lands for that barony with his second cousin,
Alexander Nisbet.
The latter, having had a quarrel with Macdougall
of Mackerston, went abroad to fight a duel with
1Hti Huudr: OF THE LnGANS OF RESTALRIG, LOCH END. (PUYfh Uftter a Skr4ch by fhe Author J J I ~ C in 1847.)
Year after year Restalrig was the favourite
summer residence of the Rev. Hugh Blair, author
of the well-known " Lectures on Rhetoric and
Belles-lettres," who died on the 27th of December
1800. ,
A little way north-east of Restalrig village stands
the ancient house of Craigantinnie, once a simple
oblong-shaped mansion, about four storeys in height,
with crowstepped gables, and circular turrets ; but
during the early part of this century made much
more ornate, with many handsome additions, and
having a striking aspect-like a gay Scoto-French
chheau-among the old trees near it, and when
viewed from the grassy irrigated meadows that lie
between it and the sea.
him, in 1682, attended by Sir William Scott of
Harden, and Ensign Douglas, of Douglas's Regiment,
the Royal Scots, as seconds. .On their
return the Privy Council placed the whole four in
separate rooms in the Tolbooth, till the matter
should be inquired into ; but the principals were,
upon petition, set at liberty a few days after, on
giving bonds for their reappearance.
On the death of Sir Alexander Nisbet at the
battle of Toumay, unmarried, the estates and title
reverted to his uncle, Sir Alexander, who was succeeded
by his eldest son Sir Henry ; upon whose
decease the title devolved upon his brother Sir
John, who died in 1776.
In that year the latter was succeeded by his
