Leith.] CORNWALLIS?S REGIMENT. ?93
?Are you uneasy about that fishing-party ? ? ?? No,?
she replied, ?I had no thought of it.? After she
had been asleep about an hour, she again exclaimed,
in a dreadful fright : ?? I see the boat-it is going
down ! ? Again the major awoke her, on which she
said the second dream must have been suggested
Chambers conceives that, unlike many anecdotes
of this kind, Lady Clerk?s dream-story can be traced
to an actual occurrence, which he quotes from the
CaZcdoniaiz Mercury of I 734, and that the old lady
had mistaken the precise year.
In 1740-for the first time, probably, since the
THE OLD TOLBOOTH, 1820. (&?er Slorcr.)
by the first. But no rest n-as to be obtained by
her, for again the dream returned, and she exclaimed,
in extreme agony : ?They are gone !-the boat is
sunk ! Then she added : ? Mr. Dacre must not
go, for I feel that, should he go, I should be miserable
till his return.? In short, on the strength of
her treble dream, she induced their nephew to send
a note of apology to his companions, who left Leith,
but were caught in a storm, in which all perished.
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days of Cromwell--we find regular troops quartered
in Leith, when General Guest, commanding in Scotland,
required the magistrates to find billets in
North and South Leith for certain companies of
Brigadier Cornwallis?s regiment, latterly the I I th
Foot.
Previous to 1745, the only place where troops
could be accommodated in a body at Leith was in the
old Tolbooth About that time, Robert Douglas,
