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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 433 ‘(Sir S. Rmilly showed that the Lord Advocate was perfectly in order. “The Lord Advocate continued that he had never delayed bringing prisoners to trial. Within a week after the prisoner had been committed, he attended to the settling of the indictment. He thought it fair that everything should be put on the record, to give the prisoner a fair notice ; and this was done. There were long debates on this addition to the indictment ; and in consequence of this, though not of anything that fell from the Court, a new indictment was framed ; and so far from any complaint being made on the score of delay, the prisoiier asked fifteen days more. The Court then desired to consider whether the felony were merged in the treason (for the English law of treason was not well understood there), and subsequently suggested an alteration in the form of the indictment ; and no objection was made to the relevancy of this latter altered indictment. He trusted the statement he had now made would corroborate what he had said on a former occasion.” It was at first drawn up to a charge of felony. On the death of Lord Reston, in 1819, Mr. Maconochie was promoted to He was at the same time Lord Meadowbank married the eldest daughter of Lord President Blair, by His eldest, a member of the Scottish bar, the bench, and took his seat as Lord Meadowbank. constituted a Lord of Justiciary. whom he had several children. married, in 1836, Miss Wiggan, an American lady. No. CCCXVIII. THE HON. FRANCIS WILLIAM GRANT OF GRANT, COLONEL OF THE INVERNESS-SHIRE XILITIA. FRANCWISI LLIAMG RANTb, orn 6th March 1778, was the second son of the late Sir James Grant of Grant, and brother and heir-apparent to the fifth Earl of Seafield.’ regiment of militia were stationed at Edinburgh. counties of Elgin and Nairn in Parliament from 1807 till 1840. At the time the Print was executed, 1804, the Colonel and-hi s Colonel Grant was Lord-Lieutenant of Inverness-shire, and represented the He married, And the world which has laugh’d at the fool of eighteen, Will laugh at the fool of three-score. “ ’Tis not while you wear a short coat of light-brown, Tight breeches, and neckcloth so full, : That the absolute blank of a mind can be shown, Which time will but render more dull. “ Oh ! the fool, who is truly so, never forgets, But still fools it on to the close ; Just as dark as it was when he roae.’’ As Ponsonby leaves the debate, when he sets, On the demise of the last Earl of Findlater and Seafield, who died without issue at Dresden, on the 5th October 1811, his estate and title of Seafield devolved on Sir Lewis Alexander Grant of Grant, Bart., elder brother of the Colonel, who died unmarried in 1840. The earldom of Findlater, which is limited to heirs-male, was claimed by the late Sir William Ogilvie, Bart.; but his claim was never investigated by the House of Peen. VOL II. 3 9
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