BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 51
No. CLXXXIX.
SIR JAMES CAMPBELL, BART., OF . ARDKINGLASS.
THIS veteran soldier, who assumed the name of Campbell on succeeding to
the title and estate of his maternal grandfather, was the son of Sir James Livingstone,
Bart., whose father was the Earl of Callander, and his mother the eldest
daughter of Sir James Campbell of Ardkinglass-an old baronial residence on
the banks of Loch Fine.
SIR JAMELSIV INGSTOCNAEM PBELeLn tered the army early in life ; fought
under the Duke of Cumberland in the Netherlands; and, at the battle of
Lafeldt, commanded the 25th Regiment of Foot. He subsequently served in
America during the Canadian war, and was wounded in the leg, which rendered
him lame for life.
In 1778, when the Western Fencible Regiment was raised by the Duke of
Argyle and the Earl of Eglinton, Sir James was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel,
and he held the commission until the corps was disbanded in 1783. He was
also Governor of Stirling Castle.
Sir James was small in stature, but of a military appearance. He died at
Gargunnock in 1788, and was succeeded by his son, Sir Alexander, on whose
death in 1810, the estate descended to the next heir of entail, Colonel James
Callander; the eldest son of John Callander, Esq., of Craigforth-a Scottish
antiquary of some eminence.
We had occasion to notice this gentleman in a former article. When the succession opened to
him, he waa resident in France ; and, having been detained by Napoleon, he sent a lady, Madame
Lina Talina Sassen, as his commissioner to Scotland. In the instrument by which she was appointed,
she was designed his “beloved wife ; ” and under that character was received in society. But
when the new proprietor of Ardkinglass made his appearance in propria peTsonu, he disclaimed the
marriage, declaring that the instrument had been fmpetrated from him by intimidation. The resnlt
was, a suit at the instance of.the lady, in which, although the Judgea found the marriage not
proven, they awarded her a sum of S300 per annum, as a reparation for the deceit practised by
him, and the damage sustained by her. Sir James appealed to the House of Lords, and the
judgment was reversed; but Madame Sassen, having been admitted to sue in f mpau peris,
raiaed suit upon suit against the deceiver, and continued to keep her opponent in hot water for the
remainder of their respective lives.
, For several years during the sitting of the Court, thia singular person waa either in attendance
in the Outer House, or in one of the galleries of the Inner, where she waa always on the outlook to
see that no advantage was taken in any of her cases ; for she distrusted both agents, counsel, and
judges. She annoyed the former not unfrequently by visiting them half-a-dozen times aa day.
When once she had effected a lodgment, there waa no gettiig rid of her. An eminent barrister,
afterwards a judge, who had the misfortune to be one of her counsel, was besieged by her in hia
bed-Noin for nearly an hour, and at last was obliged tu effect his escape through the window by
mesne of 8 ladder. Though a foreigner, she had acquired a tolerable idea of the Scottish forms of
legal procedure, and not nnfreqnently used to suggest very ingenious views of her cases ; but she
was very obstinate. So much so, that although latterly she had tired her pseudo husband into a