Genealogy of the family of Forbes

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1765; succeeded his father 1804; married, in 1792, Elizabeth-
(daughter of Walter Hunter of Polmood — Issue, James, Walter,
Frederick, John, Robert: his Lordship is one of the 16 Scotch
Peers, and likewise a Baronet of Nova Scotia, 1G28 — Chief Seat,
Castle Forbes, Aberdeenshire.
1684 — Earl of Grannard (Ireland) Lord Viscount Forbes.
Lord Pitsligo, (Baron — Scotland) aitainted 1745.*
1626 — Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo — Bart. — Nova Scotia.
1630 — Sir Arthur Forbes of Crai^ievar — Baj-t. — Nova Scotia,
1 700 — Sir John Forbes of Foveron — Bart. — Nova Scotia.
We have now brought our short (though, we fear, rather dif-
fuse) essay to its conclusion. We certainly think, that the con-
sciousness of the deserts of our ancestors may, when under the
control of a just and reasonable mind, be productive not only
of much internal comfort and vigour, but tend as a stimulus to
the best exertions of oiu' nature : that it may engender the mean
feelings of false pride is not to be denied; it is, like every thing
else, subject to the medium through which it passes ; and whil*
in generous minds it will produce similar fruit, from ignoble na.
tures it will probably draw forth its innate insolence, littlenesg
and depravity, with bolder exposure.
-j- As long as the fields of fame of our ancestors make the heart
* Fidelity is so great a virtue among mankind, that the time is long
past for attaching the obloquy the adherents of the old family met witk
formerly. We may remark, that it is the virtue most in veneration
in every rank, high and low. A Danish {xionarch was once saved from
losing his life from the treachery of his nobles, by the fidelity of his
dog ; he afterwards instituted the Order of the Dog : the badge is the
figure of one, and, under, the allusive motto " but Tolpatch was faith-
•« ful."
f We are far from judging, like Dr. Johnson, that there is some-
thing rascally in every low man ; — that in every man, long habituated
to any sort of pursuit, there shall be a tinge of the habits he has
been inured to, is certainly very natural— but these, though not perhaps
such as distinguish the vir generosus, are coropati|t>I« with the greatest