Stirling peerage

10 INTRODUCTION.
brought an action in the Court of Session, for proving
the tenor of this alleged Novoclamus of 1639, to which
the Officers of State were not called as parties, and
which was dismissed hoc statu, 4th March, 1830.
(Shaw's Reports, VIII. 634.)
On 4th September 1830, he instituted a new action
against the Officers of State and JNIr Graham of Gart-
more, which was likewise dismissed, 2d March, 1833.
On 14th July 1831, Mr Humphrys, on the narrative
of his service, granted to Thomas Christopher Banks, *
aforesaid, 16,000 acres of land in Canada, and created
him a baronet, in terms of a clause in the charter of
1621 and 1625. Banks assumed the title, and applied
to the Lords of the Treasury for confirmation of the grant,
but, receiving no reply to his application, f he brought
a Declarator before the Court of Session, to have the
Resignation found valid, and calling upon the Crown to
grant a charter under the Great Seal conform thereto.
This was defended by the Officers of State, but action
* It is truly amazing-, after the " eternal friendship" sworn between
these parties, — after this donation of soil and presentment of orange
ribbon, — to find the newly created Baronet of Nova Scotia, designated by
his creator quoad honores, " a malevolent and mercenary agent," " a vin-
dictive and treacherous being," and so forth. ( Vide " Narrative of
Oppressive Law Proceedings," &c. joa«si»i.)
-j- Notwithstanding the non-confirmation by the Lords of the Treasury
of this ridiculous grant, and, as it were, in defiance of their proper con-
tempt for his impertinent application, Mr Banks prefixed to his " Analy-
tical Statement of the Case of Alexander Earl of Stirling and Dovan,"
&c. London, 1832, 8vo. an " Advertisement," explanatory and defensive
of his assumption of the title of " Baronet, N. S." on the title-page of the
said " Statement." In this " Advertisement," he coolly remarks on the '
creation by Mr Humphrys, — " I consider the same to be perfectly as legal
and as efficacious, as if it had been conferred upon me by the Crown
itself."!!!!
" 11^1)011 my life I am a Lord iudeod ,
And not a tuikcr, iiur Chi'ist'tphcro SI}/-'"
Taming o/the Shrew.