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240 BOSWELLIANA.
Mr. Jamieson, a true Scot, said, ' Faith, I wish I had as many
Churchills to hang upon them as there's trees.' "
" Boswell had a travelling box in which he carried his hats
and his papers. He was saying one day, ' What connection now
have they together ? ' Eeplied Mr. Lumisden,* ' They have both
a connection with your head.' "
"An honest Scots sailor who had been wounded in the
service took up a public-house at Dundee, and on his sign had
his story painted. First he was drawn with both his legs
firing away, with this inscription, — * Thus I was ; ' then with one
leg, and inscribed, ' Thus / am, the Fortune of war,'"
James EAMSAV.t
Mr. Willison." J
" A young fellow by chance let a china plate fall. His
father asked him, ' Pray, sir, what way did you do that ? ' He
* Andrew Lumsden belonged to an old family in the county
of Eerwick. After the suppression of the rebellion in 1745 he pro-
ceeded to Eome, where he became private secretary to Prince Charles
Edward. He latterly returned to Britain, and established his resi-
dence at Edinburgh. He pubhshed " Eemarks on the Antiquities of
Eome and its Environs," a pleasing and judicious performance.
He died on the 26th December, 1801, aged eighty-one.
f The Eev. James Eamsay, one of the earliest opponents of the
slave trade, was born at Fraserburgh in 1733. A surgeon in the
Eoyal Navy, he incurred a serious accident, and thereafter abandoned
his profession and took orders. For some time he held two livings
at St. Christopher's, worth £700 a year. He returned to England
in 1781, and became vicar of Teston in Kent. His work against
the slave trade appeared in 1786. He died on the 20th July, 1789.
J The Eev. John WiUison ministered at Dundee from 1716 till his
death, which took place in May, 1750. An eminent theologian, his
numerous writings found a ready acceptance, and have been frequently
reprinted. Mr. WiUison was a leader in the Church courts ; he was
much esteemed for his urbanity.