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BOSWELLIANA. 283
was in the pillory, who was being allowed to wear a fine
powdered flowing wig. But he was virulent against Beattie, as
I have witnessed, for Beattie treated him as an enemy to morals
and religion deserved."
"I said that Dempster and Crosbie were different: thus
Dempster had elegant knowledge of men and books, with
vivacity to show it; Crosbie solid stores of learning and law
and antiquities and natural philosophy. Dempster resembles a
jeweller's shop, gay and glittering in the sun; Crosbie, the
warehouse of an opulent merchant, dusky somewhat, but filled
with large quantities of substantial goods."
" I am for most part either in too high spirits or too low. I
am a grand wrestler with life. It is either above me, or I am
above it; yet there are calm intervals in which T have no
struggle with life, and I go quietly on. — February, 1777."
"Sir Adam Fergusson,* who, by a strange coincidence of
chances, got in to be member of parliament for Ayrshire in
1774, was the great-grandson of a messenger. I was talking at
Ptowallan t on the 17th March, 1777, with great indignation that
the whole famOies of the county should be defeated by an upstart.
Major Dunlop J urged the popular topick, that the other candi-
* Sir Adam Fergusson, Bart., of Ivilkerran, LL.D., was eldest
sou of Sir James Fergusson, Bart., a judge of the Court of Session
by the title of Lord Kilkerran. Elected M.P. for Ayrshire in 1774,
Sir A.dam continued to represent that county for eighteen years. He
afterwards sat for the county of Edinburgh. By the House of Lords
he was foimd to be heir-general to Alexander, tenth Earl of Glencairn.
He died 23rd September, 1813. That he was "great-grandson of a
messenger" is not historically borne out. His paternal great-grand-
father was Simon Fergusson of Auchinwin, youngest son of Sir John
Fergusson of Kilkerran, Knight.
t The seat of John, fourth Earl of Loudoun.
X Major Andrew Dunlop was second son of John Dunlop, of
Dunlop, Ayrshire. He served in the American war, and after-
wards commanded the Ayrshire Fencibles. He died in 1804. His
was in the pillory, who was being allowed to wear a fine
powdered flowing wig. But he was virulent against Beattie, as
I have witnessed, for Beattie treated him as an enemy to morals
and religion deserved."
"I said that Dempster and Crosbie were different: thus
Dempster had elegant knowledge of men and books, with
vivacity to show it; Crosbie solid stores of learning and law
and antiquities and natural philosophy. Dempster resembles a
jeweller's shop, gay and glittering in the sun; Crosbie, the
warehouse of an opulent merchant, dusky somewhat, but filled
with large quantities of substantial goods."
" I am for most part either in too high spirits or too low. I
am a grand wrestler with life. It is either above me, or I am
above it; yet there are calm intervals in which T have no
struggle with life, and I go quietly on. — February, 1777."
"Sir Adam Fergusson,* who, by a strange coincidence of
chances, got in to be member of parliament for Ayrshire in
1774, was the great-grandson of a messenger. I was talking at
Ptowallan t on the 17th March, 1777, with great indignation that
the whole famOies of the county should be defeated by an upstart.
Major Dunlop J urged the popular topick, that the other candi-
* Sir Adam Fergusson, Bart., of Ivilkerran, LL.D., was eldest
sou of Sir James Fergusson, Bart., a judge of the Court of Session
by the title of Lord Kilkerran. Elected M.P. for Ayrshire in 1774,
Sir A.dam continued to represent that county for eighteen years. He
afterwards sat for the county of Edinburgh. By the House of Lords
he was foimd to be heir-general to Alexander, tenth Earl of Glencairn.
He died 23rd September, 1813. That he was "great-grandson of a
messenger" is not historically borne out. His paternal great-grand-
father was Simon Fergusson of Auchinwin, youngest son of Sir John
Fergusson of Kilkerran, Knight.
t The seat of John, fourth Earl of Loudoun.
X Major Andrew Dunlop was second son of John Dunlop, of
Dunlop, Ayrshire. He served in the American war, and after-
wards commanded the Ayrshire Fencibles. He died in 1804. His
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