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302 BOSWELLIANA.
bon mots about him, which he used like footballs — he threw
them down and gave them a kick." 24th April, 1785.
" April, 1785, at Mr. Osborne's. Sir Joseph Banks told me he
was sure he had a soul. He felt it high within him, as a woman
does a child."
"25th April, 1785. Dining on guard with Colonel Lord
Cathcart,* Cataline was mentioned. ' Who was he ? ' said
George t Hanger, ' for I know no ancient history.' ' I'll tell
you what he was,' said Colonel Tarleton. ' Alicni cupidus,
sui profusiis.' ' Very fair ! ' said Hanger. In a little talking of
fellows going carelessly to execution, Tarleton said, ' We're told
Sir Thomas More smiled all the way.' "
" Mrs. Heron J being at her parish church, the name of the
minister being Stot,§ as it was a very bad day, and the wind
and rain were driving through the windows, a lady observed that
it was like a guarde mange. ' I think so too, madam,' said she ;
' but if that were the case I should think it would be better to
have a dead stot than a living one.' " From herself.
" Houstoun Stewart II was one night in Drury Lane playhouse
very shabbily dressed. A surly-looking, boorish fellow comes
up to him : ' Pray, sir, whose seat do you keep ? * Houstoun
* William Schaw, tenth Baron and first Earl Cathcart, horn 1755,
died 16th June, 1843.
t Colonel George Hanger, an eccentric writer and clever humorist,
served in the American war. He subsequently resided in London,
where his society was cherished by the Prince of Wales, afterwards
George IV, Several works from his pen are full of whimsicality.
He succeeded his brother in 1814 as fourth Lord Coleraine, but
refused to accept the title. He died in 1824, aged seventy-four.
X Mrs. Heron, of Heron, Wigtonshire.
§ Rev. Ebenezer Stott, minister of MonigafF, Wigtonshire. He was
ordained lq 1748, and died 17th September, 1788.
II Houstoun Stewart, second son of Sir Michael Stewart, Bart.,
of Blackball, succeeded to the entailed estate of Carnock, Stirhng-
shire, when he assumed the name of Nicolson.