314 ANEC. OF THE LATE EARL OF ERROL. Nov. 9, 



fare of the people as of importance, thefe details will 

 be accounted as highly interefting. Nothing whicii 

 could affedt the profperity or the happinefs of the 

 meaneft individual was confidered, by Lord Errol, du- 

 ring the latter part of his life, as trivial. Without 

 jnaking an oftentatious parade of humanity, his mind 

 felt a fenfible delight in contemplating the profperity 

 and happinefs of all around him, which produced an 

 uninterrupted tendency to promote the welfare of the 

 friendlefs. By the prompt decifions that were given 

 in this court, that rancour of mind which protra£ted 

 law-fuits never fail to engender among neighbours, was 

 prevented. — The expences thefe law-fuits ufed to occa- 

 fion were avoided. — — The wife and family at home, 

 feeling themfelves thus in more eafy circumftaisces, 

 became more chearful, more kind, more induftriousf. 

 Home thus became more defirable to the hufband ; his 

 focial affeclions were awakened, and a general diffufion 

 of happinefs was tlie confequence. The very fight of 

 this refpeftable court, and the refledlions it excited 

 in the minds of thofe who came before it, were higlily 

 friendly to the belt interefts of fociety. The poor, 

 who had been formerly accullomed to look upon thofe 

 of high rank as their enemies, now, when they found 

 them a£t.ing as their protedlors ; when they fuw the 

 highefl men in the country appropriating a confiderable 

 portion of time to their bufinefs, — llftening witli 

 patient attention to their little caufes of complaint ; 

 carefully fearching out the truth, with a warmth of in- 

 tercit that they had deemed impoflible ; when they 

 found tlie juftices protefting them, at times, againlt 

 the improper exaiSlions of fome of the order of 

 julliccs themfelves +, tlicy were obliged to alter their 



f There cannot be a iufier maxim than the old proveiK ; — " Whca 

 Poverty comes in at the duor, Love flics out at the window." 



I The following is a cafe of this fort, which dcferves to he recorded. 

 One cf the juftices, a man of great fortui-e, but of a nairowand fordid 

 dL'pofiuor., was fucj l>t;fore this court by one cf hi* fcr^an:s, for ths 10 



