2;,6 on TJiomson: Feb. i^- 



minister of Coldstream, who lately publlflied in Lon- 

 don a volume of sermons preached before the univer- 

 sity of Glasgow, and Thomas Bell, the second son, 

 Avas a merchant in Jamaica, and died there. 



Mary, the youngest, married Mr William Craig 

 merchant in Edinburgh, who had one son, Mr James 

 Craig, the ingenious architect who gave the plan of 

 the New Tov.-n of Edinburgh, at a very early period 

 of his life ; he is still alive. 



Tliese, sir, I can afsure you, are all the nephews 

 that Mr Thomson had, none of whom either were 

 gardners, or ever lived with him. And this account 

 you m^y rely upon as true. 



I cannot, however, supjfose, that Mr Robertson coiild 

 have mentioned the circumstance, which gave rise 

 to this letter, unlefs there had been some foundatioa 

 for it ; but if any such persons did live upon Mr 

 Thomson, it must haAX been others, who either had 

 no connection at all, or a very distant connectioa . 

 with him. That some such persons might have' 

 taken the advai:tage of his easinefs of temper to 

 live upon him, is not . at all impofsible, and they 

 w^culd not scniple to pafs themselves upon the 

 neighbourhood for his relations. I know that it 

 is, even till this hour, very generally believed that 

 two nephews of Mr Thomson, who bear his own 

 name, are still in life. One of them was formerly 

 gardner to lord Bute, now a nursery-man at Mil- 

 end near London, the other is full brother to this man, 

 and is at present gardner to squire Bouverie; these 

 two gentlemen, are indeed relations of Mr Thomson, 

 tut very distant \ their father is still in life, aJt 



