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Esi|. ; Jas. Ferguson, Esq., junr. of Pit four, and suchlike; with Mr 

 I >ii^es and Mrs Ward. 



" The company, all "but Mrs Ward, dined afterwards at the 

 Griskin Club, which then met at a tavern in the Abbey." 



''Mr Digges" and "Mrs Ward" were professional actors of 

 celebrity in their day. 



VII. (p. 40.) 



John Clerk of Eldin, the elder, died at an advanced age in 1812. 

 lie was for sonic years a Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland. He 

 had an early passion for the life of a sailor, but circumstances did 

 not permit his indulging it, except in the study. His celebrated 

 work on ' Xaval Tactics,' concerning the theory of the breaking 

 of the enemy's line, was first printed for distribution among his 

 private friends. It was published in 1790, and a second edition 

 appeared in 1804. There is a memoir of Clerk and a commentary 

 on his system by Professor Playfair in the eighth volume of the 

 'Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.' His son John, 

 who was for some time a judge of the Court of Session, had a 

 reputation in his day of a different kind. He was a wit and pun- 

 ster, but he carried these accomplishments into the range of wild 

 and sometimes indecorous buffoonery. There was something 

 peculiarly national in his sallies, and they were always watched 

 for and reported with avidity. Perhaps no man in his day in 

 Scotland was more popular, except Scott. When he became a 

 judge of the Court of Session in 1823, he took from the paternal 

 estate the title of Lord Eldin, saying that the difference between 

 him and the Chancellor was "all in my i." He died in 1832. 

 Many characteristic notices of him will bo found in ' Peter's Let- 

 ters,' Lockliart's ' Life of Scott,' and Cockburn's ' Life of Jeilrey.' 



VIII. (p. G7.) 



In the long debate in the Commons in March 1809, on the 

 motion for taking into consideration the minutes of evidence in the 

 inquiry as to the conduct of the Duke of York as commander-in- 

 chief, Lord Folkestone addressed the House on the 10th, following 

 Mr Leach. This speech was remarkable as containing an indignant 

 remonstrance against efforts to shield the duke, by crushing some 



