112 SALMON -FISHERY QF SCOTLAND. 



other property, on the faith of legal protection, and to which 

 his right is as unquestionable as that of the stake-net proprie- 

 tors, or coast heritors, is to their lands. On the score of jus- 

 tice, a doubt cannot exist on the subject ; and, when real honest 

 substantial justice is allowed to be constantly defeated by pre- 

 tended fictions or sophisms of law, there is, assuredly, a radical 

 fault somewhere either in the constitution of the Court, or of 

 the Judges.* 



* The best Judges Scotland ever had were the English Judges sent down by 

 Oliver Cromwell. Their administration of justice gave universal satisfaction, 

 and their removal at the Restoration was as universally regretted. When their 

 upright administration of the law was mentioned to Sir Hew Dalrymple, Presi- 

 dent of the Court of Session, he observed, " The deil thank them for a parcel 

 of kinless chiels." 



