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in his shirt, without any clothes, and put him in the post-chaise 
standing ready with four horses in the Friars’ Vennel, bruising both 
his arms and tearing his shirt. Some of the peaceful persuaders 
entered a second chaise of four, and together they rattled out of the 
town and over the New Bridge of Cluden, two miles out, he having 
nothing on but his shirt, nor either wig or nightcap upon his head. 
At Newbridge, however, clothes were got for him, and he was 
carried to the house of James Irving of Gribton. Afterwards the 
journey was resumed, the blinds sometimes down, and a handkerchief 
occasionally upon his eyes, and he threatened if he should eall for 
assistance. They crossed the Nith by Auldgirth Bridge and passed 
down the North side [through Kirkmahoe] to Locherbridge, and by 
Crochmede to Lochmaben and Lockerby. There the team of four was 
reduced to two, and they took him to Castlemilk, belonging to Wm. 
Robertson Lidderdale, Esq., where they detained him till late in the 
night of the 24th. Thence they passed to Borland of Dryfe, and on 
the evening of Sunday, the 25th, they brought him home again to 
Amisfield. The Hendersons had absconded, and an advertisement 
offering a reward of £200 failed to produce them. The precognition 
of witnesses was transmitted by Mr Miller, yr. of Dalswinton. He 
stated that ‘‘ clamant outcryes in the county obliged him to apply 
for military assistance to protect gentlemen in the exercise of their 
rights.’’ The panels Brayen and Forrest pleaded not guilty, and 
their defence seems similar to that in the other case, which came on a 
week later. Charteris, it was said, had made promises to both sides 
(Johnston and Robert Lowrie), and to save his honour his family 
arranged the affair. The general opinion will be that, if it were so, 
his friends took a strange way of dissembling their love. The judg- 
ment of the Court, however, is not readily available. I am indebted 
to Mr A. Cameron Smith for the whole of this note and for much 
other help in identifying those named in these letters. 
24 17th February, 1792. 
25 13th March, 1793. 
26 See his letter of 3rd August, 1803, to Deputy Lieutenant 
Staig, given in Hogg’s Life of Rev. J. Wightman, p. 151. 
27 16th May, 1794. 
28 Mr James Dunlop of Garnkirk, merchant in Glasgow, and a 
great coal proprietor. 
29 28th March, 1793. 
30 Pulteney bought a block of land in the back part of New York 
State, and also a tract on the Tennessee (13th March, 1793). 
31 13th March, 1793. This far-seeing and accurate prediction 
deserves to be classed with the most notable anticipations of the 
future. 
32 11th June, 1793. 
33 23rd April, 1793. 
