112 SALMON-FISHEEY OP SCOTLAND.; 



othfeT property, oil the faitk of legal protection,' and to whicTl 

 his right is as unquestionable as that of the stakernet proprisr 

 tors, or coast heritors, is to their lands. On the score of /ms-^ 

 ■tice, a doubt caniLot 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 somewliere — 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 GromweU. 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." 



