APPENDIX. 45 



Account of 

 Lord Prefident 



ous talents and accomplimments which he there applied to ano- 

 ther, were in a peculiar manner his own. Dundas. 



This eminent and truly refpectable man, after a life devoted 

 to the public good, died -in the 68th year of his age, on the 

 26th day of Auguft 1753. 



He left by his firft wife, Elizabeth, the daughter of Ro- 

 bert Watson, Efq; of Muirhoufe, a fon, Robert, the late 

 Prefident of the Court of Seffion, and two daughters. By his 

 fecond wife, Anne, the daughter of Sir Robert Gordon of 

 Invergordon, Baronet, he left five fons and a daughter. Of 

 this laft marriage, is the Right Hon. Henry Dundas of Mel- 

 ville, Treafurer of the Navy ; whofe various and fplendid abi- 

 lities, direcled at firft to the profeflion of the law, and emi- 

 nently difplayed while he held the offices of Solicitor-general 

 and Lord Advocate for Scotland, are now equally diftinguifhed 

 in the Legislative Aflembly, and in the Councils of his So- 

 vereign. 



Robert Dundas of Arnifton, late Lord Prefident of the 

 Court of Seflion, was born on the 18th of July 17 13. He re- 

 ceived the earlier parts of his education under a domeftic tutor, 

 and afterwards purfued the ufual courfe of academical ftudies 

 in the tJniverfity of Edinburgh. In the end of the year 1733, 

 he went to Utrecht, where the leclures on the Roman Law 

 were at that time in confiderable reputation. He remained 

 abroad for four years ; and, during the recefs of ftudy at the 

 TJniverfity, he fpent a confiderable time at Paris, and in vifiting 

 feveral of the principal towns of France and the Low Countries. 



Returning to Scotland in 1737, he was called to the bar in 

 the beginning of the following year ; and, in his earlieft pu- 

 blic appearances, gave ample proof of his inheriting, in their 

 utmoft extent, the abilities and genius of his family. His elo- 

 quence was copious and animated ; in argument, he difplayed 

 a wonderful fertility of invention, tempered by a difcriminating 



judgment,. 



