APPENDIX. 63 



III. Account of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Miller 

 of Glenlee, Bart, Lord Prefident of the Court of Seffion, and 

 F. R. S. Edin. 



{Read by David Hume, Efqj Advocate, F. R. S. Edin. and Pro- 

 feffor of Scots Law in the Univerfity of Edinburgh, Dec. 21. 1789.] 



IT has often occurred to me, as a hard circumftance in the 

 lot of thofe who follow the active employments of life, that 

 however great their eminence, however ufeful their labours, 

 nay, however rare and excellent their talents, the remembrance 

 of them dies among their countrymen at large, almofl as foon 

 as they themfelves are gone ; and even with thofe of their own 

 profeflions fcareely furvives for more than a fingle generation. 

 The records of the Royal Society are therefore in this refpecl 

 valuable, that they afford the means of refcuing from ob- 

 livion, thofe of our Members who, by their profeffional emi- 

 nence and fervices, have merited the gratitude and remembrance 

 of their country, though their line of life did not permit them 

 to attain diftinclion of another kind, by any literary work or 

 difcovery in fcience. 



I thought it would be univerfally felt and allowed, that 

 the late Sir Thomas Miller, (at one time a Vice-Prefident of 

 this Society), molt juftly fell under the above defcription of a 

 Angularly ufeful man, and fit to be commemorated. And in 

 this perfuafion, I have prepared a fhort account of him, now to 

 be fubmitted to your confideration. 



Sir 



