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friend, the Reverend Mr Campbell of Ardersier, lately inform- 

 ed her, that he saw her brother standing in the porch shedding; 

 tears, immediately after quitting the apartment in which his 

 father's body was lying, previous to the funeral. 



On the whole, however, I have not been able to discover the 

 slightest reason for altering the opinion I have always entertain- 

 ed respecting the state of young Mitchell's feelings on the day 

 of the funeral. It was my strong conviction of the truth of this 

 opinion, and thinking that Professor Glennie might have been 

 furnished with the materials of his Account from some one who 

 had not enjoyed the same opportunity of judging as myself, 

 that led me, in the supplement to that Account, to doubt in 

 some degree the accuracy of his information on this point. I 

 have since found, however, that the whole of Professor Glen- 

 nie's memoir was communicated by my friend Mr Macfar- 

 lane, who was present, as well as myself, on that melancholy 

 occasion. I would now observe, therefore, that though I am sorry 

 to differ in opinion from a gentleman who has written so able a 

 detail of some other parts of Mitchell's history, my perfect 

 knowledge of his candour and liberality embolden me to say, that 

 I think he is mistaken in this particular ; and that he has inter- 

 preted into expressions of grief in young Mitchell, what were 

 merely expressions of curiosity. On this subject I have com- 

 municated with my friends Mr Lauder Dick of Relugas, Mr 

 Smyth of Earlsmill, and the medical attendant of the family, 

 Mr Straith, surgeon at Forres, — gentlemen who also were pre- 

 sent at the funeral, and who are more familiar even than I am 

 with young Mitchell's countenance and expression ; and I 

 find, that their opinion coincides exactly with mine. His mo- 

 tions at the coffin were equally visible to us all. But we 

 did not attribute his placing his arms around it, to any emo- 

 tion of sorrow, of which there appeared to us not the slightest 



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