[16] Henry, first Viscount Melville, the friend of Pitt.
[17] A nickname for John Erskine of Carnoch.
[18] Sir Thomas Miller of Glenlee.
[19] John Campbell, raised to the Bench in 1796.
[20] Jas. Burnet of Monboddo, who had a theory that human beings were born with tails.
[21] James Ferguson of Pitfour. Owing to weak eyesight he wore his hat on the Bench.
[22] Robert Bruce of Kennet.
[23] Clerk of Session.
It was the first Lord Meadowbank, who wearying of the dry statement of a case made by Mr. Thomas W. Blair, broke in with the remark: "Declaim, sir! why don't you declaim? Speak to me as if I were a popular assembly."