[390] See the Table of Weather in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1774, p. 290.
[391] Dr. Alexander Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 137. The tree still remains the solitary memorial of the fight.
[392] It was not till 1799 that by 39 Geo. III. c. 56, they were declared free. Cockburn’s Memorials, p. 78, and Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 202, n. 1.
[393] Dodsley’s London and its Environs, vi. 316. In March, 1747, one Mr. Williams, master of the White Horse Inn, Piccadilly, was kicked out of a feast of the Independent Electors of Westminster, because he was discovered to be taking notes of some Jacobite toasts. Gentleman’s Magazine for 1747, p. 151.
[394] Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh, p. 190.
[395] Gentleman’s Magazine for 1771, p. 544.
[396] Gentleman’s Magazine for 1771, p. 543.
[397] J. and H.’s Storer’s Descriptions of Edinburgh. Dr. Chambers, in his Traditions of Edinburgh, p. 187, says that “the date is deficient in the decimal figure 16—3.”
[398] Croker’s Boswell, 8vo. ed. p. 270.
[399] Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh, p. 191. Perhaps this was Jeremy Bentham’s father, who two years earlier had married for the second time: what was his wife’s Christian name I have not been able to ascertain. The son did not visit Edinburgh in 1768. Dr. Chambers gives on p. 318 a list of the great people living in the Canongate about the year 1769. According to it there were two dukes, sixteen earls, two countesses, seven barons, seven lords of session, thirteen baronets, and four commanders-in-chief. The Edinburgh Directory for 1773-4 contains, however, the names of only about a dozen peers and peeresses.