and furniture, was insufficient to satisfy the demands of his creditors. His daughter had various lawsuits with them, the Session Papers in which are preserved in Lord Elchies' Collection, vol. 18, 1742-1749. Mr. Horne, who seems to have treated the Pollysyllable with just contempt, was an Advocate, and for many years one of the Dean's Council. He was possessed of a good estate in Aberdeen, being designated Horne of that Ilk. His daughter and heiress married Hew Dalrymple, a member of the Faculty of Advocates subsequently raised to the bench by the title of Lord Drummore. The estates of Horne now belong to his Lordship's grandson, Sir Robert Dalrymple Horne Elphinstone, who was created a Baronet 16th June 1828. To the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the Complaint of "OTHERWISE," an Injured Pollysyllable and Adverb, against Mr. JOHN HORN, Advocate; HUMBLY SHEWETH, That it is with grieff and vexation your petitioner is induced to intrude upon your Lordships' time in the hurry of the end a Session, but the circumstances of the case makes it absolutely necessary. What gives occasion to the present complaint, is a certain paragraph, contained in a paper intitled “Answers for the Duke of Gordon to the Petition of the Earl of Murray," in which, to your petitioner's great surprise and mortification, he found the following words :-"He will not at this time of the Session presume to take up more of your Lordships' time about the gramatical signification of the pityfull monosyllable and adverb OTHERWISE.” I own I am an adverb, and I glory in the title, nor shall anything which a proper substantive noun can say make me ashamed of it. But to be made a monosyllable, and a pityfull monosyllable, I burn with a just indignation at the very thought of it. Little did I expect this return from a gentleman for whom I had done numberless acts of friendship. I put it home to his conscience, whether I have not alwise been a ready assistant to him, upon all occasions, nay, whether he has not constantly made use of my name and credit, when no other monosyllable or polosyllable on earth could serve the purpose. Let him say otherwise if he dares. Sure he will blush at pronouncing my name, though this is not the first time I have been sensible of his ingratitude; for I am credibly informed that he and his other brethren at the Barr have asserted that a thing was So, when they and your Lordships knew it was OTHERWISE. It The thing is so ludicrous, that I can hardly descend to an argument that I am a pollysyllable, having all the marks and apparent symptoms of polysyllabilaty. I am a polysyllable, descended of polysyllables. The alias's and aliters of ancient Rome were my predecessors, and the autrements, a French family, own the same original. is true, my mother was a monosyllable of the family of WISE, (a very fast headed race;) but they, for a proof of their wisdom, have deserted the monosyllables, and by matching into our house, are now naturalized polysyllables, ALWISE, LIKEWISE, SIDEWISE, and many others, are all children of the same lady. Your Lordships are. dayly witnesses of the hereditary antipathy that is between our family and the monosyllabical house of So. The disputes between So and Otherwise, I may say, without vanity, have made some noise in the world, and I dare say, that for the sake of the irreconcilable hatred we bear to that pityful monosyllable, we shall continue enemys to the whole monosyllabical clan to the last letter of our name. I need say no more, because I have the happiness of the intimate acquaintance of all your Lordships' numbers, in whose mouths I have alwise made a very considerable figure. I must acknowledge the obligations I ly under to your Lordships' justice, in the many contests I have had with that diminative prig So; for often and many times after your Lordships have found So, upon application from my friends, you have found OTHERWISE; nay, I am so far convinced of your Lordships' gracious thoughts of me, that I firmly believe that often when your Lordships say So, you mean OTHERWISE. I shall not detain your Lordships any longer. I have raised and repeated a Declarator of Monosyllability, and I beg it should be found and declared, that I am a Pollysyllable, and that the Signer of the Answers may be ordained to answer summarily as a Member of the College of Justice, and may publickly recant and declare that I am a true and undoubted Pollosyllable, and own, that the HORNS are but pityfull Monosyllables themselves. AcCORDING TO JUSTICE, OTHERWISE.4 Notes to Number XLVII. 1 He died in 1713. 2 4th April 1691. 3 In the copy from which this article is printed, there is written "This was done by Mr. Hew Dalrymple, advo'cate, afterwards Hew Murray Kynnymond of Kynnymond, the prettiest gentleman of the whole faculty in his time.” From a manuscript obligingly communicated by the Reverend Dr. Lee. My Massa's wife me Me kick my Massa's b-m,Strum, strum, strum, Liberty, liberty, come. 2 Me burn my Massa's wig, 3 All day him sleep, eat, shag, 4 Free prentice now I am, 5 If whiteman try to teach, Kick parson on the breech 6 Schoolmaster now abroad, And send him home by 7 Whiteman to hell may go, XLIX. NOTES BY LORD CRINGLETIE OF THE TRIAL, DOUGLAS AGAINST RUSSELL. JURY COURT. GEORGE DOUGLAS, ESQ. commonly called Tillywhilly, for Lemon Tree Club, versus JOHN RUSSELL, ESQ. Advocate. ISSUE. It being admitted that the defender is a member of the Lemon Tree Club, whereof the pursuer is an officebearer, It being also admitted that by the rules of the said Club, the members are bound to sing at the convivial meetings thereof, provided they are apt and able so to do, WHETHER the defender, in December 1830, was apt and able to sing, and whether, at a meeting of the Club then held at the British Hotel, he wrongfully refused to sing, to the injury and damage of the pursuer? SCHEDULE of DAMAGES claimed by pursuer, £343, 17s. 51d. Counsel for Pursuer, Counsel for Defender, W. BUCHANAN, P. ROBERTSON. JAS. GORDON, R. THOMSON. MR. ROBERTSON for pursuer.-(Impossible to take notes-unintelligible-seemed on general question or |