Goldsmith found the holder of a Scottish Peerage keeping a glove shop, and in the case of Lord Mordington, who had been arrested for debt, and claimed his privilege in the Common Pleas, "the bailiff made affidavit, that when he arrested the said lord, he was so mean in his apparel, as having a worn out suit of clothes and a dirty shirt on, and but sixpence in his pocket, he could not suppose him to be a peer of Great Britain, and of inadvertency arrested him." Fortescue's Reports, 165. This family was peculiarly celebrated, Lady Mordington having raised the question, whether a Scottish peeress who kept a tavern was protected by privilege of peerage from being amenable to the laws against keeping disorderly houses. [198:1] He had an example connected with his own neighbourhood, if not with his own family, of the practice of the gentry following handicraft trades. George Hume, son of the minister of his native parish, Chirnside, who was connected with his own family, followed the humble occupation of a baker in the Canongate, and rose to the dignity of deacon of his trade. Ill-natured tradition says, that the philosopher disliked the vicinity to himself of this living illustration of the depression of the Scottish aristocracy, and occasionally put himself to some trouble to avoid meeting him on the street; but this tradition is not consistent with Hume's manly character. [202:1] P. 179. [208:1] My own Life. [209:1] MS. R.S.E. [209:2] Tytler's Life of Kames, i. 123. [210:1] Douglas's Peerage, ii. 501-502. [211:1] Campbell's Naval History, iv. 324. Appendix, A. It appears that Rodney commanded one of the ships, the Eagle. [212:1] MS. R.S.E. [214:1] Sic in MS. [214:2] Ibid. [217:1] MS. R.S.E. [219:1] In the possession of Cosmo Innes, Esq. [221:1] Mr. Tytler says, "The blank is in the manuscript, the reader will be at no loss to supply it." [222:1] Tytler's Life of Kames, 125. [222:2] Memorials, &c. 76. [222:3] Beatson, Parliamentary Register. [223:1] In allusion to the Royal Scottish Regiment--Bergen-op-zoom had been taken by storm on 16th Sept. [223:2] This name--probably latinised from some joke known only to the parties, applies to Col. Edmonstoune of Newton. [224:1] For Fifeshire. [224:2] Memorials, &c. p. 54. CHAPTER VI. 1746-1748. ÆT. 35-37. Hume returns to Ninewells--His domestic Position--His attempts in Poetry--Inquiry as to his Sentimentalism--Takes an interest in Politics--Appointed Secretary to General St. Clair on his mission to Turin--His journal of his Tour--Arrival in Holland --Rotterdam--The Hague--Breda--The War--French Soldiers-- Nimeguen--Cologne--Bonn--The Rhine and its scenery--Coblentz-- Wiesbaden--Frankfurt--Battle of Dettingen--Wurzburg--Ratisbon --Descent of the Danube--Observations on Germany--Vienna--The Emperor and Empress Queen--Styria--Carinthia--The Tyrol-- Mantua--Cremona--Turin.