| Description | Has been visiting constituents since he came into Scotland. Accounts of discussions at a meeting of JPs at Stirling to consider means of preventing emigration, and at a meeting of the Head Court on proposal to petition Parliament to raise a national militia for Scotland: Thomas persuaded the latter meeting to frame its resolution in general terms. 'lt is perfectly ridiculous the apparent friendship which at present subsists betwixt the Great Traveller and Fingask...it is...a misfortune to the country that the memory of a Bruce is not recorded on the plains of Abyssinia'. Account of visits to friends. Masterton has had fit of gout |