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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1866. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... SOCIAL AND POLITICAL REMINISCENCES OF GLASGOW. CHAPTER XIII. ANONYMOUS LETTERS--AN EXTRAORDINARY GLASGOW DRAMA--THE GREAT CASE OF KINGAN V. WATSON, ET E CONTRA.--(Continued.) Mr. Oswald selected, as his referee, Mr. Charles Stirling of Cadder, brother of Mr. Stirling of Keir, the father of the present esteemed M.P. for Perthshire, and chief partner of the then great house of Stirling, Gordon & Co., of this city. Mr. Watson selected, as his referee, Mr. Chas. M'Intosh of Dunchattan, father-in-law of the then Mr. Horrocks of Tillichewan Castle (now the property of the esteemed Mr. Campbell of Tillichewan, whose amiable father we shall surely come to notice by-and-bye, if we are spared), and next, perhaps, to the late Mr. Charles Tennant of St. Rollox, Mr. M'Intosh was one of the greatest chemists of the age. None more honourable--none, apparently, more sagacious--none with a loftier sense of what was supposed to be due between one gentleman and another, than these two referees we have thus described. Mr. Robt. Aitken, of the Bank of Scotland, then in Miller Street--father of the present Mr. Robt. Aitken of Messrs. Aitken & Mackenzie, accountants---was so engrossed about the business, that ho wrote out the important deed of reference, on stamped paper, with his own hand. He got it subscribed by Messrs. Watson and Oswald in presence of witnesses. They were, therefore, now both bound by it--finally, solemnly, and irrevocably--whatever might be the issue of it to their own characters. The arbiters immediately proceeded to the delicate investigation touching those "anonymous letters," which had produced such consternation, and were fraught with so much mischief to many of the most esteemed families in the city and neighbourhood, leading some of them to regard ...

Reminiscences of Glasgow and the West of Scotland: V.3 by Peter Mackenzie

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