----, now Laird of Ellangowan, and one of the worshipful commission
of justices of the peace for the county of----. His motives for
exertion on this occasion were manifold; but we presume that our
readers, from what they already know of this gentleman, will
acquit him of being actuated by any zealous or intemperate love of
abstract justice.

The truth was, that this respectable personage felt himself less
at ease than he had expected, after his machinations put him in
possession of his benefactor's estate. His reflections within
doors, where so much occurred to remind him of former times, were
not always the self-congratulations of successful stratagem. And
when he looked abroad he could not but be sensible that he was
excluded from the society of the gentry of the county, to whose
rank he conceived he had raised himself. He was not admitted to
their clubs, and at meetings of a public nature, from which he
could not be altogether excluded, he found himself thwarted and
looked upon with coldness and contempt. Both principle and
prejudice cooperated in creating this dislike; for the gentlemen
of the county despised him for the lowness of his birth, while
they hated him for the means by which he had raised his fortune.
With the common people his reputation stood still worse. They
would neither yield him the territorial appellation of Ellangowan
nor the usual compliment of Mr. Glossin: with them he was bare
Glossin; and so incredibly was his vanity interested by this
trifling circumstance, that he was known to give half-a-crown to a
beggar because he had thrice called him Ellangowan in beseeching
him for a penny. He therefore felt acutely the general want of
respect, and particularly when he contrasted his own character and
reception in society with those of Mr. Mac-Morlan, who, in far