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of influence on the one ſide of Scottiſh politics (then more than now) made up by any weight in the oppoſite ſcale. If I had ever been counted (which is more than I know) I had ceaſed to make any part of the calculation. Yet it ſo happened, that the exertions of perſonal friendſhip were as efficacious, and even as ſpeedy, as if I had been whirled in the political gig: and it was underſtood on all hands, that the election would take place, and be over, as to all parties, in the enſuing ſummer.
It fell out ſomewhat otherwiſe. In the month of June of the ſame year, ſome oppoſition began to be made; and ſtrong things were even ſaid that the appointment ſhould never happen. The nomination was, in the firſt inſtance, with the faculty of advocates; ineed, as in effect,
