The Advocate's 'Trials'--Scott and Clerk admitted to the Bar--Walter's first Fee--Connection of the Scotts with Lord Braxfield--Scottish Judges--Stories of Braxfield
Stories of the Judges--Lord Eskgrove--His Appearance--The Trials for Sedition--Anecdotes of Circuit Dinners--'Esky' and _the Harangue_--The Soldier's Breeches--Esky and the Veiled Witness--Henderson and the Fine--The Luss Robbers--Death of Eskgrove
Scott's Anecdote of Lord Kames--Judicial Cruelty--Lord Meadowbank's Marriage--'Declaim, Sir'--Judges and Drinking--Hermand and the Pope--Bacchus on the Bench--Hermand and the Middy
Political Lawyers--Politics an 'accident' in Scott's History--Early Days at the Bar--Peter Peebles--_The Mountain_--Anecdote of Scott and Clerk--The German Class--Friendship with William Erskine--German Romance--Seniors of the Bar--Robert Blair--Greatest of Scottish Judges--Anecdote of Hermand and Henry Erskine
Seniors (_continued_)--Charles Hope--His Voice--Tribute by Cockburn--Robert Dundas, Nephew of Henry, Lord Melville--His Manner and Moderation--Anecdote of Lords Blair and Melville--Lord Melville's Son--Scott's Project of Emigration
Henry Erskine--His Ability and Wit--Tributes to his Character--Dismissal as Dean of Faculty--John Clerk--Reputation at the Bar--His Private Tastes--Art and Literature--Odd Habits--Anecdotes of Clerk and his Father
Scott's Border 'Raids'--Shortreed--Scott's Circuit Work--Jedburgh Anecdotes--Edinburgh Days--Fortune's--The Theatre Royal--Oyster Parties--Social Functions--General Reading
The Edinburgh Environment--Talk of French Revolution--The 'Jacobins'--The Volunteers--Irish Row in the Theatre---Mrs. Barbauld's Visit--Taylor's Lenore--Scott's Version--Anecdote of the Skull--End of Love Affair--Reference in _Peveril of the Peak_
Friendship with Skene of Rubislaw--Skene's Account of the Edinburgh Light Horse--'Earl Walter'--Marriage of Walter Scott and Charlotte Carpenter--The Edinburgh Home--Edinburgh Friends--The Cottage at Lasswade
The Mercantile Class in Edinburgh--The Town Council--Political Corruption--Petty Tyranny--The Town Clerk--James Laing, Head of the Police--His Methods with Disturbers of the Peace--Anecdotes of Laing and Dugald Stewart
Public Condition of Edinburgh in 1800--Ostracism of Dugald Stewart--The Whigs--Their Struggle for Power--The Infirmary Incident--Dr. Gregory--His Pamphlets--Characteristics--Family Connection with Rob Roy