By the undersigned, who, though a comparatively "recent arrival," has hail abundant occasion to admire and esteem the said Sir Robert, not only as a Statesman, Scholar, Patriot, and Philanthropist, but as a Man—one whose whole career has been a striking illustration and fulfilment of the Bard's prophecy—

"That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth,
Shall bear the gree an' a' that."