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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 76

[introduction]

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I have often wished that some of my relatives of a previous generation who had taken part in the stirring scenes of warfare and the public service in the early days of this century had left a record of their lives for the information of those of us who came after them, and there-fore, as my own long life has been rather varied and eventful than monotonous, I will endeavour to set down such an account of it as may probably prove interesting to my relatives of later generations. My memory carries me back to the year 1820, when as a child I was placed at a window overlooking the High Street of Dundee, where I was born, and seeing the Magistrates and notables issue from under the arcades of its handsome Town Hall and ascend a platform to proclaim George IV. as King, amidst the loyal shouts of a vast crowd gathered in that capacious street, and the sound of trumpets pealing forth the National Anthem.