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JAMES, a Scotch biog- Minor injuries resulted, but the affair was stopped before it had reached large proportions. Three days later, toward evening, another party of soldiers was denied passage by a crowd of people armed with canes and clubs. The officer self calls the most important event of rapher; the eldest son of Lord Auchinleck, one of the Supreme Judges of Scotland, born in Edinburgh, Oct He was educated Cambridge, became a member of the Scottish bar, but rarely practiced. In Johnson-a circumstance which he himhis life. In 1768, when Corsica attracted much attention, he published his account of Corsica, with "Memoirs of Paoli." In 1785 he settled at London, and was called to the English bar. Being on terms of the closest intimacy with Dr. 1 BOSWELLIA Johnson, he carefully recorded his sayings, opinions, and actions, for future use in a biography. In 1773 he accompanied Johnson on a tour to the Scottish Highlands and the Hebrides, publishing an account of the excursion after their return. His "Life of Samuel Johnson," one of the best pieces of biography in the language, was published in 1791. He died in London, May 19, 1795. His son, ALEXANDER, born in 1775, created a Baronet in 1821, killed in a duel in 1822, excelled as a writer of Scotch humorous songs.