OF THE MISTATEMENTS AND CALUMNIES CONTAINED IN MR LOCKHART'S LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. RESPECTING THE MESSRS BALLANTYNE. BY THE TRUSTEES AND SON OF THE LATE MR JAMES BALLANTYNE. LONDON: LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS; 1838. Grafton PREFACE. IN offering to the Public the following remarks, intended to vindicate the character and conduct of the late Mr James Ballantyne, which have been so foully aspersed by Mr John Gibson Lockhart, in his Life of Sir Walter Scott, the Trustees and Executors of that gentleman, acting in concert with his family, conceive that no apology is necessary on their part for the step they have thus taken, nor for the firm and decided manner in which they have repelled the Mistatements and Calumnies by means of which Mr Lockhart has attempted to fix a stain upon the memory of their departed friend. On the contrary, since the appearance of the work in question, and the full |