The Rhode Island Republican

English vs. Scotch Law.

Lord Erskine—The marriage of this eminent Lawyer is not generally known, although it took place so far back as Oct. last, at Gretna-Green. It is certain that little notice of this remarkable event has yet appeared in the public prints. In October his Lordship arrived at Gretna, accompanied by Miss Sarah Buck, the present Lady Erskine, by whom he had had several children out of the pale of wedlock. He was dressed in fashionable female attire, with a large Leghorn bonnet and long veil. On the arrival of the officiating priest of the Temple of Hymen, his Lordship threw off his dress, and appeared in propria persona, and the usual ceremony having gone through, the parties were declared man and wife. His Lordship again put on his female vestments, and was on the point of taking his departure, when his son, the Hon. Thomas Erskine, made his appearance in a chaise and four; but the knot was tied, and shortly after, the new married couple drove off.—The bride is about thirty-seven years and the noble bridegroom nearly seventy.—The object of this extraordinary step is said to be for the purpose of legalizing the children of this connexion, who, according to the Scottish law, cease to be illegitimate on the marriage of their parents at any time.—London Paper