_Lord Fairfax_ (Vol. ix., p. 380.).--I apprehend that there is nothing in
the reply of A FAIRFAX KINSMAN at all calculated to shake the opinion which
I expressed touching the barony of Fairfax of Cameron. The case of the
earldom of Newburgh, which your correspondent does not even mention, is, I
submit, of greater weight than all the "Peerages," and even than the Roll
of Scottish Peers. As to the Irish case--that of the Earl of Athlone--I can
but repeat my Query. Whether right or wrong, it is not binding on the
British House of Lords. The cases of the King of Hanover, the Duke of
Wellington, and Earl Nelson, are not in point. His Hanoverian Majesty is
not an alien; and though some British subjects may be recognised as peers
by foreign states, it does not follow that a foreigner can be a peer of
Britain.