This is a comparatively open space, though partially straightened
again by the insertion in it of a clumsy, detached old building
called the _Weigh-house_, where enormous masses of butter and cheese
are continually getting disposed of. Prince Charles had his guard
at the Weigh-house when blockading the Castle; using, however, for
this purpose, not the house itself, but a floor of the adjacent tall
tenement in the Lawnmarket, which appears to have been selected on a
very intelligible principle, in as far as it was the deserted mansion
of one of the city clergy, the same Rev. George Logan who carried on a
controversy with Thomas Ruddiman, in which he took unfavourable views
of the title of the Stuart family to the throne, not only then, but at
any time. It was, no doubt, as an additional answer to a bad pamphlet
that the Highlanders took up their quarters at Mr Logan’s.