Alexander Earl of Home, Charles Earl of Tankerville, and William Turnet, ... appellants. John Duke of Roxburgh, Sir Alexander Don, of Newton, and Sir George Hay Macdougal, of Mackerstown, Baronets, Walter Scott, of Harden, and John Scott, of Gala, Esquires, and others, ... and Thomas Lillie, Robert Hope, Andrew Shiell, William Mitchell, and William Spence, ... respondents. The case of the respondents