Another leading Whig peer, Lord Loughborough, thought the publication of the book would be a "Mischief" but believed Burke's doctrines "fundamentally right".

The heir apparent is the present holder's eldest son Jamie William St. Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough (born 1986)

In 1788 Alexander Wedderburn, Lord Loughborough, the future Lord Chancellor, acquired the estate and called in the garden designer Humphry Repton to remodel the landscape.

The top cop is known off-duty by the titles "Lord Loughborough," "7th Earl of Rosslyn," and "10th Baronet St. Clair."

Lord Loughborough accordingly obtained in 1795 a re-grant of his barony with remainder to his nephew, Sir James St Clair Erskine.

Lord Loughborough gave the leading judgment of the majority and argued that:

He was created Lord Loughborough in 1780 and Earl of Rosslyn in 1801.

The estate was bought by Lord Loughborough in 1788, and he engaged the landscape designer Humphry Repton to improve the grounds and surrounding landscape.

Lord Loughborough agreed with Lord Rawdon when he said that pettifogging attorneys were the bane of civil society; they were a pest.

The allegations of misconduct remained unproven, despite being stirred up by Lord Loughborough, but the scandal was significant enough to require his exile.