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name ^ and in the name of all the petitioners , protested against the Principal ' s refusal , and took instruments in the hands of Cuthbert Stewart ^ Notary Public : all the petitioners went to the house of Hugh Montgomery , Esq . the illegal Rector , to whom Mr . Robertson read aloud the protest against him and his authority . Mr . Robertson , by these proceedings ^ became the
immediate object of mdignation ; and was the only one of all the subscribers to the petition against whom proceedings were commeaced . He was cited before the faculty , i . e . the Principal and the Professors of the University , of whom the Principal was sure of a majority ; and , after a trial which lasted several
days , the sentence of expulsion was pronounced against him . The copy of it > which , at his demand , was granted , ran thus . College of Glasgow , March 4 , 1725 . * Mr . William Robertson , Student of Divinity , having been accused of several disorders , and having been called and examined vipon the second and fourth days of March instant , the
faculty found , by his own confession , that he was accessory to a tumultuous insult upon the house of Hugh Montgomery , of Hartfield , present Rector of the University , upon the 1 st day of March
instant , at the reading of an injurious protest against the said Rector , wherein are contained unjust and false reflections and aspersions upon the said Rector , and upon the Principal a » d Masters , therein called his adherents , and tending to the
manifest defamation of him and other office-bearers in the society . And found , by his own confession , that he had a hand in framing the said protest , and that he agreed to it as it now stands printed . And the faculty found also by his confession , that he had , on the said 1 st day of March instant , been accessory to a disorderly and tumultuous ringing ot the great bell of the
College . All which being contrary to the rules of good order and behaviour to be observed by the Students of the University , especially Students of Divinity , the Faculty found him highly censurable for the same , and therefore did , and hereby do , extrude the said William Robertson from this University * ' Extracted from the minutes of the University of Glasgow ,
by Charles Morthland , clerk pro tempore . It is an obvious conclusion ^ which offers from the tenor of this sentence , and the evidence on which the conviction rested , that Mr . Robertson was so fully persuaded of the justice of his
cause and the propriety of his proceedings , that he most openly and strenuously acknowledged and adhered to what he had done . IJpon this * Mr . Lowdon , his tutor , and Mr . Dunlop , Professor of Greek , wrote letters to Mr . Robertson ' s father , to inform him of these transactions , and to assure him , that his son had not been expelled for any crime or immorality , but for appear-
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no Rev . TV . Robertson , D . D .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/2/
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