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Professor Myh * . £ s Account of the Proceedings against him , on the Charge of Sedition-( From the Glasgow Chronicle , May 6 , 1815 . ) To the Editor of the Glasgow Chronicle . Sir , Glasgow , May 5 , 1815 . beg leave , through your paper , to I communicate to the public , a short
statement of the various circumstances that have hitherto come to my knowledge m relation to an event , wfrich , a few weeks ago , awakened , in this place , so much surprise : the
precogriition which was carried on by the law officers of the county into certain parts of my conduct as Chaplain to this University . There are many , I believe , who think that this
communication has been too long withheld \ that it ought to have been made while that extraordinary proceeding" was yet recent j and before those sentiments , Tfhich were then so general and
strong , of contempt for its obvious folly , and indignation against its apparent malignity , had Buffered any abatement by the lapse of time and the occurrence of other interesting events . I am very sensible that in
consequence of this delay , the appeal which I am going to make , will be beard with a less lively interest than it would have been , had it followed roore closely upon the transactions to ^ hich it refers ; but the delay has keen unavoidable . The wrong do » e by the precognition , in the ignominy
Mul injury which it inflicted or threatened , was a wrong committed not a &ainst me only , but against the rejpeetable University to which I be-! 8 > 1 was sensible , therefore , that |* seeking redress for that wrong it beanie me to consult the feelings and to be guided by the judgment of the ?* er members of that body : I felt it lQc umbent on me to accommodate Myself , at least in a certain decree ,
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to the line of conduct which they should adopt , and , of course , to refrain from bringing forward such a view of the case as that which I am now to give , till I \* ere first sure , that my doing so could not interfere
with the prosecution and success of any other mode of proceeding which might be thought more suitable to the dignity of the University , or better calculated to maintain its reputation and interests .
It is but a very few days since a determination of the Faculty of tke College has removed the restraint thus laid upon me , and left me full liberty of addressing myself through this channel to the public . Before
the conclusion of my correspondence with you , I shall have an opportunity of stating and , defending that determination \ in the mean time I feel it my duty to say , that the apparent tardiness with which the Faculty have arrived at it , is not to be ascribed to
any want of sensibility on their part , to th » gross injury which they sustained in consequence both of th # absurd and groundless charges that had been made against their chaplain , and of the inconsiderate manner in
which the precognition into them was conducted . For by attending- to the dates of the proceedings in the subsequent statement , it will be seen that the matter was , without delay , brought under the solemn discussion of the
Members of the Faculty , that it excited in them a very general and lively sentiment of indignation , and that they then adopted , and ha \ e ever since steadily prosecuted the means 4 > y
which they nattered themselves they mig'ht be able at once to vindicate my character , and to bring to light the unworthy author of those foul aspersions that had been thrown upon it . It is chiefly from the Minutes ex-
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No . CXV ^ J JULY , 1815 . [ Vol . X .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/1/
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