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a % 4 tisiM fbnh of procedure , vt&b Followed in tb / e present e&se * > hut the itifortiaation on H ^ lijch tha ^ Procurator founded his petition he received frqtn Edinburgh , atid , afc is geuerklty belie veil , from the Sheriff liitnself ; and that information it is also understood , had been originally communicated from this place , and on the very day after I was alleged to have committed the offences , on Monday , the 27 th March , was in the possession of the Sheriff , or of your lordship , in such a shape as to render the attention of the law officers to it in their
opinion altogether unavoidable . To the Procurator Fiscal , to the Sheriff , or to his Majesty ' s Advocate for Scotland , acting properly in their official character , no blame can possibly fail ; but surely both
c&tisure fend punishment are justly due to him , who endeavours to employ these respectable functionaries as the instruments of his unworthy designs , itnd the agents of mischief and injury to the guiltless . I take tfie liberty of requesting also , that your lordship will have the goodness to order the declarations that were made hy the persons examined , and the whole proceedings in the p recognition , or copies of them , to be transmitted to me . From
the tenor of your lordship ' s opinion , it appears manifestly that there is no intention of any further legal procedure on the part of the law officer * . I cannot imagine , therefore , that there can be any impropriety in this request , your compliance with which , may be of essential conse-
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quence tb th % % tej * s I may he advised to fake for the vindication of tny cha racter with the public . I hope your lortbh m will be so good as to inform me by a Very early opportunity ^ whether theite requests are to be granted or refused , fes the knowledge of this may be important for thfe direction of my future proceedings .
I have only to add , that in my own apprehension , antl I believe in that of my colleagues , it still appeal's that the Sheriff tnight have tsofrd ucted himself otherwise than he tiid ; arid that to have don * -so would have shewn a more becoming respect for tire University , and might havt prevented part at lea ^ t , of those injuries
to its reputation as well as to mine , which we consider as the corrsequenee | vf hh proceedings , and of which we complain . Had he previously taken , as a gentleman , that information which he urged as a ma . gistfate , and which tvouJd certainly lia ^ e been communicated to him , as fully in the one tvav as in tlte other , he wotiftl
have seen , what I atn sufc he has siti « se £ n , that there tvas no manner of foundation for the calumny laid upon me , and cjonseiquently no occasion for the publicity and scandal of a prtic < % nit 1 on . I enclose for your lordfehip an extract from the minutes of threFacility of Glasgow
College of the 19 th irist . I have the honour to oe , &c . Jam 6 s My £ nb . (" To be concluded in our next . )
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Charles James JFox . f ijjlROM the speeches of this dis-JO tinguished statestnen ? and orator , the publication of Which [ 6 vols . 8 vo . ] was announced in our last , ( p 330 , ) we propose to extract a series of passages , illustrative of his mind and character , explanatory of the transactions of his day , and serviceable to
the cause which lay so near his heart , the cause of truth and libert } ' . The speeches themselves are the history of Mr . Fox , and they constitute a better eulogium upon his public virtue than could be pronounced by any professional pleader , though versed in all
the common-places of panegyric . In reading them we trace the course of a great man , placed at first by accident on the wrong side , but presently righting himself by the force of his own mind and heart , and having got into the path of truth and nature , feeling all his strength and going on
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with scarcely a deviation , animated by an ardour which no disappointments could cool , and strengthened by a resolution which ho persecutions C 6 uld break . Our extracts will be in chronological order , and the date of the speeches from which they are taken will be
specified . Ee > 0 1 . Motion ( Sir Wrn . Meredith ' s ) fir a Committee to corisider of the Subscription to the Thirty nine Articles . ( February SS , 1773 . ) Mr . Fox said : I rejoice , Sir , to find that we are at last got into a
debate from which I was afraid we were altogether departing . As the maw * has been managed , the que ^ . ° " r \ fore this House is simply , W netww it be at all expedient for the leg ^ live power to interpose in an aitai this kind ?—I was exceeding ly y < gS ; Sir , when I Went to the ^^ L ndt , however , * o yortiig but that
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410 ( fhifr'le ? Jdities Fdsc .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 410, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/10/
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