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40 fc Proceedings against Professor Mylne , on the Charge of Sedition .
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tracted from the records of the Faculty of the College , from the letters , and other authentic documents now to be exhibited , that the public are requested to form their opinion . A very short and simple narrative will be sufficient to exhibit the order and connection of the facts and circumstances to which these documents
refer . The first meeting of the Faculty upon this business was held on Monday the Sd of April , the earliest day after the precoguition . on which a meeting . could hav « s been conveniently held . I have much pleasure in
remarking , that the interest which had been excited in my colleagues , by the extraordinary proceedings of the law officers , was evident in the unusually full attendance on that occasion ; every member of the Faculty being present , except Professor Young , who had been unexpectedly called to
Edinburgh . At that meeting , as the minutes bear , I represented to the Faculty , " that a precognition had been taken in the course of the preceding week , on some parts of my conduct as * Chaplain , on Sunday the 26 th of March , by the sheriff and procurator fiscal of Lanarkshire , and that ,
conceiving both my own character and that of the College , to be in danger of suffering- in consequence of that proceeding , I now applied to the Faculty for their direction and assistance . ' * I at the same time exhibited to the meeting the substance of a declaration which I had emitted when examined
bv the Sheriff , winch was ordered to be inserted into the record . ' * The niinute further states , that " the Faculty having deliberated on the matter , represented to them by Mr . Mylne , unanimously agreed to transmit a ropy of the substance of Mr . M vine ' s
declaration to the Lord Advocate , accompanied by the following representation which they appointed the Principal to subscribe in their name . " With regard to the first of the
papers * mentioned in this minute , and which is denominated the substance of my declaration , it is proper to mention , that in consequence of the refusal of the Sheriff to allow me a copy of the declaration I had dictated in
answer to his interrogatories , and which I had authenticated by my signature , I thought it adviaeabletodraw up , from recollection , an account of
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every thing I had said upon tpy examination , as exactly the same with my declaration as my memory would enable me to make it : and this account , under the above denomination , the Faculty were pleased to admit into their records , as furnishing them with some satisfactory means of discovering
from the styte arid train of the interrogations that had been put to me , what had been the nature of those of fences with which I had been charged . I shall not , however , extract from the record this recollected account of my examination : the Lord Advocate has since supplied me with a-copy of the declaration itself . This , which is the only part of the precognition which I have been allowed to see , his been since inserted in the Records of the Faculty . The following is its te * nour :-
—( Copy ) Declaration before Sheriff , 31 st March , 1615 . Appeared Mr . Jftames Mylire , Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of
Glasgow ; who , beingexamined , declares that he is Chaplain of the said University ; that he preached on Sunday , the 26 th March current , in said Chapel ; that lie had beard that morning " , and with very deep concern and grief ^ the unfortunate news of the day from France ; that the
psalm given out that day , and with which the service began , was the 107 th—sewral verses at the beginning—being * the psalm to which he had regularly come in the course of his official duty in the chapel ; that in the concluding prayer ^ when speaking of public matters , the Declarant , impressed with deep regret at the dark and gloomy prospects to the nations of Europ « ,
and reverence for that Being who can guide the furious passions of wicked men , can render them subservient to the gracious purposes of his government , and can overcome and restrain the excesses * of such passions ; that he prayed , that the governments of Europe , by the wisdom and justice of their administration , migf ht every where engage the attachment and fidelity
of their subjects ; and that the subject * every where migfel distinguish th emselves by the corresponding virtues of loyalty and patriotism : that we , in particular , in this country might be fully sensible of the value of our precious , civil and political privileges , and that they might be handed do ^ wn inviolate to the latest posterity . That the service of that forenoon was concl uded
by singing a part of the 26 th Scripture Translation ; that he read the 5 th , W j 7 th , and 8 th verses , of which fce think * the three Fast were * ung by tfee fcongreg * "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 402, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/2/
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