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    < $ me ° f SO 11 S c Ullivcrsity ° * G 1 fo-ow , I cannot deviate in the pTesent instance from the establishe 4 rules and usual practice in such cases . Of the mode of proceeding- followed by tbe local magistrate , which is highly censured in your Utter I am also uninformed , but the presumption of law is , and I must so presume

    until the contrary shall be established , that he has acted regularly and properly in the perfo rmance of his duty- respecting * the strong * charge mad a against him , serious not only to him , but to those by whom it is preferred . I shall only tiay , that the

    law is open to those wlio are injured by any magistrate , and that the law is likewise open to any magistrate who is calumniated for protection and redress , against those individuals by whom he is calumniated .

    I came here last Saturday for tiie purpose of bringing * my family to the country , and I return to Edinburgh to-rnorrrow , on my way to London . I have the honour , &c . Ab . Colquhoun . The second is from Edinburgh , of the 5 th April .

    Edinburgh ^ 5 M April , 1815 . Sir , On my arrival here , I found lying for my perusal a precognition taken by the

    Sheriff of Lanarkshire , whom . I have also seen , and from whom I have received information respecting his conduct in carrying on that investigation , which in the discharge of his official duty he made in his county last week . 1

    Although I am just settingout for London X cannot leave Edinburgh ( after the anxious letter which you and other members of the "Faculty of Glasgow College did ffle the honour to address to me , ) without informing them that they are under a mistake , l > oth as to the subject matter of the precognitiott or investigation , and as to the

    » anncr in which it was conducted . The Jieinous charges tvhich . your lettei supposes to have heen preferred against Professor My hie do not appear to have been toade - un ( i according to the account given h the Sheriff , ( the accuracy of which I tave no reason to doubt , ) so far from his conduct having been wanting in respect

    ' r the University of Glasgow , in delicacy ? f procedure , or in attention to the feelln gi of others , his object and endeavour * eus to conduct matters with respect , with delicac y ^ and with the greatest possible at-• ntion to the feelings and conveniency of k nose who were examined . Have not to add more , but that I have l honour to be , Sir ,

    Yours , &e . T , Ab , Cojuquhoun . 40 % * e Rev . the Principal of th « Collego , Glasgow .

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    These letters being so far from answering the expectations which had been formed of his lordship ' willingness , or power , to afford the redress that had been requested , I took the liberty of expressing to him my own feelings of disappointment and

    mortification in thefoliowing letter j written not only with that principal view , but partly also to correct the omission stated in the beginning of it : an omission which , to confess the truth , I was inclined to imagine might have contributed to produce that , apparent

    indifference which his lordship had hitherto shewn to our wrongs , a ) id our complaints $ because it had certainly prevented him from knowing the warm and generous feelings with which the Faculty , in their uausually full meeting of the 3 rd , had unanimously concurred in the

    representation , which on that occasion was approved of and adopted . When , I say , that the meeting unanimously concurredin the sentiments expressed in that representation , I scarcely think I diminish the force of that assertion , when I add what truth requires me to do , that at a subsequent meeting one member " stated that the word

    unanimously respecting the agreement to transmit a copy of ( Mr . Mylue ' s declarations , &c . was incorrect in so far as he judged that measure unnecessary . *

    ( copy . ) Letter of Mr . Mylue to the Lord Advocate . Glasgow College , 7 th April ^ 1815 . My Lord , I regret mnch that one of the papers , with the transmission of which I was charged by the Faculty of this College , on the 3 rd inst . has not been earlier sent

    to your lordship—the extract of the minute of their proceedings on that day . It wai understood that you were to leave Killermont neyt morning , and our natural wish to put you as soon as possible in possession of the most material of those documents .

    made me dispatch them without waiting for that extract , which I did not consider an very material , and which I could not obtain early enough to be sent that evening . Your Lordship will now , however , be enabled to see from it the unanimity which has characterised the measures of

    my colleagues , in a matter which they justly regard , as likely to affect very seriously not only my character and interests , but those also of the University itsel Y f . , lordship ' s letters of the 4 th and of tli * $ tfe in » t . to the Principal , hmre been

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    Proceedings against Professor Mglne , on the Charge of Sedition . 4 O 5

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/5/