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communicated to all the members of the Faculty and a meeting" will be held without delay , to take them under deiiberatien , and to consider what further measures may noiv be advUeable . In the mean time consideiiiig hvv deeply both lny feeling's and my iiitoiests have been or way be afiocted ,
fey tbe wrw iash proceedings that have ahemh been ad ; fled : y _ >! ir lordship cannot be ' surprised ihnt I should express my regret ^ - ^ d disappointment " , to find that in neither o f' these letters , any encouragement i » given me to expect a compliance with those requests which the Faculty have made to \ oiir lordship : namely , that so
far as is consistent with your public duty , you wo ^ ild infoim them of the nature and extent ^ f the charge made against me , and of the authority on which that charge is rested , and that I should be furnished with a c >\> y of the declarations made by myself , and others who were examined in the pi ecu gn i tic n .
Perhaps it nsay be your lordship ' s intent i it still to favour us with these communications , so important to the steps which the Faculty or myself may lind it proper to take , in order to obviate the effects o those calumnies with which I hare been loaded . 1 his I am inclined to hope for from your saying" in your Jast letter H » t * ' the heinous charges which your
letter supposes to have been preferred against Iffr . Mylue do not appear to have been made . ' At the same time , my Lord , I aj&knowledge I am at a loss to reconcile the proceedings that have already been instituted with the supposition that I have not been charged , at least , with sedition , and if with sedition , and that accompanied with the circumstances which the whole
tendency or * the examinations seems to inter , then it follows that I must also be chargeable with that impiety and profanity , the imputation of which has filled my colleagues awd myself with so natural and just indignation .
I presume that in my short letter , acflMMBQpanyiBg' the College papers , I expressed to your lordship my concurrence in the requests they raade . If I have not , I beg * leftv <* iiotv earnestly to state them to your lordship . Anxiously hoping * for your favourable tptwar , I haws the honour to be , &c . Jambs Mylne .
Ta t \ m Rig-bt Hon . Lord Advocate of Scotland , London . Tbe Advocate had by tjiis time \ efk $ CQtk > fid and on bis way to J . ogdou h& wrote th «> following letter : **«
Darlington ^ April fth ^ 1815 . 8 i » , Of the opinion which I have formed and shall commit to writing " , respecting * the ppectft ^ uiitori and proceedings referred to mmf totter # f tho 5 th from Edinburgh ,
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( if the Faculty of Glasgow College * U me to do so ) I shall eause a copy to he transmitted to them on hearing- from You in London . * I have the honour , See . &c . ( Signed ) Ar . Colquhol ^ 1 he Revd . the Principal of the College of Glasgow .
On his arrival in London his lordship wrote me the following note : — London , April 11 th , 1815 Sir , I have received an extract of the hhmuUj of the Faculty of Glasgow College , dated the 3 rd April , inclosed in a letter from you of the 7 th of this month . In answer to it I beg leave to refer you to my letter of tbe 7 th to the Principal of your University as I only wait for his reply to cause a copy of my opinion to be transmitted , which will
explain the nature of ' the investigation , and of the proceedings to which reference has been made , and will I trust free your mind from that anxiety which has been so much felt by you . I have the honour to be , Sir , Your most obedient servant , Ar . Colquhocw .
Professor Mylne , College , Glasgow . On the 11 th the Faculty met , and , as appears from the records , " further deliberated on the Advocate ' s lettero ; and be having , in his letter dated the 7 th , offered to furnish the Faculty
with a copy of his opinion on the precogfiition , which had been ktely taken , if they should wish to see it 5 the Faculty , before proceeding further in the matter , agree to apply to his lordship for a copy of his opinion 5 and , at the same time , renew the
requests which aie contained in their first letter , as far as he shall tbiflk proper to answer them . " A copy of this minute was transmitted to the Advocate , from whom the Faculty on the 21 st received the following opinion ^
( cw . ) London , \\ th April * 1815 . I have considered with great attentio n a precognition lately taken by the Sheriff of Lanarkshire , and the proceeding * conhave i
rmclcd therewith , in so far as I « j oeived information concerning them * ** as the ease k > of a peculiar nature , I co ceiv $ h to be mjr duty to give roy ° p" » ^ f ully , and to canse a eopy of it * ° transmitted to the Faculty of Gtego * 1 * 1 "
legfe . A petition appears to have ^ enJ the sented by the ^ Procurator Fiscal f / - SherHPOourt of lAtmiksMte , to the »* riff of that county , rft * t » ifr , that he
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406 Proceedings against Professor Mylne , on the Charge of Sedition .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/6/
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