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professor Mylne ' s Account of the Profeedings against him , on the Charge ofStmtion * ( Concluded from p . 410 . ) fTIHE extract referred to in the con-JL eluding sentence of the above letter , bas been already inserted in your paper of the 2 &th April , and in many others . It i * unnecessary , therefore .
to occupy your columns by again giving it in full . It is right , however , to mention , that the meeting of the 19 th was called at my request , to deliberate on the means by which" we might in some degreeprevent that injury to the reputation of the University which might be dreaded from the notoriety
of the precogmtion carried on in the College ; and especially from the profouad secrecy which was maintained by the Lord Advocate and the inferior Law-Officers , ** to , ike charges thus mrest igated with so much solemnity ; a circumstance which might be expected to produce in the public the
inclination , a& it would afford them the opportunity , of exaggerating , beyond bounds , the degree both of their enormity and of the credit due to them On my suggestion , the meeting agreed
to put some questions to alt those ge * i < "emen , members of the Faculty or dosely connected with it , who had been examined by the Sheriff , or who « ad been iit the chapel on the morning of the 26 th March , that from their
ans wers it migfct be known both what really waa the crime alleged against toe r and what proof there was of toy gftiilt Professors Young , Jardine , a Muirhead , and Mr . Alexander
\ who during the session had filled with ^ »« ch respectabil ity the v acant chair ^ tunanity ) were accordingly exa-™* a in the meeting * , and , upon their weum declarations , the Faculty utm ~ 1
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nimoiisly resolved , 1 st , That the offence of which I had been . accused appeared to be , that while conducting Divine Service , and particularly in the Psalms and the concluding prayer , I had expressed satisfaction and exultation in the recent successes of
Buonaparte and his arrival in Paris : Sdly , That this odious accusation was completely disproved by the concurrent testimony of the four gentlemen , who had been , all of them present during the service , and who declared not only that no unusual impression was made
on their minds by any part of it ( which certainly there would have been , had the accusation been true ) , but that , on the contrary , the whole of it was proper and decorous , and the prayer particularly suitable to the alarming intelligence of the day : Sdly , That it should be recorded in the minutes , that
the Faculty entertained the fullest conviction of the Utter groundlessness of the charge apparently made against me . On the 29 th of April , I received from the Lord Advocate the following letter . , London , April 26 , 1815 ,
I yesterday received , inclosed in a letter from you , an extract of minutes of the Faculty of Glasgow College , dated the 19 th of April , referring to * declarations or statements then made vivd voce * by some
members of the University . Since that time the Faculty would , on the 21 st of that month , receive the copy of the opinion which I transmitted to that body , bearing testimony plainly and decidedly to the rectitude of your conduct on the 26 th March .
In answer to your application , requesting me to give orders to the Procurator Fiscal of Lanarkshire , to communicate to you the information on which he proceeded in presenting a petition for a precognition , and to direct the precognition and whole proceedings taken by and carried on before the Sheriff ( or copies of them ) to br
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/1/
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