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transmitted to you , I beg leave to soy , that I would , in the existing circumstances , have entertained-great doubt of the legality and expediency of such an extraordinary Interference on my part , but in any view , you have placed an iasurmountable bar to the adoption of that measure . It appears
from your statements to me , that you have in contemplation judicial proceedings against some individual or individuals , as being in your opinion guilty of malignantly defaming your character ^ and I should not think myself justified in prejudicatingin any manner any question that might affect the rights of third parties , which
may come under the cognizance of a court of law . If judicial proceedings shall he instituted , it will be the province of the Court before which they shall be carried on , to give such orders us they may consider necessary to the ends of justice . I have the honour to be , &c . Ae . Colquhoun .
To Professor Mylne , The above letter is the last of those documents which I regard as essential to the history of the late extraordinary proceedings , he re : I hope to be indulged by you with an opportunity of stating , in a future paper , some other circumstances connected with them ,
of minor importance perhaps , but still meriting attention ; and a few observations intended to place the whole business in a distinct point of view before that public to whose impartial judgment I shall then leave it . James Myine . Glasgow College * dtkMajfi 1815 .
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having been subjected to such a precog-nirion encourages a belief , thatthe criminal charges against him , which had g i ' ren rise to sucU proceedings , could have been of no ordinary or light nature : and that such a persuasion generally entertained , as it would probably be if no effectual mean * were
taken to prevent it , might prove very in . jurious not only to Lis own reputation and interest , but to those also of the University ; especially since the Public , not being permitted to know the actual nature of these charges , or the grounds on which they are rested , migbt magnif y to any amount the degree both of their
enormity and of the credit that is due to them . Mr . Mylne therefore requested that the undermentioned Gentlemen who had already been examined by the Sheriff , or who had been present when the offences that gave rise to the precognition were
supposed to have been committed , migbt now be called upon to reply to some questions to be put to them in presence of the meeting , in order that from their answers it might be known , both what
are the charges that have been made against Mr . Mylne , and on what evidence they are founded . The persons whom the Faculty were thus requested to examine , were Professors Young ,
Jardine and Muirhead , together with Mr . Alexander , teacher of the Humanity Class . The Faculty having agreed to Mr . Mylne ' s request , and having heard the declarations of the above-named Gentlemen , in answer to the questions put to them in the meeting , unanimously agreed to the following Resolutions : «•—
First , From the declarations now made by Professors Young and Jardine , and by Mr . Alexander , all of whom had been examined by the Sheriff , it appears to the Faculty that the offence of which Mr .
Mylne had . been accused , or suspected , was , that on Sunday , the 26 th March , while conducting- public worship in the College Chapel , he had manifested exultation in the recent successes of
Buonaparte , and in his arrival at Paris . That in his concluding prayer particularly , he had expressed that sentiment ; and that the passages which he appointed to » e sung by the congregation , hafd been chosen by him as alluding to those ev * ts and ' as indicating his high satisfaction in them .
Secondly , That from Mr . Mylne s ge * neral character and conduct , it wow have required evidence of the very strongest kind to have induced the Faculty to entertain the belief that he could hm been guilty of such a gross violation ot m * public duty , as that with which he seem to have been charged ; and from ™ claratious now made by Professors * ° *{ | p Jardiiic and Muirhead , and by Mr . A *
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466 Proceedings against Professor Mylne , on the Charge vf Sedition .
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Glasgow College , April 26 , 1815 . W hereas , impressions unfavourable to the reputation and interests of the University of Glasgow , and of
Professor Mylne , may be produced by the ^ recognit ion into the conduct of that Gentlemanlatcl y made by the Sheriff of Lanarkshire , the attention of the public is requested to the following Minute , extracted from the Records of the
College . Glasgow College , April 14 7 1815 . The Faculty being duly summoned and convened , present , the Principal , Professors M'Gill , Cumin , Youn ^ Jardine , Millar , Myloe , Meiklehan > , Davidson , Conner aitd M'Turk ,
Mr . Mylne stated as the reasons that induced him to request this meeting-to be called , That the late extraordinary precugnition carried on here by the Law-Officers of the country , has now become mutter of notoriety : that the fact of his
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 466, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/2/
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