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ander , all of wliom attended divine worship in the Chapel on that occasion , it appears evident not only that no unusual impression had been made on the mind of any of these Gentlemen by any part
of the serrice , but that , on the contrary , the whole of it was conducted with the greatest propriety and decorum ; and that in particular the prayer was highly suitable to the alarming intelligence that had been received that
morning . The Faculty , therefore , in justice to their colleague and themselves , think it right that it should appear on thei r Mi nutes that they entertain the fullest
conviction of the perfect propriety of Mr . Mylne ' s conduct on that occasion , and of the utter . groundlessness of the charge that seems / to bare been made against him . ( Signed ) W . Taylor , Principal . Extracted from the Records of the Faculty of Glasgow College , by Jamis Millar , Clk . p . t . mm
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be given of those considerations which induced the Faculty not only to acquiesce in his determined refusal to comply with these requests , but also to abandon all application to other quarters for that redress which they
conceived themselves entitled to , and which his lordship had shewn himself so unwilling or unable to give . To attempt such an explanation of the motives that weighed with the Faculty in forming this resolution , is the principal object of this letter .
Various quarters were mentioned from which such powerful interference might be hoped for , as would procure every thing that was necessary for the successful prosecution of redress . ] . From Government . —An application , it was suggested , might be made ,
by a respectful petition , either to the Secretary of State for the Home Department , or to his Majesty ' s Privy Council , praying that the power of government might be interposed , to authorize , perhaps to command , the Lord Advocate to make those
disclosures which we had in vain demanded from him . By some it might be thought that his resistance to our urgent applications on this point was the result of his high sense of the duty imposed upon him by his official character . Believing the most important functions of his Majesty ' s Advocate for Scotland to consist in the exercise of
a constant vigilance over State delinquencies , he might imagine it to be incumbent on him to afford informers that security which , they would derive from a strict concealment of their persons and their communications : he
might conceive that even the base motives from which they often acted , or the utter falsehood of the information which in some cases , as in the present instance , they gave , would not be sufficient to justify him in exposing them , by such ^ disclosures as
the Faculty demanded , to the odium of the public , or to the natural and just resentment of those whom they had calumniated ; but that , as the high officer of the crown , it was his paramount concern to take care that
the State should sustain no harm ; and that from the prosecution of this great object , he was not to be diverted by the complaints of individuals , nor even by his own feelings for their wrongs . Some expressions in his
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To the Editor of the Glasgow Herald * Sir , To complete the history of those proceedings which you have had the goodness to permit me to state so fully
in yoor paper of Monday last , very little remains to be added ; nothing , I think , except an account of what took place at a meeting of the Faculty of the College on the 2 nd inst . That meeting was held for a variety of purposes - and , among others , for taking under consideration the letters which
had been received from the Lord Advocate on the subject of the precognition , and particularly his opinion , on it , which , in his letter of the 7 th April , he had offered to transmit to
the College , and which accordingly he had received on the 21 st ; and for determining whether any farther measures should be adopted by the College , in relation to that transaction , and what these measures should be .
It is believed that no one who attentivel y considers that opinion , and the other communications from his lordship , all of which have been fully and accurately exhibited in your pa-Per , will be greatly surprised to learn ,
™ t there were many members of the faculty who were far from being satisfied either with the general spirit ^ pressed in his correspondence , or J ^ ith the manner in which he had been pleased to treat their earnest revests . Consequently , it will be ex-P « cted that some explanation should
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Proceedings against Professor Mylney on the Charge of Sedition . 467
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 467, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/3/
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