Sampson Kingsford, Esq., Canter bury.... Mrs. King, Cirencester... Mrs. Lindsey, deceased, Essex-st. E. L. Mackmurdo, Esq., Clapton. J. Mackintosh, Esq., Exeter.... near Bridgewater.... wharf, Thames-street ...... .. Life and £ s. d. 0 0 0 1 0 0 26 7 0 50 0 0 1.0 0 Little Paxton, Hunts 25 0 0 Mr. Richmond, Temple... 1 1 0 Mr. C. Rist, New-court, Crutched- 2 Samuel Shore, Esq., Meersbrook, ... Derbyshire. John Sowerby, Esq., Cheapside.. ..... R. Wainewright, Esq., Gray's Iun Mr. David Walker, Turnerssquare, Hoxton. Mrs. Warter, Cruck Meole, Shrop-. F. T. Walsh, Esq., Parliament-st. 25 0 0 10 0 0 500 10 10 0 26 5 0 52 10 0 5 0 0 121 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 20 0 0 2 0 110 0 1 1 Subscriptions will be received by J. Christie, Esq., Treasurer, 52, Mark-lane; Mr. T. Gibson, Secretary, 1, Trumpstreet; Rev. J. Marsom, 12, Leigh-street, Red Lionsquare; and the Rev. R. Aspland, Durham-house, Hackney-road. Printed by R. and A. Taylor, Shoc-Lane, London, Professor Mylne's Account of the Proeeedings against him, on the Charge of Sedition. nimously resolved, ist, That the of fence of which I had been accused appeared to be, that while conducting (Concluded from p. 410.) Divine Service, and particularly in the HE extract referred to in the con- had expressed satisfaction and exultaPsalms and the concluding prayer, I Tcluding sentence of the above let- eat successes of Buona parte and his arrival in Paris: 2dly, That this odious accusation was comtestimony of the four gentlemen, who pletely disproved by the concurrent had been all of them present during the service, and who declared not only that no unusual impression was made certainly there would have been, had on their minds by any part of it (which the accusation been true), but that, on the contrary, the whole of it was pro per ticularly suitable to the alarming inand decorous, and the prayer partelligence of the day: 3dly, 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. from the Lord Advocate the following On the 29th of April, I received ter, has been already inserted in your paper of the 28th April, and in many others. It is unnecessary, therefore, to occupy your columns by again giving it in full. It is right, however, to mention, that the meeting of the 19th was called at my request, to deliberate on the means by which we might in some degree prevent that injury to the reputation of the University which might be dreaded from the notoriety of the precognition carried on in the College; and especially from the profound secrecy which was maintained by the Lord Advocate and the inferior Law-Officers, as to the charges thus investigated with so much solemnity'; a circumstance which might be expected to produce in the public the inclination, as it would afford them the opportunity, of exaggerating, beyond bounds, the degree both of their enormity and of the credit due to them.. London, April 26, 1815. On my suggestion, the meeting agreed from you, an extract of minutes of the FaI yesterday received, inclosed in a letter to put some questions to all those gen-culty of Glasgow College, dated the 19th tlemen, members of the Faculty or closely connected with it, who had been examined by the Sheriff, or who had been in the chapel on the morning of the 26th March, that from their answers it might be known both what really was the crime alleged against me, and what proof there was of my guilt. Professors Young, Jardine, and Muirhead, and Mr. Alexander (who during the session had filled with so much respectability the vacant chair of Humanity) were accordingly examined in the meeting, and, upon their solemn declarations, the Faculty una VOL. X. 30 -letter. SIR, of April, referring to dealarations or statements then made viva voce, by some members of the University. Since that time the Faculty would, on the 21st 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 26th March. In answer to your application, requesting me to give orders to the Procurator Fiscal of Lanarkshire, to communicate to you in presenting a petition for a precognition, the information on which he proceeded and to direct the precognition and whole proceedings taken by and carried on before the Sheriff (or copies of them) to be |