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    ing very zealous in a dispute about a question of right between the Principal and the Students . Mr . Robertson , with a consciousness of his own rectitude ,

    sent these letters to his father with one from himself , relating his proceedings and sufferings in the cause of what he thought justice and right . His conduct met with the approbation of his father ; who also urged him to take every step , that he might think proper to assert and maintain his own and his fellow-students' claims . Mr . Robertson , upon this , went up to London , and presented a Memorial to John Duke of Argyle , containing the claims

    of the Students of the University of Glasgow , their proceedings in the vindication of them , and his own particular sufferings iti the cause . The Duke received him very graciously , but waved interfering on the plea of being little acquainted with such matters , and advised an application to his brother Archibald , Earl

    of Hay , who-was more conversant with them . Mr . Robertson , accordingly , waited on Lord Hay ; who , upon reading the representation of the case , promised to take it into consideration . He did this , and was so affected , that he applied to the King for a commission to visit the University of Glasgow , with full

    power to examine into and rectify all abuses . In the summer of the year 1726 , the Earl of Hay , with the other visitors , went to Glasgow ; and , upon a full examination into the several injuries and abuses complained of , they restored to the Students the right of electing their Rector ; called Mr . Sterling , the Principal , to a severe account for the public money which he had embezzled , amounting to a sum sufficient to

    erect many stately edifices for the use of the University ; recovered the right of the University to send two gentlemen , upon plentiful exhibitions , to Baliol College , in Oxford ; took off the expulsion of Mr . Robertson , and ordered that particularly lo be recorded in the proceedings of the commission ; annulled the election of the Rector whom the Principal had named ; and

    assembled the Students , who immediately chose the Master of Ross , the Son of Lord Ross , as Rector . These proceedings so affected Mr . Stirling , that he died soon after ; but the University revived , and hath continued in a most

    flourishing condition ever since . Mr . Robertson was all this time in London : but an account of the proceedings was communicated to him by letters from Dr . William Wishart * , who

    * This gentleman published several single Sermons , preached on particular occasions ; which were reprinted in a small iamo . volume , in 1753 , under the title of « Discourses on Several Subjects , " dedicated to Bp . Hoadly , with a small judicious , practical , and impressive tract , called " An Essay on the Indispensable Necessity of a Holy and Good Life to the Happiness of Heaven ; " which Mr . Ortoa

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 171, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/3/