We have had the honour of your letter, in answer to ours of yesterday. We do not intend to enter on any detailed justification of the measure, to which, not without much reluctance, we have found ourselves constrained to resort. If it be, as you say it is, an unprecedented measure, it is at least not more so than that situation of the country, and those proceedings, Sir, on your part as Dean of Faculty, which have given occasion to our interference. ...
Pringle, John,1741-1811.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1795]
Part of a collection of printed documents relating to the election of a Dean in 1795, when the Hon. Henry Erskine was replaced by Robert Dundas of Arniston, Lord Advocate.
Addressed to Henry Erskine.
Dated at head: Edinburgh, 2d December 1795.
Signed: John Pringle. A. Maconochie. Neil Ferguson. Ro. Craigie. David Hume. Chas. Hope. James Oswald. David Boyle.
Title from opening lines of text.
ESTC
Erskine, Henry, 1746-1817
Faculty of Advocates (Scotland)
Faculty of Advocates (Scotland)