Character of a certain popular historian, : now ministerial agent, for reconciling our complaisant clergy to the church of Rome. From the writings of a celebrated philosopher, now deceased..
Stuart, Gilbert,1742-1786.
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
1779]
Anonymous: sometimes attributed to Gilbert Stuart.
A satirical broadside, referring to the historian "Dr. R----", William Robertson, who in 1779 was instrumental in suppressing the General Assembly's protest against a government measure to reduce the disabilities of Scottish Roman Catholics. The "celebrated philosopher" may have been David Hume, who died in 1776.
Caption title.
ESTC
Robertson, William, 1721-1793
Catholics
Scotland Edinburgh.