Since writing the letter which accompanies this, we have been informed, that a report has gone abroad, that the measure to which it relates, is disapproved of by the person who is proposed as successor to the Dean. We are authorised to contradict that report. ....
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.
Signed: John Pringle. A. Maconochie. Neil Ferguson. Ro. Craigie. David Hume. Chas. Hope. James Oswald. David Boyle.
Title from opening lines of text.
Dated at head: 3d December 1795.
'The person who is proposed as successor to the Dean' = Robert Dundas.
'The letter which accompanies this' = '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. ... '.
ESTC
Dundas, Robert, 1758-1819
Faculty of Advocates (Scotland)
Faculty of Advocates (Scotland)