The Trial of the Rev. Niel Douglas: Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on the 26th May 1817, for SeditionJohn Robertson, 1817 - 50 pages |
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Page 2 - April, 182Я, or on one or other of the days of that month, or of March immediately preceding, or of May immediately following...
Page 43 - ... and he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the Wild asses ; they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of Heaven, till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it Whomsoever he will.
Page 7 - ... o'clock, in the month of January or February. He generally ran upon politics — recollects one text from v. of Daniel — Mr Douglas made a simile, or represented George III. and the Prince Regent to be like Kings Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar; he instanced the King of France, as not having listened to the voice of the people, and brought himself to the block That it was necessary to have a reform, and by petitioning, he had no doubt it would be obtained. In his prayer, he prayed the Lord to...
Page 3 - November 1828,' and to be signed by James Braidwood, 22, Society; being all to be used in evidence against both and each of you the said William Burke and Helen M'Dougal, at your trial, will, for that purpose, be in due time lodged in the hands of the clerk of the High Court...
Page 1 - Baronet, his Majesty's Advocate for his Majesty's interest ; That albeit, by the laws of this and of every other well-governed realm, murder is a crime of a heinous nature, and severely punishable ; yet true it is and of verity...
Page 10 - ... you did wickedly, slanderously, falsely, and seditiously assert that the House of Commons was corrupt, and that the members thereof were thieves and robbers ; that seats in the said House of Parliament were sold like bullocks in a market ; or use expressions of similar import : and further, time and place...
Page 3 - Stuart, ought to be punished with the pains of law, to deter others from committing the like crimes in all time coming.
Page 2 - Douglas did wickedly, slanderously, falsely, and seditiously, in the course of the prayers, sermons, or declamations uttered by you, assert and draw a parallel between his Majesty and Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, remarking and insinuating, that, like the said King of Babylon, his Majesty was driven from the society of men, for infidelity and corruption : and you, then and there, did further wickedly, slanderously, falsely, and seditiously assert, that...
Page 44 - I cannot help regretting, that my learned and honourable friend, who has made, on the whole, such an use of the evidence as is to the credit of his sagacity and candour, did not carry his liberality a little further; for had he only said, as I think he must have felt, that you should find a verdict of j\'<>t Guilty, instead of a verdict of Not Proven, I should not have been called on to address you at all.
Page 2 - And you, then and there, did wickedly, slanderously, falsely and seditiously assert and draw a parallel between his Royal Highness the Prince Regent and Belshazzar King of Babylon ; remarking and insinuating that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, like the said King of Babylon, had not taken warning from the example of his father ; and that a fate similar to that of the said King of Babylon awaited his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, if he did not amend his ways, and listen to the voice of his...