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Hi/iorkal Chronicle. 



higheft law authority in this 

 kingdom, the Lord Chancellor 

 Thurlo<w, it was now evident, 

 that the fraud, which had been 

 fo long praiftifed upon the real 

 parliamentary reprefentation of 

 Scotland, might now be reme- 

 died ; and from a recent deci- 

 lion of the Court of Seflion, it 

 was clear that every vote was 

 liable to challenge, even after 

 the lapfe of fo'ir months from 

 tkcdateofthe involment. The 

 incompetency of the Court to 

 challenge fuch votes was deni- 

 ed ; and at any rate, as objec- 

 tions had been lodged, and 

 publicly advcrtifed in the newf- 

 papers, againft fnch perfonsas 

 appeared to ftand on that roll, 

 on nominal, or fiHitiotis titles, 

 any gentJem.an who mig'.it 

 think himfelf aggrieved, had 

 time enough to have lodged 

 anfwers to thefe ohjf(ftions, 

 and have come forward to an- 

 fwer any inveftigation which 

 was then ready to be m.ade. 

 Such gentlemen, therefore, as 

 did not embrace that opportu 

 nity muft be held as confefled. 



The vote bcin;< accordingly 

 pnt, to expunge luch votes from 

 the roU as might appear notni- 

 fial, ficlitioiis, or confidential, or 

 not ; it was carried by a majo- 

 rity of tiventy-fi'v: to fix to ex- 

 punge thele votes. 



Of the above number io6 

 were immediately ftruck off the 

 roll. 



Thus the g-cat county of 

 Ayr has fct a noble example of 

 public fpirit a.-id patriotilm, in 

 it curing tliefreedomofekdion, 



and deftroying the Parchment 

 Barons of Scotland. 



On the iithinft. about ten 

 at night, George Davidfon for i 

 forgery, and James Plunket, I 

 late foldier in the 35th regiment, I 

 for robbery, who were both 

 condemned at the Circuit at 

 Glafgow Sept. ^z, and who 

 were to have futfered on the 

 i6th current, found ■ means to 

 cfcape out of that prifon. 



On the 12th inft. Williani 

 Smith, alias John Gun, coni 

 vidted before the High Court 

 of Jnfticiary for the crimes of 

 houfc- breaking and theft, was 

 executed on the platform at 

 the weft end of the Lucken- 

 booths, in purfuance of his fen- 

 tence. Though only ^i years 

 of age, he had been guilty, by 

 his own confeflion, of many 

 thefts befides thofe for Which 

 he fuftered. 



On the 5th inft. the (hip 

 Fortune, Captain M'Leod, 

 which failed from Greenock 

 fome weeks ago, came back 

 into that port in great diftrefs, 

 having loft her fore-malt and 

 received other damage. She 

 was bound for North Carolina, 

 having onboard three hundred 

 and fifty paflengers, men, wo- 

 men, and cliildren, emigrants 

 from the Illand of Skye, &c. 

 The croude<l>and comfortlefs 

 lituation of the paflengers ex-, 

 cited companion ; and to fee 

 fuch a number of perfons leav- 

 ing their native country, at this 

 feafon of the year, to (eek an 

 afylum in a foreign land, isdif- 

 trcfling to every feeling mind. 



