To the members of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh / [James Hamilton].

James Hamilton

Date:: [1825]

Credit: To the members of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh / [James Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$MEMBERS of the SENATUS ACADEMICUS OF THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH\ Gentlemen, TN consequence of your having received a written Paper of Dr Duncan senior, containing certain accusations against me, and of your having agreed to take that Paper into consideration, (after it had been for some weeks upon your table for the inspection of the Mem¬ bers), upon the 12th February 1825 I addressed to you, in manuscript, the following Letter. r . Gentlemen, . . j a. J « \.. .« ; , I did not believe, till I received this afternoon a printed Summons to attend a Meeting on Saturday next, that you could seriously enter on your Records, and propose to take into deliberation at a specific meeting for the purpose, a Paper from Dr Duncan senior, concluding with the following proposal. * ^ ■1 . ‘ t. i O t JL v/ -m/ .. ■ . i. , .4 ' 2 i “ They may order him, Dr Hamilton, to sign a Palinode, in the “ following, or somewhat similar terms : • - • ° '• • • • - ••• . * sj ■Jt *w j » . \J r I J j J vl v * i a a V *> ** * > C, - - . 1 j . . ? j ) * y y * I hereby acknowledge, that I was guilty of a flagrant breach of <6 duty to the University, when I applied to the Patrons to assume a w power of interfering with the laws of the University respecting Gra- £“r duations. I also acknowledge, that my assertion in my Memorial, “ that$

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