Memorial for Dr. James Hamilton, Jun. respectfully submitted to ... the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Town-Council of the City of Edinburgh / [James Hamilton].

  • Hamilton, James, 1767-1839.
Date:
[1829]
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Credit: Memorial for Dr. James Hamilton, Jun. respectfully submitted to ... the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Town-Council of the City of Edinburgh / [James Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FOR Dr JAMES HAMILTON, Jon. % RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD PROVOST, MAGISTRATES and TOWN^ COUNCIL of the CITY 0/EDINBURGH. The Memorialist regrets that he is again compelled to appeal to the Right Honourable the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Town- Council, as Governors, Founders and Patrons, of the University of Edinburgh. But, instead of resorting at once to a Court of Law, he ventures respectfully to solicit their interference ; and he has tlie satisfaction of feeling that, in doing so, he is only requesting the Honourable Patrons to follow up those measures which their Pre¬ decessors, on 20th April 1825, strongly recommended the Senatus Academicus to adopt; and when he adds, that the course then suggested, was stated to be ‘ the most suitable for the interests of the University,’ he confidently trusts that the object of the present appeal will appear both just and reasonable. It is unnecessary for the Memorialist to narrate particularly the proceedings which led to the new Commission, with extended powers and privileges, which he obtained as a Professor in the College, and which was presented to the Senatus on 2d August 1824;—or to those circumstances which obliged the Honourable Patrons to institute an action at Law, in order to have their right and power of Government and controul over the Professors in the College judicially established. But with the view of making the grievances, of which he has now to complain, more intelligible, he must take the liberty to state the following circumstances. After