The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine Volume 111-114 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1808 Excerpt: ... its transactions, in the year 1803." The first in order, both ot time and importance, are the memorable patriotic resolutions and address to the throne in July 1803, at a " meeting attended by about loO of the principal nobility and gentry ot" Scotland, members of the Society, Lord Viscount Melville, one of the Vice-Presidents, in the chair." The manly and spirited resolutions of this truly patriotic assembly to "co-operate to the utmost of their power with his Majesty's officers in forwarding every military armament, and to encourage and promote, by every means, the procuring of seamen for his Majesty's navy," led the way to almost all the other public bodies, and contributed very materially to diffuse a general enthusiasm and military ardour throughout the Bluish empire, which very probably occasioned the abandonment for ever of the desperate project of invasion. The address to the King, signed by Lord Melville, expressive of the loyal and fixed determinations of the Highland Society to support his Majesty's arms against the "determined, malignant, and invidious hostility" of the enemy, contains a briefer but a better defence of the war than that issued by his Majesty's ministers. " The propriety and the effects of this example," observes the historian of the society," Were taken notice of in the House of Commons, by that eminent statesman, whom the country will long lament, as one of the best bulwarks for this favoured ifland, against that giant usurpation which has trampled on so many other nations." Nor were the resolutions and address merely ostentatious words, for the society at the same meeting, after framing the address, and palling a vote of thanks to the noble chair man and vice-president, Lord Melville, ordered their board of directors to take i...