Keppoch song

214 SUPPLEMENT.
the first of his reign, correspond with the
above data, the writer leaves it to the can-
did, unfettered, and unprejudiced reader
to judge.
It does not appear that his Majesty was
left to the free scope of his inclinations, and
to the due exercise of his judgment. He
ascended the throne in a conflict between
parties, and under the banners of the
whigs, who, for the most part, if they did
any thing for the general good of the na-
tion, in the true spirit of liberty and justice,
took care to be personally well paid for it.
The clan act may, therefore, be considered
a whig act, offering rewards to all who
would join or adhere to them, and tending
to excite a commotion or sedition ; there-
fore, inconsistent with the true principles
of justice, on account of its executive and
prejudiced intention. If any person took
up arms against the sovereign, no matter
of whatever class of subjects, that offence
being against the king, his property should
devolve to the crown, and to have remained
annexed, but admissible of being restored
to innocent posterity, as an exercise of the