Keppoch song

242 SUPPLEMENT.
ture, however ill he can afford it, to endea
vour to obtain a remedy of this grievance,
as he would be in some measure satisfied,
were the nation in possession of its un-
doubted right of forfeiture, and of different
encroachments, and in the meantime, he
enters his solemn protest and appeal to the
supreme legislature of the universe, before
whom we are taught to believe all must
appear, and in whose presence an empe-
ror, a king, a duke, and a beggar are on an
equal footing.
The writer, therefore, John Paul Mac-
donald, Hay, Ross, Leslie, a poor private
teacher, who has not ten pounds a year to
depend on, throws down his glove of de-
fiance, both here and hereafter, to his grace
the duke of G. marq — s of H — ly, earl of
N — wich, and L. G — d — n of H — Iyv
lord keeper of the great seal of the disho-
nest, dishonourable, and worse than beg-
garly Sc — h crown, and commits these
presents to the arch constable Leo Belgi-
cus, under this token, that he went to the
church-yard of Tongue, on a night, in the
end of June, anno 1797, about the hour of