Keppoch song

SUPPLEMENT. 241
ligations of the coronation oath, by which
he is solemnly bound to administer jus-
tice and the laws of the land, without res-
pect of persons, and thereby agrees and
submits to defraud the nation of the rents
and property of Keppoch, now amounting
to about three hundred thousand pounds,
and to single out and exclude innocent pos-
terity for one single offence, from the resto-
ration granted to others, and thereby, as it
were, to confirm further usurpations of the
rights of the crown, in the pretended lord*-
ships of Lochaber and Badenoch, and thus
continue to connive at the encroachments of
the house of Huntly, upon the rights and
property of the crown, and to overlook, or
rather to reward, its treasonable practices,
Who can believe such to have been the
conduct of a sovereign of the great, the ge-
nerous, the noble minded, and manly spi-
rited British nation, who excluded the
house of Stuart, on account of this arbi-
trary, assuming, and dispensing preroga-
tive.
The writer therefore deems it his duty,
by petitioning or applying to the legisla-
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