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Updated: May 7, 2025
Thus the Commissioner goes and returns every day. The Itinerists followed the Duke and his procession into the Parliament House, and heard debated the great question the greatest of all possible questions for Scotland whether this magnificence should cease, whether there should be an end of an auld sang in short, whether the proposed Act of Union should be proceeded with.
By special favour, our Itinerists had leave to stand upon the steps of the throne, and witnessed a famous fiery and prolonged debate, the Duke once turning to them and saying, sotto voce, 'It is now deciding whether England and Scotland shall go together by the ears. How it was decided we all know, and that it was wisely decided no one doubts; yet, when we read our Itinerist's account of the Duke's coach and horses, and the cavalcade that followed him, and remember that this was what happened every day during the sitting of the Parliament, and must not be confounded with the greater glories of the first day of a Parliament, when every member, be he peer, knight of the shire, or burgh member, had to ride on horseback in the procession, it is impossible not to feel the force of Miss Grisel Dalmahoy's appeal in the Heart of Midlothian, she being an ancient sempstress, to Mr.
'Yet notwithstanding all these sad representations, we resolv'd to proceed and stand by one another to the last. What the Itinerists thought of Scotland when they got there is not for me to say. I was once a Scottish member. They arrived in Edinburgh at a great crisis in Scottish history.
After September 1 the Parliament did not meet till the 4th, when an Address was passed to the Queen, but apparently without any repetition of debate. So it really is a little difficult to reconcile the dates. Perhaps Itinerists are best advised to keep off public events.
The Itinerary concludes as follows: 'Thus we spent almost 2 months in a Journy of many 100 miles, sometimes thro' very charming Countryes, and at other times over desolate and Barren Mountaines, and yet met with no particular misfortune in all the Time. I may say at once of these three Itinerists Mr. Taylor, Mr. Harrison, and Mr.
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