But this motion was ill received by the mover's father and by the whole assembly, and did not even find a seconder.

At length resolutions were carried closely resembling the resolutions which the English Lords and Commoners had presented to the Prince a few days before.

He was requested to call together a Convention of the Estates of Scotland, to fix the fourteenth of March for the day of meeting, and, till that day, to take on himself the civil and military administration.

To this request he acceded; and thenceforth the government of the whole island was in his hands.

[631] The decisive moment approached; and the agitation of the public mind rose to the height.