His adherents, therefore, determined that it should be produced.
When the Convention reassembled on the morning of Saturday the sixteenth of March, it was proposed that measures should be taken for the personal security of the members.

It was alleged that the life of Dundee had been threatened; that two men of sinister appearance had been watching the house where he lodged, and had been heard to say that they would use the dog as he had used them.

Mackenzie complained that he too was in danger, and, with his usual copiousness and force of language, demanded the protection of the Estates.

But the matter was lightly treated by the majority: and the Convention passed on to other business, [296] It was then announced that Crane was at the door of the Parliament House.

He was admitted.