The government, on full consideration, gave credit to his assertion that he had been guilty of a double treason, and let him out again.

[599] The Report of the Commission was taken into immediate consideration by the Estates.

They resolved, without one dissentient voice, that the order signed by William did not authorise the slaughter of Glencoe.

They next resolved, but, it should seem, not unanimously, that the slaughter was a murder.

[600] They proceeded to pass several votes, the sense of which was finally summed up in an address to the King.