byterian Faith, &c._

_The Humble Petition o' the Undersigned, Inhabitants o' the Principal
Part o'_ HER MAJESTY'S _Dominions ca'd Scotland_.

HUMBLY SHEWETH,

That your Petitioners, leal subjecks o' Your MAJESTY, are muckle and
sairly fasht and vexed wi' unco' grievances, o' whilk the maist
considerable an' intolerable is the degradation, an' dislocation, an'
deposition o' the Scottish Lion.

That forbye the wrang, an' scaith, an' indignity dune to the Scottish
Lion, an' the ither indignities, an' scaiths, an' wrangs, whilk Your
MAJESTY'S Petitioners hae set forth, an' enumerated, an' recited to Your
MAJESTY'S Ministers, there are a wheen mair whilk they wad, wi' a'
humility, skirl intill Your MAJESTY'S lug.

That, _imprimis_, an' in the first place, the mither tongue o' Great
Britain, Your MAJESTY'S mither tongue, is erroneously, an' mistakenly,
an' vernacularly, an' vulgarly misca'd the QUEEN'S English; whereas the
English tongue is just a brogue, an' a corruption, an' a _patois_, an' a
dialeck o' the Scotch. And, as Your MAJESTY kens, the hail biggin o'
Your MAJESTY'S language was the wark o' LINDLEY MURRAY, o' wham the
varra name, ilka gowk can tell, belangs to Scotland.

Your Petitioners, therefore, beseech Your MAJESTY that the language o'
Scotland, an' the provinces thereuntill united under the sceptre o' Your
MAJESTY, whilk has heretofore been, as aforesaid, misca'd Your MAJESTY'S
English, may henceforth be rightly, an' truly, an' correckly denominate
the QUEEN'S Scotch. An' furthermair, that Your MAJESTY will be
graciously pleased to direck that the orthography an' etymology o' a'
Britain be just adapted, an' accommodated, an' reconciled to Scottish
institutions an' laws o' grammar; whilk dunna convene wi' thae o'
England, let alane just Suntax an' Prosody.

Your MAJESTY'S Petitioners do also pray that Your MAIST GRACIOUS MAJESTY
will be graciously pleased to command, an' decree, an' ordain that the
term Anglo-Saxon race shall nae langer be applied to the population o'
these Islands, mair especially not to emigrants from Great Britain to
ither kintras, the maist o' wham are Scotch, that gang awa' and dinna
come bock again. And that Your MAJESTY will, by virtue o' your Royal
prerogative, settle and determine that the tribe an' race, until the noo
entitled Anglo-Saxon, shall from this time forth be specified an'
distinguished by the title o' Scoto-Saxon instead.

Likewise your Petitioners do entreat Y