LOGAN, Rev George.

A Treatise on Government; shewing, that the right of the Kings of Scotland to the Crown was not strictly and absolutely hereditary. Against the Earl of Comarty, Sir George Mackenzie the King's Advocate, Mr John Sage stiled the Cyprianik Doctor, and the learned antiquarian Mr Thomas Ruddiman.

Edinburgh and Glasgow, n. p. , 1746. 8vo, pp. xxxii, 182, [4] addendum; slightly browned as usual, else a good copy in contemporary calf, small ink-stain to the upper board and some slight worming to the lower, joint of upper board cracked but cords still firm, ex libris of Sir Gilbert Elliot, Lord Minto, to the front pastedown; with the author’s presentation inscription to the front free endpaper (‘This little Treatise on the Pretended Hereditary Right to the Crown of Scotland is sent to the Right Honble. Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto Baronet, one of the Lords of Council & Session & Court of Justiciary by George Logan’). First edition. Published just one year after the Jacobite uprising, the present work is a lucid and spirited attack on the opponents of the Hanoverian succession. Taking its name from John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government (the first of which had dealt with the political debate surrounding the succession controversy of the 1680s), Logan’s perceptive inquiries into Protestant legitimacy pour scorn onto Jacobite claims, suggesting that ‘the opinion, that the Right to the Crown of Scotland, is strictly hereditary and indefeasible, is the favourite Principle of too many of our deluded Countrymen’ (Preface).The Rev. George Logan (1658–1755) was active as a Hanoverian polemicist throughout the Jacobite uprisings. Famously engaged in bitter exchanges with such Jacobites as Thomas Ruddiman, Logan had been an unsuccesful advocate of putting Edinburgh in a state of defence following the 1745 Highland uprising.Provenance: Sir Gilbert Elliot, Lord Minto (1693–1756) was a correspondent of David Hume, and in this capacity doubtless proved a useful intermediary between Logan and the tight circle of the Edinburgh Enlightenment. A prominent Hanoverian, Elliot firmly believed that he would have been killed during the 1745 rebellion but for the quick wits of his daughter Jeanne, who welcomed marching Highlanders into the family home while her father fled to safety.Not in Chuo.

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