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See also:PORTEOUS, See also:JOHN (d. 1736) , See also:captain of the See also:city guard of See also:Edinburgh, whose name is associated with the celebrated riots of 1736, was the son of See also:Stephen Porteous, an Edinburgh tailor. Having served in the See also:army, he was employed in 1715 to See also:drill the city guard for the See also:defence of Edinburgh in anticipation of a Jacobite rising, and was promoted later to the command of the force. In 1736 a smuggler named See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson, who had won popularity by helping a See also:companion to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape from the Tolbooth See also:prison, was hanged; and, some slight disturbance occurring at the See also:execution, the city guard fired on the See also:mob, killing a few and wounding a considerable number of persons. Porteous, who was said to have fired at the See also:people with his own See also:hand, was brought to trial and sentenced, to See also:death. The granting of a See also:reprieve was hotly resented by the people of Edinburgh, and on the See also:night of the 7th of See also:September 1736 an armed See also:body of men in disguise See also:broke into the prison, seized Porteous, and hanged him on a signpost in the See also:street. It was said that persons of high position were concerned in the See also:crime; but although the See also:government offered rewards for the See also:apprehension of the perpetrators, and although See also:General Moyle wrote to the See also:duke of See also:Newcastle that the criminals were " well-known by many of the inhabitants of the See also:town," no one was ever convicted of participation in the See also:murder. The sympathies of the people, and even, it is said, of the See also:clergy, throughout See also:Scotland, were so unmistakably on the See also:side of the rioters that the See also:original stringency of the See also:bill introduced into See also:parliament for the See also:punishment of the city of Edinburgh had to be reduced to the levying of a See also:fine of £2000 for Porteous's widow, and the disqualification of the See also:provost for holding any public See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office. The incident of the Porteous riots was used by See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott in The See also:Heart of Midlothian.
See Sir See also:Daniel Wilson, Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
Time (2 vols. Edinburgh, 1848): See also:State Trials, vol. xvii.; See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Coxe, See also:Memoirs of the See also:Life of Sir R. See also:Walpole (4 vols. See also:London, 1816) ; See also:Alexander See also:Carlyle, Autobiography (Edinburgh, 1860), which gives the See also:account of an See also:eye-See also:witness of the execution of Wilson; See also:pamphlets (2 vols. in See also:British Museum) containing The Life and Death of Captain John Porteous, and other papers See also:relating to the subject; W. E. H. Ledo,' See also:History of See also:England in the Eighteenth See also:Century, ii. 324, See also:note(7 vols., London, 1892). See also Scott's notes to The Heart of Midlothian.
End of Article: PORTEOUS, JOHN (d. 1736)
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