§ SIR J. KINLOCH (Perth, E.)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate why no prosecution has been instituted against Robert Blyth, lately tenant of the farm of Rossie Ochil, Fargandenny, who, being bankrupt, was reported by the trustee for the sequestration to have appropriated over £1,000 to his own uses?
§ THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. B. BALFOUR,) Clackmannan, &c.The reasons why no prosecution has been instituted against Robert Blyth are, that he had fled from Scotland before any complaint was made to the criminal authorities, and that when it was proposed to prosecute him in his absence, and obtain sentence of outlawry against him, this was strongly objected to by one of his leading creditors.