Edinburgh crowds lynched Captain John Porteous of the Town Guard whom the crown had reprieved after he ordered his men to fire on a crowd at a public execution killing several people; the riot demonstrated Edinburgh popular hostility to government authority and Scottish resentment of Hanoverian administration
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