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Excerpt from The Trial of Maurice Margarot, Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on the 13th and 14th of January, 1794, on an Indictment for Seditious Practices George, in. Forasmuchas it is humbly' meant and aimed to us, by our right trnfiy robert dundas, Efg. Our Advocate, for our interefi upon maurice margarot, merchant in Marybon, London, no. 10; High llreet, refiding or lately refiding, at the Black Bull lnn, head of Leith Walk, pariih of St. Cuthbert's, and County ofedinburgh t-ha'r whereas, by the laws oftllis, and ofevery well governed realm, sedition is a crime of an heinous nature, and fevet ely punifhahle, yet true IT is, and or vzarrr, That the fame Maurice Margarot has prefumed to commit, and is (guilty aétor, Air art and part of Paid crime: IN so far As, the aid Maurice Margaret having been named a delegaté by an aflb'ciarion of fe ditious people, calling themfelves'the Correfponding Societ of tondon, did repair to Edinburgh with the wicked and felonious purpofe ofjoining and co-operating with an illegal afibciation of evil difpofed and (editions perfons, who originally defigned theml'elves, The General Convention of the friends of the peo ple but who have oflate aflinned the defignation of 4 flu? Bri i? Ill/l? Canoe/ilia}; of tbe delegate: qf tbe people, afl'ociared to chain zuzit'crfa/fufl'rage and annual parliament: and which illegal aflociation, under the names and defignations above mentioned, have been in the prac'tice, during the monthswof October and Notember nut, as well as in the beginning of the prefent month of December; of holding various (editions and illegal meet ings at a Martin's lodge, or room in Black-fryars iwynd, in the city of Edinburgh, and, elfewhere, to the public 'profecntor un known and whiclifmeetings, though held under pretence of procuring a reform in parliament, were evidently-of a dange rons'and dei'truc'tive tendency, with a deliberate and determined if intention, to dif'turb the peace ofthe community, and to fubvert the prefent confiitution of the country: with which view'they imitated, both in'the form and tenor, of their proceedings; that a, Cgonvention 'of'people, the axiowed enemies of this country, who (lat 'preren't' ufurp the government of France, 'and'with whom Great - Britain then was and {till is, at war: That thé faid Mau rice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
