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atcly diew tlie carriajje to ihc Par- 

 liament Close, where iVIr. Marj^arot 

 and his friends alighted, and vvalk- 



, ing into the Parliament-house, he 

 a«Msred himstlf at the bar. On his 

 way home, Mr. Mirgarot was again 

 forced into a carriage by the mob, 

 along with five of his friends, and 



!I the horses being taken from the 

 coacli, the mob drew him to his 



t lodgings at the BLiclc-Bnll Inn. 



nth. The king in council signed 

 an order for the transp;,rtation of 

 Messrs. Muir and Pal;jier to New- 

 South Wales fur the term sentenced 

 by the court uf Justiciary. 



I ix.\i. Edinburgh. Mr. Margarot 

 was accused of different seditious 

 practices. He conducted his own 

 d fence. After a long trial, the 

 jury found him guilty, and thecourt 

 sentenced him to fourteen years 

 trans[)ortation beyond the seas. 



In conseqaenoeof ihe proceedings 

 on tht Qthi.istaiit, while Mr. Marga- 

 rot went to the justiciary Court, 

 every precaution was taken this day 

 by the lord provost, magistrate's, 

 and thesheritf, to prevent any breach 

 ©f good order and police. A gieat 

 ciowd a8;<emb'ed nt his lodgings in 

 Leifh-strcet ab..ut ten o'clock, and 

 he was conducted with a wreath or 

 arch held over him, with inscrip- 



' ti'ons of Reason, Liberty, &c. 



'• About the nnidd'.c of the North 



■ Bridge, however, the cavalcade was 



I met by the lord provo.st, sheriff, 



i' constable, peace-officers, &c. and 

 immediately dispersed, the arch de- 



I molished, and its supporters taken 

 into cus ody. A press-gang at- 



, tended to assist the peacc-orficers. 



,! Mr. Margarot then walked to the 



! court, escorted by the lord provost 

 and shcnff, and no disturbance cn- 



,| sued. 



' i6th. At the Old Bailey, John 



Lyon stood indicted cap'tally for 

 forging Several receipts, purporting 

 to be receipts for the p-iymsnt of 

 certain dividends, of a loan, to be 

 rsised under an act of parliament, 

 for the service of the year 1793, 

 with an- intent to defraud the go- 

 vernor and company of the Bank 

 of England. When the clerk of 

 the arraigns put the usual question 

 to the prisoner, " How say you, 

 are you guilty or not guilty ?" the 

 prisoner replied, that he should beg 

 leave to decline making any defence, 

 on account of the nature of the evi- 

 dence intended to be proluccd 

 against him. fie was recommend- 

 ed by the judges to plead not guilty, 

 but h^ peisisted, a-id the pica was 

 recorded; but the judge's laimauily, 

 to prevent the prisoner from being 

 in some degree the instrument of his 

 own death, urged Mr. Wood, who 

 was counsel for the prisoner, to try 

 his influence with him : it occurred 

 to Mr. Wood, that as ^he evidence 

 of his sister was the ground of the 

 prisoner's objection to plead, that 

 he might demur to the indictment, 

 whicli, by an admission o.'^ths facts, 

 left it to be argued in puint of law ; 

 after Mr. Wood had explained the 

 nature of th,- dcni'irrer, and th<tt his 

 bi'^ter would not rhen be called u\ 

 evidence against him, he consented 

 to demur to the indictment. Tli; 

 prisoner was also indicted .^or ths 

 same offence in another form, to 

 which he also demurred. His coUHt 

 sel applied for copies of the indict- 

 ments, which were not granted. 

 The demur) er came on to be argued 

 on the 20thin8tant, but theJe^iiiion 

 of it was postponed to a futi.re 

 day. 



17th. Thia morning a fire brok^ 

 out in the hot-house of Mr. Pai'ker, 

 of South Lambeth, which consumed 



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