George Clerk's last speech and dying words on the scaffold and at Pennycuick : with his farewell address to his beloved friend Dundas, late member for the City of Edinburgh together with his epitaph.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1832]
In two columns.
Satirical verses, in the form of an execution ballad, on the first Edinburgh election under the Reform Act. Sir George Clerk was Tory member for the county of Edinburgh until this election, in December 1832 when he was defeated by Sir John Dalrymple.
Tune - "Miller of Drone".
First lines read: Dear, dear Dundas, I'm fairly gone, / What will be done, my friend? /Great grief will eat my flesh from bone, / And turn my enlarged mind.
Clerk, George, Sir, 1787-1867
Hamilton-Nisbet, Robert Adam, 1804-1877
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