The trial of William Brodie wright and cabinet maker in Edinburgh, : and of George Smith grocer there, before the High Court of Justiciary, held at Edinburgh on Wednesday the 27th, and Thursday the 28th, August 1788; for breaking into the General Excise-office at Edinburgh on the 5th of March last. Containing the evidence at large for and against the prisoners; accurate statements of the pleadings of the counsel; and the opinions of the judges on many important points of law: with the whole proceedings. /
Brodie, William,1741-1788,defendant.
Smith, George,-1788,defendant.
Morison, Aeneas,reporter.
Scotland.High Court of Justiciary.
Edinburgh: : Printed for Charles Elliot, Parliament-Square; and sold by C. Elliot and T. Kay, no 332. Strand, London; and all booksellers in town and country.,
M,DCCLXXXVIII.. [1788]
This is the first issue of Elliot's publication of Aeneas Morison's account of the trial, published on 6 September 1788, which does not have the appendix (pp. [261]-279 of subsequent issues) and the frontispiece portrait of Brodie. As indicated in William Roughead's "Trial of William Brodie" (Glasgow, 1906 - p. 233), in the introductory paragraph to the appendix it states that the inclusion of the extra material, relating to but not actually covered in the trial itself, was the result of a misunderstanding with William Creech. Creech had included this material in his published account of the trial and Aeneas Morison felt that readers of his version of the trial should not be disadvantaged: he is of the opinion, that he intitled to put the purchasers of his account of the trial on a footing with those who have purchased Mr Creeche's [sic], by furnishing them gratis with the following Appendix (p. [261]).
Errata on page [258]
ESTC
Brodie, William, 1741-1788
Smith, George, -1788
Trials (Burglary)
Scotland Edinburgh.