I repel the objection. : A new Scotch song. Tune - Liberty Hall..
[London] : Sold by R. Lee, at the Tree of Liberty, no. 2, St. Ann's Court, Dean-street, Soho; where may be had [a] variety of cheap patriotic publications.,
[1795]
The first of the two songs draws on the trial in Edinburgh in 1793-4 of Maurice Margarot, a member of the London Corresponding Society, for seditious activities and illegal meetings in Edinburgh. Margarot was tried by the Lord Justice Clerk, Robert Macqueen, Lord Braxfield who was renowned for persecuting radicals and sentenced Margarot to fourteen year's transportation. At the start of the trial Margarot objected to his trial on the ground that his judges were 'all implicated in criminality'. The song envisages Macqueen's conversation with devil and concludes with Macqueen's discovery of his own fiery fate.
Caption title.
"As the devil one morning was taking a walk,".--opening line of 'I repel the objection'.
Accompanied on the same sheet with the poem 'The return of liberty. (From songs for the year 1795.) Tune--rule Britannia.'
ESTC
The first of the two songs draws on the trial in Edinburgh in 1793-4 of Maurice Margarot, a member of the London Corresponding Society, for seditious activities and illegal meetings in Edinburgh. Margarot was tried by the Lord Justice Clerk, Robert Macqueen, Lord Braxfield who was renowned for persecuting radicals and sentenced Margarot to fourteen year's transportation. At the start of the trial Margarot objected to his trial on the ground that his judges were 'all implicated in criminality'. The song envisages Macqueen's conversation with devil and concludes with Macqueen's discovery of his own fiery fate.
Margarot, Maurice, -1816
Braxfield, Robert Macqueen, Lord, 1722-1799
England London.