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Broadside entitled ‘Mutiny & murder aboard the transport Hope’ 23 Aug 2013 | 08:56 pm
This crime report begins: ‘An ACCOUNT of the Dreadful MUTINY that took place on board the Convict Transport HOPE, having on board 291 Female Convicts, many of whom belonged to Edinburgh, Leith, Glasgo...
Broadside ballad entitled ‘John Armstrong’s Last farewel’ 23 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
This ballad begins: ‘IS their never a Man in all Scotland, / from the highest state to the lowest degree.’ The text preceding this ballad reads: ‘Declaring how he and his Eight-scoremen fought a blood...
Broadside entitled ‘Horrid Depravity!’ 23 Aug 2013 | 08:48 pm
This report begins: ‘A melancholy Account of the Death of two Children, who were poisoned by a Man who went about selling Candy, at Portobello, near Edinburgh, on Tuesday last, in whose Possession was...
Broadside entitled ‘Address, Or Warning to the Young’ 23 Aug 2013 | 08:44 pm
Following on from the title, the report continues: ‘By the unfortunate Men, now under Sentence of Death, who are to be Executed on Wednesday the 3d of November next, for various crimes, published as a...
Broadside entitled ‘The Manner of the Barbarous Murther of James’ 23 Aug 2013 | 08:40 pm
This early broadside begins: ‘The Manner of the Barbarous Murther of JAMES, Late Lord Arch – Bishop of James, Late Lord Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews, Primate and Metropolitain of all Scotland, And one o...
Broadside story concerning the murder of common sense in Edinburgh 23 Aug 2013 | 08:35 pm
This broadside story begins: ‘A Strange and Wonderful Account of an Inhuman Murder Committed in the Canongate of Edinburgh, on Monday 15th of March, by James Scoogy on the Person of Common Sense’. The...
Broadside entitled ‘Ghosts, &c!’ 23 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
This report begins: ‘A True and Particular Account of the Disastrous Circumstances attending the Horrible and most awful Appearance of a GHOST, which took place in a House in the High Street of Edinbu...
Broadside entitled ‘Discovery of a Most Shameful and Infamous Den’ 14 Aug 2013 | 03:56 pm
This news report begins: ‘This day is published, the Full Particulars of the Proceedings which have been lately carried on in that Infamous Den in St David’s Street, Edinburgh; with the examination of...
Broadside ballad entitled ‘The recruiting Sergeant: Or, a Poem on the Gentleman Voluntiers’ 14 Aug 2013 | 03:53 pm
FAm’d Scotia’s Sons once more comes to the Plain, } Nor fears the Tempests of the raging Main, } Heroick Greatness boils in ev’ry Vein; } With manly Grace their valiant Leader fees His Warlike Sons, f...
Broadside entitled ‘People of Scotland Beware!’ 14 Aug 2013 | 03:51 pm
Mr. A. CAMPBELL, and his colleague Mr. J. HENSHALL, from Virginia, U.S., are at present lecturing throughout Scotland on Christian Union ; and, as the people of this country ought to be very cautious ...
