The date of this piece is confirmed by the following paragraph in _The Grub-street journal, March_ 4, 1731: "We hear from the Theatre-Royal in _Drury-lane_, that there is now in rehearsal, and to be performed on _Tuesday, March_ 16, a new _Scots_ Opera, called _The Highland Fair, or Union of the Clans,_ &c." The subject being too local for the _English_ stage, it met with little or no success. * * * * * 1732. 1. _Sarah Malcolm_,[1] executed _March_ 7, 1732, for murdering Mrs. _Lydia Duncombe_ her mistress, _Elizabeth Harrison_, and _Anne Price_; drawn in _Newgate. W. Hogarth (ad vivum) pinxit & sculpsit._[2] Some copies are dated 1733, and have only _Hogarth pinx_. She was about twenty-five years of age.[3] "_This woman put on red to sit to him for her picture two days before her execution._"[4] Mr. _Walpole_ paid _Hogarth_ five guineas for the original. Professor _Martyn_ dissected this notorious murderess, and afterwards presented her skeleton, in a glass case, to the Botanic Garden at _Cambridge_, where it still remains. [1] On _Sunday_ morning, the 4th of _February_, Mrs. _Lydia Duncombe_, aged 80, _Elizabeth Harrison_, her companion, aged 60, were found strangled, and _Ann Price_, her maid, aged 17, with her throat cut, in their beds, at the said Mrs. _Duncombe's_ apartments in _Tanfield-Court_ in _The Temple. Sarah Malcolm_, a chare-woman, was apprehended the same evening on the information of Mr. _Kerrol_, who had chambers on the same stair-case, and had found some bloody linen under his bed, and a silver tankard in his close-stool, which she had hid there. She made a pretended confession, and gave information against _Thomas Alexander, James Alexander,_ and _Mary Tracey,_ that they committed the murder and robbery, and she only stood on the stairs as a watch; that they took away three hundred pounds and some valuable goods, of which she had not more than her share; but the coroner's inquest gave their verdict _Wilful Murder_ against _Malcolm_ only.--On the 23d her trial came on at _The Old Bailey_: when it appeared that Mrs. _Duncombe_ had but 54 _l._ in her box, and 53 _l._ 11 _s._ 6 _d._ of it were found upon _Malcolm_ betwixt her cap and hair. She owned her being concerned in the robbery, but denied she knew any thing of the murder till she went in with other company to see the deceased. The jury found her guilty of both. She was strongly suspected to have been concerned in the murder of Mr. _Nesbit_ in 1729, near _Drury-lane_, for which one _Kelly_, alias _Owen_, was hanged; the grounds for his conviction being only a bloody razor found under the murdered man's head that was known to be his. But he denied to the last his being concerned in the murder; and said, in his defence, he lent the razor to a woman he did not know.--On _Wednesday, March_ 7, she was executed on a gibbet opposite _Mitre-court, Fleet-street_, where the crowd was so great, that a Mrs. _Strangways_, who lived in _Fleet-street_,