[Illustration: ROBᵗ: WATT] _By Authority._ [Illustration] THE DECLARATION AND CONFESSION OF ROBERT WATT, WRITTEN, SUBSCRIBED, & DELIVERED BY HIMSELF, THE EVENING BEFORE HIS EXECUTION, _FOR HIGH TREASON_, AT EDINBURGH, OCTOBER 15. 1794. ATTESTED BY THE REVEREND DR BAIRD, PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH; AND THE REVEREND T. S. JONES, ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF LADY GLENORCHIE’S CHAPEL. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR BELL & BRADFUTE, PARLIAMENT CLOSE. 1794. Entered in Stationers Hall. _The following_ DECLARATION, _was put up under a sealed cover, addressed on the outside to_ JAMES CLERK, Esq; Sheriff Depute, Geo. Square.--_In the inside of the cover was written the following Letter by_ Robert Watt _to him_: SIR, The inclosed papers, with another parcel, containing sundry miscellaneous letters and papers, I commit to you; requesting they may be transmitted to Principal Baird, and the Rev. Mr Jones, to do with them as they may find proper. The little emoluments which may arise from them, I am persuaded they will give to Binning who attended me. My watch and my clothes, and any little effects I may leave behind me, I request them to be given to Mr James Stalker, at Mr Wilson’s, baker in Cross-causeway, to whom I owe money _per_ bill; and to whom I gave a disposition to these, and other effects, before my condemnation. I have the honour to be, SIR, Your obed. humble Servant, (Signed) ROB. WATT. Edinburgh Castle, _Oct. 14. 1794_. * * * * * We, who are referred to in the above letter, and who subscribe this note, do hereby ATTEST, that the contents of the following Declaration are transcribed _verbatim_ from the manuscript of Robert Watt, transmitted to us by the SHERIFF. GEO. BAIRD. T. S. JONES. DECLARATION, _&c._