That on the 10th of March last the declarant was carried to Mr. Brodie’s yard and workshop by Alexander and George Williamson, in order to point out a place where it was supposed some false keys, which Mr. Brodie had, were hid. That in the under workshop, and in the bottom of a vent which was used as a fireplace for melting the glue, the declarant, when digging for the false keys, found a little under ground a pair of pistols wrapped in a piece of green cloth, which the said Alexander and George Williamson took into custody, and lodged in the Sheriff-clerk’s office. That the declarant saw the said pistols and piece of green cloth yesterday in the Sheriff-clerk’s office, and knew them to be the same that were found as above, and the reason of the declarant’s knowing them was, that he had these pistols in loan from Mr. Brodie for a considerable time; and the declarant had the said pistols with him when the Excise Office was broke into on the evening of the 5th of March last. Declares that the same evening, after breaking into the Excise Office, the declarant delivered the pistols to Mr. Brodie, being afraid of taking them to the declarant’s house in case of a search. This he declares to be truth. GEORGE SMITH. JOHN STEWART, Sh. Subst. Declaration of William Brodie. At Edinburgh, this 17th July, 1788. The which day compeared, in presence of Archibald Cockburn, Esq., advocate, His Majesty’s Sheriff-depute of the sheriffdom of Edinburgh, William Brodie, wright and cabinetmaker in Edinburgh, who being examined and interrogated by the Sheriff, declares-- That he does not at present recollect the name of the vessel in which the declarant went from the river Thames to Holland in the month of April last; that is, in which he arrived at Holland in April last. That, before he left the vessel, he gave some letters, at present he does not recollect the number, written by himself, to one Geddes, a passenger on board the vessel. And being shown a letter directed to Michael Henderson, signed W. B., dated Thursday, the 10th of April last, declares that he cannot say that the letter was not wrote by him and given to Geddes. And, being interrogated, if one of the letters given to Geddes was not directed to Mr. Matthew Sheriff, upholsterer in Edinburgh, and signed John Dixon, dated Flushing, Tuesday, the 8th of April, 1788?--Declares that the declarant cannot give any positive answer to that question, and he does not suppose he would have signed any letter at that time by the name of John Dixon, especially as he had wrote some letters at the same time, and given them to Geddes, signed by his initials W. B. Declares that the declarant, when taken into custody at Amsterdam, on the 26th of June last, went by the name of John Dixon.