This evening, Friday, Brown gave information, and Smith Ainslie, Mrs. Smith, and Grahame Campbell were taken into custody. The reason of Brown’s giving the information is said to have been that he had seen the advertisement from the Secretary of State’s Office that evening promising a reward and a pardon to the person who should discover the robbery of Inglis & Horner’s shop. Brown was under sentence of transportation in England, and in daily fear of apprehension. The reward and pardon were too powerful to be resisted, and he foresaw that it would be necessary for the prosecutor to obtain his pardon for his offence in England before he could be admitted as a witness. No wonder that the Lord Justice-Clerk said to him, after his examination, that he was a clever fellow.--_Creech_.] NOTE 10, page 133. The witness seemed to be well acquainted with Macheath, but not with the “Beggar’s Opera.” The song is by Mat o’ the Mint:-- “Let us take the road. Hark! I hear the sound of coaches! The hour of attack approaches; To your arms, brave boys, and load! “See the ball I hold! Let the chemists toil like asses; Our fire their fire surpasses, And turns our lead to gold.” --_Creech_. NOTE 11, page 135. It was clearly proved in the course of this trial, and I had otherwise occasion to know, that there was no information given against Mr. Brodie until Monday, the 10th, when the unfortunate Smith was examined. A warrant was immediately issued for apprehending him, and a search made, but it was too late; he had gone for London the preceding day.--_Morrison_. Brown did not mention Brodie on the first information he gave, nor, indeed, till he had returned from England, where he had gone in pursuit of the goods robbed from Inglis & Horner’s shop. It is supposed, by concealing Brodie, that he meant to have exacted money from him on his return to keep his secret. But Brodie was gone, and he then spoke out.--_Creech_. NOTE 12, page 152. This is what is called flash language, and means swore to me.--_Creech_. NOTE 13, page 153. This means the description of him which was inserted in all the Edinburgh and London newspapers, and was very minute and particular.--Creech. NOTE 14, page 154. This is another specimen of the flash language, or slang. “And glimed the scrive” means “burned the letter.”--_Creech_. NOTE 15 page 161. As Brown, Ainslie, and Smith’s maid all concur that Mr. Brodie was in Smith’s house on the afternoon of the 5th March, it might appear a contradiction to this evidence; but Brown has fixed that it was very early in the afternoon, some time after two o’clock, but could not say that it was after three, so that it is evident the meeting in Smith’s which they alluded to was between two and three o’clock, and before this witness came to dine with Mr. Brodie. _Vide_ Brown’s evidence.--_Creech_. NOTE 16, page 161.