The Magistrates then said that they should pay the same compliment to me they did to Mr Duncan, and take my signature to the certificate, without an oath, even to my belief.--Certificate signed. The prisoner was then ordered in, and the certificate read to him, and asked, If he had not a father?--he replied,--None. But you had a father, said the Judge--was not his name Brodie? To this Mr Brodie replied,--“There are more Brodies than one.” Then by that, said the Judge, you confess your name is Brodie? _A._--A _lapsus linguae_, my Lord. Brodie again insisted upon the oaths; but the Judge told him that all they wanted was to be satisfied, which they were from what Mr Duncan and Mr Groves had signed, and partly from a confession of his own. He was told he should set off as that day; and it was settled at four in the afternoon. The Judge told me I should have a guide, who would procure the means of conveyance, &c. I took my leave of them with thanks, &c.; waited on Mr Rich; at four was sent for to the Stadthouse, where there was a prodigious crowd; two carriages and four guides, with four horses in each carriage; and the prisoner, being properly secured, we put him into one, and got to Helvoet without much interruption next day at one o’clock; packet sailed at five. _N.B._ I had wrote a letter to Sir James Harris on the Saturday, requesting the packet to be detained, who informed me by Mr. Rich, with whom I dined on the Monday, that it should be detained to the last moment. Brodie was watched two hours alternately on board by the ship’s crew; his hands and arms confined, and his meat cut for him, &c. On Thursday night, eleven o’clock, we arrived at Harwich--supped--set off immediately, and arrived next day at noon at Sir Sampson Wright’s, before whom, and Mr Langlands, Brodie confessed he was the person advertised. APPENDIX XIII. COPIES OF TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS OF DEACON BRODIE, HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED. [From Dr. David Laing’s MSS. in the University Library, Edinburgh.] I. [To the Right Hon. Henry Dundas (Viscount Melville).] Right Honble. Sir You are no doubt acquainted with my misfortunes. Extracts of the proceedings against me are sent to London by my friends to endeavour to procure a Remission or an Alteration [Illustration: Facsimile of Deacon Brodie’s Letter to the Duchess of Buccleuch. (From the original in Dr. David Laing’s collection of MSS. in the Edinburgh University Library.)] of my Sentence. But 1 believe little respect is paid to such Aplications unless supported by respectable Personages. With which view I now most humbly Beseech your interposition and interest in support of this aplication making at London in my behalf and if possible prevent me from suffering an Ignominious Death to the disgrace of my numerous conections, even if it were to end my days at Bottony Bay.