The LORD JUSTICE-CLERK--It is certainly very proper. [To witness]--John Geddes, if you made any purchases of contraband goods when you was at Flushing, it is your duty to inform the Court and the gentlemen of the jury that you did so, and you have nothing to fear from such an acknowledgment, because whatever you say here will be no evidence against you afterwards in the Court of Exchequer or elsewhere. The DEAN OF FACULTY--Did you purchase no lace, sir, when you was at Flushing? WITNESS--A few yards. The DEAN OF FACULTY--Why, then, did you say that you purchased nothing except the nankeen and the handkerchiefs? WITNESS--It was my wife and not me that purchased it. The DEAN OF FACULTY--Did you offer the lace for sale? WITNESS--No; there is part of it about a cloak which my wife has here with her, and I believe part of it about her sister’s. The DEAN OF FACULTY--And what became of the rest of it? Remember, sir, you are upon your great oath. WITNESS--That was it all, except a few yards I sold at Bathgate for twenty-two shillings. The DEAN OF FACULTY--Did you not say even now that you had offered none of it for sale? WITNESS--I said that I offered none of it for sale in this place. The DEAN OF FACULTY--Did you purchase no tobacco in Flushing? WITNESS--I did not, except a little for chewing. The DEAN OF FACULTY--Did you purchase any gin? WITNESS--None, except a little for sea store. The DEAN OF FACULTY--Pray, sir, when did you open these letters you have told us of? Was it before or after you came to Leith? WITNESS--It was after. The DEAN OF FACULTY--You told us, sir, that upon reading the newspapers you discovered that Dixon and Brodie were one and the same person. Pray, sir, when or where did you first read the newspapers? WITNESS--At Dalkeith. The DEAN OF FACULTY--How long was that after your arrival? WITNESS--Three weeks. The DEAN OF FACULTY--And pray, sir, what was the reason that in all that time you did not deliver these letters to the persons to whom they were directed? WITNESS--I did not remember that I had such letters when I was in Edinburgh myself, and I afterwards wished my brother-in-law to deliver them. The DEAN OF FACULTY--Did you open the letters? WITNESS--I did. The DEAN OF FACULTY--And what was your reason for doing so? WITNESS--I opened them and delivered them to the Sheriff for the good of my country. The DEAN OF FACULTY--And would it not have been as much for the good of the country to have delivered them without opening them? WITNESS--I just opened them, and that’s all; I can give no other reason. The DEAN OF FACULTY--Did you inform any person that you had such letters?