An Account of the Trial of Thomas Muir, Esq. Younger of Huntershill, Before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, on the 30th and 31st Days of August, 1793. for Sedition. [with] The Trial of Joseph Gerrald, Delegate from the London Corresponding Soc…

viii, 110; 207 pp. Engraved frontispiece portraits of the accused. Thomas Muir, memorialized with four others on the Political Martyrs' Monument, was charged with sedition and deported to Australia, though he later escaped from Botany Bay on the American ship Otter. Joseph Gerrald, also found guilty of sedition and deported to Australia, was less fortunate, and died of tuberculosis two years later. Their group was collectively known as the Scottish Martyrs (though three of them were English), and they campaigned for parliamentary reform, taking their inspiration largely from the ideals that precipitated the French Revolution. Among their demands were universal suffrage and annual parliaments.