put pen to paper. But it is here not out of place to remark, that after the FEAT at Bonnymuir had been performed, and after the poor, misled, infatuated Radicals, were driven to Stirling like brute beasts, a drink of cold water having, as we previously stated (No. 8, p. 119), being actually denied to some of them, by the commander of the Yeomanry, of whom we have afterwards a story to tell, showing how he was REWARDED;—after that fatal 5th of April had gone by, -after the unhappy prisoners were loaded with irons in Stirling Castle-some of them as heavy as four or five stones (p. 118)—THEN, but then only, did Mr. Nicol Hugh Baird proceed to join his troop at Falkirk. He was received by the troop with open arms. The present SIR M. S. STEWART, then Mr. Stewart Nicholson of Carnock, was the Commander of it, and so elated were the whole members of the Troop, that they had such a hero among them, for they believed in the statement he made at Kilsyth, which spread like wildfire, that after lauding him to the skies, they, at the suggestion of several influential gentlemen in the county, either voted, or were about to vote him, an ELEGANT SWORD, as a mark of their friendship, and a reward of his BRAVERY. But before the SWORD had time to be presented, some new light began to be thrown upon the matter, and certain circumstances ultimately occurred, which arrested the SWORD in its transit. Meanwhile, this hero of the Kilsyth Troop of Yeomanry is sent for to Edinburgh by the Crown Lawyers, by whom he is (of course) received with marked favour and attention. Pride, we suppose, now made him adhere through thick and thin to his original statement. Probably he had no time at first to reflect on the consequences of it. But after he saw that the matter had assumed a most serious aspect;-after he saw that he was set down as one of the most important witnesses for the Crown, in the approaching trial of life or death,—his CONSCIENCE, we opine, felt some severe qualms at it, for it is notorious that he made an attempt to leave the country, and was only induced to come back within a day or two of the trial proceeding at Stirling. It was dangerous, as some of his particular friends, no doubt, felt, to offend the Government at that time. The road to preferment and favour, was by pandering to its abominations. But it is time that we should examine Baird's evidence. To do this more effectually, advert again to the Lord Advocate's opening statement respecting it :-"This party (says the Lord Advocate, i. e. Hardie's party) then proceeded on by the high road towards Camelon, and they were MET by a gentlemen of the Kilsyth troop of Cavalry, &c. He was STOPPED by the party, WHO ENDEAVOURED TO TAKE HIS ARMS, BUT THIS HE RESISTED." Now, from the position of the roads, and the relative situation of the parties, we think we have already proved to demonstration, that it was IMPOSSIBLE that this Yeoman, Nicol Hugh Baird, could have "met" this party of Radicals at the time, and on the occasion referred to. It is quite possible that he might by riding swiftly have overtaken, or passed them on the road between the village of Long croft and the village of Bonnybridge. But even that supposition must now be totally excluded, when we have it PROVED, or established to our entire satisfaction, that at the time, and on the occasion referred to, he did not come so far as the village of Longcroft, and consequently had not entered upon the road which the Radicals had taken. How, therefore, in the nature of things, could he have met them? And in the face of the witness referred to, how is it possible any longer to say that he was STOPPED by them, and that they endeavoured to take his arms, which he resisted? But see him in the witnesses' box. He knows full well what he had previously stated at Kilsyth, as also to the Crown-Lawyers in his precognition at Edinburgh, &c. and therefore, to give the devil his due, we must say that he was now placed in a most awful dilemma. But the oath is administered to him, and screwing his courage to the sticking place, he swears that he was on duty with the troop at Falkirk in April last, and had leave of absence on the 5th of that month; that on his road to Falkirk he overtook about a dozen men, who obstructed his passage by planting themselves across the road; that one man having stepped forward, he asked him to divide the road with him, but was answered he would be d-d if he would; that they demanded his pistol, which witness instantly drew and presented at them, and said he would rather give him the contents of it; that he then rode back to Kilsyth, where he informed Lieut. Hodgson of the 10th Hussars, and Lieutenant Davidson of the Kilsyth troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, what had happened, who immediately set off to Bonnymuir, with a party of the 10th Hussars and Kilsyth Yeomanry (about 22 or 23 in all), which he was ordered to accompany; that when they arrived there, they saw about 35 or 40 people on the muir, who chered as the military advanced, and fired a number of shots over the wall; that Lieutenant Hodgson called out to them to surrender, but they answered by more shots; as soon as the military entered the ground the people ran in all directions, but were made prisoners: Witness identified the prisoner (Andrew Hardie) now under trial, whom he last saw in Edinburgh Castle; a blunderbuss was presented at Lieutenant Hodgson, and a number of ball cartridges were taken off several of the men: Witness also identified Baird, Johnston, Hart, Moir, and another of the prisoners whose name we did not hear. Witness marked some of the arms, and now identified the short gun that was presented at Lieutenant Hodgson.” No. 13 will be published next Saturday morning. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MUIR, GOWANS, & CO., 42, ARGYLL-STREET, SOLD BY J. STEWART, 11, ST. JAMES'S STREET, PAISLEY; EXPLOITS OF RICHMOND; EXPOSURE OF THE SPY SYSTEM, LETTERS OF ANDREW HARDIE, &c. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, The paths of glory lead-but to the grave. If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ?- Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death! We now puplish the following painful but interesting commentary made by Andrew Hardie, in his condemned cell, on the evidence of Nicol Hugh Baird. "The next witness (says Andrew Hardie) that I shall mention, is Mr. Nicol Hugh Baird of the Kilsyth Yeomanry Cavalry, who actually swore, that he met ten or twelve of us on the road, and that we demanded his arms, and he, in return to our demands, presented his pistol at us, and said that he would give us the contents of it before he would do so. In the name of common sense, what could tempt this coxcomb to swear to such a NOTORIOUS LIE as this, to face and frighten ten or twelve armed men.' He is worthy of being classed with Sir William Wallace. I am astonished that after such a feat, he did not petition the officer of the Hussars to fight the whole of us on the moor himself. But he had done enough for one day. But the truth of the matter is this-WE NEVER SAW HIM ON THE ROAD AT ALL. He had got notice of our approach, and putting more confidence in the swiftness of his horse than his own valour, he either turned, or hid himself, until we had passed; and I understand that about twenty people could testify this. But how different was the evidence of the bussart '* There were only six of them on the road. therefore Baird swore another lie in thus exaggerating the number to ten or twelve. + We shall notice his evidence afterwards. No. XIII.] N [Price 2d. from this Don Quixote. The hussar told the truth, and stated our number to be five or six, yet he had more policy than offer to attack us, and prudently sided with us, and told us that he thought we were a set of dd dangerous looking fellows;' yet this imaginary heroviz. this Yeoman-identified me, the prisoner at the bar, as one of the party! I was more than astonished when I saw him come forward and assert such falsehoods, and immediately told one of my counsel that it was altogether lies. I saw in the newspapers, when I was in the steam-boat going to Edinburgh, an exaggerated account of the battle, stating our number to be about a hundred. But if they had been that number, I am of opinion that I would not be sitting here this day a solitary prisoner, under sentence of death. The truth is, there were only twenty-four or twenty-six of us, and three or four never came forward at all, so by that means our number was reduced to about twenty.— The number of the Hussars and Cavalry was, I think, according to the officer's own statement, thirty-two, yet they found some difficulty in subduing us. The newspapers gave an account of us meeting a Yeoman on the road, and likewise the Hussar. But I thought the gentleman whom we first met had been him, as he had a tartan cloak on, and saddle-bags, and thought likewise, that he might be armed and in regimentals, although unseen to us, as his tartan cloak was sufficient to conceal that. But it was not so. That gentleman was a lusty stout man, and the hero was quite the contrary. But I shall now leave this son of Mars to his own conscience. You will observe that I promised to give you some other observations on my trial; but that, I think, is unnecessary, as no doubt it will be handled by an abler pen than mine, and as the short time allowed me is drawing near a close, and I have matter of much greater importance to take up my attention," &c. Our readers are informed that Mr. Nicol Hugh Baird thought fit to decamp from this country soon after the trial was over. And it is well that he is now out of it, for more reasons than one. Whether he received any reward from the government, after the fashion of Richmond, we cannot at present pretend to say; but his evidence against Hardie and Baird is now left naked and exposed to the public, and if ever his eye lights upon this, we hope his conscience, if he has any, will make proper response. its After having met (says the Lord Advocate) this gentleman (Nicol Hugh Baird), they met another individual of great consequence in this case, namely, a private Hussar, who was proceeding with dispatches from Stirling; and this person they also stopped, and endeavoured to take possession of his arms.. The circumstances connected with this, will be fully detailed to you (the Jury) by the individual. These persons drew themselves in battle array across the road under the direction of Hardie, who arranged them, and who was one of the individuals who laid hold of this man by his bridle, and endeavoured to take from him his arms. The Hussar, however, contrived to convince them, that his political principles were favourable to theirs, and prevailed on them not to take his arms; but they put into his possession a copy of that Treasonable Address which was posted all over Glasgow. This paper was given to the Soldier in presence of Hardie, and it was taken from among a great number of similar papers which were exhibited to this individual. Thus, in a second instance, did the prisoner at your bar connect himself with that Treasonable document." Now, it is clear, looking at the evidence, that no violence was used towards the Hussar, and, in point of fact, neither his arms nor any thing else were taken from him by the party. And therefore, the simple circumstance of meeting with, and speaking to him on the public road, was no proof, we apprehend, of HIGH TREASON. For, listen to what the Hussar himself says "I came up to them, and asked them what they wanted with me; and they gave me a reply that they were seeking for their rights. They did not all speak together. One man said they were seeking for their rights, as honest men ought to do. They began discoursing of the different things in that way, &c. They stopped me, and we had discourse together for five or ten minutes." (page 148). It is no doubt true that one of the party gave the Hussar a copy of the "Treasonable Address," which is the only thing at this part of the case, that could affect Hardie and Baird. But then, it must be noticed, that no proof whatever was led either that it was Andrew Hardie or John Baird who put that Address into the hands of the Hussar. Indeed Hardie, in his second Declaration (p. 155), distinctly states that it was a person of the name of Henderson that " gave the Hussar a folded paper," i. e. the Address. But it is singular, and our readers will not fail to remark, that Henderson does not appear to have been tried at all-and we cannot tell who he was-or what became of him. Hardie further states, in his second Declaration, which on these points was not even attempted to be impugned, "that he (Hardie) did not know at the time what the paper was; but he was told (afterwards) at Stirling, that it was a copy of the Address to the people of Great Britain, which had been posted up in different parts of Glasgow." Thus the Hussar was quietly permitted to ride off with this copy of the "Treasonable Address" in his pocket, he assuring them "that he was a friend to their cause," and be reaches Kilsyth, when he reports to Lieut. Hodgson of the Hussars, and Lieutenant Davidson of the Yeomanry, what had occurred to him on the road. Nicol Hugh Baird had got to Kilsyth before the Hussar, but that is of no consequence, though we think it is now of some consequence to attend to the corresponding movements of the military commanders, as illustrative of some of the early statements we ventured to make. Cook, the Hussar, immediately after he reached Kilsyth, gave his copy of the Address to Lieutenant Hodgson and Lieutenant Davidson, but he states that "they did not read it" (p. 149), which only shews, we think, that they KNEW quite well what it was-and of this there is, indeed, tolerable proof from the lips of Lieutenant Hodgson himself; for when he was questioned on the trial, "Was that the first time that you had seen an Address of |