The Trial of Maurice Margarot, Before the High Court of Justiciary..

1794. New York: Re-printed, by James Carey, 1794. New York: Re-printed, by James Carey, 1794. A Member of the "Scottish Martyrs to Liberty" [Trial]. Margarot, Maurice, Defendant [1745-1815]. The Trial of Maurice Margarot, Before the High Court of Justiciary, At Edinburgh, On the 13th and 14th of January, 1794, On an Indictment for Seditious Practices. Taken in Shorthand by Mr. Ramsey. New York: London: Printed.-New-York: Re-Printed, by James Carey, no. 91, Broad-street, [1794]. 166 pp. Portrait frontispiece laid-in between pp. 52-53. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/4"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light browning, occasional light foxing, light edgewear to several leaves, first and final few leaves separating but secure. $250. * Only New York edition, reprinted from the London edition of the same year. Margarot was one of the founding members of the London Corresponding Society, a radical group inspired by the French Revolution to demand parliamentary reform in the late eighteenth century. Due to the wave of anti-radical and anti-French hysteria initiated by the French Revolution, he and four other radicals (later known as the "Scottish Martyrs to Liberty") were convicted and transported to Australia in May 1794. English Short-Title Catalogue W20960.