TAKEN IN SHORT HAND BY MR JOHN MACNEE, WRITER, WITH AN ILLUSTRATIVE PREFACE. ALSO, PORTRAITS OF BURKE, ROBERT BUCHANAN, 26, GEORGE STREET; WILLIAM HUNTER, 23, MDCCCXXIX. ADVERTISEMENT. THIS Report of a Trial for Murder, which, from the peculiarity of the motives for, and the extraordinary circumstances con→ nected with, and under which, the crime was perpetrated;—has excited the greatest sensation in the minds of the Public, and, for atrocity and singularity, stands unparalleled in the annals of any country; has been prepared in a way which enables the Publishers to affirm, that the utmost reliance may be placed on its Completeness and Accuracy. The Opinions of the learned Judges who presided, and the Speeches delivered by the eminent Counsel for the Crown and the pannels, have been BY THEM MOST OBLIGINGLY AND CAREFULLY REVISED; and the whole of the Evidence is given verbatim, both Question and Answer. To this edition, Portraits of the criminals Burke and McDougal, and of Hare their guilty associate, are prefixed, taken in Court during the Trial by an EMINENT ARTIST. and acknowledged to be correct and striking Likenesses. The View of the Interior of Burke's House, as it appeared on the day after the trial, is given from a sketch made with the greatest care, and the Plan of the Houses in Wester Portsburgh, and places adjacent, including the premises occupied by Burke and Hare, has been reduced from that drawn by Mr James Braidwood, builder, and produced in Court. The fac-simile of Burke's handwriting, is correctly traced, from his signature to his first declaration, dated 3d November 1828. EDINBURGH, 16th January 1829. |