Alexander Williamson, sheriff-officer in Edinburgh, called and sworn.

Alexander Williamson — I was present, along with George Williamson and James Murray, when there was a search made in the house of William Brodie, the prisoner, upon the 10th of March last, and in the course of the said search I saw a pair of pistols wrapped in a black stocking taken from under the earth in the fireplace of a shed in his yard. [Here the pistols libelled on were shown to the witness wrapped in a green cloth.] These are the pistols, and they were found in that green cloth. [The counsel for the panels here repeated the objection against adducing the pistols, as mentioned in the general objection and interlocutor before taken down.]

Cross-examined by the Dean of Faculty — How came you to say that they were found in a black stocking?

Alexander Williamson — I saw a black stocking on the table, and that misled me.

The Dean of Faculty — You are to speak from what you know, sir, and not from what you see on the table.

Alexander Williamson — I am certain that it was in a green cloth they were found.