Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald / for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's / Regiment of Foot

by Walter Scott

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR SAMUEL SHEPHERD,

THIS CURIOUS TRACT,

RESPECTING PERHAPS THE ONLY SUBJECT OF LEGAL ENQUIRY

WHICH HAS ESCAPED BEING INVESTIGATED BY HIS SKILL,

AND ILLUSTRATED BY HIS GENIUS,

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND, AND MUCH

OBLIGED HUMBLE SERVANT,