David Downie, goldsmith tried for high treason along with Robert Watt in 1794. The Friends of the People planned an armed uprising, for which he was exiled. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Hugh Paton, Edinburgh, 1842.

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