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Updated: June 13, 2025
In the tenth month, 1793, delegates were called together from various towns in Scotland, as well as from Birmingham, Sheffield, and other places in England. Gerrald and Margarot were sent up by the London society. After a brief sitting, the convention was dispersed by the public authorities.
The grand folk having taken you under their wing, you forget that you once sat, cheek-by-jowl, with Joseph Gerrald, and now you sit in judgment on a better man than a dozen like you. 'Mr Sheriff, shouted his lordship. 'Remove this man to the cells. 'I dare you to put a finger on me, and he grasped a chair ready to knock down the officer who advanced to obey the order.
Joseph Gerrald was a young man of brilliant talents and exemplary character. When the sheriff entered the hall to disperse the friends of liberty, Gerrald knelt in prayer. His remarkable words were taken down by a reporter on the spot.
The delegates descended to the street in silence, Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags glooming in the distance and night, an immense and agitated multitude waiting around, over which tossed the flaring flambeaux of the sheriff's train. Gerrald, who was already under arrest, as he descended, spoke aloud, "Behold the funeral torches of Liberty!" Skirving and several others were immediately arrested.
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