TO THE PUBLIC.
WILLIAM and JAMES STEVENSON, FOXHUNTERS, and JAMES KENNEDY, their SERVANT, being lately imprisoned, on a charge of having fired from a Wood upon a party of Officers of Excise, while escorting a seizure of smuggled goods down the Glen of Clova, in Angus-shire, on the 11th of February last - they, individually, think it proper publicly to state and assert, in the most solemn manner:
1. That they had no concern with the smuggled goods in question, and are not engaged in smuggling in any way whatever.
2. That they had no previous knowledge of the assault, said to have been committed upon the Officers of Excise, and were not accessory to the same in any way, and have no knowledge whatever of any person or persons guilty of, or concerned in, that assault.
And they entreat their Employers, and the Public, to disregard the charge which has been brought against them, and suspend judgement, until the issue of their trial. [Illegible]
Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 19th May 1819.
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