See No. 15949. Two designs: [1] Above, the Committee of investigation into Knox's dealings with the murderers superintend the operation of an instrument by which liquid is pumped from the mouth of Knox, who is held in his chair by one of the members. One, in legal gown and bands, collects in a bowl a stream inscribed 'No Suspicion, Quite Innocent'. To the ground pours a stream inscribed 'More Subjects, More Students'. Above: 'Dedicated to the Noxian-Selected Com¬mittee'. Below are lengthy quotations, one from the Report of the Committee.
<p><br>[2] The Committee superintend the firing of Mons Meg, the large fifteenth-century cannon recently restored to Edinburgh from the Tower of London, see Journal of Sir W. Scott, 9 Mar. 1829. In the muzzle sits Dr. Knox, cross-legged and smoking a pipe. One man puts a match to the touch-hole, others sit or lean on the gun or stand by the gun-carriage. The gun is decorated with designs in three bands: heads of Burke, Hare, &amp;c, as in No. 15951, divided by skull and cross-bones; The 'burking' of a victim; and juxtaposed skeletons. Above are quotations from the Caledonian Mercury, see No. 15953, com¬plaining that in place of a Report was 'a mere flash of the Pan'. Below, a letter from R. H. Nimmo to the Scotsman which the Editor had refused to print, complaining of the personnel of the Committee as nominees of Knox, and of the unsatisfactory character of the proceedings.   1829
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