"The National Library of Scotland recently unearthed the two broadsides, or early newsletters, documenting the last days of Watt, who was hanged for high treason in Edinburgh in October 1794.
Watt and his associate, David Downie, who was later reprieved, were tried for being members of a seditious organisation, the Friends of the People, which had links with the infamous Jacobins in France, who had helped purge the country's aristocracy"

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