The cutlass which figures among. tt» Bums relics at the Agnew Gallery exhibition was worn by tha poet more for ornament than use, no doubt, in his office as exciseman, but once, at least, he snowed himself in warlike mood, and that on behalf of France. Having assisted in the capture of a smuggling sloop in the Solway, Burns purchased four small cannon from her equipment and despatched them, with a warm message of sympathy, to the French Revolutionary Government. Though the countries were not then at war, the Customs confiscated the cannon at Dover, much to the poet's disgust. One wonders what eventually became of them.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 37, 14 February 1919, Page 3
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