But that morn.-P. 10. 1. 25.

The resurrection happened on the morning of the first day of the week, which is now observed as the Christian Sabbath.

By Cameron thundered.-P. 11. l. 17.

"The last night of his life, he was in the house of William Mitchell in Meadowhead, at the water of Ayr, where about twenty-three horse and forty foot had continued with him that week. That morning, a woman gave him water to wash his face and hands; and having washed, and dried them with a towel, he looked to his hands, and laid them on his face, saying, 'This is their last washing; I have need to make them clean, for there are many to see them.' At this the woman's mother wept. He said, 'Weep not for me, but for yourself and your's, and for the sins of a sinful land, for ye have melancholy, sorrowful, and weary days before you.'

"The people who remained with him were in some hesitation whether they should abide together for their own defence, or disperse, and shift for themselves. But that day, being the 22d of July, they were surprised by Bruce of Earlshall; who, having got the command of Airly's troop and Strahan's dragoons, upon notice given him by Sir John Cochran of Ochiltree, came furiously upon them, about four o'clock in the afternoon, when lying on the east end of Airs-moss. When they saw the enemy approaching, and no possibility of escaping, they all gathered round about him, while he prayed a short word; wherein he repeated this expression thrice over,

'Lord, spare the green, and take the ripe.' When ended, he said to his brother, with great intrepidity, 'Come, let us fight it out to the last; for this is the day that I have longed for, and the day that I have prayed for, to die fighting against our Lord's avowed enemies: this is the day that we will get the crown.' And to the rest, he said, ' Be encouraged, all of you, to fight it out valiantly; for all of you that shall fall this day, I see heaven's gates open to receive you.'

"But the enemy approaching, they immediately drew up eight horse, with him on the right, the rest, with va liant Hackston, on the left, and the foot in the middle; where they all behaved with much bravery, until overpowered by a superior number. At last Hackston was taken prisoner, and Mr Cameron was killed on the spot, and his head and hands cut off by one Murray, and taken to Edinburgh. His father being in prison for the same cause, they carried them to him, to add grief unto his former sorrow, and inquired at him, if he knew them. He took his son's hands and head, which were very fair, being a man of a fair complexion, with his own hair, and kissed them, and said, 'I know, I know them; they are my son's, my own dear son's; it is the Lord, good is the will of the Lord, who cannot wrong me nor mine, but has made goodness and mercy to follow us all our days.'-After which, by order of the council, his head was fixed upon the Nether-bow Port, and his hands beside it, with the fingers upward."-Cloud of Wit

nesses.

Or by Renwick poured.-P. 11. l. 17.

“He was of stature somewhat low, of a fair complexion, and, like another young David, of a ruddy and beautiful countenance. Most men spoke well of him after he was dead; even his murderers, as well as others, said they thought he went to heaven. Malignants generally said, he died a Presbyterian. The Viscount of Tarbet, one of the counsellors, one day in company, when speaking of him, said, 'That he was one of the stiffest maintainers of his principles that ever came before them. Others we used always to cause, one time or other, to waver, but him we could never move. Where we left him, there we found him. We could never make him yield, or vary in the least."

The assembled people dared, in face of day.

P. 12. I. 1.

"The father durst not receive his son, nor the wife her husband; the country was prohibited to harbour the fugitives, and the ports were shut against their escape by sea. When expelled from their homes, they resided in caves, among morasses and mountains, or met by stealth, or by night, for worship; but whenever the mountainmen, as they were styled, were discovered, the hue-andcry was ordered to be raised. They were pursued, and frequently shot by the military, or sought with more insidious diligence by the spies, informers, and officers of justice; and on some occasions, it appears, that the sagacity of dogs was employed to track their footsteps,

and explore their lurking retreats."-LAING'S History, Vol. II.

The party for his judge.-P. 17. 1. 8.

One most iniquitous article of our civil code, is that which confers on creditors a jurisdiction over their debtors,―a jurisdiction extending to the power of inflictin perpetual imprisonment. This power, too, is most rigorously exercised on the least culpable of the offenders: The poor mechanic, who owes a few pounds for a house to shelter him, or for bread to eat,-the wreck of whose substance would be invisible in the abyss of chancery proceedings, is left to starve, and to rot in a jail, while the great, the wholesale bankrupt, who has staked a swindled capital on the hazard table of speculation, is sent forth with a judicial diploma, authorising him to recommence the practice of his former art. If a man be a fraudulent bankrupt, let him be punished; but let him first be tried, not by a disappointed and irritated creditor, but by the tribunals before which other crimes are tried. The present state of this branch of the law offers one great incitement to dishonesty, the certainty that innocence is not more safe than guilt. All bankrupt debtors are, or may be, treated as if they were dishonest, that is, as if they refused, (for such is the idea of the law,) though able, to pay.

When I speak of the law, I have in view the general system of jurisprudence in the three united kingdoms. In one of them, no doubt, the imprisoned debtor may bring an action against all his creditors; in which, if he

show that he has acted fairly and honestly, and has made, or is ready to make, a full surrender of his property, he is entitled to demand a warrant of liberation, and a decree of immunity from personal execution. But, besides that this action (cessio bonorum) is peculiar to Scotland, it is found in practice to be a very inadequate remedy. The prisoner must prove his innocence. He must produce satisfactory accounts of the progress of his affairs, and he must prove every disputed averment. Now, if small dealers are unable, as they frequently are, to give a distinct view of their affairs, as they stand at any one period, how should it be expected that they should be able to give a progressive account of their transactions for a series of years? According to the strict letter of the law, the party accused is obliged to prove a negative, that is, he must prove that he has NOT been guilty of fraud or extravagance; and though the severity of this rule is very much mitigated by the lenient and liberal manner in which it is administered, the relief intended by the law is not unfrequently denied to the honest, but simple and ignorant debtor, while it is sometimes extended to the artful and provident bankrupt.

It may be said, that imprisonment for debt is necessary, not as a punishment for guilt, but as a security to creditors. Now, what sort of security is this? it plainly amounts to this,—that a debtor, by the act of incurring debt, grants a security, not only over his lands and his chattels, but his person. Ought not such a bargain to be reprobated, as contrary to every principle of justice and expediency? And what would follow, if the power