both feared and distrusted; and he continued during the whole of the usurpation to be viewed with a jealous eye. If this was disloyalty, if this conduct was so clearly worthy of death as to render all other proofs of guilt superfluous, what epithets ought to be applied to the great mass of the nobility and gentry of those days? Argyle's disloyalty was his steady attachment to the liberties and religion of his native land; that religion Clarendon meant to destroy, and Charles was determined to subvert those liberties; it was, therefore, requisite to the success of their plans, that so powerful and able an opponent should be removed.

Our editor takes an evident pleasure in representing the Presbyterians in a ridiculous or hateful light. In one day," says he, "the Covenanters drowned eighty women and children, found guilty of following Montrose's camp, by precipitating them over the bridge at Linlithgow; and six more shared the same fate at Elgin. See Sir George M'Kenzie's Vindication, &c." The reference is too vague for us to find out the grounds on which Mr. Sharpe rests his assertion. But M'Kenzie is obviously no good authority for such a transaction. As he was only nine years of age at the time when it is said to have happened, he could have no personal knowledge of it; and he was under strong temptations to throw odium on a party whom, in his official capacity, he rigorously persecuted. His statement is probably a second-hand transcript from Wishart, who, in his historical romance, of which Montrose is the hero, mentions a similar story, with the slight difference of making the Tweed the scene of the massacre. The whole transaction is unsupported by evidence, and has been discredited not only by our best historians, but by those whose partiality would have inclined them to adopt it. "Salmonet and

Guthry," says Laing,* "were ashamed to transcribe the story from Wishart of the prisoners collected on a bridge, and precipitated, with their wives and children, into the stream, The fact is, that from Berwick to Peebles there was not a single bridge upon the Tweed (see Pont's maps in Bleau's Atlas); and Father Hay is obliged to transfer the scene to Linlithgow bridge, above forty miles from the field of battle." Sir George M'Kenzie and Mr. Sharpe seem to have followed Father Hay. The prejudices of our editor lead him not merely to deviate from historical truth, but sometimes to forget the dictates of humanity. Isabel Allison and Marian Harvey were executed for their private opinions concerning the actions of other men. "Their situation," says Mr. Sharpe," hath been bewailed by tender-hearted historians, as about to be executed with some women condemned for child

* Laing's History, vol. i. p. 303.

murder. But one of these martyrs had been well inured to the society of murderers* even by her own confession, and the other approved of the Archbishop's assassination." Is this the language in which we ought to speak of the fate of those unfortunate women? By being enthusiasts, did they cease to be our fellowcreatures? Must all our contempt be reserved for them, and those who pity them; while not one syllable of disapprobation is uttered against the oppressors who shed their blood? Two simple females are executed for their opinions: to aggravate the cruelty, and to confound still more effectually the distinctions of morality, they are executed along with murderers; yet Mr. Sharpe can relate all this in terms that, to say the least, lean to the side of applause more than to that of censure.

Mr. Sharpe is so completely under the influence of system that his faults are all of the same stamp. It is therefore unnecessary to adduce more examples. The world is indebted to him for the present publication; but we can scarcely forbear to wish, that Kirkton's manuscript had fallen into the hands of an editor better disposed to appreciate justly the conduct both of the party who suffered and of the party who ruled. Mr. Sharpe's notions of the history of Scotland after the Restoration, are very remote from those which have been adopted by the most trustworthy historians. The authority of these historians he seems disposed to undervalue: perhaps he will listen with more attention to a delineation of the government of Scotland, under the last two of the Stuart princes, from the pen of one of the most high-spirited men and most accomplished lawyers that England ever produced:†

"Confiscations were promised before conviction or process; persons imprisoned without a reason given; forced to depose against themselves in capital crimes; pursued and forfeited upon stretches of obsolete laws, frivolous pretences, defective proofs. Judges were influenced by commands contrary to law; and turned out of their office for disobedience, inconsistent with ancient usage, and their necessary independence; opinions given by the Lords of Session, that to conceal the asking of relief for one forfeited, and the refusal to discover private judgments in relation to other men's actions, are points of treason. It is not to be wondered, when the crime was to such a high degree precarious, the method of proceeding so arbitrary and unjust, the examples of those who suffered so recent and numerous, that a punishment, which is the terror and severest scourge of bad men, should become formidable as well as odious to good men."

* Mr. Sharpe alludes to her having known Haxton, Balfour, and the two Hendersons. She might have spoken to some of these persons after the murder of the Archbishop, but she could not possibly have been inured to their society after that deed.

+ Considerations on the Law of Forfeitures, p. 166, 167.

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Ruins of Gour described and represented in Eighteen Views, with a Topographical Map, compiled from the Manuscripts and Drawings of the late H. Creighton, Esq. 4to. 21. 2s.

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The History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster. By J. P. Neale. In Four Parts. Demy 16s. Royal 17. 4s.

AGRICULTURE AND RURAL ECONOMY.

A Catalogue of Leonard Phillip's, Jun. Exhibition of above 5000 Sorts of Fruit Trees. 12mo. 1s. 6d.

ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND FINE ARTS.

The New Mediterrranean Pilot; containing Sailing Directions for the Coasts of France, Spain, and Portugal, from Ushant to Gibraltar. By J. W. Norie. 3l. 13s 6d.

The Improved Practical Measurer, containing Tables for the Measurement of Superfices and Solids. By James Haviland, Timber Surveyor. 8vo. 15s. The Improved Portable Measurer, containing New Sets of Tables for Solid and Superficial Measurement; with Scales of Prices, and other useful Calculations. By James Haviland, Timber Surveyor. 8vo.

The Astronomical Rotula, showing the Change and Age of the Moon, the Motions of the Sun, Moon, and Nodes, with all the Solar and Lunar Eclipses, A New Astronomical Instrument, showing the Day of the Month, Change and Age of the Moon, the Places of the Sun and Moon in the Ecliptic, &c.. from A.D. 1817 to 1864, inclusive.

The Description and Use of the Astronomical Rotula, showing the Change and Age of the Moon, the Motion and Places of the Sun, &c. &c. By James Ferguson, F. R. S. Altered and newly exemplified, by the Rev. L. Evans.

A Companion to the Mountain Barometer, consisting of Tables, whereby the Operation of computing Heights with that Instrument is rendered simple and easy, whilst its Accuracy is inferior to no other Mode. By Thomas Jones.

The Philosophy of Arithmetic; exhibiting a Progressive View of the Theory and Practice of Calculation. By John Leslie, F.R.S. E. 8vo. 8s.

A Key to Nesbit's Practical Mensuration; containing Solutions to all the Questions which are not answered in that Work. By A. Nesbit. 12mo. 5s. Specimens in Eccentric Circular Turning; with Practical Instructions for producing corresponding Pieces in that Art. Illustrated by Copper-plate Engravings. By an Amateur.

Key to the Course of Mathematics composed for the Use of the Royal

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Report upon the Claims of Mr. George Stephenson, relative to the Invention of his Safety Lamp. By the Committee appointed at a Meeting holden in Newcastle, November, 1817. 8vo. 2s.

BIOGRAPHY.

Scripture Portraits, or Biographical Memoirs of the most distinguished Characters recorded in the Old Testament. By the Rev. Robert Stevenson. 2 vols. 12mo. 8s.

The Interesting Memoirs of Mr. Thomas Hack, the celebrated Greenwich Miser, who died September, 13, 1813, aged 80.

Memoirs of the Life of the Elder Scipio Africanus, with Notes and Illustrations. By the Rev. Edward Berwick. 8vo. 7s.

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A concise System of Commercial Arithmetic, adapted to modern Practice, with an Appendix. By James Morrison. 12mo. 4s. 6d. bound.

Tables of Simple Interest on a New Plan of Arrangement, by which the Interest of any Number of Pounds, from One to a Thousand, for any Number of Days, not exceeding a Year, will be found at one View without the Trouble or Risk of Additions at any Rate per Cent. By David Booth.

The Gold and Silversmith's Calculator. By James Ede, Goldsmith. Second Edition.

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The Mysterious Murder, or What's o'Clock? A Melo-drama, in three Acts. By G. L.

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Comic Dramas, in Three Acts. By Maria Edgeworth. 12mo. 7s.

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Table of the Simple Sounds of the French Language, exemplified by the Natural Sound of the Vowels. By Charles Brement, Professor of Languages, Edinburgh. On a Sheet.

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Institutes of Grammar applicable to the English Language, or as an Introduction to the Study of Languages. By James Andrew, LL.D. 8vo. 6s. 6d. A Summary Method of teaching Children to read, upon the Principle originally discovered by the Sieur Berthaud, considerably improved by Mrs. Williams. 12mo. 9s.

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History of British India. By James Mill, Esq. 3 vols. 4to. 61. 6s.

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