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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 32 X 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 TiHii UE/kUT @¥ mmmjEmM I a J. /?^ 1 * " '=^" '^^^^^s^t^tirr:^^^^ <=^<^ ^ "'..........u.. zz:::;z.u..j ? RS3I3 Uf7 \ TALES OF MY LANDLORD. CiOLLlCOTEn AND ARRANOKI) BY JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTIIAAr, BCHOOLMASTEll AND TAUISH CLKUK OF OANDKRCLEUGH. SECOND SERIES. THE HEAET OF MID-LOTIIIAN. p 18 i Hear, Land o' Cakes and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnny Groat's, If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it ; A chiel s amang you takin' notes, An' faith he'll prent it !— Bi;rns. AA^ra Men, dijo el Cum: traed,„e, scnor huisfied, aquesos librcs ch. el a ""/S; t:"/. '^" T T ""^''''"''' " "^^''-'lola, ,Jll6 en Scots, •s. t ; irent it '—Burns. ^J>ed, aqiiesos libros, que ■undo en su nfiosento, saco Vj, y abri^ndola, hnllo en bucna letra cscriios de TO THE BEST OF PATRONS, A PLEASED AJVD IJ^DULGE^^-T READER JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM WISHES HEALTH. AND INCREASE, AND CONTENTMENT. Courteous Reader, iFJ^igratMecomprehendeth every vice, mrely so foul a stain worst of all beseemeth him whose life has been devoted to instructing youth m mrtue and m Mmane letters. Therefore have I chosen, in this Violegomenon, to unload my burden of thanks at thy feet for the favour mthwUch thm hast kindly entertained the Tales of my Landlord Gertes, ^/ thou hast chuckled over their facetious and f ixvous descr^^t^ons, or hadst thy mind filled with pleasure at the strange and pleasant turns of fortune which they record, verily I have also stmpered when I beheld a second storey with otHcl, that has an en on the basis of my small domicile at Ganderclmgh the walls hamny been aforehand pronounced by Deacon Barrow to be capable of enduring mch an elevation. Nor has it been without delectation tiat_ I have endued a new coat (snuff-brown, and with metal buitms J hamng ah nether garments corresponding thereto. We do therefore B :,i If I I 2 ' WAVERLEY NOVELS. ' lie, in respect of each Mher, under a reciprocation of benefits whereof those received by me beUig the most solid (in respect thatZ new iZL and anew coat are better than a ne.o L and an old si) H meet that my gratztnde should be expressed with the louder lice aZ morepreponderaUj^g vehemence. And how should it be o Zss£ -Certainly not ^n words only, but in act and deed. It ^tls sole purpose, and disclaiming all intention ofpurchasina thaiZ^J i orpoffle of land called the Carlinescroft, ly^i^^tZZll7^^^^^^^^ and measuring seven acres, three roods, and four Jll Z^Tl' committed to the eyes of those who thought ilof f %t fotT these four additional volumes* of the Tales of my LanZl Not the less, ^f Peter Prayfort be minded to sell the saidpoffleit i^at his own choice to say so, and, peradventure, he may Tel with a Sw •■ ^^^^^^^^-^^--^-; thepleasi^^'p^rtrlcZjftZ Pattieson, now given unto thee in particular and unto th.Jy^ir - general, shall have lost their favolr in Ze Xs^Xt'fam Z ■way distrustful. And so much confidence do I reJZt fhT t.iu.l favour, that, should thy lawful occasioLcTtLTo htZ ff^frcleugha place frequented by most at me time JothZ. their lives, I will enrich thine eyes with a siaht of fLZ T - mth a snuff from my mull, and thy palate with a dram fZiZv bottle of stwng waters, called by the lecmted of GandZkZh 71 Dominie's Dribble o' Drink ^anaercieugh, the qu«m to any but tlwmsetL, not only wlZrZ,Ju Tf hut mn whether they ever lived or no V> il.„ i "^ "' '^' ih.ir un^haHtokU L^e'mUfarhJ^^'"''^^'^'^''^"^^'' Theu caMUrs have not only iouUed mine identity, although thus INTE01.UCno.V TO THE HEART OP MID-LOTHUN 3 indeed that if I Imd hearkened with only one ear I minhf 1,.! ' Oatku predecessors skouM U IM ZlZt ^t^J'a^Z l^frucn cannot gruH/y ,!u„ prc,Ule,tio,.s. He mZnJ dLt danandei o/«e, Je,Miah CkiAbotkL, s/uteS / al^.uZ ^o^uaZ, or, to speak without m^ta^w/ex 11^ amnuf^ ! tam them in preference to all others. ^ sanguinis, to main- Bid nothing denying the rationality of the rule xchich calh n. nil now hvinq to rule fhpor -nn/v/v^^; y ,• . ' '""^''' cMis on all t^m^ V..U toy.th.r hy the ears in this unlucky countnj, my anisifr 4 WAVERLEY NOVELS. (venerated be his mmo;^ r) ^^s nr,. «/ ,;. fnend* ^'"' '^P^^ssea, thy sure and obligated J. C. Gandbucleuqh, ) i'^i^ Isi 0/ April, 1818. f * Note A. Author's connection With Quakerism. I IJ^TRODUCTIOJ^ TO THE HEART OF MlD-LOTHlAN-^mo). her trim^^ tt ^ ifJ character still survive in the memorv of riismry of Dnnfri^' "' ""^' ''''««. Esq. of Craigmuie, Com- He, communieatimi wm in time ,mris ■— md evm poor «o«oI »1„? « , ' •'"'"' ^"■*'«"' '«"««'!' a™^*, the trees ZMlrJff''"''^-'''""^ '^'^.anieje 'U^^^aur, Of tU C«., „,.„ -' L!^ C-^^C tX^; ' Whose distant roaring swells and fa's. ' As my kitchen and parlour were not ve,-y far distant T a xn to purchase some chickens from a person A Z 'I ^''^ """^^ j,vm a person 1 heard offmny them for 6 WAVERLEY NOVELS. a tartan plaid, Z hercavZ^ t °* ■/ t T "'"""' """"^ •"'* the chin, a pi^Tf ZsZ^J'I •' " ""''' ^* '''"'•' '« »«'"• lively and inteZZ I^i'd ''T "■"' "'" ''""'' ""<' "'""'M^y / ""^ !/« "m o' <•' J«mV Udies, and can wS,^ /T ""' '"^ "" ^«™< twEffa-.^ ,jHi t,,^ mTRODTTrnON TO THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. 7 d^^; hut in Scotland six weeks must elapse between the sentence and the execution, and Helen JValker avaLi herself ofitrZ ]-y^-yofnersister^scondeunationshe,otapeU^^^^^^^ to(^tZdT^'''^''' '^ ''' ^"^^' -^ ^^«' -^ -^^^ -^ol'Z hnl Tf ^'"* introduction or recommendation, with her simple (per- haps xlUexpressed) petition, drawn up by some inferior clerk of L ^ «/ t«as so strongly interested by this narrative, that I determined vmmediately to prosecute my acquaintance vnth Hel^WalTlut a. I was to leave the country next day, I was obliged tTdZit t^U ^«rw;r'^' ^^^ ''' ^-' -^^ ' ^-^ - ^^^^^ ToCofhltll^ r '"1 '^'^'' '''^'^'' ^ ^■"'?^*^'^^^ if Helen ever spo/ce of her past history —her journey to London etc 'Nn ' th. J^ .Oman said, ' Helen was a wi^ body! and ^^^l^ty oUhe neebts asked anything about it, she aye turned the conversation ' oret lljXr'^ '"'"'"'^ ^ T^'^' '""^y ''""^'^ '^ i^<^rease my re- gret, and raise my opinion of Helen Walker, who could unite sn much prudence ivith so much heroic virtue » .i irot%:i:::r '^ ^'^ ^^^^-^-^ ^^«- ^^ ^^^ «*^, vearst!r%ZT7' rK''^^^"^ '^"^^'^^^ '" ^« ^^'^^nty-six « before the author had O^venZ nl^ tTtte:2Z:{TZ\1^ all opportunity of thanking that lady for her MhZhlu miomng additional information. •—. <..v.v.imme 8 WAVERLEV NOVELS. J\Mrs. Goldie endeavoured to collect further particular, nf mu. ^alker, particularly concerning her Joiney to^ ZXJ fun ths nearly rrnpossible ; as the natural dignity of hTclaracterZd l^r^LZl'P"''^ -^f a6z-%, .^ad:Jsoindis2h^2^Zct her sisters disgrace with her oxon exertions, that none of her n el hours durs ever question her upon the subject. On old uomana distant relation of Helexi'i mJ,„h,^ ,: /•;) /■ • woman, a hemlf7r7X'f^,. '""/'",«'«"■ Una m ft. North ofF,J„Z ■ ' " '"•»"'«' '« ie travel- cowM 6e castYw raiW ,-^ /^. • ^' ^/f ''^f^ « "«^e subscription Abbotsfokd, ^jorj7 1, 1830. MNoteB. Tombstone to Helen Walker.] INTRODUCTION TO THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. 9 POSTSCRIPT. AltiIOVOII U would be impossible to add much to Mr. r'«w - p^cturesque and most interesting account of nZValh 0^^^^^^ type of the imaginary Jeanie Deans, the ^^^^4 t^aifj t ^zttzZiZ iT '""'T' '''^''^''^ that\ZeZi;ei{ Which he ha collected from a volume entitled, Sketches from Nature' /ter way fe John Duke of Aravle ^-* / pubhcation, and walked forv:aUnV('T '""^'"^''"'^ Periodical ^n^atience which C^el Zt delcrll tf T f " ' ''' '■ '^ '^ "^ --^ -^- ^^^%> ^^^:;rTZz:r^^j: - «^ flrzw «Ae,« vmce and utteran^ ag£' if-'.S'vtth stich } •.liAias thnt r > „ '%wcr..<, ,,;«-c;i, ^0 say truth ZL ''^ *^ ^'^^ ^^«^« 0/ fellow traveller'. 1/iey took the hint with ready good-nature. " 0, true, Mr Dunover," said one of 'the youngsters, ''you must TithTVirf' rf ^'\' ^'"""^^ 3oandhave\ome diviner with us-Halht and I must have apost-chaise to go on, at all evmits ana we unit 6et you down wherever suits you best " ' _ The poor man, for such his dress, as well as his diffidence, bespoke hvm,made the sort of ackncnoledging bow by which says a ScotSan, Its too much honour for the like of me;" and followed humblv behind his gay patrons, all three besprinklivg the dusty road as they walked along with the moisture of their drenched garments, and ei hibiting the si^uj alar and somewhat ndiculcms appearance of three persons offering from the opposite extreme of humidity, while Z ^mmer srcn was at its height, and everything else around them had the expression of heat and drought. The ridicule did not escape the youy gentlemen themselves, and they had made what might be received as one or two tollable jests on the mbject before Z, had advanced far on their peregnnation. J rt, ut>ey naa " rVe io^fuit complain, like Cowley," said (m of tJim "that i ! I 16 WAVERLEY NOVELS. their dusty roads." '^"f """""""-""ts for the hemfit of ^"'^f/erows company, too long " ^' "' '^ ^' ^«^ ^^< s«c^ ^P 'ttlZ:::':^'^^^^^ >^^- ^/ ^^^^ m yon., and proceed to cook it to thebeTclll""''-''^ ''^^''' '^""M entertainers seemed to be <^2thtsUlT V'T ^'^ ^'^ <"'^ *ii^ .Ae aa2/s of Steele and AddisZ L { ^^' ^'^'^ ^''"'Vlars with the good sense, taste, and ZforJnl- '"''' f.^'^Vgaiety mingled e^mted; and it'seemed tfbtZZZf''^'^'^^^^^^^^^^^ men of fashion and lovers of the voLt Tf' ^^' '^^'"^'^^ of np in the thorov^h idlene^ Z'^^-f / ^^'v ^^"'^^«^' *^^^ stand is absolutely necessary totlTZ^ ! ^^'"^'^^ ""^''^ ^ ^nder- all probability hie trZd a Z tf Z "''■ ^''^'^^^^^ ^^^^ ^n marked the barrister inZiteV/Z !/?^''''T^ PedantryM bustle in his companion, TdlaLfr ) ""f ''''''^^ 'f «^^^'-« a fashi(» cmU. Us inrmtu are mmtimci shorl-lived 6«( Sfl^u' the Heart of Mid- give my opinion, THE HEAKT OF MID-LOTHIAN. 19 ''Infinite," replied the youjui advocnh '' itri , /ro?n i^/wc;i the heroine i« ,„J\! ^«^^^/^''«, the hurmivg fever course. I Join ^Z^ VZt iZ7ahi''''Z '\ ""^ ""''''' '^ propensity to hone whJhZ, .'' "''^ ^"'''' «'^ ^»^^«c% whlh carZfJjs^^^^^^^^ '' '"'I 'V'^y^'P'^^^ thecorJc-jacket, affiictionP HetllTL^^^^^ '^' **"^^«^^ «/ much than Jlt^tr^^^^^^ ^- J/«c/i A««e I feared, but am no more a/raid, When some clutste beauty by some vnetch betrayed Indrawn away with such distracted speed, ^' I hat she anticipates a dreadful deed, ^ot so do I-Let solid walls impound f^f^^Ptivefair, ami dig a nwat around; Letth^re be brazen locks and bars of steel And keepers cruel, such as never fed ; With mt a si,ufle note the purse supply. And when she begs, let men and imids deny ■ Be windows therefrom which she dare 7wfall And help so distant, 'tis in vain to ccdlT Still tneans of freedom will some Power devise And from the baffled ruffian snatch his prZ a J f '' "^ f uncertainty," he concluded, - is the death of interest ■ and^hmce ^t happens that no one now reads novels " ^ ' Hear hm, ye god. !" returned his companion. - 1 assure vou 20 WAVERLEY NOVELS. under fc IZ 7a SXt ./"""f ' .""' "'" "'^^0 >« m^«n..-nc« rr L%J r ; ^^'''^^''«^ '<=<^ords of human v^hcre every now and tl iJ I' "' '"^ '^'' ^''^'' '^ Adjotcmal, and tnJoflrZre far ""7 ^^ f"^'' '^ '^'' ^""^^^ ^««^^ " In a inrT ^ y '^"''^ appropriate materials ?" looking bach on the IZTZl ' '^*'^' '^°^ *''^ ^""^^ '^^0, from virtu Ti^hLZ 'not I ''"f "^^"^ "^ '^ ^'^^"'^^ ^'^^ of their inn cencewZdtTdedl^^^^^^^ ''^''' '^'^^^^ doom vMch theyZe Tund^f '''^'^'^'^^ «* ^'^^ ^^ndeserved deserved it, an/ra!l^L 1 wT' j""'''''"^^^^^ ^^^^-^ «% ''«^ ^"^ powerful, and agitating feelings canbTrlS T "^ t'' ^'^' era, .,i W starts 0/^nc, a'f^- ^;:^, : 7:;-^^ -^ 7^- onlinary description, winch are precis hZ tn li '^.,''\ '''^"^ u. Men with miku, i^uZ^l^a^l^ t.f '''''[ 1 ""^^^ highly civilised country ■ her suhiecthn} ''''' ^'"' ''"''^ longer a to laws adndnistered IdthL t T ''' "^'"^ '"^'''^^^ «"^'=««*^« robbers form a distinrt ./, ! • / \ , '"^ '''' '^'''^ ^'""^^^ ""^ w«& TO« rise Sh n.?7 ' i '""• " «"«" '""^i- »/ ^nrf f'l^'-'t,"sc,id the elder hmer "that h. wilt not feel sore at the commrison Jl„i „. '""^f" •*«' "< % I miy not he interruS'Tl., , ™ '"' "' '*' '■"•' ' ' Scottisk llleetion ^ S Cclfb " "^^ "r f '"'^' ""'"' "^ 23 WAVERLKY NOVELS. ' I f I) lawym join in alleging as « reasm for the sevtritu .t enactments. IVhen I cmie tn h-.n, 7 '''«/«'«^% of sortie of our and dangerous, as heseZlllT X "'""■''' '" rnysterious, deep, each relr shall hZ7ra.Tl'' T"^ '''" ''' '^« *^'"''^ «/ skin.-But, hi tlZltTtt ^ J^~ '^-^^^-^ into goose that the chaise is ready" '^^'"^' "^'^ tidings, I ^,^ose, hal\ZZnZ^}orli7pl%T'''^^^^^ "''' -o chaise could be lord's two pa!n/LresZ7li^"^ had carried forward my land- his ^^Atr^ strings h hil aZMsZcZZVli'r^ ''''' ''l'/^ «-/ Peter was thus placed in T/JZ/ l *^^^^»«^- Now Sir aft. having coZlTarZ'^^^^^^^ -^ is^ddenly recalled by an invZ^oliZtr^r'^'-^^^^ He was obliged in camem.^r. J 7 '"*/"^ hereditary dominions. of Bubblebnlgh, To ll^lZlu ^Zt^r t Jt""^ '^^'"^^ two pairs of horses which 17 '"'fi''f^''fOh of Bitem, and the burgh v^JnZo^u^ltaiZ^J'""' that morning to Bubble- valet, his jester and hi hardjlf ''-^^^ort him, his agent, his Thecauseif tM^d^JZn^:';:^ ^::Z^ '' ^''^' as it may be to th^ t^n^,.^ \.,„ • ^ ^ "^"* consequence rest of the evenvL / ^ImZfll i '""""f '"^ ^' ^'"^ > <^« they Lew the MLnjo}ZpoJ^^^^^^^ ^^"^^ T'^^^^ '^ himself to his pocket to recov J the ZZL f ^-T'^*'^^'" ''^^^^ had stated his cause. ''"^ '' ^""'^ ^''"^ '^^^^h he THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. 23 "F« has hem a camlidate for our icn.dluni misorabile" said Mr. Harche,^< commonly called a cessio bonornm. As there Ire drvrnesrcho have doubted the eternity of future punishments otZ Scotch laujers seem to have thonrjht that the crime of poverty W 6« aW/or 6, something short of perpetual impriLLu/ 7fer a month s confinement, you must know, a prisoner for debt i entitled on a .^cffiaent statement to our SupreL Court, setting fTrt the amount of hs funds, and the nature of his mi formes an st ;; I had heard" I replied, - of such a humane re^julatimi." Yes, said Ilalht, '< and the beauty of it is, as the foreign fellow But what, are you puzzling in your pockets to seek your onlv mmonal among old playbills, letters requesting a mee^ofZ l^^^H rules of the t^peouMi^e Society,* syllalL of lectureVaU LSri: /'"'r{ " r^^ ^^ocat^spocketUich c.. J 7,X Ih \ -^ "'"^ bank-notes ? Can you not state a case of cessio witho^U your memorial ? Why, it is done every Saturdc^ 7 he events follow each other as regularly as clochwork, atd one form of condescendence might suit every one of them " ^ Jfl^'^VV'f' ^^'' ^^'■'■^'2/ of distress ivhich this gentleman stated to fall under the consideration of your judges," said I S S ' r^r? ^'T'' '^ ^ ^^^^ «^^ three-taiXed sir^U^ ^~^i '^''''^ ''"' ^''^ '^i^rneyman weaver-made some little money-took afm-m.^f^ conducthigafarm, likeTivZ am, comes by nature)-lat. severe times-induced to sgnhuIwZ a friend, for which he received no value -landlord seqlestZT creditors accept a composition-pursuer sets up a pillZZZlJs ana sixpence— his debts amount to blank— his losses to blank— hi, funds to blank-leaving a balance of blank in his fell Aere^ r^rX" '■ '"' ^'"■^^^'>--« ^^-« 9rant commission to ta^ .J!7^'' TZ 'T''''^ ^^'' ineffectual search, in which there was perhaps a litle affectation, and told us the tJ.e of poor Dunov2 o^hamM of as unprofessional, mingled with his attempts at wit, ard * [A well-known debating club in Edinburgh.] u WAVKHLKY NOVELS. did him more honour Jt ,„^. y . "sj^lall the usual means hy 2i^^t^^''^ ''''''> ^^^ -^ vai;, yet had never succeeded hevond h.n ''''^'''''' indi^endence During a IHef ,ka,n 0/ Z .I^IJ ^""'T' ^"^ ^"''^ ^«^-'«'-^2 had added a^oi/e and fLilyl u^l^^^^^ f ,"''"«^ prosperity, hi overcast. Evcrythi>u, reuZlZTl'\ "'' '^"'^' '^'"^ ^««'W after catching at each twin «,. / ^ • ^"^ ^nsolvait deburs • an,i fueling //..,i, ?r nr2;ri?fr"T ^^^^-^^-'-^ ^"o^^r^ ofKardie. <^^ncateU by the professional exertions ^ord, alone reached mine '""i'w-^o, Interest with my gaged him in a conversation, X/llr '' "'^^ ^^'"'^""^^^ ^■ hndness with which he was treated mn 1'''^'^^"^'^ hj the l^s share to the amusem.U 0/ Itf ^f "7'; '?■? '' ^°^'^^^^^« have their ancimt traditims W 2" . t' ^'^' "^'^^^ ^^«'^«^, ^Hrferf rfo.^^>^ one setZtheZ^i'^f, \ f ^■"^«^^"^«^^^^, and occupy their cells. Some of tZewZtl ^'^'''' '' '^' ^^^ ^ho tnteresting, and se^-ved to ilLtmlet^^"'^ r"""'" "^i^oned, were ^h^ch Hardie had at hisZZenJ^^aTT-i f .^^^«^'^^^ trials, <^lso well skilled in. Th^^Zr of T '' ' '''' companion was ^ening till the early hour wZ Air T'"'''''? ^"'''^ ^^^V the ^^^'^ ^^ Tim mode of execution is nowSlf dT' '' ''^^ ^^ J"««««- m front of J^ewgate,--with wW hS • ?' T '"^^^ to that The mental fiuffering^ ofZcZiof^t-'l '?'* ^ "^''^rtain. no longer stalks between the atSl/ i""^''^ '^'"^'^'^ ^ grave-clothes, through a coLMe^l^ olergymen, dressed in his bke a moving and lalW^o^f th^f* of the city, Iook£^ tbis world; but, as thTStwT": ^ ^^ ^ inhabitant of view the prevention of eS H? '! P^^ment has in whether, in abridging the Schl ^ ^* ^"^^ ^' doubted, part diminished that aPDam^l .1 7 ceremony, we have not in !« tbe useful end of auTu^^flt l^^'V^^ '^''"^'''^ ^^oh which alone, unless in v^^ pa^fel,' ""• '^^^^^^^^t^on of be altogether justified ^ P^'^"^^^ cases, capitaJ sentences can ;«ons):^^^^^^^^^^^^ ominous prepar. and yindicti^e'showKtSatt^^^^^^^^ 'i? ^^^«* ^^^^ « «te™ populace, whose good natwT Tn^ ?^ "^^"^""^ ^^^^ed by the the condemned pfrson^rdw,,)^'' '"^""i. ^''^'^ ^^^ ^riie of ' act of which thfe^ectTd ctw tl h" '^ "^^.^^- ^"^ ^^ « ^I-pt.n calculate -ari;rclX'rarkr^^^^^^^ THE HEART OP MID-LOTHIAN. 29 the resentful feelings of the multitude ThP f«l« i= ^.n ^ Contraband trade, though it strikes at the root of leritinat^ gOTcrament, by encroaching on its revenupi. rtl„i, .f .™™ the fair trader and debauches the S o?tto°:fij^T^:' bT«e^:'inT^^tl1usTLt r -"^ the ™i^T^, Sjjj north'ard"?t^.f ^^'' ^T^'^ ^^ *^« firtl^^ «n the south and «T: V ^ f ''^ '"^ ""^ *^« <^^*' and having a number of small SteiTiTh' ^^^-^^^^^ successZS^VcoXl^ th^re who C wn S W ""'"'."^f y '^^^^^ ^^^^ residing tW Til! ? been pirates and buccaneers in their youth attention that .<• il!S l ^"^ suspicions and watchful tag TllTf^f f",*"^' opportunity i^ seldom Lg^t mumrjdX S a I' Sr'ut "f "?f ° "^ ""^ "'«"' ,, vYitu a conn.derablc wum of public money m hif. M WAVEKLEY NOVELS. custody Ao fkfl * «°«b wiiei h^ b™:™L7of f "^r?'' «» value of the Which jCotfts*- '"^^^ -^^i^uSS:-^,r^ the customs, conceiving hhliTi^J^ ^^^- ^^« o^cer of bedroom window, and &edm Z "", ?f ^«^' escaped out of his ^th much ea«e, posseS Th. 'i *' '" *^^* *^« plunderers pounds of public mCr The rSf''' '^ "^°^* two TunS audacious mamier, for several n^r^^"^ ""^ committed in a v^^ ^t the time. But Bob^S ?"SJ5« P-3ing in the'^^^ f a dispute or fray betwiyf /i,r?i ,, "^^ ^^^ »o^e they heard bou^e, the worthy citSeW pl^°"««*°^ ^'^ t^e peopl7of^e caUed on to interfere rbeffiffrT ^'l* t^^mselvL no way «o, satisfying themselvesldth th,?' '^^'^""^ ^«^««u« offi^^ the matter, like the LevitTin J? ""^^ superficial account o/ opposite side of ?he way "^*^^P^*We, they p.^sed oTtht "Military were called m^hede^^"^^ ^^ ^*^ Wh rivS recovered, and Wilson and SK**""'.^"™ P™ed, thetoTy of death was to beLc^K 1 S'oS" "V^^* *^--S for their escape, were traiLmSed^i!f ""^^^^^ts necessary friend from Avithout. By St '''!^*^ ^ the culprite by? ?^;;/theprison-windoA^^4tatT *^'^ r^^ ^ ^ out o? for the obstinacy of Wilson wf.^^ J ^''''^ "^^^ their escape but doggedly pertinLio J^f^J^l^^^^^ -- daringly resol^^'wi' ^-- ^t .om the on.id^^^:S;^- ^J^^^^d^^ THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. 3J parage. Wilson, however, insisted on making the first exDeri- ment, and being a robust and lusty mm, he not only found U unpossible to get through betwixt the bars but, by his stSe he jammed himse^ so faat, that he was un'able to draw Kdy ^L ^' ffi • *?''' circmnstances discovery became unavoS able and sufficient precautions were taken by the jaUor to pre- vent any repetition of the same attempt. Robeiion utt<^S not a word of reflection on his companion for the consequeTc^ of h^ obstmacy ; but it appeared from the sequel, that wZ7s mmd waa deeply mipre^ed .vith the recoUection that, bu^Jo fcniTT^': r' ^^'^^ "^^^ ^' '^'''^^ considerable i^ fluence, would not have engaged in the criminal enterprise which had termmated thus fatally; and that now he had becomThis destroyer a second time, since, but for his obstma^^y Robertson exercised m evil practices, sometimes retain the power of think- ing and resolving with enthusiastic generositV^ hL wMe we without the leaat respect to his own. The resolution which he adopted, ^•^d the manner in which he carried it into Sfect were stnkmg and unusual. ' AcUacent to the tolbooth or city jail of Edinburgh, is one of thrae churches into which the cathedral of St. Gil^ is now divided called from its vicinity, the Tolbooth ciurch It w« the custom that criminals mider sentence of death were broulht to this chm-ch, with a sufficient guard, to hear andTob i^ Pul he worship on the Sabbath before execution. It wCiuppos^ that the hearte of these unfortunato persons, howeveT SenS before against feelings of devotion, col not but be Icc^ble to alZ ""^l ^'^S their thought, and voices, for hXt ttl along ;nth their feUow-mortals. in addressing their Critor' And to the rest of the congregation, it was thought it coddTnoi but be impressive and affecting, to find their devotio^ mkglS with those, who, sent by the doom of an earthly tribunS tf ai evTedS ^^ '\*^' T^ °^. '*^^y- The practice, ho^ ever edifymg, has been discontinued, in consequence of thi. mcident we are about to detail ^^^isequence ot the Churpr^^w^^', ^}T ^"*J '^ ^^ ^ °ffi^^te in the Tolbooth S? i' V^^?°°«l'\ded an affecting discourse, part of whichwaS particiUarly directed to the unfortunate men, WOson an7Rob^ son, who were m the pew set apart for the Der«on« h. f^.T A'V- '^>*^^'M!htikf^^>-^- 88 WAVEELEY NOVELS. happy situation, each secured hetwhf f ^. 1 1- guard. The clergvman haflrfT-^^ !r ^°^^'«" of the city fregation they rSfol^lZl'tlf'V^''- *^« ^«^* ««« 'Vyust; that the psalL thiv now i, f °^ *^' J"«*' ^r of the the space of two brieTdav?^ T. J'^l "?"«* ^ exchanged, in lamentations; and jJLt &^°^/^^^ or fteiS the state to which thermS^t^bf^rT^^^'^''^''Pon before the moment of a^ SLtnK **l ^""^ *^«^ ^^^ despair on account of thrTddSl 7.^ *^"* *^^^ «^°"^d not to feel this comfort in tSk S^ fw T"'^^^' ^"* ^^ther lifted the voice, or be^t the LTeT^o? ' ?^°"^^ ^ ^^^ ^^^ under the same sentence of cerLindpT?/'"'' ?*^ ^^^^'^ % vantage of knowing the Ld^^l^*^ ^^"^ ^^^^ ^^d the ad- executed upon thel "Sjf^^f at which it should be voice trembling with emotiSr« Xm^l ?' '''^ "^^' ^^ brethren, which is yet left • anr? Jl!!^ the tmie, my unhappy of Him to whom space and h1 '"?'"' *^^*' ""'^^ the gi^ce -ay yet be a^surerev^f inThe 'pHtL"* "r^V"^' «^^^-" laws of yom- countiy afford you!" ^ ""^ ^'^^^ ^^^«^ the BeemSroTeXstStlTtTn^ ^«* ™on or whose thoughts weTdeenWfl^^'''''''^*^^^ "leaning, subject ;-an elpresS so Stet S "^'^^ T^ «^«°* with a more fixed ooTat the Z^ •' •^'^^^^ *^«^ «"rio^% ^ their guards, rose up, ^ tf toTenr^"'^'' Z^' "°^' «^ -«" permit them. A murm ,7^? ^^ ^^^» the crowd should alleviating circumstances ofTei^.tS ",f f'^^* «^ *J^« who, as we have already noticed^!: J ^" ^* °°'«' Wilson, two of the soldiers, one wfth 2ch ITJ "^7 '^^^ °^^°' ««i^«d tune to his compaiJion, '^Run G^?' and caUing at the same a third, and f^tened hTteeth f ^'/^ ' . ^'^^ ^^^««"' «« Robertson stood for a second «!lf fi? a^^ '^"^^ of his coat. avail himself of the opportSnit^ nJ "''^'''.*'"«^' ^^^ unable to nin ! "being echoed ^T^J ^onnTj,'''' ^''t''^ '' "«"-' -edwith thedispe^L^tiSeXtrrfrj^^^^^^^ .1 THE HEART OF MID-LOTHUN. ,. , SB ^ea It'o^^LTlSh'^^^^^^^ ^^-- ^- ^- life, The generous il^it^tm2\yZ^^^^^ rf' . occasion augmented thft fJ]ir.^y wubon Had displayed oa thia are easdy enffaffed on thp «iMp rfA- r?J™^f ^^e not concerned, admired ViS^bla^o^u^^^^^^^ ^ '."""^^ This general feeling waa so S thnf ^f Robertson's escape, that Wilson would be rTscuef at ;h« S T'*'^^ ^ ^^^« ^^P^^ the mob or by some of S!? *^e/a«e of execution, either by ordinal, an^^ =pS t^r^fTente^^^ ^^^^^ his own part. The mairi«+ro+<.» +u "'"''^^"^tfl and courage on protection of the execution n?tt. I "? °"'^''«'i »»'. fcr their own City 4:^7™^ 2 ""? *•"= S'"""' P"' of a man whoae CotZft^o'^S ft^^Thf r^T' circumstances of thP rkv 0^.1 r^^^^Die irom the melancholy oece»aa^taVald'"ru°t\&rrt " "^l"' he commanded. But thfi «nK,-o„^^ • ^ • ' ^ *^® ''o^'Ps ^h ch deserve another c^tei "^ "" '^ importance sufficient to CHAPTER SECOND. A^d thou, great god of aqua-vit® \ Wlia sways the empire of this city (When fou we re sometimes capemoity). Tnh.A . Piepared, To hedge us fraetim black banditti, The City Guard I Fbbgusson's Daft Days. o^Sr^b^llXrXer^ rT'""'' ^ *^^ ^-dition. waa theson ofrcTtizero^E^b^^^^^^^^^ °l"'"^j^^ jurisprudence, him up to his own mecham>Jl S' ^^"^ ^^^^^youred to breed howeyer, had a .Td andSi^l^^^ ' *^"°'' '^^« ^^^t^^ which finally senT^hi^1oTe"':^th: S^f *'^ *° ^^^^^ *^- the seryice of the States of TT^n!.^^ ^°°^ maintained in Dutch. Here he Wd lim ^^ ^?. "^'^ ^^^ Scotch afterwards, in the courTe If ^ ^7 ^''"^^'^ ^^^ returning natiye cit^. his LS 4^- ^'«. a^d wandering life, i,, hJ vouvii. ^ ' ''^"^'^ ^>^ *^e magifltrates of o 84 WAVERLEY NOVELS. Edmburgh m the disturbed year 1715, for disciplining theli City Guard, m which he shortly after^va;ds received a^ptain'a conuniBsioD. It was only by his militaiy skUl and an S^d resolute character as an officer of policT, that he merited tWs promotion, for he is said to have been a man of proflSe habitT an unnatural son, and a brutal husband. He w^ howeve^' useftU m his station, and his hai^h and fierce habTts render^ him formidable to rioters or disturbers of the public peace The corps m which he held his command is, or perhaps we eoimers, divided mto three companies, and reffularlv armpd w w 1 corps having the benefit of working at their trad^ when they were off duty. These men had the charTof nrf mg, n short, as an armed police, and attending on all nubl^ pected.* Poor Fergusson, whose irregularities sometim^ iTd hmi mo unpleasant rencontres with thSe miTai^ToiTrTati™ ^ tel^°t'' ""^ r^ °^^"*^°^ '^'^ '0 oftenVarh?may be tenned their poet laureate,t thus admonishes his reade™ warned doubtless by his own e^erience ._ '"""^ """^ ''^^''^' " Gude folk, as ye come frae the fair ,„Bide yont frae this black squad : ■There s nae sic savages eldewhere Allowed to wear cockad." lix fact, the soldiers of the Citv GuaH t^pino. „» u said, in general discharged veterZ, whf ha^Ttlnl'Lo^^^^ remammg for this municipal duty, and being morS fTit greater part, Highlanders, were neither by WrtT eduSion Jor former habits, trained to endure with much pattnce Te'^X and ^dl^H^^ % '^'J'T^S petulance of tmrschoo^l^ of the poor old feHows were som^ed b^the ^Ji^ iL^^^^ which the mob distinguished them on mLy ^clS,'^!^ wl^A^l^^^^ -«^ colonel 0, the co^, H. No other drum but theire wL nlln^fi T ^? **'*' *™^ required brtween the Luckenbooths and the NeJheTSw ''""' '" *'^ ^'«'' «*«^ t I Robert Pergiisson. the Scottish Poet, bora 1760, died 1774J ■or disciplining theli i received a captain's kill and an alert and that he merited this 1 of profligate habits, He was, however, srce habits rendered le public peace, id is, or perhaps we hundred and twenty id regularly armed, y veterans who en- •king at then- trades the charge of pre- treet robberies, act- nding on all public bance might be ex- ities sometimes led lilitary conservators often that he may Dishes his readers, being, as we have 3 strength enough moreover, for the rth, education, nor atience the insults truant schoolboys, hom their occupa- fcraiy, the tempers indignities with »ccasions, and fre- colonel of the corps, 1 the times required on the High Street died 1774.1 t ^°^ H«^T OP MID-LOTHIAN. 39 ; C%?^^ ^^"^^ '^- -thing stains of the pet we Gie not her bainw mc deadly paiks ' Wi firelock or Lochabor-axe, ^ „ As spiU their bluid I" recreatlon^ith tCl,Tlf'^^CT\lZ' '^'^^^ perhaps see the light when manv I.nvi j ; J^^^^J^^ may onsets as we allude t? But Yhn l? T^ ''ecollection such the contention waT held ml n/ f ^^^' '''^'' ^*^ ^^°^ extinct. Of latrtho^rn^. T^r •''' .^° considered as totaUy remind; one of the aLwn' fT"*^°? '^ ^'^^^ '^^' ^oS The edicts of a h sutedTAet o^ ^tK' ^""^^^^ ^«ht«- of Goneril and Kein, feh^^^^^^^ ^f^^ like those Bimilar question, - What need ifi T^ ' ^^^ ^^^ *^« five?" And it 'is now nearly t^e fo "^^"4^*^'-''^'-^' spectre may indeed hrm ami fiT .-^J , ^^^* ^^^^ one?" A headed ani ^e^eildtigfcd'ef ^thT' °' ■" ^" ^^■ but beat double by age ■ dS ,„ !n u 5 ??'-'"'"' features, bound with ^m/t^XZ„ZZ''t!^^7^ '^^■^' coat, and breechea r.t 7 . ij , ™' ""' ■" "<«*, waist- wittWhi;T:S"aii r^tsja wb b"^-* *" "^ pole, namely, with an ax« ,t tlS f I » Lochaber-aie ; a long back of the hatclet . Suel a nw""^'^'' " "'»'' ^' '"» ereeps, I haye been infomed Iml fl * . '^°T'" "^^ ''i" Second, in the ParliCrSi„ri ?fM""?° °^ "^i^'^ «"» were the last refcse for »t„T.™ ' -^ , *° ""^^ "^ » Stuart and one or twoothe,; «.?^ T' "^ "" ""*"" nanners the guard.hoZ„S.eTtnr„f-'°f''°, "•»'"'' «» "»<» » their .eient reCSe '^X^t !?: ^T^^^J^^- staff of his weapon, ' *°" "wmging himself up by the . . _ ^, . , " Jockey to the ftilr ;• S6 "WAVERLEY NOVELS. Silfab Tt"/;*' '^'^"!'*^'^ '' ^"^"'^^ -"J «-«cutors is no stz z-cz j'rs i.K' --ns.*? of his corps seems to have bppn r m^Har. i- "f.^^^'^^^ ^^ 2?t V . • , '^ "''"''** *" ?">"'ken perfect id co^S aid hSlT^ '"^ ^^' ^ «P«««^ i"^' that.many rXVhe mtd^lTTVkS^^^^^ nec^sity ^ ' '^'"''^ ™P^« ^^ some irresistible One part of his conduct wan tnily diabolical if in^on^ •* i, not been exafffferatpd hv +v,n «.««. i ^r".^^> " mdeed it has his memoi^^ When w^i^^^ general Prejudice entertained against to liim b/ he kee^rof th«^ r^^^ "T"^^^' "^ ^'^^^'"^ conducted^to thepC of mcuSn%nZ^'' * Y ^^. f ^^* ^« the usual precautions fn ^t ?' "^^^^^^ not satisfied with manacled! Sr^Thtl^Sl^ '''T', ^ to be bodily strength nf r„SeC?^^' ^T *^« «^^ter and ^ " ■ ^^elactor, as well as from the appro- 38 WAVEKLEY NOViiLS. S^rlTi /'"^u^ entertained of an expected rescue. But the han Icufffl which weio produced being found too small for wSfhTif 1 "''," '° ^^-^""'^ ^ ^^"■^«"' ^*«^teous proceeded fT«^^i. r ""f"' T^ ^y ^'^^ '^^^^^^^^ «^ ^t'-^Dgti to force iihann!L- ^^ ch^ped together, to the exquisite tortuie of the 2.T1.T™"'! ,^Vilson remonstrated agairiatsuch barbarous sSw*'"?-.*^.'^ *^' P"*" ^^'*'''^^*^^ ^^"^ "^o"gI^te from the subjects of meditation proper to his unhappy condition It signifies little," repUcd Captain Porteous: "your pain will soon be at an end." ' ^ ^ "Your cruelty is great," answered the sufferer. " You know not how soon you yourself may have occasion to ask the mercy Sve you r ""'^ ^^ ^^^ *' ^ fellow-creature. May God These words, long afterwards quoted and remembered, were ^ that paased between Porteous and his , isoner; but ai they took air, and became known to the people, they greatly increased S«L.rf ^•^"^r^^^''" ^' ^^°"' ^^ «^«ited a proport rate degree of mdignation against Porteoas ; against whom as strict, ^LoTni;?^'"*, ^, '^' '^'''^''^' '^ ^^ ""P°P^^ office, th Z^ahit!^^ '"""' '''^' ^°^ '"'^^" ^^^^ «^"«^ «>* When the painful procession was completed, and WUsou with the escort, had arrived at the scaffold b th^ GrassmS' there appeared no signs of that attempt to rescue him which had occasioned such precautions. The multitude, in general, looked on with deeper interest than at ordmaoy executioL; and there might be seen on the countenances of many, a stern and in- digiant expression hke that ^ith which the ancient Oameronians might bo supposed to witness the execution of theii- brethren who g orified the Covenant on the same occasion, and t th^ ame spot. But there was no attempt at violence. Wilson hmise^ seemed disposed to hasten over the space that divided tune from etermty. The devotions proper aid usual on™h oc^ions were no sooner finished than he submitted to his fate, and the sentence of the law was fulfdled denrili!f'l? r? 'T'^'^f •'^ *^^' ^^'^''^'"^ ^^'^g «« to be totaUy nS? • f' ^!r ^* "*"'«' ^ '^ occasioned by some newly received mipulse, there arose a tumult among the multitude mr«Ivf' '' T' '^''r '' P°^°"« ^^'J '^ guaidar^me mischief was done; and the mob continued to press forward with whoops, shrieks, howls, and eaclamaiions. A young feUow 'isamtmsmsi^ ■ pected rescue. But found too Binall for Portcous i)roceedod 3f strength, to force uisite torture of the linat such barbarous s thoughts from the condition, •teous; "your pain ferer. " You know )u to ask the mercy •eature. May God remembered, were isoner ; but as they 3y greatly increased ed a proportionate ist whom, as strict, ipopular office, the naginary causes of sted, and WilsoL, I the Grassmarket, 3ue him which had in general, looked utions; and there 7, a stern and in- dent Cameronians of theii- brethren, ?asion, and at the violence, Wilson pace that divided nd usual on such nitted to his fate, ig as to bo totally id by some newly g the multitude. Siis guai-ds; some to press forward A young fellow, TUE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. 80 mth a sailor's cap slouched over his face, sprung on the scattbld. and cut the rope by which the criminal was suspended. Otheri approached to cany off the body, either to secure for it a decent f^rave, or to try, perhaps, some means of resuscitation. Captain Porteous was wrought, by this appearance of insurrection agamst his authority, into a rage so headlong as made him lorget, that, the sentence having been fully executed, it was his duty not to engage in hostUities with the misguided multitude, but to draw off his men as fast as possible. He sprung from the sctiffold, snatched a musket from one of his soldiers, com- manded the party to give fire, and, as several eyo-witnessi con- curred m swearmg, set them the example, by discharging his piece, and shooimg a man dead on the spot. Several soldiers obeyed his command or followed his example: six or seven peraons were slam, and a great many were hurt and wounded Atter this .,ct of violence, the Captain proceeded to withdraw his men towards their guard-house in the High Street The mob were not so much intimidated as incensed by what had been done. They pursued the soldiers with execrations, accom ^led by volleys of stones. As they pressed on them, the rearmost soldiers turned, and again fired with fatal aim and execution. It is not accurately known whether Porteous com- manded this second act of violence; but of course the odium of the whole trmisactions of the fatal day attached to him, and to him alone He arrived at the guard-house, dismissed his soldiers, ,^lr . ""^^f ^^ l'P°'^ ^'^ *^« magistrates concerning the unfortunate events of the day. Apparently by this time Captain Porteous had begun to doubt the propriety of his own conduct, and the reception he met with from the magistrates was such as to make him still more anxious t f "'A'^T. ?' ^'^"^ *^** ^« ^^d gi^e° orders to fire • he d med he had fired with his own handf he even produJ^' he fuBee which he earned as an officer for examination : it was put in hw pouch that morning, two were still there • a white ha^c^erchief was thrust into the muzzle of the pi ce Ld r^ turned unsoded or blackened. To the defence folded on these circumstances It w^ answered, that Porteous had not used his own piece, but had been seen to take one from a sold^ Among the naany who had been killed and wounded by the anhappy fire, there were several of better rank; for even the humaiiitv of such soldiera as fired over the \mJ. of fl,a JIZ 40 i«;*«»«»„j(aite» WAVERLEY NOVELS. rabble around the scaffold, proved in some InfltanoeB fatal to persons who tyere stationed in windows, or observed the melan- choly scene from a distance. The voice of public indignation was loud and general ; and, ere men's tempera had time to cool, the tnal of Captain Porteous took place before the High Court of Justiciary. After a long and patient hearing, the jury had the difficult duty of balancing the positive evidence of many persons, and those of respectability, who deposed positively to the prisoners commanding his soldiers to fire, and himself firing his piece of which some swore that they saw the smoke and flash, and beheld a man drop at whom it w£w pointed, with the negative testimony of others, who, though well stationed for seeing what had parsed, neither heard Porteous give orders to ^^T!""^. 1"™ ^® himself; but, on the contraiy, averred that the first shot waa fired by a soldier who stood close by him. A great part of his defence waa also founded on the turbulence ot the mob, which witnesses, according to their feelings, their ' predilections, and their opportunities of observation, represented different y; some oescribing aa a formidable riot, what others represented as a tnfling disturbance such aa always used to take place on the hke occaaions, when the executioner of the law. and the men commiBsioned to protect him in his task, were generally exposed to some mdignities. The verdict of the jury sufficiently shows how the evidence preponderated in their minds. Tt declared that John Porteous fired a gun among the people assembled at the execution; that he gave orders to his soldiers to fire bv which many persons were killed and wounded ; but, at the mme time, that the prisoner and his guard had been wounded and beaten by stones thjoTvT, at them by the mult' tude. Upon this verdict, the Lords of Justiciriy passed sentence of death against Captam John Porteous, adj Iging him, in the common fom, to be hanged on a gibbet at the common place of execution, on fY'i??i'^; ^.*^ ^.?*T^'' 17^^' «^^ ^^ ^^i« "^o^aWe prop;rty to be forfeited to the kmg's use, according to the Scottish law in cases of wilful murder.* * The signatures affixed to the death-warrant of Captain Porteoni. were- Andbew F^toheb of MUton, Lord Justice-Clerk. Bit James Mackenzib, Lord Royston. David Erskine, Lord Dun. Sfr Wai^ter PBroatB, Lord NewhaH air OiLBBBT EixioT, Lord Minto. THK JIKART OP MID-LOTHIAW. 41 CHAPTER THIRD. "The hour's come, but not tlio man." • Kklpib. On the day whon the unhappy Porteous wa.s expected to snffpr scend from the High Street, that was not abaohitelv fZl wif h .Mmo^^l^rf ""'' «"""' "'» i™ -"« of Zo orders ga",; aaditional effect to a scene n tself so strikino- tj,« amo !^f *i Grassmarket resembled a huge dark Lke or «?; J area of the in the centre of which arose^the M t co Z blacTTn Y"^"' Amid so numerous an a.«-sembly there waa scarp^W a wn.4 spoken, save in whisc s 'Vhn thLr^f scarcely a word desree alkvpd \Zit.o ' • °^ vengeance was in some consulted only the evidence of his ms hShf w^ '*'^°^'' .hich, on aU ordinary occLon^^S from^ch^^trre" thc«e woma. At the Bome .oln " ma^JLeTon'bv hTfT' *7"''>'>'^<« language, /ey, arrived at a Rallon and Drem^Tf^ ^ ^f '***' *""• '" ^oottlsh strance f^m the bystanders S^ of'power J S ht "r' ^""^ ''**''• ^° '^'n""" wd perished. P**''" *° "^P •*^-»»e plunged into the stream n trf'ifm mmiymmw "^ I I 4S WAVERLEY NOVELS. flashing e™ of aliuZ ir,^„ '^' u ™' }"""' "'^ 't"™ and revenge. It ia nmhaW^ +1, ^ xu ^'^' ^^'^ tnumphant his favour, aad that they mkht hT^f }L ^' P^P"^^'" ^ have forgiven the n,L fL- ? \ *^® moment of death been so ZZyllZ TZ ^^""^ '^f ^^^^*^«^* ^^ Che mutabmt/of thet sentSf« ''''^''' ?''^ ^^*^«d' ^^^a* this triaJ. ^ sentiments waa not to be exposed to app4ance «wlu f^ 7°^''^^^ ^° symptom of his w^ the question wS men bP^^' *° '^f '"^ P^^^^^« J'^^^e ?" The first answer 1 eve^v ±^ T,?"^^ 5° ^^ ^* ^^ ^t^^er. dare not." But when ?hP nnilf ^^1 ^^^ positive,-" They opinions were entlrtaLd rr ""^ ^^*^^^ *^^^««d, other suggested. PoS TadCn a'^vr-^T '^^ ^°"^^ ^^^^ tracy of the citv whTniT ? • favourite officer of the magis- reqires for ite^'s^S « T° ^ ''T''°'^ "^^ fluctuating bo^ Xch the y.^vidu?k tho c^^^^^ r^ '"" ''' ^^tifnari^ hesupposedtoposZi^tnrpeLrtl^ *^".^« that m the Information for PortZ« /+f ^"^ remembered, his caae wa. stated th7 Judg^^^^^^^^^ ^T'' "T'^^'!^ ^^^^^ been described by his comisel L t^! '""'^ '°"'* ' ^« ^^d strates chiefly reUed in^ !i!f *^«.P«^«on on whom the magi- It was argued too tW ? ^"^^y^^^^es of uncommon difficulty WilsonSt n; t caUwtr 't ^^^^^^ ^^^^ '^ dent excess of zea ^tKc^^^^^^^^^ *« an impru- which those under whose an Si S i^ ^"*y' ^ "^0*^^^ for to have great sym^thrtid^l't^ ^ "'f * ^ ^^^^^^^^ move the magistrates to n.X ^/^^^ considerations might Porteous's cT t£ tere If ^ T""^^^' representation%f department of GoveTLe/tX '^^ ^ *^« ^^^^^^ favom-ably listened to ' ^ ""^^^ make such suggestions at S'tim^'o^e oft'eTelU'^hi^^^^^^^ T""''' '^' ^- and of late vears thpv W^ ^ *'°^^ '^^ ^^^^d in Europe • THB HEART OlT MID-LOTHIAN. 43 was not altogether regarded as good service, it might certainly be thought that to viBit it with a capital' punisLentwS ender it both delicate and dangerous for future office^, il the There is alao a natural feeling, on the part of all inembera of Government, for the general maintenaiice of authorSyTS Z seemed not unlikely, that what to the relatives of the siSei appeared a wanton and unprovoked massacre, should be oth^ v^Tse viewed m the cabinet of St. James's. It might be theTe supposed, that upon the whole matter. Captain Porteous wS L the exercise of a trust delegated to hiiA by the lawful dvD authority; hat he had been a^saidted by the popio, i^d several of his men hmi; and that, in finally repeZg forie^y force, hjs conduct could be fairly imputed to no othi motive than self-defence in the discharge of his duty These considerations, of themselves veiy powerful, induced the spectators to apprehend the possibility of a^epriev^ ; Td to feyour, the lower pait of the rabble added one which was m order to increase the odimn against Pori;eous, that while he ZZZf.T ^ '*?°f r^"*y *^« '^'^^'^' excei^Tf the LnL 7? """^^ overlooked the license of the yomig nobles and W^M^T l^^.^i^g *o M them the coLenanceTf nSL ^",^^ *' ^'^' '^*^^«^' This suspicion, which w^ iWd inn nM'P"^"''^ ^'^^^^^ ''^''^^ «f the higher rank SS^^fJn ''' recommending Porteous to the mercy of the trown, It was generally supposed he owed their favour not to any conviction of the hardship of his case, but to th" f^ o? ZL '""^^°^«"* accomplice in their debaucheries. It is scarcely necessary to say how much this suspicion augmented tir^'°^'f i^-''''*'*^°'^ '^ *^^ ^^^^^^'^ ^^riSiinal, as^weU S Wy.n!\f "" "'"^P"'^ *^^' ''"*^^^ pronoimced against him. vassld L?''" ^"g^e^tf ^^«J-e stated and replied to, and can- assed and supported, the hitherto silent e^ectation of the peop e became changed into that deep and Stating m™ which .s sent forth by the ocean befoi. the t^npest^Tg^^ nn 1 , -f, ?r'^'^ ^^'^'^''' «^ ^ ^^^^ "potions had corre- Tit ""-f *^' ^'^*^'^ «*^*« «f t^^eir ^^^. fluctuated to and fro without any visibk cause of im^uke, like the aJStim i» i r ")r«'f?"«'^m«»tT(iWw.- ■. 44 WAVERLEY NOVELS. Of the waters, caUed by saDors the ground-swelL Th« „ which the magistrates had almost hesE I rl- • f "?» them, were at length amiounrprl \y^A^ a ^^^'^^^te to tot. with a i^pSVS £hC/^ f "^^^^ Secretarjr of State's offiS ,S!*if" ^^/«P"eve from the Duke^NewSle had 'aSlj ^^k^"^? °^ ^^ ^^^« *J^« Queen CarolineTreLt of t^^^' f *™f °& ^^^ Pleasure of George II. Tth^ Slent^^^ Z"?^ ^^^ *^' "^^'"'^^ °^ of d^th prZZcerlZA^^ the execut on of the sentence tenant of the cTgiS of Fd^l ^^'°'^' ^'*' Captain-Lieu- Tolbooth of that cityT^^ rLlt^d ?o? '• ^"""'^^ ?^^"«^ ^ *^« appointed for his exeJut^on ^ ''^ ^''^^ ^^^"^ *^^ *^« utteredagroan orryrrflf f-?''^.""" ^^^^ described, revenge, sSr^" tt^o7aTg;; frot^hlmr ' "i^^^*^^ rent by his keeper when h^^T; ^^om whom his meal has been fierce exclamaS slemed toTrhnI '^°"* •' ^'^'"^ ^*- » of popular resenLent?! in^t^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^-^^ the magistrates, and the n cl'^ meLur^^h^^^^^^ ^/ repress it. But the shout wa^ not rT^tef nnf ^,^ ^^^f. ^ tumult ensue such as if <,r.Z.TA f^^^^^' ^or did any sudden seemed to be'i^ i' h^t^^SS d-''"" '"?"^'- m a vain clamour and thp «nr^n/T J their disappomtment which had preceded the «mvT? fi?^^'^' ''^^ ^*° *^e «ilence stifled mutS^ Vhth^^^^^ It'r -T^^/^^^' ^"* ^*o selves, and which were '^/^P ,°i^'°tamed among them- m™ which flttedTb^ovf^^^^^^^^^^ ^-P -^ ^oa.e tJl^l^S^reS-^^^^^^^ over, recalling the v2us l^wti^torm^'^^^^^^^^ '^ royal mercy, from the mistaken moHves on^f-l \ J .1 '" well as from the ffenerosifv hp iin,i ^- i ^ ^'^ ^® ^^ted, a« Plice. " This ml^T^^^d .^tT^ ''T^' ^'"^ ^ccim- THE HEART OP MID-LOTTHAN. 45 borne ^-would our fathers have borne it? Are not we like them, Scotsmen and burghers of Edinbiu-gh ?» The officers of justice began now to remove the scaffold and other preparations which had been made for the execution in hopes, by domg so to accelerate the dispersion of the S itud^ The measure had the desired effect; for no sooner had the fata! tree been unfixed from the large stone pedestal or .Set b which It was secured, and sunk slowly do^vn upon the wa^ mtended to remove it to the place where 1^ wT usuallv a^ posited, thaa the populace, after giving vent torirleHngs h a second shout of rage and mortification, began sLly tTdi perse to their usual abodes and occupations ^ J^ TH'""' ' 1 ^ .^' ""T"' ^^d^^^y deserted, and groups of tl >re decent class of citizens formed themselves ^^'f^J^ Tr'^'f "^ *^^ streets sS^S Cleared of .uo .abble. Contrary to what is frequently the case of the^ST "^^f^ '^/'"^ ^ «^^«^^ ^i*^ *he sentLents JJt t5'!T''' "^^ ^o^idered the cause as common to aU ra^. Indeed, as we have abeady noticed, it was by no me^ amongst che lowest class of the spectators, ov those most HkdTJS be engaged m the riot at Wdson's execution, thatThe fL &e of Porteous's solders had taken effect. Several perso^wS^ kUled who were looking out at windows at the^sS X could not of course belong to the rioters, and were Sns of decent rank and condition. The burghei, therefore Tse^inj the loss which had faUen on their own body Td Cud 3 tenacious of their rights, a. the citizens of Efch have at ^ tmies been were greatly exasperated at th^ miexpected respite of Captain Porteous. unexpected It was noticed at the time, and afterwards more particularly emembered, that, whUe the mob were in the St of SeS rlun^o?i:S T T. '^^"^ P"^^^ from one pt 3 one group of people to another, remaining long with none hut whispering for a little time with those who aZared to L detag „,ost violently against the conrct of G^tnmen^ These active agents had the appearance of men W ?h!; ST;at^'orWil'^^^"",f ^~ ^ be\rfri^I I'd e^^^^f P^^^'. ^^- ^^ -- of cou^e highly If, however, it was the intention of these men to stir fh* - - iati rs,oDio, ds well &5 the more deoeufc part oi ^iftJR \,m 46 WAVERLEY NOVELS. the a^emWy, dispersed, and went home peaceably; and it was only by observing the moody discontent on thei brows m catchmg he tenor of the conversation they he d wTlc^ ^thT^p^Jf J '^'' ^^"^ advantage, by associating ourselves with one of he numerous groups who were painfully a^rnS L'thlTariJEt!^*^^ ""''' ^^^' ''-'-^^ ''^^ '^^i "Au uiico thing this, Mrs. Howden," said old Peter Plum ttl ^-f f 1^ fT *' '''^* ^'^ ^ *^« *«^<^"^e accent, "to see aM^Ioj, loose sic a reprobate as Porteous upon a peaceable "^d to think o' the weary walk they hae eien us" an rf ^T ?T^'"' ^'^ ^ ^''^' "^d s^ a'^comfortaWe tZ s^"d' Jljrb? ^i"* "^*'^ ^ penny-stane-cLt me scaaold— 1 could hae beard every word the ministpr umA and to ^.twalpei^es for „>y stancTand a-t S nL™ I am judging, ' said Mr. Plumdamas, "that this repriero a^t:» *""' " '"' '"" '"•"" '=""■ '^''»» «■« STgdTZ aea , but I ken, when we had a king, and a chanceUor »ml ^rhanient men o' our ain, we conld aye peebl. th™^' sCm :^.^:iZof^ '»^'^"* -Wa nails :ls away our parliament, and they hae oppressed onrtaJT n gentte wiU hardly aUow that a Scots'STcTsew ^es o" a sark, or laee on an owerlay." °° "Ye may say that— Miss' Danahoy, and I ken o' them fhut hae gotten raisins frae Lunnon by foroits at TZ^'T J^ Plumdamas; ;; and then sic an hosU??^^ E^g^'gaugr^^^^ excisemen as hae come down to vex and torment S that^n Leith to the Lawnmarket, but he's like to bn r.,h>.;+T+i gud^ he;, bought and paid fe-C i^Sn^ ^ tS Wdsoa for pittmg hands on what wasna his ; but if Iw todTZ Z'^Z^^-.^'C'^' '^"-■^ betwe^'-r^ THE HEABT OP MID-LOTHIAN. 47 "If ye sp^k about the law," said Mrs. Howden, "here comes Mr. Saddletree, that can settle it as weel as ony on the bench." ' The party she mentioned, a grave elderly person, with « Buperb periwig, dressed in a decent suit of sad-coloured clothes came up as she spoke, and courteously gave his arm to Miss' Gruzel Damahoy. It may be necessary to mention, that Mr. Bartoline Saddle- tree kept an excellent and highly-esteemed shop for harness saddles &c &c at the sign of the Golden Nag, at the head of Bess Wynd.* His genius, however (as he himself and most of his neighbour conceived), lay towards the weightier matters of the law, and he faUed not to give frequent attendance upon the pleadmgs and arguments of the lawyers and judges in the neigh- bouring square, where, to say the truth, he was oftener to be tound than would liave consisted with his own emolument • but that his wife, an active painstaking person, could, in his absence make an admirable shift to please the customers and scold the journeymen This good lady was in the habit of letting her husband take his way, and go on improving his stock of legal knowledge without interruption; but, as if in requital, she insisted upon having her own will in the domestic and com- mercial depai-tments which he abandoned to her Now as Bartoline Saddletree had a considerable gift of words, which he mistook for eloquence, and conferred more liberally upon the society in which he Uved than was at aU times gracious and acceptable, there went forth a saying, with which wags used sometunes to interrupt his rhetoric, that, as he had a golden nag at his door, so he had a grey mare in his shop This reproach induced Mr. Saddletree, on aU occasions, to assume rather a haughty and stately tone towards his good woman a circumstjuice by which she seemed very little affected, unless he attempted to exercise any real authority, when she never faUed to fly mto open rebeUion. But such extremes Bartoline seldom provoked; for, hke the gentle King Jamie, he was fonder of talicmg of authonty than really exercising it. This turn of ^* i^t^^^t%^t\ZrL''' later Write™ Beth-3 Wynd. A- near the head of t?e Cowall JfT ^° ^*7«^ ^^^ oW Tolbooth to n !; Hi -' ^'■mj » M i j.in y 48 WAVERLEY NOVELS. muid waa, on the whole, lucky for him • since hi« «t,Ko* waa increased without aiy trouble on hi« Z^ substance ruption of his favourite studies ^^' °' ^^ ^**'" whU^Slrt;tTa;^^,% ^ ^^.t^-eader, upon Porteoufl's caTe bv whtn "^'^^.^f* precision, the law away,-"wC tad Zt p!! '^"".f'™ ^ ^tirely thrown " A J ^- .H»f deo," said Sa,'^htree ::^d V' said ^cpr-'lTsr^r^ "Quvm-^ums, Mr. Saddletree, cravin'r your mrrlnn » «o-^ (^th a prolonged emphasi. on the fii^rsyQef Mr Buttr the deputy-schoohnaster of a nan«Ti ^n.^v^-l^ , ^"*^er, achoolma^ter," retorted SadS5 ' ^^ ''"* ^^' ** s^ is, THE HEART OP MID-XOTHIAN. 49 gaUows-lsin^ply becausThe did not S wf. ^\^ ^''''^' *^« but waited tii the body wL cut 1^5 .r^^'"" ^' ""^ ^ ^^^e* had in charge to ^ard Ld^^,' " , ^ '^*u' '""^'^^^on whilk he the public tLt iTposed ofhr' ' '"' "^^ ^^elf exonered of before ony stanesl^ere f ^ at"a'^^^^^^^^ ^'' ^'^ ^'^" ^"'^ coS;' ''^°eU?ttn\^S^S^^^^^^^^ ^^°^-' power, the execution being b^tChoal TT? "t ^^'' '^ plemeuted, or finally ended • ]Z ?ff aV-i ' ^* ^^^*' ^^^^ ™- waa a' ower-he Z cleS'exrn.fn ^^ Wilson waa cut down it but to get awa wi' his ^arruTt^^^^^^^^ p'^^ ^'^"^^ ^^° there had been a caDtiowL^i,- .^} ^'''^ ^ ^^* «^ i^ Num'CS^/^ ""^ » '"^ "f =»»««^ »' " lord of aeat )■■ their saddles, and Lnb ^7i„l Z^'*".'?' «"'»*'^ "•""I what «,eyu cost, iZKeyteeSv "t'T/'^'T' ■?" : g^my wife may serve the Uke ^ S~ ^""^ «°"°f"« ^ the td, tr litHel"™'^.??' ^f ^-^"'^ '"« ^i '°«i i. I Mrs, Hoidrsomewha" Ci'^^t : "^ ?!'; ^f^^-" -id broke in on hL *" "^ homethrust. Miss Daiaho, eulditd°"thrri^i"?f.°' "^^" '^'^ Mi^ D-^aioy. "y gude add tS b^f the n^r'"™"'*' ?^'- i^dletree, i^ the «tato gaed for W^iYr^r? ^~- V™* »' W a gude robfs and foot-ma^E^r w^ h "Tf^ '"'^^ I'""'™' N J».tic, we« t^J^r^ *irf of state. The -Senators of th* OpD*,e ' VOL. vn "' •^- S«at «r of the Seseimj ""^ 00 WAVERT.EY NOVELS. Bt dom, rthtte affront hi I. ""'^ ™''' H. °" '™% Scot. only the bTude K atd ^^.''Mlldrth*'? "^-l. .'*'' »"' shed, that's reauiied «t ^'r i: , lf° *""" ""'SW hae been «an' little Sewl-^"'^ ' '\?n ms^'j7''*f'. 4Jn|;;dt'';.:ftSflJ^i?*' "'^»^ ^"0 •« hangfng'as^''^atSf.'° *' ^'T' ^°»' t" =«« «■« hae been then? 1 wonXr kn^n ^^' f" "■■"« *«<• ™ »' C.^) ,^d ble J^t;»r o^l-l'^Jat He-: tSd ewom to tte na^iy" '"""'^ " ^°«'""' not ^^is^TouVS^^i'ir.^-"'-"' «"'-. "-"' I wonld PlSatrt^t^^^^^^^^^^ r-«- P^-- of abode. mm^tan(a Cner!ira^ J k /f ^^^^ ^ ^^S their known low-brZTlon in f h^^^^^^ "" f"'^ P^«^ *^« ^«"- wont to take thit reSment mTpT''^ ^^T ^^^^ ^«^« towards his shop and Mr S!;i.r V u '"'^''"'^ *^'° ^^P^^ed particular ocSi for ^e f^nf I'u^l^^^^ *" ^^^« ^^me that busy daTcou d have ScfmT.^ > ^"^,' ^^' ^^^ «' down the l/wnmarkerwitrMrs.l^^PP^'°^^^"^^' ^^^^^^^ hecouldgetawordthrurt in flf ^'*'^^^«*^e^ each talking as the other on those of svnnl' , """IT" *^" ^*^« ^f Scotland, Which his co^^'rion S;"' ""'^^^ ^«^--g ^0 a worl divers sorts," said n these days." VIrs. Howden, "I'll if our kindly Scots ihis day. It's not lat might hae been vas my daughter's Itiss Grizel— had i will do, ye ken, "they should be foot to see the t for mightna she I where wad we a' B (if her name be in bairns in sic a 3h a circumstanoe endurance." o' the matter is, Porteous, be the lines in England i' my nails," said ', "but I would [", " there will be le to the Water- places of abode. 1 drinking their passed the well- ^here they were a then departed 1 to have some (the truants of sation), walked ach talking as ws of Scotland, oing to a word THK HEART OP MID-LOTHIAN. 0| CHAPTER FOURTH. BIswhair he colde right weel lay down the law. But in Lis house was meek aa is a daw. Davxe Lindsat. "There has been Jock Drive'- thA nr,^^^ i, his new graith." said Mrs sVhi f f 5'"®' ^^^S about crossed h^ thrUold no^wft^f 1i '' ^ ^'' ^"^^^^^ ^ ^e consulting himZn his owTnff ^^' ^y^> ^y any means, of Flame, ia C to be' dm^i^firj?'''^^ ^'"^^ ITandera meats, ^' the cSll^™^f t • ^"^ *■" "■« »« -'r^>tA^:^Z\r'' "<■ "Sd Saddletree. " Ife^ed that ^^ htk sT Sf S^1r:"\?' ""^ ™'-" lielpmate, rather nettled »t^^i/»^'"^''''*'^^™'«'i l"" report wi received tt.,tl J^ miiifferenee with whieh her "elves affronS tf ie mZ „ T^ ^\"^ ^ *•■<"■«•" tem- -wer them b;,t''wTmS"LTthe1a1l'' "' T"^^ *° as your back was turned inZ-L p ^ ™e lads were aff, as soon counted upon ; V^^'^ To it^U^^^^ '"'^" ^ :-^r;,^ratirs::!t«^s, with an ». „, the neeessit; of beta. Zwhl ^"^ ""^^^^^ ^ '^ ""der W said, wh'en heTf Sird'^U^^^rt^.J^^'--?- I Butler's ea^, bat it^<^^, J™ ""f '''"■latin offaids Mr. a^t himseli; can d'oTr?^"^;^' " "'" *^ ^ P"^" ^th a •Stt!^^?:l7i;-7-d.'!fe careful help™^ eave vov r^'^^ - ' ', ^ "^ *^'^t»t it's a Hpcpnf +».'-.- ^ 7".-.. w,. „ .ook atter young gentlemen'sl;^^:^^,^ hi 1 --fti ■» WATBJlLKy NOVELS. ^ ^^t7atZ? ^' '^ ''' ' "'"' '''' "«^- ^^ y« "- ^ JIHT"^'" -T'"^ Saddletree, assuming an elevated tone to which the mendzan had somewliat contributed, " dee.st --I sav bendleattr nT " *' ''' ^'l'' ^''^^^'^ ^^ '^'^'^ through bend- cather when sic men aa Duncan Forbes, and that other AmiBton chield there, without muckle greater mrt if the close head speak true than myseU maim be i.res dent aid kL'^ advocates, nae doubt, and wha but tliey ? Where^ were fevoiu^ually distribute, a. in the days'of the ^^^t Wal said Mr^sXlSrl''" ""f ^"^ f !^'° ^^ *^« ^'^Slit Wallace," saia Mrs baddletree, "miless, aa I hae heard the auld folk tell they fought m thae days wi' bend-leather gun.s, and then it's a chance bu what, if he had bought them, inightLwe forgot to pay for them. And a. for the greatness of yoiif parteBS Jo'if th.v ^^^r^'-'"-^^^^*^^"" ^«" ^'^'^ about' tremtS do, It they make sic a report of them." "I teU ye woman," said Saddletree, in high dudcreon "that ye ken naethmg about these matters. In Sir WUli^ ^alW Slr-rfoTTh"'' r ^r ? '°"" *° «- ' slavisTwark ra "Well," said Butler, who was, like many of his Drofeaain,, somethmg of a humorist and dr^ ioker ''if tLrJ?i! ^ Mr. Sacldletree, I think we have^i f the It?' 2 we make^our own harness, and only Lport our Weri Tm *f ^i; ll^Lt ^r =^^^S?hSad Sa^SLrld B^tlL""'"*"- '^'^-^' Mr. "Institutes and substitutes are synonymous words Mr But. ler, and used indifferently as such in dSs of tSe ^ "u may see m Balfour's Practiques, or Dallas of St M^K IntToJ^rt'l^^ '^^^ *^^^ pretty weel, I tU^" but I own I should have studied in HoUand " "^ wxi , To comfort you, you might not have l^een farther fonraitJ {Clcse-head, the entmiM fd a Wind aU^y,] er did ye nae ill, THE HEART OP MID-LOTHIAN. flj othe™ betag f„n„«, fro^Tt^lSj SSiSlfJ pomt ot law, or m point of fact," said SaddletrPP Inntino, endeavouriag to look, as if he undWstood wtt wL'siid '' ^; And the dative case," continued Butler--- enough/' ' ''^'* ' *"'"' ^•'^""^ ^'" «^^^^ Saddletree, " readUy "The dative caae," resumed the fframmariaTi "ia ih.*. • out of hiB decmv ofT:^r.^ i ' ^ *'^^' ^^ '"^"'^^^ ^^ ^^^e "Come, come, Mr. Saddletree," said his wife - w«'!l h„« confessions and condescendences here IPt^L ^^ " ?»« »ae WAVERLET NOTRT.& "Aha I" said Mr. sutler " Oid.o -«a- • . flew under the 8un-But it w^^l r "P^'H^ }<>, piger, nothing however." "' '' ''"" '^ ^^'^ ^^'k of Mrn. SadcUetroe, tMiAZJ::^^ 5r"' ^^l ^^- Sad^Uetree,- .>„. trr if yo con do IC. for Sf D^^'' '^^^! °' *^« ^^^^^ to lymg up in the tolboothTonder cadd arZ"' ^"^ "^^' *'^^*'- Icas-A servant luaa of ours M'r^wi ^""^''^' ^^'^ '^""'fo^tr to my thinking, and LZX'^l h^^^'I' ^'^ «* ^""'^^^Qt « laas, tree gang« out^^d y^e awi*^?. f^^^^^. Mr. Smldle! there'fl ony o' tl^e pl^hoLronr ' "it"" "' ^^« ^^«n to tumble the buX o^b^ZeTlLT ^*' ""'^ ^ ^«^P ^^ range out the gude8,ld m^TtJ^T^ "^ ^^ ^«^°' and she could ayepieaaethoouZmL f? humouiB-And troth, aye civil, ^dTZ^er'tlZn^^'riT?''r'^'^^ when folk were haaty and ZelZni u"^"^ ^^^- ^nd better than me, that ^To ZtZ^'j't' T"^^ «^^« ^^^^ '^d a wee bit 'short T^eZCZTfl ?^ ^'?"' ^^'- ^"*^«''' there's ower mony folks cn.in^^.n .^® ^^^^^- ^^^ when tongue to answer'theS^;K,^ Z^ ^1^^^ "^^ ^^* ^ get through their warkU'LTSiYai^ " *'^^" "^'- « f,?V*^, ''*??• ^•i«d Saddletree. ^• have'al"lLe'^l t"the 1^^ ^"^^ '' '^^'^on, « J ^^^„ giri m the shop-a modest-looking, fair-hi^d ' -^y* ay, that's just puir Effifl " hjhM i,„. ■ ^ was abandoned to hersell or XtW , "^^ "^^^^^e Bmful deed, God in H^L Ct' •" ^^^^^^ f^f^-^ o' the she's been sak temoted «nri t , i ' . " ^^® ^ "^^en guilty, she ha.na been heS 1 Se tLe^^ ^"'^ *^« "^ ^^bS up^a;dis^thtsi';,td%tr^tr' f*^^^^^ ^«fi^^«*«^ person of such strict de^nT^ t ^'^^""^ "^^^'^^^^ t^at a " Waa not this girl,''TS "t«^ '"^^'^ *^ S^^« ^ay to. «iat had the par^ at St linaidl lT^*f °^ ^^^^^ ^^^ sister ?" • -^^^ard s taken ? and haa she not a And what coold I aay to her to?^ ! «f « «l»ut her tittie. and speak to Mr. Sadietree wh«U . * "^u ^^^^ *» «>»« that I thought Mr. S^See ^^,,7 «' <«»« » . Jt wa»«. -We good or ,, h„t it ^"'te'set °r,S;t ^f bo$ piger, nothing f Mrs. Sadtlletroe, Saddletree," con- ^eel o' the law, to puir thiug, that's ife'iy, and couifort- "8 iuiiocent a lass, ^h' Mr. Saddle^ 1 at hame when used to help me ' and down, and urs— And troth, ■vers, for she wa.s I Eeekie. And auld serve them )een, Mr, Butler, :ain. For when ■nd nane but ae , or they'll ne'er ' hesitation, "J ^g, fair-haii«d 5SS. "How she sackless o' the ''a been guilty, my Bible-aitii tl ; he fidgeted gitation that a give way to. David Deans, has she not a ra aulder than •out her tittie. loved to come 6 » It wasna ny ither body :e«p the puJT TIIE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. 55 Swm'a^*""^ '"" ^«« ^^'^' -^l let -sorrow come whot ''^r7c:^^^t^'^^ Saddletree scornfully. to her that her tZrZr^aM"uZ\i "^^^ '^^ ^^'^'^ hundred and ninety, chapTer on^ ^ T ^' ■'^'"*' '^^'''^ tion of child-murder-for coocer.' Vfr '"'"* '''^^ P'^^^"' no^acc^t of the ohUd whSS lltxi^'^"'^^' ''' *^^^« can c'AVelr'^"""'--'' ' ^"'^^ ' '' ^^ '^"« ^^od, that she am'l^eVwadte\'lere"fr''r^^^^' ^^«' «-d^^^^««. "I wae's my heart, ThaTbee, fw. ^.^ '^ ^^^^^^'e^^ ^^^ ower the doorV my room f.r. ,^ *^,' '^^^' ^^ ««^-^'« Saddletree, he Lht be S I Iv "^- T^'- ,^^ «« ^°^ l^^^- out what the w?men ct ther/forSar/'"^' ,?' '^^ ^"^^ naething 0' her or I wnThn.i .; . ^®, "^ ^°"1^ «ce little or and seventy-nine/' ^ "" *^' ^"^^ ^^^^^^ hundred go^wlL'f'ite'oT^;/' ^?"; ^^'' Butler 1" said the a dram V ^ °^'°« ^ ^^*« '^ ^ sheet ; wiU ye tak "lX^d\"^rmV^„'^^^^^^^ to spealc "Sit down," said^rsSd j^'^^^^^*^^«^^ay-'' kindly, "and rest ye-Tye'll km In '''1,^'^^ ^^"^^ °^ ^^^ And are we to wish L^'v o^^iiff'Tr"' "'?' ^* '^^t rate.- " Yes-no-I do not^uf .""^ *^' ''"^'' ^^^- Sutler?" vaguely. But J^s sXleS ? wT'^'f *^.^ ^^^^^^ °»- of red interest, partly f™fi'^^^^^ ^^"^ *« P«-t, p.artly out «esIr%t^t^;S:nL"r \?^^ *^^^- -"^« <>' I>- " No, Mrs. SadSS T *''\'^'°f ^* * the simmer?" more c;Uect;dIy .Th7 r^S^^^^^^^^ ''" ''^^''^ Sutler, natural sou bri^ to the kirk thaffH^'f'^.*^^^^^ ^"^ a be prevaUed upon to Ucense 1 1^2,*./^'' ^'"^^^^^^ ^^^^^ not 1 !.»•» 66 WAVERLET NOVELS. eneugh said -AS^TeVe X„ ^i *^^ ^* ^^ ^'^^^ there's for d!ad men's sh^on^Ld forTf ^f^ *.'. ^^^^^^^ *° ^^i* he may live aa C iVou tW ^ 1'^ '^. ^'- Whackbaim is, I ; ^7 ^^.^'" -piSi M^rrh a^sir"^; r;o?r°^^ I should wish it otherwise." ' "°* ^°^ ^ lad^^'to'^Te^i'*'!,^^?^^^?^^ *^g/' continued the good righ't and tJrto^sfe mSet^T^ "f T '^^'^^ these crosses." °°"''' ^ ™"«'™ iow ye bear S^eTlSirTl^T"^ ^r^'- "«™" ««' pagan He stopped and sighed. her'hus"Jt"r^;^^^^^^ book and Bible-:But yf^e nn ^'*''"'' ^ 'P^*« «^ ^<^»» poorly ye'D stay a^^t^^e'U^^^^^ looking sae aft^StrSeVVVhfs;^^^^^ booking Mr. Butler sae distressed abourFfflV' ^.^^^rwhat makes nae acquaintance a weT them th«f .' "^fortun^there wa. but they were neighbZs when DavdT '""' "' ^^^ ''^' 0' Dumbiedikes' l£d. Mr Butlpr wf^^ ^ T °° *^^ ^^^^^d o' her folk-Get np Mr ^3% Z ^'"^ ^^' ^^*^«^' ^' «ome down on the very oLham fw ^^'J-^? ^^^'^ ««* youi«eU Uttle WiUie, the lentkr-Ye ?lr-' ,f *«J^^-^-and here's are, what takes y S^ fh^**^l"S:*^«^^'^"* ^eil that ye hangit?--how wad yT^^e ^Z ,-/^' ^**^™ *^ ««« ^o"^ chance,asIwinnalSe^ifTelilr? *' ^^ ^^"^ ^^ And what are ye maundering rnd^eerinfr^ i^Bs a laird 3uit, there's ;on to wait ckbaim is, successor." lot know if • the good '■ that hae ^ ye bear the pagan Heathens ion, Mrs. jheir day. 'Ut doubt- ig toward I of baith >king sae favourite lis wife's entrealy, I looking t makes lere was Jard of; e Laird or some yoursell 1 here's that ye Be folk >ur ain lers? — I word ■ baini )r ye'U bairn, THE HEART OF MID-LOTIIIAN. 57 ^ur^ldtnp'' ^i,T*^«r^«««' ^'hilk in some cases may be StiL du't^^""'' *^'^ '''' '' ^- ^ they could~4 a J^ ^^"7 *™/' gudewife," said Saddletree in reply "we are in Sn was the fi^«f H f'^ ^ u"* '^ ^ auld mantle of my am was the first decent dress the bairn ever had on Poor in l^Jy^^'" '"^i^'- Saddletree, delighted at having for onc« «,W n. T * *'^' *^^'® '^® *^o sorts of murdrum OT murdm- gvum, or what you populariter et mlganter caU murther TZl S- ""' T^ '"^ ' ^'' *h«^«'« your m.rTw «r^^^^^ %n^dias, and your mMrt/imm under trust " ^ the wavTh.'tTi:!' ''^^'^ ^^ ."^°^'*y' "**»^* ^^*ter by trust is n7«W ff V 1^*'"^"^"^^^^ "« merchants, and whUes make tree '^'t oT f .?®' ^'' Euphemia) Deans," resumed Saddle mSder of T/V^r.T'' •'^ °^"^^«^ presumptive, that I a ITmoJl- .^^^ "^'"^^ ^'^ construccion, beiig derSed from certam ^nd^c^a or groimds of suspicion." ^ too that, said the good woman, "unless noor Fffi« i,o- ormgrng torth children m secret— The crime is ratliAr I " Then, if th, l»w makes m.rtim." 8„i,i Mra Saddletiw, ■ f 58 WAVERLEY NOVELS. " the law should be hanged for them ; or if they wad han*' a lawyer instead, the countiy wad find nae faut," ° A summons to their frugal dinner interrupted the farther progress of the conversation, which was otherwise like to take a tiurn much less favourable to the science of jurisprudence and ite professors, than Mr. Bartoline Saddletree, the fond admirer ot both, had at its openin/? anticipated. "i w :i CHAPTER FIFTH. But up then raiae all Edinburgh. They all rose up by thousands three. JomsNta ARMSTBAjia's Ooodnight. BumEK, on his departure from the sign of the Golden Nae whl"}, ^""^I'J ? ^"^^^ °^ ^ «*«^ witbXTaw,^} whom he wished to make particular inquiries concerning the circumstances m which the mifortunate young womT mSi! tioned m the last chapter was placed, having, as thTSer h^ rtfJ')f^''^^T^''*^^^' '"^'"^ much deeper th^tho^ He folJ'^.r'' ^^f^ for interesting himself in her fate equaUy unfortunate m one or two other calls which he made upon acquamtances whom he hoped to interesTther sToiy But everybody was, for the moment, stark-mad on the suS of Porteous, and engaged busily in attacking or c^efendinrthe dispute had excited such universal thirst, that half the youni lawyers and writers, together with their very derks the S slTfaWeTa ^""^T.^^^' '^ ac^j'ouSed tt' d" some favourite tavern. It was computed by an experienced arithmetician, that there was as much twopenny ale SS on the discussion as would have floated a first-rate man of^ Butler wandered about mitil it wae dusk, resolving to Se that opportunity of visiting the mifortunate yoS woi^n when his doing so might be least observed ; for he S Z^ reasons for avoiding the remarks of Mib. Saddletree whoTsho^ door opened at no great distance from that of the M ?hTugt on the opposite or south side of the stieet, and a httle S un He pa.s.d. therefore, through the narrow ami "itlyTeS' id hang a le farther :e to take dence and d aduiireT ight. len Nag, > law, of ning the an men- sader has an those her fate, and was lie made }r story, subject ling the :dour of 9 young he class ibate to erienced nsiuned >f-war. to take woman, [lis own leshop- >ugh on her up. covered TILE HEART OF MID-LOTUIAN. 59 passage leading from the north-west end of the Parlin^ment oquare. He stood now before the Gothic entrance of the ancient prison, which, as IS well known to aU men, rears its ancient front in the very middle of the High Street, forming, as it were, the termination to a huge pile of buildings called the Luckenbooths, Which for some mconceivable reason, our ancestors had jammed into the midst of the principal street of the town, leaving for passage a narrow street on the north; and on the south, into Which the pnson opens, a narrow crooked lane, winding betwixt the high and sombre walls of the Tolbooth and the adjacent houses on the one side, and the butresses and projections of the old Cathedral upon the other. To give some gaiety to this sombre passage (well known by the name of the Krames) a number of little booths, or shops, after the fashion of cobblers' Bt^, are plastered, as it were, against the Gothic projections and abutments, so that it seemed as if the traders had occupied with nests, bearmg the same proportion to the building, every buttress and coign of vantage, as the martlett did in Macbeth's Lastle. Of later years these booths have degenerated into mere toy-flhops, where the little loiterers chiefly interested in such w^es are tempted to linger, enchanted by the rich display of hobby-horses, babies, and Dutch toys, arranged in artful and gay confusion ; yet half-scared by the cross looks of the withered pantaloon, or spectacled old lady, by whom these tempting stores are watched and superintended. But, in the times we write of the hosiers, the glovers, the hatters, the mercers, the milliners and all who dealt m the miscellaneous wares now termed haber- dasher s goods, were to be found in tliis narrow alley To retm-n from our digression. Butler found the'outer turn- key,_a tall thm old man, with long sdver hair, in l^e act of lockmg the outward door of the jail. He addressed himself to this person, and asked admittance to Elfie Deans, confined upon accusation of chUd-murder. The turnkey looked at him earnestly, and, civilly touchmg his hat out of respect to Butler's black coat and clerical appetirance, repUed, "It was impossible any one could be admitted at present." "You shut up cM-lier thaa usual, probably on account of CaptamPorteous'saflair?" said Butler. ^uus oi The turnkey, with the true mysteiy of a person in office, gave two grave nods, and withdrawing from the wards a pondef^L key of about two feet in length, he mnc^^A^ f^ aLH rfll"!! i;?;^ ip! m . ij M eo WAVERLEY NOVELS. 'i il plate of steel, which folded do^v-n above the keyhole and was IZ^e^Jll't 'T' ^^ ^^^'^^ Butler L5 ^Z stmctiyely whde the door waa made fast, and then lookin-^ at ilir^ioSsl^!!'^^ ^' ''' ''-''' -"^^^^ '0 '^^^l Ccehcolae valeant-Stat ferrea turris ad aura.-^-etc. ♦ .nf^^f 7f i'."^ half-an-hour more in a second fruitless attempt to find his legal friend and adviser, he thought Ht£e to leave the city and return to his place of Residence ki a smTll if -.1.^*' metropolis was at this time surrounded bv a hi^h wall, with battlements and flanking projections aTfome interval and the access waa through gates, caUed in the Scottish lanS CiTtuirL^T'"'^^''^*^*^^^^*- Asuallfeetf S Keepers wou^d mdeed procure egress and ingress at anv time tl^ough a wicket left for that p.irpose in thefarge gat^VuHt IZiiTZlT^"'^''' *"." "^"^ «° ^' «« Sutler, to avoid the gates might be near, he made for that to which he found hLTl^r'^*' although by doing so, he somewhat len^S his wak homewards. Bristo Port waa that by which hXert rl!nf V *? . •' therefore, he directed his course He reached the port m ample time to pass the circuit ofTe waUs bwer'S T'r ' «^«^P°rt«^g^> chiefly inhabited bTthe of f ^nfr? °'*/°"\^^^ fro^ the gate before he heard the soun^^. .nffilT'/"^' ^ ^"i^^^ '"^™«' «^et a number of per. 1 sufficient occupy the whole front of the street and fon « considerable maas behind, moving with great peed Jowa I- , ^lin^ to'aC« "m^T "^^ ""'^^^ ^ fronrofthr;tum beating to anns. While he considered how he should escaped * WM° ^t "" ^°^^^^ gate, and, raised on Ugh. With adamantine columns threats the sky • Vain is the force of man, and Heaven's as ;aiu. To crush the pUlars which the pile sustain- sublime on these a tower of steel is rear'd. Drtmn'b Virgil, Book vL If THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. 61 paxty, assembled, as it might be presmned, for no lawful purpose, they came full on him aud stopped him. ' "Are you a clergyman V one questioned him. mini^ten"''^""'^ ^^""^ "^'' ^'"^ '° °'^'''' ^""^ ""^ ^°^ ^ P^^ i^lmA'^^x- ^""^Jr ^y^"" Liberton," said a voice from behmd : he 11 discharge the duty as weel as ony man." You must turn back with ua, sir," said the first speaker, m a tone civ^ but peremptoiy, " For what purpose^ gentl-uen V said Mr. Butler " .1 live at some distance from town— the roads are unsafe by night— you will do me a serious injmy by stopping me " " You Shan be sent safely home— no man shall touch a hair ot your head— but you must and shall come along with us " But to what purpose or end, gentlemen V said Butler ' " I hope you wiU be so civil aa to explain that to me " ^ ou shaU know that in good time. Come along— for come n!!"""? \^ f^"'.?,^' ^^ "^^^' '"^^ I ^am you to look neither to the right hand nor the left, and to take no notice of ^y^aiis face, but consider all that is passing before you as a "I would it were a dream I could awaken from," said Butler to himself ; but havmg no means to oppose the violence with which he was threatened, he was compelled to turn round and ^^^ if 1 r°''* u- *^' ■^^°*'''' *^° "^^^ Partly supporting and p^ly holding him. Dming this parley the insiirgents had made themse ves masters of the West Port, rushing upon the Waiters (so the people were c^2ed who had the chLe of . gates), and possessing themselves of the keys. They bolted an^d barred the foldmg doors, and commanded cue person, whose duty it usua y was, to secme the wicket, of which they did not miderstand the fastenings. The man, terrified at an incident so totaUy unexpected, was unable to perform his usual office aiid gave the matter up, after several attempts The no ers, who seemed to have come prepared for every emergency, ^led for orches, by the light of which they nlued up the wicket witn long nails, which, it seemed probable, they had provided on purpose. , j ou While this was going on, Butler could not, even if he had been willing, avoid making remarks on the individuals who seemed to lead this singular mob. The torch-light, while it fell on their forms and left him in thn shad'^ ,;!i.,eoncerted plan of .arrangement. They had signals by whi :.;t tuo " knew, iv;;id nicknames by which they dwtinguished e&ch other, Butler remarked, that the name of Wildfire wa« uf-ed ...nciig them, to which one stout .\mazon seemed to rcjily. The rioters Mh a email party to observe the West T<.i% and directed the Waiters, aa they valued their lives, to r:main withm their lodge, and make no attempt for that night v re- possess tlismselves of the gate. They then moved with rapidity along the low street called the Cowgate, the mob of the city everywhere rising at the sound of their drum, and joining them. When the multitude arrived at the Cowgate Port, they secured It with as httle opposition aa the former, made it fast, and left a small party to observe it. It waa afterwards remarked, as a striking instance of prudence and precaution, singularly combined with audacity, that the parties left to guard those gates did not remam stationaiy on their posts, but flitted to and fro, keeping 60 near the gates as to see that no efforts were made to open them, yet not remainmg so long as to have their persons closely observed. The mob, at first only about one himdred strong, now amounted to thousands, and were increasing every moment. They divided themselves so as to ascend with more speed the various narrow lanes which lead up from the Cowgate to the High Street ; and still beating to arms as they went, and calling on all true Scotsmen to join them, they now fiilled the principal street of the city. The Netherbow Port might be called the Temple Bar of ' h A^^K ^ intersecting the High Street at its terminat'. - n divided Edinburgh, pro^. : v so called, from the suo.c^ v.aed ihe Canongate, as Tem- Bar separates London fvrm vVest- minster. It waa of the utmost importance to the n'ra to possess themselves of this pass, because there was ■- iarfr^d m the Ca'.ongate at that time a regiment of infantry, comma^u.iMJ by Colonel Moyie, which might have occupied the city hv tui- vajicmg through this gate, and would possess the power of tot.Jly THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. 68 defeating their purpose. The loaders therefore hastened to the Netherbow Port, which they secured in the same manner, and with aa little trouble, as the other gates, leaving a party to watch it, strong in proportion to the importance of the post. The next object of these hardy insurgents was at once to dis- arm the City Guard, and to prociu-e arms for themselves : for Bcarce any weapons but staves and bludgeons had been yet seen among them. The Guard-house was a long, low, ugly buildint^ (removed in 1787), which to a fanciful imagination might have suggested the idea of a long black snail crawling up the middle of the High Street, and deforming its beautiful esplanade. This formidable insurrection had been so unexpected, that there were no more than the ordinary sergeant's guard of the city- corps upon duty ; even these were without any supply of powder and ball ; and sensible enough what had raised the storm, and which way it was roUing, could hardly be supposed veiy desirous to expose themselves by a valiant defence to the animosity of so numerous and desperate a mob, to whom they were on the present occasion much more than usually obnoxious. There waa a sentinel upon guard, who (that one town-guard soldier might do his duty on that eventful evening) presented hw piece, and desired the foremost of the rioters to stand oflEl The young Amazon, whom Butler had observed particularly active, sprung upon the soldier, seized his musket, and after a struggle succeeded in wrenching it from him, and throwing him down on the causeway. One or two soldiers, who en- deavoured to turn out to the support of their sentinel, were in the same manner seized and disarmed, and the mob without difficulty possessed themselves of the Guard-house, disarming and tiuning out of doors the rest of the men on duty. It was remarked, that, notwithgftanding the city soldiers had been the instruments of the slaughter which this riot was designed to revenge, no ill usage or even insult was offered to them. It seemed as if the vengeance of the people disdained to stoop at any head meaner than that which they considered as the source and origin of their injuries. On possessing themselves of the guard, the first act of the multitude was to destroy the drums, by which they supposed an alarm might be conveyed to the garrison in the castle ; for the same reason they now silenced their own, which was beaten by a young fellow, son to the dnunmer of Portsburgh, whom they Lad forced upon that servife. Their next business w?? *-■ ■ 'Sf'i M WAVEBLEY NOVELa S£a«'' m*^' ^^^""^ °^ *^« "^*«« *he j,nm8, bayonets, partiaanB, halberts, and battle or Lochaber axes. UntU thS period the principal rioters had preserved silence on the ultimate object of theu- rising, as being that which aU knew but rTiL-''^'''''''^- ^7' l^owever, having accomplished all the sho^^f"^*^"? '^*l'^ ^^^^' *^^y '^^'^^ tremendous Tolbooth!" "^ Porteous! To the Tolbooth ! To the They proceeded with the same prudence when the object 21. ' ""^^^ '^*^'^ ^^P' ^ *^«y ^^^ done hitherto when success was more dubious. A strong party of the rioters drawn up in front of the Luckenbooths, In'd facing do^ the ofTv,: Tfl? /"^ all access from the eastward, and the west end of the defile formed by the Luckenbooths was seciu-ed in the same manner; so that the Tolbooth was completely smromided. .Tl* r ^^° "f/^«^ ^ok the task of breaking it open effectuali; secured against the risk of interruption. The magistrates, m the meanwhile, had taken the alarm, and to subdue the noters The deacons, or presidents of the trJes, were applied to, but declared there was little chance of theii authority bemg respected by the craftsmen, where it was the object to save a man so obnoxious. Mr. Lindsay, member of parliament for the city, volmiteered the perUoua task of canying a verbal message from the Lord Provost to Colonel Moyle the commander of the regiment lying in the Canongate, request ng hmi to force the Netherbow Port, and enter the city to put down the tumult. But Mr. Lindsay declined to charge himseli with any written order, which, if found on his person by an en- raged mob, might have cost him his life; and the issue of the application was, that Colonel Moyle having no written requisi- tion from the civil authorities, and having the fate of PoiteoL before his eyes as an example of the severe construction put by a jury on the proceedings of military men acting on the& own ^ponsibility declined to encounter the risk to whiS tie Provosts verbal communication invited him t^ S'n *^r r^ °^««senger was despatched by different ways to the Castle, to reqiure the commanding officer to march do^ tufl troops, to fire a few cannon-shot, or even to throw a shell among the mob for the pmpose of clearing the streets. But so bad establK^hed m djfferait parts of the streets, that none^ bayonets, Until this e ultimate new, but !d all the 'emendous ! To the he object J hitherto le rioters, lown the west end id in the grounded, ffectually arm, and strength e trades, of theii waa the imber of carrying jyle, the questing 7 to put himseli y an en- e of the requisi- *orteous put by 3ir own ich the it waya h down a shell But so rioters lono (^ THE HEABT OF MID-LOTUIAJT. (0 cttlT^^tX"^ '^' magistrates could reach the gate of the bfu^orSt and Jir^'.^*""^^^ ^^^^ -^'^-»* ^^^ necZaZ Jn ?ll fi ? °°*^"'^ "'^^^ ^^ menace than waa theTe^and '"^ '''"" '^'*° ^^^^^^'^^^ ^« -<^<^ompm r.o:rz7Js Jffi^r; 'j.t'^X'f s . * A near relation of the author's uspA tn f^n nf t,„>; i. li 66 WAVEKLEY NOVELS. I entertained the opiiuon, that the work about which they weni waa a judgment of Heaven, which, though unsanctioned by the iJflual autliorities, ought to be proceeded ir -i"^ order and tfravity. While thfcir outposts continued thus vigilant, and suflered themselves neither from fear nor curiosity to neglect that part M tJie dut- ^signed to them, and while the main guards to the east and wc ; secured them agaia^t interruption, a select body of the rioters tendered at the door of the jaU, and demanded in- stant ad) .fission. No one ans-.vered, for the outer keeper had pru- (leutly n ade his escape with the keys at the commencement of the not, auu wa^ nowhere to be found. The door was instantly assailed with sledge-hammers, iron crows, and the coulters of ploughs, ready provided foi- the pui-pose, with which they prized heaved, and battered for some time with ittle effect ; for the door, besides being of double oak planks, clenched, lx)th endhucr and athwart, with broad-headed nails, was so hung and secured as to yield to no m- ,tiis of forcing, without the expenditure of much time. The noters, however, appeared determined to gam admittance. Gang after gang relieved each other at the exercise, for, of course, nnly a few could work at once • but gang after gang retired, exhausted with their violent exertions, without making much progress in forcin- the pi.son door. Jiutler had been led up near tc fhis the principal scene of action; so near, indeed, it hb ./as aim .L deafened by the unceasmg clang of the heavy fore-hammers against the iron- bound portal of the prison. He began to entertain hopes, as the task seemed protracted, th- L ', populace '<-ight give ; . over m despair, or that some rescue might arrive to disperse them. Ihere was a moment at which the latter seem- 1 probable. The magistrates, having assembled their oti;«rs, and some of the citizens who were willing to hazard omP' vea for the pub- lic tranquillity, now sallied forth fror e em where the . held their sitting, and approached the ^ int ui danger. Thei'r oacers went oefore them with links and torches, with a herald to reac ,,ae not-act, if necessary. They easily drove before them the outposts and videttcs of the rioters ; but when they approached thelmeofguardwhichthemob,oriather,weshould8ay,thecon- spirators, had drawn across the street in thefront of theLucken- booths,theywere received withanunintermittedvolleyofstones. and,ontheirneai«rftpproach,thepikes,hayonet8,andLochaber. ftAes, of which ti.e populace had possesped themselves, were pre- THE HEART Of MID-LOTIIIA N. 67 LTck ii t^lf ''1^ ""Bupportod ho wa« inataiitly thrown on ma back m the street, and disarmed in his turn. Tlie officer wu^ 00 happy to be permitted to rise and nin away without recevh^ a..y farther mjuiy ; ulucb afforded another romarkab e'lLS tirobLfnf r^^ *^'' ""^'^ "'"^'^'^ inveteracy against itmp to LVr.,''''",'"^'"?- ^''" '"agistrates, after vain attempts to make themselves liean and obevod tissessinrr nn rL:Ho&''^'^ T''^"^^' ^^-^^^ coi^trlititZncl" o^mi^ el that wl^^^^^^^ i ' ''''"''^'" "" '^'"'^ ^■'''" ^^'' '^'''''' oi raissues that whistled around then- ears m re to baffle the purfme of the mob than the active interfer- ^6 ^^^\ ^'l' 1-avy sledge-hammei. continued echoPu Zm tL 1 TT\ /.^*«"^^^«Jo"» and with a no^e which, to have ™^^ T^ buildings around the spot, seemed enough amonr ' IZLl", ^^T '" ^^'' ^''^*^«- ^^ ^'^s circulattd ?hTm un'ress f ' 1*^'' *'"°P' r*^^ ^^'-^^^ ^«^^' to disperse S.f nW \i. ""^'^'""^ *1"^**^^ t^^« fortress, the garrisoa each'SherTf^ Tf "" ^'l apprehension, they eagerly relieved each other at the labour of assailing the Tolbooth door • vet uch was Its strength, that it stiU defied their efforts At lengt a voice was heard to pronounce the word., "Tiy t ^Lhte'' a d rr'tlTeW I ""^"^T ^'°"^' ^'^ f- -mbustiUes, ana as aU their wishes seemed to be instantly supplied thev were soon m possession of two or three empty tarKels A huge red glaring bonfire speedily arose close^to the Sruf the aTaue wT "^ ! 'f ^^'r^ '' «°^''^« ^^ fl-"« again t it thoTrn r ?°^«*^o"fe'Iy-grated windows, and iMuminating the nl r 't """^i ^"^'^'^ '^ '^'' ^'^''^> ^ho surrounded tne place aa well as the pale and ancious groi ps of those who from -f - ^ the ^cma^^^^^^^^^ the pWroVfel^! ^d fitT: J ^ ^1,*^' '^^ ^^t^ ^batever they could S ifp^nlf ^"^^r- ^^' ^""'^ '^''^ and crackled among the heaps of nomoBhment pUed on the fire, and a terrible shout T fT-^'l^ ^^ *^^ ^^^ l^ad kindled, and waa in^ ««t of beme destroyed. The fire wa. suffe;ed to dlv buT M WAVKRI-EY MOVJXg. irnTh,!,! rr-*" ^"""r^^'^^- *>'« »■<«» forward of th. rk* to work their ,.lea«ure i.pon him, whatever that might C* • Note C, Tl.,. 01.1 Tolbooth. !h' CHAPTER SIXTH. ^UaJZ iSoS^r "■" "^^"^^ '■ ''"'^ ^^ «'-" «« ^'-^^ but we wUi Mhrchant op Venice l.i.n, and he thought, i„ theTAtfe^rar" Sre^'n" ,forrjsrs£trrrbHS there msecanty until hU mtimate fate should AteS^ Habitaated, however, by hU office, to overawe the rabWeT,^ city, PorteouB could not suspect them of an atw! 'f„'""» °f ">« « to stonn a strong and d^fensMe ;rir; ^ d,^ trZ f.1ond. who vi.,ed bin, L i^Si:!,^ .TT^i^V: S TIIK IIKART OF mD-LOTHlAK. ^ niJea of the jail. ^^ ^ '"™' '*^""«'» coutraiy to the un/ortr;t:tS^^^^ when thi. in mistimed aiid ill-irroun Ir^ nL fi i ' ^''^^ r*** ^"^«' '"^^ high Bins fiUl blow,^ whfa the fi^sTd^^^^^^^^ ^'*^ ^^ hi« |»i".-lo.l with tile eon", of n^^^in "'it^^-";'' °^ '^' ^°^«^« hurried call of the jailor to h«rr. ^ "^.temperance. The to depart, and his ye Ire h^f i'?'' 'TT^ ^^'^ i««t^tly determined mob Ld p^^ir L^ «°^'*''^* ?' " ^^«"^*'^»^ «"J ffiiard-honse. were theStTlna^nn f..°^ ^^^ "^^ ^^*«« ^"<1 Porteoiw miL^ht howrverilr T i''?''^" ^*^^^"^ ^'^^^''^s. the force of authority cor^tritfv '\ ^V ^''^ ^^ich slipping on some di«S Id l^^'t ,, '• "* ^' *^°"^'^* °^ guests. It is prouL\::vrSr'':s^^^^ "/*^'- his escape, or even that in the hunrTthr? w 'T'^'^^ ** he might not have observed it Rnf ^^^'J^'^^S contmgency, alike wanted presence of mtd'to ful^f '°"' ""^ ^^ ^"^^'^^ of escape. The latter hSfledZTZ '"'''"^ '"^^ * P^'"* safety seemed compromised ami /Lf ^ '''^ '"^"'"^ ^^^^ ™ stupefaction, await^ed b ht apaS' e^^^^^ '1 * ''^'^ re«e«^ Wing enterprise of the rioters. Tlfe^e^sTtl^oftT^'f'''" '^ '^' mstrmnents with which they had Sfirlf 5 *^® '^^^^ °f *he door, gave him momenta^^elief S fl r^*'^ ? ^°^^« *^« the mUitaiy had marched ktoth« Iz ?,f'''l''S hopes, that or from the suburbs, and th^t th« hS ^' ^'^^'' ^'^°^ *^^« Castle dispersing, were sooi d^tro^^^^^^^^ ^«^''J^t«d and of the flames, which, illuSLg tLr th^^^ ^ T^. ^'^^t every comer of his anartmP.Vf S .^^^ *he grated window determined on their fat^pu,^^^ ;^,T^ that the mob, entrance equaUy desperate^ ci ^'^*^^ ^ «»^ ^^ Arcing J^h^Sj^t^^;;^^^^^^^^^^^ and a. to him; bit his progj^s wnZ I- T"^^^ ^ ^*^« ^''curred iron gratings, whi?' Cforthe^s^V^'^P"? ^^ °°« «f those across the vents o bSLydesi'i^^^^^^^^ '^'^"^ P^^ed bars, however, which imSed hrflf ""P'^°^"^«°t- The support him in the ^it^oTn ll- - • ^T '' P"'^''^^^' ^^rved to » . .t.3„.,,on ...h.ca ne i)a.i rminoj. and he «^i.,d ,■' '! n s !ii 70 WAVERLEY NOVELS. them with the tenacious graap of one who esteemed himself cling- ing to his last hope of existence. The lurid light which had filled the apartment, lowered and died away; the sound of shouts was heaxd within the walls, and on the narrow and winding stair, which, cased within one of the turrets, gave access to the upper apartments of the prison. The huzza of the rioters was answered by a shout wild and desperate as their own, the cry, namely, of the imprisoned felons, who, expecting to be liberated in the general confusion, welcomed the mob as their deliverers. By some of thase the apartment of Porteous was pointed out to hia enemies. The obstacle of the lock and bolts was soon overcome, and from his hiding place the unfortunate man heard his enemies search every corner of the apartment, with oaths and maledic- tions, which would but shock the reader if we recorded them, but which served to prove, could it have admitted of doubt, the settled purpose of soul with which they sought his destruction. A plac3 of concealment so obvious to suspicion and scrutiny as that which Porteous had chosen, could not long screen him from detection. He was dragged from his lurking-place, with a violence which seemed to argue an intention to put him to death on the spot. More than one weapon was directed towards hhn, when one of the rioters, the same whose female disguise had been particularly noticed by Butler, interfered in an authoritative tone. "Are ye mad?" he said, "or would ye execute an act of justice as if it were a crime and a cruelty 1 This sacrifico will lose half its savour if we do not offer it at the very horus of the altar. We will have him die where a murderer should die, on the common gibbet — We will have him die where he spilled the blood of so many innocents !" A loud shout of appJause followed the proposal, and the cry, " To the gallows with the nmrderer !— to the Grassmarket with him ! " ecl'oed on all hands. "Let no man hurt him," continued the speaker; "let him make his peace with God, if he can j we will not kill both hia eoul and body." "What time did he give better folk for preparing their ac- count ? " answered several voices. " Let us mete to him with the same measure he measured to them." But the opinion of the spokesman better suited the temper of those he addressed, a temper rather stubborn than impetuous, sedate though ferocious, and desirous of colouring tlieir cruel and revengeful action with a show of justice and moderation. ii- THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. 7] For an iiistanfc this man quitted the prisoner, whom he con signed to a selected giz.'trd, with instructions to'pmrt him to give his money and property to whomsoever he pleS A pe^ son confined m the jail for debt received this iLt deposit fmin he tremblmg hand of the victim, who wa3 at the Lme time permitted to make some other bri^f arrangementslo meet Ss approachmg fate. The felons, and all others who wished to leave he jaU, were now at full liberty to do so ; not that their liS ^3 n^l ^"1 '' '''' ''''''"^ P^"-P°^« «f the rioter" bur^ toUowed as almost a necessary consequence of forcing he a 1 doors. With wild cries of jubilee they johied the mfb or d^ appeared among the narrow lanes to seek out the hMden EndllTf.''' r^"f ' "^^«^« *h^y -^^« accustomed lurk and conceal themselves from justice _ Two persons, a man about fifty years old and a eirl about eighteen, were all who continued xWthin the fatal vvaUsexcepl a LSn'J fr ''^*"^' .^^^ ^^^°^^^^y «^^ ^^ advice 'in mis in^ /heir escape. The persons we have mentioned re otE One of f^' rr '^ '^' P™°"' "°^ ^^^^rt^'l by all to the mnn fol I l^'^' companions in misfortune called out "}'J\T^ ^^ sae, Willie," answered Ratcliffe, composedly hJ^fst rnS' *"' ' '"^^ ^^ ^"^^ '"'' "«• -^ -t "P f- - « „-'i' ?^^ t^'^' ^? he hanged, then, for a donnard aidd deevU '" said the other, and ran down the prison stair " I he person in female attire whom we have distinguished as one of the most active riotei., was about the same t^e at the ear of the young woman. - Flee, Effie, flee !" was all he had ime to whisper. She turned towards him an eyt of mLled fear, affection, and upbraiding, all contemling wfth aTrf of tupified surprise. He again repeated, - Flee, Effie flee -for the sake of aU that's good and dear to ;ou !" A^Sn she .J^d on hmi, but wa^ miable to answer. A loud noi e wLTow heard and he name of Madge Wildfire waa reSedTv Jled trom the bottom of the staircase ^-^peaiediy called The ffirl irazed after fiim for a mr-ncTi-^ - i — " ^o^ a moment, and men, iaiutly m mil 72 WAVERLEY NOVELS. a ; ► it I I inutteriDg, " Better tyue life, since tmt is gude fame " she rank her head upon her hand, and remained, sfemingrinconscToS aa a statue of the noise a^d tumult ^hiJh parsed Lid heT liiat tumult was now transferred from the inside to the out. "cJix^'fo^h'^'^'r'- l^' "^' ""^ broughrtheit^tre^ v^ctun forth, and were about to conduct him to the common S.'e Wil.?fi ff'',f ^^^ *^''^ distinguislied by the name of Madge Wildfire had been summoned to assist at the procession by the impatient shouts of his confederates "I will insure you five hundred pounds," said the unhannv Te'i^Xf """'"^^'^ ^-^'-"fi- h^indred potmlfortJ .J^ o*^^er answered in the same undertone, and retmning ofco^r.rn t'"?,'^?"^ convulsive, "Five hundredweight of corned gold should not save you.— Remember Wilson i" A deep pause of a minute ensued, when Wildfire added in a TtheTiSir' ''''-'' ^- ^-- ^'^^^ Heavei:^:l!^re the search after Porteous, was now brought for^^^ard anTclm manded to walk by the prisoner's side, .md to prepa e him for immediate death. His answer was a supplication thatthl rioters would consider what they did. " You a e Si J >^^^^^ lior juiy." saul he. - You cannot have, by the laws of God o^ man, power to take away the life of a human creatTire'ho^te deserving he may be of death. If it is murder even in a k wfnl magistrate to execute an offender other^vise than in the ^hoe thu^ and manner which the judges' sentence prescribes, what must i be m you, who have no warrant for interference but your ov4 wills? In the name of Him who is all mercy, show mercy S this unhappy man, and do not dip yom- hands i^ his blld noJ rush into the very crime which you axe desirous of avenging " Cut your sermon short— you are not in your bulnit " tiJiswered one of the rioters. ^ ^ ^ ' "If we hear more of your clavers," said another "we ara like to hang you up beside him " «"ufuer, we ar« "Peace-hush!" said Wildfire. "Do the good man no bami-he discharges his conscience, and I like hiithe Ser" He then addressed Butler. "Kow, su' we havriSlv heard you. and we ^,ist wish you to m der canVrthe C^^ THE JIEART OF MID-LOTHIAI*. 7^ Blood mu3t have blood W« T '^^^^ """^ purpose- deepest oahs ever wet p^Led thT? t ""'^ f^'' ^^ *^« death he deserves soTiVhlv?f V * ^"^^^om shaU die the prepare h^deat^a^^ ^"^^^^^^^^^ "T.*^ -' ^^* wm permit " ^ as weu as the briefness of his change shoes, in order to facUitatP ifis off . 1 ^ ^"^ ^"^ ^°^* ^^^ ^de; J ISdJ, "i°l Butkr^aa placed close to hfa pai^J which^ T7«'f„'^ I»*™ " duty always the most circuist.ce. :f rhStaTz^terrarfat'utt'''.' "Are you prepared for this dreadful end?" ^i\A Rn^^.. • faltermtj voice " O turn +r. xr- . , *^^^ ' ^^^ iiutler, in a the gallmgagoTy o^hrr itT^ 2n^'' "■'" P""^' "™« «» o5Prt_T ;,„ * f^ tetters, that his pauw would sooa lie any secrecy on the occasion tWti. T ^"^ ^^^'^^ observation Thei^pSr/lll ^^ 'T"^ "^^'^ *° *=«^t 74 WAVERLEY- NOVELS. I' i'i u \ ; lx)re aworda, muskets, and battle-axes, marched on each side, m It tormmg a regular guard to the procession. The windows, aa they went along, were filled with the inhabitants, whose slim- bers had been broken by this unusual disturbance. Some of the spectators muttered accents of encouragement; but in general they were so much appaUed by a sight so strange and audacious, that they looked on with a sort of stupified astonishment. No one offered, by act or word, the slightest interruption. 1 he rioters, on their part, continued to act with the same air ot deliberate confidence and security which had marked all their proceedings. When the object of their resentment dropped one of his slippers, they stopped, sought for it, and replaced it upon his foot with great deliberation.* As they descended the Bow to- wards the fatal spot where they designed to complete their purpose. It was suggested that there should be a rope kept in readiness. For this purpose the booth of a man who dealt in cordage was forced open, a coil of rope fit for their purpose was selected to serve as a halter, and the dealer next morning found that a guinea had been left on his counter in exchange • so anxious were the perpetrators of this daring action to show that they meditated not the slightest wrong or infraction of law, ex- cepting so far aa Porteous was himself concerned Leading, or carrying along with them, m this determined and regular manner, the object of their vengeance, they at length reached the place of common execution, the scene of his cri^e and destined spot of his sufferings. Several of the rioters (if they should not rather be described as conspirators) endeavoured to remove the stone wliich filled up the socket in which the end ot the fata tree was sunk when it was erected for its fatal purpose ; others sought for the means of constiiicting a tempo- rary gibbet, the place in which the gallows itself was deposited being reported too secure to be forced, without much loss of time Butler endeavoiu-ed to avail himself of the delay afforded design. -For God's sake," he exclaimed, - remember it k the unage of your Creator which you are about to deface in the person of this unfortunate man ! Wretched as he is, and wicked as he may be, he has a share in every promise of Scripture, and ..ly'v ''^^" \".ie«t, '•haracteristic of tbe extreme composure of thk ro^h::"■^'^"^''f ^""^'"^^^ ^^ ^ la.ly, who, disturbed iTke othe™ /iMmaisL, ir-m^f^mmu- ch side, aft indows, aa lose slum- ome of the in general audacious, lent. No 3 same air d all their ped one of i upon bis 5 Bow to- lete their e kept in dealt in rpose was ing found lange; so ihow that law, ex- lined and it length lis crime, ioters (if eavoured L the end its fatal 1 tempo- leposited '. loss of afforded lesperate it is the > in the 1 wicked ure, and •e of this ie others author hy THE HEART OP MID-LOTHUN you cannot destroy him in hnpenitence without name from the Book of Life— Do not give time for preparation." "What time had they," returned a stem voice, "whom he "zX''-' ''-''-''' '^-' '-'' °^ ^°^ -^ -^ "But what, my friends," insisted Butler, with a generous dis regard to his own safety-" what hath constituted yo/h^ .^ r h..n f ^? "^^V^^, J"'^^'''" '«P^*«^ *he same person ; " he t4 been already judged and condemned by lawful authority We are those whom Heaven, and our righteous anger, have "stir^.d pTottLTa"^^^^^^^ '-'''' ^ --^^^ «----* -1^' - "I am none," said the unfortunate Porteous: "that which you charge upon me fell out in self-defence, in the llwful exercise of my duty." ' lawtiii -Wh77 ^^*^ ,^.^-away with him!" was the generd cry Why do you trifle away tune in making a gallows ?- thTt dy^ter's pole is good enough for the homicide " The unhappy man was forced to his fate with remorseless rapidity. Butler, separated from him by the press esc3 th^ last hoiTors of his stmggles. Unnoticed b/ those X ji^ hitherto detamed him as a prisoner, he fled from the fJtal spof without much caring m what direction his course lay A loud shout proclamied the stern delight with which thT agent of his deed regarded its completion. Butler, then, at theTpenini into the low street called the Cowgate, cast back a teSd glance, and, by the red and dusky light of the torches he"ouId tZZ^" ^n ^'f r^ ^"^ ^*^'"^^=""«" ^ i^ hung sut^enld above the heads of the multitude, and could even observe men stnking at It with their Loch abcr axes and partis^^ The SiS of a nature to douW. klr. horror, and i ad^T^ngJ?: The street down which th> fuo-Jtive ran opens to one of the eastern ports or gates of the ' itv Butler did not .ton Si v reached it, but foimd it still sMt. He waS neltan t^' walking up and down i. inexpressible perturbattn ofS At length he ventured to call out, und rouse the attenti^of the temncd keepers of the gate, who n.w foimd themselm at liberty to resume their olMce ^v•ithout interruption Butler requested them to open the gate. They hesitated. He told them his name and ocoumtioii. - • «o wig H-v i:\i 76 WAVEKLKY NOVELS. |: fear beyon,. the S ^f Miiwh' Hif^^ '^°"" «"" totantly to take the road h^eward Z^l "T" ™ cares, connected with the iiew«Zh3 I ' ,* ?" '^='™ '>n-Wert in the late fatal riot*;rwben S t'di^tet^t ''°'' '""^ '^''™™ «' ">e not tl,'e lea.* reiSX?r:? TCT^ut'frf ^""f a':s/SrthTitL'lTst? T^^^^^ -^ only found to ltX:trt:trth ^S ""BuTnl? ""^ the present case. Thev sppmAri o«. , "^7^®^- . ■'^"t not so in vengLce they had prTseS'^^^^^^^^^ ^'\'^^ activity. \Vhen they were fimv SC tl,!; i v\^^ sagacious their victim, they /spersedTev^^^^^^^^ ^-^^t"^^ the weapons which thev harl nnll 7 ^^^^lon, throwing down cany through theL pSe M^Ti 1° '^"^^" *^«^^ *« the least token of theTents of th. ?^^ there remained not of Porteous, which stm h^t suspend ; f^^^f ^ '^l ^^^«« had suffered, and the amTof S -^ ^^ ^^'^^ ^^^^^ ^e had taken from the^^d horeThfl"^ ""K'^ '^' ™*«^« about the streets as they had tS^.. ""'l' ^'"^^ ''^^^''^^ when the purpose forZimter^J'Zl^Z:'^^- ^-^ complished. ^ ^®^®^ them waa ao. not^^th^^^n.S^'^^'Se'jI *! *^ ^"■™,^ *- P°--. it. tenure. To ^^iV^'ttTrT 1?! ''^'^ »' severe inquirv into thp tmnanl^jr^ ^ ., ^' "^^ commence a the first S7ret^g™' " tC rt"*','*'"' "-« these event, had been wnducM ™ IT ^ dBplayed. But . .1« of safety aud re^tT tr^-ltror^^^LI Im presach in aid another; the keepers 3 horror and purpose waa r fears and ; remarkable ' Edinburgh issed hiiii aa it remained, n imwonted which they 9 late fatal sion of the led, seemed affair. In fiich a mob dually been not so in with the sagacious abandoned ^ing down J them to lained not the corpse where he !ie rioters scattered 3ir hands was ao- r power, agility of mence a :ht, were d. But Jculated nothing THfi HEART OF MID-LOTUUN y, il l: audS.^ r tr- - P-^P^l acto. in a ^th the tidings, where therr^i^lT ^'V^'^ '' ^^^d^n «UT)nse in the council of rereL "^"^ ^'^\ inOignation and of Queen Caroline, wlio onsSfd Zt ^^^^^f ^^ ^^ the bosom to contempt by the success otS?': P ''^"^^\'^"ty as exposed was spoke of for some time tveS' <^onsp>racy. Wthing whicn should be taken, not^anlTon S ""^^^ °^' y^ngenji^ 80 soon as they should be ^1?^ I *^ ^'^°''' °^ this tragedy who had sufl-efed itt%l' tran^^,- ^.^ '^^ "^agistSS f>een he ,«ene where it IHImhJ^'V^' ''^y '^^^'^ ^^ad IS still recorded in mLuT ,^^^^^- ^" this occasion it the height of her disKe Lt*ir ')'' ^'' ^^Jesty? in of Argyle, that, soonerXn ^bi>'.''^'^'"*^^ ^^^"^ ^uke would make Scotland a hiLt^Iw "t '^?^ ''^^ ^'^^' «he answered that high-spirited 2.t ? *^'^* ^^> ^adaai " wdl take le^yeof^omM^^tylT' T^ ^ P^^^'^'^^d bow^^I to get my hounds ready »^' ^"^ ^' ^"^^ *<> ^^ own couitiy fhe same national spirit titrn,! ^I^^7 '^""^^^ actuated by checked in mid-voUerand mu]^ .1:"^'""^^ ^^ ««^-«ariI^ «"d adopted, to Home of whirh we n.n?^'' T' ^««o«^endea to advert.* "^"'^^ we may hereafter have occasion • Note D. Memorial conce^i., the .urder of Captain W.. CHAl^TER SEVENTH Arthur's Seat 8haU be my bed, Sm my true-love'« foraaken me ' Tp T ^"^ Song, couldT sllnie^S^^^^ *^; *^ or setting sun that wild path windinTa^r4d7,f !.„^^^°t^e, it would be eemicircular rocks, called S^bnr^ o ""^ *^' ^'^^ ^^^ of verge of the steep' descent whth s W T' ""^ ^^^^^ ^he the «outh-eaatern .ide of the ck? '^J'^^^^^ ^^^^ gl^n on prospect, in ix, general otSire comL? ^t^"'"^^ The -^' i-ommanuij a clncu. k,,.-!^ i . . tuj.i, aigii- ■^1 P ,1) ' ^ 78 WAVERLEY NOVELS. mt 3 'tn r ''^PP5"''^'^J^^« near to enchantment. This Oood Town oris J** '"* ™'^" ""' "«' ^^^ "^ '"s the tfme ™m 7°'' '"%"™ ='""'=■ ■« «" ■« *» whUe ™ I, which, to a nt tliat of a rocks, isles, w, a fair and nd rock, and I mountains. ;he cliffs, the and sublime lended witli, y whicli can e of sceneiy acy, and yet I" of evening, langed with e tamest of aent. This esort, when study. It ; a circiun- aste of the ) me of so nised to be ^thout an antic path murder of ve found a meeting his ely circuit- i^hile away y without circuit by until the v standing •f the sun rous frag- >ove him, i.tastrophe d to him sen formed i to think, nrE HEART or MID-L0TI,IAN. ff?/vethfSn :^lttfw?r? ^* ^^^^e^ee's, we [t/^/o'^ected witlf thafof m. n*^'' ^'^' ^°^ ^^^ ^^ Scotland His gran"atC;S;\e^^^^^^^^^^^ bom in ■>"e of the party of dismou^J^,] \ ^""^ '"^ ^^«"^^'« army, and forlorn hope at the stonmr o ^'""T'- ^^""^^ ^°"^«d ?Se Butler (called from his ta?nt« ,^ "^'v "^ ^^^^- Stephen f.^VP*'^^? Stephen, and Bib BtioL'''^'"^ and expounding^ and received in its fullpsf 1 , ^^ ^'^ a stanch Indenendonr jaints should iuhL''" e 3" 'T'T *?^ P-"^'- E X' '>ad chiefly faUen to his sW^ V,-.u^ ^^'^ ^"^^s were what common property, he lost no .^'^''*" ^ *^^« division of this and plunde/of a^tm r/iS^f J^ "^"^^ "^-t- a^ large a share of the bette tZsffT ^"'"', ^ ^PP'-^P^^^c possibly compass. It would seem thof^ T?*^ ^ ^'^ ^^o^'^J differently well, for his exterior S . ^'^ ^^^ succeeded in- ^equence of this event, to We be 'T''f '^''^ "PP^^'-^d* i^ c i- The troop to which hi Z ? "'"'^^ "tended, of Dalkeith, as formtg the td? "^,^"^^*-«^ at the village capacity of general fo^^the CoSf'^uu'^ ^^"^^^ ^^o, in S boming castle. When on J? ''''''^*^' '"^^^^ed in thi neilh general commenced h^lZ f^T .f ?'^ Restoration the ^th such important consenni ^'^^^^^^^ a measure preiuauf aoid more espLiau/those SmS ^' T''^'^'^^''^ ^^« t^oop" t^t they might isrSj^ft'dS ^r^"' ^ ^ '- self. On this ocr;asion Scrintur; SS " ^' "^^^^^^d to him- balance, and found want% Jt J '^^'^ ^^ ^'^'ghed iu the to any expedition which mi/hfi'''^'P°'*'^ ^^ f^l* no call militaiy sainthood, and that t i , ""^'^ *^' ^^^^^ of the free m conscience to johi wftl anv ^^ .""'^ r'''''^'' ^^^^^ as ultimately to acknowleL tt^^^ ^^"^h might be likek «on of "the last man/^l^btli r^' 'I Charles Stuart, the rently termed by them Z ihe^ZL^T r"'"'^'''^^ ^"^ ^'^^^ve- their more elaborate predications ^^7? '^''''"''"' ^ ^^^ as in did no admit of cashiering Teh .^l ^TT""' ^ ^^^ tin.e only advised in a friendly way to ^ S I''- ^.*'P^'^ ^'^"er was nients to one of Middlet^S old^ "^ ^^ ^°'«" '^"'^ '^'">utre. accommodating conscience o? a JrT'' ^^° f'^'^'^'^' '^d an squared itself chiefly upon thos^ n?f,; "^i '^°^P' ^^ ^^ich ^ this hint «^« ri^n'S t^'/riri!? !!!^ P^^-c. ' "" — ■*'" ^'"Si or tWTears # .t^Zu, ih III WAVtlRLEY NOVELS. presently payable, Stephen had carnal wisdom enough to embrace the proposal, and with great indifference saw hia old corps depart for Coldstream, on thuir route for the south, to establish the tottering Government of England on a new basis. The zone of the ex-trooper, to use Horace's phrase, was weighty enough to purchase a cottage and two or three fields (still known by the name of Beersheba), within about a Scottish mile of Dalkeith ; and there did Stephen establish himself with a youthfid helpmate, chosen out of the said village, whose dis- position to a comfortable settlement on tl is side of the grave reconciled her to the gruff manners, serious temper, and weather- beaten features of the martial enthusiast, Stephen did not long survive the fallmg on " evil days and evil tongues," of which Milton, in the same predicament, so mournfidly complains. At his death his consort remained an early widow, with a male child of three yea^.-> old, which, in the sobriety wherewith it demeaned itself, i?. , f ■ t Id-fashioned and even grim cast of its features, and in ;., r.fiftxintious mode of expressing itself, would sufficiently have vi:i,;'rated the honour of the widow of Beor- Bheba, had any one thought proper to challenge the babe'i descent from Bible Butler. Butler's principles had not descended to his family, or ex- tended themselves among his neighbours. The air of Scotland was alien to the growth of independency, however favourable to fanaticism under other colours. But, nevertheless, they were not forgotten ; and a certain neighbouring Laird, who piqued himself upon the loyalty of nis principles " in the worst of times " (though I never heard they exposed him to more peril than that of a broken head, or a night's lodging in the main guard, when wme and cavalierLsm predominated in his upper storey), had found it a convenient thing to rake up all matter of accusa- tion against the deceased Stephen. In this enumeration his religious principles made no small figure, as, indeed, they must have seemed of the most exaggerated enormity to one whose own were so small and so faintly traced, as to be well nigh im- perceptible. In these circumstances, poor widow Butler was supplied with her full proportion of fines for nonconformity, and all the other oppressions of the time, until Beersheba was fairly wrenched out of her hands, and became the property of the Laird who had so wantonly, as it had hitherto appeared persecuted this poor foriom woman. When his purpose wa« fiairly achieved, hfi showed pome rejuorse or modej-ation- of THE HEAUr OP MID-LOTiriAN. =:'SS«?«ii-r;-s 81 fier to mcanwhilo, grew i.n to ,nWa . f . T '""' ^«nj«"'"' tlie „,i • u , ^ P ^^ mans estate, and. mov.vl hv ^h. i his exactions VLnlvrnJ^h^TJA ^"'"'^^ ^''"^ rnoderate in !:«;■", j.r" •; ■■"•" •■>» "-is r Etas brace of hnndredweiirhfa 1 f^^ t , ° ^^^P -"^^ additional to the spot „ wh f h i? ;.k . "l"* ? ^S'^'*'' «»tertai„8 placed, and under the same giiardTanship • nf hat of^^^^^^ gr^dmother, the widow of MoSk's old trooper ^ ^'' The same prospect of misery hung oyer the'hea.l of another and dumb, resided £e with Ws p^S ^^^^^ ^° '"f t^*^/^, °f the d*J rs difrereBt fro. that aa^l^n^' to llfeTdtl J^iT "" " ''"" "^ '""^^ VOL. VII. *;i^ m lii' IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) k A m^// ^ >% A .^^ c v\% t/u fe 1.0 I.I L£ 12.5 ui US 2.0 Ui L25 II 1.4 m, 6" 1.6 Hiotographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 m v ^\ ^v^ ^i 4^ ^^ -LOTmAK. cc tbokeys^d manage,! ^£^^ oSCk'''':^''' "^ C spiritual matf pr« f k ® loUowmg words • i^r^ ""'"^essed These are sair times x J i never one of the ch)ar««t but ti.T^-^ttsirar""'^'^*'^"'^-" wiU be growing, Jock wh J ,^ ^® ^^^ sticking in a trp^ 1? ye take a morning's drau-ht !?'•! ?^' *^^ ^^^mach sair • Jn there makes it weel Jjw ' ^* '^ ^« a^"* mirabilir i' ^ ^^ b'-oken-winded ;t7s ^j :n'h?h''^^^^^ ^ ^o^g a^sc^Ti horn, at a penBy^v^dii^^,^,^-^^^^^^ --but Its a' needless .'-Mass TnL^ ?? '°^ ^^ath my head ower some bit short prayer tti,^' ""^'^^ ^« <^i^ o' rattS -me queer thoughts 'oufJ'^^tcL Ta^'^ "^^^^' ^^ ^J Icanuotuseaprayerlikear^Tu ^^^ ^^^lething, man » the patient "« Ww ^®" *^!?* without my telline- von ?» o» ^pre andWea^!; '^- ,''^-, ^i^U^/::! C^;^. woMs by a HiirhKmM !^^^ ^^'^'c^ WW achi^, . i ^^ "***» mode 4}^' 84 V^AVERLEY KOVELS. 1 ^ ', n ?''°^.,^'^* '^' y""'"^ whiggeiy, if that's a' yo can mAv t^'r'*' ^^'*'"P ^"^^ ^'' ''^^ h^^f *he prayer-book to TZil^ K *""^Awa wi' ye .'-Doctor, let's see if ye can do onything better for me." j^ v^ooi uu The doctor who had obtained some information in the mean- Z.urJ'^^ i housekeeper on the state of his compiuints, assured him the medical art could not prolong his life many hours «n.l l^ ^T"" ^^^ -^^^^ ^"^ y^'^ ^^ith!" cried the furious and mtractoble patient. "Did ye come here for naething but wl ! . *r f """^ ^^^P ^® ^* *^« Pi^^^h ? Out wi' them, Cromw";:;? ' *?' ^T' ^ "°^ '^"'^^' "^^ ^"™«' ^^^ the curse o murklT i' f J f ' -^^^ ^r *^'"^ '^*^«^ f«« ^' bountith, or sae muckle as a black pair o' cheverons !"* The clergyman and doctor made a speedy retreat out of the oTv oZt' '']''' ^""^bicdikes feu into'one of those trai^ports «nrnT f^ P'^^^''^ language, which had procured him the r Z i ^^«^,?f«-dikes. -Bring me the brandy bottle! Jeimy ye b_," he cried, with a voice in which pa/sion con^ -- there s ae fearful thmg hings about my heart, and an anker of brandy winna waah it away.-The Deanses at Vood^dT-I equestrated them m the dear years, and now they are to flit aid her oe, they'll starve— they'll starve!— Look out Jock- what kind o' night is'tl" ^wk uux,, oock , " On ding o' snaw, father," answered Jock, after having opened the window, and looked out with great composure. ^ ^ They 11 perish in the drifts!" said the expiring ninner- be S." '""' "' ""^' '-'"* ^'" b« '^^^ --V, ginTtLes This last observation was made imder breath, and in a tone which made the very attorney shudder. He tried his hand at ghostly advice, probably for the first time in his hfe and re eT/r ^'^T."" 'P'^'' ^'' '^' ^'"^'^'^ «°^«-en e of he Laird reparation of the mjuries he had done to these distressed famil 2' rSrh. pfa^: faTJmr htSt^groLrTdt S's a' ye can :ayer-book to if ye can do in the mean- compiuints, many hours, the furious aething but at wi' them, the curse of ntith, or sae • out of the e transports ed him the ndy bottle, passion con- lout fashing ig his voice id an anker jodend ! — I are to flit, joper's wife out, Jock; ''ing opened gin a' tales 1 in a tone is hand at fe, and re- the Laird, id families, i restitutio 3morse for d, and he )ng for his m WAKV 01- MID-LOTHUN. ii- ■f canna do'f » l.-^ "" '-ould kill me to dow'^r'''^ ""'^^ ^ ^^''^^ of despair " T* tto '■to'p''at''TOwhL'''''K?'¥"^ Dumbiedifces, "or I'll (li,. the Deaases and the Butto^irt? ^.'' '" "'" P'^' "^S lettbewarKgetaCTinn'f^ , '™'' *" them, Jock K,.^' «"d wte„,,/ drdlon'e &"i''''''»P thege^ aJ^C;.' creatures stay at a liX'^^ Beereheba at no rati, iti * ' ^m^y^ z the\S":? ™"^, -" !■- w "-d s^;;i: ■After these contmdictorv iS ..'"''' '"'"''e he's gaun lid '" »? "luch at ease, tC^t^^i^'t""^-''"' ^■'"•^ tSh^^Zmi tmucusiy, aad "soughed am '•Ir'"' ''™">^» "f brandy^" The cotf '^ 't ™'^- th~S for« S"^;"* »^>^i'"^: I i w mm ia WAVEKLKY NOVKLS. profesBions, Deans and the widow Butler were placed in such a situation as naturaUy and at length created some intimacy between the tamilies. They had shareii a common danger and a mutual deliverance. They needed each other's assistance, like a company, who, crossmg a momitain stream, are coi..i)eUed to clmg cl()«e together, lest the cuiTcnt sliould bo too powerftU for any who ai-e not thus supijoited. ^ On nearer acquainttince, too. Deans abated some of his pre- judices He tound old Miu Butler, though not thoroughly grounded m the extent and bearing of the real testimony ag^st the defections of the times, had no opinions in favoinr of the independent party ; neither was she an Englishwoman. There- fore It was to be hoped, that, though she was the widow of an enhusiastic corporal of Cromwell's dragoons, her grandson might be neither schismatic nor anti-national, two qualities coucemmg which Goodman Deaais had as wholesome a teiror a^ a^t papists and malignauts. Above all (for Douce Davie Deans had his weak side), he pei-ceived that widow Butler looked up to huu with reverence, listened to his advice and compounded for an ocjcasioual fling at the doctrines of her deceased husband, to which, as we have seen, she was by no means waiinly attached, in cohsideration of the valuable counsels which the Presbytenan aflbrded her for the management of her little fann. Ihese usmdly concluded mth " they may do other- wise m England, ueighbom- Butler, for aught I ken:" or "it may be diflerent m foreign parts ;" or, " they wha think differently on the gi-eat foundation of our covenanted reformation, over- tmjimg and mishguggling the government and discipline of the kirk, and breakmg down the carved work of our Ziou, might be for Ba^vlng the craft ^vi' aits ; but I say pease, pease.'' Ad as his advice was shrewd and sensible, though conceitedly given, it was received with gratitude, and followed with respect. uJh "';^' w "^f ""A^"^ *°"^ I^^^^« ^^*^<^ t^e f'^^'^ at Beer- Bheba and Woodend became strict and intimate, at a very early period, betwixt Reuben Butler, with whom the ;eader is already m some degiee acquainted, and Jeanie Deans, the only chUd of Douce Davie Deans by his first wife, -that singular Christian woman, as he was wont to express himself, -whose name was javouiy to aU that knew her for a desirable professor, Christian Menzies m Hochmag.rdle." The manner of which intimacy, and the consequences thereoi, we now proceed to rekte . >oed in such a >me iutimapcy a daiiyer and ssistance, like coi.i|H3lled to powerful for e of his pre- t thoroughly tuony against ivour of the laii. There- widow of an er grandson wo qualities e a teiTor as Douce Davie idow Butler advice, and ines of her was by no ible counsels tnent of her ay do other- u;" or, "it k differently ation, over- i)line of the Zion, might ase." And tedly given, ipect. ies at Beer- k very early r is already ily child of " Christian ) name waa , Christian intunacy, te. . 87 ™* lIE^UiT OF MID-LOTIIIAN. CHAPTER EIGHTH When both were lufr H 'I'.-'^'" ^^'^ '"^'"l'^ -• Of h.«ty ovU Se lul "'°"^''* '* '^'""^^ '» J D to luaKe tliem jioorer still. CjiABBKs I'arLk lieuister. he lands of Dtnnbiedikes whie , it Z T' T^ P^^-^^'^' became gradually apparent tl.nf n "'*'''' ^""^ *« ^''cupy, it ^^ his ally in thJcS It FnT T '^J'''' *^^« ^^rife "lau, and not muchT f fT • ^""'^ '*• ^^o former was a woman, and decCintot^^^^^^^^ '' ^^^^^^rs. Kutl r .? "^ time to have been Cancedtv ,f ^""''- ^^^'' ^'^««^^ «"fe'ht wa. growing up to asstT ht t^TT^'f''' '^'' P^^"^«« Jeanie Deans, ^ a frirl TonM ,^''"^^"*her's labours, and that father's burdens. But Dou •« n' ^"^j: «"PP«««J to add to her aad so schooled and trailed h« "^^ ^'"^ ^«"«^ *hing that from the ZeZTtm Zl' "''''''/ ^ ^« ^^'^^^^^ K employed in some task or oihersiwfii ?T'^' '^^ ^^ ^'^ily a circumstance which adlr^fn ^ ^^l^ l"* ^"^ ^^^ ^^^ ^'-ipacity • and lectures, tendedto^v, h r m^f "' '"i'^ ^^^^^^^^'^ grave, serious, firm and rPfW.- ' ^'''" '^^^'^^ ** '-'hild, a strong and healthTtemXmml. f°^ /""*' ^ "ncommo^ and eve^ other i^r XrwLwfr.'" '^ "« ^«'-««^ more noble function^, eo oftl J^. ^^"f *^" ^"^^ "^ 'ts greatly to establish this fortitudp"'r' ^^'' "^^^' ^^^'^e^i character. ^ lortitude, sunphcity, and decision of thought ^tt^Ltm^^^^^^^^^ - -stitution, and, doubtful, and appreheS He 2tnf ^.^r°"^^^^ ^^^'^ his mother, who had Xd of f pL \'^'^' tempeiument of was a pale, thm, feeble siclly W tf °" ^ ^^^ «-"«• ^e an accident in eLrly youth R« ^l^^^^e^hat lame, from doting grandmother^ Sse too^l-T' ^''^^^' *^« '^^ ^f a taught hhn a sort of mln^ L S?r"?.*"^^ ^^ -«- overrate his own importance whirT' ""'^ * disposition to --.uenc that chil^'n"<;:^.L^^t^^^^^ --* m if 88 WAVERLEY NOVELS. Stai, however, the two children dung to each other's society aot more from habit than from taste. They herded togethei the handful of sheep, with tlie two or three cows, which their parents turned out rather to seek food than actually to feed upon tlie unenclosed common of Dumbiedikes. It was there that the two urchins might be seen seated beneath a blooming bush of whin, their little faces laid close together under the shadow of the same plaid drawn over both their hoads, while the landsca])o around was enlbro^vned by an overshadowing cloud, big with the shower which had driven the children to shelter On other occasions they went together to school, the boy receiving that encouragement and example from his companion, in crossing the little brooks which intersected their path, and encountering cattle, dogs, and other perUs, upon their journey, which the male sex m such cases usually consider it as their prerogative to ex tend to the weaker. But when, seated on the benches of the echool-housc, they began to con their lessons together, Reuben who wfw as much superior to Jeanie Deans in acuteuess of in' tellect as inferior to her in firmness of constitution, and in that insensibility to fatigue and danger whicli depends on the con- tormation of the nerves, was able fully to requite the kindness and countenance with which, in other circumstances, she used to regard him He was decidedly the best scholar at the little parish school ; and so gentle was his temper and disposition, that be was rather admired than envied by the little mob who occupied the noisy mansion, although he was the declared favourite of the master. Several girls, in particular (for in .Scotland they are tauglit with the boys), longed to be kind to and comfort the sickly lad, who was so much cleverer than his coini,amons. The character of Reuben Butler was so calculated as to offer scope both for their sjinpathy and their admiration, the feelmgs, perhai)8, through which the female sex (the more daserving part of them at least) is more easily attached But Reuben, naturally reserved and distant, improved none of these advantages; and only becfime more attached to Jeanie D^ns, as the enthusiastic approbation of his master assured him of fair prospects in future life, and awakened his ambition In the meantime, every advance that Reuben made in leamingVand considenng his opportunities, they were uncommonly great) rendered him less capable of attending to the domestic duties of his gnmdmother's farm. While studyii.g the pms adnorum in bnclid. he suffered every crt^W.'. upon the common to trespass wC^ ei^s flociety, Bd together B^hicb their feed upon ire that the ng busli of ! shsulow of e landscape ig with tiie On other 3iving tliat rossing the icountering h the male itive to ex ihes of tlie r, Reuben, uess of in- nd in that 3 tlie cou- 3 kindness he used to the little lition, that niob wlio declared ir (for in je kind to than his calculated Imiration, the more 1. d none of io Jeanie ured him tion. In ing (and, ly great) duties of norum in trespass THE HEAKT OP MID-LOTIIUN. Dustiefoot. could liavnaveVr^ Deans with her little dof n.ont. Similar nu" ca^ilge' S J ht '"^ '"°''^1"^"^ ^'^^'' studies. He read ViJu^ o ■ l-lf P^'^^^ress iu his classiwd from barley ; and hadHlv'T^f' *'^ ^ ^^^^ ^'' ^now here while attempting to euUivte tn'^''^ ' •" '''^'' °^ ^^^^^'^ba Columella alid Cato thfcelf ^'"^ '''^"^^ *' *'^« P^'^^'"^^ «f had for some tLe enSned ^f ^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^--^ Butlerr-^rtl^tLTld"?^^^^ -"-t, neighbour wark o' the mmistry. ^^ netr W^^ ^' • '"^" ^"" *« *b« preachers than e'en nowTthpr.T^i ^n-'"^''""^'^ of poorfu' hearts are hardened iZthneZ,-"^ ^'^'' when men's regard none of these thint« ff "^'.l -«tone, tiU they come to yours will never beable to ^o lltf''7' '^'' ^"^ ^^*^"* «^ as an ambassador from our Z ' ^f t' ^"^^^ '^^^^^ ^^ ^e business to procure a renrwfe"l:Lfiffo'rtT" "^^ ^* "^ he will be a shaft clfinlv r...i; u , , *°^ *^e same, trustine body of the kirr- aS fat^S* '. '"^ f'"* *° ^' "^^ '^^ thf to wallow in theCe of iLtitfnT* *"™ ^^^' "^« ^^^ «ow, shall have the wings of a dov!^H '^*^?««/°d defections, bu pots." *• ""* * '^''''«' *^o"gh he hath lain among the from the High School «rS' ^^ hastened to take Butler mathematics tdStT^h?:^^^^^ "^ *^^^ ^'^^"^ '^ chanced to be in fa^luo^;^' the ti^'^^ ^^^'''^ ^d ethics that than childish feeling tKothohn?"^'' ^^1 ^* ^'^ ^^^ °^ore But they were yo4 and W^^'^l-'r^'^ *^« ^«P^^^ti«^ like those who h^opTfo meet aTin^Ta nf^' "'^^ *^'^ ^^^^^^ WhUe Reuben Butler w^ aSSx?^"TTh T "°"? ^°^- .^drews the knowledge necessS^! i ' Umvemty of St. Jg his body with the privSTlhl clergyman, and macerat- food for his mind his lanTl v "^"'^ """'^^ ^^ «eekmg Btruggle with he? 1 ttle f^t ,T ^'.T' ^^^^ ^''' ^^e t? it up to the new La^d 0^^^ T.t^'^^f '' *^^«^ - no absolute Jew. and ^Tdtf eVht' r^S'^ 90 WAVERLEY NOVELS. bargain more than waa tolerable. He even gave her permlasion to tenant the house m which she had lived with her hiwbuid as long iia it shoidd be " teuantable ;" only he protested against laying for a farthuig of repairs, any benevolence which he possessed being of the passive, but by no means of the active mood. In the meanwhUe, from superior shrewdness, skiU, and other circimistances, some of them purely accidental, Davie Deans gamed a footing in the world, the possession of some wealth, the reputation of more, and a growing disposition to preserve' and mcreaae his store ; for which, when he thought upon it seriously, he was mclined to blame hunself. From hia knowledtre in agriculture, as it was then practised, he became a sort of favoujite with the Laird, who had no great pleiiaure either in active sports or m society, and was wont to end his daUy saunter by ciUlin<» at the cottage of Woodend. " Being himself a man of slow ideas and confused utterance Dumbiedikes used to sit or stand for half-an-hour with an old laced hat of his father's uix)u his head, and an empty tobacco- pipe IV his mouth, with his eyes following Jeauie Deans, or " the lassie, ' as he caUed her, through the course of her daily domestic labour ; while her father, after exhausting the subject of bestial, of ploughs, and of harrows, often took an opportunity of goiii.' fiUl-sail into controversial subjects, to which discussions the dignitary listened with much seeming patience, but without making any reply, or, indeed, as most people thought, without understanding a single word of what the orator was sayin