The whole transaction is a pleasing record of a benefit that was neither sooner nor later resented by the receiver.

The whole transaction was a formal recognition of the Gibeonites as a separate people.

A credit transaction is a trade lengthened in time; one party fulfils his part of the contract, the other party promises to give an equivalent at a later date.

" This Presbytery, after forty years' experience, during which opportunities have been afforded for examining the opinions and practices of all parties, professing any regard for the Covenanted Reformation, is still deeply impressed with the conviction that the transaction at Auchensaugh 1712, is the only faithful renovation of our Covenants, National and Solemn League.

His transaction with Leamy was his only possible expedient to save himself from being hopelessly taken with the swag in his possession.

Graunt, at a time when the transactions of queen Mary's reign must have been well enough remembered, declares, that Ascham always made open profession of the reformed religion, and that Englesfield and others often endeavoured to incite Gardiner against him, but found their accusations rejected with contempt: yet he allows, that suspicions and charges of temporization and compliance, had somewhat sullied his reputation.

The transaction which has been related here is the second and only other instance since the Revolution of a sovereign having recourse to such a device to sway the votes of members of either House.

The case is complicated: the transactions have been much misunderstood, and the opinions regarding them are various and discordant.

The result of his examination convinced him that his cousin had been playing him false; that the men with whom his pretended losses had been made were men of straw, and the transactions were shadows invented to cover his own embezzlements.

This case deserves special notice, as it is the only one where the whole transaction of buying servants is detailedthe preliminaries, the process, the mutual acquiescence, and the permanent relation resulting therefrom.

This transaction has been the subject of complaint on the part of some foreign powers, and has been characterized with more of harshness than of justice.