"Oh," said a young woman," the baillies did fetch uvverything away, barrin' the one sate, when we were livin' in Lancaster Street."

Dan's sent us th' baillies one day, For a shop-score aw owed him, at aw couldn't pay; But, he were too lat, for owd Billy at th' Bent Had sent th' tit an' cart, an' taen th' goods off for rent, They laft nought but th' owd stoo; It were seats for us two, An' on it keawr't Margit an' me.

"Then, th' baillies looked reawnd 'em as sly as a meawse, When they see'd at o'th goods had bin taen eawt o' th' heawse; Says tone chap to tother, 'O's gone,thae may see,' Says aw, 'Lads, ne'er fret, for yo're welcome to me!'

" Mr. Baillie was in hopes that the friends of the abolition would have been contented with the innocent blood which had been already shed.

It had been said by another, (Mr. Baillie,) that the horrible insurrections in St. Domingo arose from the discussion of the question of the Slave Trade.

An adversary, Mr. Baillie, had said, that it would not be fair to take the character of this country from the records of the Old Bailey.

But Mr. Baillie had forgot the essential difference between the two cases.

Colonel Baillie lends it.

I have thanked Loch, and begged him to thank Colonel Baillie.

His real object was open to every eye; still the motion met with the concurrence of his own party, [Footnote 1: Baillie, ii. 76, 77.

They never exceeded a dozen in the assembly; but these were veteran disputants, eager, fearless, and persevering, whose attachment to their favourite doctrines had been riveted by persecution and exile, and who had not escaped from the intolerance [Footnote 1: Baillie, i. 420, 431; ii. 15, 24, 37, 43, 61.] of one church to submit tamely to the control of another.

But when they [Footnote 1: Baillie, 398, 408; ii. 3, 19, 43. Whitelock, 169, 170.]

Baillie, i. 421, 422, 471.

[Footnote 1: Baillie, ii. 57, 61, 62, 66-68.

The Lords named one person to the living, Charles another; and the archbishop, to extricate himself from the dilemma, sought to defer his decision till the right should have [Footnote 1: Baillie, i. 408, 413, 440; ii. 27, 31, 33, 36, 73, 74, 75.

"Baillie, i. 411.]

Baillie, ii. 8, 43, 73.]

Two circumstantial and interesting letters from Baillie, ii. 280-297.

Two-thirds of the infantry, in their eagerness to escape, fell into the hands of the neighbouring inhabitants; nor did Baillie, their general, when he surrendered at Warrington, number more than three thousand men under their colours.

Whitelock, 583,597, 599. Burnet, i. 58-61. Baillie, ii. 377, 381.

"Thus," exclaims Baillie, "our general assembly, the glory and strength of our church upon earth, is by your soldiery crushed and trode under foot.

" [Footnote 1: Baillie, ii. 370.]

He [Footnote 1: Baillie, 371-376, 360.

Whilst Baillie weeps over the state of the kirk, Kirkton exults at the progress of the gospel.

[Miss Bailly would be Joanna Baillie (1762-1851), author of Plays on the Passions.