whose oldest daughter is married to Adam Duncan Tait of Kirkliston, were too cunning for them. The election was said to be lost, though, in point of fact, it was not; but the presbytery of Glasgow thought it foul scorn, that a complete stranger should carry Chryston and Cadder, in opposition to them and their licentiates, and opposed, by the most unlawful means, for seven long years, with all the rancour of disappointed and defeated clergy. They were not all equally guilty; but none of them stood up for truth and justice. Dr. Chalmers talked about their Nobile Officium, or Jeddert justice, hang and then try. Good honest man, he would have proposed to sink Britain and Ireland for an hour to cleanse them, if the thought had struck him. Will Dr. Hanna put all these things into his life? He would never have been a geologian, if he had not been carried away by what he reckoned a brilliant idea, as is clear from what he wrote in 1814, (Acts xxvi. 25.) Yet Dr. Cunningham often declared, that whatever was done by a Church Court, could not be reversed; for it was done according to the mind of Christ, well knowing, that the revealed mind of Christ was seldom, if ever, regarded more than by geologists. Messrs. Cathcart and Cunningham were Mr. Graham's chief counsel; Mr. Jeffrey was last employed; then Messrs. Cranstoun and Jardine were ours, aided by Messrs. Clerk and Moncrieff. Their lordships ordinary, were Bannatyne, Gillies, made great avizandum. În the second division, it was pled four days before the Lord Justice Clerk Boyle, and Lords Meadowbank, Glenlee, Woodhouselee, Craigie, Robertson. Mr. Cunningham replied to Mr. Jardine, and Mr. Cathcart to Mr. Cranstoun, when the Lord Justice Clerk told Mr. Cathcart, he would have something to do to-morrow. On the 9th February, 1813, the second division of the Court of Session found that we were duly elected, and ought to be inducted; the General Assembly, on 29th May fol lowing, arrived unanimously at the same finding, and ordered induction, notwithstanding of any appeal, threatened or entered. The presbytery determined neither to regard the civil nor ecclesiastical court. The supporters of Mr. Matthew Graham, were James Stirling, Keir; Charles Stirling, Kenmure; Archibald Lamont, Robroyston; James Denniston, Easter Muckcroft; James Hill, Gartloch; Dr. James Jaffray, Baads; John Gibson, Johnston; David Dobie, Gartferry; Robert Carrick, Garnqueen; Charles A. King, Woodneuck; John Harvie, Gartcosh; John Craig, James Campbell, William Davidson, James Anderson, William Alexander, James Jarvie, Auchenairn; John Lang, Holms; John Risk, Glenhead; John Drew, Burnbrae; William Barclay, Bishopbrig; James Baird, Auchinloch; Robert Ferrie, Adamswell; John

Galloway, Huntershill; William Hunter, Crawhill; James Drew, Myriemailing; Matthew Cleland, Springfield; Ann Reid, Cleddans; Thomas Ferrie, elder, Blackhill; Robert Stevenson, elder, Boghead; John Scott, elder, Dryfield. The supporters of Mr. Lockerby, were William Gray, Wester Muckcroft; James Gray, Auchengeich; James Gray, Milbrae; James Campbell, Bedlay; James Tennent, Croftfoot; Robert Craig, Shankramuir; Andrew Monach, Auldyards; Robert Calder, Millersneuck; William Drew, William Bogle, Robert Bogle; William Jarvie, sen.; William Jarvie, jun., Auchinloch; John Scott, Thomas Scott, John Marshall, Robert Smellie, Brownknowes; Robert Kennedy, Slakiewood; Agnes Lang, Glaudhall; John Miller, Myriemailing; James Anderson, Muirhead; Robert Harvie, James Reid, David Baxter, William Stark, William Hutchison, Robert Waddel, James Waddel, James Provan, Chryston; James Angus, elder, Chryston; Robert Russel, elder, Knockmilly; John Corbet, elder, Bridgend. James Purdon Gray, Chryston' and Langrig, insisted on voting, but was deterred by Charles Stirling and James Hill. John Muir, Gartferry, supported Mr. Cumming of Fraserburgh. Mr. Stirling could not persuade him to change to Mr. Graham, and Mr. Lockerby's friends used no means to gain their purpose; but neglected those in their power, always thinking they had the majority. All these were bound in their titles to pay cess, teind, and all other public and parochial burdens. Henry Moncrieff, agent for Mr. Lockerby, foolishly, and without authority, raised an action of damages against the Presbytery for disobeying both Supreme Courts; but the Roman Emancipation Bill did not pass till 1829; and the Reform Bill, till 1832; the Veto was not passed till 1834; Auchterarder had not got £5000 of damages; the world had not come to the transition state; the Pope had not fled to Gaeta till December, 1848. Lord Eldon, after hearing the pleadings of Sir Samuel Romilly and Mr. Horner for the appellants, on 1st July, 1816, and Sir John Leech and Mr. Adam for the respondents, deferred giving judgment till he had passed some bills; it being the last day of the Parliament. Mr. Richardson, the only survivor of all present but Alexander Campbell of Bedlay, and the writer, went in to Lord Eldon in the robing-room. His lordship said, he believed he would affirm. Richardson, solicitor for appellants, told him to beware of Mr. Provan's vote,-the only vote challenged on Mr. Lockerby's side. Mr. Campbell, at his father's solicitation, had influenced James Campbell, Sir John Leach, and Mr. Adam, for Mr. Somers, who his father had relinquished on

the morning of the election for want of support, as Mr. Stirling had Mr. Cumming the night before. Mr. Richardson made us lose our expenses. When he returned, after retiring, and took my arm, and told me this, I was perfectly confounded; but I recollected the same thing had been done in Dr. Dick's case of Lanark, although not simply told by Sir Henry Moncrieff, I said nothing; for we had sparred on entering the house; for he had not the original corrupted minutes, had they been called for. Sir John Leach aud Mr. Adam would do nothing that I bade them; but the Chancellor happened to stammer on one of my two objects desired. He stopped Mr. Leach, and bade him plead to Mr. Stirling in the papers being said only to give one vote. Leach spoke about it, and about it; but nothing to it. He told me before he began, that he was going to plead for a new election, though the appellants never mooted it. I told him I would tell the Chancellor he had no authority. The Chancellor's finding was about four o'clock. He came to the bar, and said, Mr. Richardson, Mr. Stirling had no right to give a double, or casting vote; Miss Ann Reid never gave a legal vote; and as to Mr. Provan's vote, I'll defer judgment till to-morrow that I have read the papers. Parliament was prorogued on the morrow; so that he sent James Provan's vote to the Court of Session, to reconsider and decide upon it; and the rest of mine they had not considered. Mr. Graham's friends got Mr. Jeffrey to speak long and sore against it, though he told Cunningham, threatening to appeal again, that it was the law of Scotland, and could not be reversed.

The second sermon (Psalm xxiii. 1) was preached in Mr. M'Laurin's Gaelic Chapel, after the winter sacrament, in November, 1812; and in Mr. Finlayson's, Airdrie, on same occasion, a fortnight after. It was much admired in both places; and Mr. Finlayson wished it published. Its simplicity was hurt by making it afterwards an action sermon. Received the letter to preach, 18th July; and preached, 9th September, 1810; and was admitted into Chryston by kind-hearted Dr. Lockhart, 25th April, 1811. The Presbytery were forced on by sheer law; and the great Dr. Chalmers inducted Mr. Lockerby into Cadder on the 5th March, 1818, preaching from Ezek. xxxiii. 32. Whether he has published the charge, we do not know. It was a very wet day, and a great flood; and Dr. Gibb alone dined with Mr. Lockerby's friends in the Black Bull Inn, Glasgow. The family of Gray possessed Grayston, or Chryston, at least from about the Reformation. The chapel was built in 1779, when Mr.

Dun became frail, and not so able to go to the preaching station at Auchinloch, in the corner of the turning from Chryston to Cadder, where he and his predecessors had preached every third Sabbath. The original constitution was granted in 1780; Mr. Provan was appointed the first preacher in 1780; Mr. Graham in 1793; Mr. Dick was ordained in 1800; Mr. Somers was ordained in 1807. The stipend was always £50, till Mr. Campbell, Bedlay, got it raised to £70, when Mr. Somers was settled; but allowed the people to pay it. The Presbytery would allow no supplies for a month after I was translated to Cadder; and I was obliged to ask a Mr. Brown to preach two Sabbaths, who expected to get Chryston; for the preachers were all under the influence of the ministers. He was told he was to get nothing for it; but he raised an action before the Sheriff, who favoured him. I was obliged to suspend it to the Court of Session; and could not find one to become security to the Court, but Eneas Morrison, the only writer Lord Moncrieff could trust in Glasgow, in 1815. It was gained; but Messrs. Macmillan and Grant neglected to ask expenses, and it cost me about £60. The Presbytery would not ordain Mr. Young till they got an additional bond for £10, which he has never got. Mr. Dick, Ruglen, was very angry when James Angus, John Harvie, and others, granted it. Mr. Campbell had lent money to Mr. McKenzie, and took Bedlay in payment, about 1804. He wished to deprive the villagers of access to the well of Bedlay, about 1809; although Mr. Gray, Chryston, and Mr. Gray, Milbrae, had both taken water from it for more than 100 years. It stood upon the road, as it had stood for ages, for a public benefit. It was proved that, in 1759, William Nasmith, David Wilson, miller; Adam Anderson, John Steven, Robert Kirkland, Walter Watson, whose grandson still lives in the village, all weavers; James Rankine, shoemaker; James Monteith, smith and innkeeper,-whose daughter Margaret lives in the village; James Burnet, farmer; and William Menzies, who likewise had a daughter residing in the village in 1809,-all resided in the village in 1759, and all obtained their water, unchallenged, from the well of Bedlay, about 150 yards distant from the village. The persons who opposed Mr. Campbell in 1809, and gained the plea, were-Robert Brash,' cordwainer; Robert Harvey, mason and innkeeper; James Reid, William Hutcheson, James Calder, James Gray, James Henderson, James Risk, weavers; James Waddell, James Provan, labourers and ploughmen; all then feuars. The oldest feu-dispositions seem to have been granted by Isabella Gray, proprietrix of Chryston in 1785. Robert Brash and

Robert Smith are mentioned as having got them at that period. James Angus and Zecharias Anderson are mentioned as having leases of 999 years. Adam Anderson, John Angus, Thomas Downie, James Downie, John Anderson, James Burnside, William_Waddell, John Reid, Alexander Martin, Robert Campbell, James Tennent, Walter Watson, William Burnside, George Campbell, James Stark, William Black, are mentioned as tenants in1809. Mr. Gray held a disposition, dated 1685; but the Grays must have possessed it before that period, when one of the sons fell at Airsmoss. They had cottars before feuars were thought of; and all of them got the water they used for food from the well of Bedlay, because it could be got nowhere else, through about twelve yards of till. The chapel, school, and burying-ground, are from the land of Milbrae. Mr. Robertson of Bedlay is mentioned as partly extending the village; but we never heard of him having any land on the Chryston side of Bothland-burn. Mr. Campbell has improperly got the mill lands, which he would not easily have got had we been resident in Cadder. Indeed we do not think he or Mr. Sprot would have done many things they have done since we were removed. These gentlemen require some person who can speak to them; but we never threatened to knock any of them down, as it was reported Mr. Park did Mr. John Scott.-It is added, Mr. Robertson, Mr. Dunlop, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. M'Kenzie, never thought of interrupting the villagers and feuars in the use of the well. This is all that some stray leaves of the process we somehow got, tell of. Of Mr. Johnston, as proprietor of Bedlay, or Garnkirk, we recollect of having heard nothing. Mr. Mackenzie was first married to Miss Sharp, then to Miss Stirling of Glorat, who had a daughter to him. He sold Bedlay to Mr. Campbell, and Garnkirk to the tutors and curators of Mark Sprot, greatly assisted by Mr. Brown, land-valuator.

The third sermon was preached at the death of an excellent elder, to whom, and others, the following lines were applicable, and were applied :—

Stop, reader, here, and deign to look
On one without a name

Ne'er enter'd in the ample book

Of fortune or of fame.

Studious of peace, he hated strife;
Meek virtues fill'd his breast;
His coat-of-arms, a spotless life,
An honest heart his crest.

Quarter'd therewith was innocence;
And thus his motto ran,-

A conscience void of all offence
Before both God and man.

In the great day of wrath, tho' pride
Now scorns his pedigree,

Thousands shall wish they'd been
allied

To this great family.

When the presbytery gave too short notice of the settlement