Widow Mac.-I hae a house o' my ain,

On the road to Hamilton;
Whiskey I sell, to be plain,
Arran Water, or Campbelton.

Peter, the gauger, himsel',
Whiles comes pipple papple in,
Pusion, frae ony big stell,
He'll no pit his thrapple in.

Widow Macleerie's my name,

Mine's a tippeny eatin house;

Carriers find a warm hame,

Mine's niest door to the meetin-house.

As for the pannel John Black,
I'm wae to see him here awa,
He never wrang'd me ae plack,
Gude send he won clear awa!

(The Orators for the Pannel pleads.)

AIR.-Deil tak the wars.

Bamboozle.

Fye on the laws that hang a man for stealing,
Sure such penal statutes were savagely fram'd
By legislators devoid of human feeling,
Before divine religion mankind had tam’d.
Gentlemen, 'tis yours, with vigour,

To check the laws excessive rigour ;
*Yours is the power, to you the choice is given,
A father--husband-bends;

On you his fate depends:

'Tis yours to take or give,

To bid him die—or live!

Then here that mercy show, you hope from heaven.

AIR.-*

Flaw-Finder.

Gentlemen, now 'tis my turn to address you,
And with much speaking I need not oppress you;
The proof lies before you, in writing down taken,
All I do wish is to save this man's bacon.

But as it is usual, some few things to mention,
I say, that to steal, it was not his intention;
So be not, I pray, like the Lords, in a fury,
But bring this man off, like a sensible jury.

(Charge to the Jury.)

*AIR.-Merrily Dance the Quaker.

Cal. If ever a case before me came,

That I could judge most clearly,
This is a case, I'll boldly name,
I've scrutiniz'd it nearly.

To trace the truth through all its track,
No witch requires, or jugglers;

The witnesses are all a pack

Of drunkards and of smugglers.

The counsel for the Crown, with skill,
Extorted facts most glaring;

Black, when prim'd, by stoup and gill,
You see, became most daring.

That Black put Brown in mortal fear,
The proof is clear,—clarissima;
And that he rob'd, tho' not quite clear,
Presumptio est fortissima.

Gentlemen, 'tis my desire
To state the case precisely;
'Tis you to judge, so now retire,
And weigh your verdict wisely.

The proof is strong, a verdict bring,
Such honest men becoming;

I need not say one other thing,
And so I end my summing.

(Jury are enclosed.)

LOWRIE MACWILL O' POWMUDDLE, Chancellor.
JOHN STOUPIE, Clerk.

*AIR.-Ally Croaker.

Ponmuddle.-In this case there's nae argument,
Nae minor and nae major ;

A chield had taen a glass, and had
A towzle wi' a gauge..

That there's nae proof o' robbery,
To see, I think, ye canna miss ;
Sae we the pannel man acquit,-
No guilty, Sirs,-Unanimous.

Demi Chorus by Unanimous, Unanimous,
Five Jurymen. S

Double Chorus by

Ten Jurymen.

Grand Chorus by

the whole Fifteen.

Unanimous, Unanimous,

Sae we the pannel man acquit,
No guilty, Sirs,-Unanimous.

(The Verdict is returned, Caliendrosus Maximus reads-in a

passion.)

AIR.-Up and Down Frisky, and fire away Pat.

Caliendrosus,

A plague o' such juries, they make such a pother,
And thus, by their folly, let pannels go free,
And still on some silly pretext or another,
Nothing is left for your Lordships and me.

Our duty, believe us,

Was not quite so grievous,

While yet we had hopes for to hang 'em up all ;
But now they're acquitted,

O how we're out-witted,

We've sat eighteen hours here for nothing at all.

(Chorus by the whole Bench.)

Tol de rol, lol de rol, lol de rol, lol de rol,
Tol de rol, lol de rol, lol de rol, tol de rol.
But now they're acquitted, &c.

(Mob without Huzza.)

VI.

THE JUSTICIARY GARLAND.

This is said to be the joint composition of Robert Cullen, Esq. afterwards Lord Cullen, Colin Maclaurin, Esq. afterwards Lord Dreghorn, James Sinclair, Esq. afterwards a Principal Clerk of Session, and James Boswell, Esq. the Biographer of Johnson.

1.-Packing the Jury.*

First pray rise up Black of Greenmountain,
We ken you are not yet a Peer;
Since last you condemn'd the sheep-stealer,
We're ay glad to see your face here.
Then pray stand up Deacon John Webster,
The pride and support of the church;
Since last you commenced politician,

You'll no leave your friends in the lurch.

2.-Pleading on the Relevancy.

Tho' the pannel does not wish the truth to disguise,
Yet he pleads, that he ought not to thole an assize,
For in his indictment there is such a flaw,
That your Lordships from it no conclusion can draw;
For no relevant charge does the major contain;
Nor the minor the fact which it founds on explain.
Thus the libel appears quite informal in law,

And your Lordships from it no conclusion can draw.

It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to observe, that until Mr. Kennedy's act, by which the jurymen were ballotted for, they were selected by the presiding Judge from the list of assize before him, subjoined to the indictment. It was said, during the time the Judges had the nomination, that those individuals were uniformly sworn in who had previously been upon juries that had returned verdicts for the Crown ;-hence, in reference to this popular belief, the authors make the Judge compliment Black of Greenmountain for his conviction of the sheep-stealer, and to assign this as the reason why his Lordship was "ay glad to see" his "face" on an assize.