A child may have been born, and it may have been conveyed away while the mother was insensible, or it may have perished for want of that relief which the poor creature herself--helpless, terrified, distracted, despairing, and exhausted--may have been unable to afford to it.

And yet it is certain, if the woman is found guilty under the statute, execution will follow.
The crime has been too common, and examples are necessary." "But if this other wench," said the city-clerk, "can speak to her sister communicating her situation, it will take the case from under the statute." "Very true," replied the Bailie; "and I will walk out one of these days to St.Leonard's, and examine the girl myself.

I know something of their father Deans--an old true-blue Cameronian, who would see house and family go to wreck ere he would disgrace his testimony by a sinful complying with the defections of the times; and such he will probably uphold the taking an oath before a civil magistrate.

If they are to go on and flourish with their bull-headed obstinacy, the legislature must pass an act to take their affirmations, as in the case of Quakers.

But surely neither a father nor a sister will scruple in a case of this kind.