Indeed, he was a long-headed, sensible man, and a good Whig and Presbyterian; read daily in a pocket Bible, and was both able and eager to converse seriously on religion, leaning more than a little towards the Cameronian extremes.

His morals were of a more doubtful colour.

I found he was deep in the free trade, and used the ruins of Tantallon for a magazine of smuggled merchandise.

As for a gauger, I do not believe he valued the life of one at half-a-farthing.

But that part of the coast of Lothian is to this day as wild a place, and the commons there as rough a crew as any in Scotland.
One incident of my imprisonment is made memorable by a consequence it had long after.