New Government and Parliament.-Execution of Argyle, Guthry, Wariston.-Prelacy restored, Presbyterian Clergy ejected.-Middleton's Rapacity, Excesses, and Disgrace.-Ecclesiastical Commission, Military Persecution, and Insurrection in the West.-Government mitigated and the Presbyterians indulged.-Lauderdale's tyrannical Administration.-Persecu tion of Conventicles.-Mitchel's Trial.
ROM the civil and religious wars of the two kingdoms, in which it is seldom possible to separate the interest, or the share of either, we Public exreturn to the domestic transactions of Scotland, and joy at whose history, from the restoration to the union, tion. continues unmixed and almost unconnected with English affairs.
Many years of undisturbed