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Do tors illiam Bailli and illiam Boe eredistinguished physicians a Biggar during a Considerable par of las Centvry. Biggar, during the timethe nourished acquire some Celebrit asin medicat

whom distinguished themselves in thei profession in

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mende him ight for his industry and abi ty, and

thus enco aragedaim to renewe exertions. In his

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obstructions ariSin frona the res angus a domi. During one of these earS, a Severe an protracted Stor of fros and gno occurred, and prevented ali Communicatio stoin place to placet mean o CariS.

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He studi exfor the Church, ut havin no interest, though an eloquent reaCher, an havin then,perhaps, no great belle in hat he reached hegave milie naini Stry and too to the bar. At that time the me of the Partiament House

Were more XClusive than the are at present. Theycare litile foro ne adheren to thei rank unlegshe came recommendedi his Connection illi ome

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initials J. S., hicli, ill serve so John mitti, ames Sommeruille, Ioseph Syna, Jacob Simpson, an athousan more On Seeing the initials a giri per-haps hispers, d l Wager that s ou Johnni that sat the ea. ' Havin found a Clew, I dra a hil , and write Mediterranean or hateve Cani elicited Do the latile of the maidens. on in Spectingili initials tiae loo grave, o give a in abolit leath, I dra a Cossin ut is the initials domo fuit an absent friend of the parties, I mahe them a sentence, say,' and solio it up ith ane se os letters illes an fabricate a Story. '

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About a undred ear ago an id man, Adam Thomson, ho made an Sol beather besoms, anci

vocation ould permit, he est his native locality, and travelle ove the greater par of Scottan and England mahin minute inquiries aster SuSpictous Characters, Visiting aiis, and mixin with thieves,

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August, o the lea that a leaSi ne of the paneis

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could bring evidence to prove an alibi. The individual ho a tengili came forwar an made his attemptoas a person of their own idney, called Villiam oberison; ut his statement Were Soinconsistent an Contradictor that the Cour Committed hi in to prison. The har unanimotist found the prisoners uitly and the Sentence pronounCed Upon them Was that the Shouldie executed in the Grassmarhet, Edinburgh, on ediaesday the 5th September, and theiriodies ive to Dr. Moraro for

his ather in Carnwalli Churchyard with an inscription in Latin It was long an objec os attraction, and was visite by many person at a distan Ce hon ad ear the stor of the murder, the Xtraordinaryessoris made by oun Thomson to dis ove the perpetrator oscit, and the singula epitaph hichhe had composed A relative o Thomson, Someyear ago, remoVed the Sion to the eighbouringchurchyar of Libberton, and there barbaro ustycaused the inscription to e desaced or erased, and anotherine, regardinitiis Wn immediate relationS.