When there was a movement for an augmentation of the poor stipends of the Scots Clergy in 1750, there came out a pamphlet under the title of _The Presbyterian Clergy seasonably detected_, 1751, which exceeds in scurrility, if possible, the famous or infamous, _Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence Displayed_; both author and printer, however, had so much sense as to remain in the background, and the _thing_ purported to be "Printed for Mess John in Fleet Street." Under the title of _The Comical History of the Marriage betwixt Heptarchus and Fergusia_, 1706[1], the Scots figured the union of the Lord Heptarchus, or England, with the independent, but coerced, damsel Fergusia, or Scotland; the discontented church of the latter {144} finding that the former broke faith with her, could not help giving way to occasional murmurings, and these found vent in (among others) a poetical Presbyterian tract, entitled _Melancholy Sonnets, or Fergusia's Complaint upon Heptarchus_, in which the author reduced to rhyme the aforesaid _Comical History_, adding thereto all the evils this ill-starred union had entailed upon the land after thirty-five years' experience. This curious production was "Printed at Elguze? for Pedaneous, and sold by Circumferaneous, below the Zenith, 1741."[2] Charles II., when crowned at Scone, took the solemn league and covenant; but not finding it convenient to carry out that part of his coronation oath, left the Presbyterians at the Restoration in the lands of their enemies. To mark their sense of this breach of faith, there was published a little book[3] describing the inauguration of the _young profligate_, which expressively purports to be "Printed at Edinburgh in the Year of Covenant-breaking." The Scots folk had such a horror of anything of a deistical tendency, that John Goldie had to publish his _Essays, or an Attempt to distinguish true from false Religion_ (popularly called "Goldie's Bible"), at Glasgow, "Printed for the Author, and sold by him at Kilmarnock, 1779;" neither printer nor bookseller would, apparently, be identified with the _unclean thing_. Both churchmen and dissenters convey their exultations, or denouncements, upon political changes, through the medium of imprints; and your correspondents who have been discussing that matter, will see in some of these that the "Good Old Cause" may be "all round the compass," as Captain Cuttle would say, depending wholly upon the party spectacles through which you view it. _Legal Fundamental Liberty_, in an epistle from Selburne to Lenthal, is "Reprinted in the Year of Hypocritical and Abominable Dissimulation, 1649;" on the other hand, _The Little Bible_ of that militant soldier Captain Butler is "Printed in the First Year of England's Liberty, 1649." _The Last Will and Testament of Sir John Presbyter_ is "Printed in the Year of Jubilee, 1647." _A New Meeting of Ghosts at Tyburn_, in which Oliver, Bradshaw, and Peters figure, exhibits its royal tendency, being "Printed in