thine ears. See how yon justice rails upon yon simple thief.
Hark in thine ear: Change places; and, handy-dandy, which
is the justice, which is the thief?
--King Lear.
Among those who took the most lively interest in endeavouring to
discover the person by whom young Charles Hazlewood had been
waylaid and wounded was Gilbert Glossin, Esquire, late writer in
----, now Laird of Ellangowan, and one of the worshipful commission
of justices of the peace for the county of----. His motives for
exertion on this occasion were manifold; but we presume that our
readers, from what they already know of this gentleman, will
acquit him of being actuated by any zealous or intemperate love of
abstract justice.
The truth was, that this respectable personage felt himself less
at ease than he had expected, after his machinations put him in
possession of his benefactor's estate. His reflections within
doors, where so much occurred to remind him of former times, were