he additional duties imposed on glass and
spirituous liquors, a lottery, a deduction from the sinking fund, and
exchequer bills, chargeable on the first aids that should be granted in
the next session of parliament.

TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF THE REBELS.

The rebellion being quelled, the legislature resolved to make examples
of those who had been concerned in disturbing the peace of their
country. In June, an act of attainder was passed against the principal
persons who had embarked in that desperate undertaking; and courts were
opened in different parts of England for the trial of the prisoners.
Seventeen persons who had borne arms in the rebel army were executed
at Kennington Common, in the neighbourhood of London, and suffered
with great constancy under the dreadful tortures which their sentence
prescribed; nine were put to death in the same manner at Carlisle; six
at Brampton, seven at Penrith, eleven at York: of these a considerable
number were gentlemen, and had acted as officers; about fifty had
been executed as deserters in different parts of Scotland; eighty-one
suffered the pains of the law as traitors. A few obtained pardons, and
a considerable number were transported to the plantations. Bills of
indictment for high treason were found by the county of Surrey against
the earls of Kilmarnock and Cromartie, and lord Balmerino. These
noblemen were tried by their peers in Westminster-hall, the lord
chancellor presiding as lord high-steward for the occasion. The two
earls confessed their crimes, and in pathetic speeches recommended
themselves to his majesty's mercy. Lord Balmerino pleaded not guilty;
he denied his having been at Carlisle at the time specified in the
indictment, but this exception was over-ruled; then he moved a point of
law in arrest of judgment, and was allowed to be heard by his counsel.
They might have expatiated on the hardship of being tried by an ex post
facto law; and claimed the privilege of trial in the county where the
act of treason was said to have been committed. The same hardship was
imposed upon all the imprisoned rebels: they were dragged in captivity
to a strange country, far from their friends and connexions, destitute
of means to produce evidence in their favour, even if they had been
innocent of the charge. Balmerino waived this plea, and submitted to
the court, which pronounced sentence of death upon him and his two
associates. Cromartie's life was spared; but the other two