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 How that treaty was managed, and how little it seemed for some time to promise the beneficial results which have since taken place to such extent, may be learned from the history of the period. It is enough for our purpose to say, that all Scotland was indignant at the terms on which their legislature had surrendered their national independence. The general resentment led to the strangest leagues and to the wildest plans. The Cameronians were about to take arms for the restoration of the house of Stuart, whom they regarded, with justice, as their oppressors; and the intrigues of the period. presented the strange picture of papists, prelatists, and presbyterians, caballing themselves against the English government, out of a common feeling that their country had been treated with injustice. The fermentation was general; and, as the population of Scotland had been generally trained to arms, under the act of security, they were not indifferently prepared for