Brought Back To Life

In the year 17-8 Margaret Dickson was tried at Ëdinburgb lor ihe murdtr ot' her child, support d to have been bürn during tli e aiisenceof her husband. Alter her condemnation She hthave in tlie most penitent marnier, acknowledgdd lier iniidelity, but Oonsrflrjü; and steadily denied that slie had uiurdered her child, or even foi med an idea of so horrible a crime. At the place of execution her behavinr was OQDSlHteDt with her former declaralion, and she wa hanged. Afer her execution, her body was cut down and delivered to her friends, who put it into a cart to be buiied at her native place; but, the weather bcing ultry, the persons who had the b idy in charge stppped to drink at a villaje about two Blies from Ëdiburgh, Wliile they were rcfreihng them.-elve?, one of them perceived the lid of the coffin move, and, uncoveiinif it, the woman imiuediate'y sat up, hen most of the spectators ran off with every sigii of trepidation. A person who was drinking in the houfe had rccollection enough to bleed her ; in about an hour after, she had been put to bed, and next morning she was so far recovered as to be able to walk to her own hou-e. By the Scottish law, which i.s partly foundeU on that of the Romans, a person against whom the judgruent ai' the oourt has beeu exucuted can suffer no more in future, but 8 thencetbrth totally excul pated ; and it islikewise held that the marriage is dissolved by the exocution of the convicted party. Mrs. Dickinson having been thus convicted and executed, the King's advocate could prosecute her no farther, but he filed a bilí in the High Court of Jupticiary aainst the Sheriff, for omittins; to fülfill the law. The husband of the restored convict married her jublicly a few days altershewashung, and she lived about thirty years afterward.