prevent you from ever seeing knife or cottages and gardens), as I ever went fork, or bread again, and to have you through in all my life. At four or five considered as being nothing better than miles from DUNFERMLINE we come to the cattle. a long village, called TORY-BURN, the

I shall address another paper to you houses in general having no up-stairs; before I leave Scotland; and in the all the buildings extremely ugly and meanwhile it is right to tell you that mean; and yet the village is manifestly every good man in this country (and the in a state of rapid decay, many of the far greater portion of them are very houses being empty, and many of them good men, indeed) detest these agri-tumbling down. This village, we percultural tyrants as much as you and Iceive as soon as we quit it, has been do. The tyrants take the produce of principally created by the fishing; for the land and carry it all away, and treat here we find ourselves, with the FRITH worse than horses and dogs those who oF FORTH close down by our left, and make the produce to come. When a we see little houses here and there labouring man offends one of these all along the shore. A little farther tyrants, he is doomed to starve, or to on we see the woods of CULROSS, down get away out of the country; and the to our left near the water; and upon poor creatures go away from some of the road where we are, we come to a the richest lands in the world, and get mansion, and pretty place, called TORY. into England to beg; and then they are Here we are getting amongst old sent back again as vagrants. And this, friends; for here resides Sir JOHN ERSmy friends, is the state to which it has KINE, brother and successor of Sir been attempted to reduce the labourers JAMES ERSKINE (and not Sir WILLIAM, of England. Have your eyes open; as I thought), who is now dead, and be resolved to maintain all your rights; succeeded by his brother JoHN, and be resolute in it; and then you will not which Sir JAMES was husband No. 1. of only preserve yourselves from this hor- our Lady LOUISA PAGET, who, as the rible degradation; but you will rescue newspapers told us, and as the courts from it your oppressed fellow-subjects decided, had No. 2. in Sir GEORGE and brethren, the labourers of Scotland. MURRAY, who is now canvassing for a seat in PERTHSHIRE, just over the hills to our right! The newspapers, and the courts too, may have belied her Directing (as I hereby do) my printers ladyship; and in that case I shall be to print off, in the same manner as di- singularly happy, if she will afford nie rected last week, ten thousand copies of the means to send over the world a this address to the chopsticks, with contradiction with regard to this affair; price a penny at the bottom of each, for I have long felt a particular interest and with intimating to my readers that, in the affairs of her ladyship, who is, to by application at BOLT-COURT, they may make use of the words of a friend at have them at five shillings for a hun- DUNFERMLINE, amongst the most dred, or fifty for three shillings; with fascinating of all the fascinating crea these matters thus settled, I now pro(6 tures in this world;" besides which, ceed on my journey from DUNFERM- she is, in some respects, a person beLINE to FALKIRK; the land on both sides longing to the people; and I do not of the road extremely fine. We do not, think the worse of myself for being a for several miles, see the FRITH of sort of shareholder in a case like this. FORTH; but it is not far to our left. My Lord COCHRANE used to say, "That The farms are very fine; turnips sur- a man might eat mutton till he be prisingly fine; large woods; rows of " came a sheep." And a lady may eat trees by the sides of the road; the trees taxes till she becomes taxes, however vigorous and fresh and lofty; as beau-fascinating she may be on the outside. tiful a country, taken altogether (abat- This fascinating creature, though the ing only the want of vine-covered daughter of the Earl of UXBRIDGE, and

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the sister of the Marquis of ANGLESEA, place as any to be found, about the had one pension given her while she Isle of Wight or the SOUTHAMPTON was a maiden, and another at her mar- Water. It was impossible for me to see riage to Sir JAMES ERSKINE. And BUR-it without thinking of the NEW-FOREST, DETT, when he was a noisy patriot, and NETLEY-ABBEY woods, and particularly when he was teaching us the necessity of that HOLLY-HILL at which once of " tearing the leaves out of the ac-resided that Lord CocHRANE, who was cursed Red Book," with just as much born at this CULROSS, it then being the zeal as he is now praising the King and estate of his father; and to reflect on the Queen, and urging the people of whose treatment always fills me with BATH to elect a placeman who was indignation inexpressible, knowing as I nursed on sinecure pap, used never to did, and as I do, that, even if the thing omit to mention the particular case of imputed to him had been a crime, he our fascinating Lady LOUISA, though was innocent of that crime; and rehe might as well have mentioned Ladymembering, as I do, all the base means JULIANA HAY, whom little SANCHO, his that were used to render him despicable colleague, at once brewer and right in the eyes of the people, whom he had honourable privy-counsellor, led to the altar a little while ago from the pension-list, where she had been sticking for twenty-one years at the least, though the daughter of one marquis, and the sister of another. Faith! she may be sticking on the pension-list yet, for anything that I know to the contrary! But Before we get to KINCARDINE, where we will know all about this by-and-by: we are to cross at the ferry, we go we will have bright Lord ALTHORP's over about a mile or so of poor heathy reasons for heaping money upon these ground, thousands upon thousands of ladies, while those who till the land acres the like of which any one may see live upon "brose," and while those in my native county of Surrey. Here, who make the clothing have not half a few miles to our right, we see the enough to eat. Aye, and we will put OCHILL hills, running along from east Daddy BURDETT to the test, too. We will see whether he will help to tear the leaves out of the "accursed Red Book;" whether he will help to endeavour to produce so much of an equitable adjustment as may induce the brewer privy-counsellor to give us back the amount of the receivings of Lady JULIANA.

Quitting Tory, which is a very pretty place, we come, a little farther on, to the very beautiful house and park of Sir ROBERT PRESTON, who is now the owner of CULRoss, which lies away to our left on the side of a very beautiful bend in the Frith of Forth, in a little detached part of the great county of PERTH, and divided from it by the small county of CLACKMANNAN, from the chief town of which Lord ERSKINE took his title. CULROSS is a very beautiful spot. Rising up and bending round by the side of the water. As beautiful a

served in Parliament with more zeal and fidelity than any man that I have ever known, my Lord RADNOR only excepted; and who was more capable and more disinterestedly disposed to serve his country in arms than any man that I have ever known in my life.

to west, and dividing the county of FIFE from the county of PERTH. These hills are not called Highlands, though they are very lofty. As we approach KINCARDINE, the view is by far the finest that I ever beheld. We are in the midst of beautiful land on each side of us; the hills before-mentioned continue rising to our right; on our left we have the Frith of FORTH, and then the fine level lands between that and FALKIRK, and at the back of those rising up the very high hills which divide the county of EDINBURGH from those of PEEBLES and LANARK; while, a little to our right and in our front, the Frith of FORTH takes another beautiful bend, with flat lands on the side of it; then come hills rising one above another, and behind those, we see, at a distance, perhaps, from twenty to fifty miles, the tops of the Highlands called the BENCHOCAN, BEN-LIDDI, CRAIG-BENYON

(all of them conical mountains of a than from LONDON to BARNET or to prodigious height); and, lastly, the tip of UXBRIDGE. At FALKIRK, my friends (BROUGHAM the "lofty BEN-LOMOND itself, which and TOM POTTER will say that "they really seems to touch the sky; which are fools," but it is the FACT that we has been the subject of so many sonnets have to do with), rang the church bells and so many songs, and the syllables in honour of my arrival, and received composing the name of which are as me with a hearty shout at the door of sweet and as sonorous as the mountain the hotel. Now, stop a bit. Is it not itself is majestic. Very near to the worth while for Lord GREY to think a little town of KINCARDINE, where the little about this, and to turn again to ferry is, is a very fine house, built by that which I more particularly address Lord KEITH, looking down into the to him in the early part of this article? Frith of FORTH. We crossed the ferry in As to gabbling, hair-brained, feelosofizfive minutes; and, getting into a post- ing BROUGHAM and his crew; as to chaise which met us by appointment, poor spiteful things like the tallowwe proceeded to FALKIRK over a level man and the brewer privy-counsellors; country, called the CARSE of FALKIRK, as to these creatures, who know just like the Fens of Cambridgeshire that they must be nothing if my docand Lincolnshire; and, apparently, trines and my propositions prevail; as producing, like them, everlasting crops to these creatures, all the addresses of wheat and of beans. Here they dig presented to me; all the honours with coals everywhere; and close by FAL- which I have been received, by thouKIRK there is the famous CARRON iron-sands upon thousands, of whom I knew foundery. Before we get there, there not a single soul; all the heaps of money is a country-house, on our right, called (more than sixty pounds a night) paid KINNAIRD HOUSE, which was the place for going to applaud me at the theatre, of residence of the famous traveller, even at Edinburgh. All these, and all Mr. BRUCE; and, to the honour of the the rest which I have still to relate up people here, they seem to reverence the to this day, will, with the “feclosofers,” place on that account. The CARRON the tallow-man and brewer privy-counworks, prodigious as they are, naturally sellors, only operate in this way. Perbring a numerous working population ceiving that if my doctrines prevail, about them; and here is such a popula- they must either go to rake the kennel tion, differing in no material respect or black shoes, they will think of nothing from those of the manufacturing towns but of means which they think calcu of Lancashire, Staffordshire, and York-lated to counteract me; they will be shire. racking their stupid skulls for tricks and Before we got into FALKIRK, we contrivances to be carried on in conjunccrossed the famous canal which con- tion with, and by the instrumentality nects the waters of the ATLANTIC with of, such creatures as the POTTERS and those of the GERMAN OCEAN, Coming BAXTER and SHUTTLEWORTH and their out of the Frith of FORTH, and ending, companion the Irish mountebank; as we shall by-and-by see, in the through the means of which very idenCLYDE, between GREENOCK and GLAS- tical reptiles, they have now been sendGOW. The manner in which a thing so ing pamphlets (bearing the name of their apparently wonderful has been effected, mountebank companion) to their correneither my taste nor my time will in-spondents in EDINBURGH, FALKIRK, duce me to endeavour to describe: it is GLASGOW, PAISLEY, and GREENOCK; sufficient for me to know that the thing these pamphlets pointing out particuis, and sufficient for the far greater part of my readers to know, that, by the means of this canal, goods, of any weight, are much more easily sent from GREENOCK and GLASGOW to EDINBURGH,

larly my writings (when I was in PHILADELPHIA) against MUIR and the other Scotch reformers who were transported by PITT and DUNDAS; the stupid PorTERS and Baxter and SHUTTLEWORTH,

not seeming to think it possible that take care not to confound high lands those writings are seven-and-thirty with Highlands. The former are like years old; that I was then only thirty HAMPSTEAD and HIGHGATE, and EPSOM years old myself, or thereabouts; that downs, compared with the lands apI was then living in a country where proaching the Thames; but the Highan all-predominant French party lands are chains or groups of mountains praised MUIR and his companions; and in variety of forms and of heights, such that that was enough, and ought to as the imagination can never form to have been enough for me, who was an itself: they are rocks, the base of some Englishman, and who knew nothing at of which is many miles across, and the all about the merits or demerits of MUIR points and edges of which, when not and his affair; the vulgar and rich sots actually lost in the clouds, seem to of Manchester not seeming to think it touch the sky. This distinction my possible that the Scotch had discern-readers will be so good as to bear in mind. ment enough to perceive these things: We were now, then, upon some of this all these vermin, the BURDETTS, THOMP- high land; and, with the exception of SONS, the HоBHOUSES, the POTTERS, the little bit which I mentioned in Berand the like, not forgetting SERGEANT wickshire, and the still smaller bit WILDE, and his brother Judge DEN- in FIFESHIRE, I now, for the first time, MAN, whose exploits in the case of saw poor land in Scotland. Here it is Farmer Boyes and poor Cook, and in generally a sour clay. The ground is the case of the poor Taffy, too, may too high, and too cold for oaks; and, possibly yet be remembered: that all as no other trees like clay, everything these vermin should see no prospect of of the tree kind is scrubby. In some escape from something or other un-places there is peat. In one part of the pleasant, unless I can be put down, and journey, we passed by BONNY-MUIR, that they should entertain the hope of which means pretty-moor; on an accuaccomplishing the thing; seeing that sation for designing to assemble a rebel their stupidity is equal to their spite, is army on which, the Scotch reformers of no more consequence to the public, suffered so cruelly in 1820, when, as was than it is whether I crush a parcel then said, the infamous spies were so of cockroaches with my foot, or numerous that every man looked upon sweep them into a fire with a broom; every other man as a spy, unless he but, what the views and EXPECTA-personally knew him. These “paternal” TIONS of my Lord GREY are, with re-exploits of the THING, in the exposing gard to this matter, is of tremendous of which, and in defending the Scotch consequence to the whole nation, and reformers, I only was heard, was forparticularly to my Lord Grey himself. gotten by the shuffling fellows at the I shall return to this matter by-and-Three Golden Balls at Manchester, but by, when I have proceeded further with it was not forgotten by the good people the account of my tour. At FALKIRK in Scotland; and particularly by the reI lectured from the pulpit of a chapel, formers in GLASGOW, who sent me a as I had done at the town of DUNFERM- written vote of thanks in 1820, and LINE; spent a very pleasant evening in who now, joined by nine-tenths of the a company of most respectable trades- whole community, have been showing men of the town, with whom I sat up their gratitude to me in person. And, so much beyond my usual hour, that I do those muckworm creatures, the had not time to breakfast before I came POTTERS, the grubbing TADCASTER feloff at eight o'clock in the morning, lows, imagine that, merely with their when I departed amidst the cordial promises to pay printed upon bits of farewells of very numerous friends. At paper, and with their three golden balls; first, the flat land continues for a mile and do cackling SHUTTLEWORTH and or two, on our way from FALKIRK to pompous ВАХТЕН and full-blooded Glasgow; but soon after we get upon Yankee DYER; do they imagine, that high land. The English reader will they, with the aid of a mere real moun

tebank player, coming piping hot from that I, who had been so constantly enthe cauldron of Sergeant WILDE, being gaged in pursuits of a quite different nathe fellow-labourer of “our Charley" in ture, should understand so minutely London; do they imagine, are they such every little circumstance belonging to complete brute beasts to imagine, that the raising and harvesting and curing they could persuade, not the Scotch and vending of hops; an astonishment people (for the thought would be wor- which was, doubtless, removed when I thy of death!) but even one single half- told him, that the first work that I ever dozen of Scotch ploughmen, or Scotch did in my life, was to tie the hop-shoots weavers! If I, where in the Court of round the bottom of the poles with King's Bench, and having the group of rushes; and that even as soon as I Whig Ministers before me, stood in could stand upon my feet, those feet need of all my contempt to relieve me used to help to trample the rushes from the danger of suffocation at the (spread upon the floor for the purpose, thought of running away from the in order to make them pliant to tie "GREYS and the BROUGHAMS and the with). Seeing that I had thus begun at LAMBS and the RUSSELLS;" what, oh the very bottom of the business, his God! what am I to stand in need of wonder must have ceased that I underto prevent me from expiring at the stood so much about hops. After showthought of being checked for one mo-ing him, that, if the infernal duty were ment in my course by such nasty creep-taken off, which costs more in the collecing things as the POTTERS and the tion than its gross amount; after showSHUTTLEWORTHS and the BAXTERS! ing him the monstrous effect of this We came by the stage-coach; and in hinderance of the gift of God coming to the coach there were three very sensible our hands; after making it clear to him and polite gentlemen, one of whom, a that the brewers of EDINBURGH ale very nice young man, was a hop-mer- would have for nine-pence, instead of chant and wine-merchant; and as, three shillings, the hops which they now somehow or another, he began to say use, if this monstrous piece of foolery on something about hops, I took an oppor- the part of the Government were put an tunity of showing off my at-once-exten- end to; after this I bragged a little sive and minute knowledge of the sub-about having been born in the parish of ject, from the planting of the plant to FARNHAM, which produces the best hops the bagging and selling of the hops, in the universe, feeling bold, seeing that naming particular, places eminent for no Kentish or Sussex or Worcestershire, the growth of the article. By-and-by, man was present. For, there is a tenthe gentleman began to talk politics; derness upon this subject, which scarcefrom participating in which I carefully ly falls short of that when a young lady abstained, sitting as silent and looking of fortune is the object of rivalship. My as demure, as the country people say, as amanuensis, who is a Sussex man, was, girls who have made a slip in their time to my perfect convenience on the outdo at a christening, there being a baby side of the coach; or, it is very likely in the case in both instances. But, by- that I should have been less forward to and-by, the conversation began to turn indulge in this little instance of human upon myself, and I thought it necessary vanity. I promised this young gentleto take the earliest opportunity to ap-an, that when he came to London, I prise the gentlemen of my identity; and would take him down and show him the hop-merchant having said, "the plantations and the people in my should like to hear him speak," I said, country which was very beautiful, and you do hear him now, Sir: an expla- where he would see hop-works in their nation took place of course; and, what- highest perfection. If he should see ever might be the sentiments of any one this, I hereby repeat my invitation, just of the three, all was very pleasant. The observing, that it will be as well if, hop-merchant then came back to our while he is there, he does not say any old subject, expressing his astonishment thing to excite a suspicion in the minds