"Ubique gentium et terrarum,

Frae Sutherland to Padan-aram,

Frae whare they ha'e sax hours a-day,
Ad caput usque Bone Spei."

Come we now to the splendid character of that class of men, of whom I have the misfortune to be one.

"But we are told that these views are gaining ground in the North of England, and that even from London some contributions have been received by the Edinburgh Society. And who are those English abettors of Edinburgh principles? Let us see: there is not, I will answer for it, a native Englishman among them. Poor ministers the chief of them, of small Scottish congregations, stationed on the wrong side of the border, who sigh in obsequious fondness after a Church that has not cherished them with reciprocal attachment. Their highest conception of worldly glory and felicity do not surmount the dome of St George's, it would not do for them to slight what they conceive to be the road to preferment, or to set up for independence before the time arrive, when they, as others have done, may exchange the care of a little flock at Berwick or Newcastle, for a parochial charge,' with benefice of £150 per annum, in some obscure glen, or on some dreary heath of their and Dr THOMSON's beloved country.' Such individuals send their homage and mite to the Edinburgh Society. And of the tribe of needy adventurers who every year migrate to the South, there are hundreds whose rank does not entitle them to forget, as their betters for the most part do, their Presbyterian education and early predilections; and whom sordid sentiments, vulgar manners, and money-loving habits, preclude from the amiable circles of cultivated religious society. These do not, for a long time, change their sentiments or society with the scene of their existence. They continue to read and rail, for the sake of old times, with the Edinburgh Instructor; and if they have any thing to spare, to shew their detestation of the men they do not know, and of the affairs they do not understand, they send it North to swell the coffers and the pride of the Edinburgh Bible Society. But such contributions, like picturesque scenery on other mens' estates, will do more to gratify the taste than to extend the resources of the Society that has the benefit of them. I would not, however, by any means say, that all Scottish ministers settled in the North of England, or that all poor laymen, removing to London, are of this character-only that, in most cases, it is a spirit of prejudice and cynical discontent which leads men, so situated, to send money to

Edinburgh, in preference to giving it to where their more pious and Christianly-affectioned neighbours give theirs. It is as easy to tell from what quarters the Edinburgh Society, as the Auxiliary, in correspondence with the British and Foreign, will draw its support. Some, it may be, cleave to it from love and pure congeniality of feeling with its august leaders-many from dread of the fearful drubbing that Would attend them were they to venture to withdraw; and a good many, perhaps the larger proportion, may have credit for the cordial antipathy and ill-will they make a brag of, against men who have been provokingly long signalized with the title of the Just."

So this is my portrait, and I must in silent submission acknowledge the likeness. This I might have been compelled to do, had he drawn my portrait alone. But he has tried his hand on many others, who, happily, are much better known to the public than I am; and as a comparison of the likeness with the original, in their case, will shew his likenesses to be not even caricatures, but hideous distortions, I may hope that his fidelity will not be much relied on in mine.

He begins his exhibitions with those who attended the Bible Society Meeting on July 9th, and, as we have seen, he represents them as neither Christians nor civilized beings. His next picture is that of Dr GORDON, whom he represents as holding positions, the most extravagant and absurd-positions which it would be an insult to a man, so justly celebrated for his intellectual power, to refer to his printed speech to prove that he never maintained; and then he is surprised to learn that the Doctor is "a highly esteemed minister of your National Established Church"-though, "how his principles admit of his remaining there, is not obvious to me." He then proceeds to the Edinburgh presbytery, which he represents as comprising men of "much more questionable piety than any (one perhaps excepted,) of the foreigners so indiscriminately stigmatised in your Assembly Rooms." The Session of St George's is next brought forward, consisting of men of Dr THOMSON's choice, and men, whose characters are far below what the lists of Bible Society contributors present in any country! The General Assembly is drawn at some length, and the picture, to speak gently of it, displays much

less of the writer's knowledge than of his Anti-Presbyterian prejudices. His attempt at ridicule on the subject is as awkward, as his view of the constitution of that body is unjust. The Covenanters could not hope to escape the scourge of this Episcopalian, and accordingly they are not spared. The Scottish Missionary Society has failed to take effect, because "faith is wanting,-diffidence and mistrust are put in the room of hope and confidence." Scottish Missionaries have sometimes done good; but then it was when they had been "sunned in the south," and sent out under the auspices of other societies. The ladies of Charlotte Square and others, are Pharisees; and the ministers of the Scottish Church in general are sneered at.* The members of the Committee of the Bible Society, at least those of them who are noisiest in the praise of Dr THOMSON, are hypocrites, who, in suitable company, scruple not to avow sentiments materially differing from those publicly expressed. And finally, Scotland altogether is a nuisance, which ought to be abated. "She derives wealth, dignity, liberty, and, in some degree, enlargement and liberality of sentiment from her association with that polity, to which she hangs appended as a dead weight; but whatever return she makes for these advantages, it is certain the compensation is not given in kind." Amidst these pictures, Mr HALDANE is often brought in, and Dr THOMSON every where. ANGLICANUS exhibits "him first, him last, him midst, him without end;" while, whether with the impudence of a practised, or the incoherence of a passionate railer, I know not, he says, "I am not his judge, nor will I be his accuser.!"

After this, nobody will be surprised that ANGLICANUS should follow us poor out-casts over the border, that nothing that is connected with Scotland, or the Scottish Church, may escape. It is some consolation, however, to have companions in adversity, and I thank him that he has ranked me with such company. I have so much of the Scotsman in me, that I can assure him, that to have been overlooked by him in his abuse

of all that renders the name of Scotland dear to me, would have been felt by me much more keenly than the darkest picture that he is capable of drawing.

But, while I am rather proud than otherwise of the abuse of ANGLICANUs, I am by no means disposed to admit that the picture, which he has been pleased to draw of me, is a correct one. I undertake not the defence of those who can much better defend themselves, or who may safely suffer his revilings to pass unnoticed. But I must look a little at the particular features of that portrait which professes to exhibit my own likeness.

I am charged by ANGLICANUS with the crime of being a Scotsman. Now, to this charge, what can I reply? I am constrained to confess its truth. And it is of no avail to plead to this founder of a new philosophy, that if I prove not a reproach to my country, my country will not prove a reproach to me. He maintains the contrary,-that the fact of my being a Scotsman, is enough to condemn me without farther hearing. It is of no use to plead that it was no fault of mine that I was born in a Scottish cottage, rather than in an English palace. The fact, that I am a Scotsman, and a Presbyterian too, constitutes, in his eye, a sort of original sin which blinds the understanding, perverts the will, debases the affections, and corrupts and depraves the whole man. Will it be any extenuation of the offence to inform him, that though in Scotland, the place of my birth is really farther south than that of many, who, having had the felicity of coming into this world, some six or eight miles beyond the Scottish border, make a much greater noise about their Anglican predilections, than would be at all necessary, had they been born in Cornwall or Devon?

I have always been accustomed to think, that a man's genius or feeling, depended very little on the place of his birth, or the rank of his parents, provided his education were properly attended to. What have I sometimes said,—in moments of enthusiasm perhaps,-What! shall the purity and intensity of that living spark, with which the Almighty animates this mortal clay, depend merely on external circum

stances? No. Take a beggar's boy, born under a hedge, swaddled in the rotten remnants of an ass's pack-saddle, and cradled in a pannier,-bestow on him the same culture that you bestow on the son of a nobleman, and it is not at all improbable that he may turn out, not only equal, but, it may be, superior to the latter, in genius, taste, and feeling. If, in this I be wrong, there is nothing in the Letters of ANGLICANUS to disabuse me. He, it seems, is a highly gifted Englishman, who comes to set the Scots free from many errors, into which they have fallen for want of proper information. Yet I cannot perceive any thing in his Pamphlet which might not have been written as well, by a man by whom the passage of the Pentland Frith would be considered as a migration to the " genial South." A great part of it is occupied in vituperation, yet he does not even scold with more spirit than a mere mortal Scotsman.

ANGLICANUS perhaps intends, among other Scottish institutions, to give the system of Phrenology,-which has become so fashionable, I am told, in Edinburgh, the benefit of his improvement, by shewing, that instead of taking the latitude and longitude of a man's head, in order to ascertain the extent of his mental powers, these may be ascertained by the still simpler process of determining the latitude and longitude of the place of his birth. But in this case, a change of latitude may be expected to produce some modification of the mental powers. And of this ANGLICANUS himself exhibits a striking illustration,-and if even he, in the course of a few summer months' residence in Scotland, has been congealed into as "weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable a writer, as if he had been a native born Scot;" may not I, in the course of some fifteen summers' sunning, have been thawed and con cocted into something bearing no very distant resemblance to an Englishman,-something with a head almost as clear, and a heart almost as warm, as the frost-bit ANGLICANUS?

I am also charged with being poor. Here also, I have no thing left but open confession." "Tis true, 'tis pity,-pity 'tis, 'tis true." And does ANGLICANUS not think the burden of poverty sufficient, unless it be embittered by reproach? E

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