T7Q2. .- on. national prejudices, &e. 94 4 
‘ESSAY ON NATIONAL PREJUDICES, Wve. &e. 
-All-places that the eye of heave visits, 
Are jo a wise MAN PorTs and happy havens. SHAKESPEARE. 
Sir, ‘To the Editor of the Bee. 
Awone all the.famous sayings of antiquity, there is 
none that does greater honour to the author, or af- 
fords greater pleasure to the reader, than that of the 
philosopher, who, being afked ‘ what countryman, 
he was,’ replied, that he was 
-* A Citizen of the world.’ 
How few are there to be found in modern times 
who can say the same, or whose conduct is consis= 
tent with such a profefsion? We are now become so 
much Scotchmen, Englifhmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards , 
Dutchmen, Germans, t8c. tc. that we are no longer 
‘citizens of the world:’ So much the natives of 
one particular spot, or members of one petty society, 
that we no longer consider ourselves as the general - 
inhabitants of the globe, or members of that grand 
society which comprehends the whole human kind. 
‘Did these prejudices prevail only among the meaner 
sort of people, perhaps, they might be excused, as 
they have few, if any, opportunities of correcting» 
them by reading, iravelling, or conversing with 
foreigners ; but the misfortune is, that they infect 
the minds, and influence the conduct, even of our 
gentlemen ; of those, I mean, who have every title 
to this appellation, but anexemption fram prejudice ; 
) swhich, however, in my opinion, ought to be regarded 
“VOL. ix. . N + 
