Too criticism by Arcticus. May 23: 
obliged to buy with it. I mean only that general 
species, which a man may answer without writing 
a folio on purpose, and finding some’ enterprising or 
good natured bookseller to print. 
I highly admire the judicious memorandums. and 
strictures on men and things, of your sensible laco- 
nic Traveller, (see vols. 4th and sth, ) who furnithes an- 
other honotrable proof of a just and excellent remark, 
that Britain, from the freedom of its constitution, is 
a country of characters, which contrast curiously, in 
the eyes of the philosopher, with the uniformity of 
manners and modes of thinking in a despotic country,, 
where the government seems to think for the public 
at large. 
Brydone, Boswell, Cox, Wraxal, Randolph, Shairp,. 
Smollet, t&c. Ge. We. are only so many varieties of 
the Britifh character, modified by youth, age, studies, , 
gout, bile, or hypocondria, which I must own amuse 
me exceedingly ; and have much the same effect as so- 
many pictures by different.masters, who seldom either 
see or treat a subject in the same point of view, or 
even in the same light and fhade ; so that, although 
the observations and strictures of your entertaining 
and instructive Traveller are of a superior cast, and. 
pofsibly better calculated to please ws square toed fel- 
/ows, on mature reflection, than the more light and 
lively travellers he is so severe on, still I would be 
sorry we were confined to such; or, in other words, 
that to enjoy the mature, clear, and logical discufsions 
of the bench, we were to be deprived: of the flowery, 
variegated, and amusing oratory of the bar, which I 
believe'is nearly the case at ifsue, and may ‘serve as 
