IQ2 IserCs travels ^pril 4, 



•effusions of sensibility, on both sides, tiie son respectfully 

 reproached the father for not having made use of the power 

 the law .gave him of selling his children for paying his debt, 

 and demanded, with great earnestnefs, tobe allowed to take 

 his place ; but the father, not lefs generous than the son 

 having refused to agree to this exchange, the son applied 

 to the owner of the slaves, and had no difficulty in persua- 

 ding him, that a young robust person was better able t» 

 endure fatigue, than a man already advanced in years. His 

 offer was accepted ; the son was put in chains, and the fa- 

 ther, in spite of himself, not being able to prevent it, was set 

 at liberty. Mr Isett having been- witnefs to this generous 

 contest, was so affected by it, as to represent it to the go- 

 vernor, who, moved by the story, sent for the owner of the 

 slaves, paid out of his own pocket the money he had given 

 for the old man, and restored the son to his father." 



Those who wifh to degrade human nature, and vilify the- 

 works of god, must often meet with facts which contradict 

 their detestible hypothesis. " God made man upright." 

 And there are traces of the original propensity of the hu- 

 man mind to beneficence and kindnefs, in all nations, and 

 among every people. Whoever attempts to inculcate an 

 apposite doctrine, is guilty of treason, — not against the 

 king, — not against the nation, — but against the majesty of 

 human nature, — it ought to be reprobated as the most hei- 

 nous of all crimes. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE SALT LAWS IN SCOTLAND. 



Continued from p. 160. 

 1 HAD lately occasion to make some observations on the 

 mischievous tendency of the salt laws in Scotland. The 

 subject is far from being exhausted, and it is of such mag- 



