7ft. ON THE MANl'JERS OF EUROPE. , 2 }9_ 



Scotland ; becaufe hofpitality prevailed greatly among 

 the ancient Germans, and continues to prevail fo much 

 among our Highlanders, tnat a gentleman takes it for 

 an affront if a Itranger pafs his houfe. 



Magnanimity and hcroilm, in which benevolence is 

 an elkntial ingredient, are inconfillent with cruelty, 

 perfidy, or an)' grovelling paffion Never was gallan- 

 try in war carried to a greziter height than between the 

 Englilli and Scots borderers, before the crowns we;re 

 united. The night after the battle of Otterbum, the 

 victors and vanquilhed lay promifcuoufly in the fame 

 camp, without appreiiending the leail danger, one from 

 another. 



Manners are deeply affe£lsd by perfecution. The 

 forms of procedure in the inquifition of Spain, enable 

 the inquilitors to ruin whom they pleafe. A perfjii 

 accufed is not confronted with the acculer ; every fort 

 of accufation is welcome, and from every perfon : Nay, 

 the perfons accufed, are compelled to inform againfl 

 themfelves, by gueliing what fin they may have been 

 guilty of. Hence the profound ignorance of the 

 Spaniards, while other European nations are daily im- 

 proving in every art and in every fcience. Human na- 

 ture is reduced to the lowed ftate, when governed by 

 fuperllition, cloathed with power. 



Edinburgh, 1 Pkometheus. 



April 4. 1791. j 



^ Card. 

 Lord Buchan avails himfelf of the extenfive circulation 

 of the Bee, to folicit the attention of his correfpon- 

 dcnts, both at home and abroad, to the advancement of 

 Scottifh biography ; a plan for which he offered, about 

 ten years ago, and endeavoured to promote its execu- 

 tion, by publilhing a life of the great inventor of the 

 logarithnjs. 



