1793. index indicatorius; 19% 
In testimony of her love, 
And as the best return fhe can make 
To her dear departed son, 
For the constant tendernefs and affection 
Which, even to his last moments, 
He fhewed for her, 
His much afflicted mother, 
The Lady Margaret M‘Donald, | 
Daughter to the earl of Eglinton, erected this monument, 
1768. 
A correspondent who stiles himself one of the people, thus begins 
2 very long paper dated 1st October 1792. i 
“* One would have thought that the late horrible transactions in a 
neighbouring nation, would have cooled in some degree the rage in this 
country; oratleast that the democratic, or as they affect tocall themselves 
the patriotic party, would have felt the blush of contrition for the dire ef- 
fects of their levelling principles.” But this he alleges has not been 
the case.—“* What efforts do they still make, continues he, to delude 
the people? Is it not enough that they have degraded the first nation 
in Europe into a state of barbarism, disgraceful to humannature , but 
must they also labour to plunge this country likewise into the same 
gulph of misery ?” This writer proceeds with much zeal nearly in the 
same strain to the end of his paper; of which it is hoped the foregoing 
extract is a sufficient specimen. 
Poverty sends a very elaboratepaper to the Bee on the subject 
of smuggling. He justly reprobates these illicit practicesas being 
destructive to the trade, and industrious exertions of honest men, and 
calls upon every friend to their country to lend their aid in checking 
it. He observes that the officers of excise and customs execute the 
law so partially as to take care not to discourage smugyling too much, 
as that would plainly curtail their emoluments, He also suggests 
that landed men too often encourage smugglers because of the ad- 
vanced rent these freebooters sometimes are able to give for land. 
But this every sensible iandlord knows is so precarious that it is only a 
small proportion of these, we hope, who, from this motive, tend to 
cherifh smugglers. After a great many hints tending to check this 
evil, he concludes by proposing that respectable persons throughout the 
whole country fhould form themsélves into societies for the:purpose 
of giving informations concerning it, and checking the practice. This 
we fear can never be expected, Tnadeed v.ere is only one radical 
