II 



ON CERTAIN DELUSIONS OF THE 

 NORTH BRITONS 



Edited from a MS. of the Nineteenth Century, 

 WITH Notes, by G. H. C. 



[The fol!owing MS. (which, as far as I know, has never yet 

 been published) has neither author's name nor date. I fear 

 that it is hopeless to attempt to find a clue to the former. As 

 for the latter, from internal evidence I am inclined to imagine 

 tha: it was written about 1876, when the North Britons began 

 again to erect statues to Prince Albert, fifteen years after his 

 death. — Ed.] 



[Reprinted from Temple Bar, October 1S76.] 



The first delusion I will mention is that all North 

 Britons are Scotsmen or Scots, when in truth the 

 only Scots be those of the most northern parts, who 

 indeed are Irish, and speak the Irish language, as I 

 myself have heard them do. The Southrons, pro- 

 perly called Saxons by the Northern Irish, differ 

 not from the English, excepting in a want of right 

 Scandinavian blood, an infusion or transfusion of 

 which has done much good to all the inhabitants of 

 the southern parts of our island, being a blood apt 

 to give ideas to each man's individual brain, so that 

 he is enabled to stand alone by himself without 



