322 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



chief. " Storm this garrifon, and over- 

 turn Snowden from it's bafe/'^ 



* I fear this is but too true, amongft the lower clafs of the 

 Welfh people ; but I am forry to obferve fo fenfible and in- 

 telligent a man as Mr. Davies, giving way to prejudices, 

 which I fhould have hoped the doftrines of which he is 

 himfelf a teacher, would have taught him to forget. 

 Expreflions like the following, though too low and illiberal 

 to afFecl us, appear-to me inexcufable from the pen of a cler- 

 gyman. " This mode of burlefqutng the Wclfh" (for the 

 wrong pronunciation of fome Englifh words) " originated 

 " in the ridicule with which the Saxon viftors illiberally 

 " treated their conquered vafTals; and which is ftill carried 

 " on, in fpite of reafon and liberality, by the folly and ig~ 

 " norance of the descendants of our once ittfullingfoes." 



The " boorimnefs" of the Englifti peafantry " has no 

 " rival, and of their ignorance a clergyman of their own 

 *' gives us SATISFACTION, who a few years ago, on com- 

 " ing to his parifh, within twenty miles of the metropolis, 

 " could get no anfwer from feveral of his pariftuoners tw 

 < a very plain queftion, viz. ' Who was Chrift ?' Can we 

 find fuch ignorance in Wales the wilds of Ireland or 



the Highlands of Scotland ?" 



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