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create suspicion and distrust, and hurt him in 

 all his public transactions. His example will 

 corrupt the conduct of his servants, rendering 

 them negligent, unfaithful and disorderly, the 

 consequence of which will be confusion and mis- 

 management, in every department of his busi- 

 ness. 



I feel much satisfaction in having it in my 

 power to bear a. favourable testimony to the cha- 

 racter of the Fife farmers, in this respect. To 

 affirm that there are no individuals among them 

 of a suspicious, or openly bad character, would 

 be a position which could neither gain nor de- 

 serve credit. Such perfection is not to be ex- 

 pected, even in societies much less numerous. 

 But these exceptions ^are comparatively few. 

 Taken in a body, their general deportment is 

 characterised by decency, sobriety, End strict in- 

 tegrity. In domestic life they are regular, fru- 

 gal, temperate, and oeconomical. In their inter- 

 course with one another, they are hospitable, 

 communicative, and obliging. And in all their 

 public transactions, their conduct is uniformly 

 fair, upright and honourable. 



Their political character is equally irrepre- 

 hensible. Impressed with a proper sense of the 

 advantages they enjoy under a civil Govern- 

 ment, which affords protection and security to 

 their persons and property, and suffers them 

 to prosecute their labours and improve their 

 fortunes, without the dread of oppressive ex- 

 actions, or lawless depredations, they cherish 

 the warmest sentiments of loyalty to our gra- 

 cious Sovereign, and venerate the Constitution 

 of their Country, as one of their most invaluable 



