We have seen recently the breath of a demagogue blow these sparks into a temporary flame, which I sincerely hope is now extinguished in its own ashes.

* * This seems to have been written about the time of Wilkes and Liberty.
It was, then, with an impression of dislike, that I contemplated the first Scotchman I chanced to meet in society.

There was much about him that coincided with my previous conceptions.

He had the hard features and athletic form said to be peculiar to his country, together with the national intonation and slow pedantic mode of expression, arising from a desire to avoid peculiarities of idiom or dialect.

I could also observe the caution and shrewdness of his country in many of the observations which he made, and the answers which he returned.