The North Briton Author:John Wilkes Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: contented and uneafy; and are furprized that the Officers fhould infblently dare to make any remon- ftrances. I am, SI R, Your mofl humble fervant, An O... more »FFICER. , The North Briton will take into confideration, in a paper or two, the cafe of the Officers, andc. in the land fervice. N50. Saturday, June 25. Quofeml eft imbuta recens, fervakit odarem Tejla diu. - - - H o R . a M-iEScottified advocates of a Scottifhadminiftra H. tion have ever fince their illuftrious chieftain the earl of Bute was raifed above the heads of infinitely his betters to the firft employments in this kingdom, exclaimed againft that torrent of national prejudice, as they affect to call it, by which the mini- fterial calf of their general adoration was fo likely to be overwhelmed. Any argument dictated by liberty was invective ; any accufation of candour was de- traction, and the forcible evidence of inconteftible facts was national prejudice, and abufe. I have been attacked by a whole myriad of political gnatlings beyond the Tweed, for my avowed declarations again ft the blefled place of their nativity, and every means to fting my reputaiion has been ufed which could either arife fro.n malevolence, or proceed from rc- fentment. To vindicate, however, my behaviour in that refpect, and to juftify the motives for my pre- pofleffioH poffefiion againft the people of Scotland, fhall be the fubject of my prefent paper. When we fpeak of national prejudices, we never confine our ideas to place, or have any further objects in our view than people. Hence, though in the whole circuit of creation, no country fo def- perately wild, or inconceivably miferable as Scotland can be difcovered ; yet I will fuppofe, what never was fuppofed before, that it contains every thing the Mahometan paradife ...« less