Half our pleasure is in the pursuit. What is there in a lip more than a hand, but that the lip is held to be the sacred ground of love? Nature is a pretty good guide, but here to me, she appears inscrutable. Thou mayest smile at this digression, (for it is a subject of smiles, though sometimes of tears,) but it is in nature, and should be discussed, "Evil be to him that evil thinks." I would bet that Tom Moore has been no great kisser, but who can love like him? I would change sexes for his sake. What a peep into extacy to be wooed by such a Romeo. Pure refined sentiment, without the bam and cant of your sickly die-away; strong yet tender, affectionate, yet not of that ridiculous fawningness which trots after Fanny's heel, to pick up her glove when it pleases her whim to drop it-this is the office of a lap dog, and not of the guardian mastiff. I have slunk of in disgust from your dying, sobbing, twisting, hugging, tugging, waltzing,quadrille parties, where the mind had dropped down into the pretty foot, and the moral much lower. I hate effeminency equally with coarseness. The being that can act the part of never that of a man.

a woman can

Here. am I at a hut in Strathspey, treated with a kindness which does honour to the heart of the donor; generosity! benevolence! friendship! these are the virtues man should emulate, and not how to point the foot, and twine the waist. Here sits the grandfather, lecturing the family from a Gaelic Bible, and pointing the way to truth; I do not know Gaelic, but I feel the sentiment, from the reverence that pervades the family. Our supper is but humble, but then the welcome, and the divine grace, gives it a zest far greater than your civic feasts. I told this venerable man, I had been unfortunate. Well my honest lad, he said, "Solomon said all things are vanity."-Could philosophy have conveyed the same meaning? No, my friend, philosophy may sometimes ward a blow, but it will not reconcile us to the pain of it, when it has

come.

Well, I have been to bed, and I cannot say but what it has hurt my good opinion of the place, because it has hurt my feelings, the fleas, and the—and the-I thought I had been proof against these fry, but it appears that they are content with humbler food in the Highlands than with us; I should recommend

thee to take a false skin with thee when thou makest this tour. Sir Walter mentions every thing about the Highlanders, save their smoke, and dirt, and "ferlie." Why, these latter gentry, would be most powerful auxiliaries in producing the more acute and bristling sensations; he has not a reader, save a tough skin'd Highlander, but whose skin would shiver like a horse's in the cold, at these miniature wasps. Dost thou not fancy thou hast one in thy neck hole? I am in such a state of irritation from their bites that I am not quite so civil to the people as their kindness deserves.

I am now at the north extremity of the Grampians, and am off to Inverness, about thirty miles over as uninteresting a country as thou canst imagine-I can anticipate it, for I have seen it before. Then suppose me at a hedge pot-house, reading the human heart, for thou knowest whisky is a golden a key to it, here is a retired serjeant from the forty-second, or rather a retired gentleman, so far as money can make one, for he is the richest man in Strathspey, though with a pension only of thirty-five pounds a year. The serjeant is appealed to in all weighty matters, as a man who has seen much, and of course knows

much; he has formed a friendship with me, or rather, I might have said the whisky in him has, and we are fighting his battles all over again, and I, despite of myself, enter into all his butcheries of his fellow man as though his cause had been mine; and did I but let one word slipJew-he would grab my throat with the same hand he had been

"Here's a hand my trusty friend,

And gee's a hand o'thine;

And we'll take a right good willy waught,
For auld lang syne."

and I might quote from the same author,

and say, "We were made to mourn." No wonder at our reserve: they may say that God ordained it so, but supposing us to be in error, dost thou think that omniscience and omnipotence, could not accomplish his design by milder, and more consistent measures, than an unreasonable, and in every respect, inhuman treatment of our brethren. Though he may accomplish his design through the instrumentality of man, does it follow that man, contrary to every principle of fellow feeling and humanity, shall ill use us to that end, and fight us with those " might is right," weapons which arbarians or brutes alone should use?

It is an awful truth that religious systems have generally been established by fire and sword, but does it necessarily follow, that under a different dispensation of things, they for ever should be. The spread of mortality has opened the way to conviction, to truth, and "he who runs may read, if he will." It has been the mad revulsions of ignorant opinion that has caused this evil, and not the peaceful arm of God. Their establishments

for our conversion is all fair, but what has it done? Nothing.

For on the grounds of that certainly great Christian advocate, Chalmers, who attributes all non-conversion to pre-occupancy of opinion, may not this principle be allowed to act with the Jews? Nay more, may it not prevent Christians from turning to Judaism? As Dr. Watts says, "they have so rooted themselves "in the opinion of their party, that they cannot "hear an objection with patience, nor can they "bear a vindication, or so much as an apology "for any act of principle besides their own. "all the rest, is nonsense or heresy, folly or "blasphemy." It would require as great a stretch of fancy for the ignorant Jew to form