Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

From the (British) Universal Magazine.

Mr. QUIN's Account of SCOTLAND.

THIS Actor being once asked if he had ever been in Scotland. and how he liked the people: "If you mean (replied he) the lower order of them. I shall be at a loss to answer you; for I had no farther acquaintance with them than by the smell.--As for the Nobility they are numerous, and for the most part proud and beggarly. I remember when I crossed from the North of Ireland into their d--d country. I came to a little wretched village consisting of a dozen huts, in the style of the Hottentots. the principal of which was an Inn, and kept by an Earl. I was mounted on a shrivelled Quadruped, for there was no certainty of calling it horse, mare, or gelding, much like a North Wales goat, but rather larger, and without horns. The whole village was up in an instant to salute me, supposing from the elegance of my appearance, that I must be some person of a large fortune and great family. The Earl ran and took hold of my stirrup while I dismounted: then turning to his eldest son, who stood by us without breeches, said. "My Lord, do you take the Gentleman's horse to the stable. and desire your Sister, Lady Betty, to draw him a pint of twopenny; for I suppose so great a man will ha' the best liquor i' the whole house.' I was obliged (continued Quin) to stay here the whole night, and to make a supper of rotten potatoes and stinking eggs; the old Nobleman was indeed very complaisant, and made me accept of his own bed. I cannot say that the dormitory was the best in the world, for there was nothing but an old box to sit upon in the room, and there were neither sheets nor curtains to the bed. Lady Betty was kind enough to apologize for the appartment, assuring me, that Many persons of great dignity had frequently slept in it, and that though the blankets look'd sae black, it was not quite four years since they had been washed by the Countess her mother, and Lady Matilda Caroline Amelia Eleonora Sophia, one of her younger Sisters." She then wished me a good night, and said, that the Viscount her brother would take particular care to grease my boots.