after, a handsome young woman came skipping out, and, without a blush, took him in to shew him the neatness of this conveniency. But the women, particularly about the shore of Dundee, are still more indelicate; for, in a certain place there, to which people occasionally retire, I saw men and women completely in sight, and so near, that they might easily, and no doubt did converse with one another.

There are strange characters, I find, to be met with every where. Mr. Dg, the gentleman here to whom I was introduced, by letter, carried me with him, on Sunday, to an acquaintance of his. We had public prayers in the morning, went to church soon after, as also in the afternoon, and about four had dinner; the veal, &c. having been roasted the day before, as our landlord and entertainer would have thought it a crime of the deepest die to permit his servant to cook any thing on Sunday. The wines, also, were excellent; and, while the cloth was removing, I observed a large bowl of punch smoaking on a bye table, which, by the flavour, I could perceive was of excellent rum, and which, afterwards, was placed on the table, and a wine glass for each of us, who were sixteen in number, not placed immediately before us, but, as it were, on each of our right hands. In about a minute, the boy, who was in livery, came round with a wicker-basket full of well-thumbed psalm-books, and laid one before each of us. Having sung a psalm, drunk the punch, as our entertainer expressed it, to warm the cold dinner, and finished some bottles of excellent port and Madeira, we all sallied out, a third time, to church, to hear the evening lecture.

When we returned, we had tea and coffee, then fa mily prayers, and supper, with strong beer and wine; and, after all, a good dose of rum punch to make us sleep. As my host's notions of religion were much more enthusiastic than mine, I allowed him to perform morning and evening prayers himself, and I was astonished to see him drink so heartily, though the general part of his conversation was of a gloomy and canting nature. His sons and his daughters, who were not a little accomplished, had imbibed the nostrums and enthusiasm of their father, and being what are called Glassites, were of opinion, that it was almost impossible for any sect of Christians to get to heaven but themselves. Indeed, I was not suprized to find the young ladies of this house Glassites, as almost every young woman of that communion is generally married young, it being a never-failing maxim of their clergy, to recommend it to young people to marry, and always adding, "The Lord will provide." Indeed, this part of the Glassites discipline and mode of preaching has many good effects. It is only attended with one bad consequence, which is, that it induces some unmarried women to join them that otherwise would not, were not this the favourite doctrine of their teachers.

But though the Glassites generally marry young, and many of them are not only virtuous and good in appearance, but in truth and reality; yet, I was sorry to find that Mr. D-g, my friend, among the Glassites, was not what I supposed him to be, when I consented to be entertained by him, and stay in his house. Being rich, and having some spare ground, he built a number of houses, and let them out at rack-rent. The ladies on the

town, (for it seems there are females of that description here also,) offered higher rent to this pious Glassite than any other, and he accepted it. And, though he cants, and prays day after day, and would make one believe he is extremely pious; yet it seems he goes and receives, month after month, the rent of his houses from those frail fair ones, though he is often told, and is perfectly certain, that what he receives is the wages of iniquity.

It has been observed, that where there is a great number of weavers collected, there new and gloomy notions of religion prevail. It was among the manufacturers of lawn, cambric, &c. in Germany and the Low Countries, that Calvinism was first introduced. It was among the Hugunots and silk weavers in France that Louis XIV. found the greatest opposition to his notions of religion. The weavers in Spitalfields were among the most active in the noise raised in 1780 by lord George Gordon bout the Papists; and, in Scotland, the weavers in Glasgow, Paisley, Perth, Dundee, &c. are always among the first to join any new sect that start up, the effect, no doubt, of their sedentary life, and the melancholy monotony of their occupation,

Dundee, like most other towns, is yearly increasing in size; and while hundreds are flocking into the towns in quest of high wages, many of the manufacturers here, as well as about Perth, Glasgow, Paisley, and the like, are going out to the country, and establishing manufactories where labour is cheap, and they are not hampered for room; and this has, and ever will be the case in a commercial

nation. The people in the country seek the high wages in the towns, and the people in the towns go to employ the poor in the country, and thus rich and poor places, as well as rich and poor kingdoms, contend with each other, and will continue to do so till, like water, which always finds its level, the one becomes as rich as the other.

PANBRIDE.

From Dundee, on my way to Aberbrothick through a tolerably well cultivated country, I arrived at Panbride. At the best inn here, which is but a small one, I found two tolerably welldressed men arguing keenly about one of their friends. It seems, in this place lately, the wife of a man of some property, having been married for years, had no children. At length she grew sickly, and, after lingering for some years, died. During her illness, a sister of hers had come to take care of her and the house. This woman having been careful of her sister and every thing, continued to keep the house after her sister's death; and acted her part so well, that, as the man was inclined to marry, he openly declared he wished to have her for his wife. But, though she consented, they suspected the law was against it. They applied to the parson of the parish, to the presbytery, and to the synod: but there was no redress; these courts declaring the marriage would be illegal. This was the subject they

were on when I entered. I begged they would not be interrupted on my account. One of them, who had been at the church courts, and heard their decision, argued that they were wrong. He had argued in these church courts, that as the woman, who was dead, had no children, the bond of connection between the sister and him was at the death of his wife completely broken; that had she had children, the case would have been otherwise; and that he saw no reason, either in a civil or religious point of view, to prevent the man from marrying, since they were both willing, and in all probability would do worse if they were not permitted. He told me, he had argued the matter freely before the clergy, and told them, that in different ages and countries there had been different notions respecting matrimony: that Abraham, the father of the faithful, seems to have had no check of consci. ence for marrying Sarah, his brother's daughter, whom the translators of the Bible have called his sister; that Jacob married two sisters, Rachel and Leah; that, among many of the Tartar tribes, the fathers marry their own daughters, and send their mothers, when they arrive at forty, to labour in the kitchen; and that Cimon, the son of Miltiades,. which was allowed by the laws of Athens, married his own sister. I was not a little astonished at the learning or reading of this man on the point in question. He was, it seems, an elder of the kirk. He did not seem to think the business ended, but that it must have another issue one way, as he said, or other.

Upon inquiring if there was any thing very remark