METRICO-POLITICAL SKETCH OF PAST AND PRESENT TIMES, WRITTEN DURING AN EXCURSION IN 1830. BY Caledonnicus. puud of i Et errat longè mea quidem sententia, Qui imperium credit gravius esse aut stabilius, Vi quod fit, quam illud quod amicitia adjungitur. TERENCE. Aut flumen Rhenum, aut pluvius describitur arcus. HORACE. PUBLIC ADAM BLACK, NORTH BRIDGE, EDINBURGH ; LONDON. MDCCCXXXI, PUBLIC LIBRARY 99522 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUL DATIONS. 1898 PRINTED BY NEILL & CO. TO THE BRITISH NATION, THE FOLLOWING POEM IS, BY THE AUTHOR, MOST HUMBLY AND RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, IN ADMIRATION OF THAT PROUD PRE-EMINENCE WHICH HIS COUNTRYMEN HAVE SO LONG, SO NOBLY MAINTAINED; AND, HOWEVER TEMPESTUOUS MAY BE THE ASPECT OF THE TIMES, IN THE CONFIDENT HOPE, THAT, BY THE BLESSING OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE, AND UNDER THE DOMINION OF A ROYAL RACE WHO SO JUSTLY FEEL WHAT CONSTITUTES TRUE GLORY, THESE REALMS, SECURE IN THE POSSESSION OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND GREAT, MAY FLOURISH TO LATEST POSTERITY, NEW YORK AN EXAMPLE TO THE WAVERING, A BEACON TO THE BENIGHTED, A REFUGE TO THE CALAMITOUS. PUBLIC |