VINDICATION OF SCOTTISH RIGHTS ADDRESSED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. BY A CITIZEN OF EDINBURGH. Diligentia superat omnia. EDINBURGH: MURRAY & STUART, 28 SOUTH HANOVER STREET. GLASGOW: MURRAY AND SON. LONDON: HOULSTON AND MDCCCLIV. CONTENTS. - 1. The Removal of the Excise and Custom House Establishments, 2. The Superiority of the English and Irish Poor Laws, as contrasted 19. Scottish Police not supported by Government, 20. United Kingdoms of England and Scotland should be always VINDICATION OF SCOTTISH RIGHTS. Introduction. THE recent movement for the Vindication of Scottish Rights, based upon the general complaints of large grants of money devoted by government to England and Ireland, while Scotland has, with a few trifling exceptions, been altogether overlooked, besides the removal of many of our National Establishments to London to the great injury of the Scottish Metropolis, has enlisted under its banner the combined efforts of Scottish noblemen, grave citizens and chivalrous knights, of erudite scholars, intelligent merchants, and unsophisticated artizans. It has awakened, indeed, the enthusiasm and the resolute adherence of all such, throughout the length and breadth of the land. The British Government must remember that the movement is not the result of a passing excitement. It is the resolution of a peaceful, intelligent, high-minded, and above all an unconquered people, to secure from total annihilation the memorials of a history which is dear to the heart of every true Scotsman. It has already, both in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and in nearly all the provincial towns, acquired such a decided character as to be but little affected by the light artillery of the Times newspaper; and not to be put aside by the feeble attempts of the Morning Chronicle, or the misdirected sneers of the Daily News. We are now told, since this important movement commenced, by those hostile to its object, that since 1707 we have remained quiet and contented, or, in other words, that because the people have submitted to grievances so long, we must continue to submit to them for ever. But the British public are well aware that Scotland has greatly changed since 1707, and we maintain that from A |