After enumerating the various fpecies of fish that fwarm upon the coafts of the Weft Highlands and the Hebrides, Mr Knox adds,

"Such are the treasures which thefe northern feas afford, a fource of wealth unequalled on fouthern fhores, and which might give full employment to the inhabitants, in the various branches that relate to fisheries, of which the Dutch reckon thirty; as fishermen, coopers, curers of red herrings, fhip-carpenters, block-makers, joiners, painters, blackfmiths, hecklers, spinners, net-makers, sail-cloth manufacturers, fail-ma kers, rope-makers, tanners, faltmakers, coafters, bargemen, curriers, labourers, women, children, and old people, who gut the herrings, and wash them at the fecond packing.

Thus we find that the Highlands, beAdes fupplying home demands, export fith, black cattle, hories, fheep, timber, bark, lead, flate, and kelp; to which may be added fundry articles of lefs importance, as fkins, feathers, oil.

The aggregate amount of thefe exports is furely fufficient to procure the neceffary articles of grain, and various utenfils in iron, steel, timber, &e wherewith to improve their lands, extend their fisheries, furnish themselves with decked vessels, and erect more comfortable dwellings.

Such are the fpecific wealth and the specific wants of the Highlands. But as the value of its natural produce, by fea and land, is almost wholly absorbed by the great landholders, and by many of them fpent at Edinburgh, London, Bath, and elsewhere, as the people are thus left more or lefs at the mercy of ftewards and tacksmen; the natural refources of the country, instead of a benefit become a ferious misfortune to many improveable diftricts. Those who, by their education and their knowledge of the world, might diffufe general industry, and raife a colony of fubjects, useful to their King, to their country, and to themfelves, are the very perfons who glean thefe wilds of the laft fhilling, and who render the people utterly unqualified for making any effectual exertions in any cafe what ever."

Oppreffion is oppreffion every where; but when it is exerted to aggravate mifery and distress, it merits a much harsher epithet, and ought, leaft of all, to be fuffered in any part of this island, or its dependencies.

The advantage of fettling refident fifbermen, is evident from the following reprefentation:

"The buildings erected here (on the ife of Tanera) are capacious, and in eve. ry refpect well adapted to the bufinefs of curing white and red herrings. Mr Morifon, by refiding in the vicinity of the fisheries, takes the benefit of all seafons, and every appearance of herrings, of which be has the earliest intelligence.

Thus, his local fituation gives him a manifeft advantage over the bufs fleet from the Clyde, who fet out upon an uncertainty where to find the fish; and, after a voyage of two or three weeks, amidft the numerous islands and rocks of the western shores, arrive fometimes too early, and at other times too late.

In this dilemma, they cruize from place to place, from one loch to another; and it often happens, that when they are up. on their departure from a lake, the herrings are fteering directly towards it. A great part of the feason is thereby loft the herrings pafs on towards Ireland; the buffes return to their ports half emp ty, upon an average; the owners are disappointed, and the West India fhips proceed to fea without having procured the full amount of their cargoes.

The buffes clear out a fecond time with the greatest dispatch, and direct their course for the west coast of Ireland, upon the fame uncertainty; while the natives on that coast, by means of their vicinity to, and ready intelligence of the fhoals, are loading many veffels with full cargoes.

This accounts partly for the bad fuccefs of the bufs-fishery in Scotland, and ftrongly points out the neceflity of erecting villages upon the fishing grounds; where men of fome property will be always ready to embrace every opportunity that offers. It will also restore a share of these fisheries to the natives, who, by certain reftrictions in the fishery laws, have been excluded from availing them felves of their natural birth-right." M. LONDO Religion, &c.

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N compliance with the fashion of effayifts, beg leave to introduce myself to your acquaintance by a quotation from an antiquated author, of whom, by the way, I am lating nature, that it can draw nourishment no admirer; but my mind is of that affimieven from poisonous fources. You must know, Sir, I look with a jealous eye to all periodical papers.-The News-papers that have been conducted by my fecret influence the Magazines which I patronife are the most have always been the most fuccessful; and read. When the Lounger was announced, I confefs I was led by the title, to hope that it would be a publication fuited to my fenti. ments and opinions. I am forry, however, to fay that my hopes have been difappointed, and that it has hitherto been inimical to my views and wishes refpecting men and man. other things, with the fashion, and not be ners. Opinions, Sir, fhould vary, like all

thrown out to ftem the tide of freedom and fashionable enjoyments. You have fortunarely lived, Sir, to fee an cafe of manners, and a liberality of fentiment pervade all ranks of fociety, which were hitherto unknown in and reafoned too much; which produced a your country-People formerly read, thought, attention to decorum, which provoked me certain ftrictness of manners, and a cramped exceedingly. They would then talk of reftraints of duty, of moral obligation and conand fuch like ftuff. But now there is a hap fcience, of decency and propriety of conduct, Py thoughtless frivolity and cafe of manners introduced, when people may do what they pleafe, and not be the worfe thought of by the world; and this, Sir, let me tell you, is true liberality of mind.

There was formerly a certain ftately dignity of character, that was above doing a

mean or an immoral action. The lines of

duty, and the laws of decorum were afcerBut all this produced a kind of ftiffnets of manners, and often

tained and attended to.

prevented people from doing what they had

an inclination to, very unfuitable to a pleafure-loving age.

Thefe farcaftic Letters appeared fome time ago in the Edinburgh Evening Courant.