nking very ill of
it; and where this is the case of a whole nation, I tremble to think
what dissatisfactions it will produce against a settlement so necessary
for the happiness of Britain.

If all the rebels, with their wives, children, and immediate dependants,
could be at once rooted out of the earth, the shock would be
astonishing; but time would commit it to oblivion, and the danger would
be less to the Constitution, than when thousands of innocents, punished
with misery and want for the offences of their friends, are suffered to
wander about the country, sighing out their complaints to Heaven, and
drawing at once the compassion and moving the indignation of every human
creature.

THE SCOTTISH CAPITAL.[64]

+Source.+--_A Journey through Scotland, in Familiar Letters from a
Gentleman here, to his Friend Abroad_, p. 65, by J. Macky. Second
edition. (London: 1729.)

The High-Street of Edinburgh, running by an easy ascent from the
Netherbow to the Castle, a good half mile, is doubtless the stateliest
street in the world, being broad enough for five coaches to drive up
abreast; and the houses on each side are proportionately high to the
broadness of the street; all of them six or seven story high, and those
mostly of free stone, makes this street very august.

Half way up this street stands St. Giles's Church, the ancient cathedral
of this city, in the form of a cross; but since the Reformation it is
turned into four convenient churches, by partitions, called the
High-Kirk, the Old-Kirk, the Tolbooth-Kirk, and Haddock's Hole. A-top of
this church is erected a large open cupola, in the shape of an imperial
crown, that is a great ornament to the city, and seen at a great
distance. King David erected a copy after this over St. Nicholas's
Church in Newcastle, but it does not near come up to it. Besides these
four churches of St. Giles's, there is in the same street a little lower
the Trone[65] Church, built after the model of Inigo Jones's St. Paul's
Covent Garden; a very handsome church at the east end of the lake,
called the Collegiate Church, built by Mary of Gelder,[66] Queen to
James the Second; a church built by a Lady Yester, a handsome new church
in the middle of the Canongate, and two good churches under the same
roof at the Grey-Friars. There are also some chapels; but they are
converted into halls for trades.

To the south of St. Giles's Church is a fine square, with an equestrian
statu