text:  Still we may insinuate the question--Is it very politic in the present state of matters to rouse up a feeling in peaceful Scotland which may with little fanning of the fuel terminate in an agitation quite as extensive as that which at present unhappily prevails in Ireland? It is not only wrong but--what Talleyrand held to be a greater sin in a statesman--most injudicious to overlook in such a matter the tendency of the national character