Sir Walter Scott also was hooted and pelted at Hawick by "the people," amidst cries of "Burke Sir Walter!"] [Footnote 166: Robertson's 'Life and Letters,' ii.

157.] [Footnote 167: We select the following passages from this remarkable report of Baron Stoffel, as being of more than merely temporary interest:--Who that has lived here [16Berlin] will deny that the Prussians are energetic, patriotic, and teeming with youthful vigour; that they are not corrupted by sensual pleasures, but are manly, have earnest convictions, do not think it beneath them to reverence sincerely what is noble and lofty?
What a melancholy contrast does France offer in all this?
Having sneered at everything, she has lost the faculty of respecting anything.
Virtue, family life, patriotism, honour, religion, are represented to a frivolous generation as fitting subjects of ridicule.

The theatres have become schools of shamelessness and obscenity.

Drop by drop, poison is instilled into the very core of an ignorant and enervated society, which has neither the insight nor the energy left to amend its institutions, nor--which would be the most necessary step to take--become better informed or more moral.

One after the other the fine qualities of the nation are dying out.