SCOTLAND.
A review in the last Number of Taies Edinburgh Magazine, on the Spy system, has awakened the wrath of Mr. Kirkman Finlay of Glas- gow, whose connexion with that notorious personage, Richmond the Spy, is therein made the subject of sevete comment. Mr. Finlay has addressed a letter in consequence to Mr. Tait, which we find in the Edinburgh Observer of Tuesday last, and which contains a contemp- tuous allegation of the falsehood of the charges brought against him in the article in question. The same paper contains Mr. Tait's reply: as the well-known Mr. John Randolph once said of the speech of a Kentuckian member of Congress, it " cuts like a. kitchen-knife, whetted on a brickbat—rough and deep." We suspect that Mr. Finlay would have acted with more discretion, if he had let Mr. Tait and his Magazine alone, and not drawn additional attention to those venerable stories about his connexion with Richmond and the Spy system which most of us were familiar with some sixteen orseventeen years ago, "in our hot youth when George. the Third was King," but which we should not have thought of ripping up again in the blessed times of William the Fourth and Reform.
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