He had other reasons that helped to alienate him from the natives of Scotland.  Being a cordial well-wisher to the constitution in church and state, he did not think that Calvin and John Knox were proper founders of a national religion.  He made, however, a wide distinction between the dissenters of Scotland and the separatists of England.  To the former he imputed no disaffection, no want of loyalty.  Their soldiers and their officers had shed their blood with zeal and courage in the service of great Britain; and the people, he used to say, were content with their own established modes of worship, without wishing, in the present age, to give any disturbance to the church of England.

This he was, at all times, ready to admit; and, therefore, declared, that, whenever he found a Scotchman, to whom an Englishman was as a Scotchman, that Scotchman should be as an Englishman to him.  In this, surely, there was no rancour, no malevolence.  The dissenters, on this side the Tweed, appeared to him in a different light.  Their religion, he frequently said, was too worldly, too political, too restless and ambitious.  The doctrine of cashiering kings, and erecting, on the ruins of the constitution, a new form of government, which lately issued from their pulpits, he always thought was, under a calm disguise, the principle that lay lurking in their hearts.  He knew, that a wild democracy had overturned kings, lords, and commons; and that a set of republican fanatics, who would not bow at the name of Jesus, had taken possession of all the livings, and all the parishes in the kingdom.  That those scenes of horror might never be renewed, was the ardent wish of Dr. Johnson; and, though he apprehended no danger from Scotland, it is probable, that his dislike of calvinism mingled, sometimes, with his reflections on the natives of that country.  The association of ideas could not be easily broken; but it is well known, that he loved and respected many gentlemen from that part of the island.  Dr. Robertson’s History of Scotland, and Dr. Beattie’s Essays, were subjects of his constant praise.  Mr. Boswell, Dr. Rose, of Chiswick, Andrew Millar, Mr. Hamilton, the printer, and the late Mr. Strahan, were among his most intimate friends.  Many others might be added to the list.  He scorned to enter Scotland as a spy; though Hawkins, his biographer, and the professing defender of his fame, allowed himself leave to represent him in that ignoble character.  He went into Scotland to survey men and manners.  Antiquities, fossils, and minerals, were not within his province.  He did not visit that country to settle the station of Roman camps, or the spot, where Galgacus fought the last battle for public liberty.  The people, their customs, and the progress of literature, were his objects.  The civilities which he received in the course of his tour, have been repaid with grateful acknowledgment, and, generally, with great elegance of expression.  His crime is, that he found the