Notes and Queries, Vol. 11: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc.; January June, 1897 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from Notes and Queries, Vol. 11: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc.; January June, 1897

The French do not take to the word British, probably because they have Anglais, which formerly, I believe, included all English-speaking people but Of late years Americans have travelled in such numbers that it does not now include them.

I have referred above to the so-called union. What kind of a union is it when each country has separate laws? For legal matters Scotland is as much a foreign country as France for you cannot serve an English process in Scotland or France without leave of a judge. It is much better than it was some years ago, when a Scotsman could come to England, run up large bills, return to Scotland, and flip his fingers at his creditors. It is the same with Ireland; and yet, though we never conquered Scotland, we always pretend we did Ireland. It is not much of a conquest of a country when it still keeps its own laws. Of course, the above instance is only supposition make believe, as the children say - no one would suspect either Scotsmen or Irishmen of doing such a dishonest thing.

An English judgment solemnly pronounced by the most powerful lord we have is mere waste paper in Scotland or Ireland, until it has gone through the required legal process to make it worth anything in those two countries respectively.

The Union I have been referring to is that of the accession of James I.; but I need not say that this was only a union of the two crowns, the real (7) union was not until the Act of 5 Anne, c. 8, 1 May, 1707; the latter is as much a sham as the former, so far as the law is concerned.

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