Incorruptible Scots

Of the many who knew of Prince Charles’s places of concealment was one poor man, who being asked why he did not give information, and enrich himself by the reward of £30,000, answered, ‘Of what use would the money
be to me? A gentleman might take it, and go to London or Edinburgh, where he would find plenty of people to eat the dinners, and drink the wine which it would purchase; but, as for me, if I were such a villain as to commit a crime like this, I could not remain in my own country, where nobody would speak to me, but to curse me as I passed along the road.’

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