Adam Smith On The Union

"By the Union with England, the middling and inferior ranks of people in Scotland gained a compleat deliverance from the power of an aristocracy which had always oppressed them - "

Wealth of Nations, V.iii.89 (Oxford, 1976), P.944, quoted by James Buchan, 'Capital of the Mind', p.180.

Yes, you should always be wary of Scotch grandees......