While the Scottish did not appreciate the English interference in their colonial trade, Cambell argued that in the circumstances such as the Darian scheme when the Scottish conflicted with the English ‘the consequences could not be disastrous.’ Smout finds that James Scot parliamentary representative of the burgh of Montrose urged his people to vote for the the Union fearing that alienation from Britain would ‘deprive of the only valuable branch’, which was their trade in linen cloth. This source shows that at least in some areas of Scotland people were aware of the depravity they would face if the trade with Britain was
While the Scottish did not appreciate the English interference in their colonial trade, Cambell argued that in the circumstances such as the Darian scheme when the Scottish conflicted with the English ‘the consequences could not be disastrous.’ Smout finds that James Scot parliamentary representative of the burgh of Montrose urged his people to vote for the the Union fearing that alienation from Britain would ‘deprive of the only valuable branch’, which was their trade in linen cloth. This source shows that at least in some areas of Scotland people were aware of the depravity they would face if the trade with Britain was