I am sure Smith didn't see the Wealth of Nations as a blueprint for any particular country or region - the 'the obvious and simple system of natural liberty' is entirely general. His examples are drawn from Great Britain as a whole, from its component parts (England and Scotland), and other places (France, the American colonies, etc.). If he was addressing himself to any political body it was the British Parliament - separate English and Scottish bodies did not exist. His intellectual context was Scottish, of course, though not narrowly or exclusively so, but that is not the same as having a 'blueprint' for Scotland as opposed to anywhere else. Incidentally, Scot Stradley's terminology is in fact correct - it was 'the Brits', that is to say, anti-Catholic, anti-Jacobin 'Brits' of both sorts, English and Scottish, who took revenge against those parts of the highlands which had supported the Jacobin uprising. Smith would not have had much sympathy for the Catholic, divine-right, absolutism of the Jacobins. Tony Brewer