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1elea-a nation of Englishmen--and ot lss proceedings, they talked, as a Russian lord might talk sf his serfs. Some otthem thought, that a ssamp act would frighten the sturdy freeholders of the Western World into submission Others talked of reducing them 10 obedience by laying a tax on their tea Others prescribed sssimea of wriss and conssablss evi- dently rsgarding the American farmers as they regarded the poasheIs and pau reTs of theirsown domains. All this Ar. oss from s,upenduous ignorancs-ons It was ignorance sngendsred by pride. by sxclusiyencss of rank. and by the asro- gance-6f easse. So excessive was ,his ex. elnsiveness that Burke. though the most extraordinary man of his time. could never obtain a seat in the cabiaet-wheTe such trifiers as Newcastle, such figures of pa,riciaa peaan,ry as Buckingham. such shallow in,riguers as the Bedfo'ds' and such notorious characters as the Sandwiches, played with power, Ike children with the cups aud balls of their nursery. Lord North, with al his wits. his industry and his sloquence. owed ms admission into the cabinet to hls being the son oi the earl of Guilford. Charles Fox, though marked by nature, from hls first entrance into public life. tor 'ne highss, eminenee of she senate, would never have been received into the gov. srpment class, but for his casual eonnsx> ion with the House of Richmond, Thus they knew nothing of the real powers o' that infinite multitude. which, however below the peerage, forms the county They thought ,ha, a few frowns rom

 Downing st. could extinguish the resist ''

 onee of millions, three thousand miles

 on with muskets in their hands, 'nf'afn-

 cd by a sense of wrong, whether fanc'eo

 or true, aud insensible te the gatherings

 nf a brow, however corone'sd ana ." . .ioue.-Blaeko. ods Magaz'"e.