These are some of the traits that rise up to a contemplation of the inhabitants of this isle." Where is the alchymy that can extract from Captain Hall's work one thousandth part of the ill-will contained in this one passage?
Yet America has resounded from shore to shore with execrations against his barbarous calumnies.
But now we will listen to another tone.

Let us see how Americans can praise.

Mr.Everett, in a recent 4th of July oration, speaks thus:-- "We are authorised to assert, that the era of our independence dates the establishment of the only perfect organization of government." Again, "Our government is in its theory perfect, and in its operation it is perfect also.

Thus we have solved the great problem in human affairs." And again, "A frame of government perfect in its principles has been brought down from the airy regions of Utopia, and has found a local habitation and a name in our country." Among my miscellaneous reading, I got hold of an American publication giving a detailed, and, indeed, an official account of the capture of Washington by the British, in 1814.

An event so long past, and of so little ultimate importance, is, perhaps, hardly worth alluding to; but there are some passages in the official documents which I thought very amusing.
At the very moment of receiving the attack of the British on the heights of Bladensburgh, there seems to have been a most curious puzzle among the American generals, as to where they were to be stationed, and what they were to do.