The people, according to my acceptation of the word, are the sober and respectable portion of the community of all countries, including the husbandmen who till the earth, and the artisans who fabricate the objects applicable to our positive wants, and superfluous luxuries.

How different are these from the populace who fill the streets shouting for liberty, by which they mean license; fighting for a charter of the real meaning of which they are ignorant; and rendering themselves the blind instruments by which a revolution is to be accomplished, that will leave them rather worse off than it found them; for when did those who profit by such events remember with gratitude the tools by which it was effected?
_Thursday_ .-- Repeated knocking at the gate drew me to the window ten minutes ago.

The intruder presented a strange mixture of the terrible and the ridiculous, the former predominating.

Wearing only his shirt and trousers, both stained with gore, and the sleeves of the former turned up nearly to the shoulder, a crimson handkerchief was bound round his head, and another encircled his waist.

He brandished a huge sword with a black leather string wound round his wrist, with one hand, while with the other he assailed the knocker.