But, I dare say one is compelled to do many things in the colonies, that we never dream of at home." This was said with seeming indifference, though with great art.

Sir Wycherly's principal weakness was an overweening and an ignorant admiration of his own country, and all it contained.

He was also strongly addicted to that feeling of contempt for the dependencies of the empire, which seems to be inseparable from the political connection between the people of the metropolitan country and their colonies.

There must be entire equality, for perfect respect, in any situation in life; and, as a rule, men always appropriate to their own shares, any admitted superiority that may happen to exist on the part of the communities to which they belong.

It is on this principle, that the tenant of a cock-loft in Paris or London, is so apt to feel a high claim to superiority over the occupant of a comfortable abode in a village.