If that were realised, the English critic probably would not say anything scornful of red men; or certainly would be sorry he said it.

But the extraordinary avowal does mark what was most peculiar in the position.

This has not been the common case of misgovernment.

It is not merely that the institutions we set up were indefensible; though the curious mark of them is that they were literally indefensible; from Wood's Halfpence to the Irish Church Establishment.

There can be no more excuse for the method used by Pitt than for the method used by Pigott.