ABSTRACT

We by no means deny this writer the praise of sensibility and poetic taste, and, on this account, we the more seriously lament his absurd and preposterous prejudices against his country, and give a decided preference to the last of these compositions, as having no tincture of party. We would seriously ask Mr. Coleridge where it is that Englishmen have been so ‘tyrannous’ as to justify the exclamation, From east to west A groan of accusation pierces heaven, The wretched plead against us, multitudes, Countless and vehement, &c. &c.