view, in these reforming times,) he volunteers a profession
of political faith, in which, to use the Kentucky phrase, "he
goes the whole hog," and bluntly avows, in his concluding
chapter, that he not only holds stoutly to Church and State,
but that he conceives the English House of Commons to
be, if not quite perfect, at least as much so for all the re-
quired purposes of representation as it can by possibility be
made in practice. Such a downright thorough-going Tory
and Anti-reformer, pretending to judge of the workings of
the American democratical system, was naturally held to be
a monstrous abomination, and it has been visited accord-
ingly, both in America, and as I understand, with us also.
The experience which Capt. Hall has acquired in visits to
every part of the world, during twenty or thirty years, goes
for nothing with the Radicals on either side the Atlantic:
on the contrary, precisely in proportion to the value of
that authority which is the result of actual observation, are
they irritated to find its weight cast into the opposite scale.
Had not Capt. Hall been converted by what he saw in North
America, from the Whig faith he exhibited in his description
of South America, his book would have been far more
popular in England during the last two years of public ex-
citement; it may, perhaps, be long before any justice is done
to Capt. Hall's book in the United States, but a less time
will probably suffice to establish its claim to attention at
home.

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