"Capital spreads, too, they give—judging by the samples one sees laid out of an evening in their halls."
"Hospitable people; are they not, K——?"
"Oh, very. Not that ever I have been in one of their houses."
"Nor I—any farther than having a pipe with old John the Dragoman at his porch."
"Nor I."
Here was a crown to our adventure! An untrodden city, an unvisited people, a welcome to the mysterious bosom of Armenian hospitality!
DIRECT TAXATION.
"Free Trade," say the Americans "is another word for direct taxation, and direct taxation is another word for repudiation of states' debts." The Americans are right; it is so: and the strongest proof of these propositions is to be found in the conduct of the Americans themselves. The subject, however, is one not less interesting on this than the other side of the Atlantic. It involves the fortune and the temporal prosperity of every man in the united kingdom; and we do not hesitate to say that, on the embracing of just and reasonable views on this all-important subject by the constituencies of the united kingdom, the maintenance of the public credit,—the upholding of the public prosperity,—the ultimate existence of England as an independent nation, must come to depend.