Treasurer of his Maties Chamber."
Peter Cunningham.
Prices of Tea.—From Read's Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, Saturday, April 27, 1734:
| " | Green Tea | 9s. to 12s. | per lb. |
| Congou | 10s. to 12s. | " | |
| Bohea | 10s. to 12s. | " | |
| Pekoe | 14s. to 16s. | " | |
| Imperial | 9s. to 12s. | " | |
| Hyson | 20s. to 25s. | " |
E.
Coleridge a Prophet.—Among the political writers of the nineteenth century, who has shown such prophetic insight into the sad destinies of France as Coleridge? It is the fashion with literary sciolists to ignore the genius of this great man. Let the following extracts stand as evidences of his profound penetration.
Friend, vol. i. p. 244. (1844):
"That man has reflected little on human nature who does not perceive that the detestable maxims and correspondent crimes of the existing French despotism, have already dimmed the recollections of democratic phrenzy in the minds of men; by little and little have drawn off to other objects the electric force of the feelings which had massed and upholden those recollections; and that a favourable concurrence of occasions is alone wanting to awaken the thunder and precipitate the lightning from the opposite quarter of the political heaven."
Let the events of 1830 and 1848 speak for themselves as to the fulfilment of this forecast.
Biographia Literaria, vol. i. p. 30. (1847), [after a most masterly analysis of practical genius]: