POLITICAL FAME.

CHAPTER I.

RIGHT AND MIGHT CONSIDERED

HISTORICALLY.

ENGLAND! beautiful island, birthplace of the sage, the scholar, the bard, where genius finds the inexhaustible garner of laudable ambition; England ! towards whose shore the ambitious Corsican turned his thoughts in vain; England! from thy throne the sceptre of justice is wielded by a womanly, but a Christianlike power, and albeit

the sovereign holds most marked supremacy, each British subject is lord of