... have been agained peaceably and gradually, i' if there . rd been more philanthropy among tho clergy, more principle among the Whigs, and more wisdom I armong the Abolitionists. His own position appears to be strongly, but nob not extremely, individualist: ...

... successive lovers-the treacherous and vindictive Scrope; George Kelly, a non-jnring parson and Jaco- bite conspirator; the Whig Coloael -Montague, and Lord Sydney Beanclerk. The movement of the plot in the early chapters is waver- ing and unsatisfactory ...