Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Letter to a Gentleman in Germany
T We think the author must here have in his eye Captain Basil Hall, who, in his Travels in North A'rnerica, raises a lament for the United States be cause the judges of this country have cast off their wigs. Every one to his taste! But what must have been the captain's feelings when the papers of his country informed him that the whi g chancellor appeared in the house of lords with a wig of considerably smaller size, and horribile dicta - when he read that the Bishop of Carlisle appeared in his place in the house of lords without a wig, and magis horribile dicta - when he found after a short time that the Bishop of Oxford had followed the example of his right reverend brother of Carlisle? Thou too, Brutus! Orthodox Oxford!
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