_Yankee_ (Vol. vii., p. 103.).--I am afraid MR. BELL'S ingenious
speculations must give way to facts. Our transatlantic brethren do _not_,
either willingly or unwillingly, adopt _Yankee_ as their "collective name."
_Yankee_ was, and is, a name given exclusively to the natives of the New
England States, and was never therefore applied, by an American, to the
people of New Amsterdam or New York. Here, in England, indeed, we are
accustomed to call all Americans _Yankees_; which is about the same thing
as to call all Englishmen Devonians or Lancastrians.