In the article published by us this month, on the _Right of
Instruction_, Judge Hopkinson has alluded to some opinions of Edmund
Burke. It may perhaps be as well to copy here one or two of the
paragraphs to which we suppose allusion is made.
In his speech in 1780, at the Guildhall in Bristol, _upon certain
points relative to his parliamentary conduct_, we have what follows.
Let me say with plainness, I who am no longer in a public character,
that if by a fair, by an indulgent, by a gentlemanly behavior to our
representatives, we do not give confidence to their minds, and a
liberal scope to their understandings; if we do not permit our members
to act upon a _very_ enlarged view of things, we shall at length
infallibly degrade our national representation into a confused and
scuffling bustle of local agency.