"  rabble,**^  "  disorganizers,''  *'  jacobins,'*  and
"  agrarians/'*  were  bandied  from  one  to  the
other,  in  Leaplow,  under  this  malign  influence.,
with  precisely  the  same  justice,  discrimination,
and  taste  as  they  had  been  used  by  my  an-
cestor in  London,  a  few  years  before-  Like
causes  notoriously  produce  like  effects ;  and
there  is  no  one  thing  so  much  like  an  English-
man under  the  property-fever,  as  a  Leaplow
raonikin  suffering  under  the  same  malady.
The  effect  produced  on  the  state  of  parties

■  It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  tell  the  intelligent  r  eader,
tliere  is  no  proof  that  any  political  community  was  ever  so
bent  on  self-destruction  as  to  enact  agrarian  laws,  in  the
vulgar  sense  in  which  it  has  suited  the  arts  of  narrow-
minded  politicians  to  represent  them  ever  since  the  revival  of
letters.  The  celebrated  agrarian  laws  of  Rome  did  not  essen-
tially differ  from  the  distribution  of  our  own  military  lands  ;
or  perhaps  the  similitude  is  greater  to  the  modem  Russian
military  colonies.  Those  who  feel  an  interest  in  this  subject
would  do  well  to  consult  Niebuhr. — Note  by  the  Editor.
