text:  But if he had lived till our day what would Burke have thought of his delusion now? with what self-ridicule must he not have looked upon the burlesque grievances and the profitable privations? what an instructive lesson must not his powerful scorn of charlatanry have given to us on the display of the whole system of sleight-of-hand the popular cups and balls the low dexterity and the rabble plunder? or to sum all in one word the reduction of all the claims the rights and the efforts of a party pronouncing itself national to the collection of an annual tribute; the whole huge and rattling machinery of popular agitation grinding simply for the "rint