A censure of this nature has been applied by some to Dr. Johnson, and possibly with some reason.

To start the subject.

Requires to be bridled.

One who tests or examines.

The galliard was a light active dance, much in fashion in the time of Queen Elizabeth.

Hits at, or remarks intended to be applied to, particular individuals.

A slight or insult.

A sarcastic remark.

He perhaps alludes covertly to the conduct of the Spaniards in extirpating the aboriginal inhabitants of the West India Islands, against which the venerable Las Casas so eloquently but vainly protested.

Of course, this censure would not apply to what is primarily and essentially a convict colony; the object of which is to drain the mother country of its impure superfluities.