swayed by the Eloquence of public Demagogues.
But the collective Body of the People of Britain are of a Nature and Character less uniform, and essentially different. They may properly be divided into two Classes; "The People of the Kingdom;" and "the Populace of its Cities."
The Populace of its Cities resemble Those of Athens in most Things; except only, that they are not possessed of the legislative Power. For the People of Athens were "a Body of Labourers and Mechanics, who earned their Bread with the Sweat of their Brows; too generally ignorant and ill-educated; too generally prosligate in Manners, and void of Principle."
But the People of this Kingdom, in their collective Body, are upon the Whole, of a quite different Character. For under this Title are properly comprehended "all Those who send Representatives for the Counties to Parliament." This Catalogue
