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'My conduct, Pugstyles,' said Mr Gregsbury, looking round upon the depuation with gracious magnanimity - 'My conduct has been, and ever will be, regulated by a sincere regard for the truereal interests of this great and happy country. Whether I look at home or abroad, whether I behold the peaceful industrious communities of our island home, her rivers covered with steamboats, her roads with locomotives, her streets with cabs, her skies with balloons of apower and magnitude hitherto unknown in the history of aeronauties in this or any other nation - I say, whether I look merely at home, or stretching my eues further, contemplate the boundless prospect of conquest and possession - achieved by British perseverance and British valour - wgich is outspread before me, I clasp my hands, and turning my eyes to the broad expanse above my head, exclaim, 'Thank Heaven, I am a Briton!''