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suffered to be carried.

It is not uncommon to

see a young gentleman spend more by the year in such a tour, than the income of his estate will in prudence afford him the means of doing when settled with a family at home! And to what purpose? Not to enable him to learn the more; for it turns him out of the paths of application and attention into those of pleasure and riot: not to enable him to associate with the best company of foreigners, but the most luxuriant and extravagant of his own countrymen, or with such strangers as will resort to him only for his money. If the great number of travellers be considered, the drain of cash hereby occasioned is an apparent detriment to this kingdom, and the mischief to particular families is irretrievable, by acquiring a habit of expense which their estate cannot possibly bear, and which will ever be followed by a certain train of consequences dangerous to the public as well as private welfare. In former times, the people of Britain, when they travelled, were observed to return home with their affections more strongly engaged towards the well tempered constitution and liberty of their own country, from having observed the miseries resulting from arbitrary governments abroad. This was a happy effect, and most desirable to be continued: but by an unlucky reverse it sometimes happens in these days, that being taught to like the fashions and manners of foreign countries, they are led to have no aversion to their political institutions, and their methods of exercising civil power.

The Protestant religion being established here is one, great security of our civil liberty. That

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MISS TALBOT TO THE HON. MISS CAMPBELL.

August 16, 1736.

I HAVE been out in the coach with my lord this afternoon. If a fine evening, and the most delightful rural scene in the world, could give any one the least sensation of delight in so terrible a situation as ours, I must have felt it to-night. But when I came near the house, where the best of friends that has had so great a part in the happiness and improvement of my life, lies languishing in the greatest misery, I felt a chillness at my heart, an inexpressible something, that made me imagine it is better to be always in the midst of this melancholy scene than to undergo the fears that necessarily attend an hour's separation from it. I thank God that we found nothing worse at our return than we left when we went out. Since Saturday the convulsions are not increased, as we every moment dreaded. Yesterday they were rather lessened; but do not be too much pleased at my saying this. The case

still continues hopeless; and I do not know whether one ought to be glad that she may continue in this misery a week or fortnight longer. Alas! what a dreadful sentence have I writ here! I am shocked at looking over it, to see with what apparent calmness I have said, that in so short a space of time I must, in all probability, lose one of the greatest blessings of my past life, the best of friends, the most amiable companion; must see the remainder of those who are, and ought to be, the nearest to my heart, given up to the

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