N&@r iiiso: 516 cOntemplat. a well-known origin= the family of Errol, and many others that cone ye on paca Military prowefs was, in thofe days, deemed a Pret virtue of ep an exalted nature, that few among the lower claffes nes could aim atit. And landed chieftains, with their ammediate dc. a as fod were ae to 2105 the glory arifing from it, without acne, they ee one a their ee: but yeu oe of the people them- eae‘ ves ae by ge the Oy: baat acer Ceca 2s fried ae= ee of the fame oa it roufed their envy; and ee they all, of ce fe, concurred with the landlord, in wifhing to Son pull down this upftart, who was{uppofed to have obtained this ee' wealth, not in confequence of a laudal ore: ae

in few pr oe ns ae a a Pee induftry, une oN g e encouraged; but to the unfair bargain he had obtained ee 4 from the owner of the ground, who conceived that every fhilling he proprietor that fuch a man acquired, was actually filched, as one might fay, not) from himfelf; and that, of courfe, he had a natural right to refume e confined t it, if he could. Nor are thefe ideas totally obliterated, even tll ken into the‘the prefent hour, either among the owners of land, or the herd of red as farm- the lower claffes, who in general borrow ideas from father to fon, A\\ the ob- through many generations, without the{malleft attempt to afcer-

r the manage- gain whether thefe be well or ill founded.

b(d, page 92-) I have{een men of confiderable talents, who, general pre from[peculative notions of ideal poflibilities, have deemed it prac- rms, and rich ticable to devife a leafe by which a man, without having any fecus ne fate of fo rity of a continued pofleffion, ina fe rm, fhould be laid under cer- yen who were tain reftriGtions that would prevent him from ever having it in his derived fom power to hurt the landlord; and, at the fame time, to bring the gia a na ee cote of ee as‘it ever could at- vied them ce und ee fy oe prope ee: ut, though we were to‘ad- i" aie He(which I ne oon doing) that the thing was phyfically a a poflible, I would ftill maintain, that it is morally smpracticable;{ce- feovee! i ing no confideration whatever, except a perfect conviétion of abfo- a lute fecurity, can_eyer induce the farmer to exert himfelf con- ae Tales

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