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England, he had the advantage of a better education 
than is generally bestowed on those of his rank, 
His natural taste for study and reflection, was di- 
tected and encouraged by an indulgent father, who, 
at the age of twenty-five, sent him on the grand 
tour, with an allowance that enabled him to move in 
the first tircles at Paris, Versailles, Rome, Venice, 
Vienna, Bonne, Cologne, Brufsels, and the Hague. 
‘Hitherto he had been conversant only with per- 
sons in high life: but not considering these as the 
best specimens, or most faithful representatives of 
national character, he determined to make himself 
acquainted with the manners of the middling and 
lower clafses; and immediately after his return to 
England he set out on a new tour on foot and unat- 
tended. In this plight he rambled over England, Scot- 
land, Italy, France, and Spain ; and he has often decla- 
_ red that this last excursion afforded him more rational 
amusement than that which he made in a much more 
-exalted sphere. He kept no regular journal; but 
when any thing remarkable occurred, he wrote it 
down on loose fheets of paper. Eighteen of these 
are now in my pofsefsion. It is needlefs for me to 
take up your time in telling how they came there ; 
but if you think they deserve a place in your Bee, 
i will send you copies of them in the order they are 
tied up ; for they make no narrative, and are no way 
connected ; and, as they chance to lead us, we must 
jump at once from England to Spain, or from Italy 
“to Scotland. 
