Mr. Wimpey on (Economical Re-gijlers. 135 
manner of living, a kind of citizens of the world, 
without character, or defcription, fixed habits 
tion, refidence or connexion, by which they 
may be traced as to their mode of fubfiftence. 
And how defirable foever it may be to bring 
them into bro^d day light, that every man may 
have his eye upon them, yet in a country, where 
the blefiing of liberty is delervedly in fuch high 
efteem, fears are awakened, fufpicions alarmed, 
jealoufies excited, left any incroachment fhould 
be made on the liberty of the fubjedl, under the 
fpecious, but deceitful appearance of public 
Were this a proper place, I would endeavour- 
to give the true idea of genuine liberty, in which 
that of the individual fhould perfectly accord, 
with the fafety and happinefs of the ftate. Like 
the bafe of a pyramid, it fhould be eredted on 
a large extended bottom, its centre of gravity 
coinciding with its centre of magnitude, which 
nothing could fhake or overturn, till its materials 
fhould be crumbled into one common ruin. 
At prefent, I think it feems to fland, like Fortune 
on the fummit of a globe, whofe defcent on one^ 
fide, is into the region of anarchy and licentious 
confufion •, on the other, of tyranny and flavery, 
from both which I hope we fliall ever efcape. 
I will beg leave, however, to throw out a 
few hints. They may fuggefl the means of- 
preventing fome, and of detecting others, in the 
purfuit 
