308 ° occupations of a country gentleman. Fuly 4. 
cumstances. J have just now in my eyea case exact- 
‘ly in point, where a man, who owned an uninhabited. 
house, in the neighbourhood of a considerable. manu- 
facturer, obtained an interdict to stop his work ; and 
by that means laid perhaps twenty or thirty people 
idle, metely because he alleged the noise was dis- 
agrgeable. Trusting to the well known lenity 
usually. exercised in cases of this sort, he had no 
scruple to demand this inexcusable exertion of legal: 
power, and obtained it. 
I will not take up more of your room at present;. 
but am, Sir, your sincere well-wihher, 
SERTORIUS.. 
ON THE OCCUPATIONS OF A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN.. 
Written some years ago but not publifbed, in answer toa letter 
in one of our newspapers. 
Your correspondent of the 27. inst. signing Amicusy 
safsigns very good and sufficient reasons for a gentle- 
man avoiding farming. But when he answers-his own. 
query, Is a gentleman then to live idle in the country 2 
he seems to fall into. some degree of contradiction ;. 
for he says he ought to farm enough to maintain 
cows and horses according to his rank, and to improve, 
{by farming, I suppose he means,) any part of-his 
estate that stands most in. need of it, and: let it off 
directly. 
That is to say, he fhould not farm, and fhould: 
farm; for among all my. country neighbours I 
know none who: farm, except for one or other of the 
two reasons he afsigns.. 
