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for a seat in parliament, and dies res^»ected and re- 

 gretted bj all. 



This, mj dear friend, is a picture of the world as 

 it goes, — I think, a very just one ; so that if any of 

 your sons can get free of that mauvaise honte, (I am 

 obliged to go to France for this very exprefsive and 

 very fafliionable phrase,) which their father pofsef- 

 ses in too high a degree, I think you need to give 

 yourself no uneasinefs on the head. Your younger 

 boys, trained up at the foot of this Gamaliel, will soon 

 make a wonderful progrefs ; and as to the girls, they 

 will become so fine in this brilliant society as to be 

 courted by some falhionable lover, who never v/ould 

 have looked at one of them had you offered the half of 

 your estate with her, had flie continued to live with 

 yourself in the humble stile you would insist upon; 

 and will honour you with an alliance without de- 

 manding a single sixpence from you, in hopes of ob- 

 taining something from the great brother ? 



Thus, my good Sir, I have pointed out, in as few 

 words as I could, the easiest way that I can devise 

 for putting all your family into genteel employments, 

 without costing yourself one farthing; and for -ac- 

 quiring to them such affluence as they can have other- 

 wise no title to expect. If you do not follow this 

 plan, the fault must be your own. I think I have 

 done my part so well as to entitle me to receive some 

 bottles of your best claret, which I fhall come to 

 claim from you next fhcoting season. Till then 

 farewell. 



Edinhurih ^yhJJn. JURIDICUS. 



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