5r79^* tlj£ eiiiall, afahte. gjj 



common crowd, returning back again to their first 

 origin in consequence of the extravagance of heirs. 

 .This is just as it ought to be, and according to the 

 venerable institutions of heaven, that imprudence 

 and vice fliould meet with their due rewards, and 

 that a voice ihould be heard continually sounding 

 through the universev " To be good is to be happy ;" 

 snd that it fhould declare to the elohims of the earth, 

 who meet with deserved punifhment, " discite justi- 

 tiam moniti, iif non temnere divos.^' 



It must rejoice every friend to humanity, to see a 

 prospect of the abominable feudal system getting its 

 death's wound in Britain, and among its worst pro- 

 geny that which annihilates the people in the scale 

 of Scottifh representation, aiwi multiplies, all over the 

 nation, the occasions of expensive, and destructive 

 litigation. 



The elegant Horace Walpole, when he had finiflied 

 his little castle at Strawberry-hill, and adorned it 

 with the portraits, and armorial bearings of his ances- 

 tors, and illustrious persons, was alked if he did not 

 design to entail it on his family ; on the subject of 

 sthis query he wrote the following verses, with which 

 I fhall conclude this ihort article. 



THE ENTAIL A FABLE *. 



Jn a f.i'i: summer's r. diant morn, 



A butterrty divinely born, 



Whose lineage, dated irom the mud 



• Thit fiece was inserted in Dodsley's Annual Reg'ster, vol xv. a dear 

 book, and therefore but in few hands. 



