294 Ittterary olla. No. ix. •^*y. 21. 



Ijter.akt Olla. No. ix. 



For the Bee. 



On the Character, of a gentleman. 

 Many years ago, on the death of a respectable country 

 gentleman of large estate, \ found myself remembered 

 by him in his will with a small legacy for a mourning 

 ring, and a collection of clafsical books ; which last I par- 

 ticularly valued on account of many of them having slips 

 of paper in them with judicious original remarks, not at 

 all ift the manner of an author, but in the plain unaffected 

 manner of genteel conversation. 



Among other detached little pieces I found the follow- 

 ing remarks on the indiscriminate appellation of Gentle- 

 man, which from some circumstances 1 believe to have 

 been written soon after the peace of Paris, when, by an 

 immense and sudden influx of wealth, gentlemen, proper- 

 ly so called, were thrown a good deal, and somewhat dis- 

 agreeably, into the back ground of opulent society. 



It is so genuine a transcript of character, and so des- 

 criptive of the feelings attending a new sera in Britain^ 

 that I thought it would be a delicate morsel for the 

 Bee. 



Go then busy Bee ! Go, and carry it on your thighs to 

 the uttermost limits of the rational world. Go, and tell 

 every choice spirit on your course that there is a little 

 spot of earth not far from the frozen regions of the pole, 

 where yahoos begin to learn, not only not to say the 

 thing that is not ; but baldly to say the thing that is. 

 And give them, oh ! give them to hope, that the time may 

 come when it (hall not be the only deliberation of the 



