LORD KENYON. 415 



caused several of his edicts to be written in 

 very small letters, and afterwards fixed in situa- 

 tions of difficult access, in order that those 

 who were to be affected by them might offend 

 through ignorance. His ultimate object, how- 

 ever, was only to procure the pecuniary fines 

 which were imposed upon the want of obe- 

 dience ; when these were obtained, he readily 

 acquitted the transgressors of all further blame* 

 Men calling themselves Britons likewise con- 

 ceal their laws, but, with a refinement in cruelty 

 beyond the conception even of a Roman tyrant, 

 declare persons to be infamous, who do not ob- 

 serve them. 



I have now, my Lord, finished my journey 

 through the dreary waste, which I undertook to 

 explore. In my progress, no spot of verdure 

 has been found, upon which the weaned eye 

 might repose, and scarcely an object of terror 

 has occurred, to break the flat uniformity of 

 the scene, one wide expanse of pitiful fraud, 

 and paltry chicane. My labour has been in- 

 glorious ; but should it furnish your Lordship 

 with a more accurate knowledge of the ground 

 I have passed over, than that which you for- 

 merly possessed, I shall esteem it most amply 

 repaid. 



That the conduct which I have described 



