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" Human appetites how strong, 

 When love exults on fancy's fairy plains, 

 Or hunger views the jiintton at the fire ! " 



His popularity, independently of family associa- 

 tions, and recollections of ages long since gone by ; 

 the dashing personal character, and extreme and un- 

 affected good-humour of the late Squire of Halston ; 

 together with his fox-hounds, his race-horses, his 

 game, his wine, his ale, and many other things 

 besides, rendered him extremely popular in Shrop- 

 shire ; and if he had but been possessed of a fair 

 share of the to Trpeirov, so much esteemed by the 

 ancients, and so expressive of that exttrior propriety 

 of conduct, in the common intercourse of life, which 

 the world is very unwilling to dispense with, he 

 might have represented the county of Salop in 

 Parliament as long as he liked to have done so ; 

 it being the general opinion, that almost all the 

 independent freeholders would have supported him. 

 But this is the class of all others who dislike seeing 

 a gentleman sink in the social scale ; and when I 

 was last in Shropshire, I was sorry to find my old 

 friend's popularity was on the wane. His honour 

 and his honesty were still unsullied ; his heart was 

 as kind as it had ever been ; but the nearly constant 



