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bury's business, as head of a great brewery, enabled 

 him, at no great sacrifice, to keep many in entire good- 

 humour, by acceptable cadeaiix of brown stout. Having 

 omitted, upon some occasion, the transmission of one of 

 these, with his wonted regularity, to a certain quarter, 

 he received an anonymous reminder to the following 

 effect : — 



" How can you expect that the foxes will thrive, 

 If they have no porter to keep them alive." 



If popularity be not invariably the consequence atten- 

 dant upon a just, a wise, and good government, it is 

 absolutely necessary to the ruler of that microcosm of 

 which we are treating. A master of hounds can have 

 no durable prospect of success, unless he carries with 

 him the voice of the whole country confided to him. 

 In the earlier part of this work, I endeavoured to point 

 out some essentials in his conduct, and some few parti- 

 culars relative to his government in the field. In thus 

 attempting to describe, according to the result of obser- 

 vation, some of the principal features of his character 

 as the leader of a hunt, which should afford no shew of 

 reason for being denounced by any, but should boast 

 the strongest claims to tlie right of being upheld by all, 

 I am impelled by the conviction, that many evils and 

 difficulties have arisen solely from a neglect of duties, 

 apparently trivial in themselves, but which are, in rea- 

 lity, component parts of the machinery by which the 



