producing no general Advantage. 329 



every thing which can gratify a lover of agri- 

 culture, or the feelings which result from 

 meliorating the sad state of the rural popula- 

 tion. 



When a combination of the impressive fea- 

 tures of nature is assisted by well-directed 

 and superb embellishments of art, for the pur- 

 pose of rendering the residence of a nobleman 

 magnificent and splendid, the eye becomes de- 

 lighted with the contemplation of such an union ; 

 but here, the transitory pleasure must cease, 

 unless the gratification be perpetuated by the 

 additional evidence of comfort and happiness 

 diffused to all around, in consequence of the 

 industry excited by such costly efforts. Useless 

 magnificence is not calculated to compensate for 

 the absence of those substantial improvements 

 which leave behind them lasting benefits to our 

 fellow-creatures. When the expenditure of 

 riches becomes the happy means of ensuring 

 permanent support to parties in existence, and 

 future respect to their posterity, it is that appli- 

 cation of wealth which, above all others, affords 

 the greatest recompense on the pillow of reflec- 

 tion. Nothing of the sort is here discoverable. 

 The farming establishment had produced no 

 general advantage to the cultivation of the 

 country; and this, to a certain extent, reconciled 



