86 REFORMERS OF MORALS. 
for example, would have thought, before the 
experiment of the late Duke of Cumberland, 
that in fair fight, a Stag would overcome a 
Tiger? But, further, you must understand, 
that in all countries and ages, the Court and 
the People make one class, and the reformers 
of morals another. Besides the natural 
practice, and even duty of Courts, to identify 
themselves with the great body of the Peo- 
ple, and therefore to sanction and uphold, in 
pastimes as in every thing else, what be- 
longs to popular customs and manners, the 
persons composing Courts have the same na- 
tional tastes and national education with the 
People at large; and, in our own day, we see 
princes, peers, and lords and ladies, ming- 
ling and sympathising, or forming a single 
class, with the coarsest rabble, in the enjoy- 
ment of the popular diversions of the age. | 
The same has happened before, and will al- 
ways happen again; aud yet, mingled with the 
mass, both of the Court and of the People, 
there will always be persons to contend, either 
for greater innocence, or more refinement, in 
the practice of the day. As early, at least, as 
the reign of Henry VIII. we have one ex- 
