practice. I cannot help feeing great affi- 

 nity betwixt deducing gardening from the 

 painter's ftudies of wild nature, and de- 

 ducing government from the uncontrouled 

 opinions of man in a favage ftate. The 

 neatnefs, fimplicity, and elegance of Eng- 

 lilh gardening, have acquired the appro- 

 bation of the prefent century, as the happy 

 medium betwixt the wildnefs of nature 

 and the ftiffnefs of art ; in the fame man- 

 ner as the Englifli conftitution is the 

 happy medium betwixt the liberty of fa- 

 vages, and the refiraint of defpotic go- 

 vernment; and fo long as we enjoy the 

 benefit of thefe middle degrees betwixt 

 extremes of each, let experiments of un- 

 tried theoretical improvement be made in 

 fome other country. 



So far I have endeavoured to defend 

 Mr. Brown with refpect to the general 

 principle of improvement. But it is ne- 



ceffary 



