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to ruin, by never making any return of interest, as does pro- 

 perty expended in the country. By leading to an increased 

 establishment and expenditure, it often ultimately, either in 

 the present or succeeding generation, ends in disgrace, penury, 

 and total extinction of name. The effects of this mode of life 

 upon mankind and the state are dangerous, by increasing the 

 wealth and wickedness of cities, promoting effeminacy, extra- 

 vagance,, and luxury, in the sons of the wealthy ; which, if 

 brought up in the country, or in comparative simplicity, might 

 have proved more serviceable to it, as proprietors, representa- 

 tives, or soldiers*. Add to this the number of male servants 

 kept, which of all other classes of servants are the most cor- 

 rupted, and which greatly contaminate the simplicity and com- 

 parative innocence of country peasantry. From these pernici- 

 ous wretches, otherwise employed, the country might derive 

 considerable advantage, either in agriculture or national 

 defence. 



4. If wealth, power, and distinctions, be bestowed upon 

 some individuals for the general good, how shall they an- 



* " How, in the name of soldiership and sense, 



Should England prosper, when such things, as smooth 

 And tender as a girl, all essenced o'er 

 With odours, and as profligate as sweet, 

 Who sell their laurels for a myrtle wreath, 

 And love when they should fight?" &c, 



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