2 
_ gratifyin 
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tive value i is every day diminifhing by 
“the prodigious influx of wealth, real and 
artificial, which for fome time paft has 
been pouring into this kingdom. Hi- 
therto however I have found my “incom 
equal to my wasts,. It -nabled 
to inhabit a good heufe i vn for 
months of the year, and to refide amongft 
my tenants and neighbours for the 
remaining eight with credit and hofpi- 
tality. I am indeed myfelf fo fond of 
the country, and fo averfe in my nature 
to every thing of hurr y and buftle, that, 
atk confulted « only my own tafte, I fhould 
never feel a with to leave the fhelter of 
my own Calis in the drearieft feafon of 
the year; but J looked upon our an- 
nual vifit to London as a proper c li- 
ance with the gayer difpofition y 
wife, and the’ natural curiofity of the 
younger part of the Be befides, to fay 
the truth, ic had advantaves in Se, 
ing around of dinners mets card peri, 
which we. mut o: BORNE 
in for the winter f{eafon, or ave “been 
branded with appellation of unfoci- 
able. Our journey gave me an opportu - 
nity of furnifhing my ftudy with fome 
new books and prints; and my wife of 
g her fog ts Ww ith fome or- 
namental. trifles, before their value was 
funk by becoming common, or of produc- 
ing at her table, or in. her forniture, 
fome new invent Le ee ‘Of faikion- 
able elegance.. Our hail was the. firs 
iat was “light ed by the lamp d’ Argand. 
and 1 full remember how we were eral i. 
fied by the afonithment of our guelts, 
when a Wite withan ae called 
to the foot-man for the tomes to help to 
the afparag: swith. We found it pieafant 
too to _be enabled to talk of capita al artifts 
and favourite actors ; sie IT made the 
better feure in my politic cal debates from 
having t heard the moft popular {peakers 
in the houfe. 
Once too, to recruit my wife’s fpirits, 
after a tedious confinement from a lying- 
in, we paffed a feafon at Bath. In this 
manner therefore things went on very 
well in the main, till of late my family 
have difcovered that we le: very dull 
kind of life; and thar it is impoifible 
to exift wit! comfort, cr indeed to enjoy a 
_tolerable fhare of } health, without {pen = 
ng good part of every fummer at a 
rue fice held cu t a§iilong asd 
GQne may be aleve to refift the. 
ney of diffipation, bur the plea of health 
_ cannot decently be withfiood. 
“dt was, foon;difcovered that my eldeft 
dapghter wented bracing, and my wife 






itSea 
the 
tains 







~ 
| On Watering Places. 
Was, an entire freedo 
a ty 
~ repofe. 
ed and crowded with m 
can tearcely, move about in it, and am 
” * 
(Sept. 
had a bilious complaint, againft which. 
our family phyficiam declared, that fea - 
bathing would be particularly. fervice- © 
able. "Therefore, th ough it was my own 
private opinion that ll Oe onehees nerves 
ight have been as well braved by morn- 
ing rides upon the Northamptonthire 
hills, as by evening ances in the public 
_rooms, and. that my wife's bile. avould 


have been greatly leffened by om phianse 


with her hufband, 1 ac 3.and 
reparations were made fo jougpey.. 
hefe indeed were but fiche: for the 



chief gratification propofi thisfcheme , 
care and 
uid find y, thing re- 
Jodgin; 4 
gs 5 Was Of rs 
quence whether the rooms we fhou 
- --. 
occupy for a few months in the fummer, 
elegant or not; the fimplicity 
life would be the more enjo 
e little fhifts we fhould 





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to; | neceflaries would be provid- __ 
ed in ctrlodgingss It wasnot there- | 
fore till after we had taken them, that 
We di (coveredthow far ready furnifhed 
lodgings were from affording every arti. 
cle in the catalogue af neceflaries. We ~ 
did not indeed give them a very feru- 
ae examination, for the place y 
) full, that when we-arrived late 
ight, and tired with our joarhey, - P 
the beds at the inn wenggaken up, and 
an eafy chair and a carpet were all the 
accommedations we aa obtain for our 
The next morning, therefore, 
We eagerly ee aged the arf lodgings we 
vonnd vacant, have ever fince been 
duipuung abou terms, which from 
the hurry were not mba afcer- 
tained ; andit is not ev n yetfettled whe- 
ther the little hie garret iwi ferves us 
as a powdering room, is curs of right 
or by favour. The want cf all forts of 
conveniences. is a conftant. €xcufe for 
the w ant of allvorder and neatnefs, which 
In our apartment; and we % 
By: fem gnHaes that we area 





fuch plenty at home dil 
It is my misfortune tha’ 
thing without all my little nces 
about me; ar d in order to write a com- 
mon letter I’muft have my ftudytable 
to lean my elbows on in fedentary Iux- 
urys you, will judge therefore how little 
Tam able to € employ, my leifure, wh 
“tell you, that the only room they ha 
been able to allot for my ufe ts fo fill, 
daughters hat- 
boxes, band- -boxes, wig-boxes, Xe. thar Fo” 
as 
thig 
