one faction or other; and, if the faction which he joins, should chuse to be of opinion that beans and pease are bacon, he gives his assenting voice, and endeavours, wherever he goes, to prove, that beans and peas may be bacon, although they are not positively hog's flesh. As he must join one party or the other, the most prudent step for him to take in these times, is, to join Administration: for, although they want no addition to their forces, yet, I dare say, on his leaving London, after having given a whole winter's specimen of his sincerity, the Minister would not refuse making a seventh cousin of his affectionate and loving wife an Ensign of Fencibles.

He now returns to his country-seat, where he amuses his brother-foxhunters with descanting on the political frugality

of the Minister, the justness and holiness of the war, or the affluence and extent of our trade and commerce. If on the other side, he exclaims against the enormous expenditure of public money, the barbarous massacre of human lives, and the horrid effusion of human blood; the pressure of the taxes, the accumulation of the national debt, and the corruption of the times.

His affectionate wife, to play her part with some eclat, astonishes the natives at the county race-ball, on appearing with black eyebrows, a flaxen wig, and half naked, in the London fashion. She invites her gallant to visit her in the country, who generally brings some friend with him to entertain her sister or female confidante. If an officer, he brings a recruiting party into the neigh

bourhood. The drum and fife delight the servants. The grenadier-serjeant and corporal dance with and make love to the maids in the hall, whilst the Captain and his friend are doing their best to amuse the ladies in the drawing-room. Poor, hospitable Bazil, all this time, smokes his pipe, drinks his bottle, entertains his country friends in the parlour with his winter campaign in parliament; while the Captain, who eats his venison and drinks his wine, that he may not be wanting in gratitude, intrigues with his wife. At the end of the summer, the servant-maids have danced themselves into a dropsy with the serjeant and corporal, and retire to their relations to be cured; and the sister, or female confidante, goes on a visit for a few months to some distant relation, either in Scotland or Wales.Thus passes the summer campaign.

My father never solicited a place; and I am confident he never received a bribe. He purchased the commissions his sons had, during his life: one for my brother, the present Lord Coleraine, in the blue horse, and my own in the guards: both of which I make no doubt but he might have had given him, if he had asked for them, as he was a strenuous supporter of the King and Constitution, though not blindly devoted to the Minister. He was affluent and independent in point of fortune, and had honest pride enough to keep himself so. To conclude my account of him, I believe from my heart he was as honest a man as ever stepped in leathern shoe.

In my mother I have experienced a most affectionate, kind, and tender parent. And thus much for my parentage.

I shall proceed now to my birth, education, and transition through life. I was

born at my father's country-seat, in the best bed in the state-room, according to ancient custom. Whether I came headforemost or not into the world, or whether I was born with teeth in my gums, or with hair on my head, it will not be expected that I should determine, having no other record to go by than a treacherous memory: but I am inclined to believe, if I may judge from the length of my nose, that at my birth the midwife committed some indignity to my person. I can, however, assure the reader, that since my godfather and godmother have been released from their baptismal duty, and I have taken upon myself the charge my own sacred person, I never have

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