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Show Profiiéion, Mifmanagement, or any other'Mf- he muft bury a Grandfather fuitably to his afi'licm'a'vz whatloever. 11‘.er v Office, Dignity, Rank, or Station, has a certain Chara€ter to iuiiain, which neceITarily Rank, alfo an Uncle. Aunts rrughr have been contracted in the Space of ten requires a correfpondent Train of Expences; fo that whether you corifider the Demands upon a King with a Salary of 800,0001 a Year, or the Demands on a private Gentleman with only a clear Rental of 8001. aYear, the Scale of Ex- pences mufi be proportionate, the Demands and Expences being relative one to the other. WE will therefore reafon on what we are mofl a Brother and Sii‘ters,---yet he himfelt acquires no Addition of Fortune by their Decades. 3dly. SEVERAL Act'mrz'ages in the Family, and his own* in particular, bring on a third Charge, Which furely in Reafon and Confcience ought not to be objected to. 4thly. SIX or {even Chrifienings and Lyings~ in, expenfive Articles in all Families, necelT-arily happen from the Circumf'tance of the Cafe, to be peculiarly expenfive in this: And yet converfant with (and with Refpec‘t to which we may be allowed to be competent Judges) 'vz'z. on the Cafe of a young Gentleman of arefpec- table antient Family, juf't come to take Policifion of an Eftate, which clears him 8001. a Year. 1ft. THEREFORE, being appointed Sherifi'of' the County, he mul't and ought to go throngli that expenfive Office in fuch a Manner as would reflect no Difgrace on himfelf, or the refpefiable Family from which he is defcended (and the Oii‘ice of Sheriff belonging to a private Gentleman is of much the fame Import in Point of Expence, as the Circumftances of a Coronation in refpeét to Majefiy.) 2dly. . * Some lhrewd Politicians have been wife enough to aik, Why did not his Majefiy's marry a large Fartum', in order to re-imburfe {ome of thefe Expences E--Wnat large Fortune would thefe Wifeacres have wilhed him to have married? A Duchy or Principality on the Continent, in order to engage us [fill more in Continental Meafures ?-()r was it to bea large landed Eitatc at Home, to be annexed to the Crown, like another Dutchy of Lance/131‘ P-This would have had a fine Influence on Eleé‘tioneering, and Lag/ff} Liberties.-But perhaps they meant, that he fhc-uld have gone into the City, and have paid his Addrefibs t) Mir; Plumber, the rich Grocer's Daughter, or to Miis Rig/counter: the Heirefs of the great Broker in Change~Alley. And to be fure, fuch a Match as this would have correfponded rarely well with the fublime Ideas of City-Palitim. Our antient Nobility would have been delighted in giving the Precedency to fuch illufirious Princes of the Biovd. Aa neither 5‘ r. Years, without the leaf‘t Impeachment of V'Vaf'te, as great a Pitt as this, may a much greater, 'v \ u . «ifli‘fluut LIludi‘l!‘ l. 185 ] , adly. MANY Deal/:5 and Fzmamis within the above-mentioned Period create another Article of Expence, which mud be borne; with this peculiar Circumfi‘ance attending it, '1 hat tho' its, [ 184- l undertake to prove to him and the World, how |