Promote religion--protect public morals--repress vice and
infidelity--keep the different classes of the community in strict
subordination to each other--and cherish the principles, feelings, and
habits, which give stability, beauty, and happiness to society.
Descend from the clouds of political economy, and travel in safety on
your mother earth; cast away the blinding spectacles of the
philosophers, and use the eyes you have received from nature. Practise
the vulgar principles, that it is erroneous to ruin immense good
markets, to gain petty bad ones--that you cannot carry on losing
trade--that you cannot live without profit--and that you cannot eat
without income. And pule no more about individual economy, but eat, and
drink, and enjoy yourselves, like your fathers. What! in these days of
free trade, to tell the hypochondriacal Englishman that the foaming
tankard, the honest bottle of port, and the savoury sirloin, must be
prohibited articles! You surely wish us to hang and drown ourselves by
wholesale.--Ibid.
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