will include the landed Gentry, the beneficed Country Clergy, many of the more considerable Merchants and Men in Trade, the substantial and industrious Freeholders or Yeomen: A collective Body of Men, with all their incidental Failings, as different in Character from the Populace of any great City, as the Air of Richmond Hill from that of Billingsgate or Wapping.
SECT.XI.
Of the general State of Manners and Principles, about the Time of the Revolution.
AT this famed Period, it is evident, that the Manners and Principles of the Nation did, upon the Whole, tend to the Establishment of Liberty; otherwise, Liberty had not been established. This Revolution was perhaps the noblest public Reform that ever was made in any State: And such a Reform, nothing but the Pre-
