If Gibraltar and Port Mahon and the rest were given up, the result would be "multitudes of places ...

abolished, jobs and contracts effectually prevented, millions of money saved, universal industry encouraged, and the influence of the Crown reduced to that mediocrity it ought to have." Here is pure Manchesterism half-a-century before its time; and one can imagine the good Dean crustily explaining his notions to the merchants of Bristol who had just rejected Edmund Burke for advocating free trade with Ireland.
No word on Toryism would be complete without mention of Dr.Johnson.
Here, indeed, we meet less with opinion than with a set of gloomy prejudices, acceptable only because of the stout honesty of the source from which they come.

He thought life a poor thing at the best and took a low view of human nature.

"The notion of liberty," he told the faithful Boswell, "amuses the people of England and helps to keep off the _tedium vitae_." The idea of a society properly organized into ranks and societies he always esteemed highly.

"I am a friend to subordination," he said, "as most conducive to the happiness of society." He was a Jacobite and Tory to the end.