It is apparent, if the Writer has not employed his pen in vain, that against this influence there is no just ground of complaint.

They who think with him will continue to uphold it, as long as the Family proves that it understands its own interest and honour by a judicious attention to our's.

And should it forfeit our respect by misconduct, in the unavoidable decline of its political importance which would ensue, we should not envy that House its splendid possessions or its manifold privileges; knowing that some Families must be permanently great and opulent, or there would be no security for the possessions of the middle ranks, or of the humble Proprietor.

But, looking at the present constitution and measure of this influence, you cannot but perceive, Gentlemen, that, if there were _indeed_ any thing in it that could justly be complained of, our duty might still be to bear with the local evil, as correcting an opposite extreme in some other quarter of the Island;--as a counterpoise of some weight elsewhere pressing injuriously upon the springs of social order.

How deplorable would be the ignorance, how pitiful the pride, that could prevent us from submitting to a partial evil for the sake of a general good! In fine, if a comprehensive survey enjoined no such sacrifice, and even if all that the unthinking, the malevolent, and the desperate, all that the deceivers and the deceived, have conjointly urged at this time against the House of Lowther, were literally true, you would be cautious how you sought a remedy for aristocratic oppression, by throwing yourselves into the arms of a flaming democracy! Government and civil Society are things of infinite complexity, and rash Politicians are the worst enemies of mankind; because it is mainly through them that rational liberty has made so little progress in the world.