into the _excellence_ or _defects_ of its _government_, and to judge of the _fitness_ or _unfitness_ of its _orders_ and _laws_: and by this method he knows enough of the English law for a gentleman, though quite ignorant of the _chicane_ or wrangling, and captious part of it, or the arts how to _avoid_ doing _right_, and to _secure himself_ in _doing wrong_. As Lord Munster was now eighteen years of age, Lady Frances wrote and acquainted him, that as he had rather testified a dislike to the mercantile scheme, she desired he would relinquish it; and as nothing contributes more to enlighten and improve the understanding, than a personal acquaintance with foreign climates, she desired he would travel.--The man who by his birth-right is a free member of society, not a slave to despotic power, and who, in matters of religion, enjoys the invaluable blessing of private judgment, should not fail to visit other nations; for this will not only rub off all the selfish asperities he may have contracted from a narrow survey of things, but will also accompany him home with a more rational attachment to that constitution under which he had the happiness to be born. Heaven has placed us in a most advantageous situation; unless we are divided at home, attacks from abroad may molest but cannot ruin us. Our laws are the laws of freedom; our merchandise the traffic of opulence----Our constitution is framed and joined together by the choicest parts, picked and extracted from aristocracies, democracies, and sovereignties. We have a natural force to _defend_ and _maintain_ the empire of the seas. We enjoy wealth and possessions in both the Indies, if we do not lose them by our own misconduct----We boast at regular choice, and singular system of parliamentary government, so nicely calculated, as to be at once the defence and the support of the kingdom and the people. Our Sovereign has the power--but the parliament has still the law of that power[23].--What people on earth can say the same? The studies Lord Munster made of our constitution, when contrasted with his observations of other countries, made him return after three years, not a _nominal_, but a _real_ patriot. This is not always the case. Too many of our young gentlemen bring home only a miserable reverse of every good purpose for which they were sent out:--as none travel more than the English, they ought, therefore, to let none surpass them in manly or generous perceptions. But we have reason to fear that what Mr Pope observes of _one_ of them may be applicable to _most_. '_Europe he saw, and Europe saw him too._'