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pugnant to the feelings and habits of the People, than any other which could possibly be devised.
The detail of these Reforms would occupy much more time than I can now bestow upon the subject—yet I venture to assert that little difficulty would be found in effectuating these suggestions, if party-men could once resolve to sacrifice the Jeux des Enfans which now occupy their attention to the general welfare of the country.—I have, as a man of leisure, employed some idle hours in drawing the outlines of such Statutes as might be requisite to enforce them—but these I shall reserve for our next personal communication.
It will be enough, indeed more than I can flatter myself to have effected, if I