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the licentious and unprincipled sycophants and retainers of rank and authority. What ever the revelry of the times and Court of Chahles the Second, (and an era of more shameless dissipation in the immediate circle of the Court could not well be found,) the great body of the country gentlemen throughout the kingdom was a simple, virtuous, manly and noble race, pre-eminently distinguished by frankness, honesty, truthfulness, hospitality and courage. There was as much purity, hap