text:  To cheer the country life by rational hospitality; to make friends of those whom nature had made dependents; to sustain those laws which had turned England into a garden; and to protect that "bold peasantry " who ought to be the pride as they are the strength of their country; to excite the country gentlemen to the scientific study of the noblest of all arts as it was the first the cultivation of the soil; to maintain among that gallant race a high sense of their purposes their powers and their position; to invigorate the principles which had made them the surest defenders of the throne in its day of adversity; and to fix in their minds by example more effectual than precept a solemn fidelity to the faith and to the freedom of their forefathers:--these were the objects which I proposed to myself and which the loftiest intellect or the amplest opulence might be well employed in attempting to fulfil