Macaulay's Country Squire

I suppose I may take it for granted that all the world has long since been made merry by Mr. Macaulay's description of "the country squire on a visit to London in 1685." (*History of England*, vol. i. p. 369.) I am not aware that Steele's description of a country gentleman under similar circumstances has ever been referred to; it is certainly far from being as graphic as Mr. Macaulay's; but the one may at all events serve to illustrate the other, and to prove that Urbs had not made any very great progress in *urbanity* between 1685 and 1712. "If a country gentleman appears a little curious in…