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" country—they found a reource in depair, and nothing is more terrible than the depair of thoe who have no courage. What is the condition to which we have reduced the people of our kingdom? Reduced by miery to the tate of brutes, they drag out their days in a lazy tupidity, which one would almot mitake for a total want of entiment: they love no art, they value themelves on no indutry; they labour no longer than the dread of chatiement forces them; convinced that they cannot enjoy the fruit of their ingenuity, they tifle their talents, and make no eays to dicover them.—Hence that frightful carcity in which we find ourelves of the molt common artians! Should we wonder that we are in want of things the mot neceary, when thoe who ought to furnih them, cannot hope for the mallet profit from their cares to furnih us! It is only where liberty is found, that emulation can exit."

It would be a pleaure to tranlate the whole; but it is too long. It is a pity that the whole people, whoe miery he decribes and laments, were not as enible of the neceity of a les circumcribed royal authority.