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16 of a few cows, heep, goats, wine, poultry, and pigeons, on a piece of rocky, nowy ground, protected from every enemy by their ituation, their upertition, and even by their poverty, having no commerce nor luxury, can be no example for the commonwealth of Penfilvania, Georgia, or Vermont, in one of which there are poibly half a million of people, and in each of the other at leat thirty thouands, cattered over a large territory.

Upon the whole, a tronger proof cannot be adduced of the neceity of different orders, and of an equilibrium between them, than this commonwealth of St. Marino, where there are uch trong ynmtoms of both in a ociety, where the leat occaion for them appears that can be imagined to take place in any conceivable ituation.

Dear Sir,

N a reearch like thi, after thoe people in Europe who have had the kill, courage, and fortune, to prerve a voice in the government, Bicay, in Spain, ought by no means to be omitted. While their neighbours have lono ince reigned all their pretenions into the hands of kings and priets, this extraordinary people have preerved their ancient language, genius, laws, government, and manners, without innovation, longer than any other nation of Europe. Of Celtic extraction, they once inhabited ome of the