He is not at all made for a Roman of the prefent day. I think he lately held the firft office of their fate, that of Great Chamberlain, which is equiva lent to High Treasurer. At prefent ie is out of em ployment, and in difgrace. If he fhould be elected pope, or even come to have any weight with a new pope, he will infallibly conjure up a democratic fpirit in that country. He may indeed be able to effect it without thefe advantages. The next interregnum will probably fhew more of him. There may be others of the fame character, who have not come to my knowledge. This much is certain, that the Roman people, if once the blind reverence they bear to the fanctity of the pope, which is their only bridle, fhould relax, are naturally turbulent, ferocious, and headlong, whilft the police is defective, and the government feeble and resourcelefs beyond all imagi nation. Memorial on the Affairs of France in 1791. STATE (GREAT.) I KNOW that a great ftate ought to have fome regard to its ancient maxims; efpecially where they indicate its dignity; where they concur with the rules of prudence; and above all, where the circumstances of the time require that a fpirit of innovation fhould be refifted, which leads to the humiliation of fovereign powers. Regicide Peace. STATESMAN. A difpofition to preferve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would, be my ftandard of a ftatefman. Every thing elfe is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.Reflections on the Revolution in France. STATESMAN (UNCONSTITUTIONAL WISH OF:) Ir must be always the wifh of an unconftitutional flatefman, that an houfe of commons who are entirely dependent upon him, fhould have every right of the people entirely dependent upon their pleasure.—— Thoughts on the Caufe of the prefent Difcontents. STATESMEN. Sentiments of the New Statefmen of France. YOUR literary men, and your politicians, and fo do the whole clan of the enlightened among us, effentially differ in thefe points. They have no refpe&t for the wisdom of others; but they pay it off by a full measure of confidence in their own. very With them it is a fufficient motive to destroy an old scheme of things, because it is an old one. As to the new, they are in no fort of fear with regard to the duration of a building run up in hafte; becaufe duration is no object to thofe who think little or nothing has been done before their time, and who place all their hopes in difcovery. They conceive, very fyftematically, that all things which give perpetuity are mifchievous, and therefore they are at inexpiable war with all establishments. They think that government may vary like modes of drefs, and with as little ill effect. That there needs no principle of attachment, except a sense of prefent conveniency, to any conftitution of the state. They always fpeak as if they were of opinion that there is a fingular fpecies of compact between them and their magiftrates, which binds the magiftrate, but which has nothing reciprocal in it, but that the majefty of the people has a right to diffolve it without any reafon, but its will. Their attachment to their country itself, is only fo far as it agrees with fome of their fleeting projects; it begins and ends with that scheme of polity which falls in with their momentary opinion. Thefe doctrines, or rather fentiments, feem prevalent with your new statesmen. But they are wholly different from those on which we have always acted in this country.Reflections on the Revolution in France. STATESMEN. STATESMEN are placed on an eminence, that they may have a larger horizon than we can poffibly command. They have a whole before them, which we can contemplate only in the parts, and without the relations.-Regicide Peace. STATESMEN. No Habits of Life difqualify for Government. I HAVE known merchants with the fentiments and the abilities of great ftatefmen; and I have seen perfons in the rank of statesmen, with the conceptions and character of pedlars. Indeed, my obfervation has furnished me with nothing that is to be found in any habits of life or education, which tends wholly to difqualify men for the functions of government, but that, by which the power of exercifing those functions is very frequently obtained, I mean, a fpirit and habits of low cabal and intrigue.-Speech on Mr. Fox's India Bill. SICILY. SICILY, I think, has thefe difpofitions (republicanism) in as ftrong a degree as Naples. In neither of these countries exifts any thing which very well deferves the name of government or exact police.Memorial on the Affairs of France in 1791. SCOTLAND. How much have you loft by the participation of Scotland in all your commerce? The external trade of England has more than doubled fince that period, and I believe your internal (which is the most advantageous) has been augmented at least fourfold. Such virtue there is in liberality of fentiment, that you have grown richer even by the partnership of poverty. Two Letters to Gentlemen in Bristol. SCOTIA (NOVA) DESCRIBED. THE province of Nova Scotia was the youngeft and the favourite child of the Board (of Trade.) Good God! What fums the nurfing of that ill thriven, hard-vifaged, and ill-favoured brat, has coft to this wittol nation! Sir, this colony has flood us in a fùm of not less than feven hundred thoufand pounds. To this day it has made no re-payment; it does not even fupport thofe offices of expence, which are mifcalled its government; the whole of that job ftill lies upon the patient, callous fhoulders of the people of England. Sir, I am going to flate a fact to you, that will ferve to fet in full funfhine the real value of formality and official fuperintendance. There was in the province of Nova Scotia, one little neglected corner; the country of the neutral French; which having the good fortune to efcape the foftering care both of France and England, and to have been fhut out from the protection and regulation of Councils of Commerce, and of Boards of Trade, did, in filence, without notice, and without affiftance, increafe to a confiderable degree. But it feems our nation had more fkill and ability in deftroying, than in fettling a colony. In the lat war we did, in my opinion, moft inhumanly, and upon pretences that in the eye of an honeft man are not worth a farthing, root out this poor. innocent deferving people, whom our utter inability to govern, or to reconcile, gave us no fort of right to extirpate. Whatever the merits of that extirpation might have been, it was on the footsteps of a neglected (387 people, it was on the fund of unconftrained poverty, it was on the acquifitions of unregulated induftry, that any thing which deferves the name of a colony in that province, has been formed. It has been formed by overflowings from the exuberant population of New England, and by emigration, from other parts of Nova Scotia, of fugitives from the protection of the Board of Trade.- -Oecon. Reform. SIEYES (ABBE) Humourous Defcription of the Abbé's Conftitutional Warehoufe. Abbé Sieyes has whole nefts of pigeon holes full of conftitutions ready made, ticketed, forted, and numbered; fuited to every feafon and every fancy; fome with the top of the pattern at the bottom, and fome with the bottom at the top; fome plain, fome flowered; fome diftinguished for their fimplicity; others for their complexity; fome of blood-colour; fome of boue de Paris; fome with directories, others without a direction; fome with councils of elders, and councils of youngfters; fome without any council at all. Some where the electors choose the reprefentatives; others where the reprefentatives choofe the electors. Some in long coats, and fome in fhort cloaks; fome with pantaloons; fome without breeches. Some with fivefhilling qualifications, fome totally unqualified. So that no conftitution-fancier may go unfuited from his shop, provided he loves a pattern of pillage, oppreffion, arbitrary imprisonment, confifcation, exile, revolutionary judgment, and legalized premeditated murder, in any fhapes into which they can be put.— Letter to a noble Lord. STABLES (ROYAL.), THERE are, indeed, two offices in his (the king's) ftables which are finecures. By the change of manners, |