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of Condorcet, in his infolent addreffes to the Batas vian Republic?

Could Keppel, who idolized the house of Naffau, who was himfelf given to England, along with thẹ bleffings of the British and Dutch revolutions; with revolutions of stability; with revolutions which confolidated and married the liberties and the interefts of the two nations for ever, could he fee the fountain of British liberty itself in fervitude to France? Could he fee with patience a Prince of Orange expelled as a fort of diminutive defpot, with every kind of contumely, from the country, which that family of deliverers had fo often refcued from flavery, and obliged to live in exile in another country, which owes its liberty to his houfe?

Would Keppel have heard with patience, that the conduct to be held on fuch occafions was to become fhort by the knees to the faction of the homicides, to intreat them quictly to retire? or if the fortune of war fhould drive them from their firft wicked and unprovoked invasion, that no fecurity fhould be taken, no arrangement made, no barrier formed, no alliance entered into for the fecurity of that, which under a foreign name, is the most precious part of England? What would he have faid, if it was even propofed that the Auftrian Netherlands (which ought to be a barrier to Holland, and the tie of an alliance, to protect her against any fpecies of rule that might be erected, or even be restored in France) fhould be formed into a republic under her influence and dependent upon her power.-Letter to a noble Lord.

KHAN, (FYZOOLAH.)

FYZOOLAH KHAN, though a bad foldier, (that is the true fource of his misfortune) has approved himfelf a good aumil; having, it is fuppofed, in the courfe of a few years, at leaft doubled the population, and revenue of his country.-In another part of the

correfpondence he is charged with making his country an afylum for the oppreffed peafants, who fly from the territories of Oude. The improvement of his revenue, arifing from this fingle crime, (which Mr. Haftings confiders as tantamount to treafon) is ftated at an hundred and fifty thoufand pounds a year.

Dr. Swift fomewhere fays, that he who could make two blades of grafs grow where but one grew before, was a greater benefactor to the human race than all the politicians that ever existed. This prince, who would have been deified by antiquity, who would have been ranked with Ofiris, and Bacchus, and Ceres, and the divinities moft propitious to men, was, for those very merits, by name attacked by the company's government, as a cheat, a robber, a traitor. In the fame breath in which he was accused as a rebel, he was ordered at once to furnish 5,000 horse. On delay, or (according to the technical phrafe, when any remonftrance is made to them) "on evafion," he was declared a violator of treaties, and every thing he had was to be taken from him.-Not one word, however, of horfe in this treaty.Speech on Mr. Fox's India Bill.

LANGRISHE (SIR HERCULES) M. P.

You hated the old fyftem (popery laws in Ireland) as early as I did. Your firft juvenile lance was broken against that giant. I think you were even the firft who attacked the grim phantom. You have an exceeding good understanding, very good humour, and the best heart in the world. The dictates of that temper and that heart, as well as the policy pointed out by that understanding, led you to abhor the old code. You abhorred it, as I did, for its vicious perfection. For I must do it justice: it was a complete fyftem, full of coherence and confiftency; well digefted and well compofed in all its parts. It was a machine of wife and elaborate contrivance; and as

Well fitted for the oppreffion, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itfelf, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man. It is a thing humiliating enough, that we are doubtful of the effect of the medicines we compound. We are fure of our poifons. My opinion ever was (in which I heartily agreed with thofe that admired the old code) that it was fo conftructed, that if there was once a breach in any effential part of it; the ruin of the whole, or nearly of the whole, was, at fome time or other, a certainty. For that reafon I honour, and fhall for ever honour and love you, and those who first caused it to stagger, crack, and gape.-Others may finish ; the beginners have the glory; and, take what part you please at this hour (I think you will take the best) your firft lervices will never be forgotten by a grateful country.Letter to Sir H. Langrifhe, M. P.

LOUIS XVI.

THIS unfortunate king (not without a large share of blame to himself) was deluded to his ruin by a defire to humble and reduce his nobility, clergy, and his corporate magiftracy; not that I fuppofe he meant wholly to eradicate these bodies, in the manner fince effected by the democratic power: I rather believe that even Necker's defigns did not go to that extent. With his own hand, however, Louis the XVIth pulled down the pillars which upheld his throne; and this he did, because he could not bear the incon eniences which are attached to every thing human; because he found himself cooped up, and、 in durance by thofe limits which nature prescribes to defire and imagination; and was taught to confider as low and degrading, that mutual dependance which Providence has ordained that all men fhould have on one another. He is not at this minute, perhaps, cured of the dread of the power and credit like to

be acquired by thofe who would fave and refcue him. He leaves thofe who fuffer in his caufe to their fate; and hopes, by various mean delufive in trigues, in which I am afraid he is encouraged from abroad, to regain, among traitors and regicides, the power he has joined to take from his own family, whom he quietly fees profcribed before his eyes, and called to anfwer to the loweft of his rebels, as the vileft of all criminals. Memorial on the Affairs of France in 1791.

LOUIS XVI.

THE only offence of this unhappy monarch to wards his people, was his attempt, under a monarchy, to give them a free conftitution. For this, by an example hitherto unheard of in the world, he has been depofed. It might well difgrace fovereigns to take part with a depofed tyrant. It would fuppofe in them a vicious fympathy. But not to make a common caufe with a juft prince, dethroned by traitors and rebels, who profcribe, plunder, confifcate, and in every way cruelly opprefs their fellow citizens, in my opinion is to forget what is due to the honour, and to the rights of all virtuous and legal govern ment.—Letter to a Member of the National Affembly.

LOUIS XVI.

A MISFORTUNE it has indeed turned out to him, that he was born king of France. But misfortune is not crime, nor is indiscretion always the greatest guilt. I fhall never think that a prince, the acts of whofe whole reign were a series of conceffions to his fubjects, who was willing to relax his authority, to remit his prerogatives, to call his people to a fhare of freedom, not known, perhaps not defired by their ancestors; fuch a prince, though he should be fubject to the common frailties attached to men and to

princes, though he fhould have once thought ne ceffary to provide force againft the defperate defigns manifeftly carrying on againft his perfon, and the remnants of his authority; though all this fhould be taken into confideration, I fhall be led with great difficulty to think he deferves the cruel and infulting triumph of Paris, and of Dr. Price. I tremble for the cause of liberty, from fuch an example to kings. I tremble for the caufe of humanity, in the unpunifhed outrages of the moft wicked of mankind. But there are fome people of that low and degenerate fashion of mind, that they look up with a fort of complacent awe and admiration to kings, who know to keep firm in their feat, to hold a ftrict hand over their fubjects, to affert their prerogative, and by the awakened vigilance of a fevere defpotifm, to guard against the very firft approaches of freedom. Against fuch as thefe they never elevate their voice. Deferters from principle, lifted with fortune, they never fee any good in fuffering virtue, nor any crime in profperous ufurpation..

If it could have been made clear to me, that the king and queen of France (thofe I mean who were fuch before the triumph) were inexorable and cruel tyrants, that they had formed a deliberate fcheme for maffacring the National Affembly (I think I have feen fomething like the latter infinuated in certain publications) I fhould think their captivity juft. If this be true, much more ought to have been done, but done, in my opinion, in another manner.Reflections on the Revolution in France.

LOUIS XVI.

LOUIS the XVIth was a diligent reader of hiftory. But the very lamp of prudence blinded him. The guide of human life led him aftray. A filent revolution in the moral world preceded the political, and prepared it. It became of more importance than

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