AN ATTACK UPON THE u RIGHTS OF MAN." 411 



frequently and more grossly violated, and no government has ever 

 been more blind and tyrannical. 



The people of the North of Germany are generally less advanced 

 than those in the South. The feeling of nationality belongs as yet 

 only to the better class of people. In Hanover, Saxony, and the 

 Duchy of Brunswick, political knowledge seems equally spread. 



We shall hasten to conclude this rapid review of the political opi- 

 nion of the German people. We have shown what opposition the 

 measures of the Diet have raised, and pointed out in what manner 

 this even most insignificant resistance may be constitutionally in- 

 creased. The friends of constitutional liberty, at all events, may rest 

 assured that Germany will never entirely fall back under the ancient 

 yoke of despotism, and that some political reform must be the conse- 

 quence one day of its religious reform. The sentiment of patriotism 

 must overleap the narrow limits of frontiers, and unite all the petty 

 states into a single nation. Germany, then tearing asunder the bonds 

 which confine her, and feeling her dignity and her strength, will 

 enter into the European family with the rank which is suitable to the 

 daughter of the Caesars, Italy also, but here we must not trust 

 ourselves on that subject- 



Tomb of Arminius ! render up thy dead, 

 Till like a standard from a watch-tower's staff, 

 His soul may stream o'er the tyrant's head : 



Thy victory shall be his epitaph, 

 Wild Bacchanal of Truth's mysterious wine, 



King-deluded Germany ! 



His dead spirit lives in thee. 

 Why do we fear or hope we are already free ! 



And thou lost paradise of this divine 



And glorious world ! thou flow'ry wilderness ! 

 Thou island of eternity ! thou shrine ! 



Where desolation clothed in loveliness 



Worships the thing thou wert ! O Italy ! 

 Gather thy blood into thy heart ! repress 

 The beasts who make their dens thy sacred palaces ! , 



AN ATTACK UPON THE RIGHTS OF MAN." 



BY AN EYE-WITNESS. 



COUNT ZENOBIO was one of the wealthiest landed proprietors 

 among the Venetian Nobility, under the ancient government of that 

 Republic; but in consequence of his Jacobinical principles, and perhaps 

 actions, he was proscribed by the State Inquisition, and all his estates 

 confiscated or sequestrated. A conformity of political views led to 

 his acquaintance in Paris, with Paine, who, when the treaty of peace 

 was negociating by Buonaparte at Campo Formio, between the French 

 Republic, and the Emperor of Germany, prevailed on the member 

 of the French Directory, Reveilliere Lepaux, the patron of Buona- 



