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cure their fiiendlliip. In many cafes, our oflen- 

 tatious magnificence becomes a fecret fource of 

 hatred and jealoufy among their grandees. The 

 point is, to give a kind reception to their fubjeâis, 

 properly fo called, the weak, the perfecuted, the 

 miferable. Our French refugees were the men 

 who conveyed part of our fkill, and of our power, 

 to Prujfha, and to Holland. How many unfeen 

 relations of commerce, and of national benevo- 

 lence, have been formed upon the foundation of 

 fucii gracioufnefs of reception ! An honeft Ger- 

 man, who retires into Auftria, after having made a 

 little fortune in France, is the means offending to 

 VIS a hundred of his compatriots» and difpofes the 

 whole canton, in which he fettles, to \vi(h us well. 

 By bonds like thefe, national friend fiiips are con- 

 trafted, much better than by diplomatic treaties; 

 for the opinion of a Nation always determines that 

 of the Prince. 



After having rendered the city of men wonder- 

 fully happy, I .would direél my attention to the 

 embellilhment and commodioufnefs of the city of 

 ftones. I w^ould rear in it a muhitude of ufeful 

 monuments : I would extend along the houfes, 

 arcades as in Turin, and a raifed pavement as in 

 London, for the accommodation of loot-palfen- 

 gers ; in the ftreets, where it was practicable, trees 

 •and canals, as in Holland, for the facility of car- 



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