STUDY XIII. 26^ 



doubtedly, be a police in this place; but the 

 People refpedl monuments which are deftined to 

 their ufe. They commit ravages in a park, but do 

 not wantonly deftroy any thing in the open coun- 

 try. They would foon take the Elyfium of their 

 Country under their own proteflion, and watch 

 over it with zeal much more ardent than that of 

 Swifs, and military guards. 



Befides, more than one method might be de- 

 Tifed, to render that fpot refpedable and dear to 

 them. It ought to be rendered an inviolable afy- 

 lum to the unfortunate of every defcription ; for 

 example, to fathers who have incurred the debt of 

 the month's nurfing of a child ; and to thofe who 

 have committed venial and inconfiderate faults j 

 it would be proper to prohibit any arreft taking 

 place there, upon any one's peffon, except by 

 an exprefs warrant from the King, under his own 

 fignature. This likewife fhould be the place to 

 which laborious families, out of employment, 

 might be dlrefted to addrefs themfelves. There 

 ought to be a ftrid prohibition to make it a place 

 of alms-giving, but an unbounded permiffion todo 

 good in it. Perfons of virtue, who underftand 

 how to diftinguifh, and to employ men, would tc- 

 fbrt thither in queft of proper objeds, in whofe 

 behalf they might employ their credit; others, in 

 the view of putting refpedt on the memory of fome 



illaftrious 



