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coaches, or at table in the bofom of plcafure, or in 

 their court, furrounded by their guards, and in the 

 very centre of their power. 



We fee, at this hour, the Emperor and the King 

 ofPruffia, in a carriage fimply, with one or two 

 domeftics, and no guards, traverfing their fcattered 

 dominions, though peopled in part with ftrangers 

 and conquered Nations. The great men, and the 

 mofl illuftrious Princes of Antiquity, fuch as .Sa- 

 pio, Germanicus, Marcus Aureliiis^ travelled without 

 any retinue, on horfeback, and frequently on foot. 

 How many provinces of his kingdom, in an age 

 of trouble and faftion, were thus travelled over by 

 our great Henry IV ? 



A King, in his States, ought to be like the Sun 

 over the Earth, on which there is not one fingle little 

 plant but what receives, in it's turn, the influence 

 of his rays. Of the knowledge of how many im- 

 portant truths are our Kings deprived, by the pre- 

 judices of courtiers ? What pleafures do they lofe 

 from their fedentary mode of life ! I do not fpeak 

 of thofe of grandeur, when they fee, on their ap- 

 proach. Nations flocking together, in millions, 

 along the highways ; the ramparts of cities fet on 

 fire with the thunder of artillery, and fquadrons 

 iflTuing out of their fea- ports, and covering the 

 face of the Ocean with flags and flame. I believe 



they 



