1792. Statistical notices of N. America. 28. 
‘the pafsage of the grotto, while I-cast a mournful 
look behind, fetched a deep sigh, and awoke. 
I was wonderfully well pleased with my dream ; 
-and returning homeward, could not help exclaiming, 
with Persius, 
Discete, O miseri, et rerum cognoscite causes ! BRITO. 
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STATISTICAL NOTICES OF NORTH AMERICA. 
“Copy OF A LETTER FROM ‘DRS Te OF 
Princeton, to Dr C 5° N——-—T oF MonTRGSE. 
Continued from p. 233 
46 Are your elections of members of afsembly or- 
detly meetings? or who are the judges of controver- 
ted elections?” ‘ 
Our afsemblies, themselves, like the House of 
Commons in England, are the judges of thei own bo- 
dies. I suppose that our meetings for elections are, 
dn general, conducted with as much order and decen- 
ey as meetings of the same kind have nsuaally been 
in any part’ of the world. At present we have 
hardly any image of that licentiousnefs that prevails 
in England at a general election. Some politicians 
say, our elections are too calm: that they ‘do not 
discover that agitation and zeal which we thould na- 
4urally find in the people if their liberties sufficiently 
interested them. Some allowance, indeed, fhould/ 
ehe made ia this calm picture for the state of Pen- 
; sylvania, which, as 1 believe I intimated in my last 
letter, is the proper region of faction and party: in 
America. 
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