238 «©=—-s: political progréfs of Britain. Sune 20% 
standing on the verge ef destruction, are said to have: 
violated some articles of the convention of Saratoga*. 
But what necefsity impelled the Britifh cabinet to 
hire the pedsants of Denmark and Hefse Cafsel to 
butcher the peasants of Brandenburgh and Lusatia? 
This is, indeed, in the worst sense of the word, 
A SLAVE TRADE ; and in a thousand instancés to one, 
those who buy, and those who se//, are equally detes= 
table. 
_ In this branch of commerce, the court of Hefse 
Cafsel has long been distinguifhed by superior in- 
famy. ‘The reader may be surprised by the follow- 
ing anecdotes of Hefsian discipline. They were com= 
municated by a gentleman of undoubted veracity; 
who resided during last war in North America. 
“« In this service it is a rule, that no soldier can 
“ be put to death by order of a court martial, till, 
** the sentence has been confirmed by the Landgrave. 
‘¢ Hence it happened that a prisoner might have been 
** confined for eighteen months, before his sentence 
*© could have been ratified, and the confirmation re- 
“turned. The Hefsian officers took a fhorter way. 
““ You have heard of a north-west American snow 
“storm; but unlefs you had felt it, you cannot pof-. 
‘* sibly conceive its severity; with’every precaution 
‘* of clothing its effects on the human body are often. 
* This is a species of morality that our ingenious correspoadent has pro- 
perly borrowed from the cabinet; philosophers may be there found who will 
vindicate any thing. But the stern wora/ist will admit of no excuse as valid 
fer a breach of contract, but physical impé/sibility alone. Our author, who 
pleads the cause of justice so ably in other cases, ought not to become the 
apologist for injustice of any kind. Edit. 
