1790* LITERARY INTELLIGENCER. 



A Frenchman's Remarks on Nohility *. 

 Nobility is the proper reward and Incitement to virtue. 

 Nothing then is more juft or more ureiul than the inilitu- 

 tion of it. A prince ought to reward virtue ; and, if I may 

 be allowed'the expreflTion, he ought to recompence it aC' 

 cording to the tafte even of virtue ; that Is to fay, by honour- 

 able diftinftions. After the reward which it procures for 

 itfelf by the inward fatisfaftion which accompanies It : alter 

 the glory and reputation, the defire of which is the princi- 

 pal fource of virtue, purely human, nothing is more flat- 

 tering to it than thefe marks of honour ellablKh^d in all 

 nations, to jufiify and confirm in forae manner the public 

 efteem. 



To reward virtue, is a jaftice which the prince ov/es to 

 virtuous men ; he owes it alfo to the public, to the reft of 

 his fubjedls : Since by rewarding, virtue, he endeavours 

 to make it both more perfeft and more common. It is a 

 duty a prince owes to his fubjefts, to endeavour to excite 

 virtuous exertions ; he owes it them, I fay, both on account 

 of the advantage it procures to thcfe themfelves who lliall 

 be virtuous, as of thofe who ftvp.ll profit by the virtue of 

 others. I have only farther to remark, how much the vir- 

 tue of his fubjefts is advantageous to the prince himfelf. 



On the ^leen of France, i3c. by Mr. Burke, 

 It is now fixteen or feventeen years fince I faw the Queen 

 of France, then Dauphinefs, at Verfailles ; and fuiely never 

 lighted on this orb, which fhe hardly feemed to touch, a 

 more delightful vlfion. I faw her juft above the horizon, 

 decorating and cheering the elevated fphere flie juft began 

 to move in, glittering like the inornlng-ftar, full of life and 

 fplendor, and joy. Oh I what a revolution ! and what an 

 heart muft I have, to contemplate without emotion that ele- 

 vation and that fall ! Little did I dream, that when flie 

 added titles of veneration to thofe of enthufiaftic, diftant, 

 refpedlful love, that ihe fhould ever be obliged to carry the 

 ftiarp antidote agalnft difgrace concealed in that bofom : 

 • I'Abbe Truljlct, — written in the year 1 75 J. 

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