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mane in framing an abfolute government : But thefe 

 principles being only flexible, and corruptible by in- 

 tereit, what can fave a nation from utter ruin, but 

 the common and commercial people ? and how fliall 

 thefe become fiviours of.their country, unlefs by me- 

 chanical ingenuity and commerce, they obtain influ- 

 ence to raife up their dignity ? Unlefs they induftri- 

 oufly cultivate thofe arts, which have fertility to fupply 

 the defefts of nature ? Oppreffion, therefore, matching 

 with influence and mental refinement, will ftruggle and 

 debate fi'om their own weight and importance ; and the 

 refult muft turn out according to the fuperior balance 

 of contending powers. Such things appear to have 

 been two caufes of the French Revolution, which, if 

 as ftedfaftly maintained in infancy, as at the birth, mufl 

 be ppoduftive of the manhood of liberty. If thefe 

 principles laid down are general, Spain in its multiplied 

 degrees of fociety, and ill fituation for trade, on ac- 

 count of the influx of the Mexican fpecie, mull yet 

 fpur long in the furrows of ilavery. 



Un ami inconnu. 

 Pailiey, 31II January 1791. 



To the Editor of the Bee. 

 Sir, 

 As a friend to every attempt to ferve the community, 

 I cannot but be interefted in the fuccefs of your weekly 

 publication. I fend you a fliort paper on the means of 

 promoting agricultural knowledge, and the great bene- 

 fits winch may be derived from it to this country. It 

 my future corefpondence fliall be thought worth youf 

 acceptance, I will purfue this fubjeft. 



Jai^ues. 



Ceteris fpecimen ejlo^ faid Cicero to Atticus : and 

 he faid wifely } for fuch is the influence of example over 



