i86 TRAVELS THROUGH 



inhabitants are beggars. Thefe circurn- 

 ftances make travelling through thefe pro~ 

 vinces very irkfome : it is attended with a 

 miferable reflection, to fee To fine a country, 

 formed by nature to render all its people 

 happy, curfed with a government which 

 marks every face with diftrefs. Yet thefe 

 very people acknowledged thefe to be good 

 times, compard with the laft year of the 

 war. Englimmen, who do not pay a due 

 regard to that matchlefs confUtution which 

 fecures all the bleffings that nature or indu- 

 ftry can give, mould take the trouble to tra- 

 vel through fome of the provinces of France^ 

 They will then want no explanations no 

 afTurances of what a value liberty carries 

 with it : and, on the contrary, if the poor 

 of England, when murmuring and com- 

 plaining, for they know not what, had but 

 an opportunity of feeing what the poor are 

 in other countries, they would prefently 

 find out the propriety of humbling them- 

 felves a little more to their betters, who never 

 will be infligated to enflave them, with- 

 out thinking of that egregious infolence they 

 are lo apt to exert. 



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