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try, and which have there the force of laws, 

 &c. From thence it pafies, 



6. To the rights, privileges and prerogatives 

 of kings and other fovereigns, or of fenates and 

 magiftrates : it confiders the manner of attain- 

 ing to the throne or government-, the limits 

 prefcribed by each country to the authority of 

 its fovereign, or other governors ; and fo of the 

 reft. 



7. The rights of the ftates of a nation, of 

 the nobility, clergy, military, citizens, and pea- 

 fants ; the diets and other public afiemblies for 

 deliberating on affairs of importance, &c. 



VIII. When a folid knowledge is acquired of 

 all thefe matters, itatiftics pafles to the examen 

 of the difpofitions eftabliihed in each country, 

 for the conducting of public affairs : and it 

 /hows, 



8. The dignity, rank, title, and arms ; the 

 court, ceremonial, orders of knighthood, &c. 

 of the fovereign. 



9. The arrangement of the department for 

 foreign affairs, or the cabinet. 



10. The difpofmons in the dire&ion of interi- 

 or affairs, for the ecclefiaflic ftate, the admini- 

 ftration of juftice, the finances, commerce, the 

 fciences, and the military : and here it enters 

 into the following particulars. 



IX. ii. It confiders what is the eflablifhed 

 religion of a country, and what other religions 



are 



