AND LOWER EGYPT. 1 20. 



heart of whoever dared to abuse authority, to op- 

 press or betray a nation of men, of whose power 

 it would be at the same time an eternal em- 

 blem *. 



* Here the cloven foot is completely uncovered. A prin- 

 ciple is avowed, from which justice turns away her face, and at 

 which humanity shudders. Gracious Heaven ! what right has 

 France to plunder Rome of her pictures and statues, and Egypt 

 of her columns? The right which our author himself, a little 

 ago, execrated in the bitterest terms ; the right of the stronger 

 to oppress the weaker, the right of the tiger to tear the lamb. 

 Thus Paris is to be enriched and embellished at the expense of 

 all the nations of the globe, and the sacred name of liberty is 

 vilely prostituted to abet democratic tyranny. Ex uno disce om- 

 nes. It is the interest of all mankind surely, to resist a principle 

 so abominable, and to unite in crushing every attempt to reduce 

 it to practice.— H. H. 



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