LIBERTY OP THE PRESS. 



s. Laberius, for example, had made of it. What opP 

 nion mould we have entertained of the wifdom of £ 

 Solon, if he had caufed daily to be weighed out to his 

 Athenians, by ounces and fcruples, how much it were 

 proper for them to eat, becaufe fad experience teaches, 

 that one or other at times eats more than is fit ? And 

 do you think, that even Solon himfelf, fuppoling he 

 had providently ventured fo far, would have brought 

 himfelf off by the diftinclion between freedom of eat- 

 ing and freedom of gormandizing, with the grand- 

 fathers of Socrates and Ariftophanes ? — I hope then 

 that I have perfectly fet your mind at reft by this little 1 

 efFuflon of my thoughts. He that has abufed the^ 

 freedom of eating into gluttony, muft be contented to 

 fwallow a digeftive powder or an emetic. He that has 

 abufed the freedom of the prefs into licentioufnefs, 

 merits, for the iirft offence — a reprehenfjon for his fu- 

 ture caution : but the freedom of the prefs remains, 

 jtiotwithftanding, like the freedom of eating, as unli- 

 mited as before — or — fo much the worfe. 



HOLE ERG AT PARIS. 



HOLBERG gave leffons in the French lan- 

 guage in Norway with great approbation. He went to 

 Paris, and found that he underftood no French. 



I hope this will be the cafe with many of our di- 

 vines, in heaven. Why I hope fo ? Nay, it at leafl 

 fuppofes that they will get thither. 



A. G. Kastner. 



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