494 gp:neral observations. 



if a federal republican government be suited 

 to the great mass of the people. From what I 

 have seen of them, I consider the lower orders, 

 or grand mass of the population, to be more 

 adapted for a monarchy than a republic. They 

 are quiet, tractable people, fond of show and 

 amusement : they have no jealous feelings of 

 liberty and equality ; rather preferring a supe- 

 rior to look up to, who may give them advice, 

 and who may be more competent to judge 

 what is good for their interest, than they are 

 themselves. 



And this may easily be conceived, when we 

 consider that the labouring class as yet have 

 not in the least bettered their condition by the 

 revolution. Many of them (the male part) have 

 been swept away, and their wives and children 

 remain in a state of almost starving misery, 

 cursing the revolution, that has reduced them 

 to such a situation ; and the great majority 

 drag out a miserable existence, because the - 

 rich Don, who could before employ them, and 

 pay them for their labour, is gone; and no 

 one is present with means able to supply the 

 place — consequently, as yet the peasant has 

 gained nothing by the revolution, because, al- 



