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danger? What have the Swiss done on si- 
niilar occasions ? To the enervation and pro- 
fligacy introduced by trade and foreign in- 
tercouse do they owo their late misfortunes. 
The inquirer into physical and moral 
causes has observed, that the peasant, who 
depends for his subsistence, however scanty, 
on the means derived by his labour from tlie 
cultivation of the earth, and the useful arts 
immediately conne6fed with it, is attached 
w'ith more lasting sincerity to his native re- 
region* than theartizan or.the trading inha- 
* The late Empress Catharine of Russia succeeded, after 
much persuasion, In Inviting a colony of Laplanders from 
their own miserable country to settle In a dlstrldl of the most 
fertile soil and genial climate on the borders of Poland. Al- 
though she provided them with comfortable habitations, 
implements of husbandry, and every other requisite for an 
infant colony, yet so great was their regard for their native 
country, and so constantly did it prey on their spirits, that 
they gradually pined away to a small number, who at length, 
after repeated solicitation, obtained leave to return home. 
Many more instances of local attachment in the peasantry 
of a country might be cited from history, both ancient and 
modern. But the discussion of the Slave Trade, so recent in 
the recollection of our readers, has afterded a sufficient num- , 
her. 
