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that he can make verfes ; a fecond, gives fome account of his tra¬ 
vels ; a third, exalts his own opinion on the ruin of that of others ; 
a fourth, fets down his name merely for the purpofe of difplaying 
his title; while another, from a vanity of an oppofite nature, 
whites his name fimply and nothing more. There is one English¬ 
man who tells you, that he went to fee the catarads by candle¬ 
light : another traveller of the fame nation fays, that neither the 
catarad nor the labour by which the canal was accomplished, is 
good for any thing ; that the Sw r edes are all (laves, crouching 
under the lafh of their mailers ; and, in order to exprefs his con¬ 
tempt, fubfcribes thefe remarks by a very indecent name. A hird 
Englifliman, more enlightened as well as candid, rejoices to fee 
gunpowder applied to better purpofes than thofe of war, though 
at the fame time he is not of opinion that the condition of the 
people is bettered by commerce.* The French emigrants re¬ 
count all their own misfortunes, and as well fuited to the fubjed 
of Trolhatta, thofe alfo of the King of France. One emigrant 
produces a long invedive againft the patriots. An Englifhman 
writes nothing more than “ What will you have us fay ?” The 
follow ing, “ Dieu beniffe cette bonne et brave nation If is (lgned 
Kofciufco. An immenfe number of pedants make flouriflies of 
Latin, Greek, Hebrews Syriac and Arabic. In a word, the writers 
* The words of this Englifhman are—“ It is pleafing to fee gunpowder ufed in 
“ favour of fociety, although we do not think that commerce will improve the 
“ happinefs of the people.” 
f God blefs this good and brave nation. 
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