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tion to their antagonifts ;° for this diverts 
odium until the idea is familiarized; and 
often pledges to its fupport the rafher ad- 
verfe partizans. It may fhrewdly be fuf- 
pected that this practical rule has of late 
a€tuated the writers, who bring -againit 
certain philofophi c innovationifts a. cla- 
morous charge of Vandalifm. 
What does the werd correétly mean ? 
Scnloetzer tells us (Northern Hiftory 
p- 231) that the Vandals were a Slavo- 
nian tribe, or horde of tribes, originally 
from the Ukrain, and dwelling contigu- 
oufly to the Eaftern or Oftro- Goths, with 
whom, and under whofe guidance, num- 
bers of them co- operated in over-running 
plundert ing, and defolating the Roman eae 
pire. Deicendants of thefe Vandals Ark 
became colleétively flationary in Carin- 
thia, Bavaria, Bohemia, and Moravia, 
where the peafantry have ftilk Vandal or 
Slavonian names, but the nobility Gothic 
names: the lefs barbarous of the two na- 
tions having early acquired an internal he- 
reditary afcendency. 
the unmixed Vandals are to be found in 
the near provinces, and chiefly in thofe be- 
longing to Rufia.. The Vandals then are 
part of the great Slavenian horde of na- 
tions, which are all, except the Hunga- 
-Fians, now finally conf folidated under the 
fingle {ceptre of the czar of Ruffia, They 
are the wefimoft portion. of the horde, 
the berderers ; and have confequently been 
oftener involved in the enterprizes and~ 
he 
I a of the’ Goths. -‘This Vandal 
face, iike the Celtic or wild-Irifh race, no 
where appears to have made fo rapid a 
progrefs towards civility, as the Goths in 
its immediate v icinity : the Vandals of our 
own times are lefs humanized and refined 
than their oe urs the Saxons. 
To vandalize Europe then can have no 
other fienification than to introduce eaitern 
Se aan barbarians to domination over the - 
actual feats of PRES he improvement. 
—It is to favour theapproach, and to affitt 
the weftward Tp of that column of 
horribly, and. perhaps irrevocably favage 
population, which, the laft time it was 
put in Picrion, amen fora thoufand years 
every fymptom of European intellect. 
~ The yells of anti-jacobinifm have called 
this moniter. from its Siberian wilder- 
neffes. Prayer, praife; promife, property 
_are fquandered to invite and facilitate its 
approach. That fo perverfe a defign 
fhiewld find vaunt-couriers, pireconifers, 
and abettors would be inconceivable, were 
there not laws of nature which always pre- 
difpofe large bodies of men to {wim with 
Vandals and Vandal n tle feribed. 
The fe:tlements of © 
: ; “VR 
[O@ober, 
the tide of a ‘asi to falli in 
with the general tendency of events. The : 
current fets in favor of a Ruffian conqueft 
of Europe, and men willingly pace befide 
the car cf aconqueror. Loyal foldiers, 
as they believe, of Providence, they de- 
light to execute even its judgments. 
<< The fcourge of God”’ was a title wel- 
comed by Attila. “The northern hive is 
pouring forth its fwarms anew, which 
may again encircle the Baltic, and reach 
the walls of Orleans and Rome. Perma- 
nent caufes announce, and events thicken 
to accelerate the entire Vandalization of 
Europe. With fecurity and wealth have 
{pring up unkindnefs and imequality 5 
with refinement and learning, debauchery 
and impiety ; with civility and order, cor- 
ruption Ge tyranny. No nations have 
hitherto reached fuch a period of focial 
progr fie without finking into a luxury 
and. incohefion, which tempt and favour 
the inroads of difciplined valor. The rot- 
ten ripene(s - . civil fociety is come on. 
In 2 iimilar fate of moral declenfion was 
Chaldea, Siria and Natolia, when the 
Medes and Perfians ; was Perfia, when the 
Macedonians ; Grecee; when the Romans ; 
and the Roman empire, when the Goths 
accomplithed their far-{preading conquefts. 
The analogy of experience pots to a fi- 
milar refult. Can no league of the Wef- 
tern ftates be imagined which fhould make 
Germany a barrier againft the impending 
barbarians >?) Where will the Platea be 
found to arreft the progrefs of the Great 
King? 

To the Editor of the 
SIR; 
Montbly Magazine. 
S feveral gentlemen have obliged ae 
\. world with pafiages from authors 
that bear a fimilitude to one another ; I 
beg leave to offer the following, w Ree if 
yeu think worthy of infertion, is at your’ 
fervice. 
fays, 
The learned Do&or Porteus 
€€ One murder makes a villain; 
~. Millions a hero.” 
Do&or Young, in his fatyrs en the 
love of fame, fay 5 
«< One to deftroy is murder by the law; 
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe. 
To murder thoufands, tal ces. a {pecious naIaes 
War’s glorious art, and gives immortal fame.” 
Your’s, 
Windfor, Fune 17, 1799 
Far 
A Constant READER. 
