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armiftices, and all preliminaries, at a dif- 
tance. If the moment arrives in which 
we muff make peace, that moment clofes 
the career of Britain ; but at all events, 
let it be peace or war, and not negotiation. 
Our enemy has made as much by thefe 
treacherous fteps as by vitteries in the 
field. No fufpenfion of hoftilities for a 
fingle moment. This is what I will 
grant ; this is what I will accept—peace 
or war. England is three years prepar- 
ing for war: Bonaparte not three hours. 
We know our danger in war, and it is pof- 
fibie to guard againft it. With fucha 
foe we know little of our danger in peace ; 
and if it be guarded againft, peace be- 
comes as expenfive as war. But all fuch 
Janguage is vanity and folly, if it reft not 
on the bafis of an ability to continue the 
war. If money be wanted and cannot be 
had, if the Navy demands fupplies that 
cannot be procured, then mutt peace be 
made, or England fought for on Englifh 
ground. |The. firft may for a moment 
poltpone the latter, and it would be only 
fora moment. Where then would our 
truit be? In an hundred thoufand troops 
of the line, or in five-and-twenty times as 
rhany pikemen ? 
In fuch an inquiry it is not eafy to fink 
entirely, as I could have wifhed, all :efe- 
rences to the volunteers ; but experience 
has given us a ieflon, to which I hope the 
new Miniftry will not be inattentive. Vo- 
juntary exertions are admirable for a cer- 
tam period, and they do, for fuch a pe- 
riod, much honour to individuals; at the 
long vun, if I may ufe the expreffion, they 
are not to be depended cn. The {pirit 
tires and evaporates ; the attendance on 
days of exercife has fo fallen off in many 
corps, that they remain troops upon paper 
only. Inthe prefent fituation of the king- 
dom, its defence is the firtt bufinels of 
every man that can carry arms, and the 
necefility of exertion is fuch, that every 
man fhould be ferced.to bear his fhare in 
the-burthen ; and thofe whofe years ex- 
cecd or fall fhore of the limited age, fhould 
pay a perfonal tax, that the burthen may 
fall univerfally. Give protection, or en- 
able the public to pay thofe that can with 
their arm protect. Whatever the force is 
that fhall be had recourfe to, they fhould 
be under martial-law while under arms, 
The claufes of the aét may fecure attend- 
ance ; and the moment the word ‘‘ Af- 
tention” is pronounced, let martial law 
commence, 
ARTH@R YounNcG. 
Bradfield, March 18¢6« 
Notice relative to the MS. of the late M. Seguier. [June 1, 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
LETTER of M.CHARDON-LA-ROCHETTE 
relative to the MANUSCRIPTS of the 
learned SEGUIER 0@ ANCIENT IN- 
SCRIPTIONS. | 
F. Seguier was born at Nifmes on the 
. 25th Nov. 1703, and died- in the 
fame city on the 1ft Sept. 1784. He was 
not only a learned antiquary, but alfo 
profoundly verfed in natural hiftery. He 
had a great fhare in the works ‘of his 
friend Maffei, with whem he paffed his 
beft and happieft days, and whom he did 
not quit till the death of the Marquis. 
Cn his return to his native city, all 
his time was devoted to a Catalogue of 
the Greek, Latin, and Etrufcan infcrip- 
tions. He made extracts from the pre- 
ceding authors who had treated on this 
_fubject, and compofed a Critical Hitory of 
them, which he brought down as far as 
the year 1768. This Critical Hiftory, 
which forms the prolegomena to his In- 
dexes, is written in Latin, and fils 1530 
pages in {mal! folio, divided into two, vo. 
lumes. The title cf the two large vo- 
lumes which. follow is, ‘ Infcriprionum 
Antiquarum Index abfolutifiimus ; in quo 
Grzcarum Latinarumque Infcriprisaum, 
quz in editis libris reperiri potuerunt, 
prima verba deferibuntur ; operumque in 
quibus referantur loca indicantur, E:ref- 
carum et exoticarum indice ad calcem ad- 
jeéto 5 opera Joan. Franc. Seguerti, 1749.” 
Thefe two volumes extend to 1092 pages. 
The Index to the Greek infeription, and 
likewife that to the Etrufcan in{criptions, 
are in feparate volumes. A third con- 
tains a Jilt of the authors cited in the In- 
dexes. Two other MS. volumes, one in 
folio, the other in 4to., contain Greek and 
Latin infcriptions, with notes written in 
French, which will be highly ufeful to 
thofe who undeitake the publication of 
this great work, 
When I applied to the Minifer of the 
Interior for his authority to remove thefe 
MSS. from the public library at Nifmes 
to the Imperial Library, I reprefented to 
him that for the laft forty years all the 
learned of Europe had been anxioufly 
waiting for the appearance of this collec- 
tion, and that the Imperial prefs, which 
in the late reigns had enriched the repub- 
lic of letters with fo many important 
works, cught to be employed in printing 
them. The manulcript is ina neat and 
legible hand, fo that in this refpect it will 
not caufe much trouble to the editor — 
I hed pointed cut to the Minifer two. 
men: bers of the Inititute profoundly verfed 
an, 
