The monitor & Wilmington repository. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1800-1801, 1801-05-23
From the New. England PALLADIUM.
French policy compared qUib that Of ether "afi'Hf'


ancient Greece, infarms us, " that the lult OF
domination made the polite and humane GFesk'
treat each other with degree OF ferocity UNI
known among the mott balbareus nations. >
But it was referved for the polite and humane
France, at the clefe Of the 18th century, to
exhibit the proofs of hyperion recruitment in can
nibalilm, by drinking each others blood, and
compelling their wretched victims To drink it
by toaitng the hearts Of iheir murdered
neighbours and eating them, by throwing So
half murdered people of different ftxes into
pit with uunackcd lime and clohrg them up,
aud then to honour the wretch who had done
this, with the appreciation of legil tor OF
the nation. Thsfe facts are related by ditfereat
writers and vouched by ample authority
" Meafures were concerted" fays Boie
A'Anglais, " to efabliih the empire of death
or terror, and of erine.'' " For fix years, faid
Bourden Deoife, crime has been conean,ly
increatiug-evety epoch of the revolution,
every new event has augmented tercciiy
s. La the democratic government OF Greece.
ambitious mcn, who aimed at the lubyefou OF
public liberty either banilhed CT put to death,
all the honeit men in their power we'll know
Ing, that this tyranny would be irlecurc if o.
neh and Influential men remained. The fame
has been invariably done in France +; hat it is
not recolie6ted, that the Grecian denagogues
ever prepeled bleeding their victims before the
time of execution, 10 l,flen their fortiiude,
and thus prevent the dangerous example OF
martyred virtu., difdai7iag fear OF men and
truains 70 the mercy and jullice OF the Deity!
In France this propoial Was a charge which
I'm "a h. tr,h,,n al
MIR. r. w, Montague, info,ms ua, that in
Sparta, the great debtors, who were alto land
holders, agreed with the pcpulace TO uFite
their forces 10 abolih dehrs s; divide the lands
The debts were accordingly abolihtd, but
this beiHg once accomplished, which was all
that tie debtors def cd, the lands remained
to their poiIeGors, and the people were duped.
Samethug OF this fame kind had been done at
Athers, under Snlon; AVID iomething of the
fame kidd has been long tbs deildelaium OF
ione modern law givers, by which people who
borrow may be freed from the obligations to
pay, a0d thur live upon the indAary OF Others
ihould jaice, iaiA MIR. Gibson, in 1892,
to lee free co.. aitu,ional monarchy in France.
" find nothing ancient or modern that bears
affinity to the prcfent time" for vice and mad.
would only produce popular monaer, which
after deVouring every thing ellie mutt fiaally
devour it!eif." This cpiniou of ths Roman
hiaotian is remarkably verified a'resdy-the
popular monNer has 70 t,tally d>v3urtl ilfelf,
that there ia probably els eal power in France
Than there hsa been at any period liacs the
conquea OF Gaul by Julius cslsr the 20.
verum-nt is aitcgether military the generals
are able. and tile difcipline is inAyxibly fevere.
" Rome from the nature of her conRitu l.
on) could net exit without command over
other nations, and, therefore, never was at
peace, while an enemy remained ttrong enough
TO make terms'' The vital fyhem of revoiu.
tionary France, has been underltcod by all
who have governed at Paria, hnce 1872, to
depend wholly on war, Gpol and rapine.
While Rome was carquering the world,
M had perpetual wars in her own bolom the
great men excited among the common people
satred ofroysry, that they themielves, might
PoiIels its power but ia doing this they
lighted up hres which could never be extin-
guifhed, and which continually threatened to
coafune them. The people did not end The
promifed blefilgs Of liberty, and became enc
mics Of the government. "-All this had beer
acted over in France. with thia difference, that
they have got military matter, after feveu
years Rruggle only, which at Rome continued
feven centuries. One reafoa for this may be-
that France began her career with twenty five
million, of people, and Romr with only as ma
ny hundreds. Another reafon is. that eience
commerce, property, and the uiefnl ar :, sgsr.
obieets of fuch mutual attention aud inter q
among the French, that their leaders hav'
found it inpofible to change their habits
whereas, among the Romans, thole were the
concerns Of llaves, while the knowledge &c Ia
lents of citizens were wholly confined to- wars
But third reaton j., that in France the forcs
of religious fentimsnt, has been deffreyed
which in Rome, was cherifhed as the bea ic-
curity for all the neral virtues.
The maxins of the Romans enabled then