his nation out of the direct road of a honest, canlid, and generous conduct. The sun of truth will. sooner or later dissipate the mists of fallacy, and shew things as they really are.

We have nothing to do, but to quit the new fangled philosophy of imaginary vortices in politics and faithfully adhere to the good old precepts of common sense, and to the sound dispositions of human nature; with a noble and a pious faith to believe, that there are such things on earth as gratitude and friendship, tho' GOD has so formed men, that they are influenced by a regard for their own interests: in short to return to the wise and just sentiments which we heretofore entertained for those who first acknowledged our independence, and set the blessed example to others--those who nationally and individually, upon every occasion, through every period of our contest, uniformly and constantly manifested the most affectionate attachment to us-those to whom, under "a gracious Providence," we owe our " peace, liberty, and safety," as we have repeatedly and solemnly declared to all mankind-for ever to renounce the detestable position, that we ought to select them out when surrounded by distress, and fighting the battles of freedom to be the first objects, against whom we are to exert that very sovereign power they were instrumental in conferring upon us; the first peo

ple, into whose hearts we are to plunge those very swords that by their aid at the expence of their blood and their treasure have been put into our hands. HEAVEN FORBID! that American grati tude should become a by-word among civilized nations to the latest ages, emphatically to describe that supremacy of depravity, which no other terms can fully define. Then, indeed, it may be some consolation to our darkened and perverted minds, that "punic faith" will be its allied companion.

FABIUS.

APPENDIX.

ALL the notes in the following appendix, except the two at letters (m) and (n), and the notes in pages 89, 99, 100, the last note in page 119, 124, 125, 137, 142, 149, 150, 152, 153, 154, 183, 184, 188, 190, 207, 214, 242, 253, 255 and 256 of the letters of Fabius, have been added since the edition in 1797.

APPENDIX.

(a) MANKIND possessing present good are

too frequently inattentive to future evil. Thus, when a nation has bravely recovered its liberty by a revolution, it is too apt to slide into an opinion, that all things are safe. The people then sink into carelessness and confidence, and thereby tempt the ambitious, the selfish, and the unprincipled, to fasten new fetters upon them in place of the old.

To such characters the wealth and power of a nation are vast temptations. To partake of them jointly in common with their fellow-citizens, appears to their aspiring genius too low a condition. Accordingly they eagerly engage in schemes to gain for themselves an undue proportion; and in all ages and in all countries they uniformly employ the same means. They begin with fraud and conclude with violence.