born to Action are inconfequential in Governmentcollectitious Troops.-The Foot by their violent Attack began the fatal Break in the Pharfaliac Field. He and his Brother, with a Politic common to other Countries, had taken oppofite Sides.

His Epithets are of the gaudy or hyperbolical Kind. The glorious News.-Eager Hopes and difmal Fears. Bleeding Rome-divine Laws and hallowed Customs -Mercilefs War-intenfe Anxiety.

Sometimes the Reader is fuddenly ravished with a fonorous Sentence, of which when the Noife is past the Meaning does not long remain. When Brutus fet his Legions to fill a Moat, inftead of heavy Dragging and flow Toil, they fet about it with Huzzas and Racing, as if they had been striving at the Olympic Games. They hurled impetuous down the huge Trees and Stones, and with Shouts forced them into the Water; fo that the Work, expected to continue half the Campaign, was with rapid Toil completed in a few Days. Brutus's Soldiers fell to the Gate with refiftless Fury, it gave Way at last with hideous Crafh.-This great and good Man,. doing his Duty to his Country, received a mortal Wound, and glorious fell in the Caufe of Rome may his Memory be ever dear to all Lovers of Liberty, Learning and Humanity! This Promise ought ever to embalm his Memory.-The Queen of Nations was torn by no foreign Invader. Rome fell a Sacrifice to her own Sons, and was ravaged by her unnatural Offspring: All the great Men of the State, all the Good, all the Holy, were openly murdered by the wickedeft and worft.-Little Iflands cover the Harbour of Brindisi, and form the narrow Outlet from the numerous Creeks that compofe its capacious Port-At the Appearance of Brutus and Caffius a Shout of Joy rent the Heavens from the furrounding Multitudes,

;

Such

Such are the Flowers which may be gathered by every Hand in every Part of this Garden of Eloquence. But having thus freely mentioned our Author's Faults, it remains that we acknowledge his Merit; and confefs that this Book is the Work of a Man of Letters, that it is full of Events difplayed with Accuracy, and related with Vivacity; and tho' it is fufficiently defective to crush the Vanity of its Author, it is fufficiently entertaining to invite Readers.

A LETTER

A

LETTER

FROM

A FRENCH REFUGEE in AMERICA to his FRIEND a GENTLEMAN in ENG

LAND.

SIR,

HE Lofer must be allowed to fpeak; you will Tgive us Leave therefore, who have already begun to fuffer, and who know not what is yet behind, to reprefent to you fome of the Inftances of Neglect on our own Part, and of Ill-conduct and unkind Usage toward us, on the Part of our Mother Country.

I fhall begin with the Policy of the English in appointing us our Governors, who are generally Strangers and have no landed Intereft here; and who therefore cannot be fuppofed to have that natural Affection for us, or that political Attachment to us, which Natives, or those who have a large landed Interest here, may be supposed to have.

Another Confideration, which tends to break the Tie between us, is, that they generally Refide but a little While among us; or, at least, have no Views of continuing for Life; and are too often fent hither only to ferve a Turn. Is it therefore any Wonder that fuch Perfons as these fhould be

but very indifferent with Regard to our Intereft, however folicitous they may be in cultivating what they may call their own?*

Another Hardship is, not being suffered to go into those Manufactures which Nature has fitted and defigned us for. This Reftraint, you are fenfible, is laid upon us under the Pretence, left we fhould rival our Mother Country. Whereas God and Nature no doubt designed, that every Part of the Globe fhould contribute its Quota towards the Wants and Advantages of Human Life; and to restrain any Part of the Earth, in this Refpect, from political Confiderations, is nothing lefs than laying an Embargo upon Nature, and fhackling, as it were, Divine Providence itself. If we rival Europe in fome Articles, Europe rivals us in others. Nature ought to have its free Course in this Respect, and not to be checked and put out of the Direction the God of Nature and the great King of Kings has given her. Nor, indeed, are Princes aware what Injuries they do themselves, as well as what Hardfhips they lay their Subjects under, by Restraints of this Kind: How many Countries have revolted, and others been loft and torn from their Mother Nations by being kept in this Bondage? And it will be well, if, by thus keeping down the American Colonies, and not letting us exert our natural Strength, we do not become a Prey to a foreign Power, instead of being a Defer.ce to our Mother Country, as we might eafily have been made ere this in much greater De

grees

* Without an Attendance to the above Confiderations, it is hard to conceive, how fuch enormous Incroachments could have been suffered to have taken Place on our Territories in America, by the French and Spaniards; more efpccially by the former, who have in a Manner covered that Country with their Forts, in order to maintain those Incroachments. See a Map published in the Gentleman's Magazine for Jnly, 1755, where thefe Incroachments appear by Infpection, as alfo the numerous Forts built in Defence of them, many of which have been erected fince the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle,

grees than we are now capable of being, had we been fuffered to have exerted ourselves in our own proper Sphere.

Another Inftance of grofs Neglect has been the not repelling, immediately and without any Lofs of Time, the first Incroachments, whether on the Seacoaft, or Inland, or with regard to Iflands. As foon as ever Advice had been received that the French or Spaniards had invaded our Territories, or neutral Lands or Iflands, and were beginning to fettle and fortify themselves upon them, we fhould have gone against these Invaders directly, and have driven them out Sword in Hand; and not pretended to have entered into Treaty with People who will spend Year after Year in treating with you, and keep all the while invading you, and fortifying themfelves in those Invasions, and then you may drive them out of their Incroachments how you can. the French or Spaniards had any Demands upon us, they fhould have propofed them to us and made their Claims; and if we would not have heard the Voice of Treaties, of Evidence, Reafon and Juftice, it would then have been Time enough for them to had recourse to arms; but to invade us first, and then to talk about treating, is all a mere Joke.*

If

But once more, our Mother Country has been certainly wanting to us, as well as to herself, in not directing long fince the Building a strong Squadron of Ships here, where we have fo many Materials towards it, and could fo eafily have manned them; which would have ferved as a Fleet of Observation to have watched the Sea-coafts, and prevented all Incroachments upon them, not to fay on the neutral American Islands; and even the Landing of the last

late

*It was as long ago as July, 1754, that the French had the Infolence to attack Colonel Washington, and to drive him out of Fort Neceffity in Virginia, murdering a Number of his Men; at which Time the whole Garrison narrowly escaped being put to the Sword.