must instantly be complied with: Business, and Pleasure, Town and Country, all must be left, whenfoever it thinks fit: And even when you voluntarily take upon yourself a Part of the Government, you must not always depend on its rewarding your Services.

NONE of the Nobles are allowed to ferve a foreign Power, or to feek their Fortune abroad: Nay, they must not so much as go out of the Territories of the State without an exprefs Licence; which when obtained, is revokable at Pleafure, without any Objection. There is a strict Eye kept on the Acquaintance and Intercourfe of the Nobility with Foreigners, especially when they have any Thing like a public Character.

THERE are no Laws from which any one can exempt himself; and even the State-Inquifitors, though the fupreme Officers, in their domestic Concerns are under the Cognizance of the ordinary Magiftrates. The least Act of Violence, taking Vent, within a Day or two brings down the Author from his exalted Poft, and that for Life. Perfons of the moft

most distinguished Virtue and Wisdom, with whatsoever Office and Authority they are invested, without the inchanting Arts of Elocution, to foften Envy, or remove Sufpicions, muft neceffarily be borne down by the Majority.

REASON, Juftice, Merit, and Dignity avail nothing against Numbers, who muft not only be yielded to, but, as foon as the Refolution is paft, there must be a Concurrence with the reft to put it into Execution, notwithstanding any Reluctance, or inward Persuasion of its being Wrong. Was ever Slavery like this? And yet this is no more than what is common to all Republics.

Ir is quite otherwife for the People. Every one who does not openly abufe the Lenity of the Laws, may live within his own Doors just as he pleafes: None are compelled to serve either in the Army or Revenues; and all who are for promoting themselves in the Republic's Service, are fure of the kindeft Welcome and Encouragement. They are 0

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under no Prohibition from entering into foreign Service, unless fome very particular Cirstances be objectable: And that, in the Venetian Dominions, they think, fpeak, and act as freely as in any Part of the World, provided they do not disturb the State nor give any scandalous Example to the People, is what no European can deny.

To conclude; it happens here, as everywhere elfe, that Men of Senfe and Probity must observe a Medium in every Thing; and take Care, neither for good nor bad, to draw upon themselves the Attention of the great Ones: For, wherever there are Men, there also will certainly be the Vices which, have attended them from their Birth. They who imagine to check them by Laws, are, of all Men, the most mistaken, and deceive themselves to the greater Prejudice of Society, according to the well-known Principle, nitimur in vetitum. The fewer Laws, the fewer Crimes, and the more Liberty. Republics abound most in Laws, confequently in Tranfgreffions. That imaginary Liberty never rifes higher there than in any other Form of Government:

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It is what every candid Man will acknowledge upon mature Reflection. There must be Virtue, there must be Honour, there must be Force every where: It is only fuch a Conjunction which can establish and support a Government promotive of the Happiness of Society.

VIR vanus in Superbiam erigitur, et tanquam Pullum Onagri fe liberum natum` putat. Job xi. 12.

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