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, 155, 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.

MEMORABLE are the instances that will strike an attentive observer of human affairs, shewing, that the time which immediately follows the escape of a free people from a great danger, is itself a period of great danger.

THUS, the Greeks not many years after their united forces had repulsed the hosts of Persia, began those foolish and inveterate fueds, which continually enfeebled them, and in the conclusion fixed the galling yoke of Macedon upon their-till thenunbending necks.

THUS, when the Romans had subdued Carthage, and were relieved from all fear of that once formidable rival, they shortly after divided into factions, that constantly harrassed them, and at last destroyed their liberty.

THUS, England emancipated by the restoration from the despotism of her own army, quickly declined into a disgraceful submission to the profligate Charles the second, that cost her the lives of many excellent patriots, and exposed her to the utmost hazards.

THUS, the same kingdom soon after being delivered by the revolution from all apprehension of the perils that then threatened it, began to feel a subtle

THE skies, shut as it were by irremoveable obstacles, are unbarred, the motions of worlds and

By this review, as well as by other considerations drawn from a due respect for the divine perfections, and from the nature of things, we may be convinced, how vain is the representation made by some ancients through ignorance of the truth, and by some moderns in contempt of it, that men at first lived like beasts, making only strange and uncouth noises, till at length convenience taught them the use of speech.

Thus among others, Diodorus Siculus writes in his first book of history, and Vitruvius in his second book:

So Horace,

Quum prorepserunt primis animalia terris,
Mutum ac turpe pecus-

When animals crawl'd forth at first from earth,

A vile dumb herd they were

And Lucretius,

"At varios linguæ sonitus natura coegit

"Mittere; et utilitas expressit nomina rerum.

To utter various sounds nature compell'd

Mankind; and then convenience taught them words

However, letters may have been introduced, certain it is, that by their aid we, in a manner, start from the bounds of time and place in which we live, intellectually overtake things whirled from us by the lapse of ages, and approach even to the infancy of creation; see, as it were, things separated from us by the greatest distance; converse familiarly with the farthest absent; are taught by the dead; commit to an impartial and present depository private contracts, laws, and public treaties, that ought to be observed with entire faithfulness; and transmit to posterity all the instruction we can possibly collect for rendering them wise, and good, and happy.

What thanks are due for such signal and lasting blessings!

LET us therefore keep in perpetual remembrance, that the provisions established for the security of liberty may be converted into engines for its de

struction.

(b) The excellent Hoadley, afterwards bishop of Winchester, in his celebrated treatise on "civil "government," strenuously asserting and defending the principles of freedom, prudently availed himself of the sentiments of the learned and pious Hooker, who was well known to be an orthodox church-man, and a faithful royalist. The following quotations are extracted, from that work.

"HE, (Hooker) expressly founds civil govern ment upon the voluntary agreement, composition, or compact of the members of the governed society; from whom originally comes all the authority of governors: so expressly, that he declares it impossible, that any should have complete lawful power but by this consent, in the ordinary course of God's Providence. He leaves it entirely as a thing indifferent, to the free consultation and deliberation of men, what form of government shall be tried or established. He plainly enough teacheth, that the first trial or compact, doth not so oblige