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A Comparison Between The Asiatics And French.
by saying that they intended by a new legal establishment to murder their sovereign ? A national representative , although returned by a particular district , is free to legislate for the whole nation . But who will advance , that the massacre of Louis XVI . was assented to by the majority of any town or city , however large or small , throughout the whole kingdom of France ? It
could be of no advantage to the French , supposing him guilty ( which by no means was the case ) to murder him . For a man to commit a crime , signifies an opposition to the laws , and that law which he has violated will convict him : but they framed ex post facto laws , on purpose to try Louis XVI . which is contrary to the civil and all other laws ; and at the same time shews to a demonstrationthat he offended no existing laws . —The
Con-, vention abused that confidence which xvas reposed in them ; they were not sent there to split the nations into different parties , nor delude the people by the abstruse and metaphysical dogmas of equality , organization , & c . If we cast our eyes on the more remote countries of the earth , we shall be surprized , and at a loss to account for the tranquil state
in which they live , compared with the more philosophical countries , whose very name implies harmony and humanity . View the great territory of Asia , which is constantly branded with the report of strangled subjects , slaughtered jannizaries , and assassinated pachas ; but look for one moment into the Gazette , and see if you there read the horrid accounts of illustrious and beautiful women slaughtered in the hands of the vilest ruffians ! behold their
beauteous limbs , which would have captivated the heart of an Alexander , dragged through the streets , under the bacchanalian shouts of a barbarous and insulting mob , venting their unnatural jests over the dying countenances of the most charming women , who lay mangled in the streets . of Paris I As we judge mostly by analog }' ' , let us compare this scene with
the manners and government of the Eastern countries , where the politicians will tell us , in spite of our senses , that the people are wretched : because the sultan may behead a vizier , or dispatch a eunuch , they affirm , that the life and death of his subjects depend On his smile or frown ; that they have no property , their women no dower , the sons no inheritance , nor the husbandman any profit in the culture of his ground ; but that al ! is subject to the uncontroulable decree of an Ottoman prince .
The outward form of any government is , but a mockery , provided it ' s internal arrangements does not effect the happiness of the people . Those who speak of the killing looks of a sultan , -only refer to the superior officers of government . The pachas , who are suspected of seditious practices in the remote governments , are , if conviction is clear , dispatched without form or ceremony ; but this is defending , not domineering- over the people : if , on the contrary , the proofs are weak , he is remanded to take his trial in the court ol thesultan . If this seems hard , for a man to be dispatched outofifis
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Comparison Between The Asiatics And French.
by saying that they intended by a new legal establishment to murder their sovereign ? A national representative , although returned by a particular district , is free to legislate for the whole nation . But who will advance , that the massacre of Louis XVI . was assented to by the majority of any town or city , however large or small , throughout the whole kingdom of France ? It
could be of no advantage to the French , supposing him guilty ( which by no means was the case ) to murder him . For a man to commit a crime , signifies an opposition to the laws , and that law which he has violated will convict him : but they framed ex post facto laws , on purpose to try Louis XVI . which is contrary to the civil and all other laws ; and at the same time shews to a demonstrationthat he offended no existing laws . —The
Con-, vention abused that confidence which xvas reposed in them ; they were not sent there to split the nations into different parties , nor delude the people by the abstruse and metaphysical dogmas of equality , organization , & c . If we cast our eyes on the more remote countries of the earth , we shall be surprized , and at a loss to account for the tranquil state
in which they live , compared with the more philosophical countries , whose very name implies harmony and humanity . View the great territory of Asia , which is constantly branded with the report of strangled subjects , slaughtered jannizaries , and assassinated pachas ; but look for one moment into the Gazette , and see if you there read the horrid accounts of illustrious and beautiful women slaughtered in the hands of the vilest ruffians ! behold their
beauteous limbs , which would have captivated the heart of an Alexander , dragged through the streets , under the bacchanalian shouts of a barbarous and insulting mob , venting their unnatural jests over the dying countenances of the most charming women , who lay mangled in the streets . of Paris I As we judge mostly by analog }' ' , let us compare this scene with
the manners and government of the Eastern countries , where the politicians will tell us , in spite of our senses , that the people are wretched : because the sultan may behead a vizier , or dispatch a eunuch , they affirm , that the life and death of his subjects depend On his smile or frown ; that they have no property , their women no dower , the sons no inheritance , nor the husbandman any profit in the culture of his ground ; but that al ! is subject to the uncontroulable decree of an Ottoman prince .
The outward form of any government is , but a mockery , provided it ' s internal arrangements does not effect the happiness of the people . Those who speak of the killing looks of a sultan , -only refer to the superior officers of government . The pachas , who are suspected of seditious practices in the remote governments , are , if conviction is clear , dispatched without form or ceremony ; but this is defending , not domineering- over the people : if , on the contrary , the proofs are weak , he is remanded to take his trial in the court ol thesultan . If this seems hard , for a man to be dispatched outofifis