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 gratitude 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. 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. 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 |