a barbarous rock that no man invades, and relates nothing to our queſtion. The republic of St. Marino, next to that of Millingen in Switzerland, is the ſmalleſt republic in Europe. The limits of it extend no farther than the baſe of the mountain on which it is ſeated. Its inſignificance is its ſecurity. No neighbouring prince ever thought it worth his while to deſtroy the independency of ſuch a Beehive. See Blainville's Travels, vol. ii. p. 227. Addiſon's Remarks on ſeveral parts of Italy.
Sidney, p, 258. However, more ignorance cannot be expreſſed, than by giving the name of democracy to thoſe governments that are compoſed of the three ſimple ſpecies, as we have proved that all the good ones have ever been: for, in a ſtrict ſenſe, it can only ſuit with thoſe, where the people retain to themſelves the adminiſtration of the ſupreme power; and more largely, when the popular part, as in Athens, greatly overbalances the other two, and the denomination is taken from the prevailing part.
