Even in this happy country, where there is more equality than in almoſt any other, there are noble families, who, although they live like their neighbours by the cultivation of the earth, and think it no diſgrace, are very proud of the immenſe antiquity of their deſcent, and boaſt of it, and value themſelves upon it, as much as Julius Cæſar did, who was deſcended from a goddeſs.
THE UNITED PROVINCES OF THE LOW COUNTRIES.
There are in Frieſland and Overyſſell, and perhaps in the city of Dort, certain remnants of democratical powers, the fragments of an ancient edifice, which may poſſibly be re-erected; but as there is nothing which favours Mr. Turgot's idea, I ſhall paſs over this country for the preſent.
LETTER V.
SWITZERLAND,
My dear Sir,
IT is commonly ſaid, that ſome of the cantons of Switzerland are democratical, and others ariſtocratical: and if theſe epithets are underſtood only to mean, that one of theſe powers prevails in ſome of thoſe republics, and the other in the reſt, they are juſt enough; but there is neither a ſimple democracy, nor a ſimple ariſtocracy, among them. The governments of theſe confederated
