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Show 7 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL the Afcendantl". SUBJECTS. A Proof of this we have in Livy, even to far back as the Time of their la'tl King ‘I‘m'qzzz'm'zir Supch-vm: For one of the Complaints brought .igainll that Prince was couched in the following Terms, That, having employed his Soldiers in making Drains and Conn 0': Sewers " they thought it an high " Difgrice to \Varriors to be treated as Me"chanics, and that the Conquerors of the " neighbouring Nations lhould be degraded " in l Stone-cutters and Malons," though thele 7t BUT to proceed: The Genius of Rome being formed for War, the Romain pulhed their Con- quelts over Nations fi'ill more remote: But alasl the gamma, the Body of the People, were {0 far from reaping any Advantage from thefe new Triumps, that they generally found theml‘elves to be poorer at the End of their molt glorious ‘Wars than before they begun them. At the (Hole of each i‘ucceistul War it was cufiomary Follw, or the \Vorks of Orientation, but evi- to divide a Part of the Lands of the vanquilhed among the veteran Soldiers, and to grant them a Diliniflion in order to cultivate their new Acquifitions. But loch Eltates being ltill more dently calculated for the Health of the Citizens diltant from the City, became in fact it) much and the Convenience of the Public. rim of tome neighbouring State, they would not the leis valuable; and the new Proprietor had lefs Inclination than ever to forlhke the Capital, and to banilh himfelf to thele dillant Pr‘Ovinces. hive conlidered that as a Dilhonour to their Charaéter. [For here let it be noted, that Rome was become by this Time the Theatre of Pleal‘ure, t 3 well as \Norks were not the Monuments of unmeaning Had he led ilrrth thele indignant Heroes to the lixtirpa- the Seat of Emoire; where all who wilhed to * . . ' ,.T' LIV; lll). I. Romanos homines, vic‘lores omnium circa potitiioruizi,_ opihces ac laptcrdas pro bellatorihus factors. '1 hus realoned the People of Rama as {con as ever they began to be famous in the Charaélerbf Bel/alarm and "Hand. And, as this Vanity is natural to Mankind have not therFrtends of Commerce too much Caufe to lieairithal our Op/flm and Lapz'a'a'ar, now turned into Figure: omrflzm ru'm yet Papa/gram, will retu'on after the fame Manner P illnid [llc Romam were not {0 mad as to fight for Trade: ihey fought only flii‘_Conquell zznti Dominion, which maylie ac- Srulreu by fighting: But to fight {or the Sake of procuring e rade, 15 a bpccxes ofMadnels reformed only for Briton; .' BUT aft a Part on the Stage of Ambition, Popularity, 701‘ Politics; all who wanted to be engaged in Scenes of Debauchery, or lntrigues of State; all, in lhort, who had any Thing to fpend, or any Thing to expect, made Rome their Ren- dezvous, and refitted thither as to a common Mart] This being the Cafe, it is not at all lurprihng, that thefe late Acquilitions were delerted and fold for a very Trifle; nor that the Mafs of the Roman People were to immerfed E A} in :«m‘lll‘lil'lnll I |
