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236 CLASSICAL TOUR Dis.
domestic and national disorder and misery are
its constant and inseparable companions. France,
where the pestilence begun, first felt its conse-
quences, and still bleeds under its scourge. The
Prussian court, actually degraded and despised,
smarts under the punishment brought upon the
monarchy by the French principles of the athe-
istic Frederic. The Russian Capital, now the
theatre of every dark intrigue, treacherous plot,
and foul indulgence, may ere long have reason
to curse the impolicy of Catherine, who, by
encouraging the language and the opinions of
France, sowed the seeds of death and of dissolu-
tion in the bosom of her empire,
Vipeream inspirans animam.
The late unhappy sovereign fell a victim to their
increasing influence ; and it is difficult to say,
whether the same passions, working on the same
principles, may not at some future period pro-
duce a similar catastrophe. Such are the conse-
quences of partiality to French literature, and
such the last great curse which that nation, at
all periods of its history the bane and the tor-
ment of the human species, has, in these latter
times, brought upon the civilized world. Now
let me ask once more, in the name of truth and
©f virtue, of interest and of patriotism, by what
domestic and national disorder and misery are
its constant and inseparable companions. France,
where the pestilence begun, first felt its conse-
quences, and still bleeds under its scourge. The
Prussian court, actually degraded and despised,
smarts under the punishment brought upon the
monarchy by the French principles of the athe-
istic Frederic. The Russian Capital, now the
theatre of every dark intrigue, treacherous plot,
and foul indulgence, may ere long have reason
to curse the impolicy of Catherine, who, by
encouraging the language and the opinions of
France, sowed the seeds of death and of dissolu-
tion in the bosom of her empire,
Vipeream inspirans animam.
The late unhappy sovereign fell a victim to their
increasing influence ; and it is difficult to say,
whether the same passions, working on the same
principles, may not at some future period pro-
duce a similar catastrophe. Such are the conse-
quences of partiality to French literature, and
such the last great curse which that nation, at
all periods of its history the bane and the tor-
ment of the human species, has, in these latter
times, brought upon the civilized world. Now
let me ask once more, in the name of truth and
©f virtue, of interest and of patriotism, by what