each ingredient, which exercises controul over the welfare of a country; and if the analysis were perfected, the legislator might be said to have advanced as far as the physician, who can administer the regimen which restores, and avoid the poison which destroys the health of those committed to his care, and would thus have the life and prosperity of his country in his own hand. The diversities of national character are, again, either produced by circumstances, over which man himself possesses no controul, or they are brought upon him by his own conduct. He sinks, either by the pressure of a weight which has been placed upon him, and which he cannot remove; or by the burden of one which he has drawn down upon himself; or, he ascends with a buoyancy which nature herself has bestowed, or he works his way upwards, by his own wisdom and exertion. Under this view we may discover how far nature is chargeable with partiality, endowing one set of people with every excellence, and condemning another to grovel about the slaves of pursuits, of an order not higher than those of the brutes; or whether the one be not attained by their own prudence, and the other incurred by their own vices. APPENDIX. ILLNESS OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER. Ar the period when the emperor appeared in the Crimea, a short time before his death, viz. in the month of November, he was in the highest state of health, and took the greatest delight in viewing the magnificent scenery along the southern shores of the Crimea, and in seeing the native Tartars, to whom he was extremely attached. One day he was seen standing on the flat roof of a Tartar house, with upwards of one hundred of the natives in their Oriental costume around him, whom he was eagerly regarding through his eye-glass, with much regard and affection, when, gratified with the sight, he exclaimed, "What magnificent countenances, and what a fine race of men they are! they must not be expelled from the country;" alluding to what most Russians ardently desired, in order to introduce people of their own race. On leaving the cottage, he distributed money to the crowd, and allowed them to kiss his hands and feet, which they did with enthusiasm; and he treated them as a father would his children. At Taganrog, the emperor went much out, was very active in examining the country, and giving directions relative to the construction of a great public garden, then |