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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1802. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... they pronounce sentence according to that reason which,, I trust, lias been my guide. . - *(.-.;. Kr.. '' But wliere, it may be asked, is yonr warrant for interfering with the concerns of Sardinia ?--That warrant I hold of Nature, who made me a Sardinian, and who endowed me with intelligence to perceive and discuss the peculiar and relative interests of the island. Besides, I have, for some time past, acquired the right of declaring my sentiments, in consequence of more than one unequivocal testimony of disinterested patriotism*;--and the highest, indeed, the only recompense which I covet, would consist in the acquiescence and approbation of my countrymen. '' Never shall I cease to implore the blessing of heaven on my native land. I pray, especially, that the heavy yoke may hang lighter on the Sardinian peasant; that feudal restraints, vexations, and servitudes may oppress him no more; that freedom and comfort, the parents of agriculture, may dwell among them ; that extensive wastes may be converted into productive soil; and that the trade, the shipping, and the national industry, may be no longer fettered by regulations too complex and severe, by the cruel requisitions of fiscal tcupidity, and the still more cruel operation of exclusive privileges, with loose and unreasonable modes of taxation. '' Oh, fny fellow-citizens ! if you arc sensible to that train of ills which a defective administration has long entailed on the Sardinian people, if you have virtue left to desire the improvement of the public resources and the prosperity of the state, if your honest hearts can still derive satisfaction from that of your countrymen, if you can hail with transport the return of happiness and joy to the scenes from which misery had banished them, --deign to peruse this cha... Ralph Griffiths, Books, History, The Monthly Review (Volume 39) Books>History, General Books LLC<