there a people in the world, that at their own charge,
at their own peril, will fight for the liberty of another? Did they
live at the next door to the fire? Or what kind of men are these, whose
business it is to pass the seas, that the world may be governed with
righteousness? The cities of Greece and of Asia shake off their iron
fetters at the voice of a crier was it madness to imagine such a thing,
and is it done? O virtue! O felicity! O fame!

"In this example your lordships have a donation of liberty or of Italian
right to a people, by restitution to what they had formerly enjoyed; and
some particular men, families or cities, according to their merit of the
Romans, if not upon this, yet upon the like occasions, were gratified
with Latinity." But Philip's share by this means did not please him,
wherefore the league was broken by his son Perseus; and the Macedonians
thereupon for the second time conquered by AEmilius Paulus, their King
taken, and they some time after the victory summoned to the tribunal of
the general; where, remembering how little hope they ought to have of
pardon, they expected some dreadful sentence: when AEmilius, in the
first place, declared the Macedonians to be free, in the full possession
of their lands, goods, and laws, with right to elect annual magistrates,
yielding and paying to the people of Rome one-half of the tribute which
they were accustomed to pay to their own kings. This done he went on,
making so skilful a division of the country in order to the methodizing
of the people, and casting them into the form of popular government,
that the Macedonians, being first surprised with the virtue of the
Romans, began now to alter the scene of their admiration, that a
stranger should do such things for them in their own country, and with
such facility as they had never so much as once imagined to be possible.
Nor was this all; for AEmilius, as if not dictating to conquered
enemies, but to some well-deserving friends, gave them in the last place
laws so suitable, and contrived with such care and prudence, that long
use and experience (the only correctness of works of this nature) could
never find a fault in them.

"In this example you have a donation of liberty, or of Italian right,
to a people that had not tasted of it before, but were now taught how to
use it.

"My lords, the royalists should compare what we are doing, and we what
hitherto we have done for them, with this example. It is a