ird of the rents to the land
proprietors, or one ninth of the whole product of the lands. See
the articles, Cash and Circulation.

The par between land and labour is twice the quantity of land whose
product will maintain the labourer. In France one acre and a half
will maintain one. In England three, owing to the difference in the
manner of living.

Aristotle's Politics, chap. 6, definition of money, &c.

The proportion of gold and silver, as settled by Sir Isaac Newton's
proposition, was 1 to 14. It was generally through Europe 1 to 15.
In China I believe it is 1 to 10.

It is estimated that the labour of twenty-five persons, on an
average, will maintain a hundred in all the necessaries of life.

Postlethwaite, in his time, supposes six millions of people in
England. The ratio of increase has been found by a variety of
observations to be, that 100,000 people augment annually, one year
with another to--. Mr. Kerseboom, agreeing with Dr. Halley, makes
the number of people thirty-five times the number of births in a
year.

Extracts from Demosthenes' Orations.

Philippic. "As a general marches at the head of his troops, so
ought wise politicians, if I dare use the expression, to march at
the head of affairs; insomuch that they ought not to wait _the
event_, to know what measures to take; but the measures which they
have taken ought to produce the _event_."

"Where attack him? it will be said. Ah, Athenians--war, war, itself
will discover to you his weak sides, if you will seek them."

Sublimely simple. Vide Long. C. 16.

Are the limits of the several states and the acts on which they are
founded ascertained, and are our ministers provided with them? What
intelligence has been given to Congress by our ministers of the
designs, strength by sea and land, actual interests and views of
the different powers in Europe?

The government established (by Lycurgus) remained in vigour about
five hundred years, till a thirst of empire tempted the Spartans to
entertain foreign troops, and introduce Persian gold to maintain
them; then the institutions of Lycurgus fell at once, and avarice
and luxury succeeded.

He (Numa) was a wise prince, and went a great way in civilizing the
Romans. The chief engine he employed for this purpose wa