"BELLUM maxime omnium memorabile, quæ unquam gesta sint, me scripturum; quod, Hannibale duce, Carthaginienses cum populo Romano gessere. Nam neque validiores opibus ullæ inter se civitates gentesque contulerunt arma, neque his ipsis tantum unquam virium aut roboris fuit: et haud ignotas belli artes inter se, sed expertas primo Punico conserebant bello; odiis etiam prope majoribus certarunt, quam viribus; et adeo varia belli fortuna ancepsque Mars fuit, ut propius periculum fuerint, qui vicerunt."-Liv. lib. 21. FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN M.DCC.LXXXIX. TO THE RESTORATION OF THE BOURBONS IN M.DCCC.XV. BY ARCHIBALD ALISON, F.R.S.E. ADVOCATE. VOLUME THE TWELFTH. SEVENTH EDITION. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON. M.DCCC.XLVII. CONTENTS OF VOL. XII. Page 10. It has never been thoroughly amalgamated, 11. Effect of these circumstances in promoting the means of internal and sepa- 12. Corruption of the nobility, and extent to which entails were carried, |