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which will be found highly interesting to the political reader.
The subject of Neutrality, which our author treats in Chapter XXI of "The Prince," being admirably continued in one of his letters to Francis Vettori, we thought it of sufficient importance to form a portion of the Appendix.
The preceding, are merely illustrations of the text; but the next article, the Duties of an Ambassador, įs much more; and if this piece alone were preserved of Machiavelli, it would stamp him qs a political writer of the first class.
The last article that we have thought proper to add is a fragment on the Means of securing Success, which, with the former article, ought to be perpetually before the eyes of every statesman and prince in Europe, as conveying that species of instruction of which they appear te be so wofully ignorant.
