wards an enumeration of thoſe rules of natural equity, which ought to be enforced by the poſitive laws of every country, there is, however, nothing of this kind. Their laws are laws of police, not of juſtice. Grotius ſeems to have been the firſt, who attempted to give the world any thing like a ſyſtem of thoſe principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of the laws of all nations; and his treatiſe of the laws of war and peace, with all its imperfections, is perhaps at this day the moſt compleat work that has yet been given upon this ſubject. I ſhall in another diſcourſe endeaver to give an account of the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions they have undergone in the different ages and periods of ſociety, not only in what concerns juſtice, but in what concerns police, revenue and arms, and whatever elſe is the object of law. I ſhall not, therefore, at preſent enter into any further detail concerning the hiſtory of juriſprudence.
FINIS.
