He painted, in attractive colours, the state of manners and government in that country, the security of civil rights, and the freedom of religious sentiments.

He dwelt on the privileges of wealth and rank, and drew from the servile condition of one class, an argument in favor of his scheme, since the revenue and power annexed to a German principality afford so large a field for benevolence.

The evil flowing from this power, in malignant hands, was proportioned to the good that would arise from the virtuous use of it.

Hence, Wieland, in forbearing to claim his own, withheld all the positive felicity that would accrue to his vassals from his success, and hazarded all the misery that would redound from a less enlightened proprietor.
It was easy for my brother to repel these arguments, and to shew that no spot on the globe enjoyed equal security and liberty to that which he at present inhabited.

That if the Saxons had nothing to fear from mis-government, the external causes of havoc and alarm were numerous and manifest.