Daily Courant (Newspaper) - May 19, 1735, London, Middlesex MAY 19. 17*5 t the Printer of the Remarks on the Athenian Government tinned the of Draco and h the political of Solon of thai Con to the due Laws for Whether ic was We He Laws; IK HE Alterations in the tho' they tot the in he gave the People no folid Satisfaction fliey glad thaw the old Forms Were done and yet by a Hatred vicious People or whether this which then him that nothing than the Severity with whith he treated fo it was that a was fet bp at the End of every Prohibition in his and he that Hole a was as to pav for it with his as he who butchered his or plundered a Capital Love ili 2a nee of was by him the under the worthy of the a were which their had never dreamt and the Informations which the appeared to have had no better than to make it more fit for About Fifty Years the and I have no greater for the and Solon endeavoured as fat is was all their to their and give all In order to he the whole People into four Ranks or were fuch as had five hundred of Liquid and dry the or as were to be worth two the Third of fuch as had two Hundred were called in the he placed the reft of the who had the Appellation of but theie he allowed not to be capable of bearing any Office in the only gave them liberty to ive their Votes in This Scene may probably affed the and therefore it may after - m. a Draco when it was demanded of why of his Laws inferred Lofs of Life i Small deserve after the of a general Clamour was fet up the I have before taken that the Documents relating to the Reader will pardon if in giving an Account of this I fall into fome little or flagrant wards found to be a very important Privilege for it being permitted any after the Determination of the to make to the People in their it from Draco's fettling this ex- Weight and Moment were bought before differ with fome eminent Send aents on this All Nations were at governed by if I may be the not from the Will hut the of the for in early Body of the People of Athens fell into the the fo that who inhabited within and were continually near the Place where the Publick were inclined to new mold the State into a who had in in the of the rich Manj and yet neither the inferior People to their Cruelty and nor wholly excluded them any Shafre in Thus the of Athens had once more a certain and were more at their were like wife 1 being Things had the at at aimed in the Royal and who were Traders with Men of could do thein fo far imagining that either of Change Continuance toia common Sorr j they decided in any Contro which among their ant their were This was the balance the Power of 6ach Party could do Int ore than clamour the mean Rich extorting n h were determined in Athens before the Time of among other of the Royal relinquished this Right of judging without Rule and without He introduced a few general according to which he bound and his to fter j but there remained in and in high Judicatories of or according as alleviated or bdate from the P on their and making them Slaves On default of The latter grew and in broke the Spirits theft who were formerly io fond of voluntarily the Sovereignty xo he would have tak that would fome Method they and of and in the lation winch he had the of that out more and * but other wife t ocic Piing to heighten aoi both Stodge by weli rote he the Fad i ft that to accom intricate to the Lan guage the Laws of wen no other than what we call Maxims in Equity The other had tone on in lame Track with th eir without meeting either with or till the People how when their Power would 0 Safety and Virtue Athenians from falling wider for tW he undertook to reform t under tBe ordinary Title of that of how far the at Woes inclined frequently Wrong the People in general not be acquainted with what they or what they might not and alfo with what Penalty each Offence be It la an Matter Tyranny and m cate bohn had this is rendered by the Powers which tells in him on this They remitted to him the Choice of tp of they that capable bjT being admitted to them allowing him alfo to procured a- Decree of. the People of whereby Guards were him for Afterwards he made of to the and to enclave the or properly of the Authority ibr be did not tyrannize over his ift FaA as in Name for he the Principality who his had yet he treated him ing as he think fit; Thus thq Dread of to array of a Nation in Words which them and feem to out the of giving hut frequently thefts Remedies have terrible and very they were applied to It happens fo here one Draco was with an unlimited Power Athenians of Government to avert which in Spite of all their introduced by theie nor could be remedied by any of their 4intil their old qi and fep up at pro great and to be reverenced and After this lived thirty which 0f all chat Tune and driving again being by they and to him in his The former of flain by and the three or Years his by a Flight exiled his he retired into where he 41 1*S not and which require no or Char are this Paper at Two Shillings
