'Tis very well known to all learned Men, that _Gaul_, after having been often attempted with various Success, during a ten Years War, and many Battels, was at last totally subdued by _Caesar_ and reduced into the Form of a Province. It was the Misfortune of this most valiant and warlike People, to submit at length to the _Great Beast_, as it is called in Scripture, with which however they so strove for Empire for eight hundred Years, (as _Josephus_ informs us) that no Wars with any other Nation, so much terrified _Rome_. And _Plutarch_ in his Lives of _Marcellus_ and _Camillus; Appian_ in his 2d Book of the Civil Wars; _Livius, lib._ 8. & 10. have recorded, that the _Romans_ were so afraid of the _Gauls_, that they made a Law, whereby all the Dispensations (formerly granted to Priests and old Men, from serving in their Armies) were made void, in Case of any Tumult or Danger arising from the _Gauls_; which _Cicero_ takes notice of in his 2d _Philippick_. _Caesar_ himself in his 6th Book, and after him _Tacitus_, lib. _de moribus Germanorum_, do testify, That there was a time wherein the _Gauls_ excell'd the _Germans_ in Valour, and carried the War into their Territories, settling Colonies (by reason of their _great_ Multitudes of People) beyond the _Rhine_. Now _Tacitus_ in his Life of _Agricola_, attributes, the _Loss_ of this their so remarkable _Valour_, to the _Loss_ of their Liberty. _"Gallos in bellis floruisse accepimus, mox segnities cum otio intravit, amissa_ Virtute _pariter ac_ Libertate--." And I hope the Reader will excuse me, if the Love of my Country makes me add that remarkable Testimony of the Valour of the _Gauls_, mentioned by _Justin, lib._ 24.--"The _Gauls_ (says he) finding their Multitudes to increase so fast, that their Lands cou'd not afford them sufficient Sustenance, sent out Three hundred thousand Souls to seek for new Habitations. Part of these: seated themselves in _Italy_; who both took and burnt the City of _Rome_. Another part penetrated as far as the Shores of _Dalmatia_, destroying infinite Numbers of the _Barbarians_, and settled themselves at last in _Pannonia_. A hardy bold and warlike Nation; who ventured next after _Hercules_, (to whom the like Attempt gave a Reputation of extraordinary Valour, and a Title to Immortality) to cross those almost inaccessible Rocks of the _Alps_, and Places scarce passable by Reason of the Cold: Where after having totally subdued the _Pannonians_ they waged War with the bordering Provinces for many Years.--And afterwards--being encouraged by their Success, subdivided their Parties; when some took their Way to _Graecia_ some to _Macedonia_, destroying all before them with Fire and Sword. And so great was the Terror of the Name of the _Gauls_, that several Kings (not in the least threatned by them) of their own accord, purchased their Peace with large Sums of Money--. And in the following Book, he says,--So great was the Fruitfulness of the