He is a great lover of modern terms. His senators and their wives are _gentlemen and ladies_. In this review of Brutus's army, _who was under the command of gallant men, not braver officers than true patriots_, he tells _us_, "that Sextus, the questor, was _paymaster, secretary at war, and commissary general_; and that the _sacred discipline_ of the Romans required the closest connexion, like that of father and son, to subsist between the general of an army and his questor. Cicero was _general of the cavalry_, and the next _general officer_ was Flavius, _master of Ihe artillery_, the elder Lentulus was _admiral_, and the younger _rode_ in the _band of volunteers_; under these the tribunes, _with many others, too tedious to name_." Lentulus, however, was but a subordinate officer; for we are informed afterwards, that the Romans had made Sextus Pompeius lord high admiral in all the seas of their dominions. Among other affectations of this writer, is a furious and unnecessary zeal for liberty; or rather, for one form of government as preferable to another. This, indeed, might be suffered, because political institution is a subject in which men have always differed, and, if they continue to obey their lawful governours, and attempt not to make innovations, for the sake of their favourite schemes, they may differ for ever, without any just reproach from one another. But who can bear the hardy champion, who ventures nothing? who, in full security, undertakes the defence of the assassination of Cassar, and declares his resolution to speak plain? Yet let not just sentiments be overlooked: he has justly observed, that the greater part of mankind will be naturally prejudiced against Brutus, for all feel the benefits of private friendship; but few can discern the advantages of a well-constituted government [3]. We know not whether some apology may not be necessary for the distance between the first account of this book and its continuation. The truth is, that this work, not being forced upon our attention by much publick applause or censure, was sometimes neglected, and sometimes forgotten; nor would it, perhaps, have been now resumed, but that we might avoid to disappoint our readers by an abrupt desertion of any subject.