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* & les malheureux une charitable hospitalite , qui a de

* quoi confondre routes les nations de l’Europe. Moeurs‘ des Sauvages Amcricains , vol. 1. p. 106. See alsoCharlevoix , Journ. Hiß. leitre 21. Such , with a few excep-tions , it is to be thought, is the character of all nations inan early age of society.

(6) Tacit, de Mor. Germ. c. 15. Struvius, Corp. Hist»Ger. prolegom. Cluver. Germ. Antiq. lib. 1.

(7) 4 Cibi simplices, agrestiapoma, recens sera, autlacconcretum. Sine apparatu, sine blandimentis, expelluntfamem. Adverfus sitim non eadem temperantia. Si indulferisebrietati, fuggerendo quantum concupifcunt, hand minusfacile vitiis, quain armis vincentur. ’ Tacit, dc Mor.Germ. c. 2;.

(g) ‘ Crebrae ut inter vinolentos rixae, rare conviciis ,faepius caede & vulneribus , transiguntur. Sed & de recon-ciliandis invicem inimicis, & jungendis affinitatibus , &adfcifcendis principibus, de pace denique ac bello, plerum-que in conviviis consultant: Tanquam nullo magis temporeaut ad simplices cogitationes pateat animus , aut ad magnasincalefcat. Gens non astuta nec callida aperit ad hoc fecretapectoris licentia loci. Ergo detecta & nuda omnium menspostera die retractatur: Etfalva utriufque temporis ratio eft.Deliberant dum fingere nefciunt; constituunt dum errate nonpoffunt. ’ Tacit, de Mor. Germ. c. 22.

The deliberating on business, and the holding of councilsof state during entertainments, was the practice of the Celticand Gothic nations. And, it is remarkable, that the wordmallum or mallus , which , during the middle ages , denotedthe national assembly, as well as the county-court , is aderivative of mael , which signifies convivium.

From this union of festivity and business, there resultedevils which gave occasion to regulations which chnnot be readwithout wonder. It was a law of the Longobards, 4 Ut nullus‘ ebrius suam causam in mallum possit conquirere , nec testi-‘ monium dicere ; nec comes placitum habeat nisi jejunus. ’LL. Longobard. lib. 2. tit. $2. /. xi. We read in Cap it. Kar.

Lud. 1 Rectum & honestum videtur ut judices jejuni caufas