. The craftsman. Saturday N°43^ T2?^ Cr AFTSMA N. 8l N° 438. Saturday, November 23, 1734. Tloe fame SubjeSi continued. In vjhkh the ancient Conjliiution of Sv a l ]:^, and theCaufes of its Subve-rfcn are examined. To CALEB DANVERS, Efq,. the Goths H E Defedls, which I have prefumed tocenfure in the Roman Conftitution of Go-vernmentfW&re avoided in fome ofThofe,that were eilablilhed, on thebreaking ofthat Empire,by the northern Nations, andfor 1 fufpeit that the Goths were not pro-perly and flridly a northern Nation, any more than theHuns and the Alans, though They have been often confounded, a
. The craftsman. Saturday N°43^ T2?^ Cr AFTSMA N. 8l N° 438. Saturday, November 23, 1734. Tloe fame SubjeSi continued. In vjhkh the ancient Conjliiution of Sv a l ]:^, and theCaufes of its Subve-rfcn are examined. To CALEB DANVERS, Efq,. the Goths H E Defedls, which I have prefumed tocenfure in the Roman Conftitution of Go-vernmentfW&re avoided in fome ofThofe,that were eilablilhed, on thebreaking ofthat Empire,by the northern Nations, andfor 1 fufpeit that the Goths were not pro-perly and flridly a northern Nation, any more than theHuns and the Alans, though They have been often confounded, and I believe by Myfelf. Let us caft our Eyes on Spain and France. We cannot arrive, as far as rny fcanty Knowledgeinforms Me, at any particular and authentick Accountof the Scheme of that Government, which the nveftemGoths ellabliflied, when, driven out of Gaul by theFranks, They drove the Vandals and the Alans out ofSpain; nor diilinguifli very accurately between fuchInixitutions as were Parts of the original^ Gothic Plan^and fuch as were introduced into feveral Kingdoms,that formed Themfeives on the Re-Conqueit of theCountry, by the Spaniards, from the Arabs and Moors,ihe Original of the Cortes particularly is quite in the
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