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2 feb. inhabitants; the first method agrees with the Laws of Nations now in use, the latter with those practic'd by the Romans.

Writers on the Public Law have enter'd into strange reasonings on this head. Why on the most tyranical & arbitrary principles invest Princes with some sort of night to kill, & they upon this have establish'd maxims that no modern Conqueror ever presum'd to follow; they have run into this absurdity from observing that Conquerors claim'd a right to destroy Societys; but does it follow from hence that he may destroy the individuals that compose them; but certainly