OLDEST REPUBLIC ON EARTH:
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The American Quarterly Review contains
a letter from G. w. Irving, Esq, giving a
sketch OF his visit TO San Marino, small Re-
public IN Italy, between the Appenines, the Po
and the Atriatic The territory of this State
is only forty miles in circumference, and its pop
ulalion about 1000. The Republic was foun-
ced more than l. 400 years ago, on moral prin.
clples' industry and equality, and has preserved
It's liberty and independence amidst all the
wars and d!scords which have ragged around
it. Bonaparte respected it, and sent an EN-
bassy to express his sentiments of friendship
and fraternity. Ii is governed by Capain
Regent, chosen every Elk months by the rep
resentatves of the people, (sixty y-six in nun.
ber) who are chosen every six months by the
people. The taxes are light, the farm houses
are neat, ithe fields well cultivated, and on all
sides are seen comfort and peace, the happy
effects Of morality, simplicity, liberty and JUS
tce.