ARTS, fine. See Fine Arts.

ARTISTS, not unfit for soldiers, 32.-- Banished by luxury from a country, 113.

ASIA, passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope a new aera in commerce, 3.-- Its mode of fighting with elephants only disconcerted the Romans once, 31.

ASSIGNATS. See France.

ATHENS. See Greece.

AUGUSTUS, his resolution to kill himself when supplies of corn were likely to fail, 35.

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BABYLON. See Syria.

BALANCE of trade, of England, has never much exceeded five millions.-- To be seen on the chart 3, p.213, during 105 years.-- Is not equal to more than one -twenty-fourth of the produce of industry, 293.

BALANCE of power could not preserve a nation from interior causes producing decline, 185.