...t so much for their defence, as to preserve them in their dependence and prevent their illicit trade. In the same year Turgot, then but threeand-twenty years of age, one day to be a minister of France , and a friend to the United States, then prior of Sorbonne, mingled with zeal for Christianity the enthusiasm of youthful hope, as he contemplated the destiny of the western world. Vast regions of ...