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21. At length, Saint Pierre and his fellow victims appear ed under the conduct of Sir Walter and his guard. All the tents of the English were inftantly emptied. The foldiers poured from all parts, and arranged themfelves on each fide to behold, to contemplate, to admire this little band of patriots as they paffed.

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22. They murmured their applaufe of that virtue which they could not but revere even in enemies; and they regarded those ropes which they had voluntarily tied about their necks, as enfigns of greater dignity than that of the British Garter.

23. As foon as they had reached the royal prefence "Mauny," fays the king," are these the principal inhabitants of Calais !" "They are," fays Mauny: "they are not only the principal men of Calais: they are the principal men of France, my lord, if virtue has any fhare in the act of ennobling."

24. "Were they delivered peaceably?" fays Edward; was there no refiftance, no commotion among the people?" "Not in the leaft, my lord. They are self-delivered, self-devoted, and come to offer up their ineftimable heads, as an ample equivalent for the ranfom of thoufands."

25. The king, who was highly incenfed at the length and difficulty of the fiege, ordered them to be carried away to im. mediate execution; nor could all the remonftrances and intreaties of his courtiers divert him from his cruel purpose.But what neither a regard to his own intereft and honor, what neither the dictates of juftice, nor the feelings of humani ty could effect, was happily accomplished by the more powerful influence of conjugal affection.

26. The queen, who was then pregnant, being informed of the particulars refpecting the fix victims, flew into her huf band's prefence, threw herfelf on her knees before him, and with tears in her eyes, befought him not to ftain his character with an indelible mark of infamy, by committing fuch a horrid and barbarous deed.

27. Edward could refuse nothing to a wife whom he fo tenderly loved, and especially in her condition; and the queen, not fatisfied with having faved the lives of the fix burghers, conducted them to her tent, where the applauded their virtue, regaled them with a plentiful repast, and having made them a ent of money and clothes, fent them back to their fellow

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EXTRACT FROM DR. BELKNAP'S ADDRESS TO THE IN. HABITANTS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, AT THE CLOSE OF HIS HISTORY OF THAT STATE.

Citizens of New Hampshire,

HAVING AVING fpent above twenty years of my life with you, and paffed thro various fcenes of peace and war within that time; being perfonally acquainted with many of you, both in your public and private characters; and having an earnest defire to promote your true intereft, I truft you will not think me altogether unqualified to give you a few hints by way of advice.

2. You are certainly a rifing state; your numbers are rapidly increafing; and your importance in the political fcale will be augmented, in proportion to your improving the natural advantages which your fituation affords you, and to your cultivating the intellectual and moral powers of yourselves and your children.

3. The first article on which I would open my mind to you is that of Education. Nature has been as bountiful to you as to any other people, in giving your children genius and capaty; it is then your duty and your intereft to cultivate their capacities, and render them ferviceable to themfelves and the community.

4. It was the faying of a great orator and statesman of antiquity, that "The lofs which the commonwealth fuftains, by a want of education, is like the lofs which the year would fuffer by the deftruction of the fpring."

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5. If the bud be blafted, the tree will yield no fruit. If the fpringing corn be cut down, there will be no harvest. if the youth be ruined through a fault in their education, the community fuftains a lofs which cannot be repaired; "for it is too late to correct them when they are spoiled."

6. Notwithstanding the care of your legiflators in enacting laws, and enforcing them by fevere penalties: notwithstanding the wife and liberal provifion which is made by fome towns, and fome private gentlemen in the ftate; yet there is still in many places, a great and criminal neglect of education."

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7. You are indeed a very confiderable degree better in this refpect, than in the time of the late war; but yet much remains to be done. Great care ought to be taken, not only To provide a fupport for inftructors of children and youth; but

to be attentive in the choice of inftructors; to fee that they be men of good understanding, learning and morals; that they teach by their example as well as by their precepts; that they govern themselves, and teach their pupils the art of felf gov

ernment.

8. Another fource of improvement, which I beg leave to recommend, is the establishment of focial libraries. This is the eafieft, the cheapest and most effectual mode of diffufing knowledge among the people. For the fum of fix or eight dollars at once, and a fmall annual payment befides, a man may be supplied with the means of literary improvement, dura ing his life, and his children may inherit the bleffing.

9. A few neighbors joined together in fetting up a library, and placing it under the care of fome fuitable perfon, with a very few regulations, to prevent careleffnefs and wafte, may render the most effential fervice to themfelves and to the community.

10. Books may be much better preferved in this way, than if they belonged to individuals; and there is an advantage in the focial intercourse of perfons who have read the fame books, by their converfing on the fubjects which have occurred in their reading, and communicating their obfervations one to another.

II. From this mutual intercourfe, another advantage may arife for the perfons who are thus affociated may not only acquire, but originate knowledge. By ftudying nature and the fciences, by practifing arts, agriculture and manufactures, at the fame time that they improve their minds in reading, they may be led to difcoveries and improvements, original and beneficial and being already formed into fociety, they may diffuse their knowledge, ripen their plans, correct their miftakes and promote the caufe of fcience and humanity in a very confiderable degree.

12. The book of nature is always open to our view, and we may study it at our leisure. "Tis elder fcripture, writ by God's own hand." The earth, the air, the fea, the rivers, the mountains, the rocks, the caverns, the animal and veget able tribes are fraught with inftruction. Nature is not half explored and in what is partly known, there are many myfteries, which time, obfervation and experience muft anfold.

13. Every focial library, among other books, fhould be

furnished with those of natural philofophy, botany, zoology, chymistry, husbandry, geography and aftronomy; that inquir ing minds may be directed in their inquiries: that they may fee what is known and what ftill remains to be discovered; and that they may employ their leifure and their various opportunities in endeavoring to add to the stock of science, and thus enrich the world with their obfervations and improvements.

14. Suffer me to add a few words on the use of Spiritous liquor, that bane of fociety, that deftroyer of health, morals and property. Nature indeed has furnished her vegetable productions with fpirit; but fhe has fo combined it with other fubftances, that unless her work be tortured by fire, the spirit is not feparated, and cannot prove pernicious. Why fhould this force be put on nature, to make her yield a noxious draft, when all her original preparations are falutary?

15. The juce of the apple, the fermentation of barley, and the decoction of fpruce are amply fufficient for the refreshment of man, let his labor be ever fo fevere, and his perspiration ever fo expansive. Our forefathers, for many years after the fettlement of the country, knew not the use of distilled spirits.

16. Malt was imported from England, and wine from the Western or Canary Islands, with which they were refreshed, before their own fields and orchards yielded them a fupply. An expedition was once undertaken against a nation of Indians, when there was but one pint of strong water (as it was then called) in the whole army, and that was referved for the fick; yet no complaint was made for want of refreshment.

17. Could we but return to the primitive manners of our ancestors, in this refpect, we should be free from many of the diforders, both of body and mind, which are now experienced. The difufe of ardent fpirits would also tend to abolish the infamous traffic in flaves, by whofe labor this baneful material is procured.

18. Divine Providence feems to be preparing the way for the deftruction of that deteftable commerce. The infurrections of the blacks in the Weft-Indies have already spread defolation over the most fertile plantations, and greatly raised the price of those commodities which we have been used to import from thence.

19. If we could check the confumption of distilled spirits,

and enter with vigor into the manufacture of maple fugars, of which our forefts would afford an ample fupply, the demand for Weft India productions might be diminished; the plantations in the islands would not need fresh recruits from Africa; the planters would treat with humanity their remaining blacks; the market for flaves would become lefs inviting; and the navigaton, which is now employed in the most pernicious fpecies of commerce which ever difgraced humanity, would be turned into fome other channel.

20. Were I to form a picture of happy fociety, it would be a town confifting of a due mixture of hills, vallies, and ftreams of water. The land well fenced and cultivated; the roads and bridges in good repair; a decent inn for the refreshment of travellers, and for public entertainments. The inhab itants moftly husbandmen; their wives and daughters domeftic manufacturers; a fuitable proportion of handicraft workmen, and two or three traders; a phyfician and lawyer, each of whom should have a farm for his fupport.

21. A clergyman of good understanding, of a candid dif pofition and exemplary morals; not a metaphyfical nor a polemic, but a ferious and practical preacher. A fchool mafter who should understand his business, and teach his pupils to govern themselves. A focial library, annually increafing, and under good regulation.

22. A club of fenfible men, feeking mutual improvement. A decent mufical fociety. No intriguing politician, horfe jocky, gambler or fot; but all fuch characters treated with contempt. Such a fituation may be confidered as the most favorable to focial happinefs of any which this world can afford.

CONJUGAL AFFECTION.

BARON HALLER, ON THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE, FROM "CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE."

1.

SHALL I fing thy death, Marianne? What a theme ! When my fighs interrupt my words, and one idea flies before the other! The pleasures thou didst bestow on me, now augment my forrrows. I open the wounds of a heart that yet bleeds and thy death is renovated to me.

2. But my paflion was too violent-Thou didst merit it too

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