an oblation for the fafety of his people! He fhall not fail of a bleffed approbation from that Power, who offered up his only Son for the falvation of mankind."

15. He fpoke--but a univerfal filence enfued. Each man looked around for the example of that virtue and magnanimity in others, which all wished to approve in themselves, though they wanted the refolution. At length St. Pierre refumed,

16. "It had been bafe in me, my fellow citizens, to promote any matter of damage to others, which I myself had not been willing to undergo in my own perfon. But I held it ungenerous to deprive any man of that perference and eftimation which might attend à firft offer on fo fignal an occafion; for I doubt not but there are many here as ready, nay more zealous for this martyrdom than I can be, however modefty, and the fear of imputed oftentation may withhold them from being foremost in exhibiting their merits.

17. "Indeed the ftation to which the captivity of count Vi enna has unhappily raifed me, imports a right to be the first in giving my life for your fakes, I give it freely, I give it cheerfully; who comes next? your fon! exclaimed a youth not yet come to maturity. child! cried St. Pierre ; I am then twice facrificed. But no-I have rather begotten thee a fecond time. Thy years are few, but full, my fon: the victim of virtue has reached the utmost purpofe and goal of mortality."

Ah, my

18. Who next, my friends? This is the hour of heroes." Your kinfman, cried John de Aire! your kinfman, cried James Wiffant Your kinfman, cried Peter Wiffant ! "Ah!" exclaimed Sir Walter Mauny, burfting into tears, "Why was I not a citizen of Calais ?"

19. The fixth victim was ftill wanting, but was quickly fup plied by lot, from numbers who were now emulous of fo ennobling an example. The keys of the city were then delivered to Sir Walter: He took the fix prifoners into his cuftody. He ordered the gates to be opened, and gave charge to his attendents to conduct the remaining citizens, with their families, through the camp of the English.

20. Before they departed, however, they defired permiffion to take their laft adieu of their deliverers-What a parting! what a fcene! they crouded with their wives and children a bout St. Pierre and his fellow prifoners. They embraced, they clung around, they fell proftrate before them. They

groaned; they wept aloud; and the joint clamor of their mourning paffed the gates of the city, and was heard through. out the camp.

21. At length, St. Pierre and his fellow victims appeared under the conduct of Sir Walter and his guard. All the tenta of the English were inftantly emptied. The foldiers poured from all parts, and arranged themselves on each fide to behold, to comtemplate, to admire this little band of PATRIOTS as they paffed.

22. They murmered their applaufe of that virtue which they could not but revere even in enemies and they regard. ed thofe ropes which they had voluntarily affumed 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 leafts my lord, They are felf delivered, self devoted, and come to offer up there inestimable heads, as an am. ple equivalent for the ranfon of thousands."

25. The king, who was highly incenfed at the length and difficulty of the fiege, ordered them to be carried away to immediate 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 humanity could effect, was happily accomplished by the more powerful influence of conjugal affection.

26. The queen who was then big with child, being inform ed of the particulars refpecting the fix victims, flew into her hufband's prefence, threw herself on her knees before him, and, with tears in her eyes, befought him not to ftain his character with an indeliable mark of infamy, by committing fuch a horrid and barbarous deed.

27. Edward could refufe nothing to a wife whom he fo tenderly loved, and efpecially 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 repaft, and having made them a

prefent of money and clothes, fent them back to their fellowcitizens.

Extract from DR. BELKNAP'S ADDRESS to the Inhabitants of New-Hampshire, at the clofe of his History of that State. CITIZENS OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE,

HAVING fpent above twenty years of my life with you, and paffed through various fcenes, of peace and war within that time; being perfoually acquainted with many of your both in your public and private characters; and hav ing an earnest delire to promote your true intereft, I trust 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 ra. pidly increafing; and your importance in the political feale will be augmented, in proportion to your improving the na tural advantages which your fituation affords you, and to your cultivating the intellectual and moral powers of yourselves and your children.

3. The firft articles 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 capacity; it is then your duty and your intereft to cultivate their capacites, and render them ferviceable to themselves and the community.

4. It was the faying of a great orator and statesman of an tiquity, 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."

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

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

7. You are indeed a very confiderable degree better, in this refpect, than in the times of the late war; but yet much res mains to be done. Great care ought to be taken, not only to F

provide a fupport for inftructors of children and youth: but to be attentive in the choice of inftruétors; to fee that they be men of good understanding, learning and inorals; that they teach by their example as well as by their piecepts; that they govern themfelves, 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 facial libraries. This is the cafieft, 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 fupplied with the means of literary improvement dur, ing his life, and his children my 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 waste, 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 intercourfe of perfons who have read the fame books, by their converfing on the fubject which have occured in their reading, and communicating their obfervations oɛe to another.

11. 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 practiling 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 mif takes, and promote the caufe of fcience and humanity in ą very confiderable degree.

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12. The book of nature is always open to our view, and we may ftudy it at our leifure. "'Tis elder feripture, writ by God's own hand." The earth, the air, the fea, the rivers, the mountains, the rocks, the caverns, the animal and vegetable tribes are fraught with inftruction.

Nature is not half explored; and in what is partly known there are many myfteries which time, obfervation and expe rience muft unfold.

3. Every focial library, among other book, fhould be fur.

hifhed with thofe of natural philofophy, botany, zoology, chy. miftry, husbandry, geography and aftronomy; that inquiring minds may be directed in their inquiries; that they may fee what is known and what ftill remains to be difcovered; and that they may employ their leifure and their various opportu nities in endeavoring to add to the stock of fcience, and thus enrich the world with their obfervations and improvements.

14. Suffer me to add a few words on the ufe of Spirituous liquor, that bane of fociety, that deftroyer of health, morals and property. Nature indeed has furnished her vegetable productions with fpirit; but he has fo combined it with other fab. ftances, that uniefs her work be tortured by fire, the fpirit is not separated, and cannot prove pernicious. Why fhould this force be put on nature, to make her yield a noxious draught, when all her original preparations are falutary?

15. The juice of the apple, the fermentation of barley, and the deco&tion of fpruce, are amply fufficient for the refreshment of man, let his labor be ever fo fevere, and his perspiration ever fo expanfive. Our forefathers, for many years after the fettlement of the country, knew not the ufe of diftilled fpirits.

16. Malt was imported from England, and wine from the Weltern, or Canary islands, with which they were refreshed, before their own fields and orchards yielded them a supply. 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 refpe, we thould be free from many of the diforders, both of body and mind, which are now experienced. The difufe of ardent fpirits would alfo 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 detestable commerce. The infurrections of the blacks in the Welt-Indies have already fpread defola. tion over the most fertile plantations and greatly railed the price of thofe commodities which we have been used to import from thence.

19. If we could check the confumption of diftilled fpirits, and enter with vigor into the manufacture of maple fugars, of which our forefts would afford an ample fupply, the deman