ed complexion of a man, healthful blood, and lips which he was not obliged to bite in order to give them the colour of coral. Mean time the fage Genghis was far from lofing fight of what his adopted fon was destined to by his birth. Tifan had coft him too dear to be trained as a fimple fhopherd. The manner in which the infatuated Isfandiar behaved, made it more then probable that Tifan would be obliged, before he was prepared for it, to affert his right to the crown. Accordingly, Genghis undertook no lefs a talk than to form the young Tifan, inthe mid of fhepherds and labourers, to become a good prince, without giving him any idea of his defigu. Genghis was convinced that goodnefs of heart without wifdom is no more virtue, than knowledge without virtue is wifdom; he, there are, endeavoured to elevate the mind of his pupil by degrees from the narrow conceptions imprinted on his foul by furrounding objects, to the fublime ideas of civil fociety, of haman kind, of nature, of the univerfe, and of its incomprehenfible but adorable Author. At the fame time, he endeavoured to cherish in him a tafte for what is beautiful and good; to fofter in him all the fympathetic and be nevolent affections, and to confirm them in to habits. The moral perfection of a man, faid Gerghis, in performing the duties which nature requires of him, depends on thefe principles being imprefied on his mind, and thefe fentiments on his heart. But it is particularly indifpenûble in the man who is called to maintain moral order in any part of general fociety. Woe to his fubjects and to himself, if his foul is not affected even to rapture, with the idea of univerfal harmony and hoppinefs; if the rights of humanity are nct, in his opinion, as facred and inviolable as his own; if the laws of nature are not engraven in indelible characters on his heart, and made the rule of all his actions. In a word, unhappy are the people whofe Sove reign would not rather be the boft of men, than the moft powerful of Princes. Thefe ideas are not the reveries of folitary fpeculatifs; it is unlucky indeed if the great and the powerful contider them as fuch. But the nature of things depends not on the opinion of the great like the happinefs er mifery of markind. If our globe thall exift in its prefent Date for fome thoufands of years, the history of ages to come will confpire with that of centuries palt, to teach Kings, that every period in which thefe fundamental ideas have been obfcured, or thefe benevolent principles unacknowledged as the inviolable law of the KING of Kings, has been a period of public mifery, of corruption of manners, of general oppreflion and diforder, a period of calamity to the people, and of danger to the Prince. Thefe principles, and a thousand others of fimilar import, the young Tifan found engraven on his heart by the hand of nature herself; and he had imbibed no prejudices to deftroy their effect. Every thing around him, inftead of weakening or extmguihing, tended but to illuminate and confirm them. he He was already eighteen years of age fore he had the least idea that it was pollible to think otherwile than nature and Genghis dictated; before he knew what want and oppreliion were, or that any one could conceive an idea of artificial happiness founded on the mifery of others. Genghis had Rored his memory with a multitude of beauti ful pallages, and maximis, and fentences from the works of the beût poets;, these passages were picures of innocent manners, the cffullons of a pure and uncorrupted heart, and the fentences were the laws of nature and of reafon ia its purity. The young Prince had now arrived at that age in which Nature, by the developer ment of the fweetelt and moft powerful of all our fenfations, puts as it were the luft. hand to the human frame. In rendering man, by the fame means, the inftrument of his own happinefs and of the prefervation of his fpecies, "The flows him in the most convincing anner, that he has fo connected his individual felicity with the general weal, that it is impollible to feparate the one from the other without annihilating them both. Love, that marvellous inflinct, which Nature has formed as the mon powerful bond of the particular and general felicity of man, pres Tents itself to him under the figure of a celeftial genius, defined to accompany him in his way through this world, and to firew that way with flowers. By Love he obtains the refpectable names of hufband and father. He concenters all his fympathetic inclinations in the love of one woman, whơ is his other half, and in that of his childreu, in whom he fees himfelt rejuvenated and multiplied. Thus he is the founder of domeftic focieties, which are the component parts of civil focicties, on the conflitution of which the welfare of the state so much depends, that one cannot conceive the blind-, nefs of thofe Legiflators, who have not refpected, as they ought, this grand inditution of Nature, and drawn from it all the advautages they might. The virtuous, the fage Genghis was acquainted with Nature and honoured it. He faw with pleasure the affection with which the beauty and innocence of a young fhepherdefs, an inhabitaut of the valley, had infpired the young Prince. He was not afraid that fbe would prevent his adopted fon from cultivating thofe virtues and exerting those talents that were effential to his future prospects. He He did not dream of oppofing their grow ing love, under the pretence that Tifan was a Prince, and Tilia the daughter of a poor peafant. Tilia, indeed, was as amiable as a child of nature could well be. A particular fympathy, which had difplayed itself in them from their infancy, feemed to prove that they were destined to make each other happy. Genghis did not fail to take advantage of this inclination in his adopted fon, to bring to maturity the effects of that fimple but fublime philofophy which he had hither to been inculcating. He explained to Tifan, in the most friendly difcourfe, the new fenfations which then affected him. He made him obferve the voice of Nature, which invited him to fulfil an effential part of his destination, and he showed him the refpect able and affecting duties which are infeparable from it. Tifan became a hutband without ceafing to be a lover; he became a father; and as he preffed to his bofom the firit-fruits of a virtuous love, he found that even in the arms of the lovely Tilia, he had not yet experienced the finest emotions of his nature. It has been long ago obferved, that the ftate of rapture into which a first love throws an ingenuous foul, exalts it far above the pitch of ordinary humanity; and it feems probable, that certain fages of antiquity have hence been led to confider love as a fort of Genius which opens in the foul new views of the beautiful and the good, and which eftablishes a fort of immediate intercourfe between it and the Deity. This much at least is certain, that in the fpecies of enchantment occafioned by a pure pallion, we experience a much greater fenfibility for the beautiful, a keener difpofition to the exercife of every virtue, a higher degree of univerfal fympathy, a more than ordinary inclination for what is elevated and grand, together with more vaft and fublime ideas: it would, therefore, appear, that no period can be more favourable for impreffing upon the young mind a fenfe of the Supreme Being. Genghis must have been of the fame opinion; for he chofe this precife time to infpire his pupil with pure and fublime notions of religion. He thought thefe neceffary for procuring to the foul a fure anchor of hope, to the paffions a fufficient counterpoife, and to virtue the most invincible attraction. As God is the univerfal benefactor, faid Genghis, the wife legiflator and governor, the fovereign good and final end of all created beings, let us enjoy his benefits with gratitude, and obey his laws with fincerity; for fuch is the only fervice which we can render to a Being who has no need of us, but in fo far as he has created us to be the instruments of his fublime and benevolent defigns. .36 VOL. XIV. No. 83. The grandeur and elevation to which Genghis found himfelf obliged to raife the conceptions of his pupil, led him at the fame time to give him a diftinct idea of focial life, of what is called a great ftate, of its conftitution, its civil policy and government. This he performed; and after ha ving fhewn the young Tifan how this ball of earth ought to be governed, according to the juft laws of nature and the deflination of man, he made him comprehend how it in fact happens to be otherwife than it ought to be. Setting out from the intuitive idea of the fmall colony in which he had paffed his days, Genghis conducted him ftep by lep to the complicated idea of a great monarchy. He made him pafs from the father of a little rural family to the common father of Chechian. The prince followed him without difñculty in all his inftructions: but he could not fo easily be made to conceive how the common father of a nation could become a defpot, or how a defpot, with an inconfiderable change, could become a tyrant. He was alfo not a little furprised to hear, that the charming ideas of innocent inen and a golden age, which had grown up with him, were nothing but pleafing dreams from which a fhort journey into the world would awaken him. Genghis thought fuch a journey now very neceflary, in order to procure the prince a complete and practical idea of the prevailing abuses and disorders, especially as he might foon be called to put a period to them, at leaft in a confiderable part of the world. However painful it was for Tifan to tear himself from the arms of his wife and his child, his impatience to fee the world prevailed over thefe tender emotions of nature. Accordingly he left, for the first time, the peaceful hanilet, where, unknown by the reft of the world, he had paffed the happy innocence of youth, Accompanied by the faithful Genghis, he traverfed, during two years, the greater part of Alia. He faw nature ander a thousand different forms, and was aftonished to behold in what multitudes of ways people endeavoured to imitate her, and even to furpafs and correct her. But what furprifed him most was, to obferve that the mifery of the people was always greatest where nature and art feemed moft to have confpired to render them happy. The fineft and moft fertile provinces were always thofe in which the people were most relentlessly oppreffed. Tifan, with indignation, faw kings diffipating the wealth of their fubjects in monftrous and extravagant debauchery, as if it had been booty taken from an enemy; kings who fhed the precious blood of human beings in ruinous wars, and who deftroyed fix flourishing pro vinces vinces that they might conquer the feventh. He faw kings, who, from an abfolute incapacity of performing their duty, were forced to delegate the adminiftration of the ftate to miftreffes and favourites. While they paffed their obfcure life in indolence and fenfuality, they were not ashamed to listen to needy and infatiable flatterers, who compared them to the heft of princes, and even to the deity himself. In a word, Tifan learnt to know Sultans, and Viziers, and Omrahs, and Mandarins, and Dervifes and Bonzes, and was no longer furprifed to fee the greater part of Afia exhibiting fymp toms of fpeedy decay and univerfal ruin. Genghis never failed to lead him to the proper improvement of his obfervations; and this journey became a fchool to him in which he learnt without knowing it, the art of reigning. He Tifan from his youth had fhewn very uncommon talents. A happy fenfibility early developed all the faculties of his foul. His intelligence got the start of the fage inftructions of his mafter. His heart was bent to gratitude, to friendship, and benevolence. He always felt the joy or grief of thofe he loved more exquifitely than his own. never knew happier moments than when he could procure them a pleafure, or turn afide from them a calamity. Tifan, therefore, when he was witnefs to the diforders and diftreffes of Chechian, loft all concern for his own fortune, and burnt with defire to fuccour his unfortunate fellow mortals. Geng his took advantage of this opportunity, and gave the prince hopes, that perhaps he might fome time or other fee his wifhes accomplished, and quoted numerous examples of men bursting indignantly from obfcurity, and becoming benefactors of the human race. "Perhaps Providence has made choice of you as its inftrument for the accomplishment of noble purposes. If fuch be its defign, it will point out a way which we cannot at prefent fort fee." Having now fully executed the purpose of his journey, Geng his led back his pupil to their retired and happy valley. The young Tifan for fome days enjoyed in the arms of the lovely Tilia, repofe from the fatigues of, a long voyage. The enjoy ment of that domeftic felicity which he had fo long been deprived of, the pleasure of revifiting the fcenes of h's early attachments, and the places in which his foul had received the first agreeable impreflions, feemed to have extinguifhed for a time those that he had acquired in his journey to Chechian. But they foon recurred with the greater force, and embittered the delights of his life. His heart reproached him, and each time he gave himself up to joy, he thought he heard a genius whispering, "Q Tifan, canft thou rejoice when fo many of thy fek low creatures are in mifery?" A fhort time after their return, the troubles of Chechian began to draw to a crifis. Genghis, who had found means to renew the attachments of his youth with an old friend, was fecretly informed of every thing that paffed. He communicated the news to Tilan, who burnt with impatience to fee the oppreffed inhabitants of Chechian revenge themselves on their tyrant. Genghis thought it was now time to advance another ftep towards preparing the prince for the important fecret. He informed him that he was himself defcended from one of the ancient and noble families of Chechian; that he had formerly enjoyed public digni ties at the court of thelate King Azor; that he had been the confident of that king's young. et fon, after whofe death, not fo much for his own perfonal fafety, as that he found he would be of no ufe in the new reign, he had retired to these mountains to dedicate himself entirely and without interruption to the education of his dear Tifan- Why then, cried Tifan, with all the fire which fuch a difcovery was capable of infpiring, why do we delay hazarding our lives for our native country reduced to extremity, which is now fummoning all its children to its affistance, or if that be too late, to its revenge?" Genghis had fome difficulty to make the prince comprehend, that probity as well as prudence did not permit them to take a fide till it was certain, on which fide lay the indubitable right. "Isfandiar, faid he, has reigned as a tyrant; but his right to the crown is inviolable. The na tion is obliged to acknowledge him as its king. It is true the people have rights as facred, as inviolable as his, and they are no more obliged to fuffer wrong without re fiance, than he is intitled to commit it at pleasure. Perhaps, however, Isfandiar may fee his error, he may liften to salutary advice; and perhaps there is more of revenge and private interest in the conduct of the chiefs of the revolt, than of public fpirit and true love of their country. Time will fhew who are in the right, and as foon as duty and honour call us, we will depart for Chechian." Tifan waited with impatience for decifive news, meanwhile Genghis, who had acquired in his youth the reputation of a valiant and fkilful officer, instruced him with fome others of his companions in military exercifes. Their little company was incrcafed by the addition of a number of young Tartars whom Genghis had drawn into his fervice by a few prefents and promifes Tifan dilin guifhed himself in this band of chofen youths, they loved him, and he was unanimously elected perhaps, a misfortune for Chechian! If this prince fhould not poffefs the qualities necef fary for repairing the ruins of a falling em pire, if he should turn out another Isfandiar, would it not be a duty to your country, to pofterity, to millions of creatures born and to be born, to bury fo dangerous a fecret in eternal filence?" "The young prince, faid Genghis, has the beft difpofitions, and his right" "What private right, interrupted Tifan, can be fo facred as the rights of a whole nation?”—. elected their leader. In a fhort time news arrrived of the king's death, and of the diforder into which that event had plunged the kingdom, which had now no head. It was no longer poflible to reftrain the generous Tifan, and Genghis thought the time a favourable one for difclofing his fecret. He faw, with internal fatisfaction, the fire which burnt in the foul of the prince, the firmness with which he was ready to expofe his life for his country, and his impa tience at whatever retarded the performance of what he thought his duty. Genghis felt" But the nation must have a king, faid the pure and fuperior pleature of feeing his generous cares crowned with the most happy fuccefs. It was little to have faved the life of a prince whofe father had been his friend; he had done more, he had made him the bell of men. "My prefages are accomplished, faid Genghis; Tifan is destined to found on the ruins of the old, a new king dom of Chechian. It is time to difcover to him who he is, and to put him in the way of becoming what he ought to be." The latt accounts which Genghis receive ed from his friends mentioned a public confederation of fome cities against certain nobles who had declared pretenfions to the throne. The confederates called themselves the patriotic party; and however different in their general fentiments with regard to the future constitution of the government, they all agreed in detefting tyranny, and were firmly refolved to acknowledge no king who could not fhew a better title than force of arms. • The crown of Chechian, faid Tifan, has devolved to the nation for want of a lawful fucceffor. Thofe who would, feize it by force have no other right but the ambition of reigning. The parry of the confederate cities is that of the nation, and my father cannot difapprove of my going to offer thote fervices to my country which I owe it." But what would you fay, anfwered Genghis, If I fhould tell you that there is ftill a prince of the houfe of Ogul-cam, whofe pretenfions to the throne are indubitable, as he is the fon of the late Prince Temor ?” Aud where is this prince? afked Tifan, in an accent which fhewed that Genghis had furprised him with a piece of intelligence by no means agreeable. Why does he conccal himself, when his name alone would compofe the troubles that distract his unfortunate country?" "It is generally believed, replied the old man, that this prince, like all the rest of his houfe, fell a victim to the cruel mistrust and jealoufy of Isfandiar. But he efcaped; and what will furprife you ftill more, my fon, I am the only perfon acquainted with the fecret of his prefervation.' Genghis, the government of many will not fuit a ftate of fuch extent as Chechian." "But would it not be better for the people to chufe from among themfelves the perfon in whom they have the most confidence, whom they think the moft worthy? The young prince, perhaps, is ignorant of his right." "He is, faid Genghis; but, if L do not deceive myself, they could not chufe a better king than the perfon whom Heaven has deftined for them. He is the moft generous, the most amiable, the most virtuous prince which perhaps the world will ever fee." "You fpeak with much confidence of him, replied Fifan. How is it poflible you can know him fo perfectly?" "Very poflible, replied the old man; I have educated himself." "You have educated him!" cried Tifan, with a confufion which thewed that his foul began to anticipate the mystery by an internal pre-fentiment. "I myself, Tifan! thefe eyes have feen him grow up: for twenty years I have not loft fight of him a moment. In fhort, O Tian! you are that prince; you are the only remaining iffue of Prince Temor; you are the rightful heir of the crown of Che chian." And are you not my father?" faid Tifan, in a forrowful accent, while his eyes were bathed in tears. "No, my dear Tifan, faid the old Genghis, throwing his arms round the neck of the prince, and kiffing his forehead. Thou art the fon of my friend; thy father was worthy of a throne; he left thee to me as a precious and dear pledge: yes, it coft me dear, O Tifan! for to preferve thy life delivered up my own, my only fon, to the murderous Isfandiar. I fled with thee to this folitude. Ignorant of what Heaven might determine with regard to thee, I reared thee in thy yonth as if thou hadst been deftined for common life. I faid to myself, he who is all that a man ought to be, will not fail to be a good prince. Chechian is now without a head, and all the hor rors of anarchy prevail in that unhappy country. The time is come, when the vir tue of a angle man is to decide the fate of a 32 "O my father! cried Tifan, with increafed inquietude, what mystery is this? It is, whols whole nation. Examine thy heart, O Tifan! What does it dictate to thee at this moment?" "I am in fuch agitation, replied the prince, that I must have fome time to recollet myself. I wish you had allowed me to remain in ignorance of this fecret; and yet I feel it, faid he, preffing the old man to his breaft, I feel that my heart will be ever the fame. I would, as the fon of the noble Genghis, fhed my blood and expofe my life for my country; can I do lefs as the fon of Temor? What do I fay? the fon of Tentor! O most refpectable of old men! let me always remain thy fon! My highcft ambition goes no farther; to you I owe the power which I feel I poffefs, of being able to defpife a crown.' "To defpife a crown! faid Genghis No Tifan, that is not the way to recompence me for all my cares. You have only to fetpife voluptuous indolence, idleness, debwchery, pride, and thofe weakneffes and crimes to which fo many of thofe called kings have been flaves. Shew yourself worthy of the crown to which you are born; ut fay not you despise the most elevated ftation to which heaven can call a man." "You know my heart, faid Tifan, I hope never to forfeit your approbation But there is one difficulty remains, how will you be able to convince the nobles and people of Chechian, that I am the fon of Temor and their lawful king?" “That you must do yourself, faid Genghis; I cannot even if I would. A free choice muft raife to the throne him who fhall be thought moft worthy of it. Go, Tifan, af fift the nation to maintain its lawful right against those who would wade through flaughter to a throne, and erect their own fortune on the ruins of liberty; deferve to be acknowledged by thy fellow-citizens as the first among them, and I am mistaken if they will not difcover the moft virtuous, and reward him accordingly. On their arrival at Chechian, the name of Genghis cafily procured to Tifan an advantageous fituation. The patriotic party received him with open arms, and as every occafion juftified the good opinion they had formed of him, he foon gained the confidence and confideration of his compatriots. The troubles of the times feemed to have revived the moral fenie of the nation. At an age with which wifdom feems rather incompatible, Tifan fhewed them a model of perfection which commanded their admiration and love. He was brave, but not rafh, cautious, but not indecifive; prompt, but not precipitate. He always exacted more from himfeif than from others, and governed his inferiors more by his example than by his orders. His manners were pure, he had fenfibility without effeminacy, a profound contempt for fenfual indulgence, and indifference for every thing that tended to lead him off from his duty. He was affable to his inferiors, respectful to old men, and complaifant to his equals; and what is furprifing, he found means to gain the love of every one notwithstanding all thefe perfec tions. His modefty and merit excited fo little envy, and his virtue threw such a brilliancy around him, that all ftrove to be connected in whatever related to him. "Tifan did this by my direction," faid an old general-" I fought by his fide,” faid a young officer-"We had Tifan at our head," faid the common foldiers. In fhort Tifan. diftinguifhed himself fo much that he rofe ftep by step to the rank of General; and as the chief of the patriotic party had lately fallen in battle, he was unanimoufly chofen to fupply the place. Our hero was not only virtuous himself, but he had the faculty of making thofe around him become fo. Thofe fentiments which are produced in nobler fouls by a fympathetic attraction and a deep fenfe of virtue, were excited in lefs fenfible minds by the defire of meriting his approbation, and by a degree of jealoufy which becomes an eftimable paffion when it has virtue for its object. His name alone infpired his friends and companions with a fort of enthufiafm. Led on by Tifan, they thought themselves more than ordinary men, and they were really fo. His eloquence finished what his example had begun. Their love for their native country, which had lorg lain dormant, revived, and each forgetting himself, loft all idea of happiness except in the national prosperity. The chiefs of the, contrary party found themselves daily growing weaker, and unable long to appole the Brength of a nation united and animated by the fpirit of Tifan. They, therefore, betook thenfelves to fecret, negociation, and confented to fubmit their rights to the deliberation of a General Affembly of the people. In this Affenibly the patriots formed by far the greater number; and Tifan, who already reigned in their hearts, was declared by the voice of his country the most worthy of governing a people whom his virtue and bravery had faved. Genghis was appointed to announce to him, in prefence of the Affembly of the States, the general with. That venerable old man confidered this as the favourable moment for publicly difcovering his important fecret. The general confidence he had acquired, the great idea entertained of his. probity, the paternal tears which ran from his aged eyes while he related the facrifice he had made of his own fon, removed every doubt. The nation was enchanted to find in the object of its love the fon of a Prince whofe memory it refpected, and many who had |