Discourses on-Davila.. NO. XXIII. —CONTINUED Utiumqu* regem, fua multitudo conialutaverat. THIS Prince (the King of Navarre,) began gravely to acknowledge that the Hugonots difguiled their passions and their interests, under the veil of cliriltian* charity, and the cloak of re ligion. Moreover, he was made to apprehend that the Admiral,with his policy, would persuade all France to believe that the King of Navarre followed blindly his councils. They piqued his jealousy, by reprefeming to him that the Calvin- . ifts highly blamed his (loth and indolence, while all their affedlions and attachments were to the Princeof Conde, whose .courage, promptitude,and magnanimity, they never ceased to exalt and ce lebrate. A last confederation of extreme impor tance, touched a nerve of exquifke sensibility : The King of France and his brothers were of feeble and delicate complexions, ill constituted, fubje<£ to dangerous dittempers, and too young to have children. The succession to the crown, regarded him aS the firft Prince of the blood,. and to declare himfelf the head and protector of rihe Hygonots, was to place between the throne jond him, an impenetrable barrier. Tofmooth /his way the more easily to the throne, he inclined [to re-unite himfelf to the Catholic party, to at» I tradi the favor of the Pope and the King of Spairi> | and to attach to hinjfelf trhe forces of the faction, which was the best united, and the most power ful. He began to diltruft the councils of the Queen his wife, blindly devoted to Calvinism, and naturally an enemy of pacific measures. T}ie magnificent promises and persuasive discourses of the legate, and of Manriquez, joined to so many other motives, determined him finally to unite himfelf with the Cowftable and the Duke of 6uifc. They declared loudly in words and by writings, that they were leagued only for the defence of the Catholic religion : but their view 3 were, in reality, much more vast. The King of Navarre abandoned one party, in which he found himfelf eclipsed by liis*brother, to attach himfelf to ano ther, in which they offered him more brilliant ; hopes. And theCui/cs entered into this conven tion, only to re-establish their credit and ancient grandeur. Such was the union, which taught the French the art of forming leagues and combinations, •without the knowledge of their sovereigns. The Hugonots represented it in the most odious co lours, and called it the triumvirate. TlieOueen Jane conceivcd a lively refentvnent of this unex pected resolution of her husband. Full of indig nation to fee him become the molt ardent perse cutor of her favorite religion, in which she flat tered herfelf flie had confirmed him ; sue resolv ed to quit the court, and retired into Beam,with the Prince Henry, and the Princess Catharine,her children, wh-om flie inftru&ed in the reformed religion, declining all further society, and com merce with her husband. The Q_uecn-mother ■was not less alarmed with a change so sudden and incredible. The triumvirate dejiroyed all the projefls of an equilibrium, which Jhe had founded, on the.diflrufls and animosities which divided the gran dees. She dreaded as much, for the fafety of her children, as for her own authority procal variations, rhefe combinations of interelts, totally opposite to each other, announced dearly enough to her understanding, that this union concealed high hopes, and vail designs. She knew that the Cuifts had unraveled her artifices, and that burning with ambition, they fought eve ry meansofre-entering into the ministry. More- ; over, what probability was there, that the-Kir.g of Navarie would renounce the friendfliip of his brother, and of his most faithful partisans, to unite with his most cruel enemies, if he had not been allured of great advantages in such a change. She was not ignorant of the empire which is heid over human hearts, even the most upright, by j ambition and the tbirft of ruling. Finally, con sidering every thing which, threatened her, flie could not diflemble her own. weakness, nor that of her children. Forced by these reflexions to trust no longer, either the sincerity of the King of Navarre, nor the demonllrations made by the Catholics, of having no design of making any innovation in the government ; a prey to con stant terrors, alarms and suspicions, nothing was capable of calming her inquietude. She pallid often whole nights, in conference with her con fidents, and among others with the Bishop of Va lence, and the Chancellor De L'Hopitat : Their counsels, and above all, the critical position in which (lie flood, determined her to form a coali tion with the Prince of Conde and the Admiral, to favor their designs, and support herfelf with their forces, in order to counterbalance, as much as possible, the power of the opposite fadtion : al jedging among other motives, to her Catholic confidents, that God himfelf permits evil for the fake of good : and since the Hugonots had can f ed so many disorders, it was but just to make life of them, to cure the distempers which hadinfedt ed the heart of the state. (Tt hi continued.) THE MISTAKEN SHEPHERDS THE hapless Shepherd of the plain, If his lov'd Daphne frown, Desponding, thinks his fait in vain, Aside his crook is thrown. His oaten pipe no mere is tun d, His flocks untended itray ; He feels too deep the eye-llruck wound, And sighs his hours away. BTut fp:ed, fond Swain, thy Charmer seek, Who loves tl.ee, ..nd is kind , And only frowns, because you speak Too little of your mind. IMPERIAL, HYSON, SOUCHONG, and ?OHEA REFINED SUGARS, COFFEE, and SPICES, kc. Of the fiift Quality—by Retail, No. 17, 1 Third-Street, between Chefnut and Market-Streets. John Francis, Late of New-York, refpe&fully informs tl;e tjublic, that he has opened a Commodious Boarding House, *" No. 53, Fourth-Street, one door from Race-Street, WHERE Gentlemen may be accommodated >vitli GENTEEL BOARDING AND LODGING, By the Week, MonHt, or Year, and on the moll moderate terms. Phila. Nov. 20, 1790. 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PURSUANT to a Refolvc or a£fc of Congtefs of the 10th day of May, 1780, relative to the deflruction of Loan-Office Cer tificates by accident ; notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern, that on the 26th of December 1788, the house occupied by William Haselton, of the Delaware State, took fire and was consumed, in which was lodged a number of Loan-Office certificates as pr. lift below, all which were destroyed by tlie (aid fire: Therefore if any perlon, hath any obje£tion why the said Certificates fliould not be renewed, agreeable to the refolv.es of Congress, they must make them before the expiration of three months, from the date hereof. These reci- Invoice of Loan-Office Certificates 'dejl rosed in the house oJWth. Ha fatten* 1788. Oclobci -4, of 500 dollars each. favor of James 635G one of ?4«o dollars, ( Haselion. ELIZABETH HASELTCN, Administratrix of James Haselton, deccafed, [62 6t.iaw.] Philadelphia, Nov. 26,1790. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, ~| I Oihber 14, 1790. 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