PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 4*, BROAD-STREET, NEAR THE EXCHANGE, NEW-YORK [No. 39, of Vol. 11. j DISCOURSES ON DAVILA No.XVHI. CONTINUED./ • L'un ct I'aulre parti cruel egalement, Ainfi que dans le crime, eft dans I'aveuglcmwt. THE King o£ Navarre, in examining the dis positions of the Court, had obfci red that all those who were employed by the government, f.uisfied with the prefentfituation of affairs, trou bled themselves very little about the pretentions of the Princes of theblood—and that tliole who had an interest to desire his grandeur, and that of his brother, either intimidated by the power of their enemies, or disconcerted by his extreme delays, despaired equally of the success of his enterprise. He returned therefore easily to his firft design of recovering his states, and judged tiiat he ought not to let flip an opportunity so favourable for renewing the negotiations of ac commodation with the crown of Spain, and of quitting decently a court, where he could no lon ger remain with honor. He accepted cheafully the commifTion of conducing the young Queen into Spain. The Queen-mother continued to de lude him with magnificent hopes, and in fpight of the discontent of the other Princes of his par ty, he pressed his departure with as much ardor, as even his enemies could have delired. He fuf. fered himfelf to be duped in Spain with the lame facility. The Queen-mothsr had already in formed Philip the second, of all this manoeuvre. This Monarch who delired, equally with her, to fee humiliated and excluded from the govern ment, the King of Navarre, so ardent to make good his pretensions to some part of his domi nions, inftrufted the duke of Alva, and the other grandees who were to receive the Queen his consort, not to reje& the propositions of this Prince, but to lead him 011 and amuse him, by receiving them seriously, and offering to make report of them to his Catholic Majesty, and the council of Spain, without vrhofe advice they could not determine any affair of state. As soon as the Kins* of Navarre was arrived o» th» and had presented the Queen Elizabeth to the Spanish Lords, he began to speak to them of his interests, and thought himfelf sure at firft of suc cess. The Spaniards conduced the negotiation, with an address which served to nourish his hopes, at the fame time that they let him know that the effect could not be immediate. They engaged him even to fend ainbafladors to Madrid, so that solely occupied with his firft designs, he retired to Beam, fully resolved not to meddle in the af fairs of France, whose"negotiation appeared in effectual, and the proje<fl of arms as dangerous, as they were dishonorable. The Princ? of Condc liis brother, had opposite vievs, and took very different resolutions. His fortune was not cummenlurate with his courage, nor with the extent of his designs. Excited by themediocrity of his circumstances, by the ha tred which he bore to the Guises, and incessantly ftiirulatedby his mother-in-law and his wife,one thefifter and the other the niece of the Constable, boti devoured by ambition, he openly detefled the government of the Queen-mother and the Guifei. All his thoughts and a&ions tended to a revolution. He figured to himfelf, that if the war (houldbe enkindled by his intrigues and for hit interests, not only he would become the chief of a numerous party,but moreover he would procure to himfelf riches, advantages, and per haps the sovereignty of several cities and provinc es of the Kingdom. Full of these high ideas he assembled again at La Ferte, an estate of his inhe ritance, situated 011 the frontiers of Champaine, the Princes of his blood, and the principal lords of his party, and harrangaed them in this man ner. "In vain, have we hitherto employed the means of delicacy and moderation. It is not hereafter but by the mod vigorous efforts that •we can prevent the ruin of the royal family, and of all those who have not been able to resolve to cringe servilely under the tyranny of the Qvieen *iother and the Guises. It is no longer seasona ble to outrages of which no man can be ignorant, and which we have fuffered with too much patience. We are banished from court, and the government of Picardy, and the office of frand-mafter is taken from us. Finances, offices, ignities, are the prey of foreigners and perfon'- unknown, who hold the King in captivity. Tlu truth never reaches the throne. The befl parr of the nation is opprefled to elevate traitors,who fatten 011 the blood of the people, and the trea sures of the state. It is on violence that the ty WEDNESDAY, AUGUST, 1790. ranny of these Arrangers, i 3 founded, who perse cute with so much ferocity the royal blood : let us employ violence also to duftroy this tyranny. It will not be thefirfl: time that the Princes ofthe blood, lhall have taken arms to maintain their rights. Peter, Duke of Brittany, Robert, Earl of Dreux, and several other J.ords oppofcd, dur ing the minority of Sain: Louis, the Queen Blanche, hli mother, wlir, "nsd feiied on the go vernment. Philip, Earl i. Voloi?, employed all his forces, to exclude iroi.; ihc regency, these who pretended to usurp it. Under Charles the Vlllth, Louis, Duke of Orleans, took arms to cause himfelftobe ele<fied recent, instead of Ann, Duchess of Bourbon, who, in quality of eldest filler of the young King, had taken into her hands the reins ofthe (irate. Let us imiw.te our wife ancestors, let us follo*vfuch striking exam ples. We find ourselves in the fame cafe : it is therefore our duty to employ the fame means to save the nation. Let not the apparent pleasure of the King restrain us. This Prince, buried in a lethargic dream, and in his own imbecility, per ceives not the deplorable fla»ery to which tkey ha" 1 reduced him. He v. aits, fYom the Princcs of the blood, the aflidance, which is cxpefttd from an enlightened and ifcilful physician, by patients who feel not their distempers and know not their danger. The duties of our birth, and the unanimous wilhes of the nation, authorize us to break the fetters with v/hich this Prince is loaded, and toredrefs the e'-il before it at arrives at its last extremity. A vigorous resolution mult be taken without delay. Let us hasten to be be forehand with our enemies, if we wish to sur mount athoufand obstacles, which will arrest us, if we waste the time in deliberation, and which a sudden execution alone can overcome, sloth and timidity will only aggravate upon our necks the weight of a yoke eqaal'y (hameful and fatal. Can we hesitate when our tranquility, our honor and our lives have no other refoßrce, than in the valor of our arms f" .. * THE TABLET. No. 140. " There it nothing more certain than that name> alone set a price upon things with those people who have not judgmevt to know their real value." I HARDLY know whether the names l?y which things are called, or the appearances they aflume, furnilh the most common l'ource of delu sion. To confer a splendid title upon any objetft, will awaken emotions of adrtiiratiop in all per sons who have not taught themselves to be unin fluenced by the fafcinalion of words. It is un lucky for tliofe who are fond of deceiving or be ing deceived by the glare of expreflions, that ex perience should so frequently remove the inafk from artificial characters, and dissipate the gay phantoms that play around the imagination, and infufe vigor into all our sensations. The reader will not be surprized that I express myfelf with some ardor on this fnbjetft, when I let him into a secret which has been hidden from him, merely by a propensity to take delight in names that de note alluring images, and to be astonished with founds that convey ideas of magnificence. I be lieve every person who is much acquainted with what pafles in this part of the world, has at least heard of Colonel Charles Admirabilis. — This gentleman resides at his eitate in the coun try, which is rather too remote from the metro polis, to make it conienient to travel from one to the other, in a lingle day. This is a circum stance that I very much regret, because the citi zens fcem to have an ardent curiolity to visit this estate, which the Colonel himl'elf has long called by the name of the happy retreat. To abate a lit tle the ardor any one may feel in favor of this delightful spot, I know of no better way than for him to obtain a just description of it. The Colonel and myfelf had been long and in timately acquainted, before I found it convenient ro spare so much time as I thought requifire to do justice to this happy retreat, by taking a full view of all'he charming «bjetfsit contains. For this reason 1 checked my impatience to fee it at all, till I had leisure to attend to all its beanties, and examine it under all itsafpetfs. 1 mull freely confefs that I have found my taste congenial with that of the Colonel, whenever he has been' describing the various allurements that should tempt me°to pay him a visit. Though he did not fpecifically point out any elegant traits ofarchi tenure in his mansion, there was, nevertheless, 569 not a room in it, on which he did not confer foine fafcinating title. His parlour went by the name of Prcfpeft-Hall-. His dining room, which lay back of the hall, was denominated the ft/live tower, on account of a little vine that spread over one of the windows. But 1 was moftof all delighted to hear his library room called the attic retirement. Theie was not, in fad:, any cornet* of the honle, which bad not become remarkable by its name. In like manner, all the appendages were digni fied with appellations that , denote superior ele vation or refinement. The Colonel had not left than a dozen horses, to which he had given Dames, the l;aft honorary of which was I mull not forget to mention that he called his choicest wine the vintal eijtnce. Were I to run over all the particulars I had heard of the happy retreat, the reader would not have patience to one half of them ; but I cannot omit to observe that thefc descriptions bad wrought me into a pitch of enthudafm, I had never before felt. There is nothing remarkable, therefore, in my being on able to refill the temptation of accepting aninvi tation to pass a few days with Colonel Ad.mi rabilis. Finding myfelffbfituated the beginning of Ju ly last, that I could spare a week or two for a* mufement, I haftned as fact as I could to regale niyfelf with the vintal ejfence. I arrived at the enchanting habitation of my friend about ten o.' -clock in the morning, the second day of my de parture from home. As I made no enquiry for levered miles before my arrival at the magic fpor, what diflance 1 had to travel, 1 adtually came up on it, while I yet fufpecled I was not near it. I was riding palt at the rate of fix miles an hour, but the Colonel happening to espy me, called to me and I flopped. The voice was familiar to ine, and looking about I saw my good friend fland ingin the front of an house, which tinder any other circumstances I should have thought an or dinary one. Myfirfl impreflion was, that 1 had rr.et the Colonel at some neighboring house, and rhat iie would, in a few minute*, accompany me to his own. I was on the point of asking him how far we were from the happy retreat, when heor deted one of his uepliewS, a young lad, to take care ofmy horse. It unluckily happened, and I have never blamed niyfelf so much for a want of precaution, that I allured my friend I had couie to makehima I hopeitwill be deem ed an apology for me, when I mention that I made this aftiirance before I so much as conjec. tured I h3d arrived at the spot of destination. In taking the belt possible view of the country around me, I must own, there would have been nothing remarkably attradiive, had I not beeii Itr.nding in profpeCl hall. As I had travelled that morning near twenty miles, and moll of the dis tance after I had breakfafled, my imagination dwelt more upon the refrefhment I expected to find in the feflive tower, than upon any landscapes that could tie formed by looking through the win dows of the hall. It feemecT however by some conversation that paffed-between the Colonel and his lady, that the hour of dining was yet very remote. I therefore proposed a walk by way of filling up the cliafm between that time and din ner. My friend would not permit me to walk, but ordered two horses, called Frederic and Hec tor to be saddled. The names of the horses led me to suppose they were so high-mettled that I could not fafely wear my spurs. I laid all my weapons of offence aside, and was only felicitous that the bridle should be strong enough to check the impetuous courage of He (tor. I was rather (urprized at the temerity of the Colonel who durlt mount Frederic, with a whip in his hand, heavy enough to knock down an o*. We rode offtlow \j together and took a survey of the whole estate in an hour and an half. Before I returned, t thought HeClor a very harmless animal, and was well convinced I had taktn an unneceflary pre caution in pulling off my spurs. Dinner being ready, I was, for the firft time, shewn the way into the feflive bower, and as my appetite rendered the repast delicious, it was of no importance to examine too critically the size or elegance of the room. The name of vintal ef ftnee was futficientto give a peculiar relish to any liquor that is produced from grapes, and there fore the Sherry, we were then drinking, had a much finet flavor, than Madeira would have had underlets favorable auspices. After dinner I was admitted into the attic retirement, in which I was not long detained by an examinatisn of the books and curioJities which belonged to that [Whole No. 143.]
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