DISCOURSES ON DAVILA. NO. XIX.—CONTINUED Ifais l'tm ct l'duire Guifc out en moins dc fcvupulc. Ces chefs ambi;icux d'un peuple trop crtJule, Couvrant lenrs imcr£is dc l'uiieiet dcs cie«:x On: conduit dans 1c piegc un peuple iuncux. THE Prince of Conde, whofecretly lighted UP this conflagration, advanced by moderate tlays journeys to court. He wiflied to be witness ot the event, and to take suddenly, according to circumitances, the part which ihould appear to him the inoft advantageous. The Admiral, al ways circumfpedt, feigned to remain neuter. He retired to his estate at Cliatillon, under the pretext of enjoying the fweCts of private life, without meddling with affairs of the public, or of j government ; but in reality it was as much to aid the conspiracy, by his councils and informa tion, as to avoid the accidents which might de feat ail enterprize which he judged rafhand dan gerous. The conspirators, who were not agitat ed with similar anxieties, but full of the moll flattering hopes, had begun their march infecre cy, carrying their arms concealed under their cloarhs. Thoy advanced separately by different roads, and in the order which had been markecf out by their chiefs, towards Blois, where the court resided at that time. This city was open 011 all fides, and without fortifications, and the conspirators were to meet in its suburbs, on the fifteenth day of March, i j6o. But whatever might be the activity of their proceedings and the iecrecy of their councils, tliey could not efcap© the penetration of the Guises. The favors, penlions and employments they confered, and their great reputation, had attached to them so many creatures in the dif ferent provinces of the kingdom, that they were punctually informed of all the movements of the conspirators. It was indeed impollible that the inarch of so numerous a multitude could remain unknown, when conspiracies whose lecrets are confined to a final] number ofperlbns, ofthemolk consummate discretion and fidelity, are aluioft always discovered before theit execution. Whe ther the secret was discovered by La llenaudie, or Avenelles, or discovered by the spies employed by the miniltry, even in the houses of the princi pal conspirators, or whether information of it came from Germany : as soon as the Guises had received.it, they deliberated 011 the means of defeating it. The Cardinal of Lorrain, who was no soldier, advised to atfeinble the nobility of the nearelt provinces, to draw from the neighbouring cities all the garrisons to form a body of troops, and tofendordeis to ail the commandants and go vernors to take the field, and put to the fworu, all the men whom they should find in arms* He prefutned that the conspirators, perceiving them, selves to be discovered, and informed of the inea fures taken against them, and which fame would not fail to exaggerate, would dissipate of them selves. The duke of Guise, more familiar with danger, and despising the transports of a multi tude, wichotit discipline or order, regarded the advice of the Cardinal, as more proper to palli ate the dillemper, than to cure it ; adding that since it was so pernicious, and had infirtuated it lelf into the heart of the kingdom, it was useless to temporize, and give it opportunity to break out with more violence. He thought it there fore, more prudent to diflemble, and affect igno rance.of the enterprize, to draw in the conspira tors, and give them time to discover themselves ; that in such a cafe, their defeat and punishment would deliver France from a fatal contagion, ■which, as it discovered itfelf by symptoms so ter rible, demanded violent remedies, and not sim ple lenitives. He added, that in punishing sepa rately only a part of the conspirators, they lhould furniih matter to the ill intentioned, to calumni ate the authors of this severity ; that the people, little accustomed to such infurrertions, would re gard this as a chimera, and as a table, invented by the ministry to crufli tlieir enemies, and eita blilh their own power and authority r whereas, by overwhelming all the conspirators at once, when upon the point of execution, they ftiould dissipate all Calfe accusations, and jultify in the fight of all the world, the rectitude and the lin ceriry of the intentions of thole who were at the Lead of affairs. Catharine agreed with the duke. No extraor dinary preparation was made, which could ex cite a iufpicion that the conspiracy was known. They duly removed the King and the court to Amboifi ten leagues from Blots. This castle, situ ated on the Loire, and in the inidit of forefts which fortify it, naturally, appeared to be a laser asylum : as it was easy to place in security the King and the two Queens, in the castle, while a small 'number of troops fliould defend the en trance of the village, which was of difficult access. (To be continue'!.) WILMINGTON, August 28. A mine of copper, which from experiments made thereon, gave room to expe&a valuable portion of gold, was began to be work ed upon the fuftof this inft. on the lands of Solomon Draper, fclcc teoburg county, Virginia. TJJE TABLET. No 142 " And at imagination bodie? forth -Tlie forim of tiling - unknown, the poci's pen Turua them to fhapos, and givti to airy nothings A local habitation and.a name." CURIOSITY is so active a spring of the loul, that it can never be gratified by the contem plation only of such things as have a real exiit ence. It hurries the imagination through ail the unknown regions ofjpace, in search of new and extraordinary £.une, and conftituies darkness lt felf, as the rclidence of a vast ot marvel ous'beings. The magic delufiojis ot the fancj have yieldedthe highest pleasure to men of ge nius, and made them look with disdain on ordi nary characters and occurrences. Perhaps no problem better deserves afolution, than why men of the malt sublime understandings, ihould so often miitake the wildeftchimerasfor important realities. A man of a vigorous genius is liable, with all others, to imbibe errors and prejudices in education. When these are carried into •Ma ture age, in foite of reason and reflexion, it is obvious thcii irfetfts will be eonfpicuouS' in pro-j portion to thy U<ut h&sc&c riflxed tfaem. «Ve accordingly find that men of tlje most celebrated talents, have alio been diflin guifhed for the most remarkable whims and An gularities of opinion. There are so many sour ces of deception to which we are exposed in edu cation, that it is iinpoffible to guard the undfcr ftanding against afl'ociating ideas which have no natural connection. Fables and stories of leger demain are put into the bands of children to sti mulate their curiolity to read, and before instruc tors are awareof it, the tender mind fofters a thousand falfe conceptions, which perhaps are never afterwards eradicated. It will here naturally be enquired, whether tlie productions of fancy are luitable ro be pre sented to a mind before it is capable of looking into the nature of what it conreniplates. The imagination of every person creates a world of its own, which is not only widely different from the atftual state of things, but oppoiiie likewise to the fictions which other people conceive. By this departure from truth, men are not only at variance with nature, but with one another. I cannot suppose that falfliood ever allumes a Jhape that can give it an eligible character. Nor do I believe a youth can be indulged in imposing on his own credulity, without exposing him to a real inconvenience. The inind cannot be too soon or too cotoftantly habituated to view things as they really are. It is frequently suggested as an excuse for allowing young people to imbibe erroneous ideas, that when they are more ad vanced in agtf, tbey will discern their errors and eaii correct them. But there is something fofaf cinating to the young mind in the charms of po etry, and even in the rhapsodies of enthusiasm, that it becomes a painful felf-denial todifmilsthe errors that have entered through thole alluring channels. There can be no effectual security against the delusions of falfliood and error, but by never fufferitig the inind to contract an habit of viewing objects otherwise than their real cha racter deserves. If we take a pleasure in read ing the fictions of a poem or a novel, let us be told, they are no more than a fiction. If the images delineated be contrary to nature, or drawn in too glowing colors, let the deception be ex poled, that our ideas may not be warped from the truth. Many of the most bitter misfortunes which afflict human life, are occasioned, in a great degree, by the ficticious value we affix to objects through the ardor of an unchecked ima gination. There is no purpose to which the un derstanding can be applied that will so much promote our real happiness and honor, as in dis cerning the true character and the real value of whatever offers itfelf to our consideration. BOSTON, September i We are happy to inform the public, that an opportunity has been lately afforded of trying the effect of prizes, in exciting the emulation of Youth, in the public Schools of this town, by the generous donation of Noah Webster, Esq. of Hartford.—This gentleman, soon after the adoption of the new system of education, in or der to (hew his approbation of it, presented to the School committee twelve copics of his " Ame rican felettiQii oj" L.eJJ'ons in reading and J~pcaling," neatly bound, gilt and lettered,"to be distributed in prizes, annually, at the several reading schools, as the committee Ihould dired. The school committee, accordingly, gave infor mation to the refpetftive matters, of this donati on ; iince which the committee have attended the examination of the two upper classes in each school, and having feledled fix of the most me ritorious boys in each ofthofe clafles, conferred four books upon them, and they drew lots for the fame in presence of this committee. Our latest account is, by Capt. Hall, from the port of St. Andero, in Spain, which he left about the 15th July—at which time every preparation was making for war—and the declaration of it by England, was momently expecfted :—The Spa niards, he fays, were in high spirits ; and that 586 all the fifhertnen lrad been jmpreflcd a few clave before he lefc Spain, to uiati the fleet. Many elaborate volumes have been written ta ascertain the rights of war ; as ifmarderand'de-, vacation, things ellentially wrong, could be I*. duced to right by fjftera. For what is w-r buc theft and robbery on a great scale ? _Asbu r n] arT is nothing but a liege in miniature- Yet we do not find that the rights of theft, robbery, um r d ei and burglary, have been as yet defended. The numbers concerned in any aggrellion, are so far from diminishing the guilt of the acftion, ihit they iucreaieii in proportion to those numbers, bfcaufe they can (Jo more mifchief than a few. The number ofperfons in this town, taken iu conformity to the acsl of the Legiilature of the United States, at this period,/ exceeds ISOOO. Three or four years liuce, the whole nunlber was but 14200. AMERICAN PRODUCE. In tlie city of New Haven, in 60 families, there have been railed the present season, 110 lei's than four hundred and forty two thousand fills worms. In the family of Mr. Abrahajn Tliomp- Ton, 4o,acia ,o>" the above number wctc raised ; and it was with much fntisfadtion, in perufinf the names of these persons who raised these \a luable and indnftrious animals, we saw, that se veral young ladies had turned their attention thereto—one of whom, Mil's Betsey Sherman, actually raised this season twelve thousand—and that one young lady; from 1200 ejeoons, or lxlk balls, reeled eight ounces of the best of Silk. PRIZES IN THE NEW-YORK CITY LOTTERY. Prize of 3000 J. No. 16,789. Prizeofzool. No. 5704 Prizes of tool. No. 15,049,23063, 4°74. 23,758. Prizrs of 50). 7719, 12650, 19780. Prizes of 201. 5416, 16894, 17092, 18916, 21321, 5667, nß;'6| i 8355- 'rizcs of id. 4224, 12571, .13213,15619, 12124, 19310, 22667. - . Pibtfi of 41. drawn on Tuerday tft. ias. A'a. 807 4q78 7716 10894 '393° *&$75 *"-sl6 2400 a sbl5 bl .<65 495 755 47® ' »9i Mjllj ' ®|jj 944 867 447 693 985 oj ► 4M on 685 976 733 '1446 436 47* . 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