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-
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12124, 19310, 22667. - .
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