prefent of a very handfome weddingfuit, and many elegant trinkets. All parties live in the greatest harmony; the young 'fquire himself, though at first fomewhat mortified at being rivalled by Dorcas, not having any violent penchant for Flavia, (his favourite horfe ftill engroffing moft of his attention) and being convinced of Dorcas's merit, and many amiable qualities, has alfo profeffed himself the bridegroom's fincere friend. This happy pair now fhine as ornaments to fociety, and examples of connubial fidelity and affe&tion, at a period when adultery and divorces too generally prevail. To the Editors of the BOSTON MAGAZINE. GENTLEMEN, He was obliged to fet out upon the expedition, without feeing her, but wrote to her(from the firft place where they halted) that it was abfolutely impoffible for him to exift without her, and at the fame time, prayed her to follow him immediately, that their marriage might be celebrated in Silefia. He requefied her brother, alfo, who was his intimate friend, to expoftulate, and plead his caufe with her parents: She foon after undertook the journey, accompanied by her brother, and the mother of her lover. Never were the Pruffian fands fo heavy to any one, as to this beautiful lady, but at length, the journey was compleated, and in the morning, they arrived in the city of Haerfladt: The exercife of the journey, had added to her beauty,and her eyes painted the tenderness and emotions of her foul. But, alas! how illufive are our moft flattering accidently met with the follow profpects of happiness! and how often ing, a few days ago in the original French,which I tranf lated. If you think it worthy, by giving it a place in your entertaining Magazine, you will oblige PHILANDER. An affeding Hiftory of two young Lovers, by M. Sherlock. THE Count of PELTZER, officer in the Pruffian fervice, was only fon to a widow of fixty: He was well made,brave to excefs, and violently in love with lady Beutkou. She was in her 18th year. She was delicate,beautiful, and a perfon of extreme fenubility; her lover had juft turn'd the age of 21, had the happiness to receive from her an equal attachment, and the day appointed to render them lappy wis the twentieth of June 1770. The Pruilian troops are always in readiness to take the field upon any fudden emergency, and the 17th of Jane, at 10 o'clock in the evening, the *eigment of the Compte, received or ders to march with the greatest expedition for Silefia. He was then at Ben, and his mistress at her mansion Loufe, about 12 miles from the city. does the moment of felicity, touch the moment of misfortune! Her carriage is flop'd in the fireet, to give place to a file of foldiers who advance with tardy fleps bearing in their arms a wounded officer. The tender fym pathiz ng heart of the fair one was piined at the fpectacle, though the entertained not an idea that it was her lover. The Auftiarn foragers had appeared before the city, and the young count had gone out to repulfe them: Burning to diftinguish himself, he advance'd with ardor before his troop, and fell a victim to his unhappy im. petuofity. To paint the fituat en of this unfortunate lady, at that time, would be to infult the heart, and im agination of every feeling reader. Her lover is placed upon a bed - H's mo ther at his feet, and his miftrefs pref fing his hand after fome time, opening his dying eyes, he cry'd "O my Charlotte," he would fpeak, but his voice faultered, and be was bury'd in tears.-H's accent pierced the foul of his miftrefs. Her reafon left her."No" She cryed', "no- I will not furvive thee" and fe.z'd his (word; the was difarmed, at the inftant that the would have plung'd it into her bolom, he beckon'd, that the thould approach him, and when he came to, him, he lock'd his arms around her, and after two painful efforts to speak, he said with a figh "live my Charlotte, to confole my mother," and expired: Tis imposible to paint the scene, or defcribe the grief, which every one felt who knew him There were but two men wounded in the expedition, and the Compte was the only one killed. When I paffed thro' Berlin, inJuly 1779, this lady had not recovered her reafon From the WESTMINSTER MAGAZINE. ORD Halifax, in his excellent from fuch a scene of dullness,to Mrs. De- As to drefs, an elegant fimplicity is The A FAB L E. From the Mifcellaneous Tracts. the very prettiest card purfes you ever The Advantages of CURIOSITY, faw. As to the two youngefl, whom you enquire after, I have not feen them a long time; but I have changed their boarding-school: for that Aupid woman where they were, Mrs.Stri&land, taught them nothing in the world but reading English and plain work: I have therefore removed the poor things THE feven wife men of Greece at were once met together Athens, and it was propofed that every one of them fhould mention what he he thought the greatest wonder in the creation. One of them, of higher conceptions than the reft, propofed the opinion of fome of the aftronomers about the fixed ftars, which they beJieved to be so many funs, that had each their planets rolling about them, and were ftored with plants and animals like this earth. Fired with this thought they agreed to fupplicate Jupiter, that he would at leaft permit them to take a journey to the moon, and ftay there three days in order to fee the wonders of that place, and give an account of them at their return. Jupiter confented, and ordered them to affemble on a high mountain, where there fhould be a cloud ready to convey them to the place they defired to fee. They picked out fome chofen companions, who might affift them in defcribing, and painting the objects they fhould meet with. At length they arrived at the moon, and found a palace there well fitted up for their reception. The next day, being very much fatigued with their journey, they kept quiet at home till noon; and being full faint, they refreshed themselves with a moft delicious entertainment, which they reifhed fo well, that it overcame their curiofity. This day they only faw thro' the windows that delightful fpot, adorned with the most beautiful Bowers, to which the beams of the fun gave an uncommon luftre, and heard the finging of moft melodious birds rill evening came on. The next day they rofe very early in order to begin their obfervations; but fome very beautiful young ladies of the country, coming to make them a vifit, advised them first to recruit their firength before they expofed themselves to the laborious task they were about to undertake. The delicate meats, the rich wines, the beauty of these damfels prevailed over the refolution of thefe ftrangers. A fine concert of mufic is introduced, the young ones begin to dance, and all is turned to jollity; fo that this whole day was fpent in galantry, till fome of the neighbouring inhabitants, growing envious at their mirth, ruthed in with drawn fwords. The elder part of the company tried to appeale the younger, prom fing the very next day they would bring the rioters to juftice. This they performed, and the third day the caufe was heard, and what with accufations, pleadings, exceptions, and the judgment itself, the whole day was taken up, on which the term fet by Jup ter expired. On their return to Greece, al I the country flocked in upon them to hear the wonders of the Moon defcribed; but all they could tell was, for that was all they knew, that the ground was covered with green, intermixed with flowers, and that the birds fung amongst the branches of the trees; but what kinds of flowers they faw, or what kinds of birds they heaid, they were totally ignorant. Upon which they were treated every where with contempt. If we apply this fable to men of the prefent age, we fhall perceive a very juft fimilitude. By these three days the fable denotes the three ages of man. Firft youth, in which we are too feeble in every respect to look into the works of the Creator. All that feafon is given up to idleness, luxury, and paftime. 2dly, Manhood, in which men are employed in fettling, marrying, educating children, providing fortunes for them, and raising a family. 3dly, Old age, in which, after having made their fortunes, they are overwhelmed with lawfuits, and proceedings relating to their eftates. Thus it frequently happens that men never confider to what end they were defined, and why they were brought into the world. The The Free Republican No. III. I T is a principle well established, that the rights of perfons and thofe of property are the only rights, which are alienable by the laws of nature, the power of regulating the exercife of thefe rights for the promotion of publick happiness, and fafety, man as entering into political fociety, furrenders in every infiance, either explicitly or implicitly to the fupreme power. But as the whole power of the magiftrate is derived altogether from what is furren dered by the individual, it neceffarily follows that there can be no other fit object of legiflation in any goverment, than the perfons and properties of thofe, who compose it. The obtaining the combined force f all to render life and the bleffings that attend it fecure, from the hand of paffion, avarice, cruelty or cunning is the only motive that can operate on the mind of man for relinquishing those powers and perfonal rights, that operate in fome degree as a fhield in the more defencelefs flate of nature, as no man can relinquish any of those rights and powers given him by his Maker, without receiving an equivalent, arbitary government cannot be founded on compact. By arbitrary government is meant that in which we do not recieve an equivalent for the rights we have relinquished,or in other words, that in which the fafety of our perfons and property are not abfolutely fecured, this definition of arbitary govern. ment is the reverfe of what, an excellent writer on the English conftitution, gives of LIBERTY. "Liberty, fays that writer, confifts in this, that every man while he refpects the perfons of others, and allows them quietly to enjoy the produce of their induftry, be certain himself to enjoy the produce of his own induftry and that his perfon be fecured. As this certainly cannot exift, in a political fenfe, without the confent of the governed to the exiftence of laws, a free government may in other words be defined to be that, in which the citizens are governed by laws of their own making. It has been obferved, that there are two objects of legiflation, perfons and property. The rights of thefe are different, diftin&t and indepen dent. Thofe of the former are, in many inftances, poffeffed without any of the latter If a man enters inta fociety, poffeffed only of the rights of his perfon, and, fince his becoming a member of government, has made no acquifition of any other, though he may be entitled to give his voice in every law, that refpects the perfons, yet he cannot pretend to have any intereft in one, that is to effect but the property of the governed. On the other hand, as thofe, who are holders of property, cannot be deprived and altered without their confent,! of it, or have it differently modified this must be obtained, before a law, for fuch a purpofe, can of right be enforced. If a majority of the peonority of the property, could controul ple in a government, poffeffing a mithe refidence of it, property muft at once be rendered infecure. And if a majority of the people fhould be governed by laws, made by a minority, because poffeffed of a majority of the property, a door would be opened for render a law valid in a free governevery fpecies of oppreffion. Hence, to ment, if it refpects the perfons and property of its citizens, it must have the confent of a majority both of the one and the other. From thefe obthat no government can be free, fervations it will neceffarily follow, vil power is not fo difpofed, as that whatever may be its form, where cithis two-fold confent fhould always be had to every law, that is to direct, properties of its citizens. A monregulate and controul the perfons and archy is of all governments the moft arbitrary. An ariftocratical government is certainly lefs fo, but neither that nor a democracy are free. The reafon is plain. In neither of these is power fo diftributed and arranged, as to fecure that two-fold confent, fo evidently neceffary to the exiftence of Political Liberty. That this fentiment is true, as relative to a democra cy, as well as to a monarchical goelucidated by an example. vernment or an ariftocracy, may be Let us take a fociety compofed of an hundred men, ten of whom are proprietors of all the property. If the government M m is sa democracy the Supreme power is hen placed in the whole body of the people, united by the focial contract, and acting in every inftance by a majority of voices. In this cafe it is plain, that the whole property of thofe, who poffefs it, may be taken from them against their unanimous voice, and thus rendered totally infecure; and perhaps fubject to greater Au&uations, than if the government was an abfolute monarchy or a compleat ariftocracy. Nothing is more true, than that bodies of men are fubject to all the vices, follies and paffions of an individual, with this difference, that while the latter generally purfues his meafures with union, energy and fyftem, the former are frequently hurried into fudden exertion by fome paroxyfm of zeal, the fever of parties or the rage of fact.on. When the fupreme power is fo difpofed by the conflitution of the government, that no law can be made, that hall affect the perfons and properties of the governed, without the confent of each, power may be then faid to be ballanced between them, and while the ballance is preferved,the one can never encroach on the rights of the other; but if it be deftroyed, whetherit be done in favour of the few or the many,ufurpation and tyranny immediately rear their heads, and bring diffention and civil war in their train. It is a melancholy idea,but it is a true one, that the feeds of conteft, abufes and corruption are fown in every goverment, at the very moment of its infiitution. The poor have in their own miftaken notions, every thing to gain by oppreffing the rich; the rich. have every thing to preferve by cramping the poor and rendering them fubfervient to their views. Thefe different and difcordant interefts have in all focieties at fome period or other of their being, made their appearance and been diftingufhed by various rights, immunities and powers. In fome governments thefe different rights have been fettled by compact, in others by lawgivers, but in the greatest part by ufurpation and power. In Athens the men of property conftituted the Senate; In Rome, the body of Patricians; in France, Germany and the other Nations of Europe, the Nobility. It is a well knowntruth, that the prefent noblemen ofEurope,in moft inftances, date the origin of their rank from the feudal adminiftration of government,in which property was the chief, if not the only fource of diftinction. But rank, when once obtained, is often preferved after the caufe of it ceafes to exift. The great Barons in the European nations, having at firft accumulated certain dignities and power, from the extent of their poffeffions, foon united them to their perfons; and have been generally able amid all the revolutions, that have taken place fince the eleventh century to retain in a greater or lefs degree, a hare in the adminiftration of govern ment. Though, in England, they are deprived in a great measure of their wealth, yet from the riches of their blood,the honours, the pomp and peculiar priviledges that await them, they continue an effectual check upon that levelling fpirit of the people, which is the parent of democratical tyranny. Kings owe their origin to war. Mankind ever have been formed in. to different focieties, differing in their interefts and of courfe their purfuits. A knowledge of thefe difcordant interefts can never fail to create a sense of danger; and, as it is agreeable to principles of nature and reason, in times of difficulty and diftrefs, to fly for affiftance to a fingle perfon in preference to a multitude. Every fociety in the early and more warlike ages of the world was furnished with its particular leader. He led them to battle in war, and prefided at their councils in peace. Nimrod, that mighty hunter before the Lord, is I think the firft king upon record. Poffeffed of a bold and enterprizing fpirit, he gained the affections of the Affyrian people, formed them to the ufe of arms, inured them to difcipline and fatigue, led them to victory and established one of the moft extenfive From him empires of the world. fprang the monarchs of the kingdoms of the eaft, who always commanded their armies in battle, rendering every political inftitution fubfervient to military views. The States of Greece, Sicily, Carthage and Rome, had at firft their kings, who were officially their chief commanders in war. When the |