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Had not your royal father thought so highly
Of Roman virtue and of Cato's cause,

He had not fallen by a flave's hand inglorious;
Nor would his flaughter'd army now have lain
On Afric's fands, disfigured with their wounds,
Το gorge
the wolves and vultures of Numidia.

Jub. Why doft thou call my forrows up afrefh!
My father's name brings tears into my eyes.

Syph. Oh, that you'd profit by your father's ills!
Jub. What wouldst thou have me do ?

Syph. Abandon Cato.

Jub. Syphax, I should be more than twice an orphan By fuch a lofs.

Syph. Ay, there's the tie that binds you! You long to call him father. Marcia's charms Work in your heart unseen, and plead for Cato. No wonder you are deaf to all I fay.

Jub. Syphax, your zeal becomes importunate;
I've hitherto permitted it to rave,

And talk at large; but learn to keep it in,
Left it should take more freedom than I'll give it.
Syph. Sir, your great father never us'd me thus
Alas, he's dead! bat can you e'er forget
The tender forrows, and the pangs of nature,
The fond embraces, and repeated bleffings,
Which you drew from him in your last farewel?
Still muft I cherish the dear, fad remembrance,
At once to torture, and to please my soul.
The good old king, at parting, wrung my hand,
(His eyes brimful of tears) then fighing cry'd,
Pr'ythee be careful of my son !——His grief
Swell'd ыр fo high he could not utter more.
Fub. Alas, the story melts away my foul !
The best of fathers! how fhall I discharge
The gratitude and duty which I owe him?
Syph. By laying up his counfels in your heart.
Fub. His counfels bade me yield to thy directions
Then, Syphax, chide me in feverest terms;
Vent all thy paffion, and I'll stand its shock,
Calm and unruffled as a fummer's fea,

When not a breath of wind flies o'er its furface.

Syph.

Syph. Alas, my prince, I'll guide you to your fafety Fab. I do believe thou would'ft; but tell me how? Syph. Fly from the fate of Cefar's foes.

Fub. My father fcorn'd to do it.

Syph. And therefore dy'd.

Jub. Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my hơnor.

Syph. Rather fay your love.

Fub. Syphax, I've promis'd to preserve my temper ; Why wilt thou urge me to confefs a flame

I long have ftifled and would fain conceal?

Syph. Believe me, prince, tho' hard to conquer love, 'Tis cafy to divert and break its force.

The glowing dames of Zama's royal court
Have faces flush'd with more exalted charms;
The fun that rolls his chariot o'er their heads
Works up more fire and color in their cheeks?
Were you with thefe, my prince, you'd foon forget
The pale, unripen'd beauties of the North.

Jub. "Tis not a set of features, nor complexion,
The tincture of the fkin that I admire.
Beauty foon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in his eyes, and palls upon the fenfe.
The virtuous Marcia towers above her fex.
See how the lovely maid improves her charms,
With inward greatnefs, unaffected wisdom,
And fanctity of manners. Cato's foul
Shines out in every thing the acts or speaks,
While winning mildness and attractive fimiles
Dwell in her looks, and with becoming grace
Soften the rigor of her father's virtues.

Syph. How does your tongue grow wanton in her praife!

GENERAL WOLFE'S ADDRESS TO HIS

1

ARMY.

CONGRATULATE you, my brave countrymen, and fellow foldiers, on the spirit and fuccefs with which you have executed this important part of our enter

'prife.

prife. The formidable Heights of Abraham are now fur mounted; and the city of Quebec, the object of all our toils, now ftands in full view before us.

2. A perfidious enemy, who have dared to exafperate you by their cruelties, but not to oppofe you on equal ground, are now constrained to face you on the open plain, without ramparts or entrenchments to fhelter them.

3. You know too well the forces which compofe their army to dread their fuperior numbers. A few regular troops from Old France, weakened by hunger and fickness, who when fresh were unable to withstand British foldiers, are their General's chief dependence.

4. Thofe numerous companies of Canadians, infolent, mutinous, unfteady and ill difciplined, have exercised his utmost skill to keep them together to this time; and as foon as their irregular ardor is damped by one firm fire, they will inftantly turn their backs and give you no further trouble but in the purfuit.

5. As for thofe favage tribes of Indians, whofe hor rid yells in the forests have struck many a bold heart with affright, terrible as they are with the tomahawk and fcalping-knife to a flying and proftrate foe, you have experienced how little their ferocity is to be dreaded by refolute men upon fair and open ground. You can now only confider them as the just objects of a fevere revenge for the unhappy fate of many flaughtered countrymen.

6. This day puts it into your power to terminate the fatigues of a fiege which has fo long employed your courage and patience. Poffeffed with a full confidence of the certain fuccefs which British valor must gain over fuch enemies, I have led you up thefe fteep and dangerous rocks; only folicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

7. The impoffibility of a retreat makes no difference in' the fituation of men refolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conqueft could be bought with the blood of your General, he would most cheerfully refign a life which he has long devoted to his country.

FOSCARI, THE UNFORTUNATE VENETIAN.

THE HE most affecting inftance of the odious inflexibility of Venetian courts, appears in the cafe of Fofcari, fon of the Doge of that name. This young man had, by fome imprudences, given offence to the Senate, and was, by their orders, confined at Trevifo, when Almor Donato, one of the Council of Ten, was affaffinated, on the 5th of November, 1450, as he entered his own house.

2. A reward, in ready money, with pardon for this or any other crime, and a penfion of two hundred ducats, revertible to children, was promised to any person who would difcover the planner or perpetrator of this crime. No fuch difcovery was made.

3. One of young Fofcari's footmen, named Olivier, had been obferved loitering near Donato's house, on the evening of the murder; he fled from Venice next morning. Thefe, with other circumstances of lefs importance, created a strong fufpicion that Fofcari had engaged this man to commit the

murder.

4. Olivier was taken, brought to Venice, put to the torture, and confeffed nothing; yet the Council of Ten, being prepoffeffed with an opinion of their guilt, and imagining that the mafter would have lefs refolution, used him in the fame cruel manner. The unhappy young man, in the midft of his agony, continued to affert, that he knew nothing of the affaffination.

5. This convinced the court of his firmness, but not of his innocence; yet as there was no legal proof of his guilt, they could not fentence him to death. He was condemned to pass the rest of his life in banishment, at Canea, in the ifland of Candia.

6. This unfortunate youth bore his exile with more impatience than he had done the rack; he often wrote to his relations and friends, praying them to intercede in his behalf, that the term of his banishment might be abridged, and that he might be permitted to return to his family before he died. All his applications were fruitlefs; those

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to whom he addreffed himself had never interfered in his favor, for fear of giving offence to the obdurate Council, or had interfered in vain.

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After languishing five years in exile, having loft all hope of return, through the interpofition of his own family or countrymen, in a fit of despair he addreffed the Duke of Milan, putting him in mind of fervices which the Doge, his father, had rendered him, and begging that he would ufe his powerful influence with the ftate of Venice, that his fentence might be recalled.

8. He entrusted his letter to a merchant, going from Canea to Venice, who promised to take the first opportunity of fending it from thence to the Duke; inftead of which, this wretch, as foon as he arrived at Venice, delivered it to the chiefs of the Council of Ten.

This conduct of young Fofcari appeared criminal in the eyes of thofe Judges; for by the laws of the republic, all its fubjects are exprefsly forbidden claiming the protec tion of foreign princes, in any thing which relates to the government of Venice.

JO. Fofcari was therefore ordered to be brought from Candia, and shut up in the State prison. There the chiefs of the Council of Ten ordered him once more to be put to the torture, to draw from him the motives which determined him to apply to the Duke of Milan. Such an exertion of law is, indeed, the most flagrant injuftice.

JI. The miferable youth declared to the Council, that he wrote the letter in the full perfuafion that the merchant, whofe character he knew, would betray him, and deliver it to them; the confequence of which, he forefaw, would be his being ordered back a prifoner tó Venice, the only means he had in his power of feeing his parents and friends; a pleasure for which he had languifhed, with unfurmountable defire, for fome time, and which he was willing to purchase at the expenfe of any danger or pa....

12. The Judges, little affected with this generous inftance of filial piety, ordained, that the unhappy young man fhould be carried back to Candia, and there be imprifoned for a year, and remain banished to that island for life; with this condition, that if he should make any more

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