in england act the part of chief who a nation with sighs it never heaved and it with tears it never of shedding thus while the patriotic author is weeping and howling in prose in blank verse and in rhyme and collecting the di public sorrow into his volume as into a it is more than probable his fellow citizens are eating drinking and dancing as utterly ignorant of the bitter made in their name as are those of straw and richard of the whom they are generously pleased on divers occasions to become the most glorious and praise worthy hero that ever nations mi t have into oblivion the rubbish of his own it did not some lake into and his name to posterity and much as the william wo and and while he had the of a whole in his hand i question whether he will not be obliged to this history for all his hb exit occasioned no in the of new or its vicinity the earth trembled not neither did any stars shoot firom their the heavens were not in black as poets persuade us have been on the unfortunate death of he new york hard hearted melted not into nor did the trees hang their heads m silent sorrow and as to like sun he bid next just as long and showed as a when he arose as he ever did oo the same day of the month in any year either before or the good people of new one and all declared that he had been a yery busy active bustling lit tie that he was the of bis country he was the noblest work of god � that he was mail take him r all in all they never should look like again � together with sundry other civil and speeches that are r said on the death of all great men after which they smoked their pipes thought bo more about him peter succeeded to his peter was the last and like the renowned van he was also the best of our ancient having all who preceded him and or as he was called by the old dutch who were ever to names having never been equalled by any he was in ct the very man fitted by nature to re the desperate fortunes of her beloved province had not the those most potent and of all ancient and immortal destined them to to say that he was a hero would be doing him great injustice he was in truth a combination of heroes he was of a sturdy raw make like so for his in the little � a pair of round shoulders that would have given his hide for meaning his lion s hide when he undertook to ease old of his load he was moreover as describes not only terrible for the force of his arm but likewise of his voice which sounded as thou me out of a barrel and like too history op die same he possessed a for the sovereign people and an iron aspect which m enough of itself to make the very of his with terror and dismay all this martial of i was heightened by an al advantage with which i am surprised that neither ho nor have any of their heroes worth all the and wounds in the and or s into the bargain this was less than a wooden leg which was the prize he had gained in bravely fighting the battles of hu country but of which he was so proud that he was often heard to declare he valued it more than all his other limbs put together indeed so highly did he esteem it that he had it gallantly and relieved with silver devices which caused it to be related in divers histories and legends that he wore a silver leg like that warrior he was somewhat subject to of passion which times rather unpleasant to his and whose he was apt to after the manner of his illustrious peter the by their shoulders with his walking but the resemblance for which most value him was that which he bore in many particulars to the renowned though i cannot find that he had read or or or bacon or or tom yet did he sometimes manifest a and sagacity in his measures that one would expect firom a man who did not know greek and had never studied the true it is and i confess it with sorrow that he had an unreasonable aversion to and was fond of governing bis after see the of and new the t manner but then he it in better order tl ui did ihe ki though he had all the philosophers ancient and modem to assist and him i must unwise own that he made but very few laws but then ie took care that those few rigidly and i enforced and i do not but justice oa the whole was as well administered as if there bad been volumes of sage acts and made daily neglected and he was in the very reverse of his ing neither tranquil and like walter the i and like william the but a man or rather a governor ot such uncommon activity and decision of mind that he never sought or accepted the advice of others depending confidently upon his single head as did the heroes of upon their single arms to his way through all difficulties and dangers to tell the simple truth he no other requisite for a perfect than to think always right for no one can deny that he always acted as he and if he wanted in he made up for it in an lent quality since it is surely dignified for a ruler to be and consistent in error than wavering contradictory in endeavouring to do what is right u much is certain and it is a worthy 