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Virtue the genuinefource bfnoble tmdgenerow aflions,
illustrated in the hijkory of 'd ALVAI S, the
bojomfriend of the great Gustavus Adolphus,
King o f Sweden. — From awork, just publifloed,
entitled Juliet Grenville: Or, The History of
the Human Heart; by Mr. Brooke.
The work, from whence the following pathetic fiery
is taken, abounds with sentiments of the most re
fined and important kind. Animated with the
love of virtue, the author hits endeavoured to dis
seminate its feeds into the minds of the rijing gene
ration; and, in order to engage the attention es the
young, thegay, and the indolent, he has delivered
the most important precepts, under the pleafng
veil of an engaging narrative; Andthus the read
er becomes enamoured of virtue, nubile he is enga
ged in the perusal of an interring tale.
Gustavus adolphus came
young to thethrone. One night, while he
danced disguised at a ball that was given by his
chief Minister, the masque of the faireft of his fub
jedts fell off, and she broke with a sudden and un
expeded glory on the eyes of the assembly; for,
though Adelaide was noble, her prudent mother
had secreted her far from Court, and had tender
ly brought her up, like the lilly in the vale, un
seen and unsullied.
The King felt himfelf instantly struck with a
refpeffable and humbling sense of inferiority before
her: For it is the peculiar prerogative of beauty,
that the mighty, and the bold, and the haughty,
and even the savage, grow tame and depressed, as
in the presence of the immediate representative of
divinity.
Adelaide, in a hurry, caught up her masque,
and hafted to cover the perils of her countenance,
but the deed was already done; and her image
was impressed on the heart of the Monarch as in
delibly as though it had been fixed by the machi
nery of some engine.
He instantly drew his favourite, Valvais, afiHe,
and whisperingly gave a precipitate order, that he
ftiould discover and bring intelligence who the la
dy was.
Valvais zealously obeyed the injunction of his
Royal Patron: He brought him word that (he
was a maid of illustrious birth, but little known;
and, where known, admired as a phenomenon or
new appearancein nature.
Valvais had been preferred to favour by a pecu
liar appointment of Providence. Adolphus, in
the chace of a flag, had outridden his attendants.
Being thirsty and fatigued, he turned towards a
neat hamlet, that was pleasantly situated at the
entrance of a sorest. He tied his steed to atree;
and drawing near, beheld a young swain at the
foot of an oak, intent on a little book that he
held in his hand. The youth rose at his approach,
and having gracefully saluted him, led him into
the house, where he hospitably regaled him with
the home-brewed juice of the berry.
Pray, what were you reading ? demanded the
Prince.—A late treatise, Sir, on friendfhip, an
swered the student.—And what think you ofit ?
• —As cold as if it had been written by an inhabi
tant of Zembla.—l presume then, that your own
sentiments on the fubjed are warmer. As the
difference, replied the youth, between the torrid
and the frigid zones. You love your friends'
well, then ?—I should, Sir, had I any: But I
dare not trust myfelf with such a connection; all
the men I ever knew would certainly over-reach
me; I should go twice the lengths for them that
they would go for me.—Such a one as you would
make a friend for a King.—But then I should ne
ver make a friend of a King. lam told that all,
who would please the great, must be flatterers;
but the true province of friendfhip is to mind us of
our faults. For that very purpose I engage
you, said Adolphus, I am your King!
The youth, all a'jafhed, fell precipitately at
his feet; but the Monarch as hastily railed and
took him to his embrace.
From that day Valvais became the favourite
and bosom confident of his Royal Master. He had
nor, indeed, the burthen of the Rate laid upon him,
neither the emoluments of high and envied trusts;
ell rhofe he declined, wholly fatisfiftd and happy
in being the companion of the private hours, and
the intimate of the bosom of his beloved Lord.
The moment that Valvais had given to Adol
phus the desired intelligence concerning Adelaide,
You must go then, my friend, you must go, said
the King, and woe this fair creature in my name.
You are a youth of gentle manners and winning
address; you cannot fail of prevailing in a cause,
where your heart will be so warmly interested in
behalf of the man you love. Say, I will marry
her directly, in the presence of her mother and a
few other witnesses in whom we may confide ; but
that this must be kept private, at least for a time,
for fear of provoking the difeontents of my people,
as they expe& I should strengthen my kingdom by
some foreign alliance. Go, my Valvais! my
opinion of your truth is fixed as a rock within my
foul; I know your worth to be impregnable, im
passable, unavailable.
Valvais, all trahfport, all ardor, by his emo
tions and glowing countenance, pathetically, tho'
silently, assured his master of a zealous and faithful
execution of his commission; and instantly retired
without farther promise.
On the following day he applied himfelf to
Adelmale, the mother of Adelaide, and slushed
her with the ambition and eager desire of feeing
her darling offspring exalted to royalty, to happi
ness consummate. But Adelaide, during a num
ber of visits that he paid her, continued to veil the
reality of her sentiments under the semblance of
bafhful maidenhood and modest reserve.
At length Valvais grew importunate, and set
forth the advantages of his proposal in the most
ftriking.lights. He held up to her imagination the
personal attractions of his Royal Patron, accom
panied by all the virtues and graces of mind and
difpefition that ever informed humanity. And,
finally, observing to her, that Adolphus was more
superior to mankind in private excellencies and at
tractions than in public station, he urged her as
sent to an immediate union.
(To be continued)
Uy the March Packet, arrivedat New-YoRK from
Falmouth, and by Capt. Folgier, arrived
at Boston from London, we have the follow
ing advices
R 0 M E, Feb. s .
MR. Hamilton has difeovered in the territory
of Civita Lavinia, a fubterrancous Cham
ber, walled, which has been opened and eleven
antique flatues found in it, which are pretty re
markable, and almost all entire.
Warsaw, Feb. 5. It is pretended that the dis
orders which have happened in the governmentof
Ofenbourg, have been excited by some secret
enemies of Russia, and that Pugutfchew, the chief
of the mutineers is assured of a retreat, if he should
fail of success.
Vienna, Feb. 9. Muftapha, 111 Emperor of
Turkey, who died the 21st tilt, in the 59th year
of his age, was the eldest son of Achmed 111. who
was destroyed in 1730. This last Emperor as
cended the throne the 29th of October, 1757, on
the death of the Emperor Osman. He has left
an only son, the Sultan Selim, born the 24th of
December 1761, and three daughters, the eldest
of whom, aged about 14 years, is already the wi
dow of two Grand Viziers. The Sultan Abdul-,
hamet, his brother, hath been proclaimed Empe
ror, in consequence of the right of succession estab
lished in Turkey, where the crown defeends on the
eldest of the family.
LONDO N, Feb. 2 .
Extraft of a letter from Gibraltar, fan. 1.
" We have the pleasure to inform you, that
the communication with Barbary, which has been
a long time cut off, is now opened again, and we
have received some large supplies of frefh provisi
ons, which have been much wanted. The cor
sair, that have been so very numerous in the Me
diterranean have suddenly withdrawn to their re
fpeclive ports, in consequence of some Neapolitan
and Sicilian drips of war fitted out against them,
who have treated several of them very roughly.
The garrison is in good health."
Extrafl of a letter from Stockholm, Dec. 14, 1773°
“ The Kingbas granted the fame privileges to
foreign ships that shall import fait to Gottenburgh,
Louisa, and all the ports of Bohus, as usual to
Swedish vessels."
Feb. 4. His Majesty lately presented the Prince
of Wales and his brother with a sword each,
the hilts of which are said to have cost 600 gui
neas.
We are assured that the P of W
paid a private visit last week to the Duke of Glou
cester.
Feb. 12. The following is sent us as a fa&: A
real friend of Lord North's one day last week
said to his Lord ship, “ My Lord, the Court and
the city being zt variance, is like " a kingdom
divided against itfelf." Let me advise you to
spare no pains in endeavouring to unite yourfelf
with the citizens, and that too this winter; delays
are dangerous. I fee you have got Stow's survey
of London; let me read you a line or two."
1 hen opening the book he read the following pas
sage " Wealth, the sinews of war, flee (the city
of London) abounds in more than any city. Men
die can never want, or horses, there being more
than 20,000 tit for military fcrvice in the town:
Magazines of artillery, finall arms and ammuni
tion for an armyof 100,000 men, and always in
readiness ; and there are 100,000 able bodied men
fit to bear arms in the city; these being but a
tenth part of the inhabitants." “ Never think
then, added the friend, that the friendfhip oftuch
a city as this is not worth preserving." His Lord
ship then thanked him, and said he would lay a
reconcilable train the next morning as soon as he
was up. If this be true, we may hope to fee bet
ter times very soon.
The following is /^PROTEST of the Minor
ity Lords in Ireland, against the STAMP
ACT lately pafled there.
Die Jo-cis 27°. die Januarii, 1774.
Hodie 3d vice lefia est billa, entitled, an aßfor
granting to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, se
veral duties upon vellum, parchment, and paper.
The question, whether this bill shall pass.
It was resolved in the affirmative.
Diffentient.
ift, BECA USE we confider this tax as pe
culiarly burthenfome, in the present declining si
tuation ofthis country, since no material indulgence
has been granted, nor no conflitutional or com
mercial restraint has been removed in this oppres
sed country, to enable us to bear this additional
incumbrance ; and because it does not appear to
us, that there was any peculiar demand for it at
present, which we may reasonably infer fuom the
ad itfelf, as there is no clause to appropriate the
produce of this tax to a particular purpose.
2dly, Because we have reason to believe, that
an assurance had been given to the other House of
Parliament, from Administration, that the Com
miflioners of accounts should be employed as Com
missioners of stamps, which was intended as an
inducement to their acquiescence in this measure:
Whereas the words of the ad elude, if not totally
counteract this promise, since the Commissioners
of damps are obliged to account annually before
the Commiflioners of impreft accounts ; and be
cause the Lord Lieutenant is enabled to appoint
officers without limitation in number, or expence,
or any qualification whatsoever—And farther,
there is no disabling clause similar to that
by which the officers of all duties created since
1692, are inadmiffable in the House of Commons
of England, which must evidently inercafe the num
ber of placemen, and the influence of the Crown
in Parliament.
gdly, Because it seems to us unconstitutional to
vest the power in his Majesty's representative, the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, of afeertaining annu
ally, by proclamation, the price of paperand other
materials, which shall be issued from the ftamp
office, since a corrupt Viceroy may hereafter set
his own price upon them without controul, which
would not be the case if it were veiled in the Com
missioners of the revenue, or other officers under
the controul of Parliament, in like manner as this
power is veiled in England in the Lords' of the
Treasury.
4thly, Because we conceive that this ad, so far
as it relates to the stamping of news-papers and of
pamphlets, evidently tends to invade, and to
abridge the liberty of the press, that grea+ and
necessary outwork and barrier ofour constitution
al rights, which we ought ever to maintain against
all iovafion with the most cautious attention, as
upon its security most ultimately depend the very
exigence of our execellent constitution. And be
cause farther, the tax upon pamphlets was not a
part of the firft stamp adt in England, the sth of
W. and M. chap. 21st. but commenced by the
loth of Ann, chap. 19. in the latter end of the
Queen's days, a period from whence we should bd
sorry to derive a precedent.
§thly, Because if the licentiousness of the press
be an objeft of complaint, it should be retrained
by a manly mode of legislation, (Lengthening the
criminal justice of this country, and not by making
the crown countenance it to a certain degree, by
considering it as the fubjed of revenue.
6thly, Because finally we must confider this as
a tax upon the justice, the property, and the com
merce of this country, as a fund for pensions, and
a povifion for that system of venality improved by
a late Viceroy, and the necessary fequql of a plan
which we must ever confider with the utmost de
testation. LEINSTER,
CARYSFORT,
IRNHAM,
MOUN TMORRES,
MOLESWORTH.
We diiTent for theist, 2d, 3d, 4th, and 6th
reasons. CHARLEMONT,
MOIRA.
Feb. 27. A correspondent observes, that he ne
ver had a perfed idea ofa star chamber proceeding
till the 29th oflaft month at the hearing of a eer
' tain American petition. It was then that fhame
ful feene was represented to him, in which a brutal
crown lawyer was encouraged to abuse with the ut
most rancour and malignity the amiable and illus
trious Sir Walter Raleigh.
Feb. 28. Dr. Franklin, we hear has since his
fracas with the Ministry, voluntarily resigned his
American Agency; nobly disdaining to receive the
wages of his constituents, a day longer than he
found himfelf in a capacity to do them any essen
tial service.
Howard, Esq; was on Wednesday last
appointed one of the Surveyors General of the cus
toms in the room of John Temple, 'Efq;
March I. Mr. Temple, who fought a duel some
time ago with Mr. Whately, is dismissed, by com
mand ofhis Majesty, from the employmenrwhich
he held in America.
March 2. The Industry, Niccolls, from Lon
don to Virginia, is ashore on the island of Sheepy,
and full of water.
The present Grand Seignior, it is said, proposes
to submit the differences between the Porte and
Russia to the mediation of Great-Britain.
They write from Peterfburgh, that their court
had resolved not to admit any foreign officers in
the service of the army as volunteers.
His Sicilian Majesty having appointed a Spanish
grandee to the post of Secretary of the marine,
gives general disgust to the Neapolitan nobility.
March 3. This day the House of Commons re
solved itfelf into a Committee of the whole House,
to confider of an act made in the 23d year of the
late King, intitled, an ad for extending and im
proving the trade to Africa; and to take into con
. fideration an account of the names of all the free
men of the company of merchants trading to Afri
ca, who have been admitted to their freedom with
in the city of London, with their refpedive addi
tion and places of abode, and the times of the ad
miflion offuch of them as hav@ been admitted since
the Ift of Jan. 1760.
A gentleman was asking his friend at a Coffee-
House, what the notorious Charles would do now,
when dismissed from his employment ? Anything,
replied the other, except being a friend to the.li
berties of his country, for that is not inthe blood
of him.
Col. Barre's picture of the usual method of vo
ting for election trials, is at once ludicrous and
melancholy. To fee men pouring in just at the
nick of time, like so many hired (laves to earn
their daily bread, some staggering from drunken
ness, others running from their lurking holes, and
all, or at least the most part of them, ignorant of
the merits of the cause upon which they decide,
must give us a fad profpe^t of our condition when
we confider by what Hottentots we have been, and
may be again represented.
Col. Jenning's motive relative to American af
fairs is postponed till to-morrow.
The fllip Buchanan, of Greenock, Capt. James
Moody, from New-York to Bourdeaux, laden
with 2500 barrels of flour, was loft on the 22d of
January near Bourdeaux; the whole crew perish
ed, 1800 barrels of the flour were saved.
Several farmers and artificers from the north
tiding of Yorkshire, and the south part of the coun
ty of Durham are preparing to embark for North-
America.
March 4. By the last Holland mail advice was
received of a dreadful fire at Geneva, by which
the great church, with many other public and
private buildings have been destroyed.
March 5. The following is his Majefty'sanfwer
which Lord Hinchinbroke reported to the House
of Commons to their congratulatory address on
the birth of the Prince:
“ His Majesty returns thanks to the House of
Commons for this instance of their affedionate At
tachment to him and his family."
Yesterday the Lord Mayor, attended by the
City Marflial and other officers, proceeded from
Guildhall, accompanied by Alderman Crosby,
Efdaile, Hopkins, Thomas, Plomer, Rawlinson,
Peckham, and joined at Charing-Cross by Alder
man Plumbe, with the two Sheriffs, to St James's,
to present the following congratulatory address to
his Majesty on the fafe delivery ofthe Queen, and
the birth of another Prince. The Recorder not
being able to attend, the common ferjeant read
and presented the said address to his Majesty.
To the K I N G's most excellent Majesty.
The humble address of the Lord Mayor, Alder
men and Commons of the city of London.
“ Most gracious Sovereign,
“WE your Majesty's dutiful and loyal fub
je£ls the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons
of your antient city of London, in common coun
cil assembled, beg leave to approach your sacred
person with our warmest congratulations on the
happy delivery of our most excellent Queen, and
the auspicious birth of another Prince.
" With gratitude to the divine goodness we
behold the increase of your Majesty's domestic fe
licity, and gives a more permanent security to the
civil and religious liberties of your people."
They were all received very graciously, and had
the honour of killing the King's hand; and bis
Majesty Was pleased to confer the honour of
KnighthoQd on Walter RaulinfoQ, Esq; Alderman
of Dowgate Ward.
Extraß of a letter from Worcefler.
“ We have succeeded once in setting aside a
ministerial member for this city, on account of
bribery and corruption, which we reckon a great
point carried for constitutional liberty. Wehope
now to try another point with the enemies to our
country, and prevent the interposition of anv Lord
of Parliament, or any Lord Lieutenant of any
county, concerning themselves in the election of
members to serve for the Commons in Parliament;
for while it rests only in a resolution of the House
of Commons, that this is a high infringement of
their liberties and privileges, we are not fuffici
ently secured from the power and influence of the
Ariftocrncy. This seems to be the only point
wanting to render conflitutional liberty in this
country complete.
BOSTO N, Upril 21.
We hear that upon the firft news of the tea's
being destroyed at Boston, and the dreadful denun
ciations which were given out against that obnoxi
ous carthage, a committee from the North-Ameri
can merchants waited on Lord Dartmouth to be
informed, whether their property might be fafe if
shipped to that apparently devoted capital? Ihe
large cargoes on board halfa dozen (hips come and
hourly expelled, feema pretty fatisfa&ory answer
that the town will not yet be laid in ajbes, whatever
might be the fate ofthe committee, who are again
talked of 10 be sent for and tried on the bugbear fa
tute of Henry the eighth.
N E W-Y O R K, Aprilzs.
On Monday last advice was received from
Philadelphia, that Capt. Chambers, of the Ship
London, of this port, had taken on board at the
port of London, eighteen boxes of fine Te%
which were regularly cleared, and the mark and
numbers were taken from the cocket, by Capt.
All, of Philadelphia. As Capt. Chambers was
one of the firft who refufed to take the India
Company's Tea on freight the last summer, for
which he received the thanks of the citizens,
they could not believe that he knew of the Teas
being on board, and therefore supposed it to
have been fhipt by some ministerial tool, under a
nother denomination, in order to injure the own
ers, or the reputation of the master, or to make
an experiment of this mode of introducing the
Teas to America. The committee, and the in
habitants, were therefore determined to examine
into the matter with great vigilance. In the
night the long expeded Tea ship Nancy, Capt.
Lockyer, arrived at Sandy-Hook, without her
mizen mast and one of her anchors, which were
loft in a gale of wind the second instant, when
her main-top-mast was sprung, and thrown on
her beam ends. Letters being delivered to him
by the pilot from lundry gentlemen of this cit),
informing him of the determined resolution of
the citizens not to fuffer the Tea on board ofhis
(hip to be landed, he requested the pilot to bring
him up to procure neceffarics and make a proreft,
but they would not do it until leave was obtain
ed. Early the next morning this was communi
cated to the committee, and jt appearing to them
to be the sense of the city that such leave should
be granted to him, the ship to remain at the
Hook, the pilot w^s immediately dispatched to
bring him up. This intelligence was immedi- :
ately communicated to the public by a hand bill.
At fix P. M. the pilot boat returned with Capt.
Lockyer on board, and although the people had
but a very short notice ofit the wharf was crouded
with the citizens, to fee the man whole arrival
they long and impatiently wished, to give them
an opportunity to co-operate with the other colo
nies. The Committee conduced him to the House.
of the Hon. Henry White, Esq; one of the Con
signees, and there, informed Capt. Lockyer,
that it was the sense of the citizens that he should
not presume to go near the Custom-House, and
to make the utmost dispatch in procuring the ne
cessary articles he wanted for ids voyage. To
this he anfwerred, “' that as the Consignees would
not receive his cargoe, he would not go to the
Custom-House, and would make all the dispatch
he could to leave the city-" A Committee of
observation was immediately appointed to go down
in a (loop to the Hook, to remain there near the
Tea ship till ffie departs for London.
Wednesday night arrived Captain Lawrence,
from London, who confirmed theaccount received
from Philadelphia, of Captain Chambers having
on board eighteen boxes of fine Tea, but could
not tell who was the shipper, or to whom it was
addrefTed. Thursday the Conmittee interrogated
Capr. Lawrence relative to what he knew of the
Tea's being on board of Capt. Chambers, when he ?
shewed them a memorandum in his pocket book
which he took from the cockct in the middle of
Capt. Chambers's file of papers in the searchers
office at Gravefend, corresponding with theadvice
transmitted from Philadelphia, except some va
riation in the mark. This morning the following
hand bill was distributed.
To.TH,n P U BLI c.
" The sense of the city relative to the landing
" the EaR-ludia Company's lea being fignified
" to Captain Lockyer, by the Committee, never
" tkJefi, it is the dekre or a number of the citi-