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Extracts from Mr. Burke's
Reflexions on the Revolution
in Erance..
Hu Representation of the removal of the
King ansiQycen of France from Ver
sailles to Puris.
" f ISTORY will record, that, on
the morning: of the 6th of Oc
tober, 1789, ,ho King and Q^een of
France, after a day of confufion, alarm,
dismay, and daughter, lay down, under
the pledged security cf public faith, to
indulge nature in a few hours of respite,
and troubled melancholy repose. .From
this Sleep (he Qneen ^as firlt ttartled by
the voice ofthc centine] at her door,
who cried out to her to save herfelf by
Right —that this was the last proof of
fidelity he could give—that they were
upon him, and he was dead. Instantly
he was cat down. A band of cruel ruf
fians and assassins, reeking with his blcod,
ruling into the chamber cf the Queen,
and pierced with an hundred Strokes of
bayonets and poniards the bed + from
whence this persecuted woman had but
just time to fly almost naked, and thro'
ways unknown to the murderers had es-
Caped to seek refuge at the feet of a king
and husband, not secure of his own life
for a moment.
This king, to fay no more .of him,
and this queen, with their infant chil
dren (who once would have been the
pride, and hope of a great and generous
people) were then forced to abandon the
fanftuary cf the most splendid palace in
the world, which they left fwiming in
'blood, polluted by massacre, and Strew
ed with scattered limbs and mutilated
tarcafes, thence they were eonduded
Into the capital of their kingdom. Two
had been fele&ed from the unprovoked,
Unresisted, promifeuous daughter, which
was made of the gentlemen of birth and
family who composed the king's body
guard. These two gentlemen, with all
the parade of an execution ofjuftice,
were cruelly and publicly dragged to
the block, and beheaded in.the great
court of the palace. Their heads were
Stuck upon spears, and led the proceif
fion ; whilst the royal captives who fol
lowed in the trhin were slowly moved
along, amidst the horrid yells, and Dril
ling fchreams, and frantic dances, and
infamous contumelies, and all the un
utterable abominations of the furies of
belli in the abused Shape of the vilest of
women. After they Had been made to
taste, drop by drop, more than the bit
terness of death, in the flow torture of
a journej of twelve miles, protraaed to
fix hours, they were under a guard,
composed of those very soldiers who had
thus conducted them through this famous
triumph, lodged in one of the old pala
ces of Paris, now converted intoa baftile
for kings. ! i:
[" I am informed, by a gentleman
who was at Paris during the whole of
these tranfaftions, that there is nd truth
at all in what Mr. Burke fays of
the Queen's bedchamber being broke
into, or the centinel killed. Nothing
of the kind, he fays was ever heard of
till a considerable time after the event ;
and the report arefe from the arifto
crates." Dr. Priestly.]
His lamentation ever the fallen £>,en.
"IT is now iixteen er Seventeen years
since I saw the Queen of France, then
the dauphinefs, at Versailles ; and fare
ly never lighted on this orb, which (he
hardly seemed to touch, a more de
lightful vision., I saw herjuft above the
horrizon, decorating arid cheering the
elevated sphere (be just began to move
in, glittering like the morning-star,
full of life and, fplender/and joy,. Oh !
what a revolution ! and what an heart
f"l0^
THE
DARTMOUTH UNIKER SITY.
ft RIGHT management of the mind
is of no less importance than our
future happihefs ; as one is inseparable
from the other. No wonder then, that
Philosophers in all ages have exerted
themselves to discover the belt method
of education. Indeed, to be anxious for
the knowledge of such truth, as qualify
qs for the enjoyment of the most sublime
happiness, conllitates the highest digni
ty of human nature. By many it has
been disputed, whether a public educa
tion is better calculated than a private
for the attainment of the various, kinds
of ufeful knowledge. By custom and by
the learned we are generally taught,
that our peference should be given to the
former/: It now remains to be determin
ed which public feminaryis best. This
iea point of too much importance and
delicacy for one, so unacquainted with
the world as myfelf, to decide. I will,
however, [venture to enumerate several
advantages common to most universities,
v ,ith some other peculiar, to Dartmouth
which, I fufped, have not been duly
considered by those, who represent this
inftifution in a disadvantageous light.
Dartmouth, in literary convenience,
is, 1 believe inferiour to very few semi
naries on the continent.
The college buildings, till late un~
finilhed^ are now not only convenient,
but elegant : the library consists of a
general assortment of books, Efficient
to inftru& the student, in any branch of
literature: The philosophical apparatus
affords a complete knowledge of experi
mental philosophy. % The laws, though
ftri&, are so well executed; that the, au
thority procure the friendship and refped
of all the Students.
It is. needless to observe, that theex
perience and improvements of the several
inftrudors, in classic knowledge, have
enabled them to give Universal fatis
faffion. The several literary societies,
eftabliihed by the members of this inftt
tution, though they may cause some tem
porary altercations, are productive of
much practical knowledge. They re
move those embarrassments and formali
ties, wnich are contracted by too close
an application to books,while they qaali-
must I have, to contemplate without e
motion that elevation and that fall !
Little did I dream when Hie added ti
tles of veneration to those of enthufigS
tic, distant, refpedful love, that She
Should ever be obliged to carry the
(harp antidote against disgrace conceal
ed in that besom ; little did I dream
that I fliould have lived to fee such dis
asters fallen upon her in a nation of
gallant men—in a nation of men of ho
nor and of cavaliers. I thought ten
thousand swords rawfl have leaped from
their ,scabbards to avenge even a look
that threatened her with infalt. But
the age of chivalry is gone. That of
fophifers, eednomifts, and calculators
has Succeeded ; and the glory of Europe
is extinguished forever. Never, never
more, Shall we behold that generous loy
alty to rank, and sex, that proud submis
sion, that dignified obedience, that fub
oidination of the heart,which kept alive,
even in Servitude itfelf, the spirit of an
exalted freedom. The unbought grace
of life, the cheap defence of nations,
the nnrfe of manly Sentiment and heroic
enterprize is gone ! it is gone, that sen
sibility of principle, that chastity of ho
nor, which felt a Rain like a wound,
which inspired courage whilst it mitiga
ted ferocity, which enobled whateverJt
touched, and under which vice itfelf
loft half its evil, by losing all its gr ff.
nefs.'> , ,
From the Addifonian Repository,
Gazetteer.
I doubt, whether aniverfal hiftory can
present us with a Situation Similar to that
of Dartmouth, where the arts and fei
ences are embefomed, as it were, in the
midst of a natural grove. Here, is a
philosophical retreat, where we find
nature in her fimplelt garb: here, in
peaceful retirement, uninterrupted by
the company of the gay and trifling, the
Students cultivate friendship, enjoy the
sublime pleasures of literary converse,
and all the pure fleets of that fcientific
leisure, so much celebrated by the an
cients. Here I will take tfie liberty to
confider thatobjedion againftDartmouth#
its being so remotely situated in the
country, that it has little commerce with
the world, as a strong, argument in its
favour. Ihe human mind is too con
trasted to attend to more objects than
one, at a time.—How then, can it be
expected that a Scholar can make himfelf
m^fter of politeness, while he is acquir
ing a collegiate education ? Will not
these different purfirits counteract each
juher, so that the fluder.t while he attends
.0 both will get but an imperfect knowl
edge of either? Speak ye who best can
tell, what figure that scholar makes, in
the reptiblick of letters, who devoted
the greatest pare of that time, which
should have been employed in acquiring
clallic knowledge, to the company of the
fafhionablc world. How far many young
minds in other universities ire injured
by this pradice I pretend not to fay ;
but certain I am, that the truation of
Dartmouth is fuch,that a scholar is almost
necessarily studious.. That period of life,
in which young men commonly enter
universities is ; attended with the most
dangerous temptation. It is then that
the imagination is warm and lively;
the pafhons irregular and importu
nate : hence the necessity of removing,
from publick view, all those objects,
which strongly solicit the attention of the
senses, that the young and tender mind
may be disposed to seek amusements else
where, in the regions of poesy, or in the
sublime walks of philcfophy. Thus, a
mental taste intirely new would fooh be
acquired, and the young fludent would
become imperceptibly and unwarily ha
bituated to a elofe, and rational way of
thinking ; an acquisition of the last im
portance to those, who would shine in
the literary world. Dartmouth, from its
locallity, will never be expafed to those
unnecessary luxuries, so fatal to the arts
and sciences in many feminaries# Here,
the student finds but few objects to at
tract his attention ; his mind is chiefly
engrossed with his associates arid books.
Where then, can a youth be better Ra
tioned to acquire what is the principal
detign of a collegiate education, a large
fund of classical learning? Philosophy Ries
the gay and luxurious and seeks her resi
dence in. retirement, where peace, silence
and fimpiicity of manners prevail. Such
is the tranquil habitation of Dartmouth.—
Here may be acquired that calranefi and
stability of mind, which characterize the
ancient Roman or true Englishman, and
which lay a foundation for future happi
ness and glory ; here, that enlarged com
pass of thought, which coftitutes the pro
found philosopher ; here, that pure mo+
rality and ftri& virtue, which would have
dignified a Roman censor; and here
finally, may be found, in perfection,(hat
found health which imparts a rekih to all
our enjoy -nents.^ v % -
2^Z<>^^>& < >*S.>^^S^>^$y^s
DLANKS, of various kinds
—for lalc at this Offig^
fy the Rodents for publick business and
give them a tolerable idea of the ma
nagements of popular assemblies. Indeed!
these societies give, what I call, a proper
command of one's felf; they supply in a
great measure the inconvenience of nog
travelling abroad.
[Numb. 9 of Volume 6;