Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-04-17

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not moment to lose: IsH prudehs 70
throw. away any of our time in torment
ing ourselves or others, when VIC nav
so little for honest pleasures! forgs.
ting our weakness, we stir up mighV
enn, aies, and fly to wound as 1t we we,s
invulnera6le. Wherefore all this busle
land noise? Fate hangs over sus' aha
charge. to our account, even those Gays
we spend in pain. The hour you desaho
for ano.her's death, is perhaps destinea
for YOUR own. The best use OF short
life is, to make it agreeable to ourselves
and to others. Have you cause OF quar-
rel with your servant, your master, your
king, your neighbor! forbear Momeht'
death is at hand, which makes all equsis
What has man.to do with wars, tumuits,
ambushes? You would destroy your
enemy you lose your trouble, death
will do your business while you are at
rest. And, after all, when you have got
your revenge, how short Will pc your
10Y, or his pain! While We are among
men, let US cultivate humanity; let US
not he the cause of fear, nor of pain, to
one other. Let us despise injury, ma
lice, ard detrac,ion; and bear with an
equal mind such transitory evils While
We speak, while wo think, death comes
up, and closes the scene.
Henry Duke Of Saxony, in n'elan'
choly 6t, under the impressions OF a
wicked action recently perpet'aied,
| dreamed, that the tutelar angel OF the
country stood before him with anger IN
his looks, mixed with some degree ct
pity, Inflated wretch, said the appari.
ton, listen to the awful command bear.
The Almighty, unwilling to cutthee OFT
in the fulness of ini1uity, has sent me to
give you warning. Upon this the angel
reached scroll of paper, and vanished
The scroll contained the following
words, after sir. Here the dream end
ed; for the impression it made broke
| his rest. The prince awaked in the
greatest CONSERVATION, deeply struck
With the vision. He was convinced that
the whole was from God, to prepare him
for death; which he concluded was to
happen in six months, perhaps IN SIX
| days; and that this time was allotted
him to make his peace with his Maker
by an unfeigned repentance for all his
crimes. How idle and unpleasant seem
ed nuw shnss nbioets which hs formerly
pursued at the expence of religion and
humanity Where is now that lust of
l command, which occasloned SO much
bloodshsd; that cruel malice and envy
against every centending power that
suspicious jealousy, the cause of much
imaginary treason: furies fostersd in
| his bosom, preying necessarily upon MS
| yitaIs, and yet darlings of his soul e.
Happy expulsion, If not succeeded by
the greatest of all fures, black despair.
| Thus, in the utmost torlnents OF mind,
| six days, six weeks, and six months
| passed away; bat death did not follow.
And now he concluded that six years
were to be the period Of his miserable
| life. BY this time the violence of the
tempest was over. Hitherto he had Sc
| questere6 himselffrom mankind, and had
I spent in abstinence and private worship,
| the short time he tho't allotted him. Now
| began he to form resolutions Of a more
! thorough repentance; now was he liked
to do good, as formerly he had done
mischief, with all his heart. The sup.
! posed shortness Of his warning had hi.
the.io not left it in his power to repair
| the many injuries he had committed,
which was the weighicst load upon his
mind. Now was he resolved to make
| the most ample PREPARATION.
His first endeavors were, to regain
| the confidence of his mobiles, and love OF
| his people. With unremitting applica'
| ton he attended to their good; and soon
| felt that satisfaction in considering him.
self as their father, which he never knew
when he considered them as his slaves,
Now began he to relish the pleasures OF
social intercourse, of which pride and
icalousy had made him hitherto insensi-
bio. He had thought friendship chi
mcra, devised to impose upon mankind.
Convinced now Of its reality, the cult,
vation of it was one of his chief OBJ
iects. Man he found to be being ho-
nest and faithful, deserving esteem, and
capable OF friendship hitherto he had
Judged OF others by the corrupt emo
tons Of his own heart. Well be re-
membcred his many gloomy moments
OF disgust and remorse, his spleen and
bad humor, the never.failing attendants
of vice and debauchery. Fearful to ex-
pose his wicked purposes, and dreading
every searching eye, he had estransed
himself from the world; and what could
he expect. conscious as he was OF de-
PRAYED heart, but aversion and horror
Miserable is that state, cut off from all
comfort, in which an unhappy nortaps
chief concern is to by from man, be-
cause every man is his enemy. After
| tasfinp of this misery, how did he bless