Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-06-01

insinuations had the effect desired by thos.
| who made them, insomuch that while De.
metrius was entertaining his old acqnan,.
ance and new friends, Pausanius, " ith a
guard OF a thousand horse, cane TO con.
duct him, not, as he hoped, to the presence
| of Seieucus, but 10 castle in smalisland.
! where he remained prisoner. Seieucus.
when he had provided for his own securi-
ty, did all that could be thought ofto make
confinement easySto Demetrus. He or.
dered him royal entertainment within doors.
a fine stable Of horses, and the use Of
noble park without. To give him right
relish of these pleasures, hopes were che.
rished, and promises OF liberty inlermked,
which were all made TO depend upon the
coming of .Antiochus and Statonice, 10
whom the conditions on which this free.
| dom was to he obtained were reterred.--
All other arts were practised to amuse De.
metrius and to divert his care. AT first, he
suffered bimse,f to he deIuded, and hoped
that, after time, Seleucus would see him:
but when lie found lhi, protracted, and
that excuse succeeded excuse, he penetra-
. ted the design of his polite son.in-la law and
without giving in to vain expectations,
sought by all methods, 10 make his life as
little tedious to him as might be. Hunting
was for time his chief diversion; but by
| degrees he Quilted it, gave himself up to
feastiDg and carousing, that in wine, and
( pleasant conversation, the memory of past
greatness, and present sorrows might be
drowned /; so hard thing for those who
pretend TO fight for repose to enjoy it, when
they acquire It either IN consequence of
their victories, or through the mere bounty
OF providence and so much wiser it is to
moderate our desires, than to place all
hopes in their qualification.
De'netrius found by fatal experience that
mirth and VINE were no cures for grief,
for while by them he sought to stihe hl,
concern, the struggle between resentment,
and desire to conceal it, added to bis high
living, induced distemper, which, when
he had been prisoner three years, carried
him of in the 6ity-fourth year of his age.
While Demetrus lay in prison, many
princes and states, moved with the distress
of so great a prince, sued to Seleucus Tor
his liberty. Lysimadus only was base
enough to offer him vast sum of money to
put him to death which, with the highest
Indignation, Seleucus refused, affirming
that neither envy, nor any anciest antipa-
thy incined him TO confne Demetrius, but
orly a regard for his own safety, and just
attention to reasons of state. As Demetrus
had rendered himseIfvery remarka ble, for
his flial piety towards his father, SO bis son
Antigonus manifested as Iaudable affection
towards him; for notwithstanding the let.
ter his father had wrote him, might in the
opinion Of the world have freed him from
all censure, yet did he offer Seleucus not
only all thathe heId IN Greece, but his own
person in hostage for his fathers liberty
but this was refused. However, Amigo
nus continued earnestly to solicit it, by the
most pressing and passionate letters, as
long as Demetrius lived, going in deep
mourning during that space, land never once
partaking OF any feasts or diversions while
his father was in prison. As soon as he un.
derstood his fathers ashes were coming
from Syria, he sailed with noble feet to
the Archipelago to meet them.
He then deposited them in an urn ofgold,
which, when he entered the harbor of Co.
rinth, he placed in the poop of the royal
galley, set his crown upon it, and covered
it with canopy OF purple, himself stand.
ing by, clad in deep mourning, and bis eyes
red with tears. Most of the cities IN Greece
sent chaplets TO crown the urn, and depu-
taions of their prime citizens to assist at
the funeral. All the trophies ofhonor were
left at Corinth, where the ceremony was
performed; but the urn itself was trans
ported TO Demetria, city to which the late
king had gwen his name, which had been
built under his direction, ami peopled by
his ccmmandnut ofthe villages in the neigh
borhood Of CoIchos. Z.