Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1829-09-11

| a'eduy acquired SO many inn
por'aht results against the efforts of fam
ny on tiie restoration to power, returning
WIN eighty thousand emigrant, and the
,nhuehce OF tanaticism at their hsels1-
| "hat Will become Of those who voted fnr
the death of the King, men who distin-
gu's"eu themselves III the revolution. the
nat'ohai domains, multitude of transact
| 'ious passed within the last twelve wears 2
Are you the man to foresee to hat extent
reaction would be carried 2" Genera;
cannot be necessary for me to remind
you that LOUIS 18th guarantees to YOU by
DIS letter the contrary of every thing, a.
oout winch you express any fears; am
aware at the reply that you would make
me. But are you not in a situation To- i'm.
pose such conditions as You shall iudpe
suitable Let that be the only condition
on which you consent to grant what they
ask there is no hurry. Take three or
Jour years you will he able in the mean
''he, 10 take such steps as may secure the
happiness OF France, by founding institu-
lions coniormable to her wants and situa.
tons. am convinced that custom and
habit would impart to them degree of
strength which it would not be easy TO
destroy; and, taking it for granted tina:
such an intention existed, they would not
succced.-You told me one day thew
wanted you TO act such another part as
Monck had done: you know there is no
similarity in the two cases, for YOU know
better than ], the difference which exists
between General who combats the u
supper of a crown, and him whom victory
and peace combined, have raised upon
the ruins of a PROSTATE chrome, and who
voluntarily restores ii to those who have
so long occupied it, You are decidedly
OF opinion that what you call iLeologv
will disappear forever but after you -
" know that better than you do but all
that you can say to me is of no effect. Be-
IIeve me, my dear friend, the Bourbons
would Imagine they had reconquered their
rights, and they would dispose of them
just as they might think proper. Engage
ments the most sacred, promises the most
positive, would vanish in the presence of
an armed force. You would be an ass i'm.
deed to place confidence in them. NV
mind Is made up; let ms say no more
about IL; but ! know how much those
women torment you. Try to bring them
10 their senses let them get rid of their
ride ulous presentiments Let them mind
their knitting and leave me to manage INV
own affairs" The women have attended
to their knitting / wrote under his die
tatIon he made himself an Emperor
the empire has crumbled to dust he died
at ST. Helena, and the Bourbons are res
tored.
The LIFE OF LOCKE, by Lord King
Just published, has excited no small SEN
saton in the learned world, particularly
at the Universities Of Oxford and Cam
bridge where the system of this great phi
losopher forms so prominent branch of
College education. The present work
certainly leads us to much more intimate
acquaintance with the author of the " Es-
say on the Human Understanding. than
we have yet had an opportunity Of acquir-
ing. Locke, when in France, in the year
1919, speaks, in the journal which he
then kept, and which has been lately
brought to light, Of parasois. as pretty
sort OF cover Cor women riding in the sun.
made OF straw, something like the tin CO.
veis for Dishes
Choice of a mtor.-In advising Lord
Peterborough respecting the choice of
tutor Tor his son, Mr.. Locke says finely
and wisely =" must beg leave to owe,
mat differ little from your lordship in
what you propose your lordship would
have thorough scholar, and think it
not much matter whether he be any great
scholar or no ifhe but understand Latin
well, ~ have a general scheme of the
sciences, think that enough but would
have him well-bred, well-tempered a man
that, having been conversant with the
world aud amongst nan, would have great
applications in observing the humor and
genius OF my lord your son and omit no.
thing that might help to form his mind
and dispose him to virtue, knowledge, and
industry. This | look upon as the great
business OF tutor this putting life into
the pupil, which, when he has got, mas
tiers OF all kinds are easily to be had for
when young gentleman has got a relish
OF knowledge, the love aud credit of doing
well spurs him on he will, with or with
out teachers, make great advances in what
ever he has mind to. Mr.. Newton learn
ed his mathematics only of himself.
With the reading of history, think the
study of morality should be joined /
mean not the ethics Of the schools fitted to
dispute, but such as FULLY in his Offices,
Putfendorf de Officio Hominis ct Ciyis, de
Jure Naturali ct Centrum, and, above all,
what the New testament teaches, wherein
man may learn to live, which is the bu-
siness of ethics, and not how to define and
dispute about names Of virtues and vices.
True politics | look on as part of moral
philosophy, which is nothing but tho art