place; and who can dance with ease or spirit that fees Amaryllis led out before her? She that fancied nothing but a fucceffion of pleasures, will find herself engaged without defign in numberless competitions, and mortified without provocation with numberlefs afflictions.

But I do not mean to extinguifh that ardour which I wish to moderate, or to difcourage those whom I am endeavouring to reftrain. To know the world is neceffary, fince we were born for the help of one another; and to know it early is convenient, if it be only that we may learn early to despise it. She that brings to London a mind well prepared for improvement, tho' fhe miffes her hope of uninterrupted happiness, will gain in return an opportunity of adding knowledge to vivacity, and enlarging innocence to virtue.

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N° 81.

No 81. Saturday, November 3.

S the English army was paffing towards Quebec along a foft favanna between a mountain and a lake, one of the petty Chiefs

of the inland regions stood upon a rock furrounded by his clan, and from behind the fhelter of the bushes contemplated the art and regularity of European war. It was evening, the tents were pitched, he obferved the fecurity with which the troops refted in the night, and the order with which the march was renewed in the morning. He continued to pursue them with his eye till they could be feen no longer, and then stood for some time filent and penfive.

THEN turning to his followers, "My "children (faid he) I have often heard from "men hoary with long life, that there was a time when our ancestors were abfolute "lords of the woods, the meadows, and the

"lakes, wherever the eye can reach or the "foot can pass. They fished and hunted, "feafted and danced, and when they were 66 weary lay down under the first thicket, "without danger and without fear. They "changed their habitations as the seasons re"quired, convenience prompted, or curiofity "allured them, and fometimes gathered the "fruits of the mountain, and fometimes sport❝ed in canoes along the coaft.

"MANY years and ages are fupposed to "have been thus paffed in plenty and fecu"rity; when at laft, a new race of men en"tered our country from the great Ocean. "They inclofed themselves in habitations of "ftone, which our ancestors could neither "enter by violence, nor destroy by fire. They "iffued from thofe faftneffes, fometimes co"vered like the armadillo with fhells, from

which the lance rebounded on the ftriker, " and sometimes carried by mighty beasts " which had never been seen in our vales or "forests, of such strength and swiftness, that "flight and opposition were vain alike. Those "invaders ranged over the continent, flaugh"tering in their rage those that refifted, and

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"thofe that fubmitted, in their mirth. Of "those that remained, fome were buried in

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caverns, and condemned to dig metals for "their masters; fome were employed in till❝ing the ground, of which foreign tyrants "devour the produce; and when the fword "and the mines have deftroyed the natives, "they supply their place by human beings of another colour, brought from fome diftant

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country to perifh here under toil and tor

ture.

"SOME there are who boaft their huma"nity, and content themselves to feize our "chaces and fifheries, who drive us from

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every track of ground where fertility and "pleasantnefs invite them to settle, and make no war upon us except when we intrude upon our own lands.

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"OTHERS pretend to have purchased a ἐσ right of refidence and tyranny; but furely "the infolence of fuch bargains is more of"fenfive than the avowed and open dominion

of force. What reward can induce the poffeffor of a country to admit a ftranger "more powerful than himself? Fraud or ter

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"ror muft operate in fuch contracts; either "they promised protection which they never "have afforded, or inftruction which they "never imparted. We hoped to be fecured. "by their favour from fome other evil, or to "learn the arts of Europe, by which we "might be able to fecure ourselves. Their "power they have never exerted in our de"fence, and their arts they have ftudiously "concealed from us. Their treaties are only "to deceive, and their traffick only to de<< fraud us. They have a written Law among

them, of which they boaft as derived from "him who made the Earth and Sea, and by

which they profefs to believe that man will "be made happy when life fhall forfake him. "Why is not this Law communicated to us? "It is concealed because it is violated. For "how can they preach it to an Indian nation, when I am told that one of its first precepts "forbids them to do to others what they "would not that others should do to them.

"BUT the time perhaps is now approach-ing when the pride of ufurpation shall be "crushed, and the cruelties of invafion fhall "be revenged. The fons of. Rapacity have