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rity; let the laws of your country be facred in your eyes; encroach not on the rights and privileges of your people; and if the time fhall ever come, when you thall with to enjoy the tranquillity of private life, may you have a son endowed with fuch qualities, that you can refign your fceptre to him, with as much fatisfaction as I give up mine to you."

As foon as Charles had finifhed this long addrefs to his fubjects, and to their new fovereign, he funk into the chair, exhaufted and ready to faint with the fatigue of fuch an extraordinary effort. During his difcourfe, the whole audience melted into tears; fome from admiration of his magnanimity; others foftened by the expreffions of tendernefs towards his fon, and of love to his people; and all were affected with the deepest forrow, at loting a fovereign, who had diftinguished the Netherlands, his native country, with particular marks of his regard and attachment.

SECTION XXVII.

THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

A FEW weeks after the refignation of the Netherlands, Charles, in an affembly no lefs fplendid, and with a ceremonial equally pompous, refigned to his fon the crowns of Spain, with all the territories depending on them, both in the old and in the new world. Of all thefe vaft poffef fions, he referved nothing for himself, but an annual penfion of an hundred thousand crowns, to defray the charges of his family, and to afford him a small fum for acts of benef icence and charity.

Nothing now remained to detain him from that retreat for which he languifhed. Every thing having been prepared fome time for his voyage, he fet out for Zuitburg in Zealand, where the fleet had orders to rendezvous. In his way thither, he paffed through Ghent; and after topping there a few days, to indulge that tender and pleasant melancholy, which arifes in the mind of every man in the decline of life, on vifiting the place of his nativity, and viewing the scenes and objects familiar to him in his early youth, he purfued his journey, accompanied by his fon Philip, his daughter the arch-duchefs, his fifters the dowager queens of France and Hungary, Maximilian his fon-in law, and a numerous retinue of the Flemish nobility. Be

fore he went on board, he difmiffed them with marks of his attention or regard; and taking leave of Philip with all the tenderness of a father who embraced his fon for the last time, he fet fail under convoy of a large fleet of Spanish, Flemish, and English fhips.

His voyage was profperous and agreeable; and he arrived at Laredo in Bifcay, on the eleventh day after he left Zealand. As foon as he landed, he fell proftrate on the ground; and confidering himself now as dead to the world, he kiffed the earth, and faid, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked I now return to thee, thou common mother of mankind.” From Laredo he proceeded to Valladolid. There he took a laft and tender leave of his two fifters; whom he would not permit to accompany him to his folitude, though they entreated it with tears; not only that they might have the confolation of contributing, by their attendance and care, to mitigate or to foothe his fufferings, but that they might reap inftruction and benefit, by joining with him in those pious exerçifes, to which he had confecrated the remainder of His days.

From Valladolid, he continued his journey to Plazencia in Eftremadura. He had paffed through that city a great rhany years before; and having been truck at that time with the delightful fituation of the monaftery of St. Juftus," Belonging to the order of St. Jerome, not many miles diftant from that place, he had then obferved to fome of his attendants, that this was a fpot to which Deioclefian might have retired with pleasure. The impreffion had remained fo ftrong on his mind, that he pitched upon it as the place of his retreat. It was feated in a vale of no great extent, watered by a fmall brook, and furrounded by rifing grounds, covered with lofty trees; from the nature of the foil, as well as the temperature of the climate, it was ef teemed the most healthful and delicious fituation in Spain. Some months before his refignation, he had fent an architect thither, to add a new apartment to the monaftery, for his accommodation; but he gave ftrict orders, that the fle of the building fhould be fuch as fuited his prefent ftation, rather than his former dignity. It confifted only of fix rooms, four of them in the form of friars' cells, with haked walls; the other two, each twenty feet fquare, were

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hung with brown cloth, and furnished in the most fimple manner. They were all on a level with the ground; with a door on one fide into a garden, of which Charles himself had given the plan, and had filled it with various plants, which he proposed to cultivate with his own hands. On the other fide, they communicated with the chapel of the monaftery, in which he was to perform his devotions. Into this humble retreat, hardly fufficient for the comfortable accommodation of a private gentleman, did Charles enter, with twelve domeftics only. He buried there, in folitude and filence, his grandeur, his ambition, together with all thofe vaft projects, which, during half a century, had alarmed and agitated Europe; filling every kingdom in it, by turns, with the terror of his arms, and the dread of being fubjected to his power.

In this retirement, Charles formed fuch a plan of life for himfelf, as would have fuited the condition of a private perfon of a moderate fortune. His table was neat but plain; his domeftics few ; his intercourfe with them familiar; all the cumbersome and ceremonious forms of attendance on his perfon were entirely abolished, as destructive of that focial eafe and tranquillity, which he courted, in order to foothe the remainder of his days. As the mildnefs of the climate, together with his deliverance from the burdens and cares of government, procured him, at first, a confiderable remiffion from the acute pains with which he had been long tormented, he enjoyed, perhaps, more complete fatisfaction in this humble folitude, than all his grandeur had ever yielded him. The ambitious thoughts and projects, which had fo long engroffed and difquieted him, were quite effaced from his mind. Far from taking any part in the political tranfactions of the princes of Europe, he restrained his curiofity even from any inquiry concerning them: and he seemed to view the bufy fcene which he had abandoned, with all the contempt and indifference arifing from his thorough experience of its vanity, as well as from the pleafing reflection of having difentangled himself from its cares.

DR. ROBERTSON,

PART II

PIECES IN POETRY..

CHAPTER I.

SELECT SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS..

SECTION I.

SHORT AND EASY SENTENCES,

EDUCATION.

TIS
19 education forms the common mind;
Juft as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

CANDOUR.

With pleasure let us own our errors past;
And make each day a critic on the laft

REFLECION.

A foul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

SECRET VIRTUE.

The private path, the fecret acts of men,
If noble, far the nobleft of their lives.

NECESSARY KNOWLEDGE EASILY ATTAINED,·

Our needful knowledge, like our needful food,
Unhedg'd, lies open in life's common field;
And bids all welcome to the vital feast.

DISAPPOINTMENT.

Difappointment lurks in many a prize,
As bees in flow'rs; and ftings us with fuccefs.

NOTE.

In the first chapter, the Compiler has exhibited a confiderable variety of poetical conftruction, for the young reader's preparatory exercife.

VIRTUOUS ELEVATION.

The mind that would be happy, must be great;
Great in its wishes; great in its furveys.
Extended views a narrow mind extend.

NATURAL AND FANCIFUL LIFE

Who lives to nature, rarely can be pure :
Who lives to fancy, never can be rich,

CHARITY.

In faith and hope the world will disagree;
But all mankind's concern is charity.

THE PRIZE OF KIRTUE.

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,
The foul's calm funfhine, and the heart felt joy,
Is virtue's prize.

SENSE AND MODESTY CONNECTED.

Diftruftful fense with modeft caution speaks;
It still looks home, and fhort excurfions makes;
But rattling nonfenfe in full volleys breaks.

MORAL DISCIPLINE SALUTARE.

Heav'n gives us friends to blefs the present scene;
Refumes them to prepare us for the next.
All evils natural are moral goods;
All difcipline, indulgence, on the whole.

PRESENT BLESSINGS UNDERVALUED.

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Like birds, whofe beauties languifh, half conceal'd,
Till, mounted on the wing, their gloffy plumes
Expanded fhine with azure, green, and gold,
How bleffings brighten as they take their flight!

HOPE.

Hope, of all paffions moft befriends us here:
Paffions of prouder name befriend us less.
Joy has her tears, and transport has her death;
Hope, like a cordial, innocent, though ftrong,
Man's heart, at once, infpirits and ferenes.

HAPPINESS MODEST AND TRANQUIL

Never man was truly bleft,

But it compos'd, and gave him fuch a cast
As folly might mistake for want of joy :

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