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terms of feeling misery, the heavy losses and distresses which they had sustained by a rupture with England; yet, strange as it may appear, they seemed to think well o. their new government, and spoke with great esteem of their king, of whom they said they well knew, he felt the impolicy of a war with England as much as any Dutchman, and that he would rejoice at the hour, when the great political events which were passing in other parts of the world, would admit of a renewal of amity and free intercourse with that country-they spoke of the government of the Stadtholder with contempt, and of the Republie with detestation.

I visited the new church, the tower of which is very fine, and of a prodigious altitude. The first object that excited my curiosity, was the tomb of the immortal Grotius, whose remains were brought here, after he expired at Rostock, in 1645, upon his return from the court of Christina, Queen of Sweden, to this, his native city. The tomb erected to his memory is simple, but handsome; it consists of a medallion representing the head of this great man, and a child leaning upon an urn with a torch inverted. The epitaph in latin is elegant, and expressive of the merits and virtues it perpetuates. I regret, upon opening my memorandums, to find my pencil copy of it so effaced as to be unintelligible: of this great civilian and general

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scholar, Aubere du Marier, who knew him very intimately said, "that he was tall, strong, and a well made man, and "had a very agreeable countenance. With all those ex"cellences of body, his mind was still more excellent. He

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was a man of openness, of veracity, and of honor, and "so perfectly virtuous, that throughout his whole life, he "made a point of avoiding and of deserting men of bad "character, but of seeking the acquaintance of men of "worth, and persons distinguished by talents, not only "of his own country, but of all Europe, with whom he kept up an epistolary correspondence.

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Grotius displayed great precocity of talents. At the age of fifteen, he accompanied the Dutch ambassador, Barneveldt, into France, and was honored by several marks of esteem by Henry the Fourth, who at that age discovered extraordinary powers in the mind of Grotius, but could not help expressing his surprise, that the States should send a youth without a beard as an assistant to their ambassador; upon which the stripling astonished the great Henry by this brilliant reply-"Had my country con"ceived that your Majesty measured ability by the length "of the beard, they would have sent in my room a he goat of Norway."

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At seventeen he pleaded as a civilian at the bar in his

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own country, and was not twenty-four when appointed attorney-general. He escaped from the castle of Louvestein, where he was condemned to be imprisoned for life, for the share he had in the affairs which proved the ruin of Barneveldt, in the following interesting manner :-his wife, Maria Van Reygersbergen, who was most tenderly attached to him, and a lady of great learning and accomplishments, conciliated the esteem of the wife of the governor of the castle so far, as to obtain permission, during the absence of the governor one day, to have removed from her husband's apartment a large quantity of books, which he had borrowed of a friend at Gorcum: by the address and excellent management of a servant maid, Grotius occupied the place of the books in the trunk; he was safely conveyed from the castle, not without imminent peril of being drilled through the body, in consequence of the porters who carried him down stairs, suspecting that the trunk held a more learned treasure, than that which it was said to contain.

Grotius took refuge in France, which he quitted in consequence of the illiberal conduct of the Cardinal de Richlieu towards him, and accepted of an invitation from that singular princess Christina, Queen of Sweden, who was greatly attached to him, and made him her ambassador at Paris, where the Cardinal gave him much trouble, in consequence of his not yielding precedence to him. When

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Grotius had breathed his last, his countrymen felt contrition for their oppression, and struck a medal in honor of him, on which he is styled, "The Oracle of Delft-the "Phoenix of his Country."

"This common body,

"Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,

"Goes to and back, lackying the varying tide."

Anth. and Cleop. Act I, Sc. 4.

The lines of Horace may be well applied to this great

man

Urit enim fulgore suo, qui prærgravat artes
Infra se positas: extinctus amabitur idem.

I shall conclude these interesting anecdotes of Grotius, by giving his excellent sentiments on the education of boys, as he imparted them to Isaac Vossius, which in my humble opinion ought to be considered as a treasure to every parent-" Many persons," says he, "make use of "tutors for the education of their children, which hardly "ever succeeds as it was intended. I have never ap

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young persons learn only when they are together, and "that their application is languid where there is no emu"lation. I am as little of a friend to schools, where the "master scarce knows the names of his scholars; where "the number is so great that he cannot distribute his at

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"tention upon each of them, whose composition requires "a particular attention. For these reasons I wish that a "medium of the two methods were taken, that a master "took only ten or twelve boys, who should live in the "same house, and be of the same classes, by which means "the master himself would not be overloaded with cares.' Grotius also recommends the student to begin with those histories which are nearest to his own time.

The fate of Barneveldt is related with great spirit by Voltaire, who says, "But human affairs are ever chec

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quered with good and evil." Mankind are so apt to deviate from their principles, that this republic (Holland) had nearly destroyed the liberty for which she had so bravely fought, and persecution boiled in the blood of a people, whose happiness and laws were founded on toleration. Two calvinistical doctors did what so many doctors have done in so many other places. Gomar and Arminius disputed most furiously at Leyden, about what neither of them understood. This produced dissensions in the United Provinces.

The dispute was in many respects similar to those of the Thomists and Scotists, or of the Jansenists and Molinists, concerning predestination, grace, liberty, and other obscure and frivolous articles, where they know not how

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