was impreffed on every face: each looked upon death as his own inevitable lot; for how fhould they defire to be faved at the price propofed? Whom had they to deliver up, fave parents, brothers, kindred, or yaliant neighbors, who had fo often expofed their lives in their defence.

10. To a long and dead filence, deep fighs and groans fucceeded, till Euftace Saint Pierre, afcending a little eminence, thus addreffed the affembly: "My friends and fellow citizens, you see the condition to which we are reduced; we muft either fubmit to the terms of our cruel and enfnaring conquerer, or yield up our tender infants, our wives and chafte daughters, to the bloody and brutal lufts of the violating foldiery."

11. We well know what the tyrant intends by his fpe, cious offers of mercy. It does not fatiate his vengeance to make us merely miferable, he would alfo make us criminal. He would make us contemptible; he will grant us life on no Condition, fave that of our being unworthy of it. Look about you, my friends, and fix your eyes on the perfons whom you With to deliver up as the victims of your own fafety."

2. "Which of thefe would you appoint to the rack, the ax, or the halter? Is there any here who has not watched for you, who has not fought for you, who has not bled for you? Who, through the length of this inveterate fiege has not fuffered fatigues and miferies a thousand times worfe than death; that you and yours might furvive to days of peace and profperity? Is it your prefervers, then, whom you would deftine to deftruction?"

You will not, you cannot do it. Juftice, heflor, 13. humanity, make luch a treafon impoffible. Where then is our refource? Is there an expedient left, whereby we may avoid guilt and infamy on ene hand, or the defolation and horrors of a facked city on the other?"

14. "There is my friends, there is one expedient left; a gracious, an excellent, a god-like expedient! Is there any hero to whom virtue is dearer than life! Let him offer himfelf an oblation for the fafety of his people. He fhall not fail of a bleffed approbation from that power, who orfered up his only Son for the Salvation of mankind."

15. He spoke but an univerfal: Alence enfued. Each man looked around for the example of that virtue and mag. nanimity in others, which all wished to approve in themfelven though they wanted the refolution. At length St. Pierre refuméds

16. "It had been hafe in me, my fellow citizens, to promote any matter of damage to others; which I myself had not been willing to undergo im my own perfon. But I held it ungenerous to deprive any man of that preference and estimation, which might attend a firft offer on fo fignal an occafion: for I doubt not but there are many here as ready, nay, more zealous for this martyrdom than I. can be, however modefty and the fear of imputed oflenta» tion may withhold them from being foremoft in exhibiting their merits."

17. Indeed, the ftation to which the captivity of count Vienne has unhappily raised me, imports a right to be the first in giving my life for your fakes. I give it freely, I give it cheerfully; who comes next ?" Your fon! ex claimed a youth, not yet come to maturity.Ah, my child! cried St. Pierre: I am then twice facrificed.But no I have rather begotten thee a fecond time.Thy years are few, but full, my fon; the victim of virtue has reached the utmost purpose and goal of mortality.

18. Who next, my friends? This is the hour of heroes. Your kinfman, cried John de Aire? Your kinfman, cried James Wiflant! your kinfman, cried Peter Willant !"Ah! exclaimed Sir Walter Mauny, bursting into tears, why was not la Citizen of Calais ?"

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19. The fixth victim was still wanting, but was quickly fupplied by lot, from numbers who were now emulous of fo ennobling an example. The keys of the city were then delivered to Sir Walter. He took the fix prifoners into his cuftody. He ordered the gates to be opened, and gave charge to attendants to conduct the remaining citizens, with their families, through the camp of the English.

20. Before they departed, however they defired permif fion to take their laft adieu of their deliverers What a parting! what a fcene! they crouded with their wives and children about St. Pierre and his fellow prifoners. They embraced, they clung around, they fell proftrate before

them. They groaned; they wept aloud; and the joine clamor of their mourning paffed the gates of the city, and was heard throughout the camp.

21. At length, Saint Pierre and his fellow victims ap peared under the conduct of Sir Walter and his guard. All the tents of the English were inftantly emptied. The foldiers poured from all parts, and arranged themselves on each fide to behold, to contemplate, to admire this little band of patriots as they paffed.

122. They murmured their applaufe of that virtue which they could not but revere even in enemies: and they re garded thofe ropes which they had voluntarily affumed about their necks, as enfigns of greater dignity than that w of the British Garter.

23. As foon as they had reached the royal prefence, "Mauny," fays the king, "are thefe the principal inha bitants of Calais ?" They are," fays Mawy: "they are not only the principal men of Calais: they are the principal men of France, my lord, if virtue has any fhare in the act of ennobling."

24. "Were they delivered peaceably ?" fays Edward § "Was there no refiftance, no commotion among the peo ple?" "Not in the least, my Lord. They are felf-deliver ed, self-devoted, and come to offer up their ineftimable heads as an ample equivalent for the ranfom of thousands."

25. The king, who was highly incenfed at the length and difficulty of the fiege, ordered them to be carried away to immediate execution; nor could all the remonftrances and entreaties of his courtiers divert him from his cruel pur pofe. But what neither a regard to his own intereft and honor, what neither the dictates of justice, nor the feelings of humanity could effect, was happily accomplished by the more powerful influence of conjugal affection.

26. The queen, who was then big with child, being informed of the particulars refpecting the fix victims, flew into her husband's prefence, threw herself on her knees before him, and, with tears in her eyes, befought him not to ftain his character with an indelible mark of infamy, by commit ting fuch a horrid and barbarous deed.

27. Edward could refuse nothing to a wife whom he fo tenderly loved, and efpecially in her condition and the queen, not fatisfied with having faved the lives of the

1x Burghers, conducted them to her tent, where the ap plauded their virtue, regaled them with a plentiful repasts and having made them a present of money and clothes, fent ́ Mem back to their fellow-citizens.

·Extract from D■. BELKNAP's ADDRESS TO THE "INHABITANTS OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, AT THE CLOSE HTS HISTORY OF THAT STATE Citizens of New-Hampshire,

*Hyou, and paffed through various fcenes of peace

AVING fpent above twenty years of my life with

and war within that time; being perfonally acquainted With many of you, both in your public and private characters; and having an earnest defire to promote your true tereft, I troft you will not think me altogether unqualified to give you a few hints by way of advice.

2. You are certainly a rifing State; your numbers are rapidly increafing ; and your importance in the political ftale will be augmented, in proportion to your improving the natural advantages which your fituation affords you, and to your cultivating the intellectual and moral powers of yourfelves and your children.

3. The firft article on which I would open my mind to you is that of Education. Nature has been as bountiful to you as to any other people, in giving your children genius and capacity; it is then your duty and your intereft to cultivate their capacities, and render them ferviceable to them. felves and the community.

4. It was the faying of a great orator and statefinan of antiquity, that "The lofs which the Commonwealth fuf tains, by a want of education, is like the lofs which the year would fuffer by the deftruction of the fpring."

5. If the bud be blafted, the tree will yield no fruit. If the springing corû be eut down, there will be no hatveft. So if the youth be ruined through a fault in their education, the community fuftains a lots which cannot be repaired; "for it is too late to correct them when they are fpoiled.

6. Notwithstanding the care of your legiflators in enacting laws, and enforcing them by fevere penalties; notwithstanding the wife and liberal provifion which is made

by fome towns, and fome private gentlemen in the State: yet there is. ftill in many places, a great and criminal neglect of education."

7. You are indeed a very confiderable degree better, in this refpect, than in the time of the late war; but yet much remains to be done. Great care ought to be taken, not only to provide a fupport for infractors of children and youth; but to be attentive in the choice of inftructors; to fee that they be men of good understanding, learning and morals; that they teach by their example as well as by their precepts; that they govern themselves, and teach their pupils the art of felf-government

8. Another, fource of improvement, which I beg leave to recommend, is the establishment of focial libraries This is the cafeft, the cheapest and most effectual mode of diffufing knowledge among the people. For the fum of fix or eight dollars at pnce, and a small annual payment befides, a man may be fupplied with the means of literary improvement, during his life, and his childon may inherit the bleffing.

9. A few neighbours joined together in fetting up a library, and placing it under the care of fome, futtable pr fon, with a very few regulations, so prevent carele finefs and wafte, may render the most effential fervice to themselves and to the community,

10. Books may be much better preferved in this way than if they belonged to individuals; and there is an ad. vantage in the focial intercourfe of perfons who have read the fame books, by their converfing on the fubjects which have occurred in their reading, and communicating their obfervations one to another,

11. From this mutual intercourse, another advantage may arife; for the perfons who are thus affociated may not only acquire, but originate knowledge. By ftudy ing nature and the fciences; by practising arts, agricul ture and manufactures, at the fame time that they improve their minds in reading they may be led to difcoveries and improvements, original and beneficial; and being already formed into fociety, they may diffufe their knowledge, ripen their plans, correct their mistakes, and promote the caufe of fcience and humanity in a very con fiderable degree.