here increased in ftature, and all perfonal accomplishments, and had happily got over the measles and fmall-pox. He was now nearly mafter of the Latin and Greek languages. He could outrun the reindeer, and outbound the antelope. He was held in veneration by all mafters of the noble science of defence. His action was vigour, his countenance was lovelinefs, and his movement was grace.

Harry, by this time, was also verfed in most of the select and interesting portions of hiftory. Mr Clement had inftructed him in the use of the globes and maps; and as he there led him from clime to clime, and country to country, he brought him acquainted with the different manners cuftoms, laws, politics, governments, rife, progrefs, and revolutions of the feveral nations through which they paffed. Finally, faid Clement, you fee, Mafter Fenton, that the mightieft ftates, like men, have the principles of growth, as likewise of diffolution, within their own frame. Like men, they are born and die, have their commencement and their period. They arife, like the fun, from the darknefs of poverty, to temperance, induftry. liberty, valour, power, conqueft, glory, OPULENCE and there is there zenith. From whence they decline, to ease, fenfuality,

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fuality, venality, vice, corruption, cowardice, imbecility, infamy, SLAVERY. And fo good night!

Mr Fenton now judged it full time to give our hero an infight into the nature of the conftitution of his own country; a conftitution, of whofe conftruction, poise, action, and counteraction, the lettered Mr Clement had fcarcely any notion; and even the learned in our laws, and the leaders in our fenate, but a very confufed idea.

For this especial purpose he called Harry to his closet. You are already, my love, faid he, a member of the British State; and, on that account, have many privileges to claim, and many duties to perform toward your country in particular, independent of your general duties to mankind.

Should it please God to bless your friends with the continuance of your life for eight or ten years longer, you will then be a member of the legislature of GREAT BRITAIN, one of the higheft and most important trufts that can be confided by mankind!

Here, my Harry, I have penned, or rather pencilled, for your ufe, an abstract in miniature of this wonderful conftitution. But, before I give it for your study and VOL. III. S frequent

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fome frequent perufal, I would give you knowledge of the claims whereon it is founded; as alfo of the nature of man in his prefent depraved ftate. and of his feveral relations as a fubject and as a fovereign.

Man comes into this world, the weakest of all creatures, and, while he continues in it, is the moft dependent. Nature neither clothes him with the warm fleece of the fheep, nor the gay plumage of the bird; neither does he comes forth in the vigour of the foal or the fawn, who, on the hour of their birth, frisk about and exult in the bleffing of new existence.

Sacred hiftory, indeed, intimates, that man was originally created invulnerable and immortal; that the fire could not burn him, ftones wound, air blaft, nor water That he was the angelic drown him. lord and controller of this earth, and thefe heavens that roll around us; with powers to fee, at once into, the effences, natures, properties, and diftinctions of things; to unfold all their virtues, to call forth all their beauties, and to rule, fubdue, and moderate these elements at pleasure.

Thefe, truly, were god-like gifts, illuftrious powers and prerogatives, and well becoming an offspring produced in the

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True, Sir, faid Harry; but then we fee nothing, now, of all this greatness and glory. Man, on the contrary, is himself fubjected to all the elements over which, you fay, he was apointed the ruler; he has every thing to fear from every thing about him; even the infects and little midges fearlessly attack and fting this boalted lord of the creation; and hiflory fhews, from the beginning of the world, that the greatest of all enemies to man, is man.

This, replied Mr Fenton, is continually to remind him of the depraved and guilty ftate into which he has fallen. Man, indeed, is now no better than the remains of man; but then thefe remains are fufficient to prove the luftre and dignity of his original ftate. When you behold the ruins of fome lofty and fpacious palice, you immediately form an idea of the original beauty and ftatelinefs of the ftructure. Even fo, in our prefent feeble and fractured ftate, a difcerning eye may difcover many traces and fragments of man's magnificent ruin-- thoughts that wing infinity; apprehenfions that reach through eternity; a fancy that creates, an imagi nation that contains a univerfe; wilhes, S. 2 that

that a world hath not wherewithal to gratify; and defires, that know neither ending nor bound!

Thefe, however, are but the faint glimmerings of his once glorious illumination. All his primitive faculties are now lapfed and darkened; he is become enflaved to his natural fubjects; the world is wrested out of his hands; he comes as an alien into it, and may literally be called "a ftranger and pilgrim upon earth."

All other animals are gifted with a clear knowledge and inftant difcernment of whatever concerns them: man's utmost wisdom, on the contrary, is the bare refult of comparing and inferring; a mere inquirer called reafon, a fubftitute in the want of knowledge, a groper in the want of light, he muft doubt before he reasons, and examine before he decides.

Thus ignorant, feeble, deeply depraved, and the leaft fufficient, of all creatures in a flate of independence, man is impelled to derive fucour, ftrength, and even wifdom, from fociety. When he turns a pitying ear and helping hand to the difireffed, he is intitled, in his turn, to be heard and affified. He is interefted in others, others are interested in him. His aflections grow more diffused, his powers n.ore complicated; and, in any society or

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