candles with all expedition, to save as much as possible for themselves. Of late, however, the sideboard has never once made its appearance to the great loss and grief of all parties concerned.Such-such is the unvarying life of a courtier-for, ex pede Herculem. Chained to the royal whims, like galley-slaves to their oars, they tug and turmoil, hated by each other, execrated by the public, and despised by the royal personages, before whom they play the parts of dancingdogs, as the following story will evince : THE KING, COUNTRY WOMAN, AND COW. A TRUE STORY, HENRY the Fourth of France, marching in state, And cow-she stopp'd to let them pass. He lov'd with such like folks to have a word(No pride in him-no more than George the Third) So ask'd what price she set upon her cow? "Six louis, Sir-I can't take less, I vow." "Goody, too much"-" Lord, Sir, how can you tell? "You're no cow-dealer-that I know full well." "Goody, you're blind, or might have seen that plain, "From this large drove of calves, I've in my train.” "Man may escape from rope and gun; That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacle, is lost in the sweets, MACHEATH-BEGGAR'S OPERA. When a prince ascends a throne with wrong notions of the regal institution, imagining the end of his station to be only his own individual gratification, what conduct is to be expected from him? That which will alienate the affections of his subjects, and, consequently, expose his weakness to the ridicule and contempt of his enemies. Those, therefore, who are entrusted with the educa tion of princes, are subjected to a responsibility of the first magnitude, since on them may materially depend the happiness or misery of a whole nation. We say may, because though proper education will always correct, it cannot always wholly counteract a perverse nature: Witness Seneca's failure VOL. I. H with Nero. A prince, however, should be taught primarily, that God, who is Lord and King over all, proposes the happiness of all his people, and wills not that they should be oppressed; that to imitate God is the noblest part they can act; and that it is their indispensible duty to make mankind happy; since kings are placed over them solely that they may enjoy the fruits of their honest industry in peace and security. A prince, thus instructed, will make himself acquainted with the constitution of the country which he is to govern, and which, without this knowledge, it is impossible that he should govern as he ought to do. It is most remarkable that among nations, civilized or uncivilized, we know no instance where any individual is entrusted with the supreme power, until he has sworn to be faithful to his trust. A prince of Great Britain, previously to his being crowned, is obliged to "solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of the kingdom of England, and the domi nions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same." Is it not therefore incumbent, not only on the heir apparent, but on all the princes of the blood .royal, who may, by any possibility, be within the pale of the succession, to make themselves acquainted with those statutes, laws, and customs, according to which they must promise and swear to govern ? Certainly -or we may again behold that paradox of the governor governed, which has so often. proved fatal to weak kings, and their vile ministers or favorites. Let us now merely suppose an instance, that the next person in succession to the throne, instead of qualifying himself to perform his solemn promise and oath, should have mispent his time with idle and dissolute companions, in bagnios, race-courses, gaming-houses, tennis-courts, &c. &c., if his mind be not then relaxed, and too much poisoned to apply itself to the attainment of the knowledge of the arduous and indispensible duties of the regal function, still the executive has to go to school, and |