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Iron utenfila; but how were they to be obtained? Thes would neither permit him to return to James-town, nor let the English know where he was, leaft they should demand him fword in hand.

8. Captain Smith, who was as fenfible as courageous, faid, that if Powhatan would permit one of his fubjects to arry to James-Town a leaf which he took from his pocket book, he should find under a tree, at the day and hour appointed all the articles demanded for his ranfem.

9. Powhatan confented; but without having much faith in his promifes, believing it to be only an artifice of the Captain to prolong his life. But he had written on the leaf a few lines, fufficient to give an account of his fitua tion. The meffenger returned. The king fent to the place fixed upon, and was greatly aftonifhed to and every thing which had been demanded.

10. Powhatan could not conceive this mode of tranfmitting thoughts; and Captain Smith was henceforth looked upon as a great magician, to whom they could not show too mach refpect. He left the favages in this opinion, and hast, ened to return home.

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11. Two or three years after, fome fresh differences arif ing amidst them and the English, Powhatan, who no longer thought them forcerers, but fill feared their power, laid a horrid plan to get rid of them altogether. His projec was to attack them in profound peace, and cut the throats of the whole colony.

12. The night of this intended confpiracy, Pocahontas took advantage of the obfcurity and in a terrible ftorm, which kept the favages in their tents, efcaped from her. father's houfe, advifed the English to be on their guard, but eonjured them to fpare her family; to appear ignorant of the intelligence he had given, and terminate all their difference, by a new treaty.

13. It would be tedious to relate all the fervices which this angel of peace rendered to both nations. I fhall only add, that the English, I know not from what motives, bus certainly against all faith and equity, thought preper to car ry her off. Long and bitterly did the deplore her fate; and the only confolation fhe had was Captain Smith, in whom She found a fecond father.

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14. She was treated with great respect and married

a planter by the name of Rolfe, who foon after took her to England. This was in the reign of James the firft and it is faid, that the monarch, pedantic and ridiculous in every point, was fo infatuated with the prerogatives of royalty, that he expreffed his difpleafure, that one of his fubjects thould dare to marry the daughter even of a favage king

5. It will not perhaps be difficult to decide on this occafion, whether it was the favage king who derived honor from finding himself placed upon a level with the European prince, or the English monarch, who, by his pride and prejudices, reduced himself to a level with the chief of the favages.

16. Be that as it will, Captain Smith, who had rea turned to London before the arrival of Pocahontas, was extremely happy to fee her again; but dared not treat her with the fame familiarity as at James-Town. As foon as the faw him, he threw herfelf into his arms, calling him her father; but finding that he neither returned her cas raffes with equal warmth, nor the endearing title of daughter, fhe turned afide her head and wept bitterly; and it was a long time before they could obtain a fingle word from her.

17. Capt. Smith inquired feveral times what could be the caufe of her affliction. "What! faid fhe, did I not fave thy life in America? When I was torn from the arms of my father, and conducted amongst thy friends, didft thou not promife to be a father to me? Didft thou not affure me, that if I went into thy country thou wouldst be my father, and that I fhould be thy daughter? Thou haft de ceived me, and behold me, now here, a stranger and an orphan."

18. It was not difficult for the Captain to make his peace with this charming creature, whom he tenderly loved. He prefented her to feveral people of the firft quality; but he never dared to take her to court, from which, however, the received several favors.

€ 19. After a refidence of feveral years in England, an example of virtue and piety, and attachment to her haf band, fhe died, as the was on the point of embarking for America. She left an only fon, who was married, and

left none but daughters; and from these are defcended fome of the principal characters in Virginia.

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Emilius, or Domestic Happiness.

HE government of a family depends on fuch various and oppofite principles, that it is a matter of extreme delicacy. Perhaps there is no fituation in life in which it is fo difficult to behave with propriety, as in the contest between parental authority and parental love. This is undoubtedly the reafon why we fee fo few happy families. Few parents are both loved and respected, because most of them are either the dupes or tyrants of their children.

2. Some parents, either from a natural weakness of mind or an excefs of fondnels, permit, and even encourage their ohildren, in a thousand familiarities, which render them ridiculous, and by diminifhing the refpect which is due to their age and station, deftroy all their authority.

3. Others, ruled by a partial and blind affection, which ean deny nothing to its object, indulge their children in all their romantic wifhes, however trifling and foolish; however degrading to their dignity or injurious to their welfare.

4. Others foured by misfortunes, or grown peevish and jealous by the lofs of youthful pleasures, and an acquintance with the deceit and folly of the world, attempt to restrain the ideas and enjoyments of youth by the rigid maxims of age.

5. The children of the first clafs often offend by filly manners and a kind of good natured difrespect. Thofe of the fecond are generally proud, whimsical and vicious. Thofe of the third, if they are fubdued when young, by the rigor of parental difcipline, forever remain morofe, illiberal and unfociable: or if, as it commonly happens, they find means to escape from reftraint, they abandon themselves to every fpecies of licentiousness.

6. To parents of these deferiptions may be added another clafs, whofe fondnefs blinds their eyes to the moft glaring vices of their children; or invents fuch palliations, as to prevent the most falutary corrections.

7. The tafte for amufements in young people, is the moft difficult to regulate by the maxims of prudence. In this article, parents are apt to err either by extreme indul

gence on the one hand, or immoderate rigour on the other.' 8. Recollecting the feelings of their youth, they give unbounded licence to the inclinations of their children; or having loft all relish for amufements, they refuse to gratify their most moderate defires.

9. It is a maxim which univerfally holds true, that the bent method of guarding youth from criminal pleafures, is to indulge them freely in those that are innocent. A perfon who has free-accefs to reputable fociety, will have little inclinatiou to frequent that which is vicious.

10. But thofe, who are kept under conftant reftraint, who are feldom in amufements, who are perpetually awed by the frowns of a parent, or foured by a difappointment of their most harmless wifhes, will at times break over all bounds to gratify their tafte for pleasure, and will not be anxious to difcriminate between the innocent and the criminal.

11. Nothing contributes more to keep youth within the limits of decorum, than to have their fuperiors mingle in their company, at proper times, and participate of their

amufements.

12. This condefcenfion, flatters their pride: at the fame time, that refpect for age, which no familiarities can wholly efface, naturally checks the extravagant fallies of mirth, and the indelicate rudene ffes which young people are apt to indulge in their jovial hours.

13. That awful diftance at which fome parents keep their children, and their abhorrence of all juvenile diverfions, which compel youth to facrifice their most innocent defires, or veil the gratifications of them with the moft anxious fecrecy, have as direct a tendency to drive young perfonis into a profligate life, as the force of vicious example.

14. It is impoffible to give to the age of twenty the fee!ings or the knowledge of sixty; as it would be folly to with to clothe a child with grey hairs, or to flamp the fading afpect of Autumn on the bloom of May. Nature has given to every age fome peculiar paffions and appetites; to moderate and refine thefe, not to ftifle and deftroy, is the bufinefs of common prudence and parental care.

15. I was led into this train of reflections by an acquain"tance with the family of Emilius, which is a rare inftance of domestic felicity. Parents indulgent to their children,

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hofpitable to their friends, and univerfally respected; their fons equally generous, modeft and manly.

16. Emilia, an only daughter, the pride of her parents, poffeffed of every accomplishment that can honor herfelf, or endear her to her friends; an ealy fortune, and a difpofition to enjoy and improve it for the purpofes of humanity; perfect harmony in domeftic life, and unaffected fatisfaction in the pleasures of fociety. Such is the family of Emilius.

17. Such a family is a little paradife on earth; to enty their happiness is almoft a virtue. Conjugal refpect, parental tenderness, filial obedience, and brotherly kinduefs, are fo feldom united, in a family, that when I am honored with the friendship of fuch, I am equally ambitious to participate their happinefs, and profit by the example.

18. Emilia's fituation must be peculiarly agreeable. Her parents delight to gratify her in every amufement: and contented with this fhe knows no with beyond the facred bounds of honor. While by their indulgence the enjoys every rational pleasure, the rewards their generous care by a dutiful behaviour and unblemished manners.

19. By thus difcharging the reciprocal duties of their refpective ftations, the happinefs of each is fecured. The folicitude of the parent and the obedience of the child equally contribute to the blifs of the little fociety; the one calling forth every act of tenderness, and the other difplayed in all the filial virtues.

20. Few families are destined to be fo happy as that of Emilius. Where I to choose the fituation where I could pafs my life with moft fatisfaction, it would be in this domeftic circle. My houfe would then be the refidence of delight, unmingled with the anxieties of ambition or the regret of difappointment.

21. Every act would be dictated by love and refpect; every conntenance would wear the fmile of complaifance; and the little unavoidable, troubles, incident to the happieft fituation, would only ferve to increase our friend flip and improve our felicity, by making room for the exercife of virtue.

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