ground; his officers in vain oppofed him, he made his way fword in hand. The Moors, thus fpirited by their prince, return to the charge; they pufh the enemy, they recover their honour. When the Royal Moor, who retained his fpirits, in fpite of nature, to perform this laft heroick act, now fainted in the arms of his officers, he was conveyed to his litter; and the moment after, even just before he expired, he put bis finger to his mouth, to remember them that they fhould conceal his death as he had recommended. This man died a hero and a King, in the very act of virtue. He would have been the greatest among men, if what fome of the people of this country report of a King of theirs, were not lately fo well attefted, and to be depended upon. The people of this ifland fay, they had a King towards the clofe of their laft century, who was invited thither,being a limited prince of a neighbouring ftate,to drive out a tyrant who grievously oppreffed them, having attacked both their religion and their liberty. He came; he expelled this tyrant; the people chofe their deliverer for their King, in his room. They inform us, he made war after this with a very formidable and abfolute monarch, who fupported and gave refuge to this expelled King: he checked his power, and during his whole life maintained this heroick action, thro' numberless dangers in the field, and almost a continued oppofition, in the grand divan, from many of the chiefs of the people who confeffed him their deliverer. They affure us likewife, that after this he died in the very act of doing good, by figning an inftrument a few minutes before he expired, by which he secured to these people, to future ages, as much as human prudence can fecure, the liberty and religion he had restored them. If this be true, this King's life was indeed an imitation of the univerfal benefactor: he did good as Allha does, without expecting a return; his death is more to be admired than the death of Muly Molock the African. And yet there are other people here, who confidently affure us, that all the glorious actions which this boasted hero performed, were only the fruits of an afpiring mind; that this prince had long fchemed out a defign of governing here, and of governing abfolutely too, whic raised a jealoufy in the people, and occ fioned that oppofition which he met wit during the greater part of his reign; tha by the wicked arts of policy, he had betray ed beforehand the prince he dethroned and led him by fecret means it to those happy measures which rendered him od ous to his people, and prepared the way his ruin; that therefore there is no honop due to him either as a deliverer or pro tector, fince what he did, proceeded folel from ambitious views. This may be true or it may not; yet methinks it is to confide too curiously, to confider thus; it is a fruit lefs, as well as an ungrateful inquiry; th people have certainly reaped the fruits of his ambition, if that was his fole motive, i their deliverance from the oppreffor, n matter whether it proceeded from virtu or ambition. If we fuffer ourselves to pry thus nicely into the concealed motives of the action of the most celebrated men, we migh (with a critical malevolence) wipe away every virtue, and fupprefs that generou ardor that animates noble spirits to emu late the actions of their forefathers. The have a fort of an adage here, Envy is a de to merit. It may be fo, and conftantly paid but it is mean and ungenerous. The tell us that the leviathan fubfifts myriad of animalcula that prey upon and back bi him. What do thefe wretches who ow this very liberty they take fo much deligh in, of reviling their deliverer, but, l the behemoth in the great waters, impoten ly and ungratefully attempt to maffac the memory of their great benefactor? UNIVERSAL SPECTATOR, May 14 The mutual and virtuous inftructions Townly and Fidelia. and appetites of a Gentleman, without the eftate: fo that many actions of his life, which would have appeared genteel in a erfon of figure, by being bis, entirely loft Their luftre. He ever entertained a great paffion to e efteemed an admirer of the fair fex. In which (tho', as before obferved, a liberhe is fo very romantick and unfafhinable, that he does not in the leaft reard the fortune of the woman he admires; c. are the ornaments he expatiates on. In short, Frank can scarcely behave ivil to a beauty of 20,000 l. fortune, who as nought but that to recommend her; and hinks himself happy in the agreeable Converfation of a woman of fenfe, tho' but One degree above a chambermaid. Whether or not this fate of his has ever been detrimental to his intereft, I will not pretend to fay; or, indeed, if it has, in some minute articles, I can hardly blame him; fince, a purfuing it, he met with an unexpected dventure, which has wholly altered his regular way of life, and made him, from profeffed libertine, become abfolutely The reverse. Some time ago Frank paid a vifit to a elation in the country; in whofe house ived the amiable Fidelia, a young Lady of extraordinary vivacity and engaging beaviour. It happened one evening, the onduct of young perfons of both fexes was he topick of their converfation: Fidelia fcourfed on that of the young Gentlemen, a very entertaining and diverting maner; and the Ladies were left to Frank, ho treated them for the most part with reat respect, bestowing no fatire but on hofe who juftly merited it. Fidelia, after his tete à tete ended, in a jocose and sming manner, fpoke as follows: "I fancy, Tonly, we may carry this fubject on httle further to be serviceable to us both, writing inftructions each for the other, the future government of our lives." Frank readily agreed to the Lady's propoal, and (coming to town the next day) bout a week after received the following rom Fidelia. Before he opened this letter, he was not little overjoyed, thinking the ice was Sereby broke for a very gallant literary VOL. V. correfpondence. He never reflected, that the want of a fortune to fupport him, in the way of life he chose to live in, naturally made the whole of his actions obvious to the view of the world; nor even had a thought that Fidelia's intimacy in his family had caufed her to be acquainted with his feveral failings: but what the was, appeared to him on the perufal of her letter, which was verbatim as follows. Inftructions for Mr FRANCIS TOWNLY. Sever think yourself too old to grow good. as Tudy your faults, and mend them; 2. Go to church at least once a-week, and, much as poffible, practife what you hear. 3. Never lie out of your own lodgings, without business oblige you. 4. Drink a chearful glass with a friend, but not to excefs; for that will lead you into many other vices. 5. Be not over generous; but keep a friend in your own pocket, and you'll always find friends elsewhere. 6. Frequent not the company of women of the town; for (as Solomon, Prov. v. fays) the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil. But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp down as a two-edged fword. Her feet go to death; her feps take hold on hell. Remove thy way far from her, and come not near the door of her house; left thou give thine bonour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel; and thou mourn at the laft, when thy flesh and by body are confumed; and fay, Honu barve I hated inftruction, and my heart defpifed reproof? Which that you never may have occafion to fay, is, Sir, the fincere wifh of Your friend and fervant, FIDELIA. you've conferred on me, by fending me the inftructions I yefterday received; and give me leave to affure you, tho' I have received much advice from friends, and read much more in authors, yet nothing e'er gave me half the ferious thoughts thofe few lines from you have done. I cannot avoid, on this occafion, giving you the praife in particular, which Sir Harry Wil dair does to women of virtue in general; In vain are mufly morals taught in fchools, By rigid teachers, and as rigid rules; Where virtue with a frowning afpect ftands, And frights the pupil from its rough com[mands. Charming woman! can true converts make; We love the precepts for the teacher's fake: Virtue in them appears fo bright, fo gay, We bear with transport, and with pride obey. FARQUHAR'S Conflant Couple. But woman, When I left ***, I promised to fend you some instructions in return, which (as I well know you are an utter enemy to compliments) I thall, without further ceremony, proceed to fet down, according to my weak capacity, as follows: 1. Let me advise you to bear with flight affronts, in the most decent and genteel manner, by not taking the least notice of the authors. Avoid calumny, nay even tea-table scandal, and never suffer virtue, in the minutest circumstance, to be traduced in your company, without expreffing your refentment: fo may you avoid many impertinencies; for it is the diftinguished mark of a coxcomb, to imagine a woman, who'll patiently hear what is vicious, will, with small perfuafions, follow what is not virtuous. 2. Permit not the address of any man, till you are fully convinced his intentions are honourable: I am fenfible I need not advise you to fhun his company, immediately after you difcover they are not.If he at first appears a just lover, and after a difhoneft one, fo much the worse. Hold no conversation with him, tho', when repulfed, he pretends he'll change his vicious principles, and make a faithful hufband: for a man, who ever thought it in his power to make a woman of virtue fwerve from her rules, is incapable of making that identical woman happy. At firft, indeed, he may promise fair; buta fenfuality was the only motive of his lov that indulged, the tender husband relapf into the former brute. 3: Encourage not different fuitors; bu if more than one offer, put one neithe the air of a coquette or a prude. you find you cannot efteem them, flatte them not with vain hopes. If you car discharge all but the man you propofet difappoint you, you'll be valued for you make happy; and then, tho' chance ma fincerity. cumftances; nor to a man of immen! 4. Be fure not to wed below your cir wealth, who is covetous: rather than t either of thefe, to one of an equality. The first, if he loves you well as man can do as there are so many viciffitudès in huma affairs, may very probably be rendered in capable to maintain you; and then, po verty is fo known an enemy to love, tha mutual harmony is foon by that reduced to mutual difcord. And a miferabl wretch, who rolls in wealth, frequenth after poffeffion, efteems his confort as hi fervant, divorces his affections from her and beftows them only on his treasure. 5. If a man of fingular virtue, bleft wit a chearful and agreeable temper, (tho' h perfon may not be altogether fo amiable of fortune fufficient to despise the commo frowns of the world, fhould offer his n fpect in a decent and becoming manne reject him not, but meet his difinterefte paffion with a fincere and grateful retur and render yourself happy in an alliant with his virtues. Happy man! whoe'er he is, Ordain'd by heav'n, to reap the blifs, When youth and age, and life are past. Thus, Madam, at your commands, y fee I've performed my promife, and defi you'd fuffer me to subscribe myself An admirer of your virtue, Extra to Carthagena, lately published.---See more of the fame, p. 171. Extracts of the Account of the expedition loft by being washed off the beach by the fea, and feveral carriages broke to pieces by the enemy's fhot, and the reft left in heaps in the utmost confufion; notwithftanding there were near 500 feamen appointed for this purpose. N the 9th of March, about noon, the Norfolk, Ruffel and Shrewsbury bean to cannonade the forts of St Philip and Jago, and in about three hours obliged he enemy to abandon them, with the lofs ly of 6 men aboard the Norfolk and Ruffel; but the Shrewsbury was much hattered, by the fire of Boccachica cattle, our of the enemy's fhips, the St Jofeph nd two fafcine batteries, to which he y expofed. About five in the evening, body of troops landed without oppofiion; but the General, who landed with hem, not thinking those fufficient, reimarked in the boats; and having fent for tore, landed again about eight, and took cffeffion of the forts. The body that first inded, confifted of 800 grenadeers; who, while the reinforcement fent for was coning, were kept in the boats within tweny yards of the shore, so closely crowded, hat scarce one man could have ufed his rms; and had they had any enemy to ave dealt with, but daftardly Spaniards, hey must have been all cut to pieces. The three next days were spent in landg the remainder of the forces, the bag. ge, &c. and during the first three days he troops were afhore, they were emoyed in no one thing, not fo much as clear the ground for their encampment, ut kept under arms night and day, where, the heat of the fun, on a white burng fand, they were scorched to death, and the inclemency of the dews in the night, ey got fuch colds, that many of them lick; whereas, had they been inftantemployed to encamp, and open ground the woods for that purpofe, they would ve been shaded by the trees, freed from e burning heat of the fand, and many them preferved from the enemy's fhot miffed our battery. All the cannon, ordnance ftores, &c. ee landed by the 16th; but it must be terved, that there never was applicatimade, what particular ordnance, &c. land, or any fcheme formed what fort cannon might be neceffary, or what antity of ftores wanting; but the whole brought afhore, and a confiderable part The principal Engineer not arriving till the 15th, no fpot was pitched upon for a battery, fuch was the knowledge of the Sub-Engineers, who neither had prepared fafcines, pickets, nor any materials, till their Principal arrived, (and after he had pitched on a place, he made a demand of 30,000 fafcines of twelve feet long, 20,000 of nine feet long, and 40,000 pickets, whereas 1500 fafcines built the battery), who, Vauban like, would not begin to work, till all his materials were on the fpot; and then, with 500 feamen, 2 or 300 blacks, and as many foldiers as the General could fpare for pioneers, he was ten days erecting a battery; which, when done, was parallel to neither face nor curtain of the fortification, and the breach was made in the angular point of the baftion: neither was there any fafe communication with it; for no trench was ever cut, or propofed; only a path thro' the woods, and that almoft in a straight line; fo that every fhot enfiladed it, and killed twenty times the number of men going to and from the battery, that were killed every where elfe during the fiege: nor would the Engineer be prevailed on (any more than the General) to cut off the communication from the town to Boccachica, (by which they might have prevented the enemy from receiving any fuccours by land, feen all their motions in the harbour, and hindered any incurfions from the caftle), notwithstanding the Admiral frequently folicited the General, and wrote to him to have it done. Mean time, the clearing a few bushes away, down by the water fide, in order to pitch their tents, was all the material work the army did for near a week; the enemy letting them ly pretty quiet till the 17th, that they opened a bomb-battery of four mortars, and fome royals; and then the Barradera battery annoyed them greatly, fo that they were obliged to remove their camp feveral paces off. This bomb-battery allo was a mark of the genius and understanding Hh 2 of of the Engineers. It was a platform, laid be- this expedition. They went away from hind a fmall rifing rock, open on all fides; their fhips about midnight, and rowe no communication to it, either by trench, pretty far to leeward, to avoid being fee epaulment, or any fecurity whatsoever; or the noise of their oars heard, and pro fo that the enemy faw every man (from pofed landing in a small fandy bay, b the caftle) that went in, or out, as they hind the Barradera battery, into which wa were obliged to pafs over high ground, a narrow channel, between two reefs to come at the battery: and then it lay rocks, and a four gun battery on the ftrand quite expofed to the Barradera battery, fo facing the channel, (both unknown that the fhot fired from thence, paffed in every perfon there), which, so soon as fom at one end, and out at the other; and if of the boats had got into the channel, be they did no execution there, were fure to gan to fire on them. But the brave ta do fome in the camp. And as to the ufe- landed, and rushed in at the embrazure fulness of it, and the fervice that was per- and took poffeffion of the battery befor formed by the excellent bombardeers, it the enemy could fire a fecond time. Th was oftentimes obferved, by order, that firing alarmed the Barradera battery, an not fix fhells out of forty had done execu- the enemy turned three pieces of canno tion, while, on the contrary, fcarce one of on the platform, which they fired wit forty of the enemy's ever miffed. grape-fhot, fo foon as the feamen adva ced; but, notwithstanding that, and th difficulties and badness of the road, (whic was through a morafs, and where but on man could walk a breaft, and full of ftum of mangroves each a foot or more high), th feamen attacked it; and, after a fmart, th fhort refiftance, carried it, took 9 prifoner fpiked up 15 guns from eighteen to twe ty four pounders, burnt the carriages, pla forms, guard-houses, and magazine. A it may with juftice be allowed (from t many difficulties that attended this actio in regard to the advantageous fituation the Barradera battery, the boats being f prifed with a four gun battery just as th were going to land, and no perfon acquain ed with the place) as bold and furprifi an enterprife as is to be met with. A the confternation it put the enemy feems to confirm this opinion: for th Boccachica caftle, and the enemy's fo fhips, were not more than musket-shot o yet neither they nor St Jofeph's (whi was ftill nearer) ever fired a shot. So th it seems as if they could not believe t thing, tho' they faw all in flames. F this gallant action the Admiral reward every common man with a dollar a pie The camp being pitched on a low fand, but sheltered (as a direct object) from the Barradera battery, by the rock that St Philip stood on, could not be feen; but, lying in the line of direction of the fhot fired from thence at the famous bombbattery, was fure to be flanked by every fhot which miffed that. And tho' it might be prudent to try movings on this occafion, yet it was a bad example to the foldiers, especially when the chiefs moved off first, and the thing was done without regular and publick orders; befides the time it took up, at that conjuncture, (when more material works were in hand, and the army leffening every day by ficknefs:) whereas, had the encampment been formed at first a few yards up in the woods, none of the enemy's guns could have been brought to bear on it, nor indeed would they have been able to have difcovered where it was; befides the great advantage of mens being cool, and particularly after working: but, as it was placed, inftead of a cool retreat, to retire to reft, after being heated by the warm labour, their tents were a hotter. The annoyance of the Barradera battery being represented to the Admiral, orders were iffued for all the boats of the fquadron to go and furprise it, and the command given to Capt. Bofcawen. The Captains Watfon, Cotes, Lawrence, Colby and Laws, and all the barges and pinnaces of the fleet, were alfo ordered upon On the 22d, the grand battery of guns was finished; and after being fo lo in raifing, and employing fo many men work, much execution may be expec therefrom. But alas! the Engineers wo by no means outdo themselves: the b tery was constructed in a wood and m |