stipulated, that every dispute between the Gauls and Carthaginians should be decided on the spot by Gaulish women.

Whatever does honour to the English character, at the same time throws a lustre upon each citizen. Those men, therefore, whose services, knowledge, and abilities, have contributed to raise the glory of England, meet with all that respect, veneration, and homage, which were the greatest rewards and chief hope of the most renowned heroes of antiquity; an homage paid with a warmth unknown to those who, being the abject slaves of money or worldly prosperity, can neither form a just estimate of actions, nor a judg ment of characters, which their weak eyes are incapable of contemplating steadily.

This ardour, which warmed Rome and Greece, flourishes in England, and must necessarily produce the same fruits in that kingdom. The palaces of noblemen, the cabinets of the curious, the houses of citi

zens-those dark and solitary grottos which people of fortune consecrate to melancholy, in their country retirements-the taverns and inns―the houses where people meet for public diversion-are all adorned with figures, painted or engraved, and with busts of all sizes, made of all sorts of materials, of Bacon, Shakspeare, Milton, Locke, Addison, Newton, and even Cromwell himself.

LETTER XLVII.

Military Glory and Great Exploits, the Result of Disease, of Individual and of National Melancholy -Illustration from Plutarch's Life of PelopidasBayard's Reputation established during his Seven Years' Illness-Battle of Fontenoy gained through the Illness of Marshal Saxe-Ague, the Great Stimulant of Richard Coeur-de-Lion-Melancholy, the Cause of Suicide in the English-Stephens's Inquiry into the Causes of Suicide-Rochefoucault on the Contempt of Death-Love of Singularity, another Cause of Suicide amongst the EnglishNotion of the Italians respecting Suicide-English Form of Prayer for those who labour under an Excess of Melancholy - Rigour of the English Laws respecting Suicide-Suicide a Disease rather than a Crime-Athenian Law against SuicideDr. Donne's Apology for Self-murder — Valour, Suicide, and the Contempt of Death, dependent upon Climate.

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MILITARY glory, which, in the annals of ancient chivalry, had placed King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in the

first class of heroes ;-and the great exploits, which, in ages more enlightened, have preserved that glory to the inhabitants of Great Britain had also their source in the national character of the English, and in that melancholy which is its predominant principle.

"Cato the elder once answered certain persons that bestowed high praises upon a man who was beyond measure daring in the perils and hazards of war, that there was a great deal of difference between setting a value upon virtue, and undervaluing one's life. We are told that Antigonus had in his service a soldier who was very intrepid, but, at the same time, in a very bad state of health. The king asked him, one day, what made him so pale, and of so sickly a complexion? the cause of which was utterly unknown to him. Upon hearing this, Antigonus commanded his surgeons to examine the nature of the disease, and to cure the man, if possible. The physicians so exerted

themselves, that they restored the soldier to health. But, as soon as he recovered, he ceased to behave with the same alacrity, and to brave danger, as before. Antigonus perceiving this, one day upbraided him, expressing his astonishment at the change. The soldier did not conceal the cause, but said to him: You, yourself, Sire, have made me less intrepid than I was, by getting me cured of the disease which made me indifferent about life.""

It results from this fact, taken from Plutarch, in his Life of Pelopidas, that melancholy, in the uneasiness it occasions, both in body and mind, may have a great influence upon valour, considered as arising from the contempt of life; consequently, it may have had its share in the most brilliant actions of the English, as well in their ancient expeditions against France as in their civil wars.

The historian who has given us the life of one of the greatest captains France ever pro