Teach our young hearts with gen'rous fire to burn,
And feel the virtuous sentiments we learn.
T'attain these glorious ends what play so fit,
As that where all the powers of human wit
Combine to dignify great Cato's name,
To deck his tomb, and consecrate his fame?
Where Liberty, O name for ever dear!
Breathes forth in every line, and bids us fear
Nor pains, nor death, to guard our sacred laws,
But bravely perish in our country's cause.
Patriots indeed! Nor why that honest name,
Through every time and station still the same,
Should this superior to my years be thought,
Know, 'tis the first great lesson I was taught.
What, though a boy! it may with pride be said,
A boy in England born-in England bred;
Where freedom well becomes the earliest state,
For there the love of liberty's innate.

Yet more; before my eyes those heroes stand,
Whom the great William brought to bless this land,
To guard, with pious care, that gen'rous plan
Of power well bounded, which he first began.
But while my great forefathers fire my mind,
The friends, the joy, the glory, of mankind,
Can I forget that there is one more dear?
But he is present, and I must forbear.

After the tragedy had been performed in a manner highly creditable to the royal and other juvenile amateurs, and much to the honour of those who had conducted their education, the Princess Augusta, afterwards Duchess of Brunswick, and mother of her present majesty, and Prince Edward, afterwards Duke 48-49

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of York, delivered an Epilogue, of which the follow

ing is a copy:

PRINCESS AUGUSTA.

The prologue's filled with such fine phrases,
George will alone have all the praises,
Unless we can (to get in vogue)

Contrive to speak an epilogue.

PRINCE EDWARD.

George has, 'tis true, vouchsaf'd to mention
His future gracious intention

In such heroic strains, that no man
Will e'er deny his soul is Roman.
But what have you or I to say to
The pompous sentiments of Cato?
George is to have imperial sway;
Our task is only to obey;

And trust me I'll not thwart his will,
But be his faithful Juba still-
Though, sister, now the play is over,
I wish you'd get a better lover..

PRINCESS AUGUSTA

Why, not to underrate your merit,--
Others would court with different spirit,
And I perhaps might like another
A little better than a brother.

Could I have one of England's breeding
But 'tis a point they're all agreed in,
That I must wed a foreigner,

And cross the seas,-the Lord knows where,—

Yet, let me go where'er I will,

England shall have my wishes still.

PRINCE EDWARD.

In England born, my inclination,
Like your's, is wedded in the nation;
And future times I hope will see
Me general, in reality.—

Indeed, I wish to serve this land,
It is my father's strict command;
And none he ever gave, will be
More cheerfully obey'd by me.

LEARNING GERMAN.

When the prince was not ten years old, George the Second, just as he was about to set out for Hanover, sent Baron Steinberg to examine the children of Frederic Prince of Wales in their learning. The baron discharged his office very punctually, by taking them all in due course; and at the conclusion said to Prince George, that he would tell the king what a great proficiency his highness had made in Latin, but that he wished that he would be a little more perfect in his German grammar, as it would be of signal use to him. "German grammar! German grammar!" retorted the prince; "why any dull child can learn that!" This reply is said to have given great offence to the old monarch.

POLITICAL EDUCATION.

In 1752, a strong attempt was made by the Newcastle party to change the tutors of the young prince. Lord Harcourt waited on the king, and complained strongly of the dangerous notions, and arbitrary prin

ciples, that were instilled into the mind of the prince by Stone, Cresset, and Scott, whose dismissal they declared essential to the prince's better education. An anonymous letter was written to Dr Newton, then a popular preacher at St. George's, which set forth the dangerous way in which the prince's education was left; and after touching on the doctor's popularity concluded by putting it to him as a duty to notice it in the pulpit. Another anonymous letter was sent to General Hawley, which, when it was opened contained nothing to him, but was a sort of a representation or remonstrance to the king, from the Whig nobility. It was entitled, "A memorial of several Noblemen and Gentlemen of the first rank and fortune." From this memorial we extract the following passages:

"That it being notorious, that books inculcating the worst maxims of government, and defending the most avowed tyrannies, have been put into the hands of the Prince of Wales, it cannot but affect the memorialists with the most melancholy apprehensions, when they find that the men who had the honesty and the resolution to complain of such astonishing methods of instruction, are driven away from court, and the men who have dared to teach such doctrines are continued in trust and favour. That the security of this goverment being built on Whig principles, and alone supported by Whig zeal; that the establishment of the present royal family being settled in the timely overthrow of Queen Anne's last ministry, it cannot but alarm all true Whigs to hear of schoolmasters of very contrary principles being thought of for preceptors; and to see none but the friends and

pupils of the late Lord Bolingbroke entrusted with the education of a prince, whose family that very lord endeavoured by his measures to exclude, and by his writings to expel from the throne of these kingdoms."

"That whoever advised the refusal of an audience to the Bishop of Norwich, who was so justly alarmed at the wrong methods which he saw taken in the education of the Prince of Wales, is an enemy to this country, and can only mean at least to govern by a faction, which intends to overthrow the government, and restore the exiled and arbitrary House of Stuart. That to have a Scotsman, of a most disaffected family, and allied in the nearest manner to the Pretender's first ministers, consulted in the education of the Prince of Wales, and entrusted with the most important secrets of government, must tend to alarm and disgust the friends of the present royal family, and to encourage the hopes and attempts of the Jacobites. Lastly, the memorialists cannot help remarking, that the three or four low, dark, suspected persons, are the only men whose station is fixed and permanent; but that all the great offices and officers are so constantly varied and shuffled about, to the disgrace of this country, that the best persons apprehend there is a settled design in those low and suspected people to infuse such jealousies, caprices, and fickleness, into the two ministers whose confidence they engross, as may render this government ridiculous and contemptible, and facilitate the revolution which the memorialists think they have but too much reason to fear is meditating. God preserve the King."

George the Second would have paid no attention