Patera. deities; and frequently in the hands of princes, to Paterculus, mark the facerdotal authority joined with the imperial, &c. Hence F. Joubert obferves, that befi le the patera, there is frequently an altar upon which the patera feems to be pouring its contents. The patera was of gold, filver, marble, brafs, glafs, or earth; and they ufed to inclofe it in urns with the afhes of the deceased, a ter it had served for the liba tions of the wine and liquors at the funeral. The patera is an ornament in architecture, frequent. ly feen in the Doric freeze, and the tympans of arches; and they are fometimes ufed by themselves, to ornament a fpace; and in this cafe it is common to hang a string of hufks or drapery over them: fome times they are much inriched with foliage, and have a mask or a head in the centre. Patella ant. They have a fting like bees, and three fpots placed in a triangle on the forehead, which are fuppofed to be eyes. They are of a black colour, and have a large round whitish or pale yellow fpot on the back. The upper pair of wings are fhaded and fpotted, but the under pair are clear. It might be worth while to try the fhells or hufks in order to discover whether the colour they yield might not be useful. It is to be remarked, that the deepest coloured husks affor the fineft and deepest purple: they must be used while the animal in them is in the maggot form; for when it is changed into the bee ftate the fhell is dry and colourless. Lifter, who firft obferved thefe patella, went fo far on comparing them with the common kermes, as to affert that they were of the fame nature with that production: but his account of their being the workmanfhip of a bee, to preferve her young maggot in, is not agreeable to the true hiftory of the kermes; for that is an infect of a very peculiar kind. He has in other inftances been too juftly cenfured for his precipitancy of judging of things, and perhaps has fallen into an error by means of it here. It is very poffible that thefe patellæ may be the fame fort of animals with the kermes, but then it produces its young within this fhell or hufk, which is no other than the ikin of the body of the mother animal; but as there are many flies whofe worms or maggots are lodged in the bodies of other animals, it may be that this little bee may love to lay its egg in the body of the proper infect, and the maggot hatched from that erg may eat up the proper pro geny, and, undergoing its own natural changes there, iffue out at length in form of the bee. This way have been the cafe in fome few which Dr Lifter examined; and he may have been milled by this to fuppofe it the natural change of the infect. PATENT, in general, denotes fomething that ftands open or expanded: thus a leaf is faid to be pa. tent, when it ftands almost at right angles with the ftalk. PATENT, or Letters Patent. See LETTER. PATER NOSTER, the Lord's Prayer, fo called from the two firft words thereof in Latin. PATER Nofter, lands of Afia, in the Eaft Indian fea, fo called because of the great number of rocks, which failors have likened to the beads with which the Papifts tell their pater-nofter. They abound in corn and fruits, and are very populous. PATER Patratus, was the name of the firft and prin. cipal perfon the college of heralds called Feciales. Some fay the Pater Patratus was a conftant officer and perpetual chief of that body; and others fuppofe him to have been a temporary minifter, elected upon account of making peace or denouncing war, which were both done by him. See FECIALES. PATERA, among antiquaries, a goblet o vefel ufed by the Romans in their facrifices; wherein they offered their confecrated meats to the gods, and where with they made libations. See SACRIFICE and LIBA TION The word is Latin, formed from pateo, "I am open; quod pateat, "because it has a great aperture;" in contradiftinction to bottles, &c. which have only narrow necks, or whofe aperture is lefs than the body of the veffel. On medals the patera is feen in the hands of teveral. PATERCULUS (Caius Velleius), an ancient Ro. man hitorian, who flourished in the reign of Tiberius Cæfar, was born in the year of Rome 735. His ance flors were illuftrious for their merit and their offi. ces. His grandfather efpoufed the party of Tiberius Nero, the emperor's father; but being old and infirm, and not able to accompany Nero when he retired from Naples, he ran himself through with his fword. His father was a foldier of rank, and fo was Pateiculus himself. He was a military tribune when Caius Cæfar, a grandfon of Auguftus, had an interview with the king of the Parthians, in an ifland of the river Euphrates, in the year 753. He commanded the cavalry in Germany under Tiberius; and accompanied that prince for nine years fucceffively in all his expe ditions. He received honourable rewards from him; but we do not find that he was preferred to any higher dignity than the prætorship. The praifes he bestows upon Sejanus give fome probability to the conjecture, that he was looked upon as a friend of this favourite, and confequently that he was involved in his ruin. His death is placed by Mr Dodwell in the year of Rome 784, when he was in his 50th year He wrote an Abridgement of the Roman History in two books, which is very curious. His purpose was only to deduce things from the foundation of Rome to the time wherein he lived; but he began his work with things previous to that memorable era: for, though the beginning of his firft book is wanting, we yet find in what remains of it, an account of many cities more ancient than Rome. He promifed a larger hiftory; and no doubt would have executed it well: for during his military expeditions he had feen, as he tells us, the provinces of i hrace, Macedonia, Achaia, Afia Minor, and other more eafterly regions; efpecially upon the fhores of the Euxine fea, which had furnished his mind with much entertaining and useful knowledge. In the Abridgement which we have, many particulars are related that are nowhere elfe to be found; and this makes it the more valuable. The ftyle of Paterculus, though miferably disguised through the careleffnefs of tranferibers, and impoffible to be reftored to purity for want of manufcripts, is yet manifeftly worthy of his age, which was the time of pure Latinity. The greateft excellence of this hiftorian lies in his manner of commending and blaming thofe he speaks of; which he docs in the finest terms and moft delicate expreffions. He is, however, condemned, and indeed with the greatest Pathetic. monic The chromatic genus, with its greater and leffer femi- Pathogno tones, either afcending or defcending, is very proper for the pathetic; as is alfo an artful management of Patience. difcords; with a variety of motions, now brifk, now languishing, now fwift, now flow. Nieuwentyt fpeaks of a mufician at Venice who fo excelled in the pathetic, that he was able to play any of his auditors into diftraction: he fays alfo, that the great means he made ufe of was the variety of mo. tions, &c. PATHOGNOMONIC, among physicians, an appellation for a fymptom, or concourfe of fymptoms, that are infeparable from a diftemper, and are found in that only, and in no other. Paterculus greatest reafon, for his partiality to the houfe of Auguftus; and for making the moftextravagant eulogies, not only upon Tiberius, but even upon his favourite Se janus: whom, though a vile and cruel monfter, Pater culus celebrates as one of the most excellent perfons the Roman commonwealth bad produced. Lipfius, though he praifes him in other refpects, yet cenfures him moft feverely for his infincerity and partiality. "Velleius Paterculus (fays he) raifes my indignation: he reprefents Sejanus as endowed with all good qualities. The impudence of this hiftorian! But we know that he was born, and died, to the deftruction of mankind. After many commendations, he concludes, that Livia was a woman more resembling the rods than men: and as to Tiberius, he thinks it a crime to speak otherwise of him than as of an immortal Jove. What fincere and honeft mind can bear this? On the other hand, how artfully does he everywhere conceal the great qualities of Cafar Germanicus! how obliquely does he ruin the reputation of Agrippina and others, whom Tiberius was thought to hate! In fhort, he is nothing but a courtprostitute. You will fay, perhaps, it was unfafe to fpeak the truth at those times: I grant it; but if he could not write the truth, he ought not to have writ. ten lies: none are called to account for filence." La Mothe le Vayer has made a very just remark upon this occafion: "The fame fault (fays he) may be obferved in many others, who have written the hiftory of their own times, with a design to be published while they lived." It is ftrange, that a work fo elegant and worthy to be preferved, and of which, by reafon of its fhortnefs, copies might be so easily taken, should have been fo near being loft. One manufcript only has had the luck to be found, as well of this author among the Latins as of Hefychius among the Greeks: in which, fays a great critic of our own nation, "The faults of the fcribes are found fo numerous, and the defects fo beyond all redrefs, that notwithstanding the pains of the learned and most acute critics for two whole centuries, thefe books ftill are, and are like to continue, a mere heap of errors." No ancient author but Prifcian makes mention of Paterculus: the moderns have done him infinitely more juftice, and have illuftrated him with notes and commentaries. He was firft published, from the manufcript of Morbac, by Rhenanus, at Bafil in 1520: afterwards by Lipfius at Leyden in 1581; then by Gerard Voffius in 1639; next by Boeclerus at Strafburg in 1642; then by Thyfius and others; and, laftly, by Peter Burman at Leyden, 1719, in 8vo. To the Oxford edition in 1693, 8vo, were prefixed the Annales Velleiani of Mr Dodwell, which fhow deep learning and a great knowledge of antiquity. PATH, in general, denotes the courfe or track marked out or run over by a body in motion. For the path of the moon, &c. fee ASTRONOMY, n2 359, 360. PATHETIC, whatever relates to the paffions, or that is proper to excite or awake them. The word comes from the Greek was, passion or emotion. See PASSION. PATHETIC, in mufic, fomething very moving, expreffive, or paffionate; capable of exciting pity, com paffion, anger, or other paffions. Thus we fpeak of the pathetic ftyle, a pathetic figure, pathetic fong, &c. PATHOLOGY, that part of medicine which explains the nature of difeafes, their causes and symp-toms. See MEDICINE. PATHOS, a Greek term, literally fignifying paffion. PATHROS, a city and canton of Egypt, of which the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel make mention; Jerem. xliv. 1. 15. Ezek. xxix. 14. xxx. 14. We do not very well know its fituation, though Pliny and ' Ptolemy the geographer speak of it by the name of Phaturis; and it appears to have been in Upper Egypt. Ifaiah (xii. 2.) calls it Pathros; and it is the country of the Pathrufim, the pofterity of Mizraim, of whom Mofes fpeaks, Gen. x. 14. Ezekiel threatens them with an entire ruin. The Jews retired thither notwithstanding the remonftrances of Jeremiah; and the Lord faye by Ifaiah, that he will bring them back from thence. PATIENCE, that calm and unruffled temper with which a good man bears the evils of life, from a conviction that they are at leaft permitted, if not sent, by the beft of Beings, who makes all things work toge ther for good to thofe who love and fear him. The evils by which life is embittered may be redu. ced to these four: 1. Natural evils, or those to which we are by nature subject as men, and as perishable animals. The greatest of these are, the death of those whom we love, and of ourselves. 2. Those from which we might be exempted by a virtuous and prudent conduct, but which are the infeparable confequences of imprudence or vice, which we shall call punishments; as infamy proceeding from fraud, poverty from prodiga lity, debility and difeafe from intemperance. 3. Thofe by which the fortitude of the good are exercifed; fuch as the perfecutions raifed against them by the wicked. To thefe may be added, 4. The oppofition againft which we muft perpetually struggle, arifing from the diverfity of fentiments, manners, and characters of the perfons among whom we live. Under all these evils patience is not only neceffary but ufeful: it is neceffary, because the laws of nature have made it a duty, and to murmur against natural events is to affront providence; it is useful, because it renders our fufferings lighter, fhorter, and lefs dangerous. Is your reputation fullied by invidious calumnies? rejoice that your character cannot fuffer but by falle imputations. You are arraigned in a court of judicature, and are unjustly condemned: paffion has influenced both your profecutor and your judge, and you? cannot forbear repining that you fuffer although in 8. nocent Patience. nocent. But would it have been better that you fhould have fuffered being guilty? Would the greatest misfortune that can befal a virtuous man be to you a confolation? The opulence of a villain, the elevated ftation to which he is raifed, and the honours that are paid to him, excite your jealoufy, and fill your bofom with repinings and regret. What! fay you, are riches, diguity, and power, referved for fuch wretches as this? Ceafe thefe groundlefs murmurs. If the poffeffions you regret were real benefits, they would be taken from the wicked and transferred to you. What would you fay of a fuccefsful hero, who, having delivered his country, fhould complain that his fervices were ill requited, becaufe a few fugar plums were diftributed to fome children in his prefence, of which they had not offered him a fhare? Ridiculous as this would appear, your complaints are no better founded. Has the Lord of all no reward to confer on you but perishable riches and empty precarious honour? It is fancy, not the reafon of things, that makes life fo uneafy to us. It is not the place nor the condition, but the mind alone, that can make any body happy or miferable. He that values himself upon confcience, not opinion, never heeds reproaches. When we are evil spoken of, if we have not deferved it, we are never the worse; if we have, we should mend. Tiberius the Roman emperor, at the beginning of his reign, acted in moft things like a truly generous, good natured, and clement prince. All flanderous reports, libels, and lampoons upon him and his adminiftration, he bore with extraordinary patience; faying, "That in a free ftate the thoughts and tongues of every man ought to be free:" and when the fenate would have proceeded againft fome who had publifhed libels against him, he would not confent to it; faying, "We have not time enough to attend to fuch trifles: if you once open a door to fuch informations, you will be able to do nothing elfe; for under that pretence every man will revenge himself upon his enemies by accufing them to you." Being informed that one had fpoken detractingly of him: "If he speaks ill of me," fays he, "I will give him as good an account of my words and actions as I can; and if that is not fufficient, I will fatisfy myfelf with having as bad an opinion of him as he has of me." Thus far even Tiberius may be an example to others. Men will have the fame veneration for a person that fuffers adverfity without dejection, as for demolished temples, the very ruins whereof are reverenced and adored. A virtuous and well-difpofed perfon, is like to good metal; the more he is fired, the more he is refined; the more he is oppofed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp. The man therefore who poffeffes this virtue (patience), in this ample fenfe of it, ftands upon an eminence, and fees human things below him: the tempeft indeed may reach him; but he ftands fecure and collected against it upon the basis of conscious virtue, which the fevere ft ftorms can feldom fhake, and never overthrow. Patience, however, is by no means incompatible with fenfibility, which, with all its inconveniences, is to be cherished by thofe who understand and wish to To feel our own mifery with full force is not to be deprecated. Affliction foftens and improves the heart. Tears, to fpeak in the ftyle of figure, fertilize the foil in which the virtues grow. And it is the remark of one who understood human nature, that the faculties of the mind, as well as the teelings of the heart, are meliorated by adverfity. But in order to promote thefe ends, our fufferings muft not be permitted to overwhelm us. We muft oppofe them with the arms of reafon and religion; and to exprefs the idea in the language of the philofopher, as well as the poet, of Nature, every one, while he is compelled to feel his misfortunes like a man, fhould refolve also to bear them like a man. Refign'd in ev'ry ftate, With patience bear, with prudence pufh, your fate; By fuffering well our fortune we fubdue, Fly when the frowns, and when the calls purfue. PATIGUMO (a corruption of the words pate-deguimauve); the name of a fort of paste or cakes much ufed on the continent as an agreeable and useful remedy for catarrhal defluxions, and fuppofed by Dr Percival to confift of gum-arabic combined with fugar and the whites of eggs (fee the article HUNGER, p. 715, col. 1.) But we have been informed that the powdered fubftance of the marshmallow is the chief ingredient of the composition. PATIN (Guy), profeffor of phyfic in the royal college of Peris, was born in 1602. He made his way into the world merely by the force of his genius, being at first corrector of a printing-house. He was a man of great wit and erudition: he spoke with the gravity of a Stoic, but his expreffions were very fatirical. He hated bigotry, fuperftition, and knavery; had an upright foul, and a well-difpofed heart. He was a moit tender father, courteous to every body, and polite in the highest degree. He died in 1672, and did not owe his reputation to any writings publifhed in his lifetime upon phyfic; but his letters which appeared after his death have rendered his name very famous. He left a fon mentioned in the enfuing article. He PATIN (Charles), who made a great figure in the world, and excelled in the knowledge of medals. was born in Paris in 1633; and made fo furprifing a progrefs, that he maintained the fes in Greek and Ľatin, on all parts of philofophy, in 1647. He studied the law in compliance to an uncle, and was admitted an advocate in the parliament of Paris; but could not lay afide that of phyfic, for which he always had an inclination. He therefore quitted the law, and devoted himfelf to phyfic; in which, after taking the doctor's degree, he applied himfelf to practice with great fuccefs. He afterwards travelled into Germany, Holland, England, Switzerland, and Italy. In 1676 he was appointed Patkul. appointed profeffor of phyfic in Padua; and three years after was created a knight of St Mark. He died in that city in 1694. His works are many, and well known to the learned world. His wife too, and his daughters, were authoreffes. PATKUL (John Reinhold), was born of a noble family in Livonia, a northern province belonging to the crown of Sweden. The Livonians having been ftript of their privileges, and great part of their eftates, by Charles XI. Patkul was deputed to make their complaint; which he did with fuch eloquence and courage, that the king, laying his hand upon his fhoulder, faid, 'You have spoken for your country as a brave man should, and I efteem you for it.' Charles, however, who added the baseness of hypocrify to the ferocity of a tyrant, was determined to punish the zeal and honefty which he thought fit to commend; and a few days afterwards caufed Patkul to be declared guilty of high treason, and condemned to die. Patkul, however, found means to escape into Poland, where he continued till Charles was dead. He hoped that his fentence would have been then reversed, as it had been declared unjust even by the tyrant that procured it but being disappointed in this expectation, he applied to Auguftus king of Poland, and folicited him to attempt the conqueft of Livonia from the Swedes; which, he said, might be eafily effected, as the people were ready to shake off their yoke, and the king of Sweden was a child incapable of compelling their fubjection. Auguftus poffeffed himself of Livonia in confequence of this propofal; and afterwards, when Charles XII. entered the province to recover it, Patkul commanded in the Saxon army against him. Charles was victorious; and Patkul, fome time afterwards, being difgufted at the haughty behaviour of General Fleming, Auguftus's favourite, entered into the fervice of the Czar, with whom Auguftus was in ftrict alliance, and a little before Charles compelled Auguftus to abdicate the throne of Poland, and his fubjects to elect Stanislaus in his tead. The Czar fent Patkul, with the title of his ambaffador, into Saxony, to prevail with Auguftus to meet him at Grodno, that they might confer on the ftate of their affairs. This conference took place; and immediately afterwards the Czar went from Grodno to quell a rebellion in Aftracan. As foon as the Czar was gone, Auguftus, to the furprise of all Europe, ordered Patkul, who was then at Dresden, to be seized as a state criminal. By this injurious and unprece dented action, Auguftus at once violated the law of nations, and weakened his own intereft; for Patkul was not only an ambaffador, but an ambailador from the only power that could afford him protection. The caufe, however, was this: Patkul had discovered that Auguftus's minifters were to propofe a peace to Charles upon any terms; and had therefore formed a defign to be beforehand with them, and procure a feparate peace between Charles and his new mafter the Czar. The defign of Patkul was discovered; and, to prevent its fuccefs, Auguftus ventured to feize his perfon, affuring the Czar that he was a traitor, and had betrayed them both. VOL. XIV. Part I. of Patkul Auguftus was foon after reduced to beg a peace Charles at any rate; and Charles granted it upon certain conditions, one of which was, that he fhould deliver up Patkul. This condition reduced Augustus to a very diftrefsful dilemma: the Czar, at this very time, reclaimed Patkul as his ambaffador; and Charles demanded, with threats, that he should be put into his hands. Auguftus therefore contrived an expedient by which he hoped to fatisfy both: he fent fome guards to deliver Patkul, who was prifoner in the caftle of Konigftein, to the Swedish troops; but by fecret orders, privately dispatched, he commanded the governor to let him escape. The governor, though he received this order in time, yet difappointed its intention by his villainy and his avarice. He knew Patkul to be very rich; and having it now in his power to fuffer him to efcape with impunity, he demanded of Patkul a large fum for the favour: Patkul refused to buy that liberty which he made no doubt would be gratuitously reftored, in confequence of the Czar's requifition and remonftrance; and, in the mean time, the Swedish guards arrived with the order for his being delivered up to them. By this party he was firft carried to Charles's head quarters at Albranftadt, where he continued three months, bound to a ftake with a heavy chain of iron. He was then conducted to Cafimir, where Charles ordered him to be tried; and he was by his judges found guilty. His fentence depended upon the king; and after having been kept a prifoner fome months, under a guard of Mayerfeldt's regiment, uncertain of his fate, he was, on the 8th of September 1707, towards the evening, delivered into the cuftody of a regiment of dragoons, commanded by Colonel Nicholas Hielm. On the next day, the 29th, the colonel took the chaplain of his regiment afide, and telling him that Patkul was to die the next day, ordered him to acquaint him with his fate, and prepare him for it. About this very time he was to have been married to a Saxon lady of great quality, virtue, and beauty; a circumftance which renders his cafe ftill more affecting. What followed in confequence of the colonel's order to the minifter (a) will be related in his own words. "Immediately after evening fervice I went to his prifon, where I found him lying on his bed. The first compliments over, I entered upon the melancholy duty of my profeffion, and turning to the officer who had him in charge, told him the colonel's orders were, that 1 fhould be alone with his prifoner. The officer having withdrawn, Patkul grafping both my hands in his, cried out with most affecting anxiety and diftrefs, My dear paftor! what are you to declare? what am I to hear? I bring you, replied 1, the fame tidings that the prophet brought to king Hezekiah, Set thine houfe in order, for thou must die. To morrow by this time thou fhalt be no longer in the number of the living! At this terrible warning he bowed him-. felf upon his bed, and burft into tears. I attempted to comfort him, by faying that he muft, without all doubt, have often meditated on this fubject: Yes, cried he, I know, alas! too well, that we met all die; but the death prepared for me will be cruel and infupportable. I affured him that the manner of his E death (A) The name of this clergyman was Lorens Hagar. affiftance, and intreated me, for the love of God, to bor. Patku', row whatever fum I could. I procured him 400,000 crowns; 50,000 of which, the very next day, he fquandered on trinkets and jewels, which he gave in prefents to fome of his women. I told him plainly my thoughts of the matter; and y my importunity prevailed, that the Jews fhould take back their toys, and return the money they had been paid for them. The ladies were enraged; and he fwore that I fhould one time or other fuffer for what I had done: there indeed he kept his word, would to God he had always done fo with thofe he employed!' I now left him for a fhort time, and at feven in the evening I returned; and the officer being retired, he accofted me with a finiling air, and an appearance of much tranquillity, Welcome, dear fir, the weight that lay heavy on my heart is removed, and I already feel a fenfible change wrought in my mind. I am ready to die: death is more eligible than the folitude of a long imprisonment. Would to heaven only that the kind of it were lefs cruel. Can you, my dear fir, inforin me in what manner I am to fuffer? 1 answered, that it had not been communicated to me; but that I imagined it would pafs over without noife, as only the colonel and myfelf had notice of it. That (replied he) I efteem as a favour; but have you feen the fentence? or must £ die, without being either heard or condemned? My apprehenfions are of being put to intolerable tortures.❜ I comforted him in the kindeft manner I could; but he was his own beft comforter from the Word of God, with which he was particularly acquainted; quoting, among many other paffages, the following in Greek, We must enter into the kingdom of heaven through many tribulations. He then called for pen and ink, and intreated me to write down what he fhould dictate. I did fo, as follows: Patla death was to me totally unkown; but, believing that he would be prepared for it, I was fure his foul would be received into the num! cr of happy fpirits. Here he rofe up, and folding his hands together, Merciful Jefus! let me then die the death of the righteous! A little after, with his face inclined to the wall, where flood his bed, he broke out into this foEloquy: Auguftus! O Auguftus, what must be thy lot one day! Mud thou not anfwer for all the crimes thou haft committed? He then obferved that he was driven out from his country, by a fentence against his life, pronounced for doing what the king himself en couraged him to do, faying to him one day in terms of much kindnefs, Patkul, maintain the rights of your country like a man of honour, and with all the Ipirit you are capable of. That flying into an ene. my's country was alfo unavoidable, as the country of an ally would not have afforded him protection; but that he was in Saxony a wretched exile, not a coun. fellor or advifer; that before his arrival every thing was already planned, the alliance with Mufcovy figned, and the mafures with Denmark agreed upon. My inclination (faid he, after a paufe) were always to ferve Sweden, though the contrary opinion has prevailed. The elector of Brandenburg owed his title of king of Pruffia to the fervices I did him; and when, in recompenfe, he would have given me a confiderable fum of money, I thanked him, and rejected the offer; adding, that the reward I moft wished for was to regain the king of Sweden's favour by his interceffion. This he promised, and tried every poffible method to fucceed, but without fuccefs. After this I laboured fo much for the intereft of the late emperor in his Spanish affairs, that I brought about what scarce any other man could have effected. The emperor as an acknowledgment gave me an affignment for 50,000 crowns, which I humbly laid at his feet, and only implored his imperial majetty's recommendation of me to my king's favour: this requeft he immediately granted, and gave his orders accordingly, but in vain. Yet, not to lofe any opportunity, I went to Mofcow while the Swedish ainbaffadors were at that court; but even the mediation of the Czar had no effect. After that I diftributed among the Swedith prifoners at Mofcow at least 100,000 crowns, to how the ardent defire I had, by all ways, to regain the favour of their fovereign. Would to heaven I had been equally in earneft to obtain the grace of God.'-At these words another fhower of tears fell from his eyes, and he remained for fome moments filent, and overwhelmed with grief. I used my beft endeavours to comfort him with the affurance that this grace would not be denied him, provide he spent the few hours till left in earnestly imploring it; for the door of heaven's mercy was never fhut, though that of men might be cruelly fo. This (replied he), this is my confolation; for thou art God and not man to be angry for ever.' He then inveighed bitterly againft Auguftus, and reproached himfelf for having any connection with a wret h who was wholly deftitute of all faith and honour, an atheift, without piety, and without virtue. While he was at WarWhile he was at War faw (faid he), and heard the king was advancing to attack him, he found himself extremely diftreffed. He was abfolufely without money, and therefore obliged to difmifs fome of his troops. He had recourfe to my "At this he faid, let us ftop here a little; I will quickly return to finish this will; but now let us adrefs ourselves to God by prayer. Prayers being ended, Now (cried he) I find my felf yet better, yet in a quieter frame of mind: Oh! were my death lefs dreadful, with what pleafure would I expiate my guilt by embracing it!--Yes (cried he, after a paufe), I hive friends in different places, who will weep over my deplorable fate. What will the mother of the king of Pruffia fay? What will be the grief of the Countess Levolde who attends on her? But what thoughts mult arife in the bofom of her to whom my faith is plighted? Unhappy woman! the news of my death will be fatal to her peace of mind. My dear paftor, may I venture to beg one favour of you?" I affured him he might command every fervice in my power. Have the goodnefs then (faid he, preffing my hand), the moment I am no more, to write--Alas! how will you fet about it? a letter to Madam Einseidelern, the lady I am promifed to-Let her kuow that I die her's; inform her fully of my unhappy fate! Send her my laft |