Though the beneficial effects of the wife and upright conduct of the King in the cafes which have been specified will principally be felt by the people over whom he reigns; yet it may materially conduce to the happiness of other nations, partly by fetting before their eyes a pattern of what they are entitled to expect from their own Governors, and partly by exciting those Governors to imitate so glorious an example. And as advances in fcience, and discoveries in arts, are much more speedily borrowed, and more easily domefticated than the improvement of laws and the reformation of manners; the efforts of a King of Great Britain in the encouragement of genius and learning are scarcely lefs interefting, in some inftances they may even be more interesting, to foreigners than to his own fubjects. It falls within his immediate province to patronize focieties inftituted for the cultivation of natural and experimental philofophy; to encourage inventions which may facilitate the progress or increase the excellence of manufactures; to countenance the profeffors of manly and liberal arts; to animate every department of literature; to excite by perfonal favour, by inci

dental rewards, and perhaps by the inftitution of honorary and pecuniary prizes, the exertions of all who have diftinguifhed, or are capable of distinguishing themselves by meritorious ftudies and purfuits; and occafionally to direct their labours into thofe channels, in which they appear moft likely to promote the public welfare. And it is peculiarly his office to avail himself of the opportunities which refult from his fupreme direction of the British Navy, to explore untraversed oceans, to bring unknown regions to light; and, while he is laying the foundations of a commercial intercourfe which may enrich the diftant pofterity of his fubjects, to introduce among favage tribes the immediate bleffings of civilization. and christianity.

It does not fall within the plan of the prefent work to recite at greater length, and purfue to a more minute detail, the effects which a King may produce on the manners and condition of the people committed to his care. To the hiftorian belongs the cheering office of diftinctly tracing the progrefs of those streams of happiness which a Sovereign difpenfes throughout

throughout his realms, who regarding all his fubjects as his children, watches over them with unwearied and impartial affection; who fcrupulously observes their rights and liberties; obeys the laws, and caufes others to obey them; rejects the baits of foreign as well as of domestic ambition; cherishes useful induftry, learning, and science; eradicates ancient prejudices; abolishes immoral customs; difcountenances corruption, luxury, and vice; and by public encouragement and private example inculcates the important leffon, that the welfare of a nation is to be fought, like that of an individual, in the cultivation of chriftian virtue. On the historian also rests the painful task of delineating the miseries of that kingdom, whofe Monarch ftudies to aggrandize himself by encroaching on popular freedom, by fomenting party divifions, by holding up rewards to venal fervility; who impoverishes his fubjects by his profufion; lavishes their wealth and their blood in unneceffary wars; connives at the injuftice of his minifters; fanctions the licentioufnefs of his court; and -by the influence of perfonal irreligion faps the foundations of national morality.

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The Monarch, who is truly anxious for the happinefs of his people, will not fatisfy himfelf with perfonally exercifing his conftitutional authority with a view to that object. He will endeavour to give his fubjects every poffible degree of affurance that the advantages, which they have enjoyed under his adminiftration, fhall be continued to them when he fhall no longer fill the throne. Impreffed with this patriotic defire, he will regard the education of his family, not merely with the common feelings of a father; but with the anxieties infeparable from the recollection that it is a measure which may involve the welfare of millions. He knows with what commanding influence the conduct of persons allied to royalty affects all ranks of fociety. He knows not which, or how many, of his children may eventually wear the crown. He will engrave then on their bofoms the importance, the dangers, and the duties, of the ftation in which they are born, and of the office to which they may fucceed. He will train them in the ftudies, habits, and occupations which may most incline and enable them to be extenfively ufeful. He will affociate them with fuch friends

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and companions as recommend to imitation purity of character by refpectful freedom and attractive ingenuoufness of manners. He will guard them against the servility of flatterers, and the bufy artifices of the vicious. Above all things, he will imprint on their hearts the proofs and the precepts of christianity; and fix their thoughts and their folicitude on that impending day of inquiry and retribution, when all earthly distinctions shall be no more.

A King who in the discharge of his various functions fhall thus labour to promote the happiness of man and the glory of God, will enfure to himself, not only a brighter crown hereafter, but an extent of present power greater perhaps than a defpot ever knew, greater than a despot ever enjoyed in security. And it is a power which he need not blush to poffefs. It is a lawful power; it fprings not from tyrannical edicts; not from the fubmiffion of bribed or intimidated fenates; but from the eager approbation and unbounded love of his people,