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Hiftoire de la Vie de Henry IV. Roi de France et de Navarre, &c. That is, the Hiftory of the Life of Henry IV. King of France and Navarre. By M. De Bury. 12mo. 4 vol. Paris, 1766.

HERE is fcarce any fpecies of writing, that is more inftructive to the philofopher, or agreeable to fuch as read only for their amufement, than the lives of those who have made a diftinguished figure in the higheft ftations of life. Geferal hiftory often throws a falfe light on the characters of such perfons; the fplendor, which surrounds them dazzles the eye, and prevents our having a clear and diftinét view of them: but when they lay afide the badges of their dignity, and defcend from the height of their exalted ftations, to the common level of humanity; when we are allowed to take a view of them as fathers, hufbands, mafters, friends, and companions; when we are admitted to their tables, and their diverfions, and mix with them in the humble amufements, and agreeable relaxations of domeftic life, we can then form a juft idea of their characters; and whilst our felf-love is agreeably flattered in being admitted to a familiar intercourfe with fuch illuftrious perfonages, we clearly perceive that men are the fame in every rank and station of life.

The work now before us, therefore, must be acceptable to readers of every clafs; and indeed defervedly. Befides an account of the great actions which Henry the fourth performed in the eyes of all Europe, it contains many agreeable and interefting particulars, not generally known, which throw light upon the character of that great prince. It will be readily imagined that the Author has made great ufe of Sully's Memoirs; as Sully, however, confined himfelf principally to thefe things in which he himself was concerned as a minifter, the Reader will find in this hiftory a great many facts omitted by the Duke, and collected, with great care, from a variety of Au thors, by M. De Burg: whofe principal defign is to difplay the real character and private life of his hero. The difcerning Reader will probably think that he treats the blemishes and imperfections of Henry's character with too much tenderness; his work, however, notwithstanding this, has no inconfiderable degree of merit. His ftile is clear, eafy, and natural; his reAcctions few, but judicious, and fuch as naturally arise from

the facts which he relates.

He concludes his hiftory with a comparifon between Henry and Philip of Macedon. As this part of his work contains the Principal features in the portraits of these two great princes, we shall present our Readers with fome extracts from it.

In the twenty-fixth book of Sully's Memoirs we are told, that Henry, being one day at dinner with the Duke, and the converfation happening to turn upon those great men whofe APP. vol. xxxiv.

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actions are celebrated in history, afked Sully which of them all he most wished him to refemble?-If Sully had been well acquainted with the hiftory of Greece, our Author tells us, he would have found, among the heroes who are celebrated in it, a prince, whofe virtues, atchievements, good and bad fortune, &c. had fo perfect a refemblance to thofe of Henry, that he might have drawn an exact parallel between them. This prince was Philip, whofe conformity of character with that of Henry, he now endeavours to fhew.

When Amyntas, King of Macedon, died, he left three fons, Alexander, Perdiccas, and Philip. According to the order of nature, the youngest of the three could never expect to mount the throne; this circumftance, however, was the caufe of his grandeur. Being fent to Thebes as an hoftage, for reafons of ftate, he was committed to the care of Epaminondas, the greatest captain and the wifeft man of Greece; who took care to give him the best education in every refpect that a prince could receive, and by which Philip knew admirably well how to profit.

When Henry came into the world, he was ftill at a greater distance from the crown which providence defigned for him, than Philip was from that of Macedonia. Four Princes, who might have a numerous progeny, feemed to exclude him from all poffibility of ever reaching the throne. He reached it, however, with this difference, that his poffeffion of it was lawful, whereas that of Philip appeared to be an ufurpation; for after the death of his two elder brothers, he took poffeffion of the crown, by excluding young Amyntas his nephew, whofe guardian he was; unless we fay, that the uncle might lawfully exclude the nephew, as there were precedents for it in the history of Macedonia.

Thefe two princes, born with the fineft capacities that nature can bestow, derived great advantages from their education, which enabled them to make those folid reflections, which adverfity always fuggefts to brave and generous minds.

The education of Henry was not fo brilliant as that of Philip, who was inftructed in all the fciences known to the Grecks, the moft ingenious and polite people in the world. Accordingly he furpaffed all the princes who went before him in eloquence, philofophy, the knowledge of war and politics. Henry was educated by his mother the Queen of Navarre, and by Flor. Chretien, a man pretty well acquainted with history and polite literature, but who had not acquired that extenfive knowledge which those who were at the head of the Greek republic were poflefled of, and with whom Philip had particular connections in his youth.

ར It is with reafon the Greeks boast of the eloquence of Philip; but it was not that kind of eloquence which impofes upon republicans, who are fond of ingenious and sprightly

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turns, and who fuffer themfelves to be feduced by the charms of a beautiful elocution. It was a fpecies of cloquence which he had formed himself, nervous, fimple, manly, full of reafon and good fenfe, the only eloquence fit for kings.

Henry the Fourth had not perhaps carefully ftudied the works of Demofthenes and Cicero; indeed he had not time for this he had however a true, fimple, and perfuafive eloquence, as appears by his letters and thofe fpeeches of his which are still extant. Both Philip and he excelled in quick and fprightly repartees. Several of their apothegms and bons mots are ftill preferved, full of good fenfe and pleasantry. Thofe of Henry I have related occafionally; Philip's may be seen in the life I have given of him.

Henry and Philip were inftructed in the military art by the example and counfels of the two greatest captains of their times, Epaminondas and Coligny, under whom they learned to obey before they commanded. Both these princes profited fo much by the inftructions of their mafters, that they were without difpute the greatest captains of the age they lived in, and furpaffed all those who went before them.

When Philip mounted the throne of Macedon, he found his kingdom almost intirely invaded by his neighbours who were laying it waste, and his Grandees acting in concert with them, that each might fecure to himself a fhare of the provinces. We have seen in the life of Henry, what the condition of France was when he came to the crown. The greatest part of his nobles deferted him, invited foreigners to affilt and fupport them, and feized the revenues of the ftate. But both these princes, fuperiour to adverfity, and founding their hopes and their glory upon their courage, boldly attacked their enemies, beat them in feveral engagements, and forced them to return to their allegiance. The victories of Argues and Ivry confounded the league, as that which Philip gained over Bardillus, King of the Illyrians, made him mafter of Macedon, and that at Cheronæa, of all Greece.

One of the nobleft qualities thefe princes were poffeffled of, was their attention to make their fubjects happy and their dominions flourish. If their defigns were not always crowned with fuccefs, it was because they were not always mafters of thofe circumstances which do not depend upon the power or forefight of man; but they never loft fight of thefe glorious objects. Philip had no fooner driven his foreign enemies from his dominions, and established the tranquillity of his people, than he made himself mafter of Amphipolis, a city which belonged to his predeceffors, and which had an excellent harbour. He ordered fleets to be equipped, with which he attacked the Athenians, who had made themfelves lords at fea, and obliged them to give his fubjects a fhare in their commerce.

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No body knew better than he how to avail himself of the advantages he gained over his enemies. Being defirous to punifh the Thracians for the ravages they committed upon his territories, he entered their country, and took poffeffion of that part of their dominions which was most convenient for him. As he knew they had golden mines, which they neglected, he sent a colony of Macedonians to the city of Crenides, opened the mines, and drew a confiderable fum of money from them every year. If Henry had no gold nor filver mines in his dominions, he had others in the produce of France and the industry of its inhabitants, who only wanted to be encouraged to have their commerce protected. Accordingly he took the utmost care to have the roads repaired, rivers rendered navigable, and manufactures cftablished, and gave every encouragement to agriculture. If he had it not in his power to increafe, so much as he could have wifhed, the maritime commerce of his fubjects, which before his reign they were almoft utter ftrangers to, he at leaft laid the foundations of it.

Both these princes fhewed equal abilities in regard to their evenues. The finances were never in fuch good order, fince the foundation of the French monarchy, as they were in the reign of Henry the fourth. He was the firft who knew the true fources of them, and made the nobleft and best use of them. When Philip came to the throne, his finances were in as great diforder as thofe of Henry, and, with equal ability he reftored them without oppreffing his fubjects. As both thefe princes, in the beginning of their reigns; were greatly diftreffed for want of money, they knew the value of it; accordingly they ufed it with that economy which is fo neceffary in kings, without avarice and without prodigality. They knew that true generofity confifts in rewarding those who have deferved well of the flate, and in employing their treafures only upon what is ufeful and neceflary.

Henry and Philip were equal in point of courage, which they often, indeed, carried to temerity. They were not fenfible that true valour has its boundaries afcertained by reafon, which obliges a brave man to encounter, with intrepidity, thofe dangers that come in his way, without afpiring after the foolish ambition of going in queft of them.

This is the picture drawn of Philip by Demofthenes, his greatest enemy, whom a regard to truth obliged to do him the juftice he deferved." He is, fays he, an indefatigable warriour active, prefent upon every occafion, fupporting the feverest fa tigues, regardlefs of fleep, and the difference of feafons; a intrepid hero, who darts through every obftacle, and thruft himself into the midft of dangers.-I faw the fame Philip, (fay be on another occafion) after the lofs of an eye, wounded i

o, &c. throw himself into the midft of the combat, read

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