the Tex as to fuppofe there arc any female
ones) will take umbrage at it, I will venture
to a(k, if this lentibility does not give a more
exijuifitc Xeft to all thofe enjoyments, which
nature, unforced and unthwarted, dilates ?
But fiblvc this as you pleafc What ingre
dients muft I be made of to be fb deeply af-
feded as I was at Belinda’s diftrefs, when (he
fobbed oi?t her talc of fbrrows ? and a tale of
forrows it was ! ...prefaced too, with, “ 1
know you cannot remove the caufc of my
grief, but the fympathy of a friend gives a
momentary relief to affliftion, and alleviates
milery.” Her dejetfbed looks had won my
compaffion before flie fpokc, but the name
of frieni awakened all that was tender and
humane within me. Had fhe been deformed
and haggard, her fituation would have pierc
ed my heart; but to be addrefled by inno
cence and beauty (except the traces of lor-
row file was a living Venus of Medicis) in
the plaintive melancholy ftyle or woe!...Hea
vens 1 it was irreriftiblc Milanthropyfts
would have pitied, and Apathaifts muft have
renounced their Creed, had they but feen her;
but, unfortunately for them, neither the mif-
anthropyft nor apathaift was prefent As fhe
proceeded with her ftory, 1 became the luffcr-
cr 1 was in every thing, but in pcrlon, the
diftreffed Belinda. My fighs kept time with
hers, and when I attempted to wipe off her
tears, I intermingled my own with them.
Yet penetrated as I was with grief for h r
misfortunes, and that I could not remove them,
I enjoyed a fatisfadfion of that kind, which, 1
think, nothing unbleft with a divini particle
can poffibly enjoy.
The feeling heart, the pow’r l*afli(l being loft,
Taftes in its grief joys felfifhnefs can’t boall.
“ Increale of knowledge is increalcof pain
and forrow,.” Hail then, bleft ignorance!
Bicft ignorance, all hail! Seal up my eyes,
left they fhould behold afflidlion ; and my
cars, left they Ihould hear the voice of mifery :
and cncompals my heart with adamant, left
pity for the unhappy fiiould extort a figh....
I diflike fain and forrow as much as any
man ; for I am callous nowhere, that I know
of, uhlels in the pineal gland, but when my
amen to that prayery may the doors
of mercy be fliut againft me for ever. I would
rather my pulfe ihould this inftani ocale to
beat, than have my cares circumferibed by
fel/t and hear or fee, with unconcern, the mis
fortunes of any thing human. Neither do I
even wilh, happy as the jocund circle makes
me, ever to fet my foot within the houfe of
feafting, unlels I can fympathize cordially with
thofe in the houfe of mourning.
“ It is owing to an inquifitive dilpofi-
tion.” Ungenerous ! for jufticc fake and
your own, aflign a better cau'e attribute it
to nobler motives......Shall we participate in
the pleafures of the profperous, and fliall we
keep a loof from thofe in adverfity ? If wc
cannot feel for the diftreffes of others, we juft-
ly deferve to be “ laughed at when calamity
cometh upon us and the more general our
concern for mankind is, the ftronger prncfl
do we certainly give of our bearing his imate.
who fufters not a hair to fall from oui
heads unnumbered to the ground An;l fo
fara.Ti I from thinking this concern the ei/c^
of inquifitiveners, I think.
The greateft blifs which hcav’.a on man
beftows.
Is as his own to feel another’s woes :
And one humane or charitable deed,
Does all the joys of revelling exceed.
And I pity the heart that cannot add the tef*
timony ot experience to this remark.
NORTH-CAROLTNA, fi.
By his EXCELLENCY
WILLIAM TRYON, Erquire,
His Majefty’s Captain-GcncrJ, Governor,
and Commander in Chief, in and ovcj th;
faid Province.
A P R O'C L A A T I O N.
W H E R E A S I have received infor
mation that a great Number of outra
gcous and difordcrly Perfons did turnwltuouily
aflemblc themtelvcs together in the Town ot
Hilllborough, on the 25th of laft Month, dur
ing the fitting ot the Superior Court of Juftice
of that diftrift, to oppofe the Juft Mealures of
Government, and in open Violation of the
I.avvs ot their Country, audacioufly attacking
his Majefty’s Affociatc Juftice ill the Execution
of his Office, and barbaroufiy betting and
wounding leveral Perfons in and during the
fitting of the faid Court, and offering other
enormous Indignities and Infultsto his Majef
ty’s Goveiament, committing the moft violent
Outrages on the Pcrlons and properties ot the
Inhabitants of the fiud Town,drir.king Dam
nation to their lawful Sovereign King George,
and Succefs to the Pretender : To the Er.d,
therefore, that the Perfons concerned in the
faid outrageous A6ts may be brought to Juftice,
I do, by the Advice and Confent ot his Majel
ly’s Council, ifsue this my Proclamation, here
by requiring and ftri(ftly enjoining all hisM ijel
ty’s Juftices of the Peace in this Government
to make diligent Inquiry into the above recit
ed Crimes, and to receive the Depoficion 0
luch Perfon or Perfons as fliali appear before
them to make Information ot and concerning
the fame ; which DepoGtions arc to be tranl-
mitted to me, in Order to be laid before ihs
General Affembly, at Newbern, on the 3')th
Day of November next, to which Time i
Hands Prorogued, for the immediate Difpatch
of Publick Bufinefs.
Given under my Hand^ and the Gnat Seal tf th
Province^ at Newbern, the i%th Day of
06lobcr, in the lotb Tear of his Mayth-
Reign, Anno Dom. 1770.
WILLIAM TRYON
By his Excellency*s command,
John London. Sec,
GOD favc the KING.