. The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer, Volume 22 . d of all)The politician from his glory fall:He whofe fly genius coud a kingdom rule,Shall have his exit hifsd by evry fool :With aking bofom and a ftreaming eyeThe hoary foldier fees his honour fly 5Who in his age muft to oppreffion bow,And yield his laurels to a younger brow :Thofe laurels (hall the proud fuccefibr wearA while; then ftrip and leave them to his heir. If thefe are wretched, let us not repine,Whofe meaner talents neer were made to mine:Our good and ill, our vice and virtue fallsWithin the compafs of domeft
. The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer, Volume 22 . d of all)The politician from his glory fall:He whofe fly genius coud a kingdom rule,Shall have his exit hifsd by evry fool :With aking bofom and a ftreaming eyeThe hoary foldier fees his honour fly 5Who in his age muft to oppreffion bow,And yield his laurels to a younger brow :Thofe laurels (hall the proud fuccefibr wearA while; then ftrip and leave them to his heir. If thefe are wretched, let us not repine,Whofe meaner talents neer were made to mine:Our good and ill, our vice and virtue fallsWithin the compafs of domeftick walls :To thofe fmall limits be thy views connnd,And blefs thy cottage with a not at joys that dazzle from afar,Nor envy Glaro on his gilded car :For all degrees their days efanguiihknow,And the mod happy have a tafte of calmly take what providence ordains,He fwclls the load who murmurs and conplains :For all things vary : And who fits to dayHalf-drown* d in tears j to-morrow may be gay. Ppp THE Digitized by VjOOQIC THE Monthly btllf * ^nafy a*ebW ** Cape-Coaft-Caftle, between England and tbt FanteeNation, on Feb. 6, i^3« . JE the Braffoe and Cur-ranteers, the priefts andpeople of Fantee, do de-clare, that our fathers,under the condu/lof theirBraffoe Imorah, werebrought by the Englitfifrom the country now Arcania, and bythem furnished with arms, ammunition,and money, not only to take poffclTiocof the land now inhabited by us, butlikewife to conquer all thofe ftatcs a-round us, at prefent fubjeft to our. domi-nion. And whereas we are certainly inform-ed, that within thefe ten years part fe-deral fubjecls of the French king havebeen endeavouring by bribes of variouskinds not only to diifolvc that clofe con-nection between the Lnglifh and Fan-tee nation which we look upon as ourgreateft fecuriry, but liktwife to procureto thcmfelves fome of that ground whichWas conquered at the Enghfti expencc ;which, befides the natural injuftice ofthe
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