MR^ LUCAS'S 
fenfe of the real difEcuIty of chufing where judgment may eafily 
err, and error may be fatal to the State, keeps them in fufpence, 
the Princes are clofely confined in feparate chambers of the Pa- 
lace. Their choice being made, they proceed to the apartment 
of the Sovereign eleft, and condu6: him, in filence, to the gloomy 
place in which the unburied corpfe of his father, that can- 
not be interred till this awful ceremony is paffed, awaits his ar- 
rival. There, the Elders point out to him the feveral virtues 
and the feveral defeds which marked the charafter of his departed 
parent ; and they alfo forcibly defcribe, with juft panegyric, 
or fevere condemnation, the feveral meafures which raifed or 
deprefled the glory of his reign. " You fee before you the end 
of your mortal career ; the eternal^ which fucceeds to it, will 
** be miferable or happy in proportion as your reign fhall have 
proved a curfe or a blefUng to your peopled' 
From this dread fcene of terrible Inftru^tion, the new Sove- 
reign, amidfl: the loud acclamations of the people, is conducted 
back to the Palace, and is there invefted by the electors with 
all the flaves, and with two-thirds of all the lands and cattle of 
his father ; the remaining third being always detained as a pro- 
vifion for the other children of the deceafed Monarch. No 
fooner is the Sovereign invefted with the enfigns of Royalty, than 
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