Letters of the King of Pruffia.—Spanijh Poetry. 
o@événémens facheux A-quelques favorables 
‘qué nous arrivent. Nous balottons fans ceffe 
‘entre beaucoup de chagrins, & quelques mo- 
mens de fatisfaction. Voila ma bonne foeur, 
le. fort commun de tous les hommes ! Les 
aFupes gens doivent étre plus fenfibles a la 
rte de leurs proches &.de leurs amis, que 
ie viellards, Les premiers fe refentent long 
-tems de ces privations, au lieu que les per- 
‘fonnes de notre age les faivent dans peu. 
Les morts ont Vavantage @etre & Pabri de 
tous les coups de la fortune, & nous qui 
¥eftons en vie, nous y fommes fans cefle 
expoléss ‘Toutes ces réflexions, ma bonne 
foeur, ne font guéres’ confolantes, je P’avoue. 
Heureufement que votre fagefle, & votre 
efprit vous ont donné la force de refifter A la 
douleur qu’éprouve une tendre mére, en per- 
dant un de fes enfans cheris, Veuille le ciel 
continuer de yous affifter, en confervant une 
foeur, qui fait le bonheur de ma yie! Duaignés 
ma bonne foeur, me croire avec le plus tendre. 
attachement & la’ plus haute confideration, 
Mon adorable foeur, votre fidéle frére & fer- 
yiteur, FEDERIC. 

LETTRE uae 
Ce 10d’ Aout, 1786, 
MON ADORAELE SOEUR, 
E.medecin. d@’Hannovre a voulu fe faire 
valoir chez vous ma bonne foeur; mais 
la verité eft qu ‘u m’a €te inutile. Les vieux 
doivent faire place aux jeunes gens, pour 
gue chaqite generation trouve fa pla ces & a 
bien examine? ce gue Cet qué la vic, ceft 
voir mourir & naftre fes compatriotes. En 
attendant 3 je me trouve un peu ‘oulagé depuis 
quelques jours. Mon coeur vous refte in- 
Vidlablement attaché, mabonne foeur. Avec 
sda plus haute confideration, mon adorable 
tucur, votre sifidele ivtre é¢ ferviteur, 
Feperic: 
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TRANSLATIONS. 
LETTER I. 
12th May, 1785. 
MY BELOVED SISTER, 
if HAVE lived above 70 years in the world, 
andin all that time, I aa feen nothing 
bat) the capricious freaks of fortune, who 
mingles with the few aleafide circumftances 
offour exiftence, a great number of mourn- 
fullevents. We flu@tuate between continued 
troubles, and momentary gratifications. Such, 
my dear fifter, is’ the common. lot of man- 
kind |; Young people cannot but feel the lofs 
~ of friends a relations, ‘more. acutely than 
the old. The former continue long to re- 
collect their lofe; while perfons, of our. age, 
Shortly follow thofe whom they lament. The 
cead have the advantage of being beyond the 
reach of nie but we whe remain ae 
continue expofed to her fhafts.. Thefeire- 
leGions, my dear fifter, afford but little 
eonfolation, I confefs. Happily; yours. 
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dom and fortitude enable you to bear up azaintt 
that forrow, which a tender mother muft 
feel for the lofs of a beloved child? May 
-heayen continue to fupport you, and preferve 
tomeafifter, who conftitutes the chief hap- 
pinefs of my life, | Believe me, my. dear 
fitter, with the tendere® attachment, and 
the higheft efteem, yourfaithful brother and 
ervant, FREDERIC. 
LET'VER ‘If, 
10th of Auguft, 1786. 
MY BELOVED SISTER, 
SHE Havoverian phyfician* was defirous 
of recommending himfelf to your favour, 
oe dear fitter; but the truth is, that he was 
of little fervice to me. ~The cld muft give 
place to the young, in order that each gene- 
ration may find its place; and if we fairly 
enquire in what life confifts, it is in feeing 
our fellow-citizens fucceffively entering and 
quitting exiftence. Meanwhile, I fhouid tell 
you, that I have felt myfelf rather eafier for 
thefe few days paft. My heart remains in- 
violably attached to you, my dear fifter, and 
Tam, with the higheft efteem, my beloved 
fifter, your faithful friend and fervant, 
FREDERIC. 

For the Monthly, Magazine. 
On THE PoETRY OF SPAIN. 
ERNARDINO de Rebolledo was a 
count of the holy Roman empire, 
lord of Yrian, head of the Rebolledos 
of Caftille, knight of the order of Sant- 
iago, comendador and alcayde of Villa- 
nueva de Alcardete, governor and captain 
reneral of the Lower Palatinate, general 
of artillery, minifter plenipotentiary in 
Denmark, minifter of the fupreme coun- 
cil of war, &c. &c. but if Rebolledo 
had fot been a poet, thefe titles would 
have been remembered cnly in the family 
pedigree, and on-his own monument. 
On the 31ft of May, 1597, he was bap- 
tized in Leon, his native city. . From 
his earlielt ye ars, fays the Spanifh bio- 
grapuer, - Bernardino difcovered his 
inclination for that happy union of arms 
and letters, which fo many have made. 
Two centuries ago’ this union was iefs 
extraordinary than at prefent : in Eng- 
land we hada Raleigh and a Sydney. 
Spain alfords more initances; Lope de 
Vega ferved in the Armada; Garcilafo 
died in battle, and the poem of Ercilla 
was written in his tent. But the world 
is grown wifer, though it may not have 
grown better, and the: trade of war, 
once held fo honourable, is now efiimate 
as it fhould be. At the age of fourteen 
a 
% Zimmermann. 
Re ebolledo 
