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his rank. My new fubjefis, however, are 
yet unacquainted with the charater of man, 
to which they are raifed, and with the rights 
of enjoyment, for which they are indebted to 
the Pruffian fceptre. Moft of the under-offi- 
cers mifconceive their duty; and, inftead of 
protecting the oppreffed, deliver them up to 
violent abufes. It is almoft become prover- 
bial among them, ‘* That the former Poles 
can only be ruled by the rod,” and I have my- 
felf received many complaints, occafioned by 
perfonal affault and bad treatment of the pea- 
Jants, though I am convinced, that the-new 
Prushans are a good and a-tractable people, 
who do not deferve thefe evils. Remon- 
frances are made likewife againft the immo- 
ral, indecent, and truly horrible conduct of 
thefe undereofficers, towards thofe with whom 
they have any bufinefs, in the exercife of 
their fun@ions. All thefe various complaints 
excite my diffatisfaGtion and indignation the 
more, becaufe it is only by an oppofite and 
regular conduét, on the part of thefe public 
agents, that the yet uncultivated part of the 
mation may be civilized, rendered fufceptible 
of the good contained in the conftitution of 
Pru fia, and finally acquire the love, devotion, 
and fidelity of the ftate, the head of which re- 
gulates all his fteps by the general welfare, 
which he is urgent to attain, by promoting 
the happinefs of all and each of his fubjeéts. 
Thefe confiderations have induced me to 
charge you with the deitru@tion of fuch abufes. 
( Here follow the ordonnances. )—The fooner and 
the more completely you fhall have fulfilled 
thefe views, the better you will acquire 
«claims tomy favour, and to the benevolence 
with which Iam, 
Your affe&tionate king, 
Charlottenburg, FREDERICK WILLIAM. 
Fuly 10, 1798. 
We learn, froma fketch of the Hiftory 
of Swedith Poetry, lately publifhed, that 
GEORGE STIERNHIELM was the firftwho 
endeavoured to introduce the Greek and 
Roman verfification into the Swedith 
tongue, and who chofe the ancients as his 
model. He was born in 1593; for his 
learning and fervices was promoted to va- 
rious important employments; and died 
at Stockholm in 1672, having attained the 
rank of counfellor at war. His principal 
poem, Hercules, contains 531 mafterly 
hexameters.;.and was printed for the firit 
time, at. Upfal, in 1653. There are,befides 
fome ballads written by him, but without 
rhime, and according to the metrical art of 
the ancients; as likewife fome lyric and 
other light poems. . His poetical works 
have been colleéted and publithed in 1668, 
under the title of Mufaz Suethizantes. Sa- 
muel Columbus, a fon of the provoft Jo- 
nas Columbus, was the friend and {cholar 
pf Stiernhiclm. He came to Upfal in 1658, 
Literary and Philofopbical Intelligence. 
eight perfons died. 
[ Apri } T; 
where he not only ftudied the fciences but, 
likewife exercifed his poetical talents. He 
died at Stockholm in 1679, and a fecond 
edition of his works appeared in 1687. 
There is a long poem by him, entitled, 
The Scriptural World; and, amoag his 
other. writings, a Song to Love. A long 
didaétic poem, enritled Radruk; or, The’ 
Guide ta Virtue, was written by him at 
Leipfic in 1676, and confifts/ of a ftring of 
fentences, but which are conneéted with 
each other. Next to thefe, among the 
poets of the lait century, may alfo be di- 
ftinguifhed Lasse JOHANNsON; or, as he 
called himfelf, Lucidor the Unfortunate. 
Extract from two letters written by - 
Broussonet who has been {ent into 
Africa, by the National Inftitute of 
Paris, to his friend L’HeriTigr, dated 
Mogador, giving an affli€ting picture of 
the ravages of the PLaGue on the coalt of 
Barbary. ‘* The plague, my dear friend, 
furrounds us ; and what a plague may it be 
confidered! Already the population of fe- 
veral large towns has difappeared. At 
Morocco 1800 perfons have died in oneday. 
‘The dead bodies fill the ftreets ; the con- 
fternation is general, and no’ precaution 
whatever, is taken; I have great reafon to 
believe that the diforder is within the 
town from which I write. I have wit- 
neffed the tumors in the affected (des 
bubons) thofe fatal diagnoftics ot this ra- 
vaging diftemper ; and the mortality in- 
creafes every day.. It is almoft impoffible 
to fluut onefelf up in the view of felf-de- 
fence. ‘This malady is not publicly.de- 
.clared to.be in this city as yet, but I)fear 
it cannot be long before it is. It is al- 
ready at Saffi, where the firft day twenty- 
Morocco is, literally 
a defert, where the dogs and birds of prey 
difpute their right to the putrifying and 
putrified carcales of the dead. The king 
(emperor as he is generally called) lives 
alone in a garden at a confiderable diftance 
from the city. One of his wives, feveral 
of his children, and the greateft part of 
his domeftics, have already fallen vi€tims 
to this cruel peft. A detachment of 1200 
foldiers, fent from the coaft of Tamdant, 
has, in lefs than a month, been reduced to 
two menonly. The Moors reprefent the 
population of Morocco to,amount.to a 
hundred thouland fouls ;. though they ap- 
pear to me to have exaggerated the num- 
ber, and that it cannot contain above fixty 
thoufand. Inthe Old and New, Fez there 
were at icafta hundred and twenty thou- 
{and inhabitants. At Rabat,.where -the 
ravages of the diftermper have fo far abated 
that no more than from 140 to iso perions 
dis 
