ATTRACTION AND REPULSION. A FABLE. REPULSION to Attraction cry'd- Thus, in a nation, parties view For if those cheat us, these detect; But should they leagues of friendship strike, THE PRESIDENT OF THE ROSY-CROSS. Extract of a Letter from London, dated November 20, 1626. "THERE is a stranger hath been these two years in London, and some say is the same who, as hath been heretofore reported, told the prince Palatine, at the beginning of his election to the crown of Bohemia, of all the misfortunes and calamities which had befallen him since that time; and, nevertheless, advised him to accept it. Whosoever he be, he yesterday sent a letter to our king, by David Ramsey, of the clock, a copy whereof we took from the original immediately after he had been with the king. He gave Mr. Ramsey farther instructions, as to tell his majesty, that if he pleased to grant him allowance, he would send this next Sunday, and impart many things unto his majesty of moment and secrecy; and that he would perform it by the mouth of a young child, whom he had already anointed: and such like. I tell it you for news; but for my part, I have but a small faith in the business, supposing it is either some fantastical folly, or, if more, that it will tend to imposture. Letter from Mr. Mead to Sir M. Stuteville. Christ College, Nov. 25, 1626. SIR, I received from Mr. Pory, last night, a piece of news, whereof some was wondrous strange, (if it prove true,) and I suppose he wrote a day before his time, that he might be the first relater, as he was. I will transcribe his whole letter, judge, as you shall see reason, when you come at it. [Mr. Pory's letter is dated "London, November 23," and the part referred to is as follows:] But the sweetest news, like March-pane, I keep for the banquet. Now the French ambassador is departed, a certain heteroclite ambassador is coming upon the stage, a youth he is, I hear, with never a hair on his face; and the principal by whom he is sent, and whom he is to represent, lies concealed in this town, and (in one word to solve this riddle) is the president of the "Society of the Rosy-Cross," whose said ambassador, on Sunday afternoon, hath appointed to come to the court with thirteen coaches. The proffers he is to make his majesty are no small ones, to wit-if his majesty will follow his advice, he will presently put three millions, viz. thirty hundred thousand pounds into his coffers, and will teach him the way how to suppress the Pope; how to bring the catholic king on his knees; how to advance his own religion all over Christendom; and, lastly, how to convert Turks and Jews to Christianity; than which you can desire no more in this world. Thus he; and promises me a letter this night. What think you? for I know not. Is it a game or a verity? Mr. Pory to Mr. Mead. London, Sunday, November 26, 1626. THE young ambassador of our president of the "Society of the Rosy-Cross" did not appear this afternoon at Whitehall; but they say he proffereth his three millions to be paid in May next. We all fear he will prove but a mountebank, and his project a second part of England's Joy. He sent a letter unto the king, the copy whereof is this: Glorioso et delecto Filio Dei, et nostro Domino Carolo, Imperatori Britannico quindecim Regnorum Regi: "ORIGINES "Indicatur hisce præsentibus regiæ tuæ majestate proditionem summam adversus tuam et meam personam à me detectam esse. Ideoque velim mihi dari tres satellites regios, qui comprehenses proditores ad turrim deducant. "M. PHILIPPUS." His name, they say, is Philippus Ishbertus; and his ambassador's or messenger's name (which is but a youth) ORIGINES. Mr. Mead to Sir. M. Stuteville. Christ's College, December 2, 1626. "FOR the Rosy-Cross president, you shall see his ambassador appeared not at the time appointed by the inclosed of Mr. Pory, dated on Sunday afternoon. It seems his majesty would not give him audience. You shall see here his letter to the king: the contents, methinks, argue it comes from some one whose brains croak. It is said here, that the king should say, if he could tell where to find him, unless he made good, presently, his proffer of gold, he would hang him at the court gates; whereby, it seems, he is latent and undiscovered, and means so to be. But to use a child for his minister and messenger, whose innocency and age might secure him from such usage as himself, the principal, was likely to find! Some think it is somebody whose brains are crack't; others, a plot to have got access unto the king, in private, for discovery of some matter against the duke; others, otherwise, as their fancies lead them." DEATH OF HENRY PRINCE OF WALES. THE death of Henry Prince of Wales, the son of James the First, and that of the princess Charlotte, bear a striking resemblance. The melancholy and premature death of both disappointed the fondest hopes of the people, and diffused an universal grief throughout the nation. Both awakened “the voice of song," not from the hireling lips alone of court minstrels, but from the war-tuned harps of the noblest and best of contemporary poets. The effusions on the latter sad event are too recent, and too well known to need enumeration; those productions to which the death of Prince Henry gave rise, are not only more scattered, but less familiar to the public. * Of Buckingham. Y The Scottish muse, in both instances, was very forward to bedew the grave of her favourite with the tears of poetry— particularly in the case of Prince Henry. Sir William Alexander's" Elegie," Drummond's "Tears for the Death of Mælides," and Maxwell's " Laudable Life," with a multitude of other pieces, are well known. Among the rest, appeared a little tract, containing a selection of the smaller pieces circulated on the occasion, which, from its extreme variety, has almost entirely escaped the notice of bibliographers. The tract bears the title of "Mausoleum, or the Choicest Flowers of the Epitaphs written on the death of the never-toomuch-lamented Prince Henrie." It was printed in Edinburgh, in 1613, in quarto, and contains only four leaves. The first and second pieces in this collection are by Walter Quin, who was servant to the Prince; the second is in Latin; but the first is in English, as follows: "Loe! here intomb'd a peerless prince doth lie, In flower and strength of age surprys'd by death, Not without cause; for heaven most liberally But when the world of all his virtues rare The wished fruit to gather did expect, And that he should such glorious works effect, As with the worthiest Fame might him compare, Our loss and grief, Heaven's gaine and joy to make." The three next are by Drummond, of Hawthornden, and are printed in his works. Then follow four others, signed IGNOTO; the signature usually affixed to the poems of Sir Walter Raleigh. It is known that Prince Henry was much attached to Raleigh, and observed of his cruel imprisonment, "Sure no king, but my father, would keep such a bird in a cage." It is therefore more than probable, that these effusions were the production of this ill-fated but illustrious man. following are copies of three of these pieces: The "Faire Britaine's prince in th' April of his yeares, Reft to her selfe, for to enrich the spheares, And shine next Cynthia in the starrie chase. And well he might enjoy so high a place; For frowning Neptune's liquid field of feares, To his great mind seemed too small a space: But ah! deprived of a gemme so riche ! "Cio ch' il Pianéta che distingue L'hore Del magnanimo ARRIGO, ricco d'Honore." IGNOTO. By Asia's floods renown'd? IGNOTO. Or wher great ATLAS crown'd With clouds, him reaches 'bove Heaven's milkie way? Strange wonders to behold: By his streams if thou'l but daigne to stay, One thou shalt finde surpassing all the told. For there's in little roome, The PRINCE of men, and Man of Princes tombe." IGNOTO. The authors of the remaining pieces, that complete this small, but elegant collection, were writers well known. Two of these may suffice. "Did he die young? oh no, it could not be, WILLIAM ROWLEY. "Two kingdomes strove for interest in one Prince, |