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'Sffe^har privatehoiKes^bbldrisdhkl-causeS^w>pfdpeEty;- vkhe'fts the^affidtifmrl
-exceededla^pebified^sum; ' eyery preeessfbftimportance w a s ^ p M in
^ K e r a h d evenyylecreetregis.tered. His reign was shoxt-,.k^^gorous; 'and
had-hisfifetbeen prolonged, it (improbable, that his country*:kMI<$lat this
•'day fe y e lb e eh ‘farther* advanced in national refinement, and j lr a liberal
arts.-: -
Alompra did not live to'complete1 his fiftietfryear*:*-hiss person excteedbtl
the middle size, strong, and well proportioned; ■ his features were , coarse, I
his complexion dark, and his countenance saturnine: t h f e Wa##&i|pft^ I
in his deportment that became his high station. ' Ito his temfdrJitfe#M^t® I
to have been prone to anger; in revenge, implacable; and in punishing
faults, remorseless and severe. The latter part of his character may per- 1
haps have arisen, as much from the necessities of his situation, as from a-
disposition by nature cruel. He who acquires a throne through an act of
individual- boldness, is commonly obliged to maintain it by terror: the-
right'of assumption is guarded with more jealousy than that of prescription.
I f we except the last act of severity- towards the English settlers, his
conduct on most other occasions, seemed to be marked by moderation and
forbearance; even in that one disgraced! instance, he appeared to have
been instigated by the persuasions of others, rather than by the- dictates;
0f a vindictive mind; and it is manifest, from the expressions, of his successor
on a public occasion, that it never was his- intention to consign
the innocent; with the supposed guilty, to the same indiscriminate and
sanguinary fate? I
Be the private character of Alompra what rt may, his heroic actions-
give him an indisputable claim to no mean rank among the most distinguished
personages in the page of history : his firmness emancipated a
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fi^ufdS^Wefe ii-cbdshtjted. Thefardbdi^bfj.y'otith ^bnfs^h^ielMirlddd
thSjirlfil-S t&thc,drf'&hc^'of prudence. as well asaouftc dfitv ,jri<fcaind|2tuTc'b
h#’-OTif^®>his'' elder bfofhefcp atM lawfhtSovereign. -Hb '£Q©n‘ fonnd»' that rife
had bdin»deceived, that his followcis wcic notrfnJrh'fm his interest md
even it they badt.bce-n sincere, weto not sufliucntlyipowcrhil to support. Jus
fhetcnsions; he therefore hastened tof>ftp'iiiiliftty*(iiror'hv< tiniclivi su&irii^
sionj which his',brother, through theantercessionfpifheis1 mother w a^preS
vailed on- to accept. Shortly after, SheniBuan was reslpfecftt®ffii®te£-and