The Virginia Gazette

Feb. 1. By a private letter from Copenhagen we hear that about an hour before his Majesty's decease he called the Prince Royal, his successor, close to his bed side, and taking him by the hand, addressed him to the following purport: My dear son, you will soon be the King of a flourishing people; but remember that to be a great monarch, it is absolutely necessary to be a good man. Have justice and mercy, therefore, constantly before your eyes, and above all things reflect that you were born for the welfare of your country, and not your country created for your mere emolument. In short, keep to the golden rule of doing as you would be done by; and whenever you issue an order as a sovereign, examine how far you would be willing to obey such an order, had you been but a subject yourself.