Such was the patriotic, peaceful, and intellectual King Hiram of Tyrus, whose reputation has descended with increasing splendour through a period of nearly three thousand years! His elevated mind, extensive knowledge, Religious toleration, the patron of Education, Literature, Arts and Science,--the friend of oppressed humanity, and the Patriot King,--are all again revivified amid the applause of nations, in the person of the present William of Prussia; and may posterity record his memory to the date of his Tyrian prototype, that his example may be imitated by future Kings and Rulers! CHAPTER IV. (868--861 B. C.) KING PYGMALION. THE HIGH-PRIEST ACERBAS, AND THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH. FOUNDING OF CARTHAGE, &c. THE DEATHS OF THE QUEEN OF CARTHAGE AND CATO COMPARED. HEROISM OF THE BRITISH QUEENS BOADICEA, ELIZABETH, AND VICTORIA. As it is the intent in these volumes to glance over the ancient world with an Eagle's far-reaching gaze, undazzled by its splendour,--and not as the mole, to wander _beneath_ the Ruins of Empires, clouded in darkness,--the chief events only, therefore, will be brought forward; for they were the _causes_ of action, and when they are understood, the _effects_ will appear not only natural, but unavoidable. Thence Hiram's _character_ was a cause,--peace and prosperity were the _effects_ of that cause,--so mighty are the deeds of one great mind in the annals of a Nation! The Tyrant Pygmalion is a direct contrast to Hiram,--and the effects from that cause are not without their utility,--for from evil, good is to be derived. The next event in the history of Tyrus, is the ascension of Pygmalion, who possessed every essential of a cruel and avaricious monarch,--viz., never virtuous by design, or guilty from accident. This reign brings us also to contemplate the celebrated Tyrian Princess, his Sister, whose virtuous life, heroic immolation, and the genius of Virgil, have rendered immortal! That the Poet did not follow History, must be apparent to every classic scholar,--though the general reader's knowledge of Dido arises from her association with Æneas; yet this hero, who, at the destruction of Troy, rescued the "old Anchises," lived three hundred and twenty-five years before the Tyrian Princess, who subsequently became the foundress of Carthage. Virgil, in writing for the Romans, had selected the renowned ancestor of their race as the hero; and as the hatred between his country and that of Carthage was deadly, he flattered the citizens of Rome, by making the Queen of the former nation as the original cause of the malignant animosity. Although this may be sanctioned by that saving clause in writing verse,--viz., "a poetical licence," yet in this instance, it is at the greatest sacrifice of truth to be found in the records of History.