of the Eaft. This great scholar in early life compofed a Devotional Treatife in Flemish verfe, for the use of the Dutch failors that made voyages to the Eaft and Weft Indies.

His countrymen, who had perfecuted him fo violently in his lifetime, ftruck a medal in honour of him after his death, in which he is ftyled the "Oracle of Delft, the Phoenix of his Country." may be seen in the " Histoire Medallique de la "Hollande," and verifies what Horace faid long ago,

It

Urit enim fulgore fuo, qui prægravat artes
Infra fe pofitas: extinctus amabitur idem.

The man whofe life wife Nature has defign'd
To teach, to humanize, to fway his kind,
Burns by a flame too vivid and too bright,
And dazzles by excefs of fplendid light.
Yet when the hero feeks the grave's fad state,
The vain and changing people, wife too late,
O'er his pale corpfe their fruitless honours pour,
Their friend, their faviour, and their guide deplore;
And each fad impotence of grief betray,
To reallumine the Promethean clay.

SIR TOBY MATTHEWS

fays, in the Preface to the Collection of English Letters which he made in King James the First's' time," that there is no ftock or people in the "whole world where men of all conditions live "fo peaceably, and fo plentifully, yea and fo fafely alfo, as in England. The English," adds he, "unite the greatest concurrence of the "most excellent qualities: they are the moft

obligeable, the most civil, the most modeft "and fafe in all kinds of all nations. To con"clude therefore upon the whole matter, I con

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cur, generally, and even naturally, with a "certain worthy, honeft, and true-hearted Eng"lishman who is now dead (meaning Sir Dennis "Bruffels). For once after a grievous fit of the "ftone, (when he was no lefs than fourscore

years old,) he found himself to be out of pain, "and in fuch kind of ease in the way of re66 covery as that great weight of age might ad"mit; wherewith the good man was so pleased, "that he fell to talk very honestly, though very

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pleasantly alfo, after his manner: If God "fhould fay thus to me, Thou art fourscore 66 years of age, but yet I am content to lend "thee a dozen years more of life; and because "thou haft converfed with the men of fo many "nations in Europe, my pleasure is, that for

"here

thereafter thou fhalt have leave to chufe for

thyfelf of which thou would rather be than of

any other; I would quickly know how to "make this answer without studying: Let me "be neither Dutch, nor Flemish, nor French, nor Italian, but an Englishman!-an Englishman, good Lord! This faid he, and this fay "I," adds Sir Toby, as being most clearly

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INIGO JONES.

THIS great Architect, a pupil of Palladio, appears to have excelled his master in magnificence and fplendor of defign. What can be conceived more grand in design, and more exquifite in decoration, than the palace of Whitehall planned by him, and of which the present banquetinghouse made a part. The original Drawings of this intended palace are in the Library of Worcefter College in Oxford; they are extremely highly finished, and are not fuppofed to have been executed by the hand of the architect himfelf.

Lord Burlington published a complete Collection of the Defigns of Inigo Jones, and was

fo impreffed with the beauty of the Corinthian Portico which his favourite Architect had appended to the old Gothic* fabric of St. Paul's Cathedral, that on feeing the present beautiful Christian Temple built on the fite of the old church by Sir Christopher Wren, and being asked what he thought of it, he exclaimed, "When the Jews faw the fecond Temple, they reflected upon the beauty of the first, and wept."

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The first work which this great architect executed after his return from Italy, is faid, to have been the decoration of the infide of the Church of St. Catherine Cree in Leadenhall-street.

CHARLES THE FIRST.

[1625-1649.]

THIS accomplished Sovereign when Prince of Wales, and foon after his return from Spain, is

*"It was the fashion," fays Ofborn, " in James the "First's time, for the principal Gentry, Lords, Courtiers, "and men of all profeffions, to meet in St. Paul's Church "by eleven, and walk in the middle aisle till twelve, and "after dinner from three to fix; during which time some difcourfed of bufinefs, fome of news."-Ofborn's Advice to a Son.

thus

thus defcribed by the Countefs of Bedford, in a letter to his sister the Queen of Bohemia :

"None plaies his part in this our world with "fo due applaufe as your excellent brother, "who wins daily more and more upon the hearts "of all good men, and hath begotten, by his "princelie and wife proceedings, fuch an opinion "of his realitie, judgment, and worthie inten"tions for the public good, that I think never "Prince was more powerful in the Parliament"house than he; and there doth he express "himself substantially fo well, that he is often

called up to speak, and he doth it with that "fatisfaction to both Houses as is much admired; "and he behaves himself with as much reverence "to the Houses, when either himself takes oc"cafion to speak, or is chofen by them to do so, "unto the Lower Houfe, as any other man who

fits amongst them; and he will patiently bear "contradictions, and calmly forego his own "opinions, if he have been mistaken, which

yet hath fo feldom happened, as not above twice in all this time he hath had caufe to.. approve of any other than his own; all which are fo remarkable excellencies in a Prince fo young, fo lately come to be himself, as I am "fure the world hath not another to parallel with him. He is befides moft diligent and