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"One would (faid he) bear a little with Oli"ver Cromwell, though, contrary to his oath of

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fidelity to the Parliament, contrary to his duty "to the public, contrary to the respect he owed "that venerable body from whom he received "his authority, he ufurped the government. "His merit was fo extraordinary, that our judg

ments, our paffions, might be blinded by it. "He made his way to empire by the most illuf"trious actions. He had under his command "an army that had made him Conqueror, and 26 a people that had made him their General. "But as for Richard Cromwell his fon, Who is "he? What are his titles? We have seen that " he had a sword by his fide, but, Did he ever "draw it? and, what is of much more import

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ance in this cafe, Is he fit to get obedience "from a mighty nation who could never make "a footman obey him? Yet this man we must "recognize under the title of Protector; a man "without worth, without courage, and without "conduct. For my part, Mr. Speaker, it shall never be faid that I made fuch a man my "master."

Provoft Baillie, in one of his letters to his wife in Scotland, thus defcribes Cromwell and Sir Henry Vane :

"They be of nimble hot fancies for to put all "in confufion, but not of any deep reach. St. "John

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John and Pierpont are more stayed, but not great "heads. Say and his fon not-albeit wiser,

yet of fo dull, four, and fearful a tempera"ment, that no great atchievement in reason "could be expected from them. The reft, "either in the Army or in the Parliament of "their party, are not in their mysteries, and of "no great parts, either for counsel or action, as "I could obferve."

CHARLES PATIN.

THIS Frenchman, fon of the celebrated Gui Patin, was in England in the year 1672. In giving an account to the Margrave of Baden Dourlach of what he saw in London in that year, he mentions having feen (upon what he calls le Parlement, but which I fuppofe was WestminsterHall) the heads of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradfhaw. He fays:

"On ne fauroit les regarder fans palir, et "craigner qu'elles vont jetter ces paroles epou "vantables: Peuples, l'eternité n'expiera pas "notre attentat. Apprenez à notre exemple, que "la vie des Rois eft inviolable."

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"One cannot," fays he, " look upon these "heads without horror, and without imagining "that they are just going to pronounce these "terrible words: People, eternity itself will not "be able to expiate our offence. Learn by our example, that the life of Kings is inviolable."

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Charles Patin was a Phyfician, and used to say for the credit of his art, that it had enabled him to live in perfect health till he was eighty-two years of age; that it had procured him a fortune of twenty thousand pounds; and that it had acquired him the friendship and esteem of many very refpectable and celebrated perfons.

Patin mentions in his Travels a reply of a German to a Frenchman, who had taxed the Germans with loving wine, and expofing themfelves in confequence of that vice: "Les Allemands font quelquefois fous dans leur vin, (faid he,) mais "les François font toujours fous."

LORD FAIRFAX.

PERSONS Who have been the most active in promoting Revolutions in Kingdoms, have in general, after their experience of the dangers and miseries confequent upon them, been very open in proclaiming them to the world. Lord Fairfax, the celebrated Parliamentary General in Charles the Firft's time, fays, in the Memoirs that he left of the part which he took in those times of trouble and confufion, in speaking of the execution of his Sovereign, By this purging "of the Houfe (as they called it), the Parlia"ment was brought into fuch a confumptive "and languishing condition, that it could never again recover that healthful condition which

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always kept the kingdom in its ftrength, life, "and vigour. This way being made by the "fword, the trial of the King was the easier "for them to accomplish. My afflicted and "troubled mind for it, and my earnest en"deavours to prevent it, will, I hope, fuffi"ciently testify my dislike and abhorrence of "the fact. And what will they not do to the "fhrubs, having cut down the cedar ?”

Lord Fairfax by no means confented to the death of Charles the Firft, and was much furprifed

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prifed when Sir Thomas Herbert informed him that the fatal stroke had been given.

This nobleman made an offer to his Sovereign of the affistance of the Army. Charles replied, that he had as many friends there as his Lordfhip.

Lord Fairfax told Sir Philip Warwick, who was complimenting him upon the regularity and temperance of his army, that the best common foldiers he had came out of the King's army, and from the garrifons he had taken. "So," added he, "I found you had made them good foldiers, and I have made them good men."

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According to Sir Henry Slingfby's MS. Memoirs, Lord Fairfax appears to have been once in the most imminent danger of his life, in the fummer of 1642.

66 My Lord of Cumberland once again sent out "Sir Thomas Glenham to beat up Sir Thomas "Fairfax's quarters at Wetherby. Command❝ing out a party both of horse and of dragoons, "Sir Thomas comes close up to the town undif "covered, a little before fun-rife. Prideaux "and fome others enter the town through a "back yard. This gave an alarm quite through

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