broke up a great, a rich, a full, a. solemn parliament, in a moment.

I do not consider here either your magnanimity, or prudence, or celerity, or felicity; but your regard to right and faith, and your study of liberty, There is nothing to be feared from that citizen, who hath shewn himself a vindicator of right, an overthrower of am, bition, an expeller of impotence. He is to be cleared. of all suspicion, who, when he drove out others, refolved to extirpate those vices which grew up to the. hurt of the commonwealth.' There will be no room to fear his government for the future, whose arms are hurtless, and whose force is moderated. He will act more innocently in peace, who hath gone thro' the war blameless. He who clad in a general's robe abstained from injury, vested in a prince's gown will proinote all manner of justice. He who deferved well of his enemies, cannot deserve ill of his country.

On you alone, most noble Cromwell (than whom no man dares wish or think of any thing more great), the riches, the fortunes, the hopes of England are all built. The looks, the eyes of all its citizenr , big with the highest expectation, are cast upon you Nor is it England only, but all Europe, and the universal world, that turns up

its thoughts to you ; you, the fole object of their minds. Posterity, which depends on you, will not only admire your actions, but require the reason of them. It behoves you not only to fatisfy your own conscience, but also the expectation and desire of the whole world. Represent the heroic virtues of that idea, whereof I have shewn you to be the example. In the greatness of your mind, act the Alexander; in your military skill, the Pyrrhus; in your valour, the Scipio; in your authority, the Papyrius; in your ardor, the Marcellus ; in your prudence, the Fabius ; in your fubtlety, the Hannibal ; in your constancy, the Æmi- : lianus ;

in your felicity, the Cæsar. Towards your citizens, new yourself a Camillus, a Pompey, an Agesilaus, an Agis, an Epaminondas. Towards your

enemies, exhibit a Brasidas, a Lyfander, a Rutilianus, a Metellas, a Gylippus, a Luctatius. In your faith, stand forth a Regulus ; in your abftinence, a Fabricius; in your moderation a Curtius; in your integrity, a Cato; in your patience, a Themistocles ; in your gravity, a Cimon. To sum up all, INSPECT YOURSELF. You alone are fufficient co express the virtues of them all. Comport yourself as you have hitherto done for you are he, who, unless you deviate from yourself, cannot be a bad man; if you imitate yourself, cannot but be THE BEST.

IN D E X.

A.

Gitators, grow troublesome to Cromwell, go,
91. declare against the king, 91. reason of

their being set up, 119.
Algerines, admiral Blake makes a peace with them,

187.
Army, draw up a charge of high treason against

eleven members of the house of commons, 81.
grow jealous of Cromwell, 84. protect the parlia.
ment, 87. offended with Cromwell, 88. draw up
a declaration, and a vindication of their proceed-

ings, 119, &c.
Afhburnham, Mr. negotiates for the king, 92.
Alfton, fir Arthur, commands in Drogheda, 38.
Authority, in a magistrate, when it ceases, 15.

B.

B Anehead. Nalebhisele.lation of Cromwell's inter-

ment in Naseby field, 212.
Bate, his character of Cromwell's regimenty 20.

Berkeley

Berkeley, fir John, receives a message from Cromwell,

concerning the king, 83. Cromwell discourses with him in favour of his majesty, 84. An account of what paffed between Cromwell and him upon the

former's leaving the king's interest, 92, & feq. Bishops, king Charles's, their character by lord

Falkland, 222. note. and by a late author,

223, n. Blake, admiral, sent to the Mediterranean, 187. con

cludes a peace with Algiers, 189. deitroys the ships and forts at Tunis, ib. exacts 60,000 1. of the grand duke of Tuscany, ib. sends home fixteen ships richly laden with effects, 190. with Montague blocks up the forts of Cadiz, ib. where they destroy the platefleet, ib. destroys another plate-fleet in the Canaries, 191. dies of Plymouth, 192. his character, ib.

regard for the honour of his nation, 193. Bourdeaux, Mr. embassador to Cromwell, his ha

rangue, 210, &c. Broghill, lord, a conversation between Cromwell and

him, 97. one of the committee to persuade Cromwell to accept the title of king, 256, & feq. talks to Cromwell of restoring the king, 161. stopt by Cromwell when going over to the king, 206. goes to see

Ormond with the protector's leave, 207. Burnet, his remark on the state of Scotland after

Cromwell's conquest of it, 76. what he says concerning the charge against the king, 104. concerning the king's death, 105. and Cromwell's part in it, 107,

C.

ÆSAR, his di&tatorship better than the preceding

times, 142, dignifies the titles of dićtator and iinperator, 177. Calamy, Mr. opposes Cromwell's single government,

Cambridge,

135, n.

Cambridge, Latin verses writ there on Cromwell's

death, 310.
Capel, lord, Cromwell's speech against him, 131.,
Cardenas, de, embassador from Spain to Cromwell, 180.
Carthagena, Cromwell had his eye particularly there-

on in his Weft-India expedition, 187, n.
Cavaliers, how Cromwell managed them, 166.
Chancellor of Scotland, his speech against Cromwell,

pon the

Dy lord

author,

113, &c.

Characters, different ones of men who act from the

same principles, 2.
Charles I. king, his concessions to the parliament, 10.

goes to Scotland, ib. pompously received at his re-
turn to London, 11. A rafh step of his that began
the rupture between him and the parliament, 14.
sets
up

his standard at Nottingham, 15. motives of seizing him by the army, 78. a design to reitore him by means of the independents, 81, 82. better pleased than in the hands of the presbyterians, 82. receives' a dutiful address from the army, ib. his indiscretion and haughtiness ruin him, 85. his high confideration of himself, 86. Wellwood's character of him, ib. escapes, by Cromwell's advice, to the Isle of Wight, 91. reasons of Cromwell's abandoning his intereft, 92, & feq. his hypoerisy to Cromwell, 96, & feq. every thing contributes to his fall, 99. votes of the parliament in his favour, 101. put a stop to by Cromwell, 102. brought to Windsor, and votes passed for his trial, 103. charge against him, 104. his death, and the errors of his reign, 106. his insincerity towards the parliament, 108. bills which he refuses to pass, 125, n. compared to Cromwell in his person and acquirements, 213. in his nataral abilities, penetration, and manner, 215. why so extremely popular among the clergy, 216, n. his piety, virtue, and affability, ib. his humanity, good nature, and personal courage, 218, his fincerity and enthusiasm, 219. a martyr to the pride of the ecclefiaftics, 222. his justice in the civil administration, and zeal to his country, 223, repeatedly

violated