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of the power of enthusiasm? Was your ear a stranger to the fanguage of these fancied reformers of mankind? If your conviction is fhaken by a word, why have you fentenc'd thousands to the fcaffold for no other crime?

• King. I need a human being, not a Dominick

• G. Inquifitor. Human beings! They are to you mere inftruments of greatnefs. Muft I repeat leffons of policy to my aged fcholar? He, who would be an earthly deity, must not indulge mortal defires. Remember, that to weep for human feelings, is to acknowledge others as your equals !

King. Yes! I am but a man-I feel it. Thou requirest of, the creature, what none but the Creator can accomplish.

G. Inquifitor. No, fire. I am not to be deceived. Your views were feen through-you would have freed yourself from our dominion. Our chains prefs'd heavily upon you. You would be independent-but we are avenged. Be thankful to the church, which punishes you with the mildness of a mother! The erring choice, which it permitted you to make, was your own chastisement. Now, that you have been inftructed by experience, return again to us! If I had not this day appear'd before you; to-morrow, by the God that lives, fhould you have appear'd before me. King. Prieft! Reftrain thyfelf! I will not fuffer it. I will not hear fuch language.

G. Inquifitor. Why, then, would you call up the spirit of Samuel? I have anointed two monarchs of this empire. I hoped the labor of my days was ended: and it pain'd me, when verging on my hundredth year, to find I had lived in vain. Pardon me, therefore, fire! and fay, why was I fummon'd hither? My time is precious. I with not to repeat this interview.

• King. One word-it is the last-and I then hall leave thee to thy higher destiny. Therefore, be peace concluded betwixt thee, and me. What is paft fhall be forgotten: and we again are friends.

G. Inquifitor. When Philip bends fubmiffively

King. My fon is fufpected of defigns against my throne.

• G. Inquifitor. On what do you resolve?

• King. On all, or nothing.

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G. Inquifitor. What mean those words?

King. He muft efcape, or die. (A paufe.)-Can you invent

a creed, by which the murder of a fon fhall be divefted of its hor ror?

G. Inquifitor. To appeafe eternal juftice, the Son of God expired upon the crofs.

King. And can you fpread this creed throughout all Europe.
G. Inquifitor. As widely as the cross is worshipped.

• King. Offended nature will not be bribed to filence.

G. Inquifitor, When faith commands, the voice of nature is not heard.

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retreat.

G. Inquifitor. Let me decide upon his fate.'

The last scene is in the queen's apartment. The hopes of emancipating Holland, of establishing toleration and liberty, have fubdued the love of Carlos; and he takes leave of Elizabeth. At this inftant the king appears; fhe falls fenfeless and he delivers over Carlos to the grand inquifitor.

This play is more perplexed in its plot than any other of: Schiller's pieces, and lefs powerful in its effect. In many parts the hand of a mafter is difcoverable; but, as a whole, it is inferior to all his other productions.

Both the tranflations are executed with fpirit. We have extracted from that which has been published by the tranfla tors of Fiefco, because it appears that Schiller himself approv ed their version of that play; and it is probable that they have bestowed the fame attention upon the prefent piece.

Memoirs of the Life and Adminiftration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, with original Correfpondence, &c. (Concluded from Vol. XXIII. p. 389.)

THE connexions of Mr. Coxe with the nobility and other perfons of diftinction, have favoured him with opportunities which many writers, however defirous of fuch advantages, are unable to procure. Such is the pride of ariftocracy, that an author, unless introduced in form, or furnished with a regular recommendation, is not fuffered to examine any papers which might contribute to the elucidation of hiftory: even his letters are not anfwered, though it might be fuppofed that any person of a liberal mind would confider the nature of the application, and the public object which the writer has in view, as more forcibly recommendatory than the most ceremonious perfonal introduction, No repulfe of this kind did Mr. Coxe fuftain. Peers and diftinguished commoners readily fubmitted their papers to his infpection; and important documents were lavifhed upon him.

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The firft letter in the collection is dated in the last year the last century, 1700, though fome abfurd chronologifts would reckon it the first year of the prefent, as if a century were completed before the last day of the hundredth year.

Hare, afterwards bishop of Chichester, opens the corre fpondence; and feveral letters to and from the duke of Marlborough appear early in the fecond volume of the work. The duke's epiftles prove his illiteracy.

The unpleafant predicament in which fir Robert Walpole

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ftood foon after the ac ffion of George I. is thus mentioned by him, in a letter dated from Hampton-court, August 9, 1716.

* We are here chain'd to the oare, and working like slaves, and are look'd upon as no other; for not only the behaviour and conduct of the prince are a weight upon us; but the industrious reprefentations that are made of our being loft with the king reduces our creditt to nothing. If we are to be the king's fervants, and to be supported in ferving him as king, our hands must be strengthened. A known divifion among ourfelves, which common danger, if the king pleases, he may remedy, the appearance of a declining intereft with the king, and the unalterable refentment of the prince, however at present disguis'd, against such as he looks upon attach'd to the fervice of the king preferable to his intereft, leave us in a scituation scarce to be weathered through. We know of no remedy to thefe evills but the king's return, and if he will putt his affairs upon the fame foot as formerly, there will be no difficulty in ferving with the fame fucceffe. If he is otherwise difpofed, and has thoughts of fixing another scheme of miniftry, not to advise him to determine one way or other, is to betray him, for in the present state of affairs his bufineffe will moulder to nothing, and whilft all the world is in a gaze to see which way the wind will blow and fettle, nobody cares to putt to fea in such a ftorm and hurricane as we are in at present.' Vol. ii. P. 64.

The negotiations with France during the adminiftration of the duke of Orleans, are clearly stated, in letters from fecretary Stanhope foreign affairs are alfo detailed by Poyntz and Horace Walpole. The divifions of the cabinet, at the time of the removal of the viscount Townshend from the poft of fecretary of state, are manifested in various letters. Stanhope and fir Robert write to each other with freedom and fpirit; the latter remonftrating against the ill-treatment of the vifcount. The South-Sea fcheme is the fubject of feveral epiftles, in one of which Walpole thus writes to the king:

It was with great reluctance, and in obedience only to your majefty's commands, that I was prevailed upon, to undertake any thing relating to the South Sea affairs. I am too fenfible of the many difficulties, that will attend any scheme, formed to regulate the perplexed and unfortunate ftate of the South Sea company, to hope that fatisfaction can be given, to the infinite number of fufferers. But the publick fecurity, and the reftoring and establishing publick credit, in which your majesty's government is fo highly concerned, are first to be confulted, and this I hope, may by this. means be effectually fettled and fecured. A due and compaffionate regard is to be fhewn to the loffes of private men, and all that I conceive can be expected, is to give fome eafe and relief to the

prefent unhappy circumstances, in which great numbers are now involved; but it feems to me impoffible, fo far to repair every man's losses, that a great many will not ftill remain confiderable lofers. An attempt to raise the stock to a higher value than it can be fupported at, would only involve a new fet of perfons in the misfortunes, that others at prefent labour under, and expofe the publick to the great lofs, that will be fuftain'd by foreigners felling out at high prices, and exporting our gold and filver. And what I defire your majefty may be obferved thro' this fcheme, is, that I take every thing as I found it, and do, nothing to alter any man's circumstances, but by an acceffion of profit, from the bank and India company, and by an impartial diftribution of the whole, as it now appears, from the public tranfactions of the company; and have carefully avoided, either to inforce or release any publick or private contract or obligation, or to eafe or relieve any one fort of adventurers, at the lofs and expence of another.' Vol. ii. p. 197.

Letters to and from bishop Atterbury follow; but, as the treafonable intrigues of that prelate are no longer doubted, we fhall proceed to other parts of the correspondence.

Many epiftles from lord Townshend, after his restoration to the office of fecretary, illuftrate the politics of the cabinet. The letters of this nobleman afford fome indications of that frank and manly temper which his adverfaries termed an over bearing fpirit. He and fir Robert found lord Carteret a troublefome rival af court; but they maintained their influence, notwithstanding all the arts and intrigues of those who wished to fupplant them.

The letters which relate to the copper coinage of Ireland are too numerous, as fome of them are unimportant. Letters concerning the disturbances in Scotland follow. In one of thefe, it is faid, that Mr. Dundas is the fpring' of the fedition. This is very different conduct from that of the prefent Mr. Dundas, whofe commanding influence is employed in checking all approaches to fedition, and even all murmurs, among the Scots.

From the intercepted correfpondence of feveral foreign minifters, it appears that the German counfellors of George I. caballed with the emperor and the English leaders of oppofition against the treaty of Hanover, which they confidered as in a manner forced upon the king by Townshend and Walpole.

Many notes which paffed between George II. and lord Townshend are here published. Of the bill which the com mons paffed in 1730 for the exclufion of placemen and pen fioners, his majesty thus fpeaks.

As to this villainous bill, I have feen a great many lords who are all zealously against it, in every part of it. I don't doubt but

you will tear it to pieces in every particular, not only in relation to the gratuities, but also to the oths, and pensions, knowing very well, that if all the different clauses of it are abused and run down, the commons won't attempt it another time; and the fooner it is thrown out the better.' Vol. ii. p. 537.

This interference with the progress of a bill, and this warm reprobation of a juftifiable measure, do not reflect credit on the king's character.

In another note, the warlike monarch complains of the pacific temper of cardinal Fleury.

⚫ Should this be delay'd, a great deal of time may be loft, particularly when I confider the flowness and irrefolution of the cardinal, who is allways prepoffeffed against any thing that looks like war, and who has Chauvelin about him, who is allways willing to ftop any thing that is for my advantage.' Vol. ii. P. 539..

A difpatch prepared by lord Townshend for Holland is applauded by the king in these terms:

This letter is writ in the best ftile in the world, and hope will have a very good effect. I wish you would only add a word, of the fatisfaction I have about the declaration the penfionary has made about Bremen and Verden, and defire him to be fteady in this point, as well as thofe relating to this kingdom, which you have reprefented very strongly to him.' Vol. ii. P. 539.

The ftate of parliamentary politics, at the time of the conclufion of the unpopular treaty of Seville, is defcribed by Horace Walpole with fome afperity of remark.

• The opponents of the minifters had entertained fuch a fanguine and certain perfuafion, that it would be impoffible to have a peace with Spain, and confequently that the British commerce would have still continued in an uncertain and precarious flate, without fatisfaction or revenge; that they had concerted their meafures, to call the minifters to an account, for their indolence and neglect in fuffering fo patiently the infults of the Spanyards; and as this was a very popular point, to a nation jealous of their honour, as well as of their privileges of trade, it had created a great ferment among all forts of people, gentlemen as well as merchants. In order, therefore, to diftrefs the administration, the difcontented whigs had concerted a perfect coalition with the torys of all degrees, and it was agreed to act heartily and vigorously in the fame oppofition; and that for that purpofe, a fummons fhould be made of all the torys to be prefent, without fuffering any excuse; and this was purfued with foe much zeal, that I believe there has been in town this year' [1730], above 110 torys, which is within a very few of the whole number elected.

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