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fessional talents of F. Crace, esq. and his qualified assistants. In the scene of radiant and imposing splendour here displayed, it has been his majesty's wish to give encouragement to every branch of the arts, and especially to British manufactures; and most faithfully do the commands of the sovereign appear to have been obeyed. Every thing here

and throughout the palace is almost entirely the work of British materials and British hands; it combines a whole, in which the high and cultivated taste of a patriot monarch forms a strong feature, as diffusing its rays and illuminating national worth and industry, that merits, and must obtain, the admiration of the world.

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CHARLES THE FIRST-continued from page 246.

But the presbyterian Scots, not ignorant of the king's intentions, insinuated into the minds of the common people, that this was a design only to subject that pure kirk to the superstitious rites and ceremonies of the church of England; and that, therefore, it behoved them to stand together as one man to oppose their entrance.

The lords and gentry of that realm, who feared nothing so much as the commission of surrendries, before mentioned, laid hold on this occasion also; and they, being seconded by some male-contented spirits of that nation, who had not found the king to be as prodigal of his favours as his father had been before, endeavoured to possess them with fears and jealousies, that Scotland was to be reduced to the form of a province, and governed by a deputy, or lord lieutenant, as Ireland was. like was done also by some lords of secret council, who, before, had governed as they listed, and thought their power diminished, and their persons under some

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neglect, by the placing of a lord president over them to direct in chief.

So that the people, generally being fooled into this opinion, that both their christian and civil liberty were in no small danger, became capable of any impression which the presbyterian faction could imprint upon them. Which visibly appeared by a virulent and seditious libel, published in the year 1634; wherein the king was not only charged with altering the government of that kingdom, but traduced for very strong inclinations to the religion of the church of Rome. The chief abettor whereof (for the author was not to be found), was lord Balmerino, for which he was legally convicted and condemned of treason, but pardoned by the king's great goodnesse, and by that pardon kept alive for the mischiefs following.

The fire thus breaking out in Scotland, it was no marvel if it had laid hold on England, alsothe Puritans of both nations working themselves, about this time, into a body, and from

henceforth communicating their counsels and designs unto one another.

The king, not long after his return, thought fit to renew his father's declaration, about lawful sports on the Lord's day, the principal motives whereunto, were the increase of popery in some parts of the kingdome, occasioned by interdicting all honest recreations on that day, and the rest of the holydayes-the tendency of the Sabbatarian doctrine to downright Judaism— some orders made by some publick ministers of justice, for suppressing the annual feasts of the dedication of churches, commonly called wakes; and, finally, the bringing of dancing, running, shooting, and other harmlesse recreations, within the compass of the statute made in the first parliament of his reign, against all unlawful exercises and pastimes; in which no such a thing was intended. And though the king's intention in it was only to ease the people from that yoke of superstition which many of their preachers had laid upon them; yet by the practice of those preachers, it made more noise among the people, and wakened more to appear in defence of that which they call religion, than all the geese in the capitol.

Nor did his majestie speed much better in another of his pious intentions, concerning the conformity of parochial churches to their mother cathedrals. The dean and chapter of St. Paul's (as ordinaries of the place) had appointed the communion table in St Gregory's church to be placed altar-wise, at the end of the

chancel, where it had stood (and by her injunctions ought to stand) in queen Elizabeth's time. Against this some of the parishioners appealed to the dean of the arches, and the dean and chapter to the king. The cause being heard before his majestie and the lords of the council, on the third of November, anno 1623, it pleased his majestie, having first shewed his dislike of all innovations, to declare that he well approved and confirmed the act of the said ordinary; and also gave commandement, that if those few parishioners, before mentioned, do proceed in their said appeal, then the dean of the arches (who was then attending at the hearing of the cause) shall confirm the said order of the aforesaid dean and chapter. On this encouragement, the archbishop of Canterbury in his metropolitical visitation, beginning in the year next following, and the suffragan bishops, in their several and respective diocesses, did appoint the like, for the avoiding of those frequent inconveniences and prophanations which that sacred table had formerly been exposed unto.

This made the Puritan faction open wider than before they did, as foolishly afraid of the breaking in of superstition, by this last declaration, as of prophanenesse by the other. And, that they might keep pace with the Scots in all particulars, they dispersed many scandalous and seditious libels against the governours of the church, and all that acted by and under their authority, not sparing the king himself, if he came in their way; most certain tokens and prognosticks

of those great combustions which soon after followed in both kingdomes.

1634.

Nor were there any lesse apprehensions infused into them by some zealous patriots, who most ambitiously affected the title of champions of the property and liberty of the English nation-the occasion this:-The sovereignty of the narrow seas, had not only been invaded by the Hollanders, during the late troubles both at home and abroad; but that invasion had been justified in some publick writings. And, thereupon, by the advice of Mr. Noy, his attorny-general, he issued certain writs, in the tenth year of his reign, anno 1634, directed to all the port towns of the kingdome, to set out a certain number of ships furnished with mariners, ammunition, victuals, and all other necessaries, for the defence of the realm; which writs he afterwards extended, also, to the inland counties, following therein the examples of his predecessors, in which none was better able to instruct him than he that gave him that advice. By means whereof he did not only recover that dominion which belonged to him on the sea, but very much improved and enriched the land, as before is said; which, notwithstanding, some of the discontented members of the former parliament, and others of the same party, under colour of standing in defence of the rights and properties of the subject, did stubbornly oppose the payment of that imposition, in which the honour, wealth, and happinesse of this kingdome was so much

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concerned. And though the king had the opinion of all the judges, under their hands, to justifie his proceedings in it; yet chose he rather to proceed against them in a legal way, than to make use of any arbitrary power, or the opinion of the judges, which, extrajudiciously, had been given in the case. so well did he prosper in it, that when it came to be argued in the exchequer-chamber, of the twelve judges, ten absolutely declared themselves for the lawfulnesse of it; the other two, Crook and Hutton, dissenting openly from that opinion, to which they had formerly subscribed. So that here being a mixture also both of christian and civil liberties, which were given out to be in danger; it is no marvel if the faction in both nations did conspire to disturb the peace and happinesse of this flourishing kingdome.

1637.

The ground thus laid, it was thought fit the first part of the tragedy should be plaid in Scotland. The bishops of that church, though they liked well enough of the English liturgie, desired a liturgie of their own, for fear of acknowledging some dependency of that church on this; which being composed amongst themselves, and approved by some of the English prelates, to whom his majesty referred the perusal of it, was recommended to the Scots for the use of that church, and the twenty-third day of July, anno 1637, appointed for the first exercise and reading of it. On this occasion .followed the sedition at Edinburgh, encouraged,

under-hand, by the marquesse of Hamilton, the earls of Roxborow and Traquair, and many other of the king's false servants, both in court and council.

This sedition afterwards brake out into open action, the principal sticklers against the book of common prayer, and the king's proceedings in the same, engaging the whole nation in a solemn covenant for the extirpation of episcopacy, and whatsoever they were pleased to comprehend under the general names of heresie and superstition, in which, not only the five articles of Perth, but the whole common prayer-book was intended by them. And that they might be sure to keep their party together, they bound themselves in the said covenant, to stand to one another in pursuance and defence thereof, against all manner of persons whatsoever, the king himself not being excepted. And

though the king, by the perswasion of Hamilton here, and his untrusty servants there, gave order for the suppressing of the liturgie, the high commission, the book of canons, and even the articles of Perth, though confirmed in parliament; yet nothing could content their pride and insolence, but the utter abolishing of episcopal government; which, since they found the king resolved not to yield unto, they were resolved to do it without him, in their assembly held at Glasco, abolishing the episcopal order, and thundering their anathemas and excommunications, not only against the bishops themselves, but all such as adhered to them. And that they might be before-hand with him, they intercepted his revenews, surprised all his forts and castles, and, finally, put themselves into open armes.

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humanity, ordered the ship to be put about, and sent out a boat with instructions to board the wreck, and ascertain whether there was any being still surviving whom the help of his fellowman might save from the grasp of death. The boat rowed towards the drifting mass; and while struggling with the difficulty of getting through a high-running sea, close along side, the crew shouting all the time as loud as they could, an object like in appearance to a bundle of clothes was observed to roll out of the cubhouse, against the lee shrouds of the mast. With the end of a boat-hook they managed to get

hold of it, and hauled it into the boat, when it proved to be the trunk of a man, bent head and knees together, and so wasted away as scarce to be felt within the ample clothes which had once fitted it in a state of life and strength. The boat's crew hastened back to the Amethyst with this miserable remnant of mortality; and so small was it in bulk, that a lad of fourteen years of age was able to lift it into the ship. When placed on deck, it showed, for the first time, to the astonishment of all, signs of remaining life; it tried to move, and next moment muttered, in a hollow sepulchral tone," there is another man.' The instant these words were heard, sir Michael ordered the boat to shove off again for the wreck. The sea having now become somewhat smoother, they succeeded this time in boarding the wreck, and looking into the cubhouse, they found two other human bodies, wasted like the one they had saved, to the very bones, but without the least spark of life remaining. They were sitting in a shrunk up posture, a hand of one resting on a tin pot, in which there was about a gill of water; and a hand of the other reaching to the deck, as if to regain a bit of salt beef, of the size of a walnut, which had dropped from its nerveless grasp. Unfortunate men! they had starved on their scanty store, till they had not strength remaining to lift the last morsel to their mouths! The boat's crew having completed their last melancholy survey, returned on board, where they found the ship's company engrossed by the preserve gene

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rous skeleton, who seemed to have just life enough left to breathe the remembrance that there was still "another man," his companion in suffering, to be saved. Captain S. committed him to the special charge of the surgeon, who spared no means which humanity or skill could suggest, to achieve the noble object of creating anew, as it were, a fellow-creature, whom famine had stripped of almost every living energy. For three weeks he scarcely ever left his patient, giving him nourishment with his own hand every five or ten minutes; and at the end of three weeks more, the "skeleton of the wreck" was seen walking on the deck of the Amethyst ; and, to the surprise of all who recollected that he had been lifted into the ship by a cabin boy, presented the stately figure of a man, nearly six feet high!

DEAN SWIFT'S VISIT TO CRISPIN TUCKER, OF OLD LONDON BRIDge.

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"Poor Hogarth!" said crispin, "I suppose he was hanged on such notable evidence as that of the witches, who were burnt to boot, by the great judge, Hales." "Yes," said the dean, " you are right, master cordwainer, by their own confession; so let's you and I be duly thankful, man, that we do not live in such a besotted age! But, master crispin, these poor devils confessed crimes they did not commit, whilst you are revelling, and confess not at all. A rare mint of money you must be making by this buccaniering on the fame "'Faith, learned dons."

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