XXVII. SERPELLEAS, banning, left the wicked place Where ev'ry at the BLATANT BEAST difcur'd, Refolv'd at court the hellish imp to trace, Ne in hard gyves or manacles fecur'd, Hepours infection in the breafts of men, Which, like the poiton'd fhirt, doth always fting and bren. XXVIII. Now ev'ning'gan to spread her amis brown, To fhade the trees and darken ev'ry bow'r, [clown, Now to his home forefwonk returns the And pearly dew-drops hang on ev'ry flow'r; [Rour, Our youth rode on, brimful of bale and Ne thought at any place to stop, or stay, Till a fair lawn, which daifies did ycour, Retards his (peed, thro' which a rill did bay [way. The faining grail beneath, and plained all the XXIX. Beneath a (nubby oak's extended boughs A beecken bowl, and books of Holy Was all the gear that you mote find in it, For true Religion's fons a place, I ween, right Would hold the free-born mind in flavifa Unfheaths the glaive, and toffes round the Devotion, bright as her eternal Sire, Sits high inthron'd in yonder ftarry pole, That emanation of th' eternal fire, Pervades, inflames, and animates the foul And when the eye-balls dim in death yroll, Th' immortal part from its incumbrance fprings: The wicked then are doom'd to endiefs dole, The virtuous man exults on Seraph's wings, [fings And to the God of Truth in endless rapture XXXIII. The Knight, aftound at converse so divine, Leap'd from his horfe, and bending on his knee, He greeted loud, MAHOUNE I now refig Proud to be tutor'd by a fage like thee. True fan&ity, unmix'd with drafs, I lecz Not fuch I met in yonder Dortour vild, There facred ftales veil'd curs'd hypocrify z Receive me, father, own me for thy child. Ling, fmil'd On whom with bel-regard the Hermit, fpeakXXXIV. 'Ere yet, my lon, the facred wave you feel, Which with the Holy Crofs your fore hed figns, It much bears that I to you reveal Some daarines pure, that fie in fonder (crines; When next the rifing fun upon us fhines, Frail are the bloody anfad ng laurels girlonds heroes {nations grieve? Say, can the murderer file when captiv' XXXV. But leave thy purpose to purfve the BEAST, That doth the world with mis infeRion &tain; leaft, From hell's grim jaws at earliet time re No human force his raging can reítrain z Ceafe then thy teil, for all thy toil is vain, Nor micred Seer thail '(cape his venom'd tongue, {rein; Nor even those who hold proud empire's In vain the bard his golden lyre has frung, (or young. The BEAST reviles his lays, ne (pares he old XXXVI. Thro' the thick curtain of deep night I fee (trond, The flow'rs all fade, and withers ev'ry tree, While he in fury ramps thro' Fairy Lond, Swift as the progrefs of a Levin-brond. Where upheld the thieid. XL. With that he turn'd him to the guilelets youth, Who wareless stood and gazed all around, Then learn, mild youth, thy rifing rage to Draw Worth neglected from her cold reBy tortious tales ne'er wound a stranger's [fweet; name, make, Nor fpot with vile report the virgin Be fhended those who others faults repeat; On thy own life the strictest comment [creet, Then fhalt thou find the man who is dif Will not in others' actions rafhly rake; Who wounds his neighbour's fame doth fet his own at take. XLII. With that he had the boy into his cell, To entertake him there with holy leer: Th'enfuing morn he at a neighb'ring well From ev'ry fin the happy youth did clear, His future acts hereafter may appear ; Not thofe of chevifaunce and martial rage, For he no more will brandifh fword or spear, But ev'ry day he turns the facred page, And from a Paynim Knight becomes a Palmer fage. END of the FIRST CANTO. [CANTO SECOND in our next.] A PICTURE OF THE COURT, DRAWN FROM THE LIFE. BY AN ABLE PAINTER. THERE, every-body obeys that he may command; they cringe that they may exalt themselves: at every infant they change parts; every one is protected and protector; every one receives vain promifes, and gives others as vain in the fame moment. It would feem that no perfon dies in that region; for in a moment every one is forgotten,-every one is replaced, without the fmallest appearance of any change. This is the abode of envy and of hope; while the one torments, the other confoles, and gives birth to agreeable chimeras. Death feizes the inhabitants in the midit of hopes that have been difappointed for twenty years,-in the midst of projects which would demand another life, Those who do not know this country, believe it to be a place filled with delights; thofe who inhabit it, fpeak ill of it, but cannot leave it. Serve the Prince, faid a wife man to his fon, in his embaffies, in his armies, but never at court, whatever place, or whatever appointments are affigned to you. A courtier faid, one day, to one of his old college companions, who was a labourer: "Wherefore do you not learn to please? you would then be no longer obliged to live by the labour of your hands." "And why,” answered the other," do you not learn to work? you would no longer be obliged to be ORIGINAL a flave.' ORIGINAL LETTER (NOW FIRST PRINTED) RELATIVE TO ARCHBISHOP LAUD. I AM informed by Brother Fran: that you intend to fet out this day towards London wch gives me the opportunity of advifing with you in the matter following. My Grandfather being one of Arch BP Laud's Counsel at his tryal in the Houfe of Lords & having managed that affair to his content: when the warrant was figned for his execution, his Grace fent for my Grandfather to receive the facrament with him in the Tower. After that work was over they difcourfed of diverfe matters particularly his Grace defired my Grandfather to attend him on the fcaffold. But he being unwilling to be a fpectator of that melancholy fcene defired his Grace to excute him & accept his fon's fervice on that fad occafion. The Arch Bifh. confenting to it my father went with him from the Tower to the fcaffold where the Arch Bishop gave JH eighteen ten fhilling pieces & eight five fhilling pieces with his bleffing to him & his pofterity the faid Gold to remain in JH family in remembrance of him. I have the laid Gold in my poffeffion, but by reafon the manner of its coming into my family will be for gotten in the next generation & perhaps it may be ipent or given away contrary to the Donors intentions to perpetuate the remembrance thereof in my family I am very defious to convert it into a medal, the Arch Bp' effigies on one fide on the reverfe words in Latin to this or the like effect. This Gold was given by Arch Bishop Laud with his bleffing to John Herne (& his pofterity) Son of John Herne of Lincols Inn Elq. one of the faid Arch Bushp Counsel at his tryal in the House of Lords; to perpetuate the remembrance thereof this Medal is ftruck. The God is three ounces five penny weight, we will make no large medal therefore the infcription on the reverie must be in as few words as poffibly may SIR, be to comprehend the fence of thefe above mentioned. Difcourfe Mr Hooke Mr Mofs & fuch of your friends as have a Genius to thefe matters. lution concerning the infcription on the When you are come to a reforeverfe then you must enquire after a good workman & let me know the lowest price of the dye or plates for the intended medal. The operator must take care to get a good print of the Arch Bishop whereby the effigies is to be made. Give my fervice to Brother Lionell Sifter Katherine Mr Hooke Mr Mols & the reft of our friends. I am Your affec: Brother J HERNE This letter was fent or wrote to Mr Robert Herne Fellow of Clare hail, Copied by Dr Will Warren Tria Hall In the Hiftory of the Troubles & Tryal of Will Laud Arch Bishop of Canterbury P 422 is the following account: "My Councell were Mr Hern & Mr Hales of Lincolns Inn & Mr Gerard of Grays Inn-Mr John Hern (who was the man that (pake what all had refolved on) delivered his argument freely & ftoutly (The Argument follows there p 423 &c from M. Hern's own copy) But a note is entered in the margin by Arch Bhop Sancroft-not very advantageous to Mr Herne & wo. not have come into the Medal, The Lord Chancellor Finch told me that this Argum was not Mr Hern's (though he pronounced it) for he cod not argue but it was Mr Hale afterwds Lord Chief Justice. And he faid farther that being then a young lawyer he stood behind Mr Herne when he ipoke at the Bar of the Lords Houfe & took notes of it & that it will be published among his reports. W S. A. C. To the EDITOR of the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE. YOUR Magazine has lately afforded me peculiar pleature in calling to ind an old acquaintance, and in preferving fome traits of the likeness of Mr. JOHN HENDERSON. But I wish to fee a fuller account. His life, although contracted into a narrow fpan, yet contained fome interefting events. His converfa VOL. XXII. tions and remarks, if many of them can be now recollected, were various, rich, and interefting; not inferior to many of the obfervatious of Dr, Johnson, which have been fo admirably preferved by Mr. Bofwell. All who faw Mr. Henderfon might repeat fome little oddiy of his character; but all who heard him could X X not not clearly comprehend and faithfully record his excellent and judicious remarks, which came recommended by a sweetness of temper and an unaffuming manner. : He had paid great attention to Phyfiognomy, and one day made this remark on it: Phyfiognomy (faid he) may increase a man's knowledge, but not his happiness the Phyfiognomit firft difcovers the evil in another, and afterwards the good; but the man unfkilled in the fcience first difcovers the good, which pleafes him, but afterwards the evil, which difgufts him." The Rev. Mr. Agutter, who has drawn a Biographical Sketch of Mr. J. Henderfon, maft be furnished with feveral particulars of him, and feems well calculated to produce an interefting Life, making fome little allowance for the partialities of friendship, partialities which are natural and amiable within certain limits. Mr. A. himself fays, "The partiality of friendship must give place to the facredness of Truth, I do not mean to describe him as a perfect man. His friends lamented his failings, and he himfelf fincerely repented of them. He was a fincere penitent for time mif-spent and talents mifapplied." (See the Sermon, p. 17.) Shortly after Mr. Henderfon's death, I think there was an intimation in the Gentleman's Magazine, that further par ticulars of his Life and Genius were collecting by Mr. Agutter, and would be given by him. I am, Sir, Your's, A FRIEND to GENIUS and TRUTH. London, Oct. 17, 1792. DROSSIAN A. NUMBER XXXVIII. ANECDOTES of ILLUSTRIOUS and EXTRAORDINARY PERSONS, PERHAPS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN. A THING OF SHREDS AND PATCHES! [Continued from Page 267.] LORD CLARENDON. MANY perfons have fuppofed that the Oxford Editors garbled Lord Clarendon's Hiftory in many parts, and that they left out what he had faid of General Monk's unprinciplednefs, and of his wife's venality in procuring commiffions, &c. from her husband for money, and fome flights that he threw upon Lord Arundel, Lord Marshall's character. This is not true; the Oxford Editors did their duty very fully in printing from Lord Clarendon's manufcript copy, as he intended it for publication. His brouillons and loose papers were fent by the executors to the Delegates of the Prefs; amongst them were found thefe fuppofed omiffions. Some of the Delegates of the Oxford Prefs, imagining them to have been really the noble Hiftorian's fentiments, which he afterwards, from motives of delicacy perhaps, or from refpect to the families of the perfons flightingly mentioned in HAMLET. them, thought fit to difguife, wifhed to have them published, and took copies of them, when they were not allowed to print them. The conclufion of the character of the great Hampden, in Lord Clarendon's Hiftory of the Rebellion, has been fuppofed to have been written by Bishop Atterbury. That it was printed as the illuftrious Hiftorian himfelf left it for publication, has been clearly proved by the late learned Dr. Burton, in a pamphlet on the genuineness of Lord Clarendon's Hiftory. Oxford, 1744. 8vo. Minifters, and Sir Edward Hyde and Secretary Nicholas being excepted against and left in Holland, it was propofed (the State wanting a Secretary for the King) that Sir Richard Fanfhawe should be immediately fent for from Holland, which was done accordingly, and he went with letters and prefents from the Princess of Orange and the Princess Royal. Here I will fay fomething of Sir Ed ward Hyde's nature. He being furprised with this news, and fufpecting that Sir Richard might come to greater power than himself, both because of his parts and integrity, and because he had been fome time abfent on the Spanish Embaffy; he, with all the humility poffible, and earneft paffion, begged Sir Richard to remember the King often of him to his advantage, as occafion fhould ferve, and to procure leave that he might wait on the King, promifing, with all the oaths that he could exprefs, to caufe belief that he would ferve Sir Richard's intereft in whatsoever condition he should be in. Thus they parted, with Sir Richard's promifes to ferve him in what he was capable of; upon which account many letters paffed between them. The King promifed Sir Richard that he fhould be one of the Secretaries of State (at the Restoration), and both the Duke of Ormond and Lord Chancellor Clarendon were witneffes of it; yet that falfe man made the King break his word, for his own accommodation, and placed Mr. Morrice, a poor country gentleman of about 2001. a-year, a fierce prefbyterian, and one who never faw the King's face; but ftill promifes were made of the reverfion to Sir Richard. Now it was the business of the Chancellor to put Sir Richard as far from the King as he could, becaufe his ignorance in ftate affairs was daily difcovered by Sir Richard, who fhewed it to the King; but at that time the King was fo content that he, Lord Clarendon, should almost alone manage his affairs, that he might have more time for his pleasures, that his faults were not fo vifible as otherwife they would have been, and afterwards proved. 1665. The articles concluded on between England and Spain by Sir Richard Fanthawe, and the articles for the adjustment between Spain and Portugal, were cavilled at by Lord Chancellor Clarendon and his party, that they might have an opportunity to fend the Earl of Sandwich out of the way from the Par liament which then fat, and as he and his friends feared would be feverely punished for his cowardice in the Dutch fight. He neither understood the cuftoms of the Court nor the language, nor indeed anything but a vicious te; and thus was he fhuffled into Sir Richard's employment, to reap the benefit of his five years negociation of the peace of England, Spain, and Portual, and after above thirty years ftudying ftate affairs, and many of them in the Spanish Court. So much are Ambaffadors flaves to the public Minifters at home, who often through ignorance or envy ruin them. Charles the Second wrote to the Duke of Ormond, giving his reafons for dif miffing Lord Clarendon from his fervice. This letter Mr. Carte could never find amongst those written to that illuftrious nobleman. It has been faid, that Lord Clarendon's temper was bad and peevish, and that Charles was glad to get rid of him on that account. JAMES THE SECOND faid one day to Mr. Clifton," I do not know how it is, but a modeft man never makes his way at Court. Please your Majefty, whofe fault is that?" replied Mr. Clifton. When the old Earl of Bedford went to Court on the news of the landing of the Prince of Orange at Torbay, King James afked him to afft him in repreffing this dangerous invader. “I am old now, Sir," replied the Earl, "I can do nothing; I once had a fon (meaning the excellent Lord Ruffell), who could have affifted you." "Do you call Queen Elizabeth a wife Queen?" faid King James to Mr. Waller, the Poet; "why, the had only wife Minifters." "And what foolish Prince, Sir, ever employs wife Minifters ?" replied Mr. Waller. SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. This most excellent and faithful fervant of a carclefs and profligate master, on receiving his difmiffion from him as his Minifter at Madrid, wrote the fol lowing letter, which is now first publifhed from the original MS. Madrid, Thursday 3d June 1666. St.Loci. "By the hands of my Lord of Sandwich, who arrived in this Court upon Friday laft, was delivered to me a letter of re X X 2 Vocation |