ment you gave me by your last le're. And for Thom. God bless him, and send him his grace: I had rather leave him a small estate, than more, with an hereditary stain or disgrace. God hath blessed us at Overthorpe with many comforths; and I hope in his meray he will continue them. But they would scarce be comfortable if they should be hurt either with an unquiet minde, or with public infamy and shame, which every honest man will and must respect, and take care to avoid; yea, and every wise man too, that hath such a profession as I have. For By conformynge before the next terme, I resolve, by God's grace, absolutely that I will not; nor, as thus advised, till the terme be done: after that I will do what.soever I may to give you satisfaction, provided it may be done decently, and so as that I neither wrong myself in my good name, nor, having offended one sort by refusing, I lose not the other also by conforming. For our confining, it is at an ende, as I thinke it was much debated yesterday at the Council Board and there, as I heare, resolved not to be. I heare, this day (May 20) since I writte this le're, of comminge to our own houses, and being confined there: we shall know more after Wednesday next. I desired, and still do desire much, to heare that my mother takes my imprisonment chearfully; I thanke God it is no trouble to me, I wish it may be none to my friends. Neither is it. hitherto chargeable; for though I am (in respect of my practice) removed out of the way, yett both my acquaintance and strangers come to me freely, so as I have since I came hither gotten as much as I spent in this house. Remember my duety to my mother, and desire her to give me her blessinge. God blesse my boy! Comforth yourself, sweet heart; and assure yourself, that I shall neither forgot you nor him, or my estate, or my profession, or my friends about home; but that I will satisfy your request in due tyme, so farre as discretion and due respect of all circumstances and consequences shall afford convenient opportunity. Farewell, deare love; and when you can, with convenience, I wish I may see you. "Your affectionate husband, "Marshalsea, Maii 19, 1627. "Your aunt will provide for your entertainment with her. To my right deare and lovinge wife, Mrs. Anne Radcliffe, at Overthorpe, in Thornhill, those be delivered." In a note on Letter 124, (p. 165,) we have the following curious anecdote of Cromwell, who ought not to be deprived of the little that is due to him on the score of humanity. ༤ "Mary, daughter of Sir Francis Trappes, married Charles Towneley, of Towneley in Lancashire, esq. who was killed at the battle of Marston Moor. During the engagement, she was with her father at Knaresborough, where she heard of her husband's fate, and came upon the field the next morning in order to search for his body, while the attendants of the camp were stripping and burying the dead. Here she was accosted by a General Officer, to whom she told her melancholy story. He heard her with great tenderness, but earnestly desired her to leave a place where, besides the distress of witnessing such a scene, she might probably be insulted. She complied, and he called a trooper, who took her en croup. On her way to Knaresborough, she enquired of the man the name of the officer to whose civility she had been indebted, and learned that it was Lieute. nant-general Cromwell. She survived, a widow, till 1690, died at Towneley, and was interred in the family chapel at Burnley, aged 91. This anecdote was told me by the present representative of the family, aged 78, to whom it was related by his ancestress Ursula Towneley, a Fermor of Tusmore, and aunt to Pope's Belinda, who had it from the lady herself." One short Letter, from the unfor tunate Strafford, we shall extract, because, as the Editor observes, "it speaks the language of the heart; it is a short but eloquent burst of indignation, from a brave and faithful man, heart-broken by the cowardice and treachery of all around him." "COSIN RADCLIFFE, Sept. 1st, 1640, "Pitty me, for never came any man to so lost businesse. The army altogeither unexercised and unprovided of all necessarys. That parte, which I bring now with me from Durham the worst I ever saw, Our horse all cowardly, the coun, try from Barwicke to Yorke in the power of the Scott, an universal affright in all, a generall disaffection to the King's service, none sensible of his dishonour. In one worde, here alone to fight with all thes evils, wthout any oue to helpe. God of his goodnesse deliver me out of this the greatest evill of my life. Fare you well. "Your ever most faithfull and most "Affectionate cosin and freind, "STRAFFORDE, Northallerton, 1st Septemb. 1640." The conclusion of this work, which contains a summary of the characters of Strafford and Radcliffe, admirably drawn up by the Editor, will be found not the least interesting portion of a volume which has afforded us much pleasure pleasure and much information on a variety of topicks connected with the history of that turbulent period. And although we have already made free with its contents, we must take one more liberty with a passage which can never be unseasonable, respecting the character of the Long Parlia ment: Rect in what circumstances the King was to begin a war, or rather what were the powers of resistance which at that moment he possessed against violence and aggression? Driven from his capital, where he had scarcely strength to defend his own house at Whitehall from the rabble, with a train scarcely equal to that of an ordinary nobleman; his mint stopped, his forts seized, his towns shut against him, his fleets officered under new commissions from the Parliament! What then, it may be asked, enabled him to make the stand he did, and in so short a time to present a formidable and equal front to his enemies? It was the persevering iniquity of the Commons, and the generous indignation of the Nobility and Gentry, awakened by those master-pieces of Law and Reason which Hyde, now ta "On the whole, the Long Parliament were crafty enough to lay in a stock of popularity by beginning plausibly and well. By dopping those deformed and unsightly branches which in a course of ages had grown out of the fair trunk of the English Constitution, they prepared their countrymen to look on without suspicion while the axe was laid to the root. The Marshals Court, and that of York, the High Commission, and the Star-cham-ken into the inmost counsels of his Masber, were abolished with the approbation and assistance of many wise and excellent men, who afterwards became the firmest adherents of the crown. But from this point the two parties changed sides, and every subsequent act of the Commons was an attack upon the Constitution, which converted Charles at once into the defender, not of his own rights only, but with them of the rights of his people. As this is a light in which the subject has seldom been viewed of late, it may be proper to select two instances out of the general course of the Parliament's proceedings at that period, which with every unprejudiced mind must place the matter out of doubt. Of these the first is their abolition of the Bishops' votes in Parliament, which cut off at a single stroke one of the three estates of the kingdom, and one more antient by far than the Com it mons themselves. The second, namely, their demand of the militia, was equivalent to demanding a transfer of the executive government upon themselves; was, in fact, dethroning the King; while, on the other hand, Charles, by refusing to pass this monstrous Bill, was simply using the power which the fundamental Law of the Land had vested in him; and the Commons, by exercising their own unheard-of ordinance, without and against bis content, at once began the war and dissolved the Constitution. Yet there are persons who still affect to believe that in this fatal quarrel the King was the ag gressor. What! after a long course of concession and conciliation, for which he had been thanked by the Commons again and again, and which had not been interrupted or succeeded by one unconstitutignal act, was he the aggressor merely for pausing before he passed a bill of suicide upon his own power, and of annihilation on that of his posterity? And let any man of common understanding re ter, opposed to the cant and sophistry of the Parliament. On the whole, after repeated and attentive considerations of the subject, weighing, as I trust, impartially the representations of both parties, and, above all, the chronology of facts, I feel a strong conviction that Charles from the beginning of the war acted upon the defensive; and therefore became, after the unhappy close of it, a real Martyr, not merely to his own rightful prerogative, but to the laws and liberties of Englaud." Considered as a sequel to the former publication of Lord Strafford's Letters, the present volume will no doubt find its way into every historical library; and, as a record of the manners of the times, both in public and private life, will appear not less interesting to the general reader. The Editor deserves our thanks for the pains he has taken to illustrate occasional obscurities, and, above all, for the very impartial view be appears to have taken, upon the maturest reflection, of the characters of Sir George Radcliffe and Lord Strafford, as well as of the temper of the times in which they had the misfortune to live. Fac-similes are given of two of the letters; a species of gratification which every antiquary and collector knows how to value. 11. The Wisdom of the Calvinistic Methodists displayed; in a Letter to the Rev. Christ. Wordsworth, D. D. Dean and Rector of Bocking, and Domestic Chaplain to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. By Thomas Witherby. 8vo. pp. 66; Sherwood and Co. A Pamphlet containing much sound 12. A Selection from the Poetical Works of Thomas Carew; small 8vo. pp. 95; Longman and Co. "The Publick is here presented with a selection from the Poetical Works of an unjustly-neglected Author." rew, And they are indebted for the selection, some concise memoirs of Caaud some judicious explanatory notes, to Mr. John Fry, of Bristol; who professes that one principai object in the publication was—but take it in his own words: "To induce the Lover of Poesy to give more attention to the contemporaries of my Author. In our enthusiastic adiniration of Fancy's sweetest children,' Spenser, Shakspeare, and the immortal Milton, we seem to bave forgotten the existence of Drayton, Daniel, Browne, the two Fletchers, Drummond, and Wither-poets who, although not possessing the power to engage the imagination so strongly as the great triumvirate, are still, to a high degree, sublime, picturesque, and pathetic; and they must, either from the present age or from posterity, receive that regard denied them, except by the chosen to their merits which has hitherto been few'." advice respecting the Society for propagating the Gospel, the Missionary Society, and the overwhelming influence of the Calvinistic Methodists; with some severe animadversions on the proceedings of the "London Society" for converting the Jews; a subject noticed by our Correspondent in p. 109. Mr. Witherby has before distinguished himself by "An Attempt to remove Prejudices concerning the Jewish Nation," in 1801; and by "A Vindication of the Jews" in 1809; and for the first of these publications was honourably noticed by the following Letter from Bishop Horsley : "York-place, May 26, 1804. "SIR, I beg you to accept of my best thanks for your work, which you entitle 'An Attempt to remove Prejudices concerning the Jewish Nation.' I have received much satisfaction from the perusal of it. For although in the detail there may be points in which my opinions may not entirely coincide; in the main points, and in the principles of interpretation we agree. I agree with you that the exposi tors of the prophecies, particularly of the prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse, have been apt to begin at the wrong end; attempting first to expound the mystical dates, and then to find an interpretation of the prophecy, which may suit the dates as expounded by them; whereas the dates will certainly be the last things understood. I agree with you, that they are miserably mistaken, who conceive that the destruction of Jerusalem is that coming of the Son of Man, which is anentioned in our Lord's prophecy. That coming of the Son of Mau will be after -a tribulation of the Jewish nation, which is not yet finished, and will be a visible coming in glory. I was very much struck with the agreement of what you say upon this subject, with what I have myself advanced in soine sermons of my own upon the second advent; which have never indeed been published, but have been preached at different places, and were composed about twenty years ago. With respect to the restoration of the Jewish nation, whether it is to be previous to their conversion or subsequent, I think you have maintained your side of the question with great ability; but I cannot sayam yet convinced. At the same time I should [deem] it great arrogance to say, that the error may not be with me. I wish to know by what coach you receive your parcels. I remain, Sir, with great esteem, your very faithful, most obedient servant,. ASAPHENS." The Poems are "Amatory," "Des scriptive," "Elegiac," and "Epistolary;" and are inscribed "to Sir S. Egerton Brydges, K. J. the Renovator of early English Literature." which Cleiveland has closely imitated A FLY THAT FLEW INTO MY MISTRIS "WHEN this fly liv'd, she us'd to play Suck'd all the incense, and the spice, There scorcht in flames, and drown'd in dew, Like Phaeton from the sun's spheare, HORACE'S HORACE'S EPISTIES, BOOK I. EPISTLE 7. (See Vol. LXXVII. p. 524.) TO MECENAS. away. MECENAS, I know that I promis'd to be, In the course of five days, in the city with thee, [stay, But the charms of the country inviting my I have linger'd, unpunctual, all August [bless'd But, if thou wouldst have me be happy, and With a body in health, and a miud quite at rest, [my dread Thou wilt take an excuse, and consider Of sickness, as tho' I were ill in my bed; For now the first figs and hot weather are come, [Rome; Undertakers display their black lictors at Now fathers and mothers look pale for their boys, [and noise, And the forum's engagements, its bustle And officious attentions, together combine [to resign. To bring fevers, which cause us our wills But, when Winter shall whiten the country with snow, [to go; To the Ocean's warm shore I will venture There, careful of health, I will read at my leisure [and pleasure; Such books as will yield me both profit And with the first zephyrs and swallows intend, If he will receive me, to visit my friend. Thou hast given me much, but thy bounty [pears; Unlike the Calabrian host's, with his "Pray eat some," he said; "I've enough;" appears "Pray take more ;" "It is kind;" "For thy boys keep the others in store ;" "I thank thee as tho' I went loaded away;" "Well, my hogs will at least fare the bet ter to-day." The fool and the prodigal, what they despise [arise; Will freely bestow; hence disgusts will While the good and the wise, tho' they very well know [stow, The worth of the favours they kindly beDispense them with prudence, and they are repaid [happy have made. By the thanks of the good, whom they Thy favours to me have been many, but still more, I wish to retain my own freedom of will; And if thou wouldst wish me to ramble no [forehead restore, My firm health, my black hair o'er my And restore me the sprightly and elegant [could please, Of talking and laughing, which always And the feelings which mov'd me when drinking my wine, ease At the jiltings of Cynara fair to repine. A thin country mouse had crept into a [himself blest, of grain, thro' a cranny, and thought chest But, his belly being full, he attempted again [it in vain; thou escape, To creep out thro' the cranny, but found When a weasel at distance said, "Wouldst [this scrape." Be as lean as when first thou gott'st into If I be address'd by this fable, I yield All things I possess. When my stomach was fill'd With delicate food, did I ever repine That the sleep of the vulgar was sounder than mine? And did I not freedom and quietude hold More precious enjoyments than Araby's gold? My modesty oft is commended by thee, As a father and king thou art honour'd by [pray, me, Both present and absent. Now try me, I Whether I can restore all thy gifts, aud be gay? The son of Ulysses replied with some wit, That Ithaca's Isle was for horses unfit, Abounding in rocks, and of pasturage bare, [are." “Thy horses, Atrides, fare best where they Small things suit the small; Rome now ceases to please, At Tarentum and Tibur I live at my ease. A man, nained Philip, both active and strong, [along, A pleader, one evening was saunt'ring Complaining of age, and the length of the [ev'ry day; Which his bus'ness oblig'd him to walk At the shop of a barber he chane'd to look way in, Where was seated a man, Who was paring his nails, with a knife, [shaven skin, with a smoothquite at ease, [life. As tho' he knew none of the troubles of Demetrius, he call'd (for this man was his slave, Attentive to ev'ry direction he gave), Go yonder, said Philip, minutely enquire The name of that man, and the name of his sire? [whom he depends? Where he lives? what his fortune? on' The name of his patron? the names of his friends? Demetrius obeys, then returns to relate, 'Tis Valteius Mena, of moderate estate, A profess'd auctioneer, "of a character fair, Sometimes very busy in selling his ware, Then slothful and easy, in company gay, And delighting in sports at the close of the day; "Invite him to supper, I have a desire More minutely from him of these things to enquire." [prize Mena could not believe it-in silent surHe sat (Why enlarge?) "Very kind, [deny he replies. Philip wonders at this-"What, does he "The fellow denies, or is fearful or shy." In the morning as Philip was taking a walk, Vulteius he saw, full of business and talk: He advice respecting the Society for propagating the Gospel, the Missionary Society, and the overwhelming influ ence of the Calvinistic Methodists; with some severe animadversions on the proceedings of the "London Society" for converting the Jews; a subject noticed by our Correspondent in p. 109. Mr. Witherby has before distinguished himself by "An Attempt to remove Prejudices concerning the Jewish Nation," in 1801; and by "A Vindication of the Jews" in 1809; and for the first of these publications was honourably noticed by the following Letter from Bishop Horsley: York-place, May 26, 1804. "SIR, I beg you to accept of my best thanks for your work, which you entitle •An Attempt to remove Prejudices concerning the Jewish Nation.' I have received much satisfaction from the perusal of it. For although in the detail there may be points in which my opinions may not entirely coincide; in the main points, and in the principles of interpretation we agree. I agree with you that the expositors of the prophecies, particularly of the prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse, have been apt to begin at the wrong end; attempting first to expound the mystical dates, and then to find an interpretation of the prophecy, which may suit the dates as expounded by them; whereas the dates will certainly be the last things understood. I agree with you, that they are miserably mistaken, who conceive that the destruction of Jerusalem is that coming of the Son of Man, which is anentioned in our Lord's prophecy. That coming of the Son of Man will be after a tribulation of the Jewish nation, which is not yet finished, aud will be a visible coming in glory. I was very much struck with the agreement of what you say upon this subject, with what I have myself advanced in soine sermons of my own upon the second advent; which have never indeed been published, but have been preached at different places, and were composed about twenty years ago. With respect to the restoration of the Jewish nation, whether it is to be previous to their conversion or subsequent, I think you have maintained your side of the question with great ability; but I cannot sayam yet convinced. At the same time I should [deem] it great arrogance to say, that the error may not be with me. I wish to know by what coach you receive your parcels. I remain, Sir, with great esteem, your very faithful, most obedient servant, ASAPHENS," 12. A Selection from the Poetical Works of Thomas Carew; small 8vo. pp. 95; Longman and Co. "The Publick is here presented with a selection from the Poetical Works of an unjustly-neglected Author." And they are indebted for the se lection, some concise mémoirs of Carew, and some judicious explanatory notes, to Mr. John Fry, of Bristol; who professes that one principal object in the publication was-but take it in his own words: "To induce the Lover of Poesy to give more attention to the contemporaries of my Author. In our enthusiastic admiration of Fancy's sweetest children,' Spenser, Shakspeare, and the immortal Milton, we seem to have forgotten the exist ence of Drayton, Daniel, Browne, the two Fletchers, Drummond, and Wither-poets who, although not possessing the power to engage the imagination so strongly as the great triumvirate, are still, to a high degree, sublime, picturesque, and pathetic; and they must, either from the present age or from posterity, receive that regard denied them, except by the chosen to their merits which has hitherto been few'." The Poems are “Amatory,” “Descriptive," "Elegiac," and "Epistolary;" and are inscribed "to Sir S. Egerton Brydges, K. J. the Renovator of early English Literature." As a specimen, we take a Poem which Cleiveland has closely imitated in one with the same title (see Poems, ed. 1659, p. 126.) A FLY THAT FLEW INTO MY MISTRIS: "WHEN this fly liv'd, she us'd to play In the sunshine all the day; 'Till coming neere my Celia's sight, She found a new and unknowne light, So full of glory, as it made The nooneday sun a gloomy shade; Then this amorous fly became My rivall, and did court my flame, › She did from hand to bosome skip, And from her breath, her cheeke, and lip, Suck'd all the incense, and the spice, Like Phaeton from the sun's spheare, HORACE'S |