He knew they consulted him in every thing; all he desired of him was to know all their plots, that he might so disconcert them, that none might ever suffer for them, if he clapt any of them up in prison, it should be only for a little time, and they should be interrogated only about some trifling discourse, but never about the business they had been engaged in. He offered Willis whatever he would accept of, and to give it when and as he pleased. He durst not ask or take above two hundred pounds. Thus Cromwell had all the king's party in a net. He let them dance in it at pleasure, and upon occasion clapt them up for a short while, but nothing was ever discovered by means of Willis that hurt any of them.

Numerous other anecdotes of a kindred character are related of Cromwell. He sought out the ablest men for the service of the state, bravely careless as to their political principles, only requiring of them that they should not plot against his government. The latter end of his existence was clouded by natural infirmities, and the anxieties of his position at length induced him to speak of the compassion due to one in his situation. The third of September, 1658, released the spirit of perhaps the noblest Englishman that ever breathed, from the scenes of his trials and triumphs, at the age of fifty-nine years. The following portrait of his person and character has been drawn by a contemporary, (Welwood):

"He had a manly, stern look; and was of an active, healthful constitution, and able to endure the greatest toil and fatigue. Though brave in his person, yet he was wary in his conduct; for, from the time he was first declared protector, he always wore a coat of mail under his clothes. His conversation among his friends was very diverting and familiar; but in public reserved and grave. He was sparing in his diet, though he would sometimes drink freely, yet never to excess.

"He was moderate in all other pleasures: and, for what was visible, free from immoralities, especially after he came to make a figure in the world. He affected, for the most part, a plainness in his clothes; but in them, as well as in his guards and attendants, he appeared with magnificence upon public occasions. No man was ever better served, or took more pains to be so. As he was severe to his enemies, so was he beneficent to his friends: and if he came to hear of a man fit for his purpose, though never so obscure, he sent for him, and employed him, suiting the employment to the person, and not the person to the employment; and upon this maxim in his government depended, in a great measure, his successes. His good fortune accompanied him to the last he died in peace, and in the arms of his friends, and was buried among the kings with a royal pomp ; and his death was condoled by the greatest princes and states in Christendom, in solemn embassies to his son."

SURRENDER OF CIMON.

(Painted by M. Devosge.)

MILTIADES, an Athenian, the father of Cimon, was the son of Calypselus, and celebrated for his victory at Marathon, over the Persians, whose army consisted of 100,000 foot, and 10,000 horse, while that of the Athenians numbered only 10,000, and 1,000 Platans; yet, according to Herodotus, the Athenians lost only 192 men, and the Persians 6,000. Justin, however, has extended the number of the Persian army to 600,000, and their loss to

200,000. To commemorate this immortal victory, triumphal columns were afterwards raised by the Athenians to the memory of their fallen countrymen, on which the names of the departed heroes were inscribed.

Miltiades demanded of his countrymen, as an acknowledgment of his services in this battle, an olive crown, but which the Athenians not only refused, but at the same time reprimanded him for his presumption. The only reward, therefore, that he received, for a victory which proved beneficial to all Greece, although great even in the opinion of that age, appears somewhat inconsiderable to modern notions. In a picture representing the battle of Marathon, he was placed conspicuously above the rest of the commanders, and seemed exhorting his men to fight with courage. He was afterwards commissioned, with a fleet of seventy ships, to capture those islands which had assisted the Persians. Many of them surrendered; but at the moment he was about to capture Paros, he received a false report that the Persian fleet was coming to attack him. He then raised the siege, and returned to Athens, where his ungrateful countrymen accused him of treason, and of having sold himself to the enemy. Being unable, in consequence of a wound he had received before Paros, publicly to meet his traducers, the people, with the most atrocious injustice, condemned him to death. This severe sentence, by the exertions of his friends, and the recollection of his great services, was afterwards commuted to a fine of fifty talents; but being unable to pay so large a sum, he was thrown into prison, a debtor to the state, and, a short time after, died of his wounds, about 489

years before Christ. By a law of the republic, the remains of an insolvent were denied interment; but Cimon, his son-who had already proved himself worthy of his father's fame, and had distinguished himself by numerous exploits against the Persians, and on one occasion defeated their fleet, capturing two hundred ships, and totally routed their land force, in one day,requested of the magistrates that he might take his father's place in prison, in order that the body of Miltiades might be interred. But this filial trait made no impression an the Athenians. Cimon was suffered to languish in prison for some time, till he was at length ransomed, through the marriage of his sister, Elphenea, to Callias, who paid the fifty talents due from Miltiades. He was afterwards appointed to carry on the war against the Persians, over whom he obtained many advantages. Cimon greatly distinguished himself at the battle of Salamis, and gained popularity by his munificence. The money he acquired by his victories was not applied to his private use, but expended in embellishing and fortifying the city. Soon after, losing his popularity, he was visited with the ingratitude of his countrymen, who banished him from Athens. On his recal from exile, Cimon again defeated the Persians, on the coast of Asia, and ruined their fleet. He died while besieging the town of Citium, in Cyprus, B.C. 442, in the fifty-first year of his age.

The picture of M. Devosge is skilfully composed.-Cimon presents himself in the prison where his father lay, at the moment when the two sureties are conveying the body thence. The jailer loads the son with the chains that bound his father's body. Elphenea leans upon her brother, and falls into tears a the sight of the fetters with which he was invested. In the back-ground, a servant holds a laurel crown, which recals to mind the glory of Miltiades.

This picture is no less admirable for the happy choice of the subject, than for its execution. The attitudes are simple, and the drawing dignified and correct. The figures are of the natural size.