in the court of king's-bench at Westminster, by means of an unlawful return of jurors, and by denial of his lawful challenges to divers of them, for want of

could do it with prudence, or consistently with the security of our religion, laws, and liberties.

And to make you sensible of the force of this consideration, if you can see the truth when it is repugnant to your own interest and wishes, suffer me, etc. etc. etc.

The Occasional Writer (a very fine liberty-tract): Or

an answer to the second manifesto of the Pretender's eldest son, which bears date at the Palace of HolyRood-House, Oct. 10, 1745; Containing reflections political and historical upon the last Revolution, and the progress of the present Rebellion in Scotland. Tandem triumphans, Motto to the Pretender's standard. Nondum immemores, Answer. The second edition, corrected....London, printed for A. Millar, 1746, in octavo.

The new settlement before mentioned, seems to have been gratefully perpetuated by that excellent prince, George I. in the following medals or rather medaglions, which, it is appre hended, were struck at Hanover by his orders:

1.) MATILDA

· FILIA . H . II. R. ANGL. VX. H. LEON. D. BAV. ET. SAX. MATER. OTT. IV. IMP. PRIVS. DVCIS. AQVIT. H. PAL. RHEN. D. S. WILH. SATORIS. DOMVS.

BRVNS. Bust of the Empress, in profile.

SOPHIA. EXSTIRPAE. EL. PAL. NEPT. IAC. I.REG.M. BRIT. VIDVA. ERN. AVG. EL. BRVNS. ET. L. ANGLIAE. PRINCEPS. AD. SVCESS. NOMINATA. MDCCI. Bust of the Princess, in profile.

II.) SOPHIA. D. G. EX. STIRPE. EL. PAL. ELEC. VID. BR. ET. LVN. MAG - BRIT - HAERES. Bust of the Prin cess, in profile.

TRANSMISSA LVCE. REFVLGET. The setting sun, with a view of the garden of Herrenhausen. In the exurge, OBIT.

VIII. IVN. MDCCXIV.

freehold, and without sufficient legal evidence of any treasons committed by him; there being at that time produced a paper, found in the closet of the said Algernon, supposed to be his hand-writing; which was not proved by the testimony of any one witness, to be written by him; but the jury was directed to believe it, by comparing it with other writings of the said Algernon: and besides that paper so produced, there was but one single witness to prove any matter against the said Algernon; and by a partial and unjust construction of the statute declaring what was his treason, was most unjustly and wrongfully convicted and attainted, and afterwards executed for high treason: may it therefore please your excellent majesties, at the humble petition and request of the right honourable Philip, Earl of Leicester, brother and heir of the said Algernon Syd

III.) GEORGIVS. D. G. MAG. BRIT. FR. ET. HIB. REX. Bust of the King, in profile.

PRINC. OPT. RELIGIONIS . ET. LIBERTATIS. CVSTODI .

Britannia presenting the Regalia to the King, who is accompanied by religion and liberty. In the exurge, PVBLICA. AVCTORI

TATE. PROCLAMATO. I AUG. ANNO. MDCCXIIII.

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Three smaller medals, about the sizes of a crown, half crown, and shilling, where likewise struck by him; the faces of which agree with medal 11, but the reverses bear only the following inscription : NATA. XIII. OCT. MDCXXX. NVPTA. MENSE. SEPT. MDCLVIII. AD. SVCCESSIONEM. M. BRIT. NOMINATA. MDCCI. SVB. VESPERAM. VIII. IVNII. MDCCXIV. IN. HORTIS. HERRENHAVSANIS. ADHVC. VEGETO. ET FIRMO. PASSV .DEAMEVLANS. SVBITA. ET PLACIDA. MORTE. EREPTA.

ney, and of the right honourable Henry Viscount Sydney, of Sheppey, the other brother of the said Algernon, that it be declared and enacted, &c. That the said conviction and attainder be repealed, reversed, &c. And to the end that right be done to the memory of the said Algernon Sydney, deceased, be it further enacted, That all records and proceedings relating to the said attainder be wholly cancelled and taken off the file, or otherwise defaced and obliterated, to the intent that the same may not be visible in after ages: and that the records and proceedings relating to the said conviction, judgment, and attainder, in the court of king's-bench, now remaining, shall and be forthwith brought into the court this present Easter term, and then and there be taken off the file and cancelled.'

Bishop Burnet's character of him is, "That he was a man of most extraordinary courage; a steady man, even to obstinacy; sincere, but of a rough and boisterous temper that could not bear contradiction. He seemed to be a christian, but in a particular form of his own; he thought it was to be like a divine philosophy in the mind: but he was against all public worship and every thing that looked like a church. He was stiff to all republican principles, and such an enemy to every thing that looked like a monarchy, that he set himself in high opposition against Cromwell, when he was made protector. * He had studied the history of government in all its

(* He had studied the history of government, in all its branches, beyond any man I ever knew.)

branches, beyond any man I ever knew. He had a particular way of insinuating himself into people,

Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governours. A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in their deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity, and ablest judgment, have been perswaded that even the school of Pythagoras and the Persian wisdom, took beginning from the old philosophy of this island. And that wise and civil Roman, Julius Agricola, who governed once here for Cæsar, preferred the natural wits of Britain, before the laboured studies of the French........Behold now this vast city; a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty, encompast and surrounded with his protection; the shop of warre hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation; others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from ■ nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soile, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies....

Areopagitica. A speech of John Milton, for the liberty

of Unlicenced Printing. (GVARD IT YE BRITONS!) To the Parliament of England....London, printed in the year 1644, in quarto.

Cromwell seemeth to be distinguished in the most eminent manner, with regard to his abilities, from all other great and wicked men, who have overturned the liberties of their coun

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that would hearken to his *notions, and not contradict him.'

try. The times in which others succeeded in this attempt, were such as saw the spirit of liberty suppressed and stifled by a general luxury and venality: but Cromwell subdued his country, when this spirit was at its height, by a successful struggle against court oppression; and while it was conducted and supported by a set of the greatest geniuses for government the world ever saw.

The very eminent prelate, Dr. Warburton, in his notes on Pope's Essay on Man.

Cromwell was one of those geniuses who are oft times buried in obscurity, through want of occasion of being known. Thousands spend their lives in retirement, who are capable of greater things than most of those whose names are tossed from every tongue and voiced for wise, skilful, able, valiant. In times of peace these men are little known or noticed. They are overlooked among the herd, or treated with a coolness or disregard, that damps their ambition and establishes their virtue, etc.

The Rev. William Harris, a sensible, candid writer, in his "Historical and critical account of the life of Q. Cromwell."

The Parliament of Nov. 3, 1640, that MASTER Parliament having singularly promoted learning, witness their pupils who figured in all professions down to, and beyond the revolution, and obtained it too; the following note, taken from Dr. John Wallis' "Account of some passages of his own life," who, in the year 1644, was one of the secretaries to the Assembly of Divines, at Westminster, and in the year 1649, became public professor of geometry, of the foundation of Sir Henry Savile, at Oxford, may not be unacceptable.

"About the year 1645, while I lived in London, at a time, when, by our civil wars, academical studies were much inter

*Note.... See page 102.