mons propose the exclusion of the Duke of York, on account of his bias to the Roman Catholic persuasion. The King's opposition. He governs without a Parliament. The Rye House plot charged upon the Protestants. Stafford, Algernon Sydney, and Lord Russell, beheaded. EMINENT PERSONS. Hyde, Earl of Clarendon; Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; Butler, Duke of Ormond; Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury; Sir William Temple; Algernon Sydney; Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon; R.Boyle, Earl of Orrery; G.Mackenzie, Earl of Cromarty; G. Monk, Duke of Albemarle; C. Stanley, Earl of Derby; Montague, Earl of Sandwich; J. Powlett, Marquis of Winchester; W. Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle; G. Digby, Earl of Bristol; Denze!, Lord Holles; Dudley, Lord North; J. Touchet, Earl Castlehaven & Baron Audley; H. Pierpoint, Marquis of Dorchester; J. Wilmot, Earl of Rochester; Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury; Heneage Finch, Earl of Nottingham; Francis North; Lord Keeper Guildford; J. Robartes, Earl Radnor; Arthur Annesley, Earl of Anglesea; Marquis of Argyle;* H. Finch, Earl of Winchelsea; A. Carey, Lord Falkland; R. Maitland, Earl Lauderdale; Anne, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery;† Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle. *This Marquis of Argyle wrote on the great importance of observing the filial duties, yet quarrel'd with his father and his son. CATALOGUE OF NOBLE AUTHORS. + This illustrious lady replied in answer to a mandate, from Sir Joseph Williamson, his Majesty's Secretary, which required her to return a certain person, a Member for the borough of Appleby, in Westmorland :— "I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected by a court, but I will not be dictated to by a subject." "Your man shan't stand, VOL. II. I "ANNF, &c. &c. &c." COTEMPORARY COTEMPORARY SOVEREIGNS. Pores. Alexander VII. 1655. Clement IX. 1667. Clement X. 1670. Innocent XI. 1676. Emperors. Of Germany.-Leopold, 1658. Of the Turks.-Mahomet IV. 1649. Kings. Of France.-Louis XIV. 1643. Pedro II. 1683. Of Spain.-Philip IV. 1621. Charles II. 1665. CHARLES CHARLES THE SECOND. "The only genius of the Line of Stewart." HORACE WALPOLE. "Who never said a foolish thing, ROCHESTER. "Few men put on the appearance of sincerity better, and in which so much artifice was usually hid; that, in conclusion, he could deceive none, for all were mistrustful of him. He had great vices, but scarcely any virtues to correct them.” BISHOP BURNET. "Let pedants urge their learned strife Charl'y lov'd good ale and wine, "And Charl'y lov'd good brandy ; "And Charl'y lov'd a pretty girl"— "Already quench'd sedition's brand, MARK LONSDALE. OLD BALLAD. "And zeal, which burnt it, only warms the land." DRYDEN. O BE joyful! let's sing, since hypocrisy's hood Has been pluck'd from their saintships so dev'lish good; 1 2 Who Who with puritan modesty pilfer'd the crown, But whose stiff-neck'd nobility now must bow down. Derry down. The semblance of piety caus'd ev'ry evil, In a war that look'd much more religious than civil, Presbyterians and Papists alike draw the sword, 'Till PROTESTANT CHARLES by a MONK was re stored. Derry down. In that Court where devotion of late was a trade, Where round headed rumps in the market-place play'd; Now the arts and the loves and the graces unite, To make formal extremes grow extremely polite. Derry down. CHARLES's beauties you've heard of, I'll venture to say, Unequall'd by any, (but those of our day); I mean the dear girls who surrounded his throne, For of personal beauty he'd none of his own. Derry down. Now Now ROCHESTER's Muse running riot apace, That whether he wish'd us to reckon each line Derry down. By wedlock to royalty closely allied, Shines CLARENDON, conscience still taking for guide, Of honest intentions who truly may boast, And with most spirit wrote when his theme was a ghost. Derry down. Now COWLEY wrote wIT, which a thousand shapes bears, Yet comely in each of the thousand appears ;" And SHAFTEBSURY* placed at the helm of the state, Liv'd when BUTLER'S Muse found admirers too late.† Derry down. * "Shaftesbury," said Charles, "thou art certainly the greatest rogue in England." His Lordship replied, "Of a Subject perhaps am, Sir." I +"Ile ask'd for bread and he received a stone," as the poverty he suffer'd while living, and his monument when dead conjointly testify. We'd |