not obey her orders, and that she had made choice of means to do it, and know not the true cause of your Dr. Gibbons to succeed him in the care of her health. ailment; but I must be plain with you, and tell you, Now as nothing could be more vexatious to him than that, in all probability, if your majesty will adhere to to give place to his old antagonist, who was now be my prescriptions, it may be in my power to lengthen come his successor, so he could not forgive him for this out your life for three or four years, but beyond that very thing to his dying day, and, at his return to his time nothing in physic can protract it

, for the juices of companions, without any regard to the great name, your stomach are all vitiated; your whole mass of blood which ought not to have been made so free with, gave is corrupled; and your nutriment, for the most part, them to understand what had happened, intimating that turns to water. However, if your majesty will forbear nurse Gibbons had gotten a new nursery, which he by making long visits to the Earl of Bradford's (where the no means envied him the possession of, since his capa. king was wont to drink very hard,) I'll try what can be city was only equal to the ailments of a patient which done to make you live easily, though I cannot venture had no other existence than in the imagination, and to say I can make you live longer than I have told you;' could reach no farther than the putting those out of a and so left a recipe behind him, which was so happy in good state of health that were already in the enjoymentits effects as to enable the king not only to take a proof it.”

gress in the western parts of his kingdom, but to go

out of it, and divert himself at his palace of Loo, in In the year 1697 the Doctor has another Holland." interview with King William, of a very interesting nature.

In 1699, while the king was abroad, the

Duke of Gloucester was taken ill at Windsor, “After the king's return from Loo, where he had where he had over-heated himself with dance ratified the treaty of peace at Ryswick, his majesty ing. found bimself very much indisposed at his palace at Kensington; and, as usual, after his physicians in ordi- "His highness's distemper was a rash, but judged by nary had given their opinions, would have Dr. Rad. Sir Edward Thorne and Dr. B-s, to be the smallcliffe's advice. His spirits were then wasting, and pox, which they unskilfully prescribed remedies for, tending to their last decay, and every symptom that that proved the occasion of his death. The whole appeared gave certain indications that his majesty was court was alarmed at this accident, and the Princess in a downright dropsy; however, those, in whose sphere of Denmark, notwithstanding her antipathy to Dr. it was more particularly to consult their master's con. Radcliffe, was prevailed upon by the Countess of stitution, and the nature of his distemper, mistook it so Marlborough and Lady Fretchville, to send for him; far as to prescribe medicines for the cure of it which who, upon first sight of the royal youth, gave her to rather increased, than lessened, its malignity; at the understand that there was no possibility of recovering same time, they assured the king that he was in no him, since he would die by such an hour the next days manner of danger, but would be in a right state of which he, who was the hopes of all the British domis health again after he had taken such and such medi. nions, did accordingly. However, with great difficulty, cines and antiscorbutics, which had no manner of re- he was persuaded to be present at the consult, where lation to his majesty's distemper. The king, when the he could not refrain from bitter invectives against the Doctor was admitted, was reading Sir Roger l'Estrange's two physicians above mentioned, and told the one, version of Æsop's Fables, and told him, that he had 'That it would have been happy for the nation had the once more sent for him, to try the effects of his great first born been bred up a musket maker, (which was skill, notwithstanding what he had been told by his bis father's profession) and the last continued making body physicians, who were not sensible of his inward an havock of nouns and pronouns in the quality of a decay, that he might live many years, and would country school master, rather than have ventured out speedily recover. Upon which, the Doctor having of his reach in the practice of an art which he was an put some interrogatories to him, very readily asked utter stranger to, and for which he ought to have been leave of the king to turn to a fable in the book before whipped with one of his own rods."" him, which would let his majesty know how he had been treated, and read to him in these words:

The Doctor, soon after this event, was con“ 'Pray, sir, how do you find yourself” says the sulted by the king, when the physician indoctor to the patient. Why truly,' says the patient, dulged in a freedom of speech, which the I have had a most violent sweat.' on the best sign sovereign never forgave. in the world,' quoth the doctor. And then, a little while after, he is at it again, with a 'Pray, how do you “At the close of this year, the king on his return find your body?' 'Alas!' says the other, 'I have just from Holland, (where, instead of following the Doc. now had had a terrible fit of horror and shaking upon tor's advice, he had lived very freely with several Germe! Why this is all as it should be,' says the phy-man princes,) found himself again very much out of sician, 'it shows a mighty strength of nature.' And order; and having his sole reliance on Dr. Radcliffe's then he comes over him the third time, with the same judgment, sent for bim to Kensington the last time, questions again: 'Why I am all swelled,' says the other, for he was then as much out of favour with his 'as if I had the dropsy.' 'Best of all,' quoth the doc- majesty, as he was with the princess. After the netor, and goes his way. Soon after this comes one of cessary questions put by the physician to the royal the sick man's friends to him with the same question, patient, said the king, showing his swoollen ancles, "How he felt himself? Why, truly, so well,' says he, while the rest of his body was emaciated, and like a that I am even ready to die of I know not how many mere skeleton, Doctor, what think you of these?' good signs and tokens.'

'Why, truly,' replied he, 'I would not have your ma"May it please your majesty, yours and the sick jesty's two legs for your three kingdoms;' which free man's case is the very same,' cries the Doctor; you dom of speech was resented so much, though seemare buoyed up with hopes that your malady will soon ingly not taken notice of during their conversation for be driven away by persons that are not apprized of that time, that all the interest the Earl of Albemarlo

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had at court, and then he was the chief favourite, could heard what he had to say and taken his gold, but told not reinstate him in his majesty's good grace, who, from him, he might go home and die and be damned, wibthat very hour, never would suffer him to come into out a speedy repentance, for both the grave and the his presence; though he continued to make use of his devil were ready for one Tyson of Hackney, who had diet-drinks, till three days before his deat!), which raised an immense estate out of the spoils of the pubhappened to fall out much about the same time as the lic and the tears of orphans and widows, and would Doctor had calculated, and which the king had fre-certainly be a dead man in ten days. Nor was the quently said to the earl before mentioned, would come event contrary to the pr. diction; for the wretched to pass, in verification of Radcliffe's prediction. Since usurer returned to his house quite confounded with it appeared upon opening his late majesty's body, that the sentence that had been passed upon him, (part of he had lived as long as there was any nutriment for which was fulfilled in eight days, by his death; though the animal spirits, and that if he had not fallen from we will not be so presumptuous to say that relating to his horse, wbich broke his collar-bone, and might hasten his after eslate was.) and by bidding adieu to this his death for a few days, he must have been gathered world, left his earthly possessions to a son, who, it is to his fathers in less ihan a month's time, since his hoped, knows how to make a better use of them." lungs were entirely wasted and dried, and crumbled

The Doctor's invitation to Prince Eugene in the band like a clod of summer dirt.”

will also set his character in a strong light. Hatred of meanness, and a blunt expression The coolness with which he turns from the of his feelings whenever he saw it, distinguish hopeless case of his patient to a friendiy inmany of these anecdotes, but none more than vitation of the sick man's uncle, is particuthe following story, which is likewise a good larly admirable. specimen of the style of the biographer.

“The same year, upon the coming over of Prince “Yet, though the Doctor had an esteem for men that Eugene of Savoy to persuade the British court to enter set a true value upon his skill, and were gratefully dis-into the Emperor's measures, which were for the conposed to acknowledge it by suitable regards, he had inuance of the war with France and Spain, till the ihe greatest aversion imaginable, howsoever parsimo- kingdoms possessed by the latter, with its dominions nious in his own person, for such as were of abilities, in the West Indies, were restored to the house of yet of niggardly dispositions, as may be seen in the Austria; the Chevalier de Soissons, his highness's ne. case of one Mr. Tyson, a man of vast wealth and es. phew, in a nightly encounter with the wa'ch, was so tate, and said, at the time of his decease, to be worth bruised, that he was thrown into a violent fever, which more than £300,000. li happened that this figure of was falsely said to terminate in the small pos, to cover a man, without ary thing like a human soul, had dealt the reproach of sich an unprinc ly disaster. Herewith empyricks so long for cheapness' sake, that he upon, Dr. Radcliffe being called upon for his advice, was reduced to so low an ebb of life as to have the con vory frankly told the prince, 'That he was extremely tinuance of it in a manner despaired of. His friends concerned he could be of ne service to him, in the and neighbours had repeated their instances with him recovery of a person so dear and nearly related to hm, to no manner of purpose, that he would look out for is the Chevalier, since the Sieur Swartenburgh, bis some able physician for his preservation; but the cost highness's physician, bad put it out of his power, by was a greater terror to him for some time than the ap, mistaking the nature of the distemper; but that he prehension of death itself. At last, when he found should hold it amongst the greatest honours he had that he must leave, in case of demise, all his ill-gotten ever received, if he might have the bappiness of entreasure and possessions behind, when a total decayl:eriaining so great a general, to whose noble achieve. of nature notified the last necessity of having recoursements the world was indebted, at his poor habitation.' to fit helps to protract a life that wanted many and in pursuance of which invitation, after the chevalier many years to have the guilt washed off, which it had was interred amongst the Ormond family in West. contracted by its avarice and extortion: In a word, minster Abbey, and the prince had dined and supped when the remembrance of his deeds gave pricks to his with several of the chief nobility, he bethought him conscience, and tortured him with the frightful ideas self of paying a visit to Dr. Radcliffe, and sent him of the punishments that were due to them in another word he intended to foul a plate with him on such a world; he took up resolutions of seeking out ways and

day. The Doctor made provision accordingly; and means to make his abode in this as long as it was pos- instead of ragous and other fine kickslaws, where sible. In order to this, he pitched upon Dr. Radcliffe, with other tables had been spread, ordered his to be as the only person capable of giving him relief in his covered with barons of beef, jiggels of mutton, legs dangerous estate. But nature bad still such a predo- of pork, and other such substan'isl British dishes, for minance in him, not withstanding his weakness, and his the first course, at which several of the nobility, who old habitual sin of covetousness had so much gained the were perfect strangers to wbole joints of butcher's ascendant over his other passions, that he was at a loss meat, 'made light of his entertainment. how to keep the Doctor from discovering who he was, prince, upon taking his leave of him, said, in French, while he applied to him for a true account and cure of 'Doctor, i have been fed at other tables like a courtier, his distemper. At last he and his wife agreed to give out received at your's as a soldier, for which I am the Doctor a visit at his own house, in order to save the highly indebted to you, since I must tell you, that! charge of coming to theirs; and, after taking their am more ambitious of being called by the latter appelcuach to the Royal Exchange, went into an hack that lation than the former. Nor can I wonder at the carried them to Bloomsbury, where, with two guineas bravery of the British nation, that has such food and in hand, and in a very mean habit, Mr. Tyson opened liquor (meaning some beer he had drank of seren his condition to the Doctor, still insisting upon his po years old) of their own growth, as what you have thus verty and having advice upon reasonable terms. But

given proof of." neither his sickness nor bis apparel had disguised him so much as to deceive the doctor, who had no soonei When the Doctor could not cure his på

But the

tients, he could generally satisfy them with world with the greater ease, since he had been so regard to the day and even hour of their death. tampered with, that nothing in the art of physic could His prophetical powers in this respect were keep the prince alive more than six days.' Accordastonishing. Many instances are given in gly, he departed this life on the sixth day following, the course of his life. When the Dutchess to the great grief of the queen and the whole court." of Marlborough applied to him to go down to We have many proofs of the Doctor's wit Cambridge to her son, the Marquis of Bland-scattered here and there; the following is said. ford, who had been improperly treated for the to have passed between the celebrated painter, small pox by the physicians of the university, Sir Godfrey Kneller, and our physician. Sir having heard the detail of their procedure, he Godfrey, who lived in the adjoining house to answered, “Madam, I shall only put you to a the Doctor, had given the latter leave to open great expense to no purpose, for you have nothing a door into his garden. The Doctor's serto do for his lordship now, but to send down an vants abused the privilege, and made "sad undertaker to take care of a funeral; for I can havock among Sir Godfrey's hortulanary cuassure your grace, he is dead by this time, of a riosities."

distemper called the Doctor, that would have

been recovered from the small pox without the in- "So that the person aggrieved found himself under tervention of that unfortunate malady." Nor the necessity of letting him that ought to make things was he out in his conjectures, for the dutchess easy, know, by one of his servants, That he should be obliged to brick up the door in case of his complaints was no sooner in her apartments at St. proving ineffectual.' To this the Doctor, who was James' House, but a messenger arrived with very often in a choleric temper, and, from the success He was equally accurate in the of his practice, imagined every one under an obligacase of Prince George, the husband of Queention of bearing with him, returned answer, "That Sir Anne, who had been advised to go to Bath; that he did not paint it.' Hereupon the footman, after Godfrey might do what he pleased with the door, so and whether from the gaiety of the place, or some hesitation in the delivery of his message, and the change of air, he was thought to be much several commands from his master, to give it him word recovered.

the news.

physic.""

for word, told him as above. 'Did my very good friend, Dr. Radcliffe, say so?' cried Sir Godfrey. 'Go you "The skill of the physicians who advised the jour-tell him, that I can take any thing from him but back to him, and after presenting my service to him, ney was highly applauded, and every one's concern for so valuable a life was laid aside, but Dr. Radcliffe's, who, with his wonted spirit of prediction, said, 'the ensuing year would let them all know their mistakes Sir Godfrey perhaps had the advantage in following such preposterous and unadvisable coun- here: the Doctor's wit is, however, better dissels, since the very nature of a dropsy might have played in his remarks on a rival physician. taught those whose duty it was to prescribe proper medicaments for the cure of it, and might lead them "In the same year, Dr. Edward Hannes (afterwards into other precautions for the safety of so illustrious a Sir Edward) having acquired a sufficient stock of repatient, than the choice of means which must unavoid-putation at Oxford, left that university in hopes to ably feed it.' In justification of these sentiments, his rival our grand preserver of health and life in London. royal highness fell into a relapse, and after a six month's But though he was a most excellent scholar, and well struggle with the fierceness of his distemper, was seized versed in the knowledge of chemistry and anatomy, after such a manner, with violent shiverings and con-though he outdid all the competitors he had left bevulsions on the twenty-second of October, that his phy hind him; though he set up a very spruce equipage, scians were of opinion, that Dr. Radcliffe was the only and endeavoured to attract the eyes and hearts of the person now to be applied to, since they were at the beholders by the means of it; he found himself fall ne plus ultra, and had gone through all the recipes short of his accompts, and not able to cope with many their art could furnish them with. In pursuance of of the old practitioners, particularly Dr. Radcliffe, who this advice, her majesty, who could set apart former was as superior to him as the young fry of the univer prejudices and resentments out of concern for the pre-sity were inferior. He therefore bethought himself of servation of so inestimable a life, caused him to be a stratagem; and to get into repute, ordered his footsent for in one of her own coaches, and was pleased to man to stop most of the gentlemen's chariots, and intell him, that no rewards or favours should be want-quire whether they belonged to Dr. Hanner, as if he ing, could he but remove the convulsions she was was called to a patient. Accordingly, the fellow, in troubled with, in the cure of those which her beloved pursuance of his instructions, put the question in at husband bore. But the Doctor, who was unused to every coach door, from White-hall to the Royal Exflattery, instantly gave the queen to understand, that change, and as he had his lesson for that end, not nothing but death could release his royal highness hearing of him in any coach, ran up into Exchange from the pangs he was afflicted with, and said, "That alley, and entering Garraway's Coffee House, made though it might be a rule amongst surgeons to apply the same interrogatories both above and below. At caustics to such as were burned or scalded, it was very last, Dr. Radcliffe who was usually there about Exirregular among physicians to drive and expel watery change time, and planted at a table with several apothe humours from the body, by draughts of the same ele caries and chirurgeons that flocked about him, cried However, he would leave something in writing out, Dr. Hannes was not there, and desired to know whereby such hydropicks and anodynes should be who wanted him. The fellow's reply was, 'Such a prepared for him, that should make him go out of the lord and such a lord,' but he was taken up with dry

ment.

rebuke, 'No, no, friend, you are mistaken, the doctor and avoided his patient-he was at last inwants those lords.'' formed, by means of the lady's maid, that he alone must be that confessor.

Dr. Radcliffe was never married, and dying without children, he made the university of "Hereupon he gave his attendance, to hear what she Oxford his principal heir. His friends ob-had to say, which made a discovery that struck him with amazement. How to answer her directly he serving the accumulation of his vast wealth, knew not, for she had made a sort of ambiguous conrecommended marriage to him, and pointed fession, which had only pointed out her great respects out the daughter of a wealthy citizen. The for a certain person without any name, he thereupon Doctor had a most ungallant hatred of the told her, "That her case was somewhat difficult, but he whole sex, which, on this occasion, he how did not doubt to ease her of all her anxieties, on that ever consented to overcome. Accordingly account, in a month's time.' Accordingly, the young lady formed an inconceiveble joy to herself, but the his advances were made in due form, pecu- Doctor immediately laid the whole affair before the niary arrangements nearly finished, and the Lord of her father, with a caution to him not marriage almost fixed, when the experienced to let the daughter know he was any wise apprised of eye of the doctor made a discovery in his it, since it was in his power to prevent her finging intended bride, which produced the following herself away with a man much beneath her, by a speedy contract of marriage with some person of equal extraction; this advice was readily embraced and gratefully acknowledged, and the lady, who is now living

letter.

"Sir, "The honour of being allied to so good and wealthy and one of the best of wives, was married to a noblea person as Mr. S―d, has pushed me upon a dis- man who had made pretensions to her for several covery that may be fatal to your quiet, and your months before this discovery, within the time limited, daughter's reputation, if not timely prevented. Mrs. which, at once, absolved the Doctor of his promise, Mary is a very deserving gentlewoman; but you must and showed his inviolable attachment to the reputation pardon me, if I by no means think she is fit to be my and interest of his friend and benefactor." wife, since she is another man's already, or ought to The inexorable Doctor was made to suffer be. In a word, she is no better and no worse than actually pregnant, which makes it necessary that she in his turn. In a visit which he paid to a be disposed of to him that has the best claim to her young female patient, of great beauty, wealth, affections. No doubt you have power enough over and rank, he was so smitten with her charms, her to bring her to confession, which is by no means as to make him stand in need of a physician the part of a physician. As for my part, I shall wish himself. He altered his liveries, ordered a you much joy of a new son-in-law, when known, for

I am by no means qualified to be of so near a kin. new coach, and disclosed his love. The unHanging and marrying I find go by destiny, and 1 grateful woman ridiculed his attachment, and might have been guilty of the first had I not so nar- made a good story of it to Sir Richard Steel. rowly escaped the last. My best services to your The consequence was, that our Esculapius daughter; whom I can be of but little use to as a phy-cuts a laughable figure in the forty-fourth sician, and of much less in the quality of a suitor. The number of the Tatler. Dr. Radcliffe consoled daughter of so wealthy a gentleman as Mr. S. can never want a husband, therefore the sooner you bestow himself with his old friends and his old wine. her the better, that the young Hans en Kelder may be No man was ever more attached to either; born in wedlock, and have the right of inheritance to and if we may judge from this work, he ap so large a patrimony. You'll excuse me for being so pears to have lived in very jovial society, and very free with you; for, though I cannot have the ho- been a very jolly companion. Judging from in being among the number of your friends; who am, the high rank of his intimates, he must have had some social qualities to recommend him to their companionship. We have very good proof, that in his old age a retrospect of his past life was not particularly consoling. The the female sex, and not always the injured he died, is a proof of bitter repentance. It is following letter, written a short time before person. Among others, he attracted the no-addressed to the Earl of Denbigh.

nour of being your son-in-law, I shall ever take pride

Sir,

Your most obedient servant,
JOHN RADCLIFFE."

The Doctor was, however, a favourite of

tice of a lady of quality, whose individuality is now lost under the name of Lady Betty. Cashalton, October 15, 1714. She contrived to be out of order week after "My very good Lord, week, and, at last, fairly exhausted the pa-shall ever put pen to paper, I though it my duty to "This being the last time that in all probability I tience of the Doctor at being sent for on so employ it in writing to you, since I am now going to many trifling occasions. Whereupon he told a place from whence I can administer no advice to you, her father, that it was his opinion that her and whither you, and all the rest who survive me, are ladyship stood more in need of a confessor obliged to come, sooner or later. than a physician, for he was convinced her "Your lordship is too well acquainted with my temmind was more distempered than her body. friends, and threats of my enemies, without laying them per, to imagine that I could bear the reproaches of my But it was in vain, that the Doctor was dull deeply at heart, especially since there are no

grounds

for the one, nor foundation for the other; and you will when she died, it was commonly reported, give me credit, when I say, these considerations alone and even taken notice of in parliament, that have shortened my days.

when sent for he refused to attend. He never "I dare persuade myself, that the reports which have been raised of me relating to my non-attendance was sent for in an open manner by the council on the queen in her last moments, are received by you and her majesty's attendants, but Lady Maas by others of my constant and assured friends, with sham despatched a messenger for him, two an air of contempt and disbelief, and could wish they hours before her death. Dr. Radcliffe had made as little impression on me; but I find them to be received constant reports of the state of her insupportable, and have experienced, that though there are repellant medicines for diseases of the body, majesty from his friend, Dr. Mead, and knew those of the mind are too strong and impetuous for the that she was irrecoverable. But had it not feeble resistance of the most powerful artist.

been so,

the Doctor could not have attended "In a word, the decays of nature tell me, that I can through such an intimation. However, after not live fourteen days; and the menacing letter enclosed, the queen's decease, a great clamour arose will tell you from what quarter my death comes. Give me leave, therefore, to be in earnest once for all with against Dr. Radcliffe, threatening letters were my very good lord, and to use my endeavours to pro sent to him, and he durst not stir out of his long your life, that cannot add a span's length to myown. house. This situation, at any time sufficiently

"Your lordship knows how far an air of jollity has disagreeable, prey ed upon his declining spiobtained amongst you and your acquaintance, and how rits, and hastened his death. "To conclude, many of them in a few years have died martyrs to ex: this xreat and excellent man, who had made cess: let me conjure you, therefore, for the good of your own soul, the preservation of your health, and the all manner of diseases fly before him, could benefit of the public, to deny yourself the destructive not withstand the assaults of the grand deliberties you have hitherto taken, and wbich, I must stroyer of mankind in his own person, but in confess, with a heart full of sorrow, I have been too the sixty-fifth year of his age fell a victim to great a partaker of in your company.

the ingratitude of a thankless world and the “You are to consider, (Oh! that I had done so,) that men, especially those of your exalted rank, are born fury of the gout, on the first of November, to nobler exercises than those of eating and drinking; 1714, the Feast of All Saints: on that day and that by how much the more eminent your station being divested of the tabernacle of flesh, that is, by so much the more accountable will you be for he might be numbered with the blessed spithe discharge of it. Nor will your duty to God, your rits, among whom sits enthroned our late socountry, or yourself, permit you to anger the first, in robbing the second of a patriot and defender, by not

vereign lady, whose decease has been so intaking a due care of the third; which will be accounted juriously and falsely laid to his charge. downright murder in the eyes of that incensed Deity that will most assuredly avenge it.

THE PLANTER'S TALE. “The pain that affects my nerves, interrupts me

INTRODUCTORY NOTE. from making any other request to you, than that your to the Editor of the Dublin University Magazine. Jordship would give credit to the words of a dying man, who is fearful that he has been, in a great mea. DEAR SIR.The peculiarity of the incisure, an abettor and encourager of your intemperance, dents related in the following memoir, has and would, therefore, in these his last moments, when made it necessary to premise more descrip: he is most to be credited, dehort you from the pursuit tion of characters and previous events, than of it; and that in these the days of your youth, (for you have yet many years to live if you do not hasten may at first seem consistent with the shortness your own death,, you would give ear to the voice of of the narrative. But without this, the actions the preacher, whom you and , with the rest of our of the principal person might appear unnatucompany, have, in the midst of our debauches, made ral. Such incidents are perhaps oftener to be light of for saying, ‘Rejoice, oh, young man in thy found in real life, than in the page of the noyouth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the

velist. Fiction-anxious to preserve the sight of thine eyes; but know thou that for all these semblance of truth is cautious in its venthings, God will bring thee to judgment!' On which tures from the sea-coast of common occur. day, when the hearts of all men shall be layed open, rence. The passions of men take bolder may you and I, and all that sincerely repent of acting courses, in which probability is not always contrary to the revealed will in this life, reap the fruits the pilot. of our sorrows for our; misdeeds, in a blessed resur. rection, which is the hearty prayer of

In selecting from a copious mass of maMy very good lord,

terials, I have preserved the language of the Your lordship's most obedient

original writer. But as the events of domestic And most obliged servant, history are often long preserved by tradiJoux RADCLIFE.” tionary recollection, I have thought it fit to

i His death was hastened by the strong pre. substitute fictitious names of persons and judices excited against him by false rumours, places. The real actors in the scene, it should respecting his conduct on occasion of the last be remembered, are still represented by perillness of the queen. It was well known, that sons bearing their names, and moving in the he was not in the favour of her majesty; and'same circle; though, I am happy to say, with