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was. At length his complaint took a favourable turn.| volved on her, induce her parliament not only His escape was attributed partly to his own singular|the regal title to her husband, but even to transfer to. him by a legislative act the administration of the govern-

equanimity, and partly to the intrepid and indefatigable frendship of Bentinck. From the hands of Bentinck xlone William took food and medicine ; by Bentinck alone William was lifted from his bed and Jaid down! init. ‘ Whether Bentinck slept or not while I was ill,’ said William to Temple with great tenderness, ‘I know) nat. Butthis I know, through sixteen days and nights, | { never once called for any thing but that Bentinck was; instantly at my side.’ Before the faithful servant had entirely performed his task, he had himself caught the contagion, Still, however, he bore up against drowsi-| ness and fever till his master was pronounced conva- Jescent: then, at length, Bentinck asked leave to go home. It wastime: for his limbs would no lor ger eupport him. Ife was in great danger, but recovered, nnd as soon as he left his bed, hastened to the army, where, during many sharp campaigns, he was ever found, as he had been in peril of a different kind, close to Wil- iam’s side.

* Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records. The descendants of Bentinck still preserve many letters written by William to their ancestor; and it is not too much to say, that no person who has not studied those ‘etters can form a correct notion of the prince’s charac- ter. He whom even his admirers generally accounted the most distant and frigid of men, here forgets all dis- tinctions of rank, and pours out all his feelings with the ynzentiousness of a schoolboy. He imparts without reserve secrets of the highest moment. He explains wrth perfect simplicity vast designs affecting all the governments of Europe. Mingled with his communica- ions on such subjects are other communications of a very different, but perhaps not of a less interesting kind. All his adventures, all hia personal feelings, his Jong runs after enormous stags, his carousals on St. Hubert’s day, the growth of his plantations, the failure of his melons, the state of his stud, his wish to procure an easy pad nag for his wife, his vexation at Jearning that one of his household, after ruining a girl of good family, refused to marry her, his fits of sea-sickness, his coughs, his headaches, bis devotional moods, his gra- tuitude for the Divine protection afier a great escape, his struggles to submit hiunself to the Divine will after a disaster, are described with an amiable garrulity hardly io have beenexpected from the most discreet and sedate atatesman of the age. Still more remarkable is the careless effusion of his tenderness, and the brotherly interest which he takes in his friend’s domestic felicity. When an heir is born to Bentinck, ‘ He will live, I hope,’ says William, ‘to be as good a fellow as you are; and if] should have a son, our children will love each other, | hope, as we have done.’ Through life he

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ment, ‘But,’ he added, ‘ your royal highness ought to consider well before you announce any such resolu- tion; for it is a resolution which, having once been an- nounced, cannot safely or easily be retracted.’ ‘I want no time for consideration, answered Mary. ‘It is enough that I have an opportunity of showing my regard for the prince, Tell him what | say; and bring him to me, that he may hear it from my own lips.’ Burnet went in quest of William. But Wiliam was many miles off after a stag. It was not all the next day that the decisive interview took place. ‘I did not know till yesterday,’ said Mary, ‘that there was such a diffe- rence between the laws of England and the laws of God. But [ now promise you that you shall always bear rule ; and in return, [ ask only this, that, as I shall observe the precept which enjoins wives to obey their husbands, you will observe that which enjoins bnsbands to love their wives.’ Her generous affection completely gained the heart of William. From that time till the sad day when he was carried away in fits from her dying bed, there was entire friendship and confidence between them. Many of her Jetters to him are extant; and they contain abundant evidence that this man, unami- able as he was in the eyes of the multitude, had suc- ceeded in inspiring a beautiful and virtuous woman, born his superior, with a passion fond even to idolatry”

lor a page of animated painting, we may present the account of the entry of the prince’s troops into Exeter, on their way to effect what became the Revolu- tion. “ All the neighbouring villages poured forth their inhabitants, A great crowd, consisting chiefly of young peasants, brandishing their cudgels, had assembled on the top of Haldon Hill, whence the army, marching from Chudleigh, first deseried the rieh valley of the| Exe, and the two massive towers rising from the cloud! of smoke which overhung the capital of the west. The

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were entering Exeter together, had, twelve years be. fore, been opposed to each other under the° walls of Maestricht, and that the energy of the youne prince had not then been found a mateh for the evo] "echenee of the veteran who now rode in friendship by his side Then came a long column of the whiskered infantry of Switzerland, distinguished in all the continential wars of two centuries by pre-eminent valour and discipline, but never till that week seen on English ground. And then marched a succession of bands designated, as was the fashion of that age. after their leaders, Bentinck, Solmee, and Ginkel, Talmash, and Mackay. With peculiar pleasure Inglishmen might look on one gallant brigade which still bore the name of the honoured and lamented Ossory. ‘The effect of the spectacle was heightened by the recollection of the renowned events in which mapy of the warriors now pouring through the West Gate had borne a share; for they had seen service very different from that of the Devonshire militia or of the camp at Hounslow, Some of them had repelled the fiery onset of the French on the field of Seneff; and others had crossed swords with the infidels in the cause of Christendom on that great day when the siege of Vienna was raised.”

Some sketches of familiar and domestic matters be- longing to that age are executed with great spirit. Our author describes the aspect of the country, only one- half cultivated, and scarcely any enclosed, the towne then comparatively so small, the nascent manufactures, and tke various classes of society, in a manner which will be much relished. The account of the country gentleman is a rich piece of Dutch painting, and searce- ly less so is that of the rural (as distinguished from the urbane) clergy. The latter will excite fully as much surprise, however, as any other feeling. “The clergy,” Says nur author, “were regarded as, on the whole, a plebeian class, And indeed for one who made the f- yure ofa geetieman, ten were mere menial servants, A large proportion of those divines who had no bene- fices, or whose benefices were too small to afford a

tothe banks ofthe river, was lined, mile after mile,;comfortable revenue, lived in the houses of laymen. {n with spectators. From the West Gate tothe Cathedral the mansions of men of Jibera] sentiments and cultivat- Close, the pressing and shouting on each side was such| ed understandings, the chaplain was doubtless treated as reminded Londoners of the crowds on the Lord! with urbanity and kindness. His conversation, his Mayor’s Day. The houses were gaily decorated. Doors, literary assistance, his spiritual advice, were considered windows, balconies, and roofs were thronged with cazers, | as an ample return for his food, his lodging, and his An eye accustomed to the pomp of war would have/stipend. But this was not the geveral feeling of the found much to criticise in the spectacle; for several country gentlemen. ‘The coarse and ignorant equire, toilsome marches in the rain, through roads where one! who thought that it belonged to his dignity to have who travelled on foot sank at every step up to the an-|grace said every day at his table by on ecclesiastic in kles in clay, had not improved the appearance either} {ull canonicals, found means to reevucile dignity with of the men or of their accoutrements. But the people| economy. A young Leyite—such was the phrase then of Devonshire, altogether unused to the splendour of in use—might be had for his board, a sinall garret, well-ordered camps, were overwhelmed with delight/and ten pounds a year, and might not only perform his and awe, Descriptions of the martial pageant were | own professional functions, might not only be the most circulated all over the kingdom. hey contained) patient of butts and of listeners, might not only be al- much that was well fitted to gratify the valear appetite ways ready in fine weather for bowls.and in rainy wea- for the marvellons. For the Dutch army, composed of ther for shovelboa rd, but might also save the expense of men who had been born in various climates, and had'a gardener, or of a groom. Sometimes the reverend served under various standards, presented an aspect at/man nailed up the apricots, and sometimes be curried once grotesque, gorgeous, and terrible to islanders who) the coach horses. He cast up the farrier’s bill: be had, in general, a very indistinet potion of foreign coun-| walked ten miles with a message ora parcel, if he tries. First rode Macclesfield at the head oftwo hun-| was permitted to dine with the family, he was expected dred gentlemen, mostly of English blood, glittering in|to content himself with the plainest fare. He might helmets and cuirasses, and mounted on Flemish war-fill himself with the corned beef and the carrots: but horses. Hach was attended by a negro, brought from! #s soon as the tarts and cheesecakes made their appear- the sugar plantations on the coast of Guiana. ‘he|ance, he quitted his seat, and stood aloof till he was citizens of Exeter, who had never seen so mauy speci- summoned to return thanks for the repast, from a great

continues to regard the little Bentincks with paternal

mens of the African race, gazed with wonder on those’ part of which he had been excluded. black faces, set of by embroidered turbans and white| “Perhaps after some years of service he was present-

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he takes charge of them in their father’s absence; and'ron of Swedish horsemen in black armour and fur | found it necessary to purchase his preferment by a

though vexed at being forced to refuse them any plea-) ore They were regarded with a strange interest ; species of simony, which furnished an inexhuastible eub- sure, will not suffer them to go on a hunting party, whe wae rumoured that they were natwes ofa land |Ject of pleasantry to three or four generations of acof- S ’*, where the ocean was frozen, and where the night last-|ers. With bis cure he was expected to teke a wife.

where there would be risk ofa push from a stag’s horn,' ed through half the year, and that they had themselves, The wife had ordinarily been in the pairon’s service, orto situp late at a riotous supper. When their Slain the huge bears whose skins they wore. Next,/and it was well if she had not been suspected of stand- wgother is taken ill during her husband’s abseuce, Wi. Surrounded by a goodly company of gentlemen and ing too high in the patron’s faveur. judeed the nature Nievm iet “bibl ehbdlne WP Minctideds ol! Chie! Mtatuane “nacesent P78 t te borne alofi the prince’s banner. On_ its;of the matrimonial connections which the clergymen apt tS _ 7 broad folds the crowd which covered the roofs and fill-,of that age were in the habit of forming, is the most tinds time to send off several expresses in one day with ed the windows read with delight that memorable! certain indication of the place which the order held in stiort notes containing intelligence of her state. On one. inscription, “The Protestant religion and the liberties; the social system. An Oxonian, writing a few months ovcasion, when she is pronounced out of danger after a (of England.” But the acclamations redoubled when, | after the death of Charles [f., complained bitterly not severe attack, the prince breaks forth into fervent og {Mien ted by forty runniag footmen, the prince himself only that the country attorney and the country apothe- predsicnn’ of gtatitude 16 Gbd. Paring? tw eens appeared, armed on back and breast, wearing a white cary looked down with disdain on the country clergy- : ie : ; ays, plume, and mounted ona white charger. With how;man, but that one of the lessons most earnestly incul- ‘with tears of joy in my eyes.’ There isa singular/martial an air he curbed his horse; how thoughtfal/cated on every girl of honourable family, was to give charm in such letters, penned by a man whose irre-| and commanding was the expression of his ample fore-| no encouragement toa lover in orders: and that if any sistible enersy and inflexible firmness extorted the! head and falcon eye, may still be seen on the canvas of} young lady forgot this precept, she was almost as much pelle U8 Ute Satmies.’ whoed il eid Wann Kneller, Once his grave features relaxed into a smile, | disgraced as by an iNicit armour. Clarendon, who as- Pp nemies, whose cold and ungracious de-| It was when an ancient worman—perhaps one of those/suredly bore no ill-will to the church, mentions it as a meanour repelled the attachment of almost all his parti-}zealous Puritans who, through twenty-eight years of sign of the confusion of ranks which the Great Re- gans, and whose mind was occupied by gigantie schemes Persecution, had waited with firm faith for the eonso-/bellion had produced, that some damsels of noble families which have changed the face of the world ie jlation of Israel ; perliaps the mother of some rebel who} bad bestowed themselves on divines. A waiting-wo- : ’ had perished in the carnage of Sedgemoor, or in the|man was generally considered as the most surtable

It seems that for the nine first years of his married | more fearfal carnage of the bloody circuit—broke from) helpmate for a parson. Queen Elizabeth, as head of life, William brooded in silence over the prospect of) the crowd, rushed through the drawn swords and cur-|the church, had given what seemed to be a forma! saue- being subordinate to his wife, ia the event of her attain-| °Us horses, touched the hand of the deliverer, and tion to this prejudice, by issuing special orders that ne ' jcried out that now she was happy. Near to the prince|clergyman should presume to marry a servant girh with- | was one who divided with him the gaze of the multitude, }out the consent of her master and mistress. During That, meu said, was the great Count Schomberg, the|severe! generations, accordingly, the relation betweeu

: ” , ig . . 7 rr . : . , cause, till the officious good-nature of Burnet disclosed) "St soldier in Europe since Turenne and Conde were! priests and handmaidens was a theme for endless pert |

ing the English throne. Tt caused an unhappiness be- ween the pair, of which Mary could not divine the

it to her, “Burent, with many apologies, and with! 22% the man whose genins and valour had saved the;nor would it be easy to find in the comedy of the seven- , hae oe | Portuguese monarchy on the field of Montes Claros;teenth century, a single instance of a clereyman whe

' - ithe man who had earned a still higher glory by resignei wins 4 spouse above the rank of a cook. Even se }ate isto his mouth, informed her that the remedy was in| ing the truncheon of a marshal of France for the sake(as the tine of George iI., the keenest of all observers berown hands, She might easily, when the crown de- of bis religion. It was not forgotten that the two heroes|of lite and manners, himself a priest, remarked that, i ’ who,indissolubly united by their commen Protestantisc, | great household, the chaplain was the resoures ef &

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