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more likely to have been made before — much be- 

 fore — but certainly not then. We think that we 

 are right in concluding that the world has coin- 

 cided in a too hasty and unsearching opinion re- 

 garding this last scene of the King, and that 

 there was infinitely more under this impartinent 

 tlian either the suspicions of the time seem to 

 have conceived, or modern ideas ever to have 

 speculated upon. The effect produced, on the 

 scaffold, on the witnesses of the execution, by this 

 significant injunction, is proven by the pains which 

 were immediately taken to find out the meaning. 

 We have reason to conclude that Bishop Juxon 

 was not only inquired of, concerning it, on the 

 scaffold, after the tragedy of the King's execution 

 had been consummated, but that he was sent for 

 to Whitehall, to be questioned by Cromwell and 

 the King's Judges. Great things — extraordinary 

 things — wonderful things — were in Charles's 

 mind after the excitements of his trial and the 

 terrible result in condemnation. What should be 

 the state of a man's mind, under such circum- 

 stances, we can only conceive. In this tumult of 

 new sensations, and in the intense and preter- 

 natural stretch and agony of his mind, it is very 

 possible that he might have achieved, in the state 

 of exaltation well known to those who are con- 

 versant with the phenomena (during paroxysms) of 

 clairvoyant " far-seeing," to a real, prophetic con- 

 viction of things to happen after him, and of the 

 restoration of monarchy in England, and of the 

 attainment — little as it seemed likely then — of 

 his son to the throne. This was a vision in the 

 sense that we understand it of saints. Bishop 

 Juxon, who knew very well to what the King's 

 emphatic word " Remember " referred, could not 

 do anything else than conceal the real and the 

 dangerous meaning under an evasive explanation, 

 but one which would very readily pass with those 

 just impressed with the solemnity and sadness of 

 the whole scene. But, chiefest of all in proof of 

 these convictions regarding this interesting and 

 hitherto unexplained matter, is the declaration 

 that such a vision — or supernatural, prophetic 

 judgment — was really experienced by the King. 

 We hope, in future accounts of King Charles the 

 First, that this present little history of a doubtful 

 but important passage will find its proper room. 



Colonel Tomlinson commanded the regiment of 

 cavalry on guard at the execution. They are 

 shown in a picture made of Whitehall at the time. 

 In the histories Colonel Tomlinson is said to have 

 been " converted " at the beheading of the King. 

 Could this " conversion " consist in his belief of a 

 miracle in the King's assurance ? 



John Aubrey, Esq., F.R.S., under the date of 

 1696, in the last, and revised, and most complete 

 edition of his Miscellanies, — that, in fact, which, 

 we believe, was published after his death — states, 

 as a fact within his precise knowledge, that : — 



" After King Charles the First was condemned, he did 

 tell Colonel Tomlinsoa that he ' believed the English Mo- 

 narchy was now at an end.' About half an hour after, with 

 a radiant couatenance, and as if with a preternaturally 

 assured manner, he affirmed to the Colonel, positively, 

 that his son should reign after him. This iuformatioa I 

 had from Fabian Phillips, Esq., of the Inner Temple, who 

 had the best authority for the truth of it. I forget whether 

 Mr. Phillips, who was under some reserve, named to me 

 the particular person. But I suspect that it was Colonel 

 Tomlinson himself." 



This divination it was that probably " converted" 

 Colonel Tomlinson. Haegrave Jennings. 



LORD INCHIQUIN'S MARRIAGE. 



The following verses I had from one of my aunts, 

 who was a great niece of Philip Metcalfe, formerly 

 of Hawstead, Suffolk, and Hill Street, Berkeley 

 Square, and mentioned in Boswell's Life of John- 

 son, The verses are stated to be by Boswell, and, 

 if hitherto unpuljlished, may be thought worth re • 

 cording. 



" Palmeria we find will be wedded at last, 

 The Priest and the Lawyer will tj'e the knot fast ; 

 My gallant Lord Inchiquin her constant Man 

 She prefers on a wise, and a generous plan. 

 Each unfortunate Rival who puts in his claim 

 Feels bamboozled, and bit by the opulent Dame. 

 Says Bozzy, ' Of Arrogance pray don't accuse me, 

 But I thought that no Woman alive cou'd refuse me.' 

 Says Sir Kit*, ' I don't know how this Earl has un- 



mask'd her, 

 I see she's not mine, yet I think I once ask'd her.' 

 Saj'S Batt f, ' I'm concern'd on the public account. 

 That Ireland shou'd drain us to such an amount.' 

 Says the elegant, learn'd, and nice Critic Malone, 

 'With the Folio 1 grunt, with the Quarto I groan.' 

 Says little Xed Gwetkin, * upon ray salvation, 

 I've reckon'd her mine, as a sure speculation.' 

 Says Lawrj' J, ' 'tis sure a ridiculous change.' 

 Says Blaggy §, * I own the transaction is strange.' 

 * Ye Boobies,' cries Metty ||, ' pray what do j'ou mean, 

 Han't 3'ou Ej'es, can't a Star and a Ribbon be seen? 

 Call on me any morning, and each take a Niece, 

 Fine, pleasant good Girls, and Ten Thousand a piece.' " 



Walter C. Metcalfe. 



PASSAGE IN DANTE. 

 Dante, Purgatorio, Canto xxxiii. line 43. : — 



" Without an heir the eagle not for aye, 

 Shall be, &c. 



Wherein, One — stamped five hundred, ten and five, ■ 

 Angel of God — shall slay the thievish dame, 

 Her giant partner too of life deprive." 



Or, 



" Nel quale un, cinqaecento, diece e cinque." 



* Sir Christopher Hawkins, 

 t Mr. Batt, Commissioner of the Public Accounts. 

 t Dr. Lawrence. § Dr. Blagdon. 



11 P. Metcalfe, Esq., M.P. 



