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organs and protectors of the constitu- 
tion.” 
POWER abused by LEGITIMACY. 
- Milton’s Defensio Pro Pop was 
burnt at Paris, and Toulouse, by the 
hands of the common hangman. Such 
are the disgraceful manceuvres of poli- 
tical hypercritics, of puny mortals, to 
reverse the distinguishing characters 
of truth. The too much favoured no- 
tions of royalty (which if it has some 
excellencies, has many faults) were, 
however successfully checked, by the 
States of Holland, who stigmatized 
Salmasius’s book, (devoted to the gau- 
diness and inane purposes of will and 
pleasure) with sovereign contempt. 
Only one edition of it was printed. 
Neither Milton, nor the warmest com- 
monwealth’s man ever thought of 
altering the government, till Charles, 
by repeated and flagrant violations of 
his word, by temerities highly repre- 
hensible, had furnished uno slight sus- 
picion of his sinister intentions with 
respect to public liberty. 
ANDREW MARVEL. 
By asingular variety of fortune, he 
was the secret adviser of Prince Rupert, 
nephew of Charles I. and the favourite 
tutor of Mr. Dutton, nephew to Oliver 
Cromwell, to the father of whom, he 
also acted as Latin secretary, under 
Milton. He was afterwards one of the 
protectors of Milton. 
The late Mr. Hollis, who intended to 
have written a life of Marvel, observes, 
* that his picture was painted when he 
was forty-one; that is, in the year 1661 
(as appears under the frame), in all the 
sobriety and decency of the departed 
Commonwealth.” 
GOVERNMENT and the ENGLISH CON- 
STITUTION, by MARVEL. 
“ And yet there are those men among 
us, who have undertaken and do make 
it their business, under so legal and 
perfect a government, to introduce 
French slavery * * * , which is a 
crime of the highest nature. For, as to 
matters of government. if to murder the 
King be, as certainly it is, a fact so hor- 
rid, how much more heinous is it to 
assassinate the kingdom? and, as none 
will deny, that to alter our monarchy 
into a Commonwealth were treason, 
30, by the same fundamental rule, the 
crime is no less to make that Monarchy 
absolute.”—Marvell’s Works, 4to ed. 
vol. 1, p. 456. 
* Alas! the wisdom and probity of 
Stephensiana.—No. VI. 
143 
the law went.off, for the most part, with 
the good Sir Matthew Hales, and justice 
is made a mere property.” 
“ What French counsel, what stand- 
ing forces, what parliamentary bribes, 
what national oaths, and all the other 
machinations of wicked men have not 
yet been able to effect, may more com- 
pendiously be acted by twelve judges 
in searlet.”” 2). p. 524. 
Mr. M. asserts, that both King and 
subject are equally liable to the opera- 
tion of the laws, and that the reigning 
Prince “is no longer a King than he 
continues to obey them.” 
A CONQUEROR 
is thus defined by Fenelon: * Un 
Conquerant est un homme, Sc. A con- 
queror is a man whom God, in the dis- 
pensation of his Providence, lets loose 
upon mankind as a formidable and in- 
exorable despoiler, inflicting a dread- 
ful punishment on a devoted country, 
and making as many slaves as there are 
free men.’”? “May I not be permitted to 
add: * Disfiguring the works of man, 
and frequently profaning the name and 
violating the altars of the great God !” 
HENRY IV. 
Ina history of Henry IV. it is asserted 
thaf an ingenious artist contrived to 
inscribe the names of all the good kings 
who had appeared in the world, within 
the circumference’ of a farthing, and 
that he had still sufficient room for all 
the good kings who might appear to 
the end of the world. 
GENERAL MOREAU, 
Prior to the French revolution, had 
applied for a sub-lieutenancy of Dra- 
goons, but was refused, as not being of. 
noble birth. Only a small portion of 
sagacity is to be found in this ancient 
hauteur ; we discover a more solid foun- 
dation capable of sustaining military 
operations, in the practical schools of 
proficiency, established by the policy of 
the revolution. Introduced to a mili- 
tary life, on that general scale, Moreau 
was soon elected commander of a 
battalion of National Guards. Then 
devoting himself to the various occupa- 
tions of his profession, his whole atten- 
tion directed to a single object, we be- 
hold him rising through all the grada- 
tions of service, till we find him by the 
brilliancy of personal talents, exalted 
to supreme command. His skill in 
the direction of military energies was 
early shewn, and it is unnecessary to 
dilate wpon it. 
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