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counsels, prorogued parliament, after 
it had sat nine days only, and Shaftes- 
bury finally broke with the court. 
4. Mr. H. does not hesitate to brand 
this nobleman with treachery as wellas 
apostacy. ‘ Gu entering,’ says he, 
“ into the cabals of the country party,” 
so he chuses to designate the consulta- 
tions of the patriots, “Shaftesbury dis- 
covered to them, perhaps magnified the 
arbitrary designs of the court, in which 
he himself had borne so deep a share.”’ 
But did not the whole nation know that 
the King had entered into a fatal con- 
nection with France, having for its ob- 
jects the subversion of Holland, and the 
enslavement of England? It was 
equally impossible to discover or to 
magnify guilt so great and notorious. 
Moreover in another passage, Mr. H. 
himself allows “ that Shaftesbury main- 
tained the character of never betraying 
those friends whom he deserted.*’. The 
names of *“ those friends” thus mys- 
teriously alluded to by Mr. H. he has 
not thought proper to disclose. To 
ae the subject would extend this 
discussion foo far. 
Of College, who fell one of the first 
victims of the court after the dissolution 
of the Oxford parliament, it cannot but 
excite our regret to hear the noble au- 
thor of the Life of Lord Russell, con- 
temptuously say “ This man was a car- 
penter, who by his noisy zeal and the 
notice he had received from the Duke of 
Monmonth, and other men of rank, 
had acquired the name of the Protest- 
ant Joiner.” * College,” says the bio- 
graphical historian Granger, “ was an 
excellent mechanic; and for his su- 
perior talents much respected by per- 
sons of rank.’? This was to their ho- 
nour much more than to his. “ But 
all our praises why should Lords en- 
gross?” It is remarkable that Hume 
does far more justice to this extraor- 
dinary man than the noble descendant 
of Lord Russell; and the entire passage 
relative to College, evinces in common 
with many others in the course of his 
work. that this admired historian, who 
has beyond any writer of the past cen- 
tury administered “ sweet poison to the 
age’s tooth,’’ could occasionally feel as 
forcible emotions of indignation against 
cruelty and oppression as the most ar- 
dent patriot. After enumerating the 
infamous arts practised against College, 
he proceeds to say, ** Though beset with 
“so many toils, and oppressed with so 
many iniquities, he defended himself 
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with spirit, courage, capacity, aud pre~ 
[April J, 
sence of mind ; and he invalidated the 
evidence of the crown by convincing 
arguments and undoubted testimony. 
The inhuman spectators received the 
verdict with a shout of applause ; but 
the prisoner was in no way dismayed. 
At his execution be maintained the 
same manly fortitude, and still denied 
the crime imputed to him. His whole 
conduct and demeanor prove him to 
have been a man led astray only by the 
fury of the times; and to have been go- 
verned by an honest though indiscreet 
seal for his country and religion.” The 
last clause contains an excuse which 
the candour of Mr. Hume, would, no 
doubt, extend to every man imprudent 
enough to risk his life, and all that he 
holds dear in this world, either for the 
one or the other. 
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THE ORIENTAL GLEANER. 
No. V. 
if pe following papers are translated 
from the splendid German journal 
called “ the MINEs of the East,” pub- 
lished at Vienna, from which we have 
already submitted to our readers some 
extracts, relative to the ruins of Baby- 
lon, and whose interesting contents 
we shall continue to Jay before them, 
as space and opportunity occur.* 
COURTS of JUSTICE in CHINA. 
The officers of the Chinese courts of 
justice possess many of the advantages 
on which fortune throws a lustre, and 
certainly lead a very comfortable life. 
The value of their labours, and the 
ability with which they are executed, 
seem as duly estimated as under the 
meridians of Paris and London. De- 
ference is paid to their attainments, as 
* Our diligence in availing ourselves of 
the interesting contents of all foreign jour- 
nals has long been experienced by our 
readers, and we were lately led to employ 
a person to translate some articles from the 
Mines of the East, when to our astonish- 
ment, he dishonestly sold them to a mock 
magazine, the editor of which is as unable 
to suggest an original idea or new source 
of information, as he is, or ever was to 
affix a title to his works without parodying 
from others. The articles in question, 
were, however, set forth as a most impor- 
tant literary discovery of this imitator, and 
the Mines of the East, so well known to 
the literati of Europe, were announced as 
a discovery of singular importance, al- 
though during the last ten years, we have 
from time to time enriched our pages from 
their contents. 
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