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man has uttered this in the face of day! Well, let it pass. Those things 
must work themselves to an end! 
But a noble Whig, too, has been out on his voyage of discovery, and 
has brought back the extraordinary knowledge that the Protestants of 
1688 had no objection whatever to the fullest admission of Popery into 
all the recesses of the Constitution. In our ignorance, we had all along 
thought that James was flung from his throne in a burst of national 
indignation at his frauds upon the Protestant Constitution, at his guilty 
abolition of the acts that excluded Papists from the power of destroying 
the Constitution, at the course of Jesuitism, vileness, and vice by which 
he was labouring to make the government Papist, and the country the 
slave of Rome. We had thought that William had fought against Popery 
in Ireland, and persecution in France ; and that, after having stricken 
down the fiend, he had delivered it over to the generations of England, 
to be kept in eternal chains. But Lord Holland’s discovery, reserved 
for this age of congenial illumination, brings the intelligence that every 
statesman, writer, and speaker, since 1688, has been totally in error ; 
that even the men who made the Constitution did not know what they 
were making ; and, finally, that King William was one of the most 
determined friends imaginable to Papists. Where the noble Whig, or 
individuals like him, find their authorities, is no inquiry of ours; but 
here follows the unquestionable language of the King :—- 
« Speech of King William III. on opening the Sessions of Parliament 
(a Whig one), in December, 1701.—‘ I promise myself you are met 
together full of that just sense of the common danger of Europe. The 
eyes of all Europe are upon this Parliament ; all matters are at a stand 
till your resolutions are known. Let me conjure you to disappoint the 
only hopes of our enemies, by your unanimity. I have shewn, and will 
always shew, how desirous I am to be the common father of all my 
people ; do you, in like manner, lay aside parties and divisions ; let there 
be no other distinction heard of among us for the future, but of those who are 
Sor the Protestant Religion and the present Establishment, and of those who 
mean a Popish Prince and a Foreign Government. If you do, in good 
earnest, desire to see England hold the balance of Europe, and to, indeed, 
be at the head of the Protestant interest, it will appear by your right 
improving the present opportunity.’ ” 
« The will of Dr. Wollaston has been proved in the Prerogative Court 
in Doctors’ Commons; and probate granted for fifty thousand pounds 
personal property, which he has left among his brothers and sisters.” 
So much for philosophy. Wollaston was a shrewd, sour, and indefa- 
tigable money-maker. The little stories on record of his dexterity in _ 
turning every toy of his trade of science to account, from the new point- 
ing of a pin to the polishing of a diamond, would make a pleasant 
memoir. His Camera Lucida, an ingenious trifle for sketching land- 
scape, is said to have netted, by his peculiar management, no less than 
four thousand pounds. His next contrivance for gathering a little of the 
floating capital of this world, was a pasteboard Map of the Stars— 
ridiculous, of course, in the hands of science, but very well for school- 
girls, who very well paid for it. The Doctor’s chief money was - 
made by the working of platina, for which he had discovered a process, 
which process he kept dextrously to himself, until he felt that he could 
melt and mingle no longer, and he then gave the secret to the public. — 
