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testant establishment made at the 
Revolution: against those who pre- 
ferred the odious tyrannical govern- 
ment of the accursed race of Stu- 
art, to the mild and legal govern- 
ment of the House of Hanover ; 
against those who held to the divine, 
indefeasible, hereditary right of 
princes, and to the slavish doctrines 
of passive obedience and non-resist- 
ance; those men who, when in pos- 
session of power, in every instance, 
have driven hard to the destruction 
of England, and from whose perni- 
cious projects this country has been 
more than once saved by almost mi- 
raculous interposition. Ifhe headed 
a party, it was the most glorious of 
all parties,—the national freedom ; 
if he encouraged and supported a 
particular set of men, it was those 
who distinguished themselves most 
in their attachment to that cause : if 
he were averse to another set, he was 
only averse to them as public men ; 
averse to their being the first de- 
partments of the state, because their 
maxims of government were in- 
compatible with the happiness of 
his people; and when be did em- 
ploy them, which he did more fre- 
quently than they deserved to have 
been, he took care to put it out of 
their power to practise their mis- 
chieveus principles, by distributing 
them chiefly among the subaltern 
officers of the state, and, by keeping 
a sufficient number of Whigs in the 
higher departments, to watch and 
over-rule their pernicious projects. 
If he loved war, he made not his 
own subjects the devoted objects 
of his vengeance. Foreign, national, 
natural, manly war, upon British 
principles, in defence of British 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1792. 
rights, he indeed entered into, 
secuted with ardour, and reaped 
most glorious consequences from, 
for this country. He was honest, 
wise, brave, and liberal. Capable 
of opening his heart to new con~- 
nexions, he did not contract and_ 
give it up to one man; but when, 
the voice of bis people demanded. 
it, he yielded up the object of his 
choice, and received the object of; 
theirs tohis bosom. The greatest of 
his favourites, if he ever bad any~ 
in the criminal sense of that term, 
were made to yield, Sir Robert, 
Walpole and the Duke. of, New-. 
castle, who by long lives of useful. 
service, had well earned the favour 
of this monarch, had each their: 
favourite measures, and at dif-. 
ferent periods were compelled to; 
sacrifice an excise scheme and, 
a Jew bill, and finally their places,, 
to the demands of. his people.—, 
He received Mr. Pitt from the. 
people, as the gift of the peo- 
ple ; and when the public good re-_ 
quired a sacrifice of that resentment, 
which had been excited in_ his. 
mind by the parliamentary conduct 
of that person, who had opposed 
his best and most favoured servants 
with unusual violence, he made it 
with manliness and dignity. wi 
- 
$$ 
Am 
Character of Charles 11.* from the 
History of Political Transactions 
and Parties, from the Restoration’ 
of Charles Il, to the Death of 
King William, by Docan Som= 
merv ralled 
ie is not to be denied that yin 
ture had furnished the mind of 
* See Bishop Burvet's character of him, and other curious particulars relating to 
him, in vols. 3, 4, and 5, of the Annual Register. 
this 
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