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ministers, will have to decide between the persons 
so recommended. Despite some sinister reports, 
I cannot anticipate a result which would be a 
satire on the literary character of England, but 
shall conclude with a pertinent hint from the 
writings of one of its master-minds :— 
“Lorps AND ComMoNS OF ENGLAND, consider what 
nation it is whereof ye are —a nation not slow and dull, 
but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to in- 
vent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the 
reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can 
soar to.” — Milton. 
Boxrton Corney. 
The Terrace, Barnes. 
GEORGE WHETSTONE’S WORKS. 
On the back of the title-page to George Whet- 
stone’s E’nemie to Unthryftinesse, printed by R. 
Jones in 1586, 4to., is the following very curious 
notice of the author’s productions, which, as the 
volume is excessively rare, is worth recording in 
your pages : 
“ The Printer to the Reader. 
“To the intent that the variable humors of men (which 
delight as much in chaynge as they dyffer in. opinions) 
may be satisfied with the varietie of M. Whetston’s 
workes and writinge, I have, therefore, not (here) thought 
it amisse, to set downe the severall workes already printed 
and compiled, viz. — 
1. “The Enemie to Unthryftinesse.” 
2. “The Rocke of Regarde.” 
3. “The Honourable Reputation and Morall Virtues 
of a Souldier.” 
. “The Heptameron of Cyvill Discourses.” 
. “ The Tragicall Comedie of Promos and Cassandra.” 
. “The Lyfe and Death of M. G. Gascoyne.” 
. “The Lyfe and Death of Sir Nycholas Bacon.” 
“The Lyfe and Death of the good L. Dyer.” 
. “The Lyfe and Death of the noble Earle of Sussex.” 
10. “A Mirrour of True Honor, shewinge the Lyfe, 
Death, and Vertues of Francis, Earle of Bedtorde.” 
“ Bookes redy to be printed. 
11. “A Panoplie of Devices.” 
12. “The English Mirrour.’”’ 
13. “The Image of Christian Justice.” 
Epwarp F. Rimpavtr. 
10 CO NIOS OTS 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF MACAULAY. 
King James's Embarhation for France.— Very 
few broadsides issued to the inhabitants of London, 
informing them of the progress of King William 
in Ireland, have come down to us. The anxiety 
manifested in this metropolis was very great; and 
in the days when electric telegraphs were un- 
known, long indeed before the birth of Thomas 
Davenport (the Vermont blacksmith, who, by his 
discovery in 1834 of the electro-magnetic rotary 
motion, paved the way for the telegraph), the 
anxiety of the public was relieved by the issue of 
placards, which contained a summary of events: 
one of these placards, announcing the departure 
of James from Ireland, after the battle of the 
Boyne, is to be found in the recently catalogued 
collection of King’s pamphlets in the British Mu- 
seum (105. f.17.). It was printed for R. Baldwin 
in the Old Bailey, 1690, and is intituled : 
“ An Exact Relation of the late King James’s Em- 
barking for France, and of the Proclaiming K. William; 
with the present Condition of Dublin, and other Places 
near that City. Ina Letter from Dublin, dated Satur- 
day, July 5, 1690.” 
“Honoured Sir,—I presume, e’re this, you have re- 
ceived the letter I sent you from our camp near the 
Boyne. Since that, you have known by other hands, 
that by one fight we have frighted and scattered our 
enemy, and were presently possessed of the strong town 
of Droghedah, and are now as quietly settled in this city; 
yet in much better condition than was expected. They 
left stores filled with provisions of mouth and war. The 
have great stores likewise in the country, which are a 
open for our receipt. , 
“Their King is run away, with the Duke of Powis, 
Tyrconnel, and some few more, towards Kingsale; their 
army all scattered in the country; so that the war seems 
now to be at an end. Galloway, Limerick, and Athlone 
are, as I hear, the only places like to stand out against 
us; and having no hopes of relief will, as it is thought, 
be easily surrendered. 
“ Tlis Majesty, you see, hath conquered this kingdom 
with a ‘ Veni, vidi, vici.’ It will require more of his 
trouble to settle then to conquer it. I cannot now fur- 
ther enlarge, the express waiting the motion of my pen, 
but to tell you, this day by post if possible, will send you 
a more particular account.” 
Then follows a second letter, also dated from Dublin, 
July 5, 1690: 
* Honoured Sir,—I sent you one of this.date by the 
express; and have now to add, that we have sure and 
certain advertisement sent us by an express, that the 
late King James, on Wednesday night last, embarked at 
Duncannon, a fort that commands Passage-harbour, viz., 
the harbour of Waterford ; and that he, Duke Powis, and 
Tyrconnel, and some others, are gone direct to France. 
Their army are scattered in the country,.and are forced 
to turn Tories to get them a support; so that it’s believed 
our King’s work will be apply’d now rather to settle then 
to make further conquests here. His Majesty is not yet 
come to this town, but is this night eneampt within two 
miles of this city; and, as we hear, intends to be here 
tomorrow. 
“ The Protestants of Wexford hath seized that garri- 
son, and declare for K. William and Q. Mary. The 
other towns, where Protestants are, will, we expect, fol- 
low that president; of which we have already some re- 
ports, particularly Waterford and Kilkenny, 
“ We cannot learn that there is 5000 of the enemy in a 
body, nor understand that there are any of them appears 
within thirty miles of this city. What forces they lately 
had of the Germans that were Protestants are gone in to 
us. The French are gone, with three field pieces, to- 
ward Lymerick, but its thought they will be met in the 
way. Our horse are now scattering to pick up the scat- 
terers of the enemies scattered army. 
“We all believe that there will not be struck one 
stroke more in this war; and we have many reasons to 
wish and expect it; but none more important, then that 
