

THE KING S AGITATION&quot;. CCCxli 



before judgment, and the decrees against the donors. (a) 

 He might have explained that, in some of the cases, he 

 acted only as arbitrator ; () and in others that the sums 

 received were not gifts, but loans, and that he had decided 

 against his creditor ; (c) and in others that the sums offered 

 were refused and returned. And to the twenty-eighth 

 charge, &quot; that the Lord Chancellor hath given way to great 

 exactions by his servants,&quot; he surely might have admitted 

 that he was negligent in not looking better to his servants. 

 Standing on a cliff, and surveying the whole intellectual 

 world, he did not see every pebble on the shore. 



Some defence of this nature could not but have occurred 

 to the Chancellor? 



Whatever doubt may exist as to the state of his mind, Fears of 

 there is none with respect either to the King or Bucking- 

 ham. The King was disquieted, and Buckingham robbed ingham. 

 of all peace, (d) This was the very state of mental fusion 

 favourable for experiment by a shrewd politician. &quot; It is 

 the doctrine of philosophy that to be speculative into 

 another man, to the end to know how to work him, or 

 wind him, or govern him, proceedeth from a heart that 

 is double and cloven, and not entire and ingenuous. &quot; (e) 

 This is not the politician s creed, 



() As Egerton, and Aubrey, and Wrenham, and, possibly, all of them, 

 for the particulars do not appear, as they would have appeared if against 

 the Chancellor. 



(b) Egerton and Egerton. Wroth s case. Apothecaries and Grocers. 

 Vintners. 



(c) Vanlore, a bond and bill with security. Compton s case. Reynell 

 and Peacock. 



(d) Hackett. 

 (e} Ante. 



(/) The politician compasses what he considers the best end, by any 

 means. The place-hunter, like the steeple-hunter, keeps his object in 

 view, and cares not how dirty the road by which he arrives at it. 



