Walpoliant, No. LIL; Anecdate of Cromwell, 
LVI. INDOLENCE. | 
When the Duke of Newcaftle left the 
miniftry, a whole clofet or American dif 
patches was found unopened. 
LVil. MILTON. 
If Milton had written in Italian he 
would nave been, in my-opinion, the 
moft perte*i poet in modern tan juages ; 
fer his own ftrength of thought would’ 
bave condented and hardened that fpeech | 
to a proper depres, 
LVI. MARY QUEEN OF 
LAND. 
I cannot think that the letter ‘from 
Mary Queen of Sco:land to- Elizabeth, 
about the amours of the latter, is genuine. 
I fuppote it a forgery ot Bure: gh, to 
thew Elizabeth, if ihe bad eine d to con- 
demn Mary. ° 
It was the intereft of Quieen Elizabeth’s 
minifters to put Mary todeath, 2. as they 
had gone too far againft her, to hope for 
mercy; and 2. to fecure a proteftant fue- 
ceffion. Lhe above letter was publifhed 
by Haynes, among the Cee apers pre- 
ferved at Hatfield Houte. ‘His compila- 
‘tion is executed without judgment. 
I have read the apologies tor Mary; 
but (till muft believe her es ruilty of her huf- 
band’s death. So much of the advocate, 
fo many fuppolitions, appear in thotfe 
long apologies, that they fhew of them- 
felves tpt plain truth can hardly be on 
that fide. Suppole her guilty, and ali is 
-ealy: there is no longer a Aepaea 8 ay 
SCOT- 
‘not. i 
‘Robert Walpole was at the beard. 
359 
aclue :—All is in the high-way of human, 
affairs. 
‘LIX. BRIBERY. 
If you look into the laft yolumes of the 
Memoires de Villars, you will find minutes 
of the French council, whence it appears 
that Fleury was accufed of taking money, 
from England, at a time when it wag 
alleged that my father was bribed. by 
France. The origin of this mighty 
charge was, that fir Robert Walpole had 
indorfed a bill of 500/. to a linen draper 
in the Strand, with the fole view of ferve 
ing that linen draper. 
LX. MINISTRIES OF GEORGE THE 
SECOND. 
The: miniftries of George the Second 
were all whig. “The oppolition confifted 
of. old whigs, “*fuch as Rufhout, and 
others; of Jacobites, fuch as fir William 
Wyndham, and Shippen. 
Sir Robert Walpole faid, ** fome ‘are 
corrupt, but I will tell you of one whois - 
Shippen is not.” When Shippen 
came to take the oath of allegiance, fir 
Ship- 
pen had a ‘rick of holding his glove to 
his mouth, and did fo when repeating the 
oath. « Sir ’ Robett pulled down his hand. 
Shippen faid, ‘¢ Robin, that is not fair.*° 
New whigs in the minority, becaufe 
out of the miniftry, were Pulteney, for- 
merly joined in the adminiftration with 
fir Robert Walpole; Lyttelton, whole 
father was a true whig ; ; and Pitt. 
[To be continued. ] 

ORIGINAL ANECDOTES AND ‘REMAINS 
OF 
EMINENT 
PERSONS. 

ANECDOTES of CROMWELL, 
€olleéted by the late Profeffor Anderfon, of Glaf- 
iv OW. 
HE following anecdotes concerning 
Oliver Cromwell, I learned in con- 
verfation, many years ago, from Mr. 
James Anderfon, who was long the ma- . 
hager of Stockwell-itreet fugar- thoufe,. in 
Glafgow, a man of veracity,.and who 
died about thirty years 2g9, in a very. ad- 
vanced age. He faid. that he- had them 
* from Mr. Danziel, fen. a merchant in the 
High-ftreet of Glalgow, who died in the 
beginning of this century; and that his 
friend Danziel’s account was confirmed to 
him by many concurring teftimonies.. 
A hort time betore the battle of Dun- 
bar, as Cromwell was viewing the ground, 
MONTHLY Mac. No, xxxI. 
‘ket at Cromwell. 
accompanied by a few peo a foldier 
of the Scottifh army, prompted by his 
own zeal, concealed himfelf behind el 
which oglated a field, and fired his muf- 
The ball did not take 
effe&, but went near him... The cavalry 
feaned to be alarmed, but Cromwell, whe 
was going at a round trot, never altered 
his pace, nor tightened his rein; and 
only looking over his fhoulder to the 
place ftom whence the fhot came, called 
out, ‘* You lubberly rafcal,. were one of 
my men to mifs fuch a mar*, 
he fhould — 
certainly be tied up tothe halberts.”*.,. 
When Cromwell entered Glafgow, faid 
Danziel, at the head of his victorious 
army, I was ftanding in-the ftreet called 
Bell’s- Wynd; at the end of it which joins 
3 th the 
