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Hofpital, which would probably have been 
ruined, had it not been for his fagacity 
and induftry in difcovering the frauds of 
an unjuft fteward. He was often returned 
a burgefs in Parliament, though the ini, 
quity of the times would not permit him 
to fit there. 
In 1645 he was elected Lord Mayor 
of London, in which he was fo far from 
feeking his own benefit, that he would 
not accept of thofe advantages which are 
ulually made, by felling the places that 
became vacant in his mayoralty. The 
party then in power, knowing his loyalty, 
‘fometime after fearched his houfe, in ex- 
pectation that the king was there conceal- 
ed. In 1647 he fent a thoufand pounds in 
gold to the king, then confined at Hampton 
Court. He was foon afterwards com- 
mitted to the’Tower, detained a prifoner 
for fome time, and-excluded from all pub- 
lic offices and employments. 
He at length became father of theccity, 
and fuch was his attachment to the royal 
caufe, that while Charles II. was in exile, 
he remitted to him, at different times, up- 
wards of ten thoufand pounds, when, in 
the 74th year of his age, he was deputed 
by the city to go as their commiflioner to 
Breda, with General Monk, to congratu- 
Jate Charles on his reftoration, and attend 
him home. In confideration of his fignal 
fervices the King knighted him at the 
Hague, and a few days after the reftoration 
created him a baronet. 
His charities were extenfive: at Wem 
he gave the houfe of his nativity for a 
free-{chool, and liberally endowed ite He 
founded an Arabic profeflorfhip at Cam- 
bridge. To promote the Chriftian reli- 
gion in the Eaft, he, by the advice of 
Mr. Whelock, was at the charge of 
printing the Gofpels in the Perfian lan- 
guage, and tranfmitting the copies into 
thofe parts, thereby (to ufe his own ex- 
preflion) throwing a fione at the forehead 
of Mahomet. 
He was a confpicuous example in pri- 
vate as well as public charities ; his hands 
were open in his life-time to objects of 
diftrefs and defert ; and though he had 
fuffered great damages in his eftate, he 
bequeathed confiderable legacies to the 
poor of feveral parifhes, to hofpitals, and 
minifters’ widows. He died in 1667 at the 
age of 81 years. His funeral fermon was 
preached by Doétor Hardy, and thus con- 
cludes: ** The king has loft in him a 
' Joyal fubje& ; the church a faithful fon; 
__the city a prudent fenator; and the public 
2 common father.”” - 
| AN ENGLISH ADMIRAL. 
In the reign of Queen Anne, Captain 
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Hardy, whofe fhip was ftationed at Le- 
gara Bay,. happened to receive undoubted 
advice of the arrival cf feventeen Spanifh 
galloons, under the convoy of feventeen 
men of war, in the harbour of Vigo, and 
without any warrant for fo doing, fet fail 
and came up with Sir Geooge Rooke, who 
was the admiral and commander in chief 
in the Mediterranean, and gave him fuch 
intelligence as induced him to make the 
beft of his way to Vigo; where all the be- 
fore-mentioned galleons and men of war 
were either deftroyed or taken. 
Sir George was fenfible of the impore- 
ance of the advice, and the fuccefsful ex. 
pedition of the captain; but after the 
fight was over, the victory obtained, and 
the proper advantages made of it, the ad- 
miral ordered: Captain Hardy on board, 
and with a ftern countenance faid, ‘* You 
have done, Sir, a very important piece of 
_ fervice to the throne; you have added to 
the honour and riches of your country by 
your diligence; but do not you know, 
that you are liable at this inftant to be . 
fhot for quitting your ftation ?”—*¢ He is 
unworthy of bearing a commiffion under 
her Majefty,” replied the Captain, ‘* who 
holds his life asaught, when the glory and 
intereft of his queen and country require. 
him to hazard it.”? On this heroic an- 
fwer, he was difpatched home with the 
firft news of the victory, and letters of re- 
commendation to the queen, who inftantly 
knighted him, and afterwards made hima 
Rear Admiral. 
UNCONSTITUTIONALITY of HOBBES. 
Hobbes, although a patron of the Re- 
ftcration, was not an approver of the Con- 
ftitution. The following paffage from his 
Commonwealth (c. xxix.) is decifive :° 
«« Sometimes alfo, in the merely civil go- 
vernment, there is more than one foul: as 
when the power of levying money, which is 
thenutritive faculty, has depended on a ge- 
neral affembly ; the power of conduét and 
command, which is the motive faculty, on 
one man; and the power of making laws, 
which is the rational faculty, on the acci- 
dental confent not only of thofe two, but 
alfo ofathird. This indangers the Com- 
monwealth, fometimes for want of confent 
to sood Jaws ; but oftener for want of fuch 
nourifhment as is neceflary to life and mo. 
tion. For aithough few perceive that fuch 
government is not government, but divi- 
jion of the Commonwealth into three fac- 
tions, and call it mixt monarchy; yet the 
truth is, that it is not one independent 
Commonwealth, but three independent fac- 
tions; not one ieprefentative perfon, but 
three.” 
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