1509.] 
From this time until 1653, during the 
long interval of twelve years, a hiatus un- 
happily takes place in this memoir, Crom- 
well, who was now protector, first em- 
ployed the subject of it, as private tu- 
tor to Mr. Dutton, his nephew; and he 
afterwards became one of the secreta- 
- ries to that celebrated statesman aud ge- 
neral. 
“TT never had any, not the remotest 
relation to public matters” says he, in the 
second part of the Rehearsal transprosed, 
** nor correspondence with the persons 
then predominant, till the year 1657, 
when indeed I entered into an employ- 
ment, for which I was not altogether im- 
proper, and which I considered to be the 
most innocent and inoffensive towards 
his Majesty’s affairs, of any in that 
usurped government, to which ail men 
were then exposed.” 
As the Protector died at Whitehall, 
September 3d, 1653, about a year after 
his preterment, Mr. Marvell could not 
have obtained much wealth from an em- 
ployment as Latin secretary, which, hike 
all others at that period, was probably 
far from being profitable. Indeed, the 
honor of having Milton for his coadjutor, 
was perhaps the most agreeable circum- 
stance annexed to the employment. 
In the course of the same year, how- - 
ever, he was elected one of the Burgesses, 
then returned to serve in Parliament, 
for the borough of Kingston-upon-Haull. 
From that moment, he considered it as 
a bounden duty, to transmit an accuant 
of all the proceedings in the House of 
Commons to his constituents; but the col- 
lection hitherto published, does not com- 
mence earlier than November 17th, 
1660. 
‘*¢ From this period,” says Captain 
Edward Thompson, the compiler of the 
grand 4to edition, published in 1776, 
“Mr. Marvell comes forward in his 
patriot and parliamentary character, 
and with more dignity, honour, sense, 
genius, fortitude, virtue, and religion, 
than ever mixed up in one man, ancient, 
or modern. There is not an action of 
his life that deserves the blot of censure; 
the part he took, was inost’ honourable to 
himself, and useful to his country; and 
though virtue was ever put to the blush 
by flattery, yet he maintained his since- 
rity unseduced, when truth, and chastity, 
were crimes in the lewd circle of 
Charies’s syren Court ; where, in poverty 
he held up the greatness of his soul, in 
spite of the cold disadvantages of a nar- 
row fortune, ‘and the artful lures and 
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temptations of the most agreeable 
devils, possessed of more than the gol- 
den apples. Nor were spirits inactive 
to reduce such virtues, which might have 
been made so useful to the prostituted 
purposes of that prostituted court. 
6¢ ———- Tempt not, he said, and stood: 
* But Satan, smitten with amazement, fell!” 
In the first parliament, which met 
before the Restoration, (April 25, 1666) 
Mr. Marvell was a constant attendant. 
In the course of his correspondence, he 
exhibits a determined enmity.to the 
keeping up of a standing army, which he 
wishes to be speedily exchanged for a 
‘aynilitia. 
‘¢ T doubt not, ere we rise,” says he, in 
a letter to his constituents, ‘* to see the 
whole army disbanded ; and according to 
the act, hope to see your town once 
more ungarrisoned; in which f should be 
glad, and happy to be instrumental to 
the uttermost; for [ cannot but remem- 
ber, though then a child, those blessed 
days, when the youth of your town were 
trained for your militia; and did, me- 
thought, become their arms much better 
than any soldiers that I have seen there 
since.” vine 
Soon after this, he evinced his jealousy 
of ‘that many-headed monster, the 
Excise ;” and we find him, nearly at the 
same time, thanking his constituents for 
a present of a cask of ale, the quantity of 
which,” he observed, “ was so great, that 
it might make sober men forgetful.” 
In 1662, Mr. Marvell appears to: have 
repaired to Holland, on which occasion, 
Lord Bellasis, who was high steward of 
Hull, and deputy governor, under the 
Duke of Monmouth, employed Sir Ro- 
bert Hildyard to notify this circum- 
stance to his constituents; with a view 
of inducing them to proceed to a new 
election. -On' this, a letter was dis- 
patched to their member, ordering hm 
peremptorily to return, which requisition 
he accordingly complied with a shers 
time after. ase 
A few months posterior to this, with 
the consent of his constittients, he ac- 
companied his friend, Lord Carlisle, who 
had been appointed Ambassador Extra- 
ordinary to Muscovy, Sweden, and Den- 
mark, in the capacity of secretary, and 
remained abroad near two years. On his 
return, we find him attending the pare 
liament at Oxford, and waiting on the 
Duke of Monmouth, with a congratu- 
latory letter, and a present of gold, from 
the corporation. On this occasion, the 
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