discharged a musket at him; and as he was in the act of lifting up his hands to Heaven, and praying for his affaffin, the mob fell upon him with great violence, and having taken out his heart, they devoured part of it like wild beafts *, and drew. the bleeding body to the Great Square, where they placed it in the pillory, and nailed behind it the

*Goodnature," faid Lord Chancellor Clarendon, in one of his fpeeches in the House of Lords, "is a virtue "fo peculiar to the English, and fo appropriated by Al"mighty God to this Nation, that it can be tranflated " into no other language, nor can hardly be practised by " any other people." The English may, indeed, say, by a flight alteration, with Macbeth, refpecting their civil commotions→→→→

"Blood hath been shed ere now in th' olden time, "Ay, and fince too murders have been performed "Too terrible for the ear:

"But when the brains were out the man would die, "And there an end."

But now we fay of a neighbouring Nation with Juvenal,

Afpicimus populos quorum non fufficit ira

Occidiffe aliquem, fed pe&ora, brachia, vultum
Crediderint genus esse cibi.”

A race of men this Age of Iron knows,

Whofe fury rages tho' they have kill'd their foes,
Who deem revenge ftill vain and incomplete,
Unless their bleeding victims' limbs they eat.
And, fiercer than their fellows of the wood,

Their greedy throats gorge with their brethren's blond.

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portrait of his Sovereign and Protector Henry the Third; whilft fome plucked the hair from his head, and others pulled him by the legs, exclaiming, "You were always very fond of your Sovereign; "fee now how well you and he can agree toge"ther."

Such was the reward this illuftrious Magiftrate received, for having the preceding year preserved Thouloufe from the plague, for having founded a feminary, and for having made two establishments in the fame city, one for marrying female orphans, the other for the deliverance of prifoners for debt. When the troubles were appeased, his heirs erected to him a magnificent Monument, thus infcribed:

Conditus exiguâ magnus Durantus in urnâ
Dormit foporem ferreum.

Sæcla peremerunt hunc ferrea, ferreus ille eft
Qui novit ifta, nec gemit.

Una namque jacet patriæ decus omne fuæque
Et crimen urbis et dolor.

Of this celebrated Reformer, who disgraced his useful and refpectable character by outrage and violence, the Regent Earl of Morton faid, when he attended his funeral, "There lies a man who

" in his life never feared the face of a man, who hath "been often threatened with dag and dagger, but "yet hath he ended his days in peace and honour; "for he had God's providence watching over him "ina fpecial manner when his very life was fought."

Timoleon, the Reformer of Corinth, when he caufed his brother's blood to be fhed, turned afide his head, covered it with his cloak, and wept. The Scottish Reformer, however, not only performed the great work in which he was engaged with earnestness, but occasionally added want of feeling towards the perfons who fuffered for it. In defcribing the murder of Cardinal Beaton, he introduces a joke about his corpulency, and adds, "these things we write merrily." When he relates an account of an exhortation which he gave to the unfortunate Queen Mary, he adds, "I made the Hyæna weep *." His writings are in the fame ftile with his fpeeches, and bear titles expreffive of the agitation and violence of

The elegant Mary herfelf, on feeing the bleeding body of a young gentleman brought near her, who had been fhot by fome of her foldiers, faid, "I cannot be refponfi. "ble for accidents, but I wish it had been his father." So nearly equal in brutality are the polite and the coarfe, the uncultivated and the refined, the Sovereign and the peafant, when they fuffer their minds to be tranfported by the violence of paffion, or corrupted by the partiality of prejudice.

mind of him who penned them; as, "The First Blaft of the Trumpet against the monstrous Regiment of Women;" and " A brief Exhorta❝tion to England for the speedy embracing of "Chrift's Gospel, heretofore by the Tyranny of "Mary fuppreffed and banished."

Knox in one of his Sermons exclaims, "that

one Mafs was more frightful to him, than ten "thousand enemies landed in any part of the "realm." This gave much offence to Queen Mary. Lord Darnley, whom she soon afterwards married, was prevailed upon to hear him preach, and he entertained his ears with this text from Ifaiah, O Lord, other Lords than thou have "reigned over us ;" and, speaking of the govern ment of wicked Princes, he said, “that they were fent as tyrants and scourges to the people for their fins;" adding, "that God fets occafionally boys and women over a nation, to punish them for their crimes and their ingratitude."

To animate the mob; of Perth to pull down cathedrals and monafteries, he exclaimed, "Pull

down the nefts and the rooks will fly away." Yet, as it is fagaciously and humanely obferved by Mr. Andrews, in his judicious and excellent Continuation of Dr. Henry's valuable Hiftory, "He <reftrained his followers from blood; not even by way of retaliation did a single man of the "Roman

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"Roman Catholic party lofe his life for his reli "gion, if we except the Cardinal, who fell as "much on account of his defpotifm as his bi

gotry. To a fierce unpolished race like the ર Scots, a ftern taftelefs Apoftle like John Knox "was perhaps neceffary."

LORD BACON.

THE ingratitude of his Sovereign and the net glect of his countrymen were in fome fort redeemed to this great man by the affection of two of his fervants, Mr. Meautys, and Mr. Bushell the mine". The one erected a monument to his memory, the other caufed a medal to be ftruck of him.

"Mr. Bufhell caufed a medal to be ftruck of "Lord Bacon. Obverfe: his head, thus infcribed, "Fran. Baco. Vicecom. Sti. Alban. Anglia "Cancell.-Reverse: a Genius ftanding amongst "rocks, with a pick in one hand, and a piece of "ore in the other, infcribed Deus eft qui claufa

reclufit-It is God who difcovers what is hid." -Obfervations on Medals.

Lord Bacon, whofe comprehenfive mind pervaded every thing, faw the neceffity of an occa