dominion, and gave the laity some of their | for the mock humanity, and penny govern own lands again." xli. Trenchard was against all levelling in Church and State, and fearful of trying experiments upon the constitution. xlii. As passionate as he was for liberty, he was not for a commonwealth in England. He neither believed it possible, nor wished for it. He thought we were better as we were than any practicable change could make us. 1. Gibraltar.-"A few prostitute hirelings, who go about coffee-houses to drop as far as they dare, stupid and villainous reasons for giving it up." 7. "A spirit of jealousy and revenge, necessary for liberty!"-ferociously argued. 8. 267-8. 7. He is for hanging the South Sea jobbers-"What we can have of them let us have their necks and their money." 19. 21. 42. 18. Some of these jobbers wanted St. Kitts-which was worth £300,000. 28. The South Sea schemers. 166! his opinion of them. 31. Cry for peace in Marlborough's days, as in Wellington's, and these arguments against it equally applicable. ment-men. 137. It becomes the wisdom of a nation to give £10,000 to purchase a head which cheats it of sixpence. 185. In Holland a spirit of democracy without its forms. Vol. 2, p. 132, tendency to dissolution from that cause. 200. "Passive obedience and hereditary right, doctrine which gave the lie to common sense, and which would destroy all common happiness and security amongst men." 201. Al. Sidney absurdly says, "that absolute monarchs must endeavour to introduce corruption, because they cannot subsist without it." 245. "I have sometimes thought that it was scarce possible to assert any thing concerning mankind, be it ever so good, or ever so evil, but it will prove true." "the greatest instances of virtue and villainy are to be found in one and the same person, and perhaps one and the same motive produces both." 246. Yes, if the right motive for virtue be wanting. 247. Upon the surrender of Barcelona the inhabitants capitulated that the inqui 68. A right radical argument for punish-sition should not be taken from them. ment without any previous law :-yet just if restricted to a criminal Court of Equity. 70. In Holland there was no law against men's breaking fraudulently; and yet the first man who was known to do so, was immediately executed, and his estate divided among his creditors. 71. One of our million men-and they say we have several. 80. A clause in the 25 Edw. III. which reserves to Parliament a power of pronouncing whether an act unprovided for in that statute be treason or not. 113. "I cannot allow it to be true what M. de Witt has long since observed, that the English Court has always been the most thievish Court in Europe." 133. The chief ends of government-to pay well and hang well. A rich passage 270. "There are so many passions and inconsistencies, and so much selfishness in human nature, that we can scarce be too much upon our guard against each other." 279. "In Popish countries, it is public spirit to build and beautify many churches, at the expence of the poor people, who must also maintain at a further expence, long bands of luxurious ecclesiastics." Now none of them at the expence of the poor. 283-4. An approach toward Agrarian opinions here. "I have always thought that an enquiry into men's fortunes, especially monstrous fortunes raised out of the public,—were of more importance to a nation than some other enquiries which I have heard of." Vol. 2. P. 65. OVER-INFLUENCE of the Court on the House of Commons in former times. 68. "These deputies act by, under, and in subserviency to, the constitution, and have not a power above it, and over it." 106. "I dare venture my reputation and skill in politics, by boldly asserting that another vain and unnatural Northern apparition (meaning Russia) will soon vanish and disappear again, like the morning star at the glimmering of the sun, and every one shall ask, Where is it ?" This is a good sample of Whig-foresight! 141. "In all the great empires of Morocco, Abyssinia, Persia and India, there is not amongst the natives such a thing as a tolerable architect; nor one good building unless we except a palace built by a Portuguese for the Abyssinian Emperor; and perhaps there may be in all these vast continents, a few more good houses built by Europeans." With this impudent ignorance could these men write after the best travels in Persia and India had long been published. 183. Advice whom not to chuse at elections. 196. "A bishop was burnt before the Reformation for discovering the world to be round."-This is false. 197. "In the East (if we except China) there is not a glimmering of knowledge, though the Eastern people are, from their natural climate and genius, vastly capable of all knowledge!" 290. It is "not to be expected that men disagreeing in interest will ever agree in judgment." 291. "Let us learn to believe no man the more because he believes himself; since men are as obstinate" (as sincere he should have said) "in error, especially in gainful error, as they are in truth, and more so when truth is not gainful." Vol. 3. P. 7. A NOTABLE argument that there can be no impiety in sacrilege—or rather church robbery - because "Every thing being His (God's) it is as much his in the hands of one man, as in the hands of another; for let who will have the use of it, the property cannot be altered." 79. "I could name two great parties in England, who when they were out of power, seemed to place the sum of public spirit in entrenching upon the royal authority; and when they were in power, to know no other law but the prerogative royal." 86. "Old landmarks are never to be removed, without producing contests and law suits, which for the most part ruin both parties." 87. "No man of sense and fortune will venture the happiness he is in full possession of, for imagining visions, and throw the dice for his own estate." 93. He wondered "to hear some men of good understanding and unquestionable integrity apprehend any danger to the legal constitution of the Church, and cannot guess from what quarter they can fear it.” A fair political view of the Church Establishment. 94. A direct lie-that "Charles I. by violence destroyed the Presbyterian Establishment in Scotland." 95. He sees that the Presbyterians have taken a leaf out of the Pope's book, and claim the same independence of the Civil Power. 96. His opinion concerning the Test Act —just that of an irreligious man. 96. Presbyterians. The other sectaries who are already possessed of a free liberty of conscience, will never endeavour to put power in the hands of those who will be sure to take it away, as they did in New England, though they went there to get it for themselves. "So that the danger of settling Presbytery in England is a mere chimera. Where by the chance of a long civil war they were actually got in pos session of a power, which during the continuance of it (the war) they disclaimed, they could not hold it even for a few years." 98. If the clergy ceased to be Jacobites, "I dare boldly affirm that all religious distinctions will soon be at an end,-which are now kept up more by party animosities than any essential difference of opinion." 101. "I am so unfortunate as always to think, that a man who is a knave in his private dealings, will never be a saint in politics; and whoever does not do reasonable and just things in respect to his neighbours, relations, and acquaintances, whom he does know, will have little real concern for the titles of princes, whom he does not know." 107. "The starved crew who deal in revolutions are seldom conquerors in politics." 118. "The subjects which men understand least, are generally what they talk of most; and none so much as of government, which almost every man thinks he has talents to direct, and like Sancho, believes he can make a very good viceroy." 119. Power and property will go together-well shown. 125. An excellent view of the state in which the Restoration found the minds of all men. A Prince will always "get a parliament to his mind, upon a revolution, when parties run high, and will do any thing to mortify their opponents." 126. "There is no need of the caballing of different interests, the uniting joint councils, and concerting regular measures to bring about some of the greatest events in human affairs." | all things will lead to their proper center; and though men for some time will dally and play with their lesser interests, yet at last they will mechanically fall into their great ones, and often without intending or knowing it." 127. "Liberty may be better preserved by a well-poised monarchy than by any popular government I know now in the world, whatever forms may exist in the imagination. But whether this be true or not, it is certainly true, that no man in his wits will lose the benefit of a very good present establishment, and run infinite hazards to try to get one a little better.” 158. the " expence of conscience in swearing "- —an item in the price of certain things. 171. Whig versus poacher and free trade in cattle. 173. Yet he argues against companies, and reckons it an advantage that "mutual emulation and contention obliges private traders to sell often for little profit, and sometimes to loss, in expectation of better fortune at other times, but nothing of this is ever done by companies." The thing to be desired is a just price, always. 182. When the South Sea project was in its meridian, "I have heard some persons argue upon the reasonableness of thus having a monopoly of the trade of England, since they were possest of most of the property of England." And he shows that this could not have been prevented. 183. The East India Company, he says"if it could be carried on with its full swing, 'tis certain it would ease us of every penny of our money, and destroy every manufacture in the kingdom, as well as every man in it!!!" 207. "No men upon earth have been more servile, crouching, and abandoned creatures of power, than the Whigs sometimes have been." "The Tories are often Whigs without knowing it; and the Whigs are Tories without owning it." 209. On W. Penn's trial, one of the King's Council declared, that he now saw the wisdom, necessity, and equitableness of the Spanish inquisition, and thought it would never be well with the Church and monarchy till one was established here. 249. The existing laws against the abuse of the press he thought "very good laws, while prudently and honestly executed." 260. Great ill men-" an estate is some years' purchase less valuable that lies within the influence of such malignant constellations." 276. Effect of sound and action in rhetoric. 285. "I would not suggest so distant a thought as that any of our colonies should ever attempt to wean themselves from us; however I think too much care cannot be taken to prevent it, and to preserve their dependencies upon their mother country." 286. "Arbitrary countries have not been equally successful in planting colonies with free ones; and what they have done in that kind, has either been by force at a vast expence, or by departing from the nature of their government, and giving privileges to planters which were denied to their other subjects." Vol. 4. P. 113. LIES respecting Charles I. and Laud. 114. 115. You have now 66 as much liberty as mankind can under any government possess, a liberty which goes to the very borders of licentiousness." 233. Infections of the mind. 234. In the case of the French prophets. 240. Against charity schools. 249. Much of all this that then was false, is now, it may be feared, true. 256. Multitudes easily moved, and most easily by the worst men. 270. A pretty account of Christianity! reducing it to simple theism. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. it in afresh, repeating this operation till the Travels of the GRAND DUKE COSMO III. in fish is caught." P. 103. He speaks of wolves as common in Ireland, "for the hunting of which the dogs called mastiffs are in great request." Perhaps he supposed them to be more common than they were, hearing those dogs called wolf-dogs. 105. Roberts, Viceroy in Ireland, "being very hostile to their religion, the Catholics experienced additional severity and vigour from him." The Viceroy's profits were estimated at more than £40,000 a year, so that it is considered the most valuable appointment in the gift of the Kings of Europe. The Royal Treasury drew from Ireland about £300,000 a year. 111. Scilly Islands. "The more common buildings have a peculiar sort of covering by way of roof, having nothing but a simple mat spread over the rafters, drawn tight all round, and fixed firmly to the top of the walls. This they say is the sort of covering used very commonly in Bermuda, and it is necessary to renew it every year." 111. "Corn of late began to be scarce, in consequence of the increase of population, produced by the marriages of the soldiers of this garrison with the Islanders; but this has been remedied for some years past by forbidding them to marry." 145. "Their mode of angling here is very different from the common one; for where our fishermen hold the hook still for a long time in the same place, these keep it in continual motion, darting the line into the water like the lash of a whip, then drawing it along a few paces, they throw itt 180. St. Paul's. "One sees only an huge heap of stones, cemented together by the lead with which the church was covered." 196. The shores between London and Greenwich ornamented with abundance of villas. 197. It was said in London that more than 600,000 persons slept on the water there, which the journalist thought not improbable. 202. The inns in England abundantly provided with every thing that can be wanted. This at Bishop's Stortford the more so, as the landlady boasts of her relationship by blood to the Protector Cromwell. 214. The ceremony of touching for the evil performed every Friday. 357. The Sovereign "the greatest and most powerful ship in the navy, so much so that its swiftness is much impaired by its bulk and height, and consequently it is seldom used. It was built in 1637, by Charles I., at an incredible expence; for besides the vast size of the ship, which is 120 paces in length, it has cabins roofed with carved work, richly ornamented with gold, and the outside of the stern is decorated in a similar manner. The height of the stern is quite extraordinary, and it is hung with seven magnificent lanthorns, the principal one, which is more elevated than the rest, being capable of containing six people. The ship carries 106 pieces of brass cannon, and requires 1000 men for its equipment." 462. A man walking on the water, very much as has recently been done. |