Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . ied organ of his military councils, and the exaltedencourager by his presence of the confidence and the prowess ofhis legions. That such was the station in which Charles appearedduring nearly the whole of the war is well known to all historicalreaders; nor is it less notorious that, after its sad termination,when the authors of the rebellion had, according to the alm
Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . ied organ of his military councils, and the exaltedencourager by his presence of the confidence and the prowess ofhis legions. That such was the station in which Charles appearedduring nearly the whole of the war is well known to all historicalreaders; nor is it less notorious that, after its sad termination,when the authors of the rebellion had, according to the almostfatal progress of revolutions, given place to the wretched herd bywhich they were overpowered, he fell a captive into those baseand bloody bands, sold for money by his Scottish , thrown wholly on his own resources, his true characterat length shone forth in all the splendor of virtue, piety, perfectheroism, and akjioj^ wisdom. Such was the Prince who, throughthe ambition, the Wi^ly, or the malignity of a few of his subjects ;and the ignorance, the fanaticism, the groundless fears, or the lowinterests, of the rest, was consigned by the vilest of them to a vio-lent death, on the thirtieth of January, 1048. 25. i:i)\VAl;l) ) ol on. n;i«. FlUlM THE ORIGCNAL. XX THE <OUJ;fTlUX CJF EDWARD, FIRST LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY. vJf that anomaly of character by the abundance and variety ofwhich foreigners are pleased to tell us that our country is distin-guished we meet with few examples more striking than in thesubject of this memoir—wise and unsteady; prudent and care-less ; a philosopher, with ungovernable and ridiculous preju-dices ; a good-humoured man, who even sought occasions toshed the blood of his fellow-creatures; a deist, with superstitiontoo gross for the most secluded cloister. These observations arenot founded on the report of others, but on the fragment whichremains of his own sketch of his life, a piece of infinite curiosity,t
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