could trust with such a secret."-Swift. "What could he do more to a mortal enemy?'

P. 772. Burnet. "The King of France thought himself tied by no peace, but that when he suspected his neighbours were intending to make war upon him, he might, upon such a suspicion, begin a war upon his part."-Swift. "The common maxim of princes."

P. 782. Burnet. "The morning the Prince of Orange embarked for England, he took God to witness that he went to that country with no other intentions but those he had set out in his declaration."-Swift. "Then he was perjured; for he designed to get the crown, which he denied in the declaration.'

P. 783. Burnet. After describing the storm which put back the Prince of Orange's fleet, he observes, "In France and England they triumphed, believing it to be a miracle; we, on the contrary, looked upon it as a mark of God's great care, to be delivered out of so great a storm." Swift. "Then still it

must be a miracle."

P. 785. Burnet. "When matters were coming to a crisis at the Revolution, an order was sent to the Bishop of Winchester to put the President of Magdalen College again into possession, but when the court heard the prince's fleet was blown back, the order was countermanded."— Swift. "The Bishop of Winchester assured me otherwise."

Ibid. Burnet. "And now the court thought it necessary, as an after-game, to offer some satisfaction on the point of the legitimacy of the Prince of Wales."-Swift. "And this was the proper time."

P. 786. "The Princess Anne was not present at the queen's delivery; she excused herself, thinking she was breeding, and all motion was forbidden her; but none believed this to be the true reason."-Swift.

"I have reason to believe this to be true of the Princess Anne."

P. 790. Burnet. "The Prince of Orange's army staid a week at Exeter before any of the gentlemen of the county came in to us. Every day some person of condition came to us from other parts. The first were, the Lord Colchester, the eldest son of the Earl of Powis, and the Lord Wharton."-Swift. "Famous for his cowardice in the rebellion."

P. 791. Burnet. "Soon after that, Prince George, the Duke of Ormond, and the Lord Drumlanerick, the Duke of Queensberry's eldest son, left King James and came over to the prince."-Swift. "Yet how has he been rewarded for this?"

P. 792. Burnet. "In a little while, a small army was formed about the Princess Anne, who chose to be commanded by the Bishop of London, of which he too easily accepted."-Swift. "And why should he not?"

Ibid. Burnet. "A foolish ballad was made about this time, treating the Papists, and chiefly the Irish, in a very ridiculous manner, which had a burthen, said to be Irish words, 'Lero, Lero, Lillibulero,' that made an impression on the army that cannot well be imagined by those who saw it not."-Swift. "They are not Irish words, but better than Scotch." "'*

P. 796. Burnet, speaking of King James's first attempt to leave the kingdom, says, "With this his reign ended; for it was a plain desertion of his people, and exposing the nation to the pillage of an army which he had ordered the Earl of Feversham

*The common tradition is, that Lillibulero and Bullen a lah were the sign and counter-sign fixed upon by the Irish Papists, previous to the great massacre of the Protestants.

to disband."-Swift. "An abominable assertion, and false consequences.'

P. 797. Burnet. "The incident of the King's being retaken at Feversham, gave rise to the party of Jacobites; for, if he had got clear away, he would not have had a party left; all would have agreed it was a desertion, and therefore the nation was free, and at liberty to secure itself; but what followed upon this gave them a colour to say, 'he was forced. away, and driven out.'"-Swift. -Swift. "So he most certainly was, both now and afterwards."

P. 798. Burnet. "Jefferies, finding the king was gone, saw what reason he had to look to himself, and apprehending that he was now exposed to the rage of the people, whom he had provoked with a particular brutality, he had disguised himself to make his escape; but he fell into the hands of some who knew him, and was insulted by them with as much scorn and rudeness as they could invent. After many hours tossing him about, he was carried to the lord mayor, whom they charged to commit him to the Tower, which the Lord Lucas had then seized, and in it had declared for the prince. The lord mayor was so struck with the terror of this rude populace, and with the disgrace of a man who had made all people tremble before him, that he fell into fits upon it, of which he died soon after."-Swift. "When Jefferies was committed to the Tower, he took to drinking strong liquors, which he occasionally did when in power, but now increased his habit most inordinately, with a view to put an end to his life, which it soon did."*

P. 799. Burnet. "When I had the first account of

* It is said that he received a present of a barrel of oysters, on which he thanked God he had still some friends left; but on opening the barrel, it was found to contain a halter.

King James's flight, I was affected with this dismal reverse of the fortune of a great prince more than I think fit to express."-Swift. "Or than I will believe."

P. 800. Burnet, speaking of the dilemma the Prince of Orange was in about the king, upon his being brought from Feversham, says, "It was thought necessary to stick to the point of the king's deserting his people, and not to give up that, by entering into any treaty with him."-Swift. "Base and villainous!"

P. 803. Burnet. "Now that the prince was come, all the bodies about the town came to welcome him. The bishops came the next day, (the Archbishop of Canterbury excepted.) The clergy of London came. next. The city and a great many other bodies came likewise, and expressed a great deal of joy for the deliverance wrought for them by the prince's means. Old Serjeant Maynard came with the men of the law. He was then near ninety, and yet he said the liveliest thing that was heard of on that occasion. The prince took notice of his great age, and said, 'that he had outlived all the men of the law of his time' he answered, he had like to have outlived the law itself, if his highness had not come over.'". Swift. "Maynard was an old rogue, for all that."

P. 805. Burnet, speaking of the first effects of the Revolution upon the Presbyterians in Scotland, says, They broke in upon the Episcopal clergy with great violence and much cruelty; they tore their gowns, and drove them from their churches and houses."-Swift. "To reward them for which, King William abolished Episcopacy."

Ibid. Burnet. "The Episcopal party in Scotland saw themselves under a great cloud, so they resolved all to adhere to the Earl of Dundee, who had served some years in Holland, and was a man of good

parts, and some valuable virtues; but was proud and ambitious, and had taken a violent hatred to the whole Presbyterian party."-Swift. “He was the best man in Scotland.'

P. 807. Burnet. "Those who were employed by Tyrconnel to deceive the prince, made an application to Sir William Temple, who had a long and established credit with him."-Swift. "A lie of a Scot; for Sir William Temple, to my knowledge, did not know Tyrconnel." *

P. 811. Burnet, speaking of the various opinions then agitated relative to the settlement of the state -"Some were of opinion that King James had, by his ill administration of the government, brought himself into an incapacity of holding the exercise of the sovereign authority any more in his own hand; but, as in the case of lunatics, the right still remained in him, only the guardianship, or the exercise of it, was to be lodged with a prince-regent; so that the right of sovereignty should be owned to remain still in the king, and that the exercise of it should be vested in the Prince of Orange, as prince-regent." -Swift. "A regency certainly was by much the best expedient."

Ibid. Burnet. "The third party was made up of those who thought there was an original contract between the king and the people of England, by which the kings were bound to defend their people, and govern them according to law; in lieu of which, the people were bound to obey and serve the king."

* It may be remarked, in vindication of Burnet, that he does not pretend the application was made by Tyrconnel himself to Sir William Temple, but by his agents, and the "long and established credit," mentioned in the latter part of the sentence, seems stated to have existed, not between Tyrconnel and Temple, but between Temple and the prince. The mode of expression is, however, an example of Burnet's extreme inaccuracy in composition.