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My House fhou'd worthier Entertainment

know,

Approv'd by Virtue every Thought fhou'd flow;
Not Virtue dreft to fright you from her Arms,
But all inviting, in gay Pleafure's Charms,
That not forbids, unbending to the Soul,
The Glass to sparkle, or to fwell the Bowl;
The temperate Jeft with focial Freedom
crown'd,

The Soothing Song, or Muficks charming
Sound,

With juft Restraint to please each Sense allows,
And only bids us what is Pain refuse.

To fill my Joysjand crown the Sweets of Life,
Grant me, kind Heaven, a fair and virtuous
Wife,

Like dear Amanda, who to blooming Youth, And brightest Beauty adds engaging Truth; Witty, good-natur'd, ever prompt to please, = To think with Judgment, and converse with Eafe ;

Me fhe fhou'd love, with as fincere Defire,
As Angels feel and heavenly Forms infpire;
So pleas'd to please, and to diffent fo loth,
One Soul fhou'd feem to animate us both;
With her converfing every Care wou'd fly,
And Life be more than Life when she was by.
If Heaven fo deign'd, to crown the Nuptial
Joys,

A Brace of beauteous Girls and lovely Boys
Should smile around, and in each Infant Face,
More foft, more bright, bloom the Parental

Grace;

Nor than their Faces, be their Minds lefs fair,
These to adorn how pleafing is the Care;
To teach how dear, delighting is the Task,
When Infant Innocence and Nature ask ;
To fee the greatful Soil not vain impreft,
And Virtue ripen in the youthful Breast;
What Joy to view it, open all humane
Delight to blefs and melt at others Pain,
Benevolent and kind; thus let me live,
And ever grateful thus thy Gifts receive;
All bounteous God! nor for myself alone
Let me thus live, but to the Poor well known,
Be my large Stores; for them fhou'd freely
bleed

The fatted Ox, and fpring the bearded Seed; Their Loyns fhou'd blefs me for the warming Fleece,

Their pleaded Caufe, their Property and

Peace:

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CRAFTSMAN, Feb. 26.

The Character of the late Lord Chancellor TALBOT.

He was a Man, take him for all in all, I ne'er fhall look upon bis Like again. Shakespeare.

HERE is no Duty more in

cumbent upon publick Writers, who have any Regard for the Good of their Country, than paying a juft Tribute of Praise to the Memory of great Men, who have diftinguifhed themfelves by eminent Abilities and Integrity, in their respective Stations. I have always endeavoured to avoid any Partiality of this Kind; and as the late Lord HENSOL dy'd poffefs'd of the higheft Character, both as a Lawyer and a Patriot, I should think myfelf inexcufable to pafs it over, without fome particular Notice.

The Chancellorship of Great Bri tain is an Office of fo much Weight and Power, that it is impoffible to do Juftice to the Memory of the noble Peer deceafed, without a little Explanation of the Truft repofed in him.

A Lord High Chancellor of this Kingdom is to be confider'd in two Lights; that is, in his judicial and political Capacity; or as the dernier Refort of Justice, excepting the Houfe of Lords, and Keeper of the Great Seal.

In the firft Capacity, when we reflect on the vaft Extenfion of his Jurifdiction, the Properties of all the People in England are, in a great Meafure, in his Power; and confidering the Variety of Causes that come before him, with the Artificés employ'd by Perfons concern'd on both Sides, it requires not only the most uncorrupted Probity, but confummate Abilities, Penetration and Difcernment; especially when it is farther confider'd, that the Court of Chancery is the only Civil Court in England,

frictly

Occafions, as could not be fhaken by the Tricks of the Wealthy, the Ap plications of the Powerful, or the Tears of the Diftrefs'd. His only Aim was Right and Equity, which he rightly pursued, on whomfoever the Weight of his Decrees might hap

ftrictly speaking, which is entrufted
with the Determination of Property,
without a Jury; for as to the Houfe
of Lords, to which only an Appeal
lies from the Chancellor, all the Peers
having a Vote, They may be proper-
ly call'd a fury; and I can never
look upon the Commiffioners of Ex-pen to fall.
cife as a Court of Justice, tho' they
begin to have as much Bufiuefs as
any, and perhaps will foon have

more.

The Lord Chancellor, as Keeper of the Great Seal, is not only the fecond Perfon in the Kingdom, next to the Royal Family, but hath, or ought to have, a great Influence at the Council Table, upon all important Deliberations; and no Grant, Patent, or Treaty, can be made without his Sanction.

In both thefe Refpects he is call'd in Law, the Keeper of the King's Confcience; and Nobody ever difcharged that high Truft with more Capacity and Uprightnefs than the late excellent Peer, whofe Death we now lament. His Determinations, with Regard to private Property, met with almost univerfal Approbation; and I do not remember that he ever put the Seal to any Grant, Patent, or Treaty, which gave a juft Offence to the Nation.

He 'rofe by Merit to the Head of bis Profeffion, and not only fupported himfelf in it with Dignity, but adorn'd it, and acquir'd every Day new Praife and Eficem.

He was a great Enemy to the Chicanry of his Profeffion, and render'd the Courfe of Justice more ealy, as well as lefs expenfive, by preventing all unneceffary Delays, especially when they appreared to be meerly vexatious, and discountenancing the Artifices of thofe, who endeavoured to keep off the evil Day from themfelves, at the Expence of their inju red Profecutors. I could give fome late notable Inftances of this, if particular Circumftances were proper in a general Character.

In a Word, he poffefs'd all the great Talents and Qualifications of his most renowned Predeceffors, without any of their Frailties, and hath left a noble Example to all his Succeffors; fo that he was not only a Blefling to the Age in which he lived, but may poffibly derive the fame Happiness to his Pofterity, by exciting those who follow him in that high Office, to an Emulation of his Virtues.

The great Increase of Bufinefs in the Court of Chancery, fince the Seal was put into his Hands, is an evident Proof of that Confidence, which the Suitors repofed in him, and will do immortal Honour to his Memory, though it proved fatal to his Life, for the conftant Fatigue of his Em

His Prudence, Moderation, and Patience, in the Execution of his Office, even amidst the higheft Pro-ployment, was one of the principal vocations, make one thining Part of his Character, and are hardly to be parallell'd by any Inftances of thofe, who have fat before him upon that Bench.

Yet, notwithstanding this amiable Difpolition of Mind, he difcover'd fuch Courage and Refolution, upon all

Caufes of his Death ; and therefore he may be truly faid to have fall'n a Martyr to the publick Good.

Whether he met with any other Shocks from the prefent unhappy Situ ation of Affairs, and the View of future Evils, which he had not Authority enough to prevent, as much as

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it was in his Inclination, I cannot pretend to fay; nor, if I could, would it be proper.

But I must not forget to mention, that he had no ridiculous or wicked Attachment to any Party, befides that of his Country; and feem'd refolved to contribute all in his Power towards reftoring it to a flourishing Condition.

Under the Influence of fuch a Man, we had Reason to hope for a compleat Coalition of Parties; or, at least, for a Re-union of all fuch as wifh well to their King and their Country; which neither weak, nor wicked and corrupt Men, will ever have it in their Power to accomplish.

I fhall leave the Display of his private Virtues to thofe, who had the Honour of his Acquaintance, and will only obferve, that no Man ever left a more general good Character, as a Chriftian, a Father, a Mafter, and a Friend, than the late Lord Chancellor.

He dy'd full of Glory; but, to the great Misfortune of his Country, not full of Years; and the general Sorrow which his Death has occafion'd, will do his Family more Honour, than the highest Titles, or the moft fumptuotis Monument.

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He is a fignal Inftance, that real Worth and Integrity will not go unrewarded, even in this degenerate Age, as far as the Affections, and almoft the Veneration of the People, may be look'd upon as any Reward. Whig and Tory, Court and Country, Men of all Parties and Perfuafions, (except the known Enemies to our Conftitution both in Church and State) unite upon this Occafion, and vie with each other who fhall do most Juftice to the Memory of fo extraordinary a Perfon.

To conclude: There are fo many · great and virtuous Qualities requifite to conftitute a good Judge of any

Kind, and efpecially a Lord Chancellor, that as the utmost Care ought to be taken in the Choice of them, fo their Death may be efteemed a publick Misfortune. For this Reafon, the Death of the late Lord Henfol is generally look'd upon as one of the greatest Loffes, which this Nation hath fuftained for many Years; and it would be almoft irreparable, were it not for one illuftrious Perfon, who hath already fill'd the highest Station of the Law with great Sufficiency, and is now call'd up to the Chancery, by his Majefty's Favour, in Concur rence with the general Voice of the Nation.

The following Letter from Paris is inferted here as a Sort of Contraft to the Character of the late Lord Henfol.

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R. Chauvelin was Vice-Chan

Mcellor, as well as Keeper of

the Seals, of which Employment the King deprived him by an Arret of Council, and the Arret has fince been enregifter'd in Parlia ment. All the World now cries *Haro against that Man, and he is regretted by Nobody but the Prin cefs de Gn, who got him put into that high Employment, Prince de Cher Hufband owed a bout Six Millions (Livres) in Paris; his Creditors purfu'd him in order to obtain Payment; and the Affair came at laft before the Privy Council, the Abbe Dompon being nade Reporter of the Procefs. The Abbe in the Interim receiv'd an Order from M. Chavelin, (now made Keeper of the Seals) not to make a Report, but he being a Man of Integrity, and of the Blood of the

Haro, fignifies the Hue and Cry, and every Thing that is even more defamatory. Arnaud,

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Arnauds, refufed to obey the Order; C upon which, Chauvelin immediate< ly iffued an Order of Council for ftopping all further pursuit either against the Prince de C -n, or

his Effects.

Grobois is a very fine Eftate, with a moft magnificent Houfe on it, within four Leagues of Paris: It formerly belonged to Sir Samuel Bernard, the Court's Banker; but HOW to Chauvelin, to whom Sir Samuel alfo lent Six Hundred Thoufand Livres, to pay the Expences of the Brevets of Vice-Chancellor, and C Secretary of State for Foreign Af

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markable that when the Marshal returned from Italy, he addressed himself to Chauvelin in the following Terms the firft Time he met "Wherever I have been I

him. "have every where found in my you "Way, and now, by G-d, Sir, "here you fhall find me."

This Picture of a Keeper of the Seals of France cannot be better placed, than Side by Side with that of his Cotemporary, the late Lord High Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal of Great Britain.

As we have been talking of Mininifters, we fhall make a natural Tranfition to Kings, and take fome Notice of the Murder of KingCharles I. which we had not an Opportunity of doing in our last Register.

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DAILY POST, Jan. 31.

HE Murder of the Royal Mar

tyr having intail'd an annual Humiliation on England, and branded her with the most infamous Mark that ever was fix'd upon any Nation in the Univerfe fince the Murder of the Son of God himself, I beg leave to offer a few Words upon fo mournful an Occafion.

Sir Samuel's two Sons owed about Four Millions of Livres to feveral Perfons in Paris; and the Father made a Prefent of Großbois to Chauvelin, along with the Debt of 600,000 Livres, in Confideration of an Arret of Council, which he gave them, forcing the Creditors to accept of the 4th Part of their Demand, in full Payment for the Whole. By fuch Means did Chauvelin get Grofbois, and by feveral < more, like them, has he amaffed C. vaft Riches from a very middling Beginning, and acquir'd the Cha- We deteft the Jews for the Cruciracter of the most uiijuft and corrupt fixion of our Saviour, and for that Keeper of the Seals that ever liv'd. Crime they are abhorr'd, even by As to his Character as a Minifter, Turks and Pagans; but would to God it is what we fhall every Day have we had as good an Excufe for the better Lights into; but it is bad Murder of our King, as they had enough already. When the French for the cruel Death to which they put Embaffadour at Madrid had his Jefus Chrift! Our Saviour himself ftrong Box taken away from him, upon the Crofs gave them an advanthe Letters that were in it fell into tageous Certificate, when he pray'd a certain Gentleman's Hands, who to his Father to forgive thein becaufe immediately fent them to the Em- they knew not what they did. But, peror, and his Imperial Majefty as Sir, what Excufe, what Certificate quickly fent Copies of them to the of their Ignorance have the Murderers Marthal Duke de Noailles. As foon of King Charles the First to produce, as the Marshal received them, he in Mitigation of a Crime, the Infa communicated them to the Cardinal my of which will ftick upon us as de Fleury; and what has followed long as Monarchical Government fubfince, every Body knows. It is re-fifts in the Work? Alas! they have

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none ; not the leaft alleviating Circumftance of Ignorance to fly to for Refuge: They knew what they did; they knew that the Victim of all their Animofity, Infolence, Rage and Fury, was their natural and lawful Sovereign and King, to whom they ow'd Fidelity and Obedience, both by the Laws of God and the Laws of the Kingdom: They knew that it was the Sacred Head of their Liege Lord, the Head of the Almighty's Anointed, and Vicegerent over them that they ftruck off in the Face of all Mankind by the Ax of the Hangman, under the as prepofterous as wicked Pretence of Treafon and Rebellion against the People. This is the Difference in Guilt between them and the Jews: The English Rebels and Regicides knew what they did, but the unhappy and much more excufable Jews did not. To aggravate their Crime, and add Wickedness to Wickedness, they fer a Price upon the Head of the Son after having murder'd his Father; and to deprive him of his Kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland*, which both declar'd for him, they carried War and Destruction into thofe Countries, after having ravag'd their own, and entirely fupprefs'd and ruin'd the loyal Party in it. They left nothing undone, no Villany unperpetrated to root the Royal Family out of these Nations, and overturn the Conftitution both in Church and State, which, for a while, they did compleatly. Nay, the Noble Hiftorian tells us in his Hiftory of the Rebellion, if I re. member right, that it was under Con

In the Year 1648 the Irish Rebels made Peace with the Marquefs of Ormond, the King's Lieutenant in that Kingdom, and then all the Irish join'd the King's Standards with fuch formidable Numbers, that Lord Clarendon fays it was not only under Debate, but once refolv'd upon, that the King (Charles II.) should go in Perfon and head them.

fideration in a Council of Cromwell's General Officers to extirpate all the Loyalifts in the Kingdom: Such were the profligate Rebels and King-Murderers that became afterwards the Progenitors of Gentlemen, Efquires Kts and Prs of Id with their Thoufands and their Ten Thoufands a Year, the Reward of their infamous Actions. If we view the Royal Martyr conducted by a Band of thofe Cut-Throats thro' the Park from St. James's Houfe to Whitehall like a Malefactor; if we fee them furrounding his Scaffold to keep off the Afliftance of his Friends, can we look with Common Senfe for the Fathers and Grandfathers of I— L-cis among thofe Mifcreants? And yet the Thing is Fact, too notorious to be deny'd. God Almighty fays he vifits the Sins of the Fathers upon the Children, to the third and fourth Genera tion; but we, contrary to the Froceedings and Juftice of God nimfeif, have rewarded the Murder of our King to the third Generation of those that committed it. They enjoy fome of the finest and greatest Eftates in the whole British Empire; they wanton in Plenty, while the Defcendants of the loyal Party in Britain are struggling with, a heavy Load of Taxes, of which the youngest Man living is not like to fee an End: Taxes, the original Source of which began in the Murder of King Charles the First. Thofe Men, every one of whom deferv'd a thoufand Deaths, had it been poffible to inflict them, who in the Beginning of the Rebellion were but the very Refufe and Scum of England became poffefs'd, after the Reduction of I

-d by Cromwell, of very fine Eftates which that Traitor, Rebel and Ufurper, gave them until their Arrears fhould be paid, but never defign they fhould hold them longer : But at the Reftoration, England very wifely let them continue their Poffel

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