Wales acknowledged his power, and sought his al-
liance. The rest of his life was tranquil. He con-
tinued to prosecute all his plans for the improvement
of his shipping and the defence and education of his
kingdom. His reputation increased with his life. All
sought his friendship, and none in vain. He gave
land and money to those who desired them, and his
personal friendship to those who aspired to it. All
experienced that love, vigilance and protection, with
which the king defended himself and those attached
to him. 69
But at last the progress of human destiny
deprived the world of its then most beneficent lu-
minary. After a life of the most active utility, he
was taken from the world, on the 26th day of October,
in the year 900, or 901.70 His great character has
been praised by many", but, by none more than it
has merited. Its best panegyric will be an impartial
consideration of it, under three divisions, of his intel-
lectual, moral, and political exertions.

69 Asser, 50.

70 The year of his death is variously given. Matt. West. 350.; Ing. 28.; and Rad. Dic. 452.; place it in 900. The Sax. Chron. 99.; Malms. 46.; Mailros, 146.; Florence, 336.; Petrib. Ch. 2.; affix it to the year 901. So Hen. Silgrave, MSS. Cleop. A. 12. and others.

71 Alfred has been highly extolled by foreigners. The following extracts show the opinions of a Frenchman and German on his character: — Je ne sçais s'il y a jamais eu sur la terre un homme plus digne des respects de la posterité qu' Alfred le grand, qui rendit ces services à sa patrie, supposé que tout ce qu'on raconte de lui soit veritable.-Voltaire, Essai sur les Mœurs, vol. xvi. c. 26. p. 473. ed. 1785.

"But as the greatest minds display themselves in the most turbulent storms on the call of necessity, so England has to boast, among others, her Alfred; a pattern for kings in a time of extremity, a bright star in the history of mankind. Living a century after Charlemagne, he was, perhaps, a greater man in a circle happily more limited." Herder's Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man, p. 547, 548. The celebrated Mirabeau, in a Discours Préliminaire, published under his name, to a translation of Mrs. Macaulay's History, draws with a liberality that does him credit, a parallel between Alfred and Charlemagne, and gives the superiority to the Anglo-Saxon.

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