The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-03-23 00:00:00

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The second voltime of these instructive memoirs ftirnish abundant matter for reflection, and bring a number of sitirtear fact* to light, which, but for the author's researches, might hare long remained Im ried—those chronicles now either mouldering on the shelves of our libraries or enn.izeiell to oblivion. Oar notire must conelnde with a quotation from that part of the work which describes the plan adopted for sa• crilicing the Queen. It is a striking illustration of the R. y P"lieY of those dart. We ought to thank Heaven that we live in better times! The CHAIRMAN begged pardon for speaking while the gentlemen were addressing him ; hat said that Is• was about to make a communication to the Co., which had smile rela•inn to the interrogatories Otos putting. He begged to state that a bill was now be fore Parliament to alter the .9th of the late Kiag. The principal object of the alteration was this [link, in consequence chiefly of the Unforeseen MG eultien and ceinsequent delays which had arisen lit the proceedings under the commission for the better . pre vention of forgery, had thought it right to apply to government to 1,64 in a bill which would etiolate them, on the Ist May, ie the present year, to exam* any atminnt of their I/. notes which they thought pro per Gs: the gold coin of the realm. This, as the act of tLe 59:1s t.t . the King atom!, they were oaly em powered to do so On the hat May 1622. Bat It was their wish, principally for the reason he had asess• td here this up!itteai power on tiss lototaost. May. HARRIS', LETTERI4 FROM AMERIC.A. This Day was published. price is. la boards, RBMA RKS made durin g a TOUR through the • UNITED RTATES of AIF,RICA, in the Years :817, IEIB, and 1819; in a Series of Letters to Friends Zealand. Pt WILLIAM TELL IT 181118, of Liverpool. Lo : Printed for Sherwood, Neely, aad l ows, Pater aoster-row ; wboni way ws, be had. Itletuatsneti New !dap of the UNITIMSTATIML—Priee li. coloured. " At this period Henry was himself in a precarious state of health ; a circumstance that, far from sates-- inda.ussal the ferocity of his nature. His despotic will hod lao i r extended beyond ttse grave, and he de. sired, and eren expected. to legislate for posterity. That ',eery descended t:► the ,ne:►nnes of employing r.pisse and coospi rotors Against his once-beloved tiowen, mnst ►e inferred from hi% private communications with Lady arch ford, who, unsolicited, and n:santhori%ed, enfold lot have obtruded her real or pretended jealou sies on his attention. POHAW. (with 0 WOO Prier,. is. IN ( 4 IIAIN!4! By the Author ITICAL MUNE TIIAT JACK in; HAT. printed for Witlimn Hove. 43, Ledgate-bill. Just Published. by the same.tether, with Two Cuts, 6' Crnwniag" oat 66 Crushing." Price Tilt RIGGT er KING 4 TO fintißN WRONG, DP l'i.'llo4l to the linty Atlinnce. Fifth Edition. tlvu. (dedicated to Lord Castlereagh.) Tnt SPIRIT or rA/POTIfW, This work alflbonah containing es much in quantity as a volume of nibloon't Homan History. it published by W. ►Late for eighteen-pence, of THE - Mr. S?L'CIIIT wished to know whether it W2i p?o -liable the new plan of bank note which the Commis sioners were Pill:aged in culisiiii•ring would probably be complete:) by the time the new act was likely to 1 . 1 imp into operation ? If it were then co:npleted, he shim 141 think the issue of sovereigns on the Ist of May nest rather nnadrisable than uthertriie.—(A cry No.") •"l'o destroy the envied Anne Boleyn, thi• n!.ainloneil woman scropleil not to aernse her hushatol of is..rtiri• ration in a crime abhorrent to nature, and o f which it argil's delravity even to admit the suspicious : Ilenev perhaps considered as treasonable the frequent intrrvievrs of the bristlier anii sister, wish h. whether they referred to J3ll O Seymour, or the progress of re fonnatnin, egnally militated against his august isopre ne icyi. To attire the agency of fatly !Weldond was ingrains% hit not decisive; siiire her trstimotiy might be rehruted by that of other ladies of un 111.miebeel fame, who, with better opportnnities fur oh serving their mistress, hail not the same motives for Maiming her conduct. To curruhorate Lady Korb fmsl'a accusation, or nether to render such suspicions tremble, it was therefore necessary to fi.; on the 141111•C:1 the infamy of having illicit intercourse with certain prima's:ire* of the royal household. In the Court of the aespotic limirv, hi. snapecteil hostility was suffi cient to rare against the utifortnisate Anne a host of real fie.: by the Cohens.s she was conscientiously de tes.eil as flit fatal came of %Also' with the Rismish Chums : the old politicians, recollecting the tragical fate of I.:l'yard the Fifth, deprecated the evils of a disputed siteresslon: to the Protest:in:4 she was en deared .:s a friend and prieerness, lint that party pos. .essed little power, and, by its interest, was inibtred to conciliate the King's pleasure: and thus politiral feel iiiv.s volespired with baser passions to accelerate the fall of dune Boleyn. "'the conduct of the Qneen appears not to have fur / Mille.' any plausible grunts k for &Minting her rermta tiros. That after her elevation A: should have tem peal 'Relit, with affibility, was rather for praise' than t'or rimsva, She ileli4liteil to di:fuse cheerful ness eu all amnia her, but still more to aispense he orti• yore: within the last nine months she hail ex /waded the sum of fifteen thousand pounds on sari lies and other public and useful institutions. With all the pride of the Inman's, her ambition was of a higher east : %he aspired not alone to greatness, but to glory. list enthusiasm of party might have Limited Ler zeal for Protestantism ; hot it must have been the sympa thies of a getterons and amiable nature that prompted Ott munitiveme perpetually 11, , wifig in b,!tirfits to the people. The iinii,eretians attributed to her contiurt may he ref•rr..:l to the extreme fissility, and Giulio ss with which she avowed her sentiments to thiew w h om 'le ailitii!teil to her timiliar confidenee. I:nliappili s!, e appears to hare shown no repngtian..e to the flat tery sit her female friends, who in the fasl s i 000 Mil.• language of the slay, were ever ready to ascribe the homage : - .l' the younger courtiers to trailer sir romantic sentiments. 'I hat after her elevation she nominee:l to etilti‘ ate, o it% tnany il her own rex, an nitre-erred iii timoev. was certainly snore amiable than prudent and politic. - if hiss Deafer continites to treat the public with such is iii i;s as the one we thus imperfectly tam ice, she ',ill soon lw regarded as a powerful auxiliary to the cause of religion, morality and freedom. - - T:iis day was published. in vols.Rro. price IN. in boards. II new Edition, corrected, of /1111 E IJIVES of the most Eminent ENOLISII POETS; with Critical obserrathimi on their Works, S IMUEI. JOH \SON. L.L.D. Printed for F. C. and J. It!vingion ; W. Nicol and Soo ; J \r. nn; I'. Egerton; J. Cutii:4l; Seatchord and Letter u:se ; Lonamino, llitrAt, Rees. Orin.. nod Brown ; Cadet! sad Davies; W. and T. ClarLe ; lai!tincton and Co.; J. il•mkrr; W. Carpenter; C. Jeffery ; J. and A. Arch R:art, and Co. ; J. Booth; J. Richardson ; J. NI. Itietard e..,n; J. Murray ; J. Harding': Hateliaril and Son : It. 11. Evans; J. Mawnian ; It. Scholey ; Baldwin. i'ratiork and Jo) ; J. Asrterne; Sherwood. Neely and June: ; Roilwell Nlartin ; B. S3uwler4; E. Evans; Sinipsin and Mar ; W. Mason ; W. Mackie : J. Deighton and Hons. canabridxv; Wilson and Son, York ; and Fairborn sod tnderso3, Edinburgh. The ORA!!! MAN PPM the COltrt of Directors were SS anxious as any body of men ennui possibly be to have the ti-eat till:feet in which the Commissioners were rn caged consutumated—(llear) ; and they earne'ily ho,.eil that, throve:lt the labours Of the Ctimmissiiiittrs, some plan of note would ultimately be devised Which render extrentek ditscult. The Com missioners ha I to encounter -Teat difficulties its the pro gress of their labours; awl they were loisil) engaged in endeavouring to surtuount them. 1:e wished t.. avoid speaking ton strongly ; hut hc hop. n: that a plan would be flevisA which usittld render the forgery 011 Batik notes xener.slly threu;;li the country a task of great difficulty. In consetpt-nee of the unforeseen diffieultieswhich at ure!:..n• ar o se, the Directors thought the alteration in the fornier art would be perhaps the best means of swim; in the present emergency. Mr. I.' \.4 1N T•—" We are not, I presume, to under• stand fro n t viol, Mr. Chairturtn, that the directors have relimptished the idea, tiro the commissioners may yet sof-reed 111 a pl.tti for a consider.ible iiiiprovemcut of the Dank not,s THE CONVRRNION OFT,' c JEWS: OR OUR DUTY AND ENCOURAOENIENTTO PROMOTE IT. This day were published. price Vs. (1. 1 . TWO DISCOURSE& preached helOre the Uni tensity of Cambridge on the and 2iith of Et.- brim", Mil. Hy the Rev. C. RIMFON. M. 1. Fellow of Sine . % College. Cambilatre. Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand ; and W. Blaakwood, Edinburgh. Of whom may he had, by the same Antbor. I. MORA: 114,MILETICY: or. Discourses (in the Form of Skeletons) upon the Whole Scriptures. in II vols. Sec price lbs. 6d. in boards. 1. DELP, To coMPOSITION • Or. Five Ifundred Skeleton , : of Semen% Insdattidt 1e Niter,. 4 111.00/le's Nal/ ow the Compositions of a Sermon." A nen Etti Lion, inS tots. St o. price 11. Ns. Oil. in lwar,l%. :t. I. .r the 11.sv. stliv ; in I)i4- ,olirses. To which i. edited, " Christ Crueitlet!,•' n Senn, bto. price 3s. dd. The t•it .111tMAN replied, `1 most certainly not"— (Ilear, Ir•Lr): and in the turati time they hoped to di thini.h the evils of horgerics by the course he had already explained.-41Irar, bear.) 11r. rittualr concurred in the sati whiolt the l'heirmatt's ',eminent had dlffelect, and hergrell to know if it was IWitlitirti to issue the present notes in conjenetlan Oils the ls.me of sovereigns, ire eorilitt : 4 to the pr, visits!' in the new bill, on the lit of net Mr. F. s.ad his reason for ashitiz was th:s, that it the present 11. note were issued c onjointly the sover.igns on the hit of May nest, the great o!t -ject of the new fill wool.' not he atta:ned. Ile t h e t reftirml to the list af persons rhar.:e.l with otteril: forged wiles within the last tun vests. In I,lg, while the cotutrais•ion was actively employed in a 1031 for I.l.resenting forgcries, there were 4 1 1 flues-cr. , . 1 I Its2o there were 11W; and ee Jenetary, and op t ► tlie end of Fehrtmty of the protettt year. that is, sloe.. .he report had gone abroid that the Cormitiqi,ine• 4 uric unable to proete.l, there were in ihllSe 11tia moitos alone no !es* than 11 etterere. a number Nail to the whole amonnt he the rear 1819. lie (*imam tx, in iri iv to that part of the floe. Proprietor's statetio lit u herb related to the issue of onr.p,tnn motes conjointly with sovereigns after Cse I.t of May neat, izi.!, that though the Bank retained the power, yet the pre<eut iinptession waa 3 that when •lery coottor,ired uu the Is: of lay next exchanging tloir fil. , pottott notes f.r .o.i...creigng. it would nut he a-lviialde tr re-is-ne the present plan of one pout l icor which It :41 Leen so tixelt upon.—(llesr.) Various other ipte , tiot.s v.ere a.ked, and obsen•s ti us ttle by other prop:ietars io the course of the% ..ftor !!1 h tlte for, tiou of adj ,nrausent wias put, acid ca; tried 'ma:tit:ion-4y. Conn:rite ON A 7*. I ^ 7 . !•Tt . r.—This Committer t'leir •ii!l:lW% 410 inquiries on Friday anti Multday, un bath if wiii. h days there was a full ai r. !ii:aut e't Mr. fionela in the Chair. The first brim. of :lie inc. srigation. nam..ly, the extent and charac ter tit' the alleged distress, is still being exclusively pursue.' by the Committee. On Friday the exeinina iif Mr. Conver, a Member of the Committee, Wei resumed and concluded. Mr. Lake, of liap- C11.1.!e. Sittinghourne, hetet, was also examined um 'hat day. They severally confirmed their tetanus:if he statements of avtual produce, receipts, and aspen iiiture, for revers) years. Ou Monday the Coosatittes rsamined Mr. Rolwell, of Suffolk, and Mr. Capper, (:i Quaker). 4.1 Uri‘tol.)hest witnesses were pre pared with like statements in support of the evidence. her then rsamiard Mr. Ititthwell, late one of ti ilea ti:li , of the City of leteriun. His testintoey was adduced &tit the view of shooing the distress of t!,e farmer fr the ditikulties experienced by the trail ing iuterre. partizuLrly in the farming districts. The C Atter ordered variant; returns to be laid be ( ire them forthwith, respecting the gitantities au.b prices of a heat. dour, isc. purchased in Windsor, Eto L.% since 1:•14 to the p!event time) es far as the sail) cool.' lie made out. Un Friday %reek a singular oeenrernee tbult plat* IA Orrene.:k. Au ArAbian horse brou,dist thither is the Clydesdale, front Calcutta. oeraped.fruus tbe Ton-- tine sta:•le% and made its way to the gravina deck. to the west gamy. late which it phseged, aids ominous:4 and alighted at the batten, a toluenes of aeerlfr• feet. without any apparent descotapeenre. and alto gether soliert I After malting slew ganshula Nona the Itemise, steak bestows at 4. it • ...neg. by V* 44 psi with•Jetarcely les% rapidity OM ti bad 1114140 he deseept o .neirias rereednethd without Alit:laity tit the stables, aner its short but riluns ezzeraina. HANS.% RI/A PAR!.! INIENTARY Drlll.l.:s. THE Subscribers to the Pvit.t.sliEstr• v 1/I‘l3.traS are respectfully Inf need. that the Set4llld Volume ef the NEW lIHRIKS of this Work, which commences with the Accession of his present Nisiesty. is ready for delivery. It embraces the period from toe tali of Jae, to the 7th of september, Md, and, in addition to the Debates in both Boasts, contains n faithful ritort tlf the proceedings in the liouseef Lords no the Bill of Pains and Penalties against her Majesty. the corrected Sperchei of Comte!, a Pennine l'opy of the Nlieintes of %Melte.% de. de. from the coin mearement of this important State Prosecution to the bemmingmp of the Solicitor-lieneral on the 7th September. *** Ail communications for this Work. if forwarded to Mr. Wright.'No. ft. Panton-sipisre, or to Mr. T. V. Hansard. Petethorougli-court. Fleet-street. will be carefully attended 1..; but as an early publicar f the Procemlinto of earls r;ciaion is extremely desirable. it is respectfully requested Olt melt communications may be forwarded with as little &My as possible. Ile Third %Atone. which ail bring down the Proreed -111.!4 in Partinnient to the (lose of the last Session, will be criptitthoti iu I .pril. Loadon: Printed for Rotihrin. Crodoek. and Joy : J. Boiler; lontrutan, Burst. Bees. Orme. and Drown : J. NI. Ritiiat&olt Black. Welt:shun. and %Jon J. Balefitirti anti Ron: J. Ridgway and Sons: Jercry and bea; nonfat!' anti Martin; B. 11. Ebans ; Budd and alkin J. Booth ; and T. C. Mansard. . _ AMR!. INX. Nf. I•I.EMENT . %. STRAND. OF.NF.R.II. OFFICE. FOlt TRAVET.T.IXO. AIAILS and other COACHES co from thr strove Inn riu Dover Tuesday and Friday Niehts. At 'Or •i%C. ... Pnett.i.i.oll• viol (icipnrt Mail. through Ciadlimin2 '' Pe ' tersfietri. apt,! P.‘r!Nea, eyery Erening at a quarter past 7. cod s:itt.lay at hal: past ii. Ou its arrival a parkas sluts to i.o- !slew' Wight, to roa‘ey passengers and parcels; and a /Ifni' fee(" sets oT to Chichester, through Drayton, Havant. Vorsworih. /tr. Oinacester and Milford Mail, through Henley, Oxford. *4l ciwitenhari. every Evening a quarter past 79 and t hi n ' csv at hal:-past 0. %ter NT! Canterhary Mail. throngh Grareseart. Chat loam. and Fet embers. every evening at a quarter past 7. and ll 'lltsTai half past S. Front Canterbury. passengers and par arts are conveyed to Heil. Margate., itatnsgate. Saudwiel" dr.: mad (rem 1)ot er. parcels are conveyer! to Folkstone. Sandgate.l4th e . Isr•rhoreh, Romney. and 11,ydd. NORTHERN f'o.tellES. esshsic. Penrilli. and Whitehaven. Poat Coach. Roe' Int,h F our Horse s a:td a Getard all the way. Passel l'uroußs Broteh. Apple!.l, Gretahrldre, Rich;nond. ('atterlTk. Ho r rtithridp., IVetherhy, A ',error& I)oncaater. aid (Iran ? .la, (the nearest way by IS miles), sets out every 'arming. si'' Priforms the journey with the greatest facility. Pitill4"- Irr 4 t!etr load on the road. by hualnrsa or plashes, hare the p-i.lioar tilttintorre of their seats being sectored is the nest. Litll44l ""Prgn. Arundel. and Petworth roach, Tuesday, Tbursiley. and Saturday Mortdegs, at a gear's/ bufor• 7. erupt Sunday. Kt milli. Lancaster. Preston, Kirby, Lansdale. Wilton. r!loriev. o.snskirk. and Ovrstane. Post Coaches. every af term* at Five o'clock. Onard*d. ~ "dittoing. and Oititelford Teleersldt resell- *mama I,h a'"ltvloa. Diann. Cobham. and Ripley. oa Monday . '`''' '"''ls . and Friday Mornings. at O. and every Randay °Mtn at 7 precisely. and reams to Wadi* the are day. EARRIBRS. To Twisiesksnt. Breatford, add Isleworls. evert / 1 " - a r•Wsduaiday, Friday, and Sahll'asY. E.lMall rapt Co. Prisprislars. Pins k and Package, are safety aid' et;veditiorrAY." - , sd hers *is lan * rv o r y elt e , Tows, irdlaim 11•4 " It rOlid le the fallowitrg Ciamties.as.:—Oktrign• hacks. .seawall, Delo". Dorset. Mania.. a nim ism. tylougeldas• plig " ~- ?Illtst. Noutertes. Rarrer, Saaaat. Wits; l i rsffsgre, ll e, '"OdaltAnil m r,a.r lb. Ills or *Ws:- Joreey. 011 4 1 ' Y. our ao part• al ram* ; and to al Part& ot the !knit 8.1 NA I.IFE.VGLA ND. Yesterday it General Court of Proprietor , era• held at the Bank of Eng1.1:1:1, for the purpose of consiiicilop d•tidrnd. The Chairmln (C. l'of.r. rani—) announced t 4 the Court that the Directors of the Dank I.l.room:ended for their a•h►pti •n. the resoln•ion he held in his 1.1:111. whirl. was declaratory in the• usual form► of& dividend of :0 per rent. for the 1.: dlers of Dank %bark, for the 1:41f year ending. the sth of April and th a t th e Warr:tr:t• bar re..eiviitr it s!►•rul•l he rea:lt• for del.tery at the Bank on Friday the tith April. liefore the que4tion was lent — Mr. D. teuxonv (of Rich:stood) rose, an•l incysieed whether the Deputy Governor irs:l received a nastier which he had adalrea , seil to thew in date form three !!!!! n:ha the tune required by law, railing aspen them to I krisibier an ac •apittst of ti►.• ;profits ari..ing out of sill the coneerns of the Bank, after deducting of coarse the expenses of manazentent. he UN 7.4 earl he 144 , 1 received a letter snch if tiro alitvle.l to hr the Hots. Proprietor. 'goring-ashen by Mr. 4; N toRY to produce sal rrad hat letter, The Ci!AIRMAN rompli..4l. After the letter tV4S re 2:14 1;1:7•: auy tirsirrit to kno w w heth e r thew count was fartheumin r. Ihr Chairman replied, that the Court of Directors had, with reepe.-t t.t this re , in i.ition, merely to consult the wishes of the Coast of Proprietors. It was purely for the Litter to sir if Mr. liundry's request shonlil be complied with. Mr. onnflry deeesPd the Art of the Ist a Queen Anne, e. 7. section 62, rendered the Recount imperative. A tong and warm debate ensued, iti which the Clsairnsso sail Mr. titto.lry were the principal speakers, when the err of ...testiun" becoming loml. the re:Anion re cuusturtried by the Court of Directors Ga. the MU yearly dividend was pet, sod nnonisowsly corritd. Se erase proprietors rose at the suseortiute tointreith r eppecisw the pruner:line of the cositaietiset far L brtter prevention of forgeries. ANNE DOLtilS AND HENRY We bare long wished la lay • few extract! front the memoirs recently published by Hiss Benger, be fore oar readers, and hare td congratulate them on a most valuable acquisition to our biographical liters ture, in which we hare hitherto been co much stir passed by our opposite neighbours. As the style and wanner of the author speak abundantly for them selves, we shall only observe, that site is entitled to more than ordinary praise fur the liberality of her po litical sentiments, which carry a dunble weight when they proceed frosts a female pen. As we do net pnt f. I to oiler a regular critique, for our titbits will not admit of one, our readers usual he content with a few specimens taken at random from the rotators before as. In concluding her account of the state of Est;land muter the Tartars and daring Henry's reign, the fair author observes: "After the revival of letters the clergy, whatever state they assumed in their stalls, or chapters, were no longer omnipotent in the minds of the people. The beneficent invention of printing dissettainated that knowledge hitherto ingro-sed by the great and the privileged. With this powerful agent was the dor mant energy of than to he awakened ; by this mental collision was to he eseited that ininintabie principle of resistance to tyranny and oppression, which can alone form the character of a generous and ma people. Over the pleinents of the Reformation, it hicb emanated from Wickliffe, persecution 16 6.1 vainly eTer cised its repelling power : there resided in thom an im mortal essence, a spirit impenetrable to violence, inca pable of annihilation. Ity the ageucy of a poor de spised monk they were soon to le- resnyeitateil, to as gnote a uothcr Anil more glorious form of to develope new atrl powerful eiter2ies of !Inman ac tion, and elicit a constantly prore,s:ve principle of moral and religious improvement. " From a cursory glance of fletirv'4 rci:n, it wit: he evident that those flays of ignorance and de‘potison were pregnant with venality, perfidy. and en. roption and, with the enception of More, l'obo, and Crammer. we shall I mk in vain among his courtiers fur examples of disintereoeilties., I :sr, and pr. h:tv. Without referring to the records of conventual visitation, with out appealing to the contempt almost oniversally avowed fur estungstie Droste*. or glancing at the so.- picions reputations of their frail sister-, it may be re marked, that gamine amt other profligate t i.. had in fected both the court and the city, that the gro•se‘t immorality preraile4l in the country, and that. t:roe rally apeakiog, t he. age of Henry tea• a• li!tie favour able to female modesty as to manly patriotism, and equally adverse he liberty and virtue. trorP4 paver morals ani more slerorons manners. The example of sir 1 !soma." Store's (molly w.i• then uu han k er •ingn %sr female atoll ceased to be r.m.e o lion le 'ra tite !wean'e tlo lo.olge of a s'l critic stati.os tl.e pro• re.'s of I 61% r.spi'lly accelerated, and in little more than the retolution of half a century. those citizens oho IsAll been arritstomed to wither, with tratoyorts the multim..re pa routs anti reur• 'laments, were eapah!e of r;lisloug dratoatie enmposi tiling ; and, without attending other hook of rlse• tissie aml than the the.ttres at Ilankside and 81.'0:friars, insensible relined their i:leas, an,i fornseil their taste by the immortal au-pi,:e of Ire next come to the character of ilvorc'c f.sroorite : it will he for the rea 1.. r ti) 4 4V. W i .lerlier l irCA:i AnV loeto ern 11141 cr sity ttitt.s.oan and those of wore modern •` Of Wo'secy, in coonnan with many other eminent personages. it might be observed, that Le ptsssessed every qnality, V.Oti or had, that con.lucts to fortune o unenterprising spirit he skilled intlefitigable per%r mance : with the graces of eloquence lie united es. quisite flexibility and address, and all those aptitudes to dissimulation so necessAry to the finished courtier. Cocked:Nl by the sense of rectstwle, his un conquerable ambition usurped the place of social svta- Nobles and moral feelings. His most perminent sen timent was pride. yet could he stoop to rise, and eared little by what means he achieved his favourite object. In Isis intercourse with the world he had learnt to adapt hin s-If to men of various Imams:a promo silks: to be serious with the grave, and eittinvial ' with the gay t anal whilst his native arrogance No onan—l the expression of laterality, or disinterestedness. or diznlty, vindictive passions lorked in his beat, and he knew not to forgive a Wien foe, and in tl:e' most brilliant nsonients of his life remained incapable of that inagnaninsity which confers on man the no blest trinusph. Hitherto it had hero his hosiness In coreiliate esteem, and inspire confidence; and saris was his address, or his discretion, that his exaltation excited neither envy nor distrust even in the Bishop of Winchester. his original patron and Isenefictor. Wolsey was still the really Min. the person it !111, of all others, was found adequate to rver exigency, and whose promptitude and self-possession were never sus pended. These useful qualities rendered bias a most acceptable auxiliary to the king's entinsellor-. when ever they hail to propound diffi •ult questions, or to confer with him on those dry oth .details to which he lent no willing ear. Ott these ocem.isuis lsappy were the courtiers in delegate to the pliant, bertiims almoner, the task of com:nusicuting with their imva. tient sovereign but it euttl.l nut lung eneepe :he pene tration of Henry, how eminently superior wAs the pour depeouleut ill his great awl twill. , employers. Whilst the almoner alfrete.l to stiganstitr all treas.(' official sulsjects as unsuitable to the youthisti loinsl, hr nsinistered to the vanity, and arthilly intsanel the ain hition, of his too snseeptible companion. On what ever theme he expatatted, persuasion dwelt no hit lip.; thory tasted iu his conversation a degree of ph-:a sure be experienced from no other y : thos, by slow and impereertilde gradations. the ba,e-ttssrit pr i es t seirtireA and assumed supressonev overt hus-e to whops be bat originally bowed with eibjael seeciliep, 41111 per twavis of the higher task no longer oh* hit mediation, or to cuniratc Isis :*riete.s%ip."