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. . An d 1)1 k,', a volunteer :n the einellitidti dhoti nnilertillfeu fut the resisaation.of Duo . Antersid : tis the tlirboe of that king dom- The deeree of 'lsiger whkh Elizabeth was prove :0 by t hi• vet ravagont, step, and he hivdisobedience to a previous snalmonsinray be hi":4inferred from. the letter by which she cornmanited his i us , ant return ee " 'EAt:M,s , -'iotir - sudden , , and •-undutiful departure from nor preserice,aod your place of attendance, you may easily e as eeelei", how eitreoSive'i: is, atel'onght : to be, unto is.. Our greas Woos.) Itesiowed !spun you, wit hoot deserts, bath drawn You tints to neglect ;nil tot-set your duty, for other construcs• ism) wo tronitot ' hake, of these .your strange • actions., Not meaniegt'serefore to tolerate this your •di'eordereil' gave d'ivectiouelto someof our Trivs; Council, to'let you 'know our expos: plies...woe for. your immediate :repair hither, which you havV hot ter fie need, as Vemr duty 11411 , 1)1nd you, irters:os i;ig thtwopy former, offetice, and 11,16 w -toil Isehasioor, is depot-floe in such %int withlott our privity, havires so special titlices tit ateetolanee and elearee. heir out person. We do tlterti•nie charge and .comniarol you forth relit the Te e, of these,' our lett:es - se - 11i resew , es delay se t t apatt. to route p,sent and ioun i eiliate iseeer , is. te uitder , tand our tar - leer pVastite ; whereof 't, you fill nodal' tee) will he Intl: o‘s I,,eur tt r iu f'iseatiott, and will astswer fer contrary it your utteroiost - • The listh of April, -1569- . . . " Essex at length presented himself, and these threats were revoked. lie returned not to inquiry and pienishinente but to renewed - grace. The gallantry With which he, laid fought, its every so-tton during his' abst nee, was thrown by Elilaheth into the scale of- his merits, and the coutiterpoise forgotten.. Elizabeth admire:throve men; and yet it has been'oleserved that vs licit, i.t)rstit this tittle, Eseex, in a 'sudden jealuesy it tier favour, had affronted Sir Chat s Blurt it, afterwards Lord Slentjoy, hecanse he had decorated his person'with a jewel ivhiedi the Que.'s, hod given to him,. aura. had . , hem) therefore challenged, and wounded in a du'el, - by that 'gen tlemau:- she swore, with great - scenting wr4thi that unttss .Some one or othr should talse,bini down, there would be no' ruling him." 'There can be little - doubt that this s'perch.was meant to disguise her real seoliments. Such a fovonrite at Essex could not have - offended 'a'woman of her effaraetur hy • contending •for her. good, gruces. His marriage : however, which shortly billowed these events, did indeed provoke her resent inentetts this tinniest; but here : too . the. same feelings led het to dissemble : she ascribed her auger iss the al- . ledged inequality of the match, by which she slledged that the honour of the Las's house. Wip degraded—degisuled by Isis having married the daughter 4f Sir - Francis NVatsingbituie and relict iii Sir Philip iSidnes• ' '• - . •e was appointed to t h e coinman d of ss f e e ee o f doOn triospv, sent by Elizillieth to assist Henry IV. of .France in the sieeN of Ilisuen. The object of this expeditiMi - was wholly - disioncerted by the 'tardy eiseopersetieen - of the French. Essex Ifoseceer.distinguished himself, -- ley.achivalrous gallau-• try in many skirmishes; and,. .absence - of sonic mouths., returned, highly disgusted becunee the greatest cap tain of the age bad dee:lilted hi, advice tin a militery question. He was received w;th onahated hindueSsi"'hy'llte , Qtteen s wbtt ii' admitted him into her Price Council, but it is at this period, as perhaps might naturally be ex i xelauf, that hlsto-' rians hose detect the commencement of his discontents. His ,captivating taloos, his- unbounded liberality, his courtesy,' and big coaragee had rendered him the idol of all 'warm end' generous - hearts ; while the selfish and the itetely cruwded round him, and. loaded him with adulation, in the hope of shaving the fruits of his unbetinded influence over Eliza beth. The younger nubility, and the military, loolsed Up to hint with mixed motive's of. affection rind in:re - est, consi dered .him at. once their example and their petron ; the - Slu- Titans, now Irecoming a -formidable body, arrogantly claimed . his_ protection as a ditty which had. devolved en lain from his father-in-law, Leieester„who bad openly faeorned theirsdoc trines and preteosoms e and the disaffect eti of other classes courted him .with uticeosiug asoduity; in-the view of some time availing themselves of .111,-/t discord with the Queen or her seirants,. into which the simplicity of hiS heart, aed the eagerness of his temper, were so lilstly to betray Itha. 'Phis etionnons• popularity at I:9i i .;tli txcited in set rut t e lie fears of Elizabeth, and itiertisse it the jealousy ;tire:lily raised in the breasts of heeinioisters .by the favor,,; I hat She trod bestowed oti hitr.. •She sought to avert her danger by fur nishing int:es-sant employment to his activity and love of glory, and thee laboured to dvive hint tc•desperatimi by Schemes to sender:his serviees alto: tire: - • , " These a -•-sions were beginning to,operate when, in 3 One' meiertiode e jesietty, with the High Admiral Howard, the command of the eapeiitioil to Cailie e . The 'particulars of this, send if bis excursione in the seeceeding yeor, 'are -so largely,.esiveo Mir historians that it wolild be impel - I:pleat to repeat them here: It is worthy hoWeVer of obse EVat iuti that id the' forMerlsis (1 pi 1 1 .10,1 WitS always uoifOrtaly rejected', sire only as to the proper mimeo for attacking Ike SputiLlt Fleet in the harbour, the Admiral's Gen.:es - Simi to which was so jbyfisll?:/ reteived hy'hi in,.tha', in an extaey, lie threw his hat into the sea. 'flee Islafitl- voyage, as it Was called; of 1597, iu which he acted - ;.35 Conithandvr-iii-Chiel both of the army ands &vi e was unhappily -distinguished by his differences with Raleigh, who served as Near Admiral, the origin and circuit:- stances of whiele have been variously and even c.iiit radietin ily represented by different writers ; and.yet, amidst thiS eon fn shin, strong grounds appear to sospeet Raleigh, of a pretne dithted design to prevent the suceesvut thc.enterprise. Eesex, on V:s..arriesti from- Cadiz, had been better received by the Queen than by her - Ministers, whom he found inclined to cen sure every part of his conduct in the expedition.. He pub lished therefore a narrative of it, noire reniai,..ible for verity than prudence, in which, astias been weilosliserved, " he set down se; 'occur was omitted in the prosecution of it, and then; by way of answer to those elijections, imputed all soiscarriageteto other men; by which lie raised to himself many implacable enemies, wal did not gain tine friend." In the mean these his attempts to use his intinence fur the service of his friends, which indeed seems ,to he ve been the Mid - to *hie) be -wished always to applyit, were constantly thwarted. He wie now deeply -mortified. and Elizes'eeth, who seentreto bare shared in Inset:hag:in; endeavetired to console him by a gift for life of the post of Masfer of the-Ordnance, to which he was appointed 'oil the nineteenth of March, 1597. -New causes, however, of dissatisfaction masses During his absence on the Isiandroyage the Admiral, Hatvard, had been created ail o;F Nottioghano and in his patent the reduction of Cadiz was as - 0 ibed to.his good service. • This affront, as Essex, and perhaps rightly, conceived it., together with his vexation at the moderate success of --that toy - edit:too,. produced in hint a disgust which became. publicly visible. On his return, lie re tired to the country, and, according to the fashion of that -time, pleaded illness to excuse his attendance in Parliament, which was then sitting. Elizabeth again interfered to ap pease him, and on• the twenty-eighth of December , 1597, raised Lim to the. spiels:lid office of .1.:41 Marshal of England. " Fits services, or rather his endeavours to serve, were now transferred to the Council, and •hue appeared in the charactee of a Statesman, for which le-possessed every qualification bat' patience. Here he apposed with, equal vehemence and good argument the proposals offered in May, ts7s, for a treaty of amity with Spain. On this great topic he engaged in dis • puteS With the Treasurer, Burehfey,,which rose to such warotth that Burghley, at the council table, drew. a . prayer book froth his - bosom,. and prophetically pointed. out to - the Earl passage—". Men of blood shall not live. out half their days." - Peace was.deteriunied oo ; and Essex; iii his dread of - bci:lg misrepresented, to the abatement of that pop:ularity;. his af fection to which was his greatest fault and misfortune, int.- niediately composed his" Apologyagainst those which falsely and mulieieusly take him to be the only Meth - a:lee of the peke and quiet of their country,- addressed, to his friend Authoriy Docent." This exquisite example of his talehts and intt grit y; as well as of the purity and elegance of 'his:stele, infinitely valuable too as it exhibits a sketch by his ow;i hand of the circumstances of his public conduct to that aeriod, was soon Liter printed, doubtless at Iraq. with hi, C:MCIIIINIC.C, to , the. great offence of the Queen. tfurghle.y, his ancient guardian; whose.powerhad iu some measure warded off the attacks of bis.enemice, and to the wisdom and, liindoess of whose advice bis iinpetttosity earl frerniently submitted, died while Es , ex was preparing his apology, and fell into new errors and excesses. -Among these the most remarkable occurred in, his rnemorahle and well-known 'quarrel with Elizabeth tin the ehoice-of a Governor for. Ireland, which terelin tted on hiS _ part with t lre• grossest personal insult ever offered by a sith hers by manual chastisement. lie ject to a Sovereign, and on fled tts hide his rage in the most obscure retirenient, and it -ems with tire ntinosLelitliculty that he email:be peevailed on . to acknowledge his faith, The wise and worthy Lord Keeper Egerton, in addressing to him a lung. letter o f g e ntle remon strance,. uses these' perstes•ions--‘ ,If you still hold this eornrse, - which hitherto von find.to be wore and worse, (and the longer you go :the further-you gO ottt of thtessayl there is little hope or likelylitioit thseend will be . better. "izti ate not yet pour so far hot that eon Mau' 'retuen. The return is safe, -bile the progieess.is : Llano:nos-and fls'AVer":l' )" this , course you Mold. :If them which they coulif never do.for them - selves Y''"' I' - yon leave to scorn and contempt. Yin forsake you rsel I,istste over throw' your- fortanes, and euitsete your-honour aril relkata .- tion. You give that comfort itneletosisage . .to the fereign enN inlet as greater they cannot have tcytwhat Can re We COUIC sad pig AS lig than TO hear that her Majesty.and the realm Ice low.itsted of- so :worttry , a inember who bath so often 411 d WVallantiy queeiled : and -den ut eat hem.? .You'forsalie • your country when - it: bath most rik,, , ed',4 :-our courisel'and aid: arid, tattlytantr•fail in your indisetstutile duty which yell' owe auto your most .gratiOus'Setrwigita'ditty impOsed till 'yot!i,nitt by natare an l polley.on7yl bat I,ty an!, saered 'bond whereiti rine. SIaJJ - st y of Crud !lath Hy t lie,rui,e. of Christianit n4ligett.fon:, • Essex's reply presents perhaps the truest picture extant trot only.-of his oaruralliot• of his I. afifioal ehampter ;of the grandeur of his allot!, and of the tyranny of his passions; of his habitual - loyalty ,'and iticlioations.. In this ad• mirabie letter we find the tollo.. fig vivaci..ms expressions of defianee.—' %%lien the vilest of all indi;;iiities are ilooe unto me, dot Ii religion inforce the to sac ? God la quire. it . ?, Is•it impiety not to do it ? Why ? Cannot Princes err ? Can's riot sabjects receive wrong? •Is art caAltly power infinite.? Pardon me, pardon me, toy' Lord ; I can never sabscribe to, these -principles. Let. • Solomon's fool faugh tvi,au :!e is stricken. Let-those that tie-in to make their ,protit of Princes suety to have no sense ofPriuces' injuries. Let them at:ltnosys , Ledge ail infinite absoluteness on earth that do notbeireve an Joanne alisoltiteuess for toe, 1, have reeeived wroo u g ;i feels it : Nly case is good; I and, what,- .ieere.ar comes, all tire powers on earth can never ShifeYnitire reugth. or constant) . iii oppressing that) 1 can strew in Stltr, it..1"1114 ali,its.eser Call or :mall he no/op.:et! On river." He . was ,it length tersuaded to make a proii.l saLtini_ssivu, and Was ,!;;-viii received iato your, which ,seelotai even y (*.tap : have liven but bule impaired. _ " i he affairs .of irelitoil appear indeed to have been at that time EsseN"s frevonri/e putitical study. lie hail .1 rt que. I ly, in the debates 'of the Council, complained of an unreason- . pfirsiamity with sylich he charged the Ministers in the Govei 'intent of that 'moony, and, of reStrictions `by which they' had long fettered the 'acuities of the Queen's I)eputies. His,erionies determined to avail themselves of this disposi• turn, and to tempt bins by an otter of that iutporhint and honourable -joist, with tutusually enlarged authority, and the command of a more numerous army than had ever hewn . sent. th it - Imia 'l'o' conquer rebellions tactiolis ; to civilize a people at 011ee badlaroll9 and generous ;. to adiniiiister strict justice t !trough. the weans of absolute power; were 'ruble ob jects in_ t he view of one whose character united with a haughty and conrageous spirit the mildest humanity, and the most .taialted moral - principles. . Prudence too, if he ever nsed it, now ihallaps reminded him that anger is best cooled by ab tenet., and that past errors are frequenty forgott ea ill the ; grateful sense of new services. lie accepted the office how ever'with reluctance and-disgust, inless we are to consider 'the billowing _exquisite little . e pistle to Elizabeth,. which is. said; I know not on what groutitl, to have been written ne s tween the dates of his -appointment mot his departure, merely as a general appeal- to her I..elins, and a strong effort to re gain the 'Alines, of her, t'svour, for which he Juane his commis sion to li eland the pretext. • " Frtan a mind delighting in sorrow ; from spirits wasted with passion ; -from a heart .torn in pieces a th care, grief, and travei ; trios a wan that hatetlohimself, aria all things else that keep film ante; what service can pore ,;.I,,ijesty ex pect, since ally sereiee past desta•vesne more than banishment arid 'pi oscription to the enrsedt'st of all- islands ? It is your rebels pride and success initst.give pie leave to ransom iny - sell - tout of this hateful prismi ; out of thy I.attired body ~ which, it it happened sir, your Majesty shall have no cause to mislike the fashion of toy death, since the course of my life could never please-you. ' Happy he could ti!iish forth his file , • In smile iintiatioted desart, most obscure . From all soeietyVfroin . love and hate Of worldly folk ; then-should tie . sleep secure ; Then-wake again, and Yield God ever pi trite ; Content with kips, atid‘haws, and du:ninth:berry, .In emiteiliplatiou passing out his days, - • Anti chatrge of bitty thoughts, to make him merry.;. , Who when he dies his tomb mad -be a bash, • WilmY harmless Robin dells with gentle Thrash. Your Majesty's exiled servant, - li()13EltI ESSEX.' "On the 27th of March 1599, Ire left-Lundon,. °ulna way towards Ireland, to the great joy of those who haul thus. freed tl4onselves of 'his imweleorne pretence tro'phree . . friar" amid:4 perils 'which they Weil knees bow to increase . . Their efforts bowevyr were needless. • The.short-term of ins:govern fittn ait 'ws a‘t issue of in:prudence, 'confusion, an., nristnattne, tle pas - 4eil'the first two mOnths in matting journeys 'Of' obsers vittaini,l4l4l plattS• for action, nod laid the frtrits of those la-• bimre belara the at, large in a letter- of et - instant:mete. .ablity. • Elizabeth slighted his opiiiions,atid blamed his coq duct in tier ery first military enterprise which he midi ark. During-Ilia irritation vial need' by t hese,crosses a large body of his troops. was.worsted by the Irish, and he punished maind of the intachnimit, emit rat yto his !lit ureavith fright-. f a t st•veii",c . 11, an unsuccessfulexpedition`tiiiitra n:ytutlieQtiee:t's express order to march his army into another provinze, sod a Iterwar els, in o!reying that order, wits yet.tittKe unfort ea Fl e demanded r i niforceineots,hial obtaiced theat; march, d iu person, at the head of his main many, to atraek the rebels, under the 'command of ; and, Without stiihir g a blow concluded a ilisg - rac \ efal treaty with that, chieftain. .Ilis incessant reflection at that period . on the de signs of his enemies in England seems to have been the eattSe• of the cunsetissence of tt degree Of actual insanity which never alter left him. funned a seriuua, resoll.llloa to return With his army, And' to employ it in subduing than, - and it was with much diffictilty that some of his dearest• friends succeeded in slisSuatiusg hint front that antinstrOUs at tempt. Shortly after, on receiving a reproachful letter trim' the Qocen, he suddenly quitted Ireland, almost aloe, and travelling with the utmost speed,appeared must intexpectedly in her tretence atNonesuch ou the a wenty-eighth'.of Sep .tember, i 599„ andsimplored her to l i sten to his apology. . Elizabeth was touched by the sii,gular character of this appeal, which once 'iii; tre excited in some d:'grce her tender.: 'ness, while it flatteret\ her. pride. Essex, once so beloved; whose' disobedience spa had threatened_ with condign panish merit ; whose rebellious resistance she had been tatigl't to ; ii,st end of per . sisting itl his contumacy; or stamina; a!ouf.to treat fur pintail ; or eniPloying friends to intercede ein his behalf; had tied fltnia• ors army which . atitir.eil•Lim. and crossed the se:r, to throw himself singly on her mercy and her Wisdoto. She received him with ..complacency, ana ad mitted hiarto a long conference, in the 'conclusion of which she Conimabdtal lion nut to quit his apin - tanetit in the Coort, and soon after CommittelPhiin In an honourable, though close, confinement in 'the bonseurthe Lori Keeper. It is more thanprobable that,• had onagers been left wholly to her un disturbed decision, tie might evert nowhave escaped with very light p.m:hies,: but another. powerful. passion . had been awakened in lief breast, dud, terrified at the representations whicb were every hour laid before her of the dangers to be apprehended ftrint his popularity and violence, site -consented at length fig leave his case to the Privy Council, before which it been somewhat ag'itatechtnniejliately after leis arrival. Lie had remained lung a 'prisoner, still occasionally enema , .raged, and with cemnivitnee, to hope that no niere was intended than to humble hi. spirit, and that lie might he again restrrred to her grace; till, int the filth ofaulte, I Goo, he was bianiglit'Pobliciy befOre the Council, and, after an exinninallurv4 'elYeen hours, foe the most part of which he was kopt 'kneeling, it was.deterniiited: that he should be de-, priced of his scat in that. body, and of all his offices, except that of ltaster orthe,-FrOfSe, and should remain in custody ••dirrit, gibe Queen's pie - mitre. He was finally enlarged on the . twenty- seventh.of the .following August, .and,retired to one of his scot , in the coontry. . . • '• die Wa§ntili" cast. Es , :et considered bis Situation to be desperate,. and thdreimeeit effectually rendered it so. In the beginning of the - winter 'he Ectorned to lain4ssa, and his house - becathe not only the resott but the reside:ice of the . idle, the prbfligate, and the disaffected, or all ranks. Ctiffe, who had been his . secretary in Ireland,. a Mall of considerable talents, .reitelared useless, or worse, like bis own, by an iitt },ctuous temper, undertook to execute his plains, if la it y rte. .served ter he so callesl.• Few circurbstances of our hiclnYy ;ire better 'known than (base Which compose the sad Sequel of Es sex's story. He seems to have-conceived the extravagant, and indeed utterly impracticable'design, of working simultaneous .ly oo the of eetiou and the feltrs of Elizabeth. Declaring his .praiforind Itiyaltv, and the. most earnest personal regard, he armed his little baud FrofeSseilly force' her to hear p his grierances, and to dismiss her servants. Terrified fierfrips, but Still interested in his favour, instead of employing the ample means to reduce liim, , which were- in tier power, she ordered that he shoo-id be summoned before her Codicil, • and he. disobeyed. 'rite next Morning She. sent - the Lord KeePerc the Lord Chief Justice, and others of het - Connell, to his house, to receive his complaints, and lie impriSoned them.' li then sallied forth,'at the head of his adherents, andi sought ineffectually for volunteers in the city ; returned by the ricer, and fortified' his hod-e; and, when no means 'monied to save hint Irmo the perdition to which he - seemed, to Inlet. devoted himself, was at length proclainil;cl a traitor, besii&ged and taken prisoner. 'These strange eiretnnstane,eS eeentred On the 7th and'ath of February, IGOE, NaS. and on'the Vlth he was brought to .his.trial before the peers, and condi:mm.(lth die.' Of his treaisou there could be no doubt, fur it had been cominitted iu the sight 'of thousands ; but 'for 11 . 14 , Atotives, sarinn the simple .impulses of a most fiery and ithltruilent spirit, we can look only to his own declaration, tharbis first object was to gain access to the Qiieun's person, and his final view, to the establishment otthe succession in the Kink cif Scots, for the charge -preferred against him of a secret design to set-up ,e claim to the Crown on his own part, in right of a remote maternal .tescent front the !louse of York, is utterly incridihlr. The Queen. was anxious try the last to . sp:q his life. Of .the well known, but.weakly antheuticiated, tale of the Countess of gotiingham, and the ring, with which many waiters have beru fond .uf atuplifying the last scene of trays •••7y, I will sly nothing ; : gecliartstthe,rwise Irt ci er,t tb•il at zitre-ti , !ay fci:the'itoporttout ,- S 1 I, f be ritioisters with the utmost rOn:gaper, and- signed the wai noir. for his cxectitio:i amidst a dreadful corit!ict of ten th-mess, esentipent, ~and terror; ile 'Stitleid death t:n the Gth daY titcr his t will, a piety not 4ess than fir via, and .tt tnaguaniuiity at once. calm and heroic. . • . " Of all coil:n at, historical characters that of Ersex has ge "'l4}lY• (is'etuv , i , /I , ..titost difficult to he justly estittritee.. Itare, and indeed was its cunstruction, bat ,ntrelV no iii ;ttrioits, Tite'f , ittits; who deserve to ty,e callild-gpod • and gee,:t. usnalty s;it roil an exiii)crarice-of fino,/tyittties• Ail the errors of llns . ex,tr,,,,rdinary persiiti May' 'hl. tl recd ti ttte warmth of his heal I,' w i I.e noble simplicity of to,his courage, to his ft Jetniships, t o his (,;• - •ziet sense. ut hom.ut, or liis exattvd love of truth. NVith these virtues, je,itied to i•nintir,thle tanatt , s, hk• ,s 1.4 perhaps' the most tinAr loanliving io 'he trusters aiii, the direction ui iiiiirortatitiattlitt; einher j sit it or military, t•ir his cando; u disarrtliheii frim.for;the net, and hit rasinicss 3,r the field. lac weigltoi the polity of iris iutrutioit. a,ritioit the iii"Oilvt's of other '` pun:ic err trt, ;xiih accuracy and and fheAlkdaip . vrith which lie pro claimed Ili, result render•,d them hi; mortal enemies: Inn 'O,, rated his services, aikl , perbaps•his. powers, too Ii gluly; an i hence his it Eli).3).llll:the l iAiontion , eic -Ivlti of who,e loosoty hv nV seems eert o h•rve consi dered ;is c, fin itteissorate to his deserts his oecasiunal insolence to that Princess was theref.rc the issae of pride, and not of in gratitude His rckentnietlts'..vere niarkeil by a. petulance some what incolisistent If genuine : thghity, and his, friendships, were tot always worthily placed ; but he . was not capricious, for hist, allectiOns,. and'his aversions Were unalterable; and he was ineapithle of disguising either following the dictates of the.one, his libetzlity knew no hounds : the gratiheation of the other, his generosity was necer sUllie by a single instance of private revenge. Ills - domestic . ' cori dirctseeins.to have been unexceptionable: in' his •tiour4 of re- . tircinent• his impetuosity was soothed by the consolations. of sincere and conscious innocence ; the love - of his amd his dependants, who idolized hint ; by the tempe rate charms of refined Conversation and reflection. , in the humble sincerity of his dying confession he If of no In-ral fences to snow but certain amorous frailties of his yontli. " flit LI was of the sort Which 'irrual.lo accom panies acute feelings; qnick; perietratingy did versatile ad mirable iii its concrptimis, but of uncertain..eft.e ti cu_.on ; some-. times approachililf,.sometinies out -reach lag; but Wont re•;t ing at, 'that' sober' wart pint of jdd tueitt 'Which in idly 'affairs is dignified by the, title Of ' His 1-te quireinents wereinfinit.ely s*rital anti vxtyloicil. It will al,- pray on an ex:amid:onm of those of his writings which have . been fortunately left to us that hiS sttifli'es, or rather his`p.er eeptions, had embraced every usual object of human science. His powers of expression were equal to the measure of his knowledie : indeed he was incomparably the first EngliSh prose•writer of his time, and it has been latelydisco .ve:red thai in Latin coMpiAition he tell nutill,:g short of the best classical 'noidels. The pres'ent 'age too, bu'sy in such re searches, has brought to light severalpuems,of various cha racters, which reflect a new and unexpected lustre on his Such - was the man, and so designed . by nature to in form, to inaprove„and to delight, •society, whom his own am bition, and Elizaheth's,folly, misplaced in the characters of a states Man, a freneral, -, ind a courtier. . . . " Ou 1t e'extravagance of the. Queen's. attachment to this. Nobleman, and the motives by which it was dictated, it is on necessa.ty here tt;' . dilate. Lord Orford, in hiS Royal and Noble Authors,' has treated at large of those mutters, with such acuteness of easoning, and such extent of historical knowlcdz,e, that any farther cmitavour to elucidate that sin gular subject Watild betaitrand presumptuous.' I Shall there-: lure onjy add that the Earl of Essex married, as has heen be fore stated, Fiaitees; dd tighter and heir of Sir Frau sitigham, - and 'widow of - Sii• Philip Siftney, try.lioni an only sou, Robert, who was the last Ear) of the famiiy l)e, Tereus; and - two daughters; Frances, married to Seymour, Earl 'of Hertford, afterwards-Duke of Somersct ; and Dorothy, wife, first, to Sir Henry Shirley, of. Stanton Hat'old, in Leicestershire,' Bart., - secondly, to Stitf ferd, 'of litatherwich, in the county. of Northampton." From the LONDON GAZETTE, Aug. 30, 1817. Irhitehall, dug: 29, 1 R 1 7, Hi: Royal }Ugliness the Prince' Rezeot hag heen.please4, in the ['awe an.l on the, of hi; Nb:je,ty, to a,ipoint ltight liononrahttJohn Lord :'::ininters to be of thy County of 1 - lerefort!, in the town of the Earl of•Eseit, • resigned. t'lsiiise Gazette algo•notifieA, that the Prince ilet . ;'nt permits, rear -: 1t nniat fir 1J id N 1 1 1“ , ,, in com , iacrattaut his • e tit Sisere.ye , donut!: a Teriod at 37 wars, to bear the armo rial di ,, ,inctiutnf fulloWing';'vit::—" A - cross rindineilnatterly pierced Opt ween three mallet , , on a chief of honourable log. l u en ti l ij o a w a vy, a fortified. lig t,t-house, thircio a red ling flying, tanked by a battery of three tiers of•gons., with r alilte thag nn the dexter, and. another:bat . tery . ori the . sinist& the whale being intended to represent that part of the works,de— fending the town and port of Algiers, to which his 'Majesty's 'ship Impregnali;:•, hcaring•the'tlag of the , said ItearzAcimital, was opposed on the said -ever-memorable ;mad: i• and for crest; " inaval crown a cubit arm, holding the flag of a Reat-Adthiral of the Blue; inscribed with the' turd Arato NALLf.." . I . CounniS'siOns sighed by 'the' Lora Leintenane of the_ North nt the Comity of 'Yiyrk. Richmond Forester Yeomanry cavalry—Gene:4e Hartley, Esq.,. to he torainanjant ; Francis Ilirtley, Esq. to, be Ciptain; "te/ is,ientenatits, 3.taieSn'Arcy I iuttoo,.Gent., Thomas Charge, Gent.; to be Cortitt3, George Kaye,Gint. rhotopson, Gent. Commi.:sions signet, iu thetiussex Regular Militia, signed by • the ',Ord Lieutenant of the Comity Suissex. William Tailor, Gent. to be Ensign, Henry Groome, Gent. to be ditto. • BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. • John Clements, Ne*pnrt, Monmouthshire, shopkeeper, from April 26 to S - eliteinber 8. • BANKRUPTS. • Boger Ye°, Bristol, hat 7 manufactuter, to surrender September '. 10, 11, and October 1 i 7 at eleven, at. the Rummer.Taveitr 7 Attornies, Mr. Heelis,'Staple lun, rirMr.llaynes, Clare-Street, - Richard Humphreys Shaw, Liverpool,. merchant, September 24, 25, "and October 11', at one, at the Star and •Garter' Tavern, Liverlitml. 'At tornies, Messrs. Avison"aod Hanover-strcct, Liverpool, or Ca.tle-street, Holborn. • Jadison and William Kelly, Shepton-Mallet, So ' titerset'slfiiW grocers, Septeinber . 11, 12, rind Octrilier'll,• at twelve, ot;the Qonunercial Rooms, Bristol. Attornies-, Messrs. Lamberts, Tayler, and Deane, Gray's Inn-.squarr, or*Mr. (.'woke; Bristol. ' William Cozens, ;Kensington, linen-draper, SepteMber • 20, and October,.ll, at ten ~ ,.at. Atturney, Jones, Bedfoi•&row. . . . Richard Hurdis, 'Oxford, Cordwaiifer,`Septembei 191 20, and Octolrer J I,„at eleven., at the,fionse of. Robinson Baltrain, under the Town Itall,dxford . . Attornies, \lessrs,..W.ll,lr, Oxford, or Mr. Pawaall„ Stride Iris. ' John Perlsins, Coventry, doctor of physic, September Ili, arid October I I, at eleven, at the Casl le! Inn, Covenlry.-- AttOrniet, 'Messrs. Trougliton mid Lea, or Mr. Carter, Coventry. James Booth and Evan Cawley, Lancashire, (1-valet's in spirituous, liquov4, Septewher It, at is, and (It ,. tuber 11, at eleven, - 1;:rt he 1,% - hie Prestern • - Alton.." nies, NICAI' , . A ieXa Cider and Online, New Inn, Ur Mr. Parkinson,•Criorley. Mary Renton, Coventry-street, Saint: Martin iy-the saddler,. September ti;, 17, .and Uetohrr 11, at eleven, at Attornie;,, -Messrs, Tiudnell aril Bober Mac clesfield-street, Soho. • v11)1;:NDS.. . ,Sept, 43, J..White.Wo , o•Qrret,. Kir'- man; Gower-41Fect, T• bitt, sl i org,att-street, upho;sltrer , —SCpC...'.l6, It. Brown. g•l6)!•eK—Sept, 17, Mt:g - ridge arlti.E..M.l4o44ge; Ki rq k's Lynn, NO 4 IIOIIS, corl.-tna!lti;.:ct 6, H. Phi be•r, ! 1 / 4 1aricht - cter, ,liana, ;Vary, gro , cr T. Holinvs, tVai wick, grocer Gil ti tivrestiltn Nortbarliptouslrire , sho , dirou,f 2 , 1, J. NicAt v,ird, IVe:fa Orchard, Porst.titiire,, 24, 3, Vulritt, .IViltslore -- Sept. 90, V. 7,:ic1,11,, tit is-Limper—Sept. 2.2. J. Wii.d. ) ,rtyy anti W. peeper, husiers,—Sept. ;2;1, R. lien:, Liiie.uin's,lnti-fsdld, 41:r- 'CERTIFICATES, SEPT2O. MO: Wint, Stone', Statiordshire, inrgenrr- , -%. -- 11rnson, tlournlsditch, clothes-salesnl , tn---J. Grcen, Wych-stiTet, tic tualgc --W. Holdswortll, Ilrai . iford, and J. Iloldsworth, ?Jyr ley, Yorkshire, iiti-spinners.:-.:W.'Stii!erefis,l3iiti-.IIZoOI-mer cliont—ii. Phillip. Fenedurch,sti - eety •stali , olker—J. Warren, Suflulli-street,,qarnorlict, Waci;ipi r manufactnrer---,T. Colo ~ cro%krn-tre'et, FV . l.lsl)uq-sqn:trc, grocri=3: Cireen, Mirg:fret street, Hackrs, builder—G. Britten, Bitth, :iGtiidiltr. 11. crook, Bolton, Lane:l.sl)l.re, inokeeper—W.Srevitt,Darlas-. tort, Staffordshire, 4utOur-4. 4;;Iliott, ;Middleton in TcAstlitia,. D an. , ui- 7. Yeens, ireAton, n inh ni 3 Ou?•ixtne:-- :': `.; ii 1 i,.'tu::r.Lii tl, •%Vat .t' I , i+: c, I c 414111. f;vs i:::,u<)LVI:!).: • ‘I.T. 13 ; i1- arid ('. 911,4 n, lejdelawad, tan irts—P.Titilter York,:ltire;woolica cnotb-tnalitifactur.v4 4uer.Slll.!lvy, Ring. iVai)t , ? ge; "1114,0p.0z.) Nev.in;.4tun, schoulzwot F , .:u.lLs, 1. and \V. 1'...4r1; ou h, :y o bk,i. l. -I,,,. : , 7i l;;l:i t i; . ; A cture l R.. I.l.ru\vn ivild sc.h.Vild 1. nail., jilt,. 1 .torwort Itigt4y, \V . . a.:(i Ilitne,ick, tiryewiehl, Fiirt,hira, brick-ina -I"..rrimid jun.Bnidtord,-Yorkshirt., ..cr,d cl,eilsen.notigkts--A). Cht:liichurgii • aud (;e ! orge ;111t1 (i. 4. Stlkl Birwit) , ..;!mih,..buildt. , ... , ---It.stie',l, SilVi I, jnit• .au '1 IV, S(101, Prithit;lgT,;o, Wii;trii.l4,lS —J. M . :cl.3i4t.tw Colhogwoud ilud Culhligsvood, Lahth's Cory2uit-st feet, Lallchi -3. POLICE IN imAsrzr.s. AND JOUItNEYMEN SILK-WEAVERS"— , GUILDIIALL,—A case interesting to silk-weaver, came cni befofe Aiderfnen MAttA N AY, which, front the nature of the-question, was cro,%zied to viccess, not, only by t,'ie working elas , ,es from Spitaliields, but eminent manufac 'rums. It was an inf , irmation fOuhded . on the 13th Geo.` I.ll:.which imposes upon any journey m3a silk-weaver tile Foaity of 403. if such jour nevmln shan take fruit) ,any toaster, for the mana factui ing of certain ..atius, silks; &c. per yard, lcsJ iecA titan is prescribed by the. Aiagistrates. tisseinbled at the Sessions,. tti bo, by. the Act, are -authorised to regulate (Lem. '.ll,e_ irjornuttioti Nl:itlirTin Cooper against Vava sew-, boti . ,'Sourueymtin silic-VreaNersc. • All'. ALLEY alptilVeillor tite prosecution, and 'r. Cu a wooD for the defence. The I orintr haring; caused Alr 1 - lerct‘to; Li edA the 4'011114- that dOetittiViit Siatt'd that ou the '9O). day Of August last, James Vavascor, the defen dant, residing iu the neightiTnio , nl of Spital fields, out taite troll-) Mr Joseph Wilson, of Litt: house of Remington, 'Wilson, awl Co. or Milk . - • street, Cheapside, for -a spiauti - y of satin mann (actin-et! reds, at the rate of 2s. 11 per yard, which, according to I . :1e stated price;, - should be 2s. 4-Id. • Mr. ALLEY said, the journeymen, by the , re.• gulations of the Act of 13th Geo.. .Rl. were suh-, jected to a penalty of 4th. in case of eo,pi r quy to take lesS wages, or of stir Otte of thew iakit; .less titan 'that allowed by the,scale of ,the trates. - So in like manner were the wasters liable to 'conviction in the stint of .50.1. for any conspi lacy to defrand the journeyinett of less ti fan - Ole" prescribed' wages,' An the .present instance' rit e ,.: fondue offence had. been committed, Mr,_ (the real defendant in the case) having phi to the nowitial defendant 3d. pur - yard•too a cp - Ituitity of Mantanctuied silk or satin. sucii . a case' was 'made (Alt, 110 ooubt_cpinriCtioli W 01.114 Walter,Webster, Eton)the,offit7e , Clerk of the 1 - 'ce ce, C:erkeri'tiocA, 'produced (hetet:old of floe, prices (0 he paid for the va'rions liirinufactrired rtr , ,,as'regrtlated: by. the „A/ remit eras datitt .261 . 1; ..April„ Vavaseor, jut). said he cvas 5011 of Coe ckfcndarlC, kiwi. on tite day charged•iii 'the infOr-'" Illation he took to the 'l,4:iii•se'vt)M,r.-Wilsmi- 4 .. fyiffmkl,ol - tile pay tnew of 2s. 1 per rod. He (lid not, however, hike torsacts ,Work tv , y specific su:n, tnertdy as au ageirt„ had received .301. o'r 401: the gross, which Ntai liim by .zo r. Wilson for general.disbur,e... . merits. lie was in diet:oust:tilt habit of tett.iv:lig sums in this way, and nor in that of taking tic s urns for specific articles: For the NVOI k ' brought Mr. W ilson front 'his fither,.-he paid the Hitler at his. residence, Spitalfselds. The Magistiates thonght the latter part of this evidence fatal. to the ititortnation, *Lodz:nut:li as that tlocpurentPssupted mita( was not ;,it' tact, :1:1 the first place,, it wits.alkged, that tor ritniutity of ntatnilactureal silk, the •letendaoth.::l reeeived DJ. peryaCtlleAs:thatt the next It W;tS stared, that payment was nba,l:-.:_i - o 7 he defendant by .111r...Wi150.n.4-0....t.he ci.y of Lou don, whereas it was paid, had paid the la!ber iii Spitalfield s , it, ttie conity, of Middlesex, where 'the city'MagiStrates h4d uv . jurisdiction.' Mr. CtittWOOD.vis anxious to ware the alike-. tion,. and hafti the p,int at issue between the,. parties decided. The fact was, the inform.-nit liar ware` with his information: grounded upoul pirti .cular items' of different articles tit work and ulaitit- , facture, and attaching to Ibese ro ei,,:Am is rte •i clause Which was entailed to the last (lasso! . ptict: `each :class' being distinguished •by the woik, the. :figure,•or the i•Aney of toe article. Tlit foltoa it 2i the clause:—" If any of the beforementioned woilts'"are cut by half reeds ; Ain( not provided to be - fiaid for extra, at per yard - , : ) ,(1„" Sir W. DoMVILLE s,-tid, It etas imposible for . the City Magidratesto take to , 2,ni7..inue of the case after t h e rou . le was proved to etc laid in the cou:lfy cif A.liddlek'. hi lme 4f wi(r . h i ss brsa•- titet• MakistrateS %%ere ilrejr(znpower-, ~t , '4O "so; trM i i ld.perl:lllF,l,Ull: !cud to ntore an d brit) matter , into the Court of . Ei n g!s . 13etieli. If advice to 'aveit all 11(15 Itswilid be taken, h . :: rut:01111111,11d all I jou, WitiLh War agrt'S4: to. r , ni it, Lady, at. Ili;hr:orth, VT - A:ts, the Lady of the of7addisNl,ter. N; aKi ED. o n Nlonday ,!; .1“:11,n, Lieutenant Millrtt, R.N.. la Ni;i;. BiAvy, of Penzance, youngest of .'•i,' , Ott vv. • 1 ,tcr•'•ily, to Nt..l :, tith'sf:tturi.!s, Mr. W. C.ollingwood,litts of (lon,l6i's -.0 feet, to sec...md dirugil4r of , j f N o . v q• A t e .. l; • pIED. On Wanesd4l3st, at S1:ou1de:1-house, near Deal, In I'll 71st:yeAr, John Ig-gri!den, Est]: . V eteril:lY, Lotli•it, eldest (laughter of Henry Woodfall, Esq. of 131•Tuptup-ry, ;n4c(1•21 y v arc. 0:illie 25th inst. at his house in GillyLste, York, aged rin, Majtir James Murray Grant; late Assistant-Insiector•Genetal i of the Barrack Departwent. LONPON: .rrinte'dby J. B. CARSTAMS, of No. 9.9, Greta Ormond-street, queen-symtre; and by W. . • ticalPPS, of Nti. 7,' Soutli'Mott'on-strei•t,' hcraE SUN ;Oflice, No, 112, - Strand; where Advettisemetics,, Lrtteri i &c._ (post-paid) must be addrcsspd... - y: w k r T i