The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-01 00:00:00

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And 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
easeeelei", 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 Tee, of these,' our lett:es-se-11i resew, es
delay sett apatt. to route p,sent and iounieiliate 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-
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" 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• '
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•e was appointed to the coinmand of ss feeee of
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,Qtteens wbtt
ii' admitted him into her Price Council, but it is at this
period, as perhaps might naturally be exixelauf, 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:9ii.;tli txcited in set rut telie
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'
meiertiodee jesietty, with the High Admiral Howard,
the command of the eapeiitioil to Cailiee. 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 11.10,1 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 &vie 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 of gentle 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