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and soldierlike habit, of ialtulapaing his discourse *as
blasphemies and implecatjilis4 sod swore eves" mosnieg
as many oaths as would, in Ciboria's time, limit**.
sumed the estate of a country aEt:demon. W.th omit.
,titode of G—d he said to Lord Ciarenoesail
" Yrrts most know, my Lord, the King,viho is a Itomee
'Catholic, is resolved to employ his subjects oI that tp..
ligips, as you will find by 'the letters I hsve broug t
you, and therefore some Trost be put nut to make room
•fiir such as the King likes; and I can tell you another
thing,—the King will not keep .one man in his servioe
who ever served the usurpers.
The efforts which James 'Made to bring. about. the
conversion of his Lord Lieutenant failing, he was dis-
til:6d by the less scrupulous Lord TyrconneL The
particulars of a conference between the King and Lord
Rochester, his conversation with Barillon, and with the
Bishop of Madanra, each to the same effect, are very
curious, and shew the length towhich the infatuated
Monarch was prepared to go for the purpose of accom•
plishing his designs.
Some of the particulars relating to Ireland are extra-
ordinary, from the similarity which they possess to the
'descriptions of more modern visitors to that country,
'Which is, and has been, and will be for ever totally dif-
ferent from all other nations in the world. The follow-
ing extract from one of Lord Clarendon's letters might,
with very slight alterations, be made to pass for a much
more recent account of the country and the people to
which it refers:

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" It is called but twenty miles from Dublin hither,(tise Con
of Kildare), hot it is fun as far as from London to Reading.
is, indeed, a noble country, and the common where the rate is held
is meth finer turf than Newmarket. and infiaitely larger; but it Is
Wild to see the people--j mean the natives. Seek proper lusty tel.
lows, poor, aknost naked, but will work never but when they are
ready to starve; and whets they have got three or four days wages,
will theta walk about idly till that be gone; and if they cannot them
presently ler-Into wort, as perhaps at that moment their next
neighbour his a/thing to employ theist in, then they weal. Their
women, in the mean time, do nothing, not so much as spin or knit,
but have a CQW, two or three. &mettle' to the bigots, of their
ground, which they milk, and upon that they live; and no sort of
improvement is made uponthe ground. Their habitations (for they
cannot be called houses) are perfect pigsties—walls cast up and co-
vered with straw nod Mod ; and out of these huts, of about ten or
twelve feet square, shall you see five or sic men and women bolt
40 as you (pass) by, who staud-staring about. If this be thus so
Mir Dublin (as I saw several on the road) Lord! what can it Os
up in the country, of which I shall hereafter be ablate give
yea so account when I have an opportooky of making further jeer.
Sim. I did not think to have written so long a letter. but the rain
gives me klaure. God keep you and all yours."

Perhaps the most curious of the contents of this ori-„,
Rind part of the work is a letter which was addressed b
the ill•fated. Duke of Monmouth to . Lord Rochester'
immediately after he was taken in the ditch at Ringwood.
It confirms in the fullest manner the account which has
been given by Mr. Rose. of the behaviour of the unfor-
tunate prisoner, and of the considerations which he,
urged to induce the King to pardon him. The letter,
is as follows:
" From libeywood, July 9, 1655.
" Loam—Havlag had setseproofs• your kindness when I
bas last at Whitehall, Makes she Yaps now that you will net iefese
interceding foe Ins wish the King. Wiwi-now. though too late, see.
bow I have beau misled' were [mot clearly emivinced of
,that, I ,
wookl radio( die a thousand dodo tics say what I do. I wilt
yesterday to the King. and the elder Itudaest of nti letter seas
desire to speak to him, foe I have that roomy to biol. that I am sure
will set him at quiet fee ever. lam son the whole study of say life
shall hereafter be bow to serve him t and I am sure that which I
can do is more worth than eking my life away: and I am confi-
dent, if I may be so happy to speak to him, he will himself ba coo.
vineed of it, being I can give him such infallible proofs of my truth
to him, that though I would alter, it would not be in my power to
do it. This which I have now said, I hope will be enough to-en-
courage your Lordship to show me your favour, which I do
earnestly desire of you, and hope that you have so much generosity
as not to refuse it. I hope. my Lord, and I make no doubt of it,
that you will not have cause to repent having saved my life, which 1
am sure you can do a great deal lo it, if youplease, being it obliges
me for ever to be entirely years, which I shall. ever be.."l
I have life.
" For the Earl of Rochester, Lard High . .
Treasurer of England." -

The conduct of James towards the Duke of Mon-
Mouth has been often canvassed, and the best excuse
chat has been offered for his having so weak an ene-
my, who had so many claims on his mercy, pot to
death; has been derived from the haughty and Intract-
able behaviour of the prisoner himself. Among the
papers in chi present collection is one, which, if it does
not weaken the King's excuse, rensotres frunrtilei Doke
the blame a having provoked his fate by lofts own bits&
nacy. The paper to which we allude was found among
the Clarendon papers. It is suggested, but without any
great forte, that the Officer employed to carry the Duke
of Monmouth's letter was the infamous Colonel Blood;
a circumstance which, if it were, true, would remove
fr.m Lord Sunder:and the reproach of having sup-
pressed the last appeal of the misguided young man to
his sanguinary uncle. It does not *pear who the Mr.
Dowdier by whom the story is related was, but the ac-
count bears marks of probability,,to say the least of it:
" In the rear 1734, I was in company with Colonel Scott, at
Soulogne•air-hler, in France, when the Colonel called me to haw,
_
and

said," Mr. -Rowdier, you area young man, and I Unt an old
one—l will tell you sometbiog worth remembering. When the
Doke of Monmouth was la the Tower under sentence a death, I
bad the emontand of the guard there, one morning the Duke
desired teen to let Mm have a pen, lab, and paper, for be wanted to
write to the King. He wrote a very long letter, and whet% he had
sealed it. he desired mete give him my word of honour that I would
carry that letter to the King, and deliver it into no bands but
his. I told line I would most wittingly do it if it was in my
power, but that my orders were not to stlarom him till his emu.
i tiou and therefore I dared nut leave the Tower. AtAbbiut en-
pressed great uneasiness, saying, be could have depended on my
honour; but at length asked me if there was any officer on whose
Sdelity be could rely. I told hint that Captain ..-- was one on
whom I would willingly confide, in any thing on which my own life
depended. and more I could not say of any man. The Duke de.
sired be might be called. When be was come, the Duke told him
the affair. He promised on his word and honour that be would
deliver the letter to no person whatever bet to the King only.—
Accordingly he west immediately to the Court, and being come
near the door of the King's closet, he took the letter out of his
pocket, to give to the King. • Just they Lord Sunderland came out
of the closet, and seeing him, asked what he had in his hand? He
said it wai a letter front the Duke of Monmouth, which be was
going to give to the King. Lord Suoderland said,' Give it to me,
I will carry it to him.' ' No, my Lord,' said the Captain, 4 1
pawned my honour to the Duke that I would deliver the letter to
no man but the King himself.' But,' said Lord Sunderland, 'the
King is putting on his shirt, and you cannot be admitted into the
cloven but the door shall stand so far open that you shaU we me
give it to him.' After many words, Lord Sunderland prevailed on
the Captain to give him the letter, and his Lordship went into the
closet with It. After the Revolution, Colonel Scott, who followed
the fortunes of King James, going one day to see the King at Me-
ster, at St. Geemaias, in Ranee, the King called him to him, and
said, " Colonel Scott, I have lately heard a thing that I want to
know from you whether it is true.' The King then related the
story, and the Colonel assured him, that what his Majesty had been
told wai exactly true. Upon which the King then said, 'Colonel
Scott, as I am a living man, I never saw that letter, nor did I ever
hear of it, till within these few days. '"

Although, as we have said, the present work has no
great claims to originality, it is extremely well exeuted.
Great care and intelligence have been exercised in
gettiag it up. A very extensive and curious collection
of autographs has been added, from the stores of Mr.
Upcou,• together with some good engravings of the
Earl of Clarendon and Lord. Rochester, and of Lord
Cape!, with views of Swallowfield and Corabory, the
seats of the first of theae Noblemen.

The chief merit of the collection is, that it revives an
.excellent and interesting work, and gibes, is addition,
the_recegt discoveries which have been nude of We
Clarendon Papers.