Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1812-02-14
BROSE AND GUTTER.
4ef CHARLES II.

The licentiousness asd thoughtessness of
the second Charles has become proverbial ;
and his good nature, which qualities these.
but i'll atones for his ingratitudc to those
who suffered forfeiture and persecution in
his Cause. When he remained in Scotland,
suffering the rebuke and censure Of sustere
spresby terianism. before the battle of Wor-
cester, his chief cophdant and associate was
the laird Of Cockpen, called by the nick.
naming manners of these times, Blythe
Cockpen. He followed Charles to the
Hague, and by his skill in playing Scotch
tunes, and his sagacity and wit, much de.
lighted his merry monarch. Charles ia
vorite tune was Brose and Butter. 1t was
PLAYED to him when he went to bed, and he
was awak ned in the morning by it. At
the restoration, however. BLYTHE Cockpen
was forgotten, and he wandered among the
lands which he once owned In Scotland,
poor and unbetriended He wrote to court.
but his letters were not regarded. Weari-
cd and inceused he travelled to Lond on and
placed himself 10 all public places, thinking
thasthe eve Of his majesty might reach him
But he was never noticed, and his mean
garb did not suit the rich laced and EN-.
broidered douhlets Of court; so he was in.
suited snj pushed from the kings presence.
At.length he attempted by cunning what he
: could not accomplish b, plain dealing He
ingfatiated himself with the kings organist,
who was SO enrap,ured with Cockpen's wit
and pawrrs OF music, that he consented TO
hisicquest Of playing before the king at
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exquisite skill, yet never attracted his ma
jsstY's eve. But at the close Of service,
instead of playing the common tune used,
he played up Brose and Butter, with all it's
characteristic merriment! In a moment
the astonished organs; was ordered into the
kings presence. My liege, it was not
me! he cried and dropped upon his knees,
You cried his mo jesty in delirium OF
rapture 'you could never play it in your
lifr--where's the man let me see him.
Coekpen presented himself on his knee
sAh! Coekpen is that YOU, Lord, man,
was IKE to dance c6rning out OF the church =
-, once danced too said Cockpen, 'bu,
that WAS when | had land Of my own to
dance on" Come with me- said Charles,
taking him bv the hand, you shall dance to
brose and Butter on your own lands again,
70 the tenth generation! And he was as
good as hispt omise. - London paper.
Ofthe reigning sovereigns at the period
Of The French revolution, George Sd alone
remains in possession of his throne, if a
monarch IN his dS plorable situation can be
SAID 70 possess any thlog; Of the thirteen
other sosereigns, who then swayed the scep-
tres of Europe, six have been dethroned. and
one the lumber publicly executed; three
of them have been assassinated, aDd the re-
naming four have sunk to their grave. IN.
der the pressure of foreign and domestic
misfortunes. The cause of all this is prin
cipally TO be found in the crooked and hos.
tile system ofpolicy pursued by the minis.
tiers Of these i'll fitted monarchs-a system
whereby the stability of their own thrones
have been shaken aud the blood and trea.
sures of their own subjects squandered in
pursuit of phantom, under the specious
name of the deliverance of Europe