The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1884-08-31

DrAvoet o0iondoro." By his vAuntod vtoeo1y -
Aginoourt he simply sowed the wiad saA hi
son resped the whiriwind.
| 1t II evident that English democrats do not
approve Yroudss whitswashing Of Henry Will
"Assursdly." said Mr.. Davidson. no more de-
testable tyrant ever breathed. His horrible
cruelties proceeded from the profound de-
prsvity Of his own heart. They were without
excuse Of any kind. They fell indifYerently
on friend and foo. noble and iGnoble. saint and
sinner. Catholic and Protestant. wife and
child. Lust siuttony. vanity. pride. rapsclty.
blood thirstiness. all strovo for mastery In the
breast OF the first Defender Of the Faith. That
such monster Of iniauity should havo been
permitted to die . natural death must ever
strike the historian with establishment" Mel
ther docs this English Radical heed the
| traditional Injunction. No scandal about
Queen Elizabeth. 1 hope" ShO was. accord
ing to our author. Tho most shameless
dissimulator and liar OF her own or
almost any age. Tho very fact that she
laid claim to purity Of life Is about the best
proof that she was. a. even charitable OBJ
servers were compelled to believe. woman OF
the most abandoned morals Her court ID de-
scrlbed By Warrington as place where there
was NO love but that OF tho lusty god OF gal
lantry. Asmodeus.' whore. according to Faunt.
all enormities reigned In tho highest degree
Dudley. the husband Of tho hapless Amy Rob-
sart. the most callous lbertine OF tho day. the
calling him her sweet Robin His bedroom
was placed next to her own. She INDUCED
habitually In the conrsest jests. Hatton Raw
leigh. Oxford. Blunt. Sinner. Anjou were all
reputed among tho number OF her lovers"
And again. Elizabeth was perhaps tho only
soul in England who regarded the mas.
sacre Of Saint Bartholomew with as
much Indifference as II It had occurred
In tho planet Mars. - Her cruelties. un-
like those Of her sister Mary. had not even the
poor excuse Of religious bigotry 1t IL doubt
full II she had any personal faith the life she
led was pagan. not Christian. When she porss-
cuted 1t was only to enforce her own supremacy
as Head OF tho Church. What the Church
taught she cared not Yet within twenty years
1t Ia calculated that no fewer than two hundred
Catholic priests were put to death. while still
greater number pertshed In tho pestilential jails
Into which they wore cast But it was not
Catholics alone that suffered. Two Anabap-
lists. Peters and Turwert were committed to
the flames. and the Drownsts. Thacker and
Coping. persisted In like manner. because. by
Directing to the Book Of Common Prayer they
were held constructively to have questioned the
royal supremacy. Indeed. 1t 10 on the whole
hard to soy why Queen Mary should have
monopoly OF the epithet bloody"
Touching the expediency of the execution Of
Charles I. tho author Of this book writes with
discrimination. 1t was the impossibility Of
binding Charles by any compact that nerved
the Commons to put him to death No
man or party could rely for moment on that
royal word OF his. to which he invariably ap-
pealed when he contemplated some act Of un-
usual perfldty About the justice OF tho
Kings sentence there can be no rational dis
III - lat.-
the State and plunged the nation in torrents
OF blood. The Commissioners who tried him
were mon Of the highest probity. and Of their
President Bradshaw. the worst that Whitlocke
could say was. that he was . stout man and
learned In the law-no friend Of monarchy
Charles declined TO acknowledge the authority
OF the court. on the ground that
the English monarchy being hereditary.
he himself was the fountain OF all law. Brad
shaw overruled the objection. asserting that In
England kingship. on the contrary. is an
elective trust. ana that the people are tho
source OF all rights" This is the thesis. by tho
way. which Prof Freeman has applied all his
learning to establish. But all things." adds
Mr.. Davidson. that are lawful arc not expe-
don't. There are numerous wsnchss' In So
ciety. rs Casca said. always ready to CRY alas.
poor SOUL whom high placed criminal meets
his deserts-aye. eveA II he had stabbed their
mothers and out OF consideration for these
weak vessels It can hardly DO doubted that exile
or imprisonment would have been more po-
little penalty than death. What was to be
dreaded was monarchical reaction. and that
at all events. the execution Of the King did not
prevent"
1t 10 clear that no statue will DO reared to
Oliver Cromwell in the coming English COM
mOnwealth II the views OF Mr.. Davidson pre-
Ha IL Ialu 1>Nh v lila
cial pleading than Sir Harry vane would be
Between tho Man Of December 1851. and
the Man Of April. 1853. there is little to choose
Napoleon turned on his enemies. Cromwell
turned on his friends. Cromwell. before COM
hitting nagitious act. said his prayers;
Napoleon drank brandy But both wore the
destroyers OF republics. and both earned the
everlasting execration Of those who regard
liberticide as the greatest OF Grimes How
Cromwell ever came to be looked on as repub-
lican is mystery OF mysteries. -" His
gigantic apostacy gave the cue to scores OF
minor traitors. He made patriotism byword
and q reproach among EnRlishmen. His guilty
ambition restored the Stuarts. who seemed
minor evil by comparison. and threw back civ
ilization for couple Of centuries. He Was no
saviour OF society. Self In the highest was
ever first in his thoughts care nothing for
the piety Of his letters and speeches: tho d.
rectors Of the City Of Glasgow Bank wore
equally pious. I see In him only the Judas
1scarlot OF the English republic. On whose like
let US hope Englishmen will never have occa-
sion to look again"
Macaulay's Dutch william. who proHtsd by
tho glorious revolution Of 1888" does not
fare much botter than Cromwell at the hands
Of Mr.. Davidson. His body was weak, and
bis mind devoid Of culture. With pious CAL
whistle creed. he was - much addicted to
wine and women a. his feeble health would
permit. His temper was sullsn and despotic.
II he relinauished any attribute OF kingship II
was not his fault. As . General he was below
mediocrity." The author does not Stay the slain
by portrs wing at any length the characters OF
tho isnobie 0usiphs. He applies to the Arst
two Georges the phrase used BY tho mother OF
Frederick Prince OF Wales. who. writing to