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perfon that any court in Europe ever faw, &c. All his trouble in wooing was, He came, faw, and conquered.

When he came into England, he was not fure either of life or liberty. He was an out-law, and had not made his peace with Cromwell, who would have forbid the banns if < he had known of his coming over. He had a greater share • of his eftate, had daughters to marry, and would not have liked fuch a conjunction of Mars and Mercury, as was in this alliance; knowing my Lord's affections to the royal family, which did afterwards produce good effects towards its restoration.

They were married at Nun-Appleton, fix miles from York, Sept. 7, 1657, a new and noble houfe built by my Lord Fairfax, and where he kept as noble hofpitality.'

Cromwell, it seems, was fo offended at this match, that he fent the Duke to the Tower; which fo provoked Lord Fairfax, that high words arofe between him and the Protector: but the latter dying foon after, I,' continues this Writer, carried the Duke the news, and he had then leave to be a prifoner at Windfor Caftle, where his friend Ab. Cowley was his conftant companion. Richard Cromwell foon after abdicated, and then his liberty came of courfe.

This was the happieft time of all the Duke's life, when he went to his father-in-law's houfe at Appleton, and there lived orderly and decently with his own wife; where he neither wanted, nor fo abounded as to be tempted to any fort of extravagance, as he was after, when he came to poffefs his whole eftate. He now understood the meaning of that paradox, Dimidium plus tote, with which he used to pofe young fcholars; and found by experience, that the half or third part of his own eftate which he now enjoyed, was more than the whole which he had at the King and his reftauration.

Now he lived a moft regular life, no courtships but to his own wife, not fo much as to his after-beloved and coftly miftrefs, the Philofopher's ftone.

My Lord Fairfax was much pleafed with his company, and to fee him fo conformable to the orders and good government of the family. If they had any plots together, they were to the best purposes, the restoration of the royal family.

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My Lord Fairfax's maxim in politics was, that the old veteran army which he had commanded, was not to be ⚫ beaten

beaten by any new raised force in England; and that the king's friends fhewed more affection than difcretion in their plots, to restore them while they were united: and that this old army would never be beaten but by itself; as the event fhewed, when Lambert and Monk divided them. But the most fatal influence of this opinion in my Lord Fairfax was the night before the thirtieth of January, when fome of his friends propofed to him to attempt the next day to refcue the King, telling him that twenty ⚫ thousand men were ready to join with him; he faid, he was ready to venture his own life, but not the lives of others against the army now united against them.

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The fame appeared in the infurrection of Sir George Booth, which Lambert, with a brigade of this old army, did fo eafily fupprefs; the fuccefs whereof infpired him with the ambition of imitating Cromwell, in diffolving the parliament, and making himfelf protector.

The Duke had given fufficient teftimony of his loyalty, and my Lord Fairfax of his affection and defire to fee the Royal Family restored; and now was the time of doing it. • General Monk in Scotland declared againft Lambert, 'who marched against him with a strong body of horse.

My Lord Fairfax, and the Duke with him, declared for 'Monk in Yorkshire; but the Duke was obliged to withdraw, because his prefence gave a jealoufy, that the defign was to bring in the King, which was too foon to be ⚫ owned.

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What the event was is well known. I fhall only repeat the Duke's words in an expoftulatory letter to King Charles fome years after :

"As to your Majesty's return into England, I may juftly "pretend to fome fhare; fince without my Lord Fairfax his "engaging in Yorkshire, Lambert's army had never quitted "him, nor the Duke of Albemarle marched out of Scot"land."

The King's restoration, volvenda dies en attulit ultro, reftored the Duke to his eftate, but fuch a train of expence with it, as brought him acquainted with bankers and fcriveners, that infefted it with the gangreen of ufury, which it never recovered.

At the King's coronation no fubject appeared in greater fplendor. None kept greater hofpitality than he did at • Wallingford

• Wallingford-house, especially for the French nobility that came over. This engaged him in play, which had he con-. tinued, his eftate had not lafted fo long; but he refolved to give it over, and kept his refolution ever after. He was moderate in all his expences, his table, ftable, laboratory. All the King's favours to him were occafions of great expence. His Lord Lieutenancy in Yorkshire coft him more than it did all that fucceeded him. The mafter of the horfes place coft him twenty-thousand pounds to the Duke ⚫ of Albemarle,

His embaffies into France and Holland coft him more' than a diamond ring could recompenfe: that into Holland (fetting afide the politic part of it) being a confequence of that into France.

We took barge at Whitehall, June 1673, and lay that night on board the English admiral at the buoy in the Nore, the King and Duke being there. The next night we came to anchor in our yacht in the Dutch-fleet on the coast of • Holland. The next night we were entertained by the Sates at the Hague. The next night we fupped with the • Prince of Orange at his camp at Bodegrave. Next night with the King of France at Utrecht, where we ftaid two or three days, and then marched back with him at the head of his army to Arnheim, where we visited the Prince of Conde, who lay ill there of a wound in his arm, which he got paffing the Rhine at Tolhua, and Marshal Turin. Thence we went with the King to Nimeguen, Grave, Boxtell, and there we parted. The King went to Paris,, and we into the Spanish dominions, to Antwerp, Bruffels, Bruges, Ghent, Dunkirk, and Calais; where our yachts. stayed for us, and we came to Dover, Canterbury, Lon- › don; where we arrived the day month that we left it.

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He was fent Ambaffador into France, where he was highly careffed by the King, and many of the nobility, his old acquaintance. This was before the other into Hol-, land. At his return he was chofen Chancellor of the Uni-. verfity of Cambridge, and entertained them nobly at York'houfe, where his father had done it on the fame occafion › ❝ forty years before.

He now feemed to be fetting up for a favourite, but he wanted his father's diligence, which fitted him to stand be-. -fore Princes.

He fell into a new way of expence in building,, in that <fort of architecture which Cicero calls, Infane fubflructiones;

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and himself, when his friends diffuaded him from it, called it, his folly.

The world has been fevere in cenfuring his foibles, but not so just in noting his good qualities.

For his perfon, he was the glory of the age, and any • court wherever he came. Of a moft graceful and charming mien and behaviour; a ftrong, tall and active body, all which gave a luftre to the ornaments of his mind; of an admirable wit and excellent judgment; and had all other qualities of a gentleman. He was courteous and affable to all; of a compaffionate nature; ready to forgive and forget injuries. What was faid of a great man in the court of Queen Elizabeth, that he used to vent his ⚫ difcontents at court by writing from company, and writing fonnets, may be faid of him; but when he was pro• voked by the malice of fome and ingratitude of others, he might fhew that a good-natured man might have an ill• natured muse.

He gave a good inftance of his readiness to forgive injuries. When a confiderable man at court did him an injury, which he was fearful he would refent, he defired a friend to mediate for him, and endeavour a reconciliation, which he undertook. The Duke told him he did. ⚫ not remember he had ever injured him; if he had he freely • forgave him.

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His charitable difpofition he feemed to inherit from his, grandfather, Francis Earl of Rutland, who used every quarter-day at London, to fend his fteward with bags of money to feveral prifons to relieve prifoners and pay their debts, bidding them thank God, and pray for their benefactor, but not telling them who it was.

He was a man of great courage and prefence of mind in danger. One inftance of it was, when a melancholymad fervant affaulted him with a drawn fword in his hand ""when he was at fupper, and he with a knife difarmed him. The man was afterwards hanged for faying, he would do it to the King.

His father had two crimes objected against him which he was not guilty of; plurality of offices, and preferring his relations. The faults objected against him were, that ⚫ he loved women, and spent his estate.

The eftate was his own. He had often loft it for the King, and might now be allowed to enjoy it himself.

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If he was fui profufus, he never was alieni appetens. If he was extravagant in fpending, he was juft in paying his debts, and at his death charged his debts on his eftate, ⚫ leaving much more than enough to pay them. "If he was "a grievance, (as he told the Houfe of Commons) he was "the cheapest to the public that ever was complained of."

• He had no children by his Dutchess, nor heirs capable of inheriting his eftate or title.

• His amours were too notorious to be concealed, and too fcandalous to be juftified, by faying he was bred in the latitude of foreign climates, and now lived in a vicious age and court; where his accufers of this crime were as • guilty as himself. He lay under fo ill a name for this, that ⚫ whenever he was fhut up in his chamber, as he loved to be, nefcio quid, or in his laboratory, meditans pugarum, over the fumes of charcoal, it was faid to be with women. When a dirty chymift, a fox-hunter, a pretender to poetry

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We find the Duke's chemical foible alluded to, among the rest, in the famous fatyrical picture drawn for him by Dryden, in revenge for his Grace's burlefquing him, in the celebrated and ftiil admired Rebearfal.

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A man fo various that he feem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome.
Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong;
Was every thing by starts, and nothing long;
But, in the courfe of one revolving moon,
Was Chymift, fidler, ftatefman, and buffoon:
Then all for women, painting, rhiming, drinking:
Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
• Bleft madman, who could every hour employ,
In something new to with, or to enjoy!
Railing, and praifing were his ufual themes,.
And both, to fhew his judgment, in extremes;
So over violent, or over civil,

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That every man with him was God, or devil,"

In fquandering wealth was his peculiar art;

Nothing went unrewarded but defert...

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Beggar'd by fools, whom ftill he found too late,
He had his jeft, and they had his estate

He laught himself from court, then fought relief,

By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief:

Thus wicked, but in will, of means bereft,

He left not faction, but of that was left.'

This, as Cibber juftly remarks, is a ftriking picture, and a masterpiece; for it has the first beauty, which is Truth

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