Cafe of the Felon, and incapable of Remorfe and Shame, could forget all Regards to the Advantage his Adverfary had in the Difpute, all Tenderness with relation to a Man's private Affairs, fo far as to mention the Particulars of the Gentleman's Sifter, and his Paffion for an Actrefs. This Account with his Sifter I am very fure the Examiner can be no Judge of, nor any one but the Gentleman himself. The Of fence his Paffion gave (to all who efteem'd him) is to be laniented, but not to be mention'd, with thefe Aggravations, especially after his Death, and that when he who speaks, profeffes himself an Enemy. But the Examiner takes upon him to be a Champion for the Church, and must not allow fuch Sins to be venial, yet at the fame time he fhould have confider'd, that the other Party would recriminate, and have reflected, that there are too many of the Examiner's Side, who don't behave themselves as if they were under Vows of Chastity. I know a fly one among his great Friends, that loves a Wench as well as ever did Old Rowley. Befides him, there is another who finds Leifure from his weighty Affairs to ftrole among the Stews, as fome will have it, neglects his W-ng now and then, to toy with the Business of a Nn. But this dull Fellow the Examiner has fo little Senfe of what the impartial World thinks of him and his Performances, that he gives himself an Air of talking by way of good Humour. In the beginning of the fame Paper of the 9th Inftant, the pretty Wanton is in a Laughing-Vein, and with a very gay Heart rallies is, for a Curiofity he fuppofes we have to know the Name, Profeffion, Trade, Quality, or, Com Complexion or Sex of the Author of the Examiner. This Author has indeed been very much talk'd of, a Woman, a Divine, and Two or Three Gentlemen have been fufpected, but no Perfon that had any Pretenfion to Modefty, Piety or Integrity, has been once nam'd on this Occafion. The Folly of the Fellow is monftrous, to pretend to speak of Wenching, confidering how the World is affronted as to this Vice at prefent. It is certain there never has been lewder Creatures than many who are now in Vogue, and I am afraid one or other has a Defign upon the celebrated Actrefs above-mention'd, elfe why does he fear to make any Enquiry into her Conduct behind the Curtain? If the Whiggs do lofe her, they will bear it with the fame Patience that they have already the De•fection of others of like Virtue, tho' greater Quality, and higher Obligations to be conftant to us; but I fpeak this only from general Rumour, for I don't believe fhe is gone off, fo far from that, that I am credibly inform'd the has refus'd great Sums, because the infifts upon her Lover's voting on our Side; they are, it seems, both ftill firm to their Honour, but I would lay on the Woman's Side, were it not that all Wagers relating to Politicks are forbidden by Act of Parliament. The Gentleman who wrote this, not knowing Mr. Maynwaring in his younger Days, was not acquainted with that Part of his Life which was difhonour'd with Jacobitifm, an Error no Man ever renounc'd more heartily, and with greater Abhorrence of it than he did. Having thus vindicated the Memory of this Excellent Perfon. I fhall not prefume to add any thing further of my own to his Character, which is fufficiently explain'd in the preceeding Pages. His Afhes lye in the Church of Chertsey in Surrey, where his Father and Grand-father were Bury'd, and where they had formerly a good Seat and Eftate, this laft Office was paid him with great Privacy, anfwerable more to his Humour than his Merit: He never affected Pomp living, and thofe who had the Care of his Funeral, knew too well what wou'd have been his Will therein not to fulfil it exactly. INDEX. INDE X. A Abigail the beautiful, 397. What be told Godfrey Kneller, 340 Account, Har--ys with the Publick Stated. 133 Pag. 183. Accountable the late Minifters to be made fo for feveral Crimes. Acroftick upon Har-y, written by Major General C―r, with Criticisms. 178, 179. & feq. Addreffers, whom they were made up of. 131 Addreffes, Factious ones, in favour of the Incendiary Sacheverel, 118. To have a good Parliament diffolv'd, 121. The Impudence and Folly of 'em, ib. Treafonable. 127 That from Oxfordshire an excellent one, 131 Addrefes of Parliament to recover the Spanish Monarchy from the Houfe of Auftria. 252, Advocates, Sacheverel's, their Infamous Chara Eters. 123 Allegory a very fine one in Hannibal and Han no. 144 249 Alliance, Grand, the Foundation of it. 262 Peace. Ambaffador of Chrift, Sacheverel calls himself So. Amity ancient with France, reviv'd by the late Minifters. 218 Angel detach'd from Hell, Sacheverel fuch a one. 117 Anjou Duke of, how King William and the Dutch came to own him King of Spain, He compliments the Pretender. 134, 135. 214 The giving him Spain, unites it to France. 263. Will never turn Spaniard. Anticlimax, a merry one. 264 162 Ariftophanes's Sausage-maker, apply'd to Hary. Arthur Moor, great with King Lewis, 180 & feq. 338 269 I 36 Auftria Houfe of, weak. Author, His Defigns. |