be truly virtuous, who does not love his country, and who is not folicitous to promote its felicity. It was the ob fervation of lord Delamer 26 a virtuous

nobleman

26 Sir John Dalrymple obferves, (vol. II. p. 339.) that there are, in the cabinet at Kensington, letters from the lords Delamer, Stamford, and Brandon, "making apologies to the Prince (of Orange) "for their want of speed in joining him (after his "landing): offences, however, which he never af"terwards forgave." But it is not very probable, that lord Delamer could delay to join William after his landing, in fuch a manner as to excite a degree of refentment in him which never fubfided; when it is fuppofed, that his lordship was one of the original projectors of the Revolution; and when it is certain, that this nobleman, with the lords Halifax and Shrewsbury, was fent by William, on the 17th of December 1688, with a message to King James to remove from Whitehall. King William alfo made lord Delamer a privy counsellor, chancellor and under-treasurer of the exchequer, and lord-lieutenant of the county and city of Chefter; and in 1690 created

nobleman who had a confiderable share in bringing about the Revolution, that "there never yet was any good man, who had "not an ardent zeal for his country.”

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created him earl of Warrington.

Surely thefe are

no evidences either of lord Delamer's want of zeal in the promotion of the Revolution; or of any refentment of king William against him on that account. But it is true, that lord Delamer was too fincere a patriot to approve of all king William's measures; and I have obferved of him in another publication, which is not now reprinted, that he was not perfectly satisfied with the manner in which fome points were adjusted at the Revolution. He appears to have wifhed for more retrenchments of the regal prerogative, and to have thought, that the liberty of the fubject was not fufficiently fecured and afcertained even under the new fettlement. Mr. Granger fays of him, in his Biographical History of England, that "he was a man of a generous and noble nature, "which difdained, upon any terms, to fubmit to " fervitude; and whofe paffions feemed to centre "in the love of civil and religious liberty."

It is, however, probable, that the declaimers against all pretenfions to patriotifm, have little more conception of

the

IN the fame publication I have also observed, that among the promoters of the Revolution, of inferior rank, but not of inferior merit, the Rev. Mr. SAMUEL JOHNSON, who had been chaplain to lord Ruffel, deferves to be particularly remembered, This gentleman published, before the Revolution, a number of pieces in fupport of the Proteftant Religion, and the cause of civil liberty; and in particular, « An

Address to the Proteftants in king James's army." This is fuppofed to have produced a great effect on the minds of king James's foldiers, and to have contributed much towards inducing them to abandon the royal caufe. It was deemed a feditious libel; and Mr. Johnfon fuffered on account of it, with the utmost fortitude, a moft rigorous punishment, which no court of justice, but one eminently infamous, could have inflicted on fuch a man, He was rector of Corringham, in Effex; and was much beloved and esteemed by his parishioners, His writings were fuppofed, by the Jacobites, to have

con

the existence of other virtues, and believe all men to be actuated by motives of bafe and fordid intereft. But he who labours to propagate the notion, that all men are more or lefs knaves, may reasonably be supposed to poffefs more modefty, than to make an exception in favour of himfelf. The man who draws general conclufions of this kind, muft always find fome evidence of the truth of them in his own heart. He judges of others by himself; and finding no honour, or vir

contributed fo much towards the Revolution, that, after that event had taken place, they attempted to affaffinate him; and though they did not fucceed in their defign, he received from the two wounds in the head. He was a ftrenuous advocate for annual parliaments; and thought that, after the Revolution, fufficient care was not taken to guard against the danger of a standing army. His works were collected together, and published, in one volume, folio,

in 1710.

tué, or public fpirit, in his own breast, he at once concludes that they are to be found no where elfe.

THAT there have been too many men among us profeffing patriotism, whose conduct has fufficiently demonftrated, that they were utterly uninfluenced by any fuch noble principle, is a melancholy' truth' which we are forced to acknowledge. But furely it would be unjust to suppose, that because some men are infincere, therefore every man is a hypocrite. To imagine; that no man professes to serve the public without fome indirect views of his own, is a fentiment, that, unless mankind are become wholly abandoned, must be false; and the propagation of which, if it were true, could not poffibly answer any good purpose. Let us rather cherish the thought, that there are ftill men remaining among us, who would ferve the public on the

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