When Jefferies was afterwards prifoner in the Tower, he complained to Dr. Scott, author of "The Chriftian Life," (who vifited him under his confinement) of his hard fate. "I was hated," faid he, " by the king dom, for doing fo much in the Weit, and I was illeceived by the king for not having done more." He had ufed almoft the fame words when he was applied to for the Hewlings. When Hannah Hewling prelented a petition to the king in behalf of her brothers, he was introduced by lord Churchill, afterwards duke of Marl borough. While they waited in the antichamber for admittance, ftand ing near the chimney-piece, lord Churchill affured her of his most hearty wishes of fuccefs to her petition; but madam," faid he, "I dare not flatter you with any fuch hopes, for that marble is as capable of feeling compation as the king's heart *." This declaration of lord Churchill adds no fmall degree of credibility to Jefferies's report of the king's obdurate cruelty. William Kyffin, the father of Mrs. Hewling, was then alive. This man had been throughout his life a merchant; and was poffeffed of what was thought then a very large fortune; yet, I think, he fometimes gave vent to his piety, by holding forth among the Baptifts He was, however, in much and general esteem, his fortune and influence placing him among the foremost of the Diffenters in the city. I believe he never meddled with politics himself; but all his connections were among the warmest patriots of thofe warm times. Hayes, the banker, who married another of Kyffin's daughters, was tried for his life, in 1684, for remitting money to Sir Thomas Armstrong, an outlaw. Hayes narrowly elcaped the halter, which the court, under Charles II. Kyffin was perfonally known bet 4 his favour to the Diffenters,” in the court style of the feafon, and con cluded with telling Kytin," he hadi put him down as an alderman in hầ new charter." Sir,' replied Kyffin, I am a very old man; I have with drawn myfelf from all kind of bufi. nefs for fome years past, and am in- 1 capable of doing any fervice, in fuch an affair, to your majefty or the citybefides, Sir, the old man went on fixing his eyes ftedfafly upon the king, while the tears ran down his cheeks, the death of my grandions gave a wound to my heart, which is till bleeding, and never will cle but in the grave!` The king was deeply ftruck by the manner, the freedom, and the fpirit of this unexpected rebuke. A total filence enfued, while the galled confcience of James feemed to fhrink from the horrid remembrance. In a minute or two, however, he recovered himself enough to fay," Mr. Kyffin, I fhall find a balfam for that fore"and immediately turned about to a lord in waiting f When This exactly agrees with the opinion that must be formed both of James's bead and heart, from bis own letters, in which, numerous as they are, Sir Jobu Delrymple obferveS," "there is fcarcely one froke of genius or fenfibility to be found.” See his "Hiftory of his own Times,” vol. i. p. 599, and “ State Trials,” osi. iii. p. 983. A firoke equally unexpected and equally deferved this unfeeling monarch receives at an extraordinary council which he called foon after the landing of the prince & Orange, when amidst the filent company be applied himself to the earl of Bedfor father to the executed lord Ruffel, foying, "My Lord, you are a good maz, arbaut great influence, you can do much for me at this time." To which the east re ts 1775. Account of the Defcendants of Oliver Cromwell When the French protestants were driven to England for refuge, this William Kyffin received into his protection a numerous French family of confiderable rank. He fitted up and furnished a houfe of his own for their reception, provided them with fervants, and entirely maintained them at his own expence, in a manner which bore fome proportion to their rank in France; and when this family afterwards recovered fome part of their ruined fortune, he would not diminish it a fingle thilling, by taking any retribution for the fervices he had done them. Such were the city pa triots of those times! I give thefe feveral accounts as I have often heard them in the family. I have no doubt of their authenticity: and I infert them in this letter, I hope not improperly, as they relate to public characters and events. It was not, I believe, above a year after the execution of her brothers, that Hannah Hewling, who died in 1731, married major Richard Cromwell before mentioned. The iffie from this marriage were, 1. Mary Cromwell, who died unmarried, before the year 1730. 2. William Cromwell, who died in Kirby-Street, Hatton Garden, in July 1772. In decline of life, 1750, he married the widow of Thomas Weltby, Efq. who was alfo in years. This Lady did not live long with Mr. Cromwell, and on her death left him a moderate fortune. 3. Richard Cromwell, of Bartlet's Buildings. He was an eminent attorney at law; and marrying the daughter of Ebenezer Gatton, Efq. by her he left iffue one fon, Robert, (or, as I rather think, Robert Thornhill Cromwell, from Sir Robert Thornhill, a near relation to Mrs. Cremwell, from whom a handfome fortune devolved to her family.) This Ro 631 bert Cromwell died, without iffue, about the year 1762. There are now living, three daughters of Richard Cromwtil; Elizabeth, Anne, and Lætitia. Thele ladies are unmarried; and are now, or lately were, of Great Ruffel Street, Bloomsbury †. 4. Thomas Cromwell. He was a grocer on Snow-Hill, and died in the year 1748. By his first wife he left a fon, Henry Cromwell; whether he is alive or dead, I am uncertain; and a daughter, married to Mr. John Field, an eminent apothecary in Newgate Street. There is a very numerous family from this marriage. By his fecond lady, who is till living, Mr. Thomas Cromwell was father of Mr. Thomas Cromwell, now in the EatIndies; Mr. Oliver Cromwell, of the Million Bank; a young gentleman very much and very juitly elteemed by his numerous acquaintance ‡; a daughter unmarried, and another who died young. 5. Henry Cromwell, fourth fon of Richard and Hannah, had a place in the Excife office, London, and died, unmarried, in January 1769. 6. Oliver Cromwell, youngest son of Richard and Hannah, had an enfign's commiflion in an irith regiment, which he did not hold long, as the army did not fuit him. He died in 1748, unmarried. Henry Cromwell, the poet, fo well known by his correfpondence with Mr. Pope, was not defcended from Oliver, though undoubtedly of the fame family. The late Mr. William Cromwell, who knew this Henry, told me they kept up the form of calling coufin, though their relation was remote. Sir Henry Cromwell, fettled at Hinchingbrook in the reign of Elizabeth, was the common ancestor of both §. Thus, Sir, I have completed, as far as I am able, the whole of your re4 L 2 quest plied, I am an old man, and can do but little; then added with a figh, I had "They are now living at Berkhamfed in Hertfordshire," fays Dr. Gibbons. These two young gentlemen, great grandsons of the Protector, are now his only furviving male defcendants. . This Sir Henry had fix fons. The eldeft, Sir Oliver, gave a megnificent intertament to James I. in his way to London, and was meste a Kright of the Bath at his coronation. Sir Henry's fecond jon, Robert, was father to be strotector. 632 Dialogue between Lord Chesterfield and Dr. Goldsmith. Dec. queft as to the Bendy fh family; and, I am, Rev. Sir, moft fincerely yours, [In the "Hora Lyrica" of Dr. Watts, is a copy of verfes, dated 1699, "To Mrs. B. Bendyth: against tears." Another, dated Sept. 3, 1701, entitled "The Indian philofopher," is addreffed "to Mr. Henry Bendyth," her fecond fon, on his marriage, and a third, called "T Life of Souls," dated 1704, “to Dr. Thomas Gibfon," Richard Crom well's fon-in-law. From Oliver's four daughters does not appear that there are any defcendants now living, except from Bridget the eldeft (Mrs. Bendyź› mother) and Frances the younge who firit married the honourable Rebert Rich, grandfon to the earl Warwick, and fecondly, Sir Jo Ruffel, baronet, of Chippenham, Cambridgeshire, whofe fitter was t wife of her brother Henry. By be firft hufband she had no iffe, but b her fecond the had three fons and ta daughters. The prefent Sir John Ruflel and Sir Thomas Frankland. baronets, two of their defcendants : her great-grandfons. J. D.] For the LONDON MAGAZINE. A Dialogue in the Shades, between the late Lord Chesterfield, and the late Befr Goldfmith. B L. C. ELIEVE me, Goldfmith, if you had paid a little more court to the Graces, you would not only have paffed your life more comfortably, but have reaped infinitely greater advantages from your abili ties. Gold. I am furprized to hear a perfon of your Lordship's good fenfe fpeak in this manner; as I lived agreeable to choice, and do not recollect to have once regretted the abfence of the Graces, I cannot conceive what injury I fuftained by the want of them; in a nobleman they may be requifite, but what could an author get by them? they would not enhance his merit with a bookfeller, or with the public, as by his writings a judgement is formed of his character. L. C. But did you never mix with the world? Does a man when he commences author entirely abandon fociety? At fuch times how contemptible muft an aukward theepish fellow appear, ftammering and blufhing if he attempts but to open his lips, and feemingly as great a ftranger to his own legs and arms as to the company which embarrafles him: for my part I always made the Graces my ftudy and found them of infinitely greater advantage to me than any other acquifition. How 1 flattering muft it have been to my va nity, to think, I could claim the attention of a whole circle, by the cle gance of my manner, and the iweetnes and propriety of my expreffion! Gold. Admit your Lordship's pofitios to be strictly juft, and that thofe ac complishments which you have lavifhed fuch praifes on, are worth attending to, do you fuppofe them within the reach of every body? L. C. Certainly, whoever is in earneft in his addreffes may depend on being crowned with fuccefs. Gold. What is the meaning then, that Mr. Stanhope your own fon, with whom you took fo much pains, failed` L. C. He wanted industry; he was too indolent. Gold. As confiderable obftacles, in my opinion, to becoming an adept in the fcience of good-breeding, as a man can be clogged with; but befide this extreme love of eafe, which peculiarly diftinguishes men of genius, what leifure, what opportunity, have they to learn politenefs? if they cultivate their talents, three parts of their time must be devoted to study. L. C. I am very glad you have ftarted that objection, as I fancy I can fet you right upon that head-you must allow Lord Bolingbroke to have been a mas of erudition and abilities, and yet his deportment was graceful and his addrefs captivating to the laft degree. Gold. In that ingenious nobleman, I acknowledge, learning and goodbreeding were united. But one inftance is not fufficient to convert me to your Lordship's opinion; then his exalted itation furnished him with opportunity which perfons of an inferior clafs are deftitute of: fifty to one, had he been born in a more humble sphere be would have been as uncouth as any body elfe, who had spent most of his life in ftudy; for inftance, I have often heard yourself declare, that on your first fetting out in the world, you fuffered fo much from mauvaise honte as almoft to determine you to forfake the beau monde: now Sir, if you had as little rank, and as few friends to fupport you under your diffidence as I had, how would you have become fo great a favourite with the Graces ? L. C. Why faith, Goldfmith, I muft confefs there is a good deal of truth in what you affert. However, it must be allowed, that if the doctrine which I took fo much pains to inculcate could be put in execution, it would be of infinite fervice to mankind. Gold. I am forry that I am obliged to differ from your Lordship. I think you fet out upon wrong principles, but like many others of great wit, as you adopted them out of fondnefs, you were eafily perfuaded that they were right, and from the warmth of your imagination never wanted arguments to fupport your fyftem; you were compleat mafter of the art of elegant diffipation, and the beft caterer of pleasure I ever met with ; but furely you cannot maintain that your doctrine rendered men more worthy or more ufeful members of fociety: you have furnished the blockheads with arms again't the fcholar, and advanced pofitions which your real character contradited for do you fuppofe, that if you had nothing to boat of but the polifh of your manners, you wouldever have cut the diftinguished figure you did? Are you not fenfible that every earthly bleffing has its alloy; and that to be a genius and a fine gentleman are nearly incompatible? You entertained too high an opinion of the powers of human nature; you fuppofed her capable of more than the could perform, and therefore in the end found yourfelf difappointed. In our present state of fpiritual exiftence, pure as we are, and divefted of paffions, I may fpeak my thoughts freely. In what degree of competition can any thing either you, Bolingbroke, or Lyttelton wrote, itaud with the works of Addijon, who you fay was aukward; of Johnfon, whom you have ridiculed; or even with mine, the laft, the meaneft of the Mafes fons? Surely the leaft a man of talents can expect, for pleafing and inftructing the world, is lenity for thofe foibles infeparably annexed to the conftitution of his temper; but I muft beg your Lordship's pardon, yonder I fee Addifon and Virgil in deep converfation, I promiled about this time to meet them; they are perfons I never ftand upon ceremony with, for you know they are both as aukward as myself. To the EDITOR of the LONDON MAGAZINE. MIDST the various vices, which treacherous, and deceitful, the heart then receives a deep wound, which neither time, reafon, nor philofophy, can ever perfectly heal. Indeed, too fashionable is the obfervation, that "to fucceed in the world, a man must not be too delicate; that he mult temporize, flatter, and deceive, if he ever intends to become great and independent." Let us not, however, give to man, as his ruling principles, the cunning of the for, the ferocity of the tiger, or the hypocrify of the crocodile. Man is born with with nobler attributes; and, though they are by too many debased, yet we have feveral striking inftances of the greatness of the human foul in both ancient and modern authors. Lucian gives us a ftriking example of an unhaken adherence to friendship in two Scythians, who, notwithstanding the natural barbarity of the age and nation in which they lived, have left a memento worthy the attention, in fome degree at leaft, of the profeffors of modern politenels, and good breeding. But four days had paffed after Amy zocus and Dandamis had fworn an eternal friendship, and, after the cuf tom of the Scythians, had drank of each others blood in confirmation of their alliance, when the Sarmates entered Scythia with thirty thousand foot, and ten thousand horfe. The two friends encamped on the banks of the Tanais, oppofite to each other, in order to oppofe the enemy's pallage. By the fortune of war, Amy zocus was defeated and taken prifoner, which Dandamis perceiving, he threw himself into the river and fwam acrofs it to the affiftance of his friend. No fooner had he reached the shore, than he was furrounded by the enemy, by whom he would have been inftantly killed, had he not cried out, that he came to release a prifoner. At thefe words their fury was abated, and they led him to the general, who demanded of him what ranfom he would give. "Myfelf, (replied he) for I have no thing else to give, fince my arms are taken from me, which are the ony poffeffion of a Scythian." "Your offer is too great (replied the barbarian) we will be contented with a part of it ;" and immediately ordered the light of his eyes for ever to be extinguished. He was then ferz back with his friend to the Scythians, and Dandamis was more rejoiced at this conquest, than afflicted for the los of his fight. His prefence reftored courage to the Scythians, who thought they had lot nothing fince they had preferved fo great a treasure. This noble actica aftonifhed even the enemy, when they began to confider with what fort of people they had to deal: they retired by night in diforder, after having burnt the chariots they had taken, and left a part of their spoils. Amyzocus, however, difdained to enjoy the light, fince his friend was in darkness through tenderness to him. Thefe two illuftrious friends were af¦ terwards fupported by the public, who held them in the higheft veneration for their virtue. It will be needlefs, Sir, to make any long reflections on this fingular piece of hiftory, the truth of which we have no reason to doubt: I shall only obferve, that what a Scythian conf dered as more facred than the light of heaven, is now every day facrificed to the moft paltry views of interest. BENEVOLUS. To the EDITOR of the LONDON MAGAZINE, found, the principles of all parties are developed, and the belt interests of religion and virtue are maintained by judicious defences of the fountain from whence the influence of all religion and virtue muft flow. I do not with to take upon me the invidious task of examining why, or whence these controverfies, and their confequent applications to the British parliament failed of fuccefs. A fhort view of the confeffional and clerical petition controverfies, hath already appeared in the thape of a pamphlet, a fimilar fummary of the Diffenters Controverty A Stort View of the Controverfies eccafioned by the Confeffional, and the Petition to Parliament, for relief in the matter of Subfcription to the Articles and Liturg of the Church of England." |