with Creyghton to characterize Milton in the preface to his book, but without naming him, left both the editor and the printer fhould fuffer for their temerity, the Restoration being yet in embryo. Some of his rhetoric we fhall tran fcribe:

Nec fuis unquam parafitis indiguit fanaticum illud genus hominum, qui "exitiali facundia armati femper in pro<f cinctu ftant, et qua jubentur, linguas "venales flectunt, eorum turpiffima "crimina út virtutes collaudant, aliorum <omnium dotes dente fatyrico perfo<diunt, et in Deum ipfum, fi fenatus perduellis mandaverit, prófanæ elo"quentiæ arietes admovere non erubef* cunt."

And

And again,

"Regicidium commendant pofteris, "ut Heroici facinoris exemplum fingu ❝lare. Everfionem ecclefiæ, extirpa❝tionem regni, regiique fanguinis, inter "facta fortiffima numerant."

Again, fpeaking of the ftyle of the writers on the fide of the parliament, he fays:

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Qui fructum cum femente conferre "vellet fatius multo judicaret ad rudem66 illam, fed honeftam Latinæ orationis "balbutiem (monkish Latin) revertere quam fic in Marci Tullii ac Titi Livii "viridariis expatiari, pollucibiliter men"tiri, &c."

And

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And lastly,

"Tum de Regibus, fi quis forte for tuna encomiaftice fcripferit, fuccenfent, frendunt, debacchantur, et in omne latus obftreperam volvunt facundiam, ne quis Rex pro pio habeatur, quando ipfi in omnium Regum facrofan&ta capita tam impii [1. impie] detonuerunt."

The allufion here to Milton and his works could not have been plainer, without naming him. The prefacer well knew Milton's zeal for his cause, and his abilities in defending it. He knew not but he might yet be difpofed to do himself and his party justice at his [Creyghtop's] expence, and he chofe therefore, both for the poor printer's fake and his

own,

own, to make the abuse general, that he might have room to fay, that Milton was not the man he meant, though the two laft citations would not apply to any other man that then was, or ever had been, upon the face of the earth. Such was the terror that Milton's name ftruck into the hearts of his opponents, even when his party was rapidly approaching heir final diffolution.

The

Addition to the Poftfcript.

-Such was the awe that MILTON'S name ftruck into the hearts of his opponents, even when his party was rapidly approaching its final diffolution.

But to return once more to the New Narrative. To defend injured characters is feasonable at all times. Some former accounts of Milton, Dr. Johnson treats with contradiction and contempt, where neither the information, nor the good faith of the writers, are more to be fufpected than his own.

A large majority of authors are too inconfiderable to have their lives and adventures recorded for the inftruction or