scene of history, the fate of Morsan military order into

his civil government ; and though wielding al- once both celebrated and obscure, he has linked his name with most absolute power in Scotland, he took care that every man should the restoration of the STUARTS, but has left us no other memorial have his rights, except the feudal rights belonging to the great

of his li:e. One day he disposed, singly and with renown, of a landlords. His political opinions, or rather his absence of throne and a people : on those which either precede or follow it all political opinions, are traceable to the camp. He seemed to he is scarcely to be distinguished from the crowd with which he look upon the body politic as a sort of regiment, where a regular order was be kept up, everybody was to have his dues, and to pay mingles. He is one of those whose talents and even vices have

but.inion." a day or hour for the development of their full energy and obedience to the appointed officers for the time being. Not with- dom exaggeration in this. MONK did not dispose of a crown and a ti Sail was slackened after the action ; Jastrs said, by the orders of ago. people. The people, expressing their sentiments in every possible tleman of his bedchamber, given whilst he was asleep. way—by their representatives in Parliament, by county sod ci,

he would have perished or been thrust aside. In either cafe, Scotland. Left by his chief to subdue the Highlands, common prison and put in heavy irons; from which he was told he would be re- CHARLES the Second the highest rank and distinctions which leased when he paid a fine of ten thousand dollars, or two thousand pounds. subject can reach, his solidity, his taciturnity, and his manners Carisimo bad not the money ; and his family hoped that ere long the Dictator, plain almost to rusticity, deprived him of any courtly influence seeing the offence was so trilling, would relent. fhey knew not as yet the man. in the halcyon days of the Merry l'ilonarch; though when trouble Old Carisinio was corpulent, and the irons which he wore pressed into his nisi'. came, the eye both of prince and people was turned towards the The fact was reported to Francia. " Then," said he, " let him purchase the men of the Common sole representatCommonwealth. When the

larger ones for himself: " and accordingly, the wretched wife of the prisonerofwas left to perform the sad office of ordering her husband's festers. The tell plague devastated London, and King, courtier, Parliament, thousand dollars were ultimately raised by Carisimo's friends, and paid to Fran- lawyers, and rich men, fled in affright, MONK was appointed 0 cia ; and the prisoner was then act at liberty. • * 8 govern the city, and quietly braved the terrors of pestilence in the When I was myself in company with Francia, he seldom or never permitted slischarge of his duty. When the Duke of YORK, " after a hail- me to see the dark side of his character. Any business I had to transact with him, I always did by calling on him in the early part of the day. My visits liant action and a doubtful accident," was removed from the conshim, to him in the evening were always of his seeking. Before the Dictatorship, mind of the fleet, and the Earl of SANDWICH dismissed for some the message invariably delivered to me by an officer or one of one of his body. thing like peculation, MONK accepted the command in conjuncs guard was, " Suplica el Senor Cansul que se vaya V. a easa del Gobiernu"— lion with RUPERT, and moved that impetuous trooper's astonish. "The Consul begs that you will go to the Government House." And after he ment at " the old man's daring." When the fire of London broke became Dictator, it was "Munefa el Supremo que pose V. a vertu "—" The

Supreme orders that you go and see him." out, the King recalled him from the Dutch war to lend his aid He always received me with great urbanity, in his small dark and dismal. in the home exigency ; and when the Hollanders sailed up the looking room, situated at the extremity of a low black corridor. One tallow Medway, burnt the shipping, and attacked Chatham, MONK, at candle generally stood on a small round one-legged table, at which not more the head of a few companies, instantly started to oppose them. than three persons could be seated. This was the dining-table of the absolute All those things seem rather " distinguished from the crowd."

lord of that part of the world. A mate and a cigar, handed by an old and ill. GEORGE MONK, Duke of ALBEMARLE, was also a remarkable dressed regress, or by a black man, the only servants Francia bad, were the

refreshments tu which he invited me. I once sent him a dozen bottles of porter, man in his character as being the head of a distinct class— (more highly thought of by me in Assumption than you would think of a the respectable soldier of fortune. To his military training, hogshead of Lafitte in England); and three days afterwards, on paying a visit operating of course upon his natural qualities, may be traced to his Excellency, the first bottle which had been drawn, half full and without most if not all of the distinctive teculiarities which characterized

, him. Except in the few months preceding the Restoration, when and presented to me. I told Francia that we drank porter from tumblers ; and that a bottle once opened must at once be finished. Francia smiled : " I the novelty and exigencies of his position forced him upon treachery, thought," said he, "it was rather sour to-day at dinner; but conic, we shall he always did his present duty towards his employers to the drink a bottle in English style." fullest extent both in deed and word; seeming conscious, that if His dinner consisted generally of two common dishes ; or of one, with a little their strength and sagacity enabled them to stand, his fidelity caldo, or broth ; and water was his beverage. One forenoon his frugal meal would be rewarded. But though doing his duty to his employers, was placed on the table before I had taken my departure. I took up my hat.

"I do not ask you," said the Dictator with some consideration for lily comfort, and against their enemies, he did no more; provoking no one "I do not ask you to • 'lacer penitencia," for I know a good and substantial cessary enmities, and treating all, save when the rules of war eon•

dinner and plenty of wine every day are indispensable to an Englishman." strained him, as persons who might hereafter be his friends. The • "To do penance; " a general mode among Spaniards of asking you to stay to dine, taciturnity in which he shrouded his purposes was a faculty of It you happen to be with them at their dinner.hour• thorough soldiership. Prompt in action, and not slow in speech

when necessary, ho confined words and action to the immediate

MR. J. STUART WORTLEY'S TRANS L ATION OF business, and gave thoughts alone to the future. Almost a miracle GUIZOT'S ESSAY ON GENER AL MONK. ict that age for the justness of his payments to his men, if not for " AMONG men," says GU1ZOT, "who fill a place in the great the regularity he maintained amongst them, he carried his love of has been remarkable. At scene of history, the fate of Morsan military order into his civil government ; and though wielding al- once both celebrated and obscure, he has linked his name with most absolute power in Scotland, he took care that every man should the restoration of the STUARTS, but has left us no other memorial have his rights, except the feudal rights belonging to the great

of his li:e. One day he disposed, singly and with renown, of a landlords. His political opinions, or rather his absence of throne and a people : on those which either precede or follow it all political opinions, are traceable to the camp. He seemed to he is scarcely to be distinguished from the crowd with which he look upon the body politic as a sort of regiment, where a regular order was be kept up, everybody was to have his dues, and to pay mingles. He is one of those whose talents and even vices have

but.inion." a day or hour for the development of their full energy and obedience to the appointed officers for the time being. Not with- dom

out humour, and pithy in speech, his wit and his eloquence were With some truth, there is much of rhetorical and Frenchified rarely called out but by military topics. Even his treachery

exaggeration in this. MONK did not dispose of a crown and a ti Sail was slackened after the action ; Jastrs said, by the orders of ago. people. The people, expressing their sentiments in every possible tleman of his bedchamber, given whilst he was asleep. profession. Like the Duke of WELLINGTON, in the celebrated letter to Dr. CURTIS, and some other tricks of questionable ho- mier in a civilian's eye, MONK might think be was only practising rases, by which they were fools to be deceived. Passing by M. GUIZOT'S inferior estimate of MONK at start- ing, into which be was perhaps betrayed by a love of effect, the Memoirs of George Monk may be recommended as a very re- markable production ; learned, attractive, and in the main just. -Thoroughly acquainted with the period, M. GUIZOT has extracted all that is known of the biography of his hero, and made his life the vehicle for a descriptive disquisition on the political and mili- tary events in which he was engaged. It is indeed true that he has sometimes turned biography into an historical essay, but it is an essay by the hand of a master, who has two great re- quisites for composition—knowledge, and the art of using it.

Amongst several incidental pictures of the time, which the author introduces, here is one, rather too favourable, of the mer- cenaries of the period.

Germany and the Low Countries were at this period the resort of those young Englishmen whose taste, or the state of whose fortunes drove them to the profiersoon of arms, as well as of those whose activity languished in their own ceuntry, which was at peace with Europe, and not yet embroiled by its own liberties. Whosoever wes tormented with a longing fur active employ- ment, went to satisfy it in distant wars; which possessed no interest for him save that of the mere game of war, with its emotions and its chances. Who- soever felt capable of reaching distinction by his own valour, went to dispose of it for pay where he could best find a market for it. Thus was formed a race of teen inured to danger ; careful of their interests; at all times obedient to those habits of calculation which made a traffic of their lives ; blending brilliant ac- tion with low sentiments; indiffirent to right, yet attached to certain duties ; and trained. by their conditiou to dispense with virtues, though at the same time exempt front many vices. Such were the greater part of those officers who were at that time sent from England to inete mit and advance themselves in foreign wars; and who, a little later, under the name of Soldiers of Fortune, played a considerable pelt in her own civil contest. They were destitute of principle, yet they were not seataing in a certain sense of honour ; and, when fate launched them amid the vicissitudes of party, they were not easily found to break the engagement which they had first contracted ; nor often induced to quit, before their time, the standard to which they had hired their courage and fidelity. They were bound only slightly to their fatherland, but animated with a lively sentiment of fellowship for the men whose dangers they had shared ; and they thus formed doubtful citizens but admirable comrades. Al- though indifferent to the safferings of a population, they knew how to share those of the soldier ; and were so orderly, even in their violence, that they did not aggravate it by the evils of confusion. They were rough and severe, but not ferocious; their avarice submitted to the laws of discipline; nod that shameful zeal fur plunder which rendered the cavalier gentry the terror of Eng- land, has seldom been imputed to the soldiers of fortune. Monk was one of them. Superior to all by his faculties, similar to all in his tastes and exigen- cies, Ids talents rose with events; but not su his sentiments with his station. He performed great things without becoming great ; and retained, among the fortunes of a man who changed the face of an empire, the habits of mind andheart which had been engendered by the obscure condition of a mercenary sol- dier.

MONK NA.

At Dunbar, September 3, 1650, Cromwell, pressed by the Scats, who were superior in number, had imprudently entangled his army iu a confined position, -between the sea and the heights occupied by the enemy. There was no way -for a retreat but a narrow passage guarded by a strong body of troops. The General assembled his council ; fear had seized upon it, and few officers ad trilled an engagement. " Sir," said Monk, " the Scots have numbers and the hills : these are their advantages. We have discipline and despair; two things that will make soldiers fight : these are ours. My advice, therefore, is to at- tack them immediately ; which if you follow, 1 am ready to command the van."

Sometimes the General would make bad faces, and seem to be uneasy in hearing her, (his wife, a Royalist), and oft address himself to me, as if I were to moderate at the act ; to whom I have as oft returned, " Sir what shall I say? She speaks such unhappy truths, that neither you nor I can gainsay them." I cannot ffirget his usual answer : " True, Mr. Price," (would he say,) " but I have learned a proverb, that he wino plows truth too dike von

the heels, will one time or other hare his bruins kb:11,1107d." * His first care was to secure, as he advanced, (in the Highlands,) all the posts susceptible of defence. Having arrived one day at the house of a certain Campbell of Glenorchie, he thought it fit for the reception of a small garrison. The hied refused to cede it. " Well," said Monk, " I wiil not violate hospi- tality ;" and he immediately commanded the officers who accompanied him to evacuate the house. " Nov," said be to the laird, " look to the defence, for we are about to attack." The laird, however, though surrounded by many of his friends and relations, thought fit to treat ; and consented to receive a garri- son, on condition that a portion of his house should be reserved for his own use.

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The Dutch reerubarked ; thought not so soon but that the Duke of Albemarle, who had proceeded to the advanced posts, heard the balls whistle by his ears. One of his officers urged him to retreat a little. " Sir," replied Monk, " if I had been afraid of bullets, I should have quitted this trade of a soldier long ago."

MONK'S MAT rt.

He had performed his last service. On his return from this expedition, his infirmities, particularly his asthma and threatenings of dropsy, increased much in violence. He felt himself incapable of labour, and set out fur his seat at New Hall, in the county of Essex; rather to die in the peaceful repose of the country, than with any hope of obtaining thence any relief. Ile attended little

to the physicians, rejected all their remedies, arid, with a melaueholy which had affected him for several years past, but of which he had never either spoken or explained the cause to any one, when Gunible, who was still his chaplain, pressed him to bestow care upon his health, be answered, " Why should I desire to live?" One of his neighbours at New Hall, however, formerly an officer in his army, mentioned to him certain pills said to be sovereign against the dropsy, which were sold at Bristol by one Sermon, who had also served under his orders in Scotland, as a private soldier. This advice and remedy from ancient comrades inspired the old General with more confidence than the skill of the physicians. He eent for Sermon's pills, midtown] himself so much recovered by them for a time, that be returned to London at the close of the summer. But soon after his arrival, in the latter end of December 1669, the dropsy made alarming progress; and Monk, who WWI too intrepid to lose on this occasion his habit of seeing things in their true light, himself announced that he had but a few days to live. One remaining care was still deeply rooted

to the Rump and the Republicans are perhaps attributable to his

in his heart. It was the marriage of his son Christopher with Lady Erzabeth Cavendish, granddaughter of the Duke of Newcastle. He hastened its com- pletion with the same activity, and the same minute solicitude, as he could have applied to it in full health ; and on the 30th of December the marriage was actually celebrated in his chamber, which he never quitted more. No- thing from that moment could rouse him from his indifference to others as well as to himself. An attempt was made to persuade him to recommend his family to the favour of the King, who came to see him almost daily. " It is useless, said he ; "I do not doubt the kindness of the King for me and mine." He listened but coldly to Gumble's discourses, who thought himself bound to pre- pare him for his approaching end ; and spoke of it himself with the same cool-

ness to his friends, whom he continued to receive. At length, on the 3d of January, about nine o'clock in the morning, while sitting silently in his chair, he sighed, turned his head aside, and expired.

The translation is easy, and mostly idiomatic. Mr. STUART WORTLEY has also added a good many notes, corrective, ex- planatory, and illustrative ; which display reading, and a sensible if not a very penetrating judgment. But, either from haste, :gnorance, or a careless correction of the press, the volume is ere and there disfigured with expressions which are certainly not E