they were restrained from action. His zeal for the king's fervice was recompenfed by the command of one of the independent troops of horse, then raised to protect the coaft.

Next year he received a fummons to parliament, which, as he was then but eighteen years old, the earl of Northumberland cenfured as at least indecent, and his objection was allowed. He had a quarrel with the carl of Rochester, which he has perhaps too oftentatiously related, as Rochester's furviving fifter, the lady Sandwich, is faid to have told him with very fharp reproaches.

When another Dutch war (1672) broke out, he went again a volunteer in the fhip which the celebrated lord Offory commanded; and there made, as he relates, two curious remarks.

"I have obferved two things, which I dare affirm, "though not generally believed. One was, that the wind of a cannon-bullet, though flying never fo ncar, is incapable of doing the leaft harm; and in"deed, were it otherwife, no man above deck would

efcape. The other was, that a great shot may be "fometimes avoided, even as it flies, by changing "one's ground a little; for, when the wind fometimes "blew away the smoke, it was fo clear a fun-shiny

day, that we could easily perceive the bullets (that "were half-fpent) fall into the water, and from thence "bound up again among us, which gives fufficient "time for making a ftep or two on any fide; though "in fo fwift a motion, 'tis hard to judge well in "what line the bullet comes, which, if mistaken, "may by removing coft a man his life, instead of fav "ing it."

His behaviour was fo favourably reprefented by lord Offory, that he was advanced to the command of the Katherine, the beft fecond-rate fhip in the

navy.

He afterwards raised a regiment of foot, and commanded it as colonel. The land-forces were fent afhore by prince Rupert; and he lived in the camp very familiarly with Schomberg. He was then appointed colonel of the old Holland regiment, together with his own; and had the promife of a garter, which he obtained in his twenty-fifth year, He was likewife made gentleman of the bed-chamber,

He afterwards went into the French fervice, to learn the art of war under Turenne, but ftaid only a short time. Being by the duke of Monmouth oppofed in his pretenfions to the firft troop of horse-guards, he, in return, made Monmouth fufpected by the duke of York. He was not long after, when the unlucky Monmouth fell into difgrace, recompenfed with the lieutenancy of Yorkshire and the government of Hull.

Thus rapidly did he make his way both to military and civil honours and employments; yet, busy as he was, he did not neglect his ftudies, but at least cultivated poetry; in which he must have been early confidered as uncommonly fkilful, if it be true which is reported, that, when he was yet not twenty years old, his recommendation advanced Dryden to the laurel.

The Moors having befieged Tangier, he was fent (1680) with two thousand men to its relief. A strange ftory is told of danger to which he was intentionally exposed in a leaky fhip, to gratify fome refentful jealoufy of the king, whofe health he therefore would

never permit at his table, till he faw himself in a fafer place. His voyage was profperously performed in three weeks, and the Moors without a conteft retired before him.

In this voyage he compofed the Vision; a licentious poem, fuch as was fashionable in thofe times, with little power of invention or propriety of fentiment.

At his return he found the king kind, who perhaps had never been angry; and he continued a wit and a courtier as before,

At the fucceffion of king James, to whom he was intimately known, and by whom he thought himself beloved, he naturally expected ftill brighter fun-fhine; but all know how foon that reign began to gather clouds. His expectations were not disappointed; he was immediately admitted into the privy-council, and made lord chamberlain. He accepted a place in the high commiffion, without knowledge, as he declared after the Revolution, of its illegality. Having few religious fcruples, he attended the king to mafs, and kneeled with the reft; but had no difpofition to receive the Romish Faith, or to force it upon others for when the priests, encouraged by his appearances of compliance, attempted to convert him, he told them, as Burnet has recorded, that he was willing to receive inftruction, and that he had taken much pains to believe in God who made the world and all men in it; but that he should not be eafily perfuaded that man was quits, and made God again.

A pointed fentence is bestowed by fucceffive tranfmiffion on the laft whom it will fit; this censure of tranfubftantiation, whatever be its value, was uttered long ago by Anne Afkew, one of the firft fufferers for

the

the Proteftant Religion, who, in the time of Henry VIII. was tortured in the Tower; concerning which, there is reafon to wonder that it was not known to the Hiftorian of the Reformation.

In the Revolution he acquiefced, though he did not promote it. There was once a design of affociating him in the invitation of the prince of Orange; but the earl of Shrewsbury difcouraged the attempt, by declaring that Mulgrave would never concur. This king William afterwards told him, and asked what he would have done if the propofal had been made, Sir, faid he, I would have discovered it to the king whom İ then ferved. To which King William replied, I cannot blame you.

Finding king James irremediably excluded, he voted for the conjunctive fovereignty, upon this principle, that he thought the titles of the prince and his confort equal, and it would please the prince their protector to have a share in the fovereignty. This vote gratified

It is poffible that this sentence might have been uttered both by Anne Afkew and the duke of Buckingham, and been an original fentiment with both of them. Mr. Garrick once told me, that he and Quin went to fee the house at Twickenham, which Hudson the Painter had then bought and furnished, and that Quin, contemplating its fituation on the bank of the river, the beautiful fcenes around it, the pictures, the furniture and general elegance of the dwelling, faid, "These are the things that make a death-bed terrible," which Mr. Garrick admired as a fine moral fentiment, as it certainly is; but it had been uttered before. The emperor Charles the fifth being at Venice, and with the duke walking through the feveral apartments of the palace there, and having viewed the statues, pictures, and coftly furniture, with a deep and compofed melancholy exclaimed: "Hæc funt quæ faciunt invitos mori:" These are the things which make us unwilling to die.

This story I relate from an author whom Quin can hardly be fupposed to have ever read, an old divine of Cambridge.

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king William; yet, either by the king's diftruft or his own discontent, he lived fome years without employ, ment. He looked on the king with malevolence, and, if his verfes or his profe may be credited, with contempt. He was, notwithstanding this averfion or indifference, made marquis of Normanby (1694); but ftill opposed the court on fome important questions; yet at last he was received into the cabinet council, with a pension of three thousand pounds.

At the acceffion of queen Anne, whom he is faid to have courted when they were both young, he was highly favoured. Before her coronation (1702) fhe made him lord privy feal, and foon after lord lieutenant of the North-riding of Yorkshire. He was then named commiffioner for treating with the Scots about the Union; and was made next year first duke of Normanby, and then of Buckinghamshire, there being fufpected to be somewhere a latent claim to the title of Buckingham.

Soon after, becoming jealous of the duke of Marlborough, he refigned the privy feal, and joined the discontented Tories in a motion extremely offenfive to the Queen, for inviting the princefs Sophia to England. The Queen courted him back with an offer no lefs than that of the chancellorfhip; which he refused. He now retired from business, and built that house in the Park, which is now the Queen's, upon ground granted by the Crown.

When the ministry was changed (1710), he was made lord chamberlain of the household, and concurred in all tranfactions of that time, except that he endeavoured to protect the Catalans. After the Queen's death, he became a conftant opponent of the Court;

and,