The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine Volume 14 - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 edition. Excerpt: ...the removal also of the gates and portcullises, for which he intercedes with them by letter, requesting they would be pleased to recall that part of their order. They, however, grow only the more obstinate, vote down the common council, and send peremptory orders to have the gates and the portcullises beaten to pieces. But see the vanity of human policies! for this, which they deemed would contribute to their strength, did only accelerate their distruction; and the pulling down the city-gates made the way patent for majesty to enter and chastise them for their treason. This intemperance of the Rump did lose them absolutely in the opinion of the Scotch officers, who now began to justify Lambert's proceedings, and to say, they feared the parliament would enforce them to follow the same measures. And though they obeyed orders and beat down the gates and portcullises, they did it in such a manner, and with such discourse, that the citizens had scarcely room to be displeased with them. They told the latter, that they came from Scotland, where their very enemies were their friends;.and now they were making their friends look upon them as enemies. At Newgate, the commanding officer took divers small pieces of wood--fragments of the broken gate, and presented them to his soldiers, as the medals which had been promised them by parliament, at the time they first appeared against Lambert. Thus did the officers freely exclaim against the drudgery put upon them, in order to make them odious to the public; and even the General expressed himself to some of his servants as glad at their being so sensible of the indignity. About this time, came Colonel Morley, Lieutenant of the Tower, to visit the General in his quarters. They both agreed in their dislike...