OF SOME DISTINGUISHED PERSONS, CHIEFLY OF THE PRESENT AND TWO PRECEDING ADORNED WITH SCULPTURES. THE SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. YOL. II. INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ST. MARINO. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, JUN. AND W. DAVIES, 1795. ANECDOTES SOME DISTINGUISHED PERSONS, &c. &c. &c. CHARLES THE SECOND. HE Öriginal of the following curious Letter THE from Charles the Second to Mrs. Lane*, is in the poffeffion of JOHN LEIGH PHILIPS, Efq. of Manchester. “ MRS. LANË, "I HAVE hitherto deferred writing to you in hope to be able to fend you some what else befides a Letter, and I believe it troubles me 46 more that I cannot yett doe it, than it does 66 you, though I doe not take you to be in a * Mrs. Lane, with great dexterity, managed the escape of Charles, after the battle of Worcester, through the Midland Counties to the fea. VOL. II. « good "good condition longe to expect it. The truth is "my neceffityes are greater than can be imagined, "but I am promifed they shall be shortly supplyed; "if they are you fhall be fure to receave a share, "for it is impoffible I can ever forget the great debte I owe you, wh I hope I fhall live to pay, "in a degree that is worthy of me: in the meane "time I am fure all who love me will be very "kind to you, else I shall never think them fo to "Your most affectionat frind "Paris, Nov. 23, 1652." "CHARLES R. Charles had pardoned a perfon of quality who had killed his antagonist unfairly in a duel. Some time afterwards, the perfon upon whom he had fo improperly exercifed one of the nobleft prerogatives of Royalty, having murdered another man, Lord Rochester told the King, "Sire, it was not Lord but your Majefty that "killed this man." The Author of the " Richardfoniana" gives the following instance of that readiness of reply which this lively Monarch poffeffed.His Majefty afking Dr. Stillingfleet one day, "how it happened "that he always read his fermons before him, when he was informed that he always preached without book elsewhere?" the Doctor told the King, that the awe of fo noble an audience, where he " faw แ |
