- The instances I allude to are Shaftesbury, Akenside, Harris, Petwin, and Sydenham.

Canute passed four years in peace after this enterprise, and he died at Shaftesbury

Dryden thus satirizes Achitophel, the Earl of Shaftesbury: "Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honor blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?

This was done on the spot; the command of the army by the change was virtually taken from Monk; and he was compelled to declare for Charles Stuart It may be thought that Locke's narrative derives confirmation from another version of the same story in the Life of Lord Shaftesbury, lately edited by Mr. Cooke, with the following variations.

As Achitophel was a traitorous counsellor to David, so was the Earl of Shaftesbury to Charles II.

As Hushaï outwitted Achitophel, so Hyde (duke of Eochester) outwitted the Earl of Shaftesbury, etc., etc. Auspicious prince.

These, however, were unsuccessful; and Shaftesbury, their leading spirit, was accused of treason, and confined to the Tower.

His good-humoured but heartless monarch set him on another task, for which he was never paid, writing a translation of Maimbourg's "History of the League," the object of which was to damage Shaftesbury and his party, by branding them as enemies to monarchy.

[Footnote 57: 'Merriest man alive:' Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury.]

The exhibition was held at the "Dean's close" at Westminster and the Earl of Shaftesbury gave the prizes.

The character of Shaftesbury, both as Achitophel, and as drawn in "The Medal," bears peculiar witness to this assertion.

* Autre physionomie intéressante, celle de Lord Shaftesbury, un beau type d'aristocrate, au physique comme au moral, très sensible et compatissant, un philanthrope bon et loyal, anti-esclavagiste militant.

"Oui, sans doute, mais il faut qu'ils aient à manger tout de suite," dit Shaftesbury, et sur l'heure il rentre chez lui, et expédie 400 rations de soupe.

Devenu Lord Shaftesbury après avoir longtemps porté le nom de Lord Ashley, il signa une lettre sur l'émancipation des esclaves des Etats-Unis du Sud.

Anthony Ashley Cooper, earl of Shaftesbury, baron Ashley, lord lieutenant and custos rotulorum of Dorsetshire, F.R.S. My Lord, Having endeavoured, by an elegant and useful edition, to recover the esteem of the publick to an author undeservedly neglected, the only care which I now owe to his memory, is that of inscribing his works to a patron, whose acknowledged eminence of character may awaken attention, and attract regard.

The First Earl of Shaftesbury.

HOLLIS, LOUISE S. The First Earl of Shaftesbury.

He is thoroughly out of all patience with thy perverseness,thou wilt never find another such a noble lord and one 'twill love thee with such love;and for a face and figurewell, thou art surely blind to masculine beauty;and should his Grace go hence, my lord will be his Grace of Ellswold, and second to none in the realm; he will become as much to the king as the Duke of Buckingham, and will far outshine Monmouth and Shaftesbury.

"Here is an admirer of Dryden's compositions, she clings pertinaciously and with all the ardour of strong youth to his satire of 'Absalom and Achitophel,' although 'tis a bitter lampoon on Monmouth and Shaftesbury; two men she heartily admires."

We carried with us a number of introductions from Lord Shaftesbury to a rather strange assortment of persons, whom his lordship had found useful both as collectors of trustworthy information, and energetic agitators in favour of legislation.

The following letter from the Earl of Shaftesbury, then Lord Ashley, to my mother on the subject, is illustrative of the strong interest he took in the matter, and of the means which he thought necessary for obtaining information respecting it: *

But the little knot of apostles to whom Lord Shaftesbury's letters introduced us, and into whose intimate conciliabules his recommendations caused our admittance, was to my mother, and yet more to me, to whom the main social part of the business naturally fell, a singularly new and strange one.

One, I remember, a Mr. Doherty, a very small bookseller, to whom we were specially recommended by Lord Shaftesbury.

He just mentions, almost in a parenthesis, the names of Shaftesbury, Collins, and Toland, and then quickly passes on.

The whole is, so far as it goes, a sound and picturesque version of the great Shaftesbury.