PAGE LETTER CLXXVI. To President Bradshaw: Dundas, 24th July 1651. 205 Gone over to Fife. CLXXVIII. To R. Mayor, Esq.: 28th July 1651. [This should Rebukes his Son Richard for excess in expenditure. 206 CLXXIX. To Hon. W. Lenthall: Burntisland, 29th July 1651 211 CLXXX. To the same: Leith, 4th August 1651 St. Johnston's taken: the Enemy suddenly gone southward. Wharton's Doubts once more. Battle of Worcester. LETTER CLXXXIV. To Rev. J. Cotton: London, 2d October 1651 CLXXXVII. To Lieut.-Gen. Fleetwood: Cockpit, -1652 Domestic-Devotional. Difference between Love and Fear in SPEECH I. Opening of the Little Parliament, 4th July 1653. Retrospective: aim of all these Wars and Struggles; chief LETTER CLXXXIX. To Lieut.-Gen. Fleetwood: Cockpit, 22d August Complains: heart-weary of the strife of Parties: Moses and the Two Hebrews. CXC. To Committee of Customs: Cockpit, October 1653 CXCV. To Sir T. Vyner: Whitehall, 5th July 1654 SPEECH II. Meeting of the First Protectorate Parliament, 4th Sep- Goodwin's Sermon, On the Deliverance out of Egypt, and Pilgrimage towards Canaan through the Wilderness. Our difficulties: Antichrist; Levellers, Fifth-Monarchists, Jesuits. Our attainments: Some Reform of Law; Reform SPEECH III. To the First Protectorate Parliament, 12th September Cannot have the Foundations of Government submitted to debate in this Assembly. A free Parliament they; but he also, in virtue of whom they sit, must be an unquestioned Protector. His history since he entered on these Public Struggles: Dismissal of the Long Parliament; Abdication of the Little Parliament; Protectorship, on what founded, PAGE LETTER CXCVI. To R. Bennet, Esq.: Whitehall, 12th January 1654-5 397 Virginia and Maryland. CXCVII. To Captain Crook: Whitehall, 20th January 1654-5. 398 SPEECH IV. Dissolution of the First Protectorate Parliament, 22d Regrets that they have not communicated with him: he was not unconcerned with them; has been struggling and en- deavouring for them, keeping Peace round them;-does not know, on their part, whether they have been alive or dead. Of trees that foster only things poisonous under their shadow. Of disturbances, once well asleep, awakened CXCIX. To Lord Fleetwood: Whitehall, 22d June 1655 By the Rev. Mr. Brewster. Henry Cromwell gone to Ireland. CC. To Mr. Secretary Thurloe: Whitehall, 28th July 1655 A Scholar for the Charterhouse. CCI. To Gen. Blake: Whitehall 30th July 1655 Instructions, Not yet to divide the Fleet. Person for Lisbon. COMPLIMENT, Swedish Ambassador CCIII. To Maryland Commissioners: Whitehall, 26th Sep- 507 SPEECH V. Meeting of the Second Protectorate Parliament, 17th Sep- OLIVER CROMWELL'S LETTERS AND SPEECHES PART V (continued) CAMPAIGN IN IRELAND 1650 DECLARATION OF THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND, FOR THE UNDECEIVING OF DELUDED PEOPLE HERE is a kind of Epistle General, in a quite other tone, intended to give 'satisfaction' to a quite other class, if they are capable of it. The Supreme Council of Kilkenny,' still more the Occult Irish Hierarchy' which was a main element thereof, remains, and is like to remain, a very dark entity in History: little other, after all one's reading, than a featureless gaunt shadow; extinct, and the emblem to us of huge noises that are also extinct. History can know that it had features once :-of fierce dark-visaged Irish Noblemen and Gentlemen; dark-visaged Abbases O'Teague, and an Occult Papist Hierarchy; earnestly planning, perorating, excommunicating, in a high Irish tone of voice: alas, with general result which Nature found untrue. Let there be noble pity for them in the hearts of the noble. Alas, there was withal some glow of real Irish Patriotism, some light of real human valour, in those old hearts: but it had parted company with Fact; came forth enveloped in such huge embodiment of headlong ferocity, of violence, hatred, noise, and general unveracity and incoherency, as--as brought a Cromwell upon it at last! These reflections might lead us far. What we have to say here is, that in the present expiring conVOL. II.-1 |