ing a man-of-war, which was launched in the summer of 1612, a few weeks before the public announcement of Elizabeth's intended espousals; and in this ship, called from its illustrious sponsor, the Prince, was the royal bride afterwards wafted from her native shore. Little did the princess imagine, on that day when she sat on the deck by Henry's side, in anxious expectation of a propitious tide she should so soon enter it bereaved of him, who had been at once the playmate, the brother, the friend of her happy childhood, almost the only being with whom she could enjoy that equality which is essential to perfectly harmonious friendship.

that

The sympathy in their principles and dispositions is alluded to by Donne, in the following lines, extracted from the monody on Prince Henry.

Oh! may

I since I live, but see or hear, That the intelligence which moved this sphere. I pardon fate, my life whoe'er thou be

Which hast the noble conscience, thou art she,

I conjure thee by all the charms he spoke,
By the oaths which only you two never broke,
By all the souls ye sighed, that if you see
These lines, you wish, I knew your history,
So much as you two mutual heavens were here,
I were an angel, singing what ye were!

CHAP. III.

SKETCHES OF PRINCE MAURICE OF NASSAU.-HIS SISTER. THE GRAND PENSIONARY, BARNEVELT. -FREDERIC'S ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND.-FAVOURABLE RECEPTION.-DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY. -FREDERIC BETROTHED TO ELIZABETH.-MAR

RIAGE.-DEPARTURE.

FROM the sketch which has been already given of Frederic's education, it is evident that no plan could have been more judiciously selected for combining the advantages of the court and the college, unincumbered with the vices of the one, or the pedantry of the other. At Sedan, Frederic had not only acquired the accomplishments of a prince and a cavalier, but the manners and sentiments of a fine gentleman - and in comparing her son with other german

princes, Juliana had reason to felicitate herself on his improvement; nor was his conduct less unexceptionable than his deportment his religious principles were consistent, his dispositions mild and affectionate, and, to complete her work, his mother had only to obtain for him an illustrious and amiable bride. This boon was also granted to her prayers, since Frederic was permitted to visit England as Elizabeth's suitor, and she could scarcely doubt of his ultimate success. That nothing, however, might be wanting to accelerate those advantageous views, he quitted Heidelberg with a truly princely suite of 420 persons, including thirty nobles, of whom twelve were of royal lineage and a train of knights, pages, esquires, and menial attendants. For the juvenile part of this company was provided a schoolmaster — and for the whole community a chaplain, who was no other than Abraham Scultetus, afterwards unfortunately notorious at the synod of Dort. Born in Silesia, and educated

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in the principles of the Hussites*, this man had originally quitted his native country, partly perhaps to avoid persecution, but chiefly, it may be presumed, to acquire fame and fortune. A happy chance directed him to Heidelberg, where his learning and eloquence attracted notice, and the strictness of his morals induced Juliana to place him near her son in the capacity of domestic chaplain, or, in other words, his spiritual director; a dangerous confidence when talents and experience concurred with an enterprizing spirit to controul the credulous youth and facile mind of Frederic. Deeply imbued with the scholastic erudition of his day, Scultetus sympathized in the dreams of certain biblical fanatics, who, by a strange combination of astro-theological science and superstition, extracted from the Apocalypse predictions favourable to their peculiar tenets, and boldly announced the

• The immediate descendant of the disciples of Wickliffe, with whom commenced the Reformation in Bohemia.