while they lay encamped there, our colonel, to the great mortification of Schomberg his general, was favoured by his Majesty with the promise of a blue ribband, and upon his arrival at Court was appointed Colonel of the old Holland regiment, joined to that lours of our colonel's regiment, as a fignal for the land officers to know the thip where their general was, chufing this as more proper for him than any of those which belonged to the fea : but it had not been fet up half an hour when, fitting with the colonel on the quarter-deck, a bullet was heard whizzing over their heads, which was presently followed by another. Upon this they began to think cannon-bullets that came fo near a little worth the minding, and were surprised to perceive they came from the admiral. All agreeing this was done to express his diflike of the fignal, Clement, captain of the thip, was difpatched to explain the reafon of it. The Prince had fent his lieutenant, Whitley, with his pofitive command to pull down the flag; but he arriving on board the Greyhound just after Captain Clement had left, it, Whitley was defired to return with this answer, that if his Highnefs continued in the fame mind after hearing the occafion from Clement, the flag fhould be taken down immediately. The Prince feeing Whitley's boat come from the Greyhound and the flag not taken down, and Captain Clement juft arrived on board him, in great anger ordered him to be clapt into the bilboes, without fo much as hearing either him or his message, and commanded the gunner to fink the Greyhound Immediately if the flag was not taken down. In this extremity the volunteers of quality on board the Prince, having afked leave, were connived at by him in going to the Greyhound, where they found it easy to perfuade them to pull down their flag rather than be funk; but all together were not able to pacify the general, who interpreted all this proceeding to come from an old pique in Prince Rupert, who, he faid, was otherwife too well bred to use an old acquaintance and a foreigner in fuch a brutal manner, as he called it. of his own raifing. By this means he continued in commiffion after the peace, which was concluded before the expiration of the year, when all the other new colonels were difbanded. Soon after his inftalment into the order of the Garter, May the 29th 1674, he was made Gentleman of the Bedchamber to his Majefty; but being still defirous to exercife and improve his military character, notwithstanding Nature had formed him particularly for fhining in a court, he went into the French fervice, having obtained leave of King Charles to make a campaign under the celebrated Marshal de Turenne. About this time he had fome expectations of having the first regiment of Foot-guards; he depended upon the joint intereft of the two Dukes of York and Monmouth, but was difappointed by the latter; upon whofe difgrace however, in 1679, the Earl was appointed Lord-lieutenant of the county of York, and Governor of Hull, in his room.. The fame year he wrote his piece entitled The Character of a Tory; and the next year he gave a fignal proof of his loyalty in commanding the forces ordered for the relief of Tangier. Having voluntarily offered his fervice for that command, his honour would not fuffer him to recede, notwithstanding he apprehended a design against his life *, by the appointment of a ship to con * We are told that fome of the Earl's enemies at court took an opportunity to put King Charles out of humour by mali vey him which the captain often declared to be in a condition not able to endure the voyage. But he furvived the danger, and returning from the expedition crowned with fuccefs, his Majefty not long after cious ftories of him relating to fome ladies in whom his Majefty was not unconcerned, That by this and other contrivances all the good thips were otherwise employed, and that when his Lordship represented the unfafe condition of the thip appointed for him, both the Admiralty and the King affured hin the thip was fafe enough, and that no other could be got ready time enough for his expedition: fo that the point being reduced to a struggle between his honour and his life, he preferred the former, and refolved, contrary to the advice of his friends, towenture his life, but at the fame time advised feveral volunteers of diftinction to wave the voyage, their honour not being equally concerned. That two days after they fet fail the fhip leaked in fo many places that, notwithstanding the carpenters on board, they owed their safety to the pumps all the remainder of the voyage, which, by the advantage of very fine weather, they finished in three weeks. That arriving at Tangier, they met Admiral Herbert, afterwards Earl of Torrington, who lifted his hands and eyes in amazement of their having performed fuch a voyage in a fhip which he had fent home as unfit for fervice. While he was at fea we find he wrote a poem called The Vision, where, though the tender paffion is touched with his usual delicacy, yet it is caft in fuch a gloomy form as is not common to his Lordship's Mufe, and therefore may well be thought to be infpired by the fenfibility of his prefent danger. The following lines, with which this piece concludes, are an exact specimen of the temper of the whole, and will both explain and evince the truth of our remark. The Spirit then reply'd to all I faid, She may be kind, but not till thou art dead; returned likewise to his usual good nature. This melting away all the Earl's refentment and chagrin *, immediately revived that hearty respect which had continually glowed in the breast of this fubject, who remained ever after in high favour with that Prince, till by his death the crown devolved upon the head of his brother. By this change, what had before been the Earl of Mulgrave's dutiful allegiance became now his ardent affection. He had never known King Charles any other than his fovereign, a circumstance that naturally creates fomewhat of a diftant awe to the most gracious princes, but he had long before lived in a ftate of familiar friendship with the Duke of York†, which therefore as naturally grew into the most af We have a remarkable inftance to what a height he carried it during the paffage to Tangier. Among the volunteers who had a defign of accompanying him, fome defifted by his perfuafion, but others having fpoken their intention to go with him, thought their honour concerned in keeping their word. Among these was the Earl of Plymouth, a natural son of King Charles, who it is faid likewife entered heartily into his General's caufe. They had been a fortnight at fea when one of the company obferving his Majefty's health had never once been propofed at the General's table, took the liberty of hinting it to him as an omiffion occafioned through forgetfulness, efpecially confidering a fon of his Majefty fat there every day. The General answered he knew it very well, but must first get out of his rotten thip before he could make that health go merrily round. + Both his Memoirs and his Account of the Revolution are fo full of expreflions of that kind, that one is apt even to think that the pleasure of that part was the principal motive to the writing of them. fectionate attachment to King James II. upon whose acceffion to the throne he was immediately fworn of the Privy Council, and the 26th of October following was appointed Lord Chamberlain of the Houfehold. His fincere zeal for his mafter carried him even fo far as to take a feat in the Ecclefiaftical Commiffion. It was this personal regard likewife that urged him to oppose all fuch imprudent steps which it was foreseen muft unavoidably lead to the ruin of that unfortunate Princet; and the fame perfonal regard kept him at a great diftance from having any share in those counfels where the measures were concerted for bring ing about the Revolution. In establishing the new settlement of the crown he yielded to the exigency of the occafion, being fully *As this was one of the illegal fteps taken by his mafter, he was in fome danger of fmarting for it after the Revolution; in which juncture he had the good fortune to find a friend, where perhaps he leaft expected it, in Dr. Tillotson, then Dean of Canterbury, who moft generously interceding in his behalf procured his pardon. +He declares that diflike of the King's measures in following the advice of the Roman Catholics, though at the fame time, to fhew his reluctance to the diflike, he fays," It fpread like an "infection." "This," fays he, "reached fome of his Majelty's "minifters themselves. The Earls of Muigrave and Middleton, 66 never the leaft tainted with being either false or factious, "yet the first of them, not only in execution of his office (Lord "Chamberlain) affifted openly all the Protestant clergy, but "abfented himself from all the councils; and both of them, in “their own justification, took all occafions of deriding the ill "advice of the Papifts." B |