fome time before this great Gate, he difcovered on it an Infcription, fignifying it to be the Gate of Perjury. There was erected near it a great Coloffus in Snow that had two Faces, and was drefs'd like a fefuit, with one of its Hands upon a Book, and the other grafping a Dagger. Upon entring into the Court, he took a particular Survey of feveral of the Figures. There was Sedition with a Trumpet in her Hand, and Rapine in the Garb of a Highlander: Ambition, Envy, Difgrace, Poverty, and Disappointment, were all of them reprefented under their proper Emblems. Among other Statues, he obferved that of Rumour whispering an Idiot in the Ear, who was the Reprefentative of Credulity; and Fashion embracing with her hundred Arms an old-fashioned Figure in a Steeple- Crown'd Hat, that was defign'd to exprefs a cunning old Gipfy, call'd Paffive Obedience. Zeal too had a Place among the reft, with a Bandage over her Eyes, though one would not have expected to have seen her reprefented in Snow. But the most remarkable Object in this Court-Yard was a huge Tree that grew up before the Porch of the Temple, and was of the fame kind with that, which Virgil tells us flourished at the Entrance of the infernal Regions. For it bore nothing but Dreams, which hung in Clufters under every Leaf of it. The Travellers refreshed themfelves in the Shade of this Tree before they entered the Temple of Rebellion, and, after their Frights and Fatigues, received great Comfort in the Fruit which fell from it. At length the Gates of the Temple flew open, and the Crowd rufhed into it. In the Centre of it was a grim Idol, with a Sword in the Right Hand, and a Firebrand in the Left. The Fore-part of the Pedestal was curiously H 4 curiously emboffed with a Triumph, while the Back-part, that lay more out of Sight, was filled with Gibbets and Axes. This dreadful Idol is worshipped, like feveral of old, with human Sacrifices, and his Votaries were confulting among themselves, how to gratify him with Hecatombs; when on a fudden they were furprised with the Alarm of a great Light which appeared in the Southern Part of the Heavens, and made its Progress directly towards them. This Light appeared as a great Mafs of Flame, or rather Glory, like that of the Sun in its Strength. There were three Figures in the midft of it, who were known, by their feveral Hieroglyphicks, to be Religion, Loyalty, and Valour. The laft had a graceful Air, a blooming Countenance, and a Star upon its Breaft, which fhot forth feveral pointed Beams of a peculiar Luftre. The Glory which encompaffed them covered the Place, and darted its Rays with fo much Strength, that the whole Fabrick and all its Ornaments began to melt. The feveral Emblems of Honour, which were wrought on the Front in the brittle Materials above-mentioned, trickled away under the firft Impreffions of the Heat. In fhort, the Thaw was fo violent, that the Temple and Sta. tues ran off in a fudden Torrent, and the whole Winter-Piece was diffolved. The covered Walks were laid open by the Light which fhone through every part of them, and the Dream-Tree wither'd like the famous Gourd, that was smitten by the Noon-Day Sun. As for the Votaries, they left the Place with the greatest Precipitation, and difperfed themselves by Flight into a Thousand different Paths among the Mountains. Monday, Præbebant; aliquifque malo fuit ufus in illo. The burning Ruins, with a fainter Ray, ADDISON.. IR Francis Bacon, in the Dedication before. S his Hiftory of Henry the Seventh, obferves, that peaceable Times are the best to live in, though not fo proper to furnish Materials for a Writer: As hilly Countries afford the most entertaining: Profpects, though a Man would choose to travel: through a plain one. To this we may add, That: the Times, which are full of Disorders and Tumults, are likewife the fulleft of Intructions.History indeed furnishes us with very distinct Ac-counts of Factions, Confpiracies, Civil Wars and Rebellions, with the fatal Confequences that at-tend them: But they do not make fuch deep and: lafting Impreffions on our Minds, as Events of the fame nature, to which we have ourselves been Witneffes, and in which we or our Friends and/ Acquaintance have been Sufferers. As Adverfity makes a Man Wife in his private Affairs, civil Calamities give him Prudence and Circumfpection in his publick Conduct. The Miseries of the Civil War under the Reign of King Charles the Firft, and the Confequences which enfued upon them, did, for many Years, H.5 deterr deter the Inhabitants of our Ifland from the Thoughts of engaging anew in fuch desperate Undertakings; and convinced them by fatal Experience, that nothing could be so pernicious to the English, and fo oppofite to the Genius of the People, as the Subverfion of Monarchy. In the like manner we may hope that the great Expences brought upon the Nation by the prefent Rebellion; the Sufferings of innocent People, who have lived in that Place, which was the Scene of it; with that dreadful Profpect of Ruin and Confufion which must have followed its Succefs; will secure us from the like Attempts for the future, and fix His Majefty upon the Throne of Great Britain; efpecially, when those who are prompted to fuch wicked Practices reflect upon the Punishments to which the Criminals have expofed themselves, and the Miseries in which they have involved their Relations, Friends, and Families. It will be likewife worth their while to confider, how fuch Tumults and Riots, as have been encouraged by many, who, we may hope, did not propofe to themselves fuch fatal Confequences, lead to a Civil War: and how naturally that feditious kind of Converfation, which many feem to think confiftent with their Religion and Morality, ends in an open Rebellion. I queftion not but the more virtuous and confiderate Part of our Malecontents are now ftung with a very just Remorfe for this their Manner of Proceeding, which has fo vifibly tended to the Deftruction of their Friends, and the Sufferings of their Country. This may, at the fame time, prove an inftructive Leffon to the Boldeft and Braveft among the Difaffected, not to build any Hopes upon the talkative Zealots of their Party; who have fhewn by their whole Behaviour, that their Hearts are equally filled with Treafon Treason and Cowardise. An Army of Trumpe ters would give as great a Strength to a Cause, as this Confederacy of Tongue-Warriors; who, like thofe military Muficians, content themselves with animating their Friends to Battle, and run out of the Engagement upon the firft Önfet. But one of the most useful Maxims we can learn from the present Rebellion, is, That nothing can be more contemptible and infignificant, than the Scum of a People, when they are inftigated against a King, who is fupported by the Two Branches of the Legiflature. A Man may pull down a Meeting-house, but will never be able to overturn a Government, which has a courageous and wife Prince at the Head of it, and one who is zealously affifted by the great Council of the Nation, that beft know the Value of him. The Authority of the Lords and Commons of GreatBritain, in conjunction with that of their Sovereign, is not to be controll'd by a tumultuary Rabble. It is big with Fleets and Armies, can fortify itself with what Laws it shall judge proper for its own Defence, can command the Wealth of the Kingdom for the Security of the People, and engage the whole Proteftant Intereft of Europe in fo good and juft a Cause. A diforderly Multitude, contending with the Body of the Le giflature, is like a Man in a Fit under the Conduct of one in the Fulness of his Health and Strength. Such a one is fure to be over-ruled in a little time, though he deals about his Blows, and exerts himself in the most furious Convulfions while the Distemper is upon him. We may farther learn from the Course of the prefent Rebellion, who among the Foreign States in our Neighbourhood are the true and natural Friends of Great - Britain, if we observe which of |