"crative drudgery. He loved Kings "in the state, because he loved all who "paid him for his fervices; and Bishops "in the church, from a consciousness of wanting abfolution. It is to be fuf "pected, that his predominant defire "was, to destroy public liberty, rather "than to establish legal authority, and "that he felt not fo much anxiety for "the real honour of princes, as delight "in the flavish humiliation of their fub "jects.” Of all the writers upon political subjects, Milton left the leaft room for fears and fufpicions. He is open and explicit in all his reproofs of lawless power and oppreffion, civil and ecclefiaftical. Envy at greatnefs and fuperiority in Milton's fituation, fituation, would neceffarily have implied his conftant endeavour to attain the greatness and fuperiority he envied. His addreffes to the Parliament are undenia ble teftimonies of his readiness to fubmit to every ordinance of man which was not a terror to good works; and the only difference between Milton's fyftem of government and Dr. Johnson's is, that the former feated the laws above the King; and the latter enthrones the monarch above the laws. Some portions of common fenfe however are yet left among us. Witness the following remark, transcribed from the news-paper above cited. "With what emphafis do minifters "and men in power pronounce the words 66 SER "SERVICE and OBEY! and how great and "refpectable do they think themfelves "when they fay, THE KING MY MASTER! "They defpife the republicans, whỏ "only are free, and who are certainly *more noble than they." In conclufion, the good Doctor turns evefdropper; and, to warn the public against the principles of the mifcreant Milton, condefcends to inform us of what paffed in the domeftic privacies of his family. "Milton's character, in his "domeftic relations, was fevere and ar"bitrary." How does he know this? "His family confifted of women," he "and there appears, in his tells you, 66 books, fomething like a Turkish con "tempt of females, as fubordinate and "inferior beings." A moft heinous offence! enough to mufter the whole multitude of English Amazons against him. But the question is not concerning what is in his books, but what paffed in his kitchen and parlour. We want inftances; and here they are: "That his own daughters might not break the ranks, he fuffered them to be depreffed by a mean and penurious educa.❝tion." The impudence of Belial would be abashed at fo grofs a mifreprefentation. Milton's daughters grew impatient of reading what they did not understand; this impatience broke out more and "more into expreffions of uneafinefs." What had they now to expect from their Turkish Turkish father? what! but ftripes and imprisonment in a dark chamber, and a daily pittance of bread and water. No fuch matter. They were relieved from their task, and. " fent out to learn some "curious and ingenious forts of manu"facture that were proper for women "to learn, particularly imbroideries in "gold and filver." And how far this branch of education was from being either mean or penurious in those days, the remains of thefe curious and ingenious works, performed by accomplished females of the highest and noblest extraction, testify to this very day. To account for this tyranny of Milton over his females, the Doctor fays, "He * Philips, p. xliii. "thought |