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    " Alnkoit worne out by his illness his friend * at last prevailed ami hint to petition the kmgv The auwunt of Us manner of proceeding is affect **** *** ^** degree . I giv $ it in the words of a letter from Ptory to Sir Thomas Puckering . ' Hee first presented a petition to his Majesty by the . band of the lieutenant his keeper , to this effect : —> ' Sir , your jodtafes have committed mee to prison here in your Tower of London , where , by reason of the quality of the ayer , I am fallen into a dangerous disease I humbly beseech your Majesty you will command your nidges to seti mefe at liberty , that for recovery of my health I may take some fresh ay&r / etc . Whereimto his Majestie ' anawere was , ' it was net hninWe

    enough , ' Then Sir John sent another petition by his own sonhe to the effect following ;— < Sir , I am hartily sory I have displeased your Majesty and , having so said , doe humbly beseech you once againe to comflna&d your judges to sett me at liberty , that when I have recovered my fcKilth , I may returne back to my prison , there to undergoe suche punishment

    as God hath allotted unto mee , ' etc . Upon this the lieutenant came and expostulated with him , saying it was prop er to him , and common to none else , to doe that office of delivering petitions for his prisoners . And if Sir John , in a third petition , would humble hifnselfe to his Majesty in acknowledging his fault and craving pardon , he would willingly deliver it , and made no doubt but hee should obtaine his liberty . Unto tWs Sir John ' s answer was— ' I thank You , Sir , for your friendly advifces but

    my spirits are growen feeble and faint , which when it shall plemftfe God to restore unto their former vigour , I will take it farther into my consideration / "—p * 119 . All hopes were fruitless . One of his last actions was to have his portrait taken exactly as he then appeared , worn put by disease and with a face of ghastly paleness . He desired that the picture should hang on the walls of Port Eliot , near one which represented him in vigorous manhood . They are there still . These portraits Mr Forster finely describes : —

    " I have been favoured with a loan of the earlier portrait , by the courtesy of Lord St Germains . It represents a face of perfect ^ health , and ke * enly intellectual proportions . In this respect , in its wedge-like shape , in the infinite majesty of the upper region , and the sudden narrowness of the lower , it calls to mind at once the face of Sir Waller Raleigh

    Action speaks out from the quick keen eye , and meditation from the calm breadth of the brow . In the disposition of the hair And the peaked beard , it appears , to a casual glance , not unlike Vandyke' * Charles . The later portrait is a profoundly melancholy contrast . It is Wretchedly painted , but it expresses the reality of death-like life . It presents Eliot in a very elegant morning dress , apparently of lace , and bears the ^

    inscription of having been * painted a few days before his death in the Tower , —pp . 120 , 121 . Thus , or by means like these , have most of the potent spirits

    in the list of our English worthies , as among- those of all time , been gradually drained of their supremacy in manhood , and ground down by the complicated machinery of irresponsible authorities , whenever circumstances prevented a summary method of destruction . The meet sacred principles and the most

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 467, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/7/