The History of England (Volume 7); From the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the Revolution in 1688

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP, LXIX. State of affairs in Ireland?Shaftesbury acquitted?Argytfs trial?Slate of affairs in Scotland?State of the ministry in Enlgand?New nomination of Sheriff's?uo war- rantos?Great power of the crown?A conspiracy? Shaftesbury retires and dies?Ryehouse plot?Conspiracy discovered--Execution of the conspirators?Trial ef lord Russel?His execution?Trial of Algernon Sidney?His execution?State of the nation?State of foreign of airs?King's sickness and death?and character. WHEN the Cabal entered into the mysterious CHAP, alliance with France, they took care to remove the duke ?! of Ormond from the committee of foreign affairs; and Ifi81 nothing tended farther to increase the national jealousy, Satc f, . ., J )i affairs in entertained against the new measures, than to see a man Ireland. of so much loyalty, as well as probity and honour, excluded from public counsels. They had even so great interest with the king as to get Ormond recalled from the government of Ireland; and lord Robarts, afterwards earl of Radnor, succeeded him in that important employment. Lord Berkeley succeeded Robarts; and the earl of Essex, Berkeley. At last, in the year 1677, Charles cast his eye again upon Ormond, whom he had so long neglected; and sent him over lieutenant to Ireland. I have done every thing, said the king, to disoblige that man; but it is not in my power to make him my enemy. Ormond, during his disgrace, had never joined the malcontents, nor encouraged those clamours, which, with too much reason, but often for bad purposes, were raised against the king's measures. He even thought it his duty, regularly, though with dignity, to pay his court at Whitehall; and to prove that his attachments were founded on gratitude, inclination, and principle, not on any temporary adva...