non in his speech to the aged NESTOR, did not wish for the athletic strength of youth, but for the experienced wisdom of age, to conquer Troy ; Mr. Pope has well translated it: as Oh would the Gods, in love to Greece, decree Ir was not by corporeal but by intellectual vigor, that our Royal Master, WILLIAM, and our English Hero, MARLBOROUGH, performed those great atchievements, for the preservation of our civil and religious liberties, and for the salvation of Europe. It was not muscular strength, but mental reflection working by experience, that instructed the former to baffle the intrigues of Lewis, aiming at universal monarchy; and when the protection of England * was implored to save the Roman empire from ruin, it was acuteness and sagacity of mind, that enabled the latter to compel the surrender of an entire army at BLENHEIM, and in one day to annihilate the tyrannic and destructive power of * It was in January, 1704, that the Emperor (by Count Wrattislau, the Imperial Ambassador) alarmed at the progress of the French arms in Germany and at the defection of the Duke of Bavaria, implored the aid and protection of the Queen and People of England, to save the Roman Empire from impending ruin. This was only seven months before our glorious and decisive victory at Blenheim. France. Among those who congratulated our deliverer upon his welcome arrival in 1688, one of the gayest and most lively courtiers that I saw in the whole party, was SERJEANT MAYNARD, then about my present age. I observed the kindness with which the Prince complimented him on his period of life (he was then ninety), and on his having out-lived all the lawyers of his time: "I might (replied the old man) have out-lived the law too, if your Highness had not arrived."-His spirit was just the same, as when some years before, he so ably opposed the bill for constructive treason; and at the advanced age of ninety, he was not deemed unfit to be placed at the head of the High Court of Chancery, in times extremely critical and difficult; nor was he found unequal to the pressure of business which then took place. -Neither did our excellent friend LORD SOMERS shew less vigour in projecting the union in 1708, than he displayed twenty years before in the establishment and recognition of the title of their Majesties, and in the able support which he gave to the act of convention or even in a latter period, at the close of the rebellion in 1715, when under the pressure of great bodily infirmity, but retaining his own native vigour of mind, he reprobated those severe measures against the rebel Lords, which have had the effect of converting Tories into Jacobites; and exclaimed to the Minister, " Do you then mean to revive the proscriptions of Marius and Sylla, and "to drive the Tories into the arms of "the Pretender, and dye the royal "ermine with blood?"-To notice other examples, your predecessor, Bishop of London (I mean DR. ROBINSON) lived to his ninety-third year, and always preserved a considerable share of health; and SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN was in his eightieth year when he finished your cathedral of Saint Paul's. He died at the age of ninety-one, but not till he had completed other great works. The immortal NEWTON, the prodigy of our age, who began his philosophical career before one-andtwenty, and had continued it with incessant labour for more than half a |