"tant juncture to venture my life, in "fome manner or other, for my King "and my Country.

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"I cannot bear living under the re

proach of lying obfcure and idle in "a country retirement, when every man "who has the leaft fense of honour "should be preparing for the field.

"You may remember, Sir, with what "reluctance I fubmitted to your com"mands upon Monmouth's rebellion, "when no importunity could prevail "with you to permit me to leave the

Academy I was too young to be "hazarded; but, give me leave to fay, "it is glorious at any age to die for "one's country, and the fooner the "nobler the facrifice.

"I am now older by three years. My "uncle Bathe was not fo old when he 66 was left among the flain at the battle "of Newbury; nor you yourself, Sir, "when you made your escape from your "tutor's, to join your brother at the "defence of Scilly.

"The fame caufe is now come round

"about again. The King has been "mifled; let thofe who have misled "him be anfwerable for it. Nobody "can deny but he is facred in his own "perfon, and it is every honeft man's "duty to defend it.

"You are pleased to fay, it is yet doubtful if the Hollanders are rafh "cnough to make fuch an attempt; "but, be that as it will, I beg leave to

"infift

"infift upon it, that I may be prefented "to his majefty, as one whofe utmost "ambition it is to devote his life to his "service, and my country's, after the "example of all my ancestors. "The gentry affembled at York, to agree upon the choice of reprefenta"tives for the country, have prepared

an addrefs, to affure his majefty they

are ready to facrifice their lives and

fortunes for him upon this and all "other occafions; but at the fame time

they humbly befeech him to give

"them fuch magiftrates as may be "agreeable to the laws of the land; "for, at prefent, there is no authority "to which they can legally fubmit.

"They have been beating up for "voluntiers at York, and the towns ad"jacent, to fupply the regiments at "Hull; but nobody will lift.

"By what I can hear, every body "wishes well to the King; but they "would be glad his minifters were ❝hanged.

"The winds continue fo contrary, "that no landing can be fo foon as was

apprehended; therefore I may hope, "with your leave and affiftance, to be "in readiness before any action can

begin. I befecch you, Sir, moft hum

"bly and moft earnestly, to add this "one act of indulgence more to fo

many other teftimonies which I have "conftantly received of your goodness; "and

"and be pleased to believe me always, "with the utmost duty and fubmif

"fion, Sir,

"Your most dutiful fon,

"And most obedient fervant,

"GEO. GRANVILLE."

Through the whole reign of king William he is fuppofed to have lived in literary retirement, and indeed had for fome time few other pleasures but those of ftudy in his power. He was, as the biographers obferve, the younger fon of a younger brother; a denomination by which our ancestors proverbially expreffed the lowest state of penury and dependance. He is faid, however, to have preferved himself at this time from

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