was received with the plaudit of the world; and, as the author's name was not in any wide celebrity out of his own country, the general - surprize was nearly equal to the general admiration. Congratulations and acknowledgments of respect poured in upon him from every quarter, and the scholars of Europe, actuated by a similar spirit with the spectators of the old Olympic games, threw garlands on the conqueror of Salmasius. On the publication of the "Defence of the People of England," all the embassadors in London, of whom perhaps the greater number were from crowned heads, discovered their sense of its merit by complimenting or visiting its

Bucer, and all the most celebrated of the orthodox divines are included among the Brownists. The English, therefore, support your calumnies with the greater equanimity, when they hear you thus furious in your invectives against the most admirable doctors, and consequently against the body itself of the reformed church." If we admit the premises of Milton, can we refuse our assent to his conclusion? If to contend for liberty against the tyranny of a single person be the distinction of a Brownist, the first reformers were, beyond all question, Brownists, for one of the principal objects of their liberal and enlightened contention was to break the despotism of the court of Rome. Milton asserts nothing but the truth; and he is justified in bringing it forward by that part of his adversary's work to which he replies. The first reformers were not only strenuous in their opposition to the papal despotism, but were op all occasions warm advocates and supporters of the civil liberties of man.

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author; and he was gratified by letters, replete with praise and with professions of esteem, from foreigners eminent for their talents and erudition.

Among these he seems to have been particularly pleased with the attentions of Leonard Philaras, a learned Athenian who had attained to high rank in Italy and was now employed by the Duke of Parma on an embassy to the court of Paris. Struck with the ability and spirit of Milton's composition, this illustrious and liberal Greek sent a present of his portrait with a letter of panegyric to the defender of the English commonwealth. On a visit which Philaras soon afterwards made to England, his first object, (and indeed it seems to have been the leading object of his visit to our island,) was to wait upon Milton, then reduced to a state of total blindness; and mutual friendship was the consequence of their personal intimacy. When Philaras returned to Paris, he was induced by the celebrity of Thevenot' the physician, particularly renowned at that time for his acquaintance

If we were desirous of paying Thevenot a high compliment, we should call him the WARE of the seventeenth century and of France. If the French physician actually possessed the skill and the benevolence of our admirable oculist, he must have been the ornament and the blessing of his age.

with the diseases of the eye, to communicate a hope to Milton of the recovery of his sight. The two letters, in which our author ac knowledges the first kindness and the subsequent services of his Athenian friend, are too worthy of the reader's notice not to be submitted to it.

Clarissimo Viro Leonardo Philare Atheniensi, Ducis Parmensis ad Regem Galliæ Legato.

Benevolentiam erga me tuam, ornatis

sime Leonarde Philara, nec non etiam præclarum de nostrâ pro P. A. Defensione' judicium, ex literis tuis ad dominum Augerium, virum apud nos in obeundis ab hâc republicâ legationibus fide eximiâ illustrem, partim eâ de re scriptis cognovi: missam deinde salutem cum effigie, atque elogio tuis sane virtutibus dignissimo literas denique abs te humanissimas per eundem accepi. Atque ego quidem cum nec Germanorum ingenia, ne Cimbrorum quidem, aut Suecorum aspernari soleo, tum certe tuum, qui et Athenis Atticis natus, et, literarum studiis apud Italos fœliciter peractis, magno rerum usu honores amplissimos es conse

Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio.

cutus, judicium de me non possum quin plurimi faciam. Cum enim Alexander ille mag

nus in terris ultimis bellum gerens, tantos se militiæ labores pertulisse testatus sit, τng wap 44 Αθηναίων ἐνδοξίας ἕνεκα ; quidni ego mihi gratuler, meque ornari quam maxime putem, ejus viri laudibus, in quo jam uno priscorum Atheniensium artes, atque virtutes illæ celebratissimæ renasci tam longo intervallo et reflorescere videntur. Quâ ex urbe cum tot viri disertissimi prodierint, eorum potissimùm scriptis ab adolescentia pervolvendis, didicisse me libens fateor quicquid ego in literis profeci. Quod si mihi tanta vis dicendi accepta ab illis et quasi transfusa inesset, ut exercitus nostros et classes ad liberandam ab Ottomannico tyranno Greciam, eloquentiæ patriam, excitare possem, ad quod facinus egregium nostras opes penè implorare videris, facerem profecto id quo nihil mihi antiquius aut in votis prius esset. Quid enim vel fortissimi olim viri, eloquentissimi gloriosius aut se dignius esse duxerunt, quam vel suadendo vel fortiter faciendo ελευθερες καὶ αυτονόμες ποιείσθαι τὰς Ἕλληνας ? Verum et aliud quiddam præterea tentandum est, meâ quidem sententiâ longe maximum, ut quis antiquam in animis Græcorum virtutem, industriam, laborum tolerantiam, antiqua illa stu

trorsum, nunc sinistrorsum natare; frontem totam atque tempora inveterati quidem vapores videntur insedisse; qui somnolentâ quâdam gravitate oculos, à cibo præsertim usque ad vesperam, plerunque urgent atque deprimunt; ut mihi haud raro veniat in mentem Salmydessii vatis Phinei in Argonauticis,

κάρος δέ μιν αμφεκάλυψεν

πορφύρεος γαῖαν δε πέριξ ἐδόκησε φέρεσθαι

νειόθεν, ἀβληχρῶ δ' επι κώματι κέκλινε άναυδος.

Sed neque illud omiserim, dum adhuc visus aliquantum supererat, ut primum in lecto decubuissem meque in alterutrum latus reclinassem, consuevisse copiosum lumen clausis oculis emicare; deinde, imminuto indies visu, colores perinde obscuriores cum impetu et fragore quodam intimo exilire; nunc autem, quasi extincto lucido, merus nigror, aut cineraceo distinctus et quasi intextus solet se affundere: caligo tamen, quæ perpetuo obversatur tam noctu, quam interdiu, albenti semper quam nigricanti propior videtur; et volvente se oculo aliquantillum lucis quasi per rimulam admittit. Ex quo tametsi medico tantundem quoque spei possit elucere, tamen ut in re plane insanabili ita me paro atque compono; illudque sæpe cogito, cum destinati cuique dies tenebrarum, quod mo