lluding to what afterwards happened,
misfortunes, age, and other accidents, will make a great man differ from
himself. We find our young nobleman while he was aboard a ship, amidst
the noise of the crew, could yet indulge his genius for poetry. One
would imagine that the ocean is too boisterous an element for the Muses,
whose darling wish is for ease and retirement; yet, we find him amidst
the roaring of winds and waves, open his Poem with these soothing lines.

Within the silent shades of soft repose,
Where fancy's boundless stream for ever flows;
Where the enfranchis'd soul, at ease can play,
Tir'd with the toilsome bus'ness of the day,
Where princes gladly rest their weary heads,
And change uneasy thrones for downy beds:
Where seeming joys delude despairing minds,
And where even jealousy some quiet finds;
There I, and sorrow, for a while could part,
Sleep clos'd my eyes, and eas'd a sighing heart.

Our author afterwards made a campaign in the French service.

As Tangier was in danger of being taken by the Moors, he offered to head
the forces which were to defend it; and accordingly he was appointed
commander of them. He was then earl of Mulgrave, and one of the lords
of the bed-chamber to king Charles the IId. In May 28, 1674, he was
installed knight of the Garter.

As he now began to be eminent at court, it was impossible but he must
have enemies, and these enemies being mean enough to hint stories to
his prejudice, in regard to some ladies, with whom the king was not
unconcerned; his lordship's command was not made so agreeable as it
otherwise would have been. The particulars of this affair have been
disputed by historians, some have imagined it to refer to some
celebrated courtezan, whose affections his lordship weaned from the
king, and drew them to himself; but Mrs. Manly, in her new Atalantis,
and Boyer, in his History of queen Anne, assign a very different cause.
They say, that before the lady Anne was married to prince George of
Denmark, she encouraged the addresses which the earl of Mulgrave was
bold enough to make her; and that he was sent to Tangier to break off
the correspondence.

Mrs. Manly in her Atalantis, says many unhandsome things of his
lordship, under the title of count Orgueil. Orgueil. Boyer says, some
years before the queen was married to prince George of Denmark, the earl
of Mulgrave, a nobleman of Singular accomplishments, both of mind and
person, aspired so high