id the king; "let us not be jealous one of
the other's actions."

[321] Monday, 2nd of March, 1629.

[322] It was imagined out of doors that swords had been drawn; for a
Welsh page running in great haste, when he heard the noise, to the
door, cried out, "I pray you let hur in! let hur in! to give hur
master his sword!"--_Manuscript Letter._

[323] At the time many undoubtedly considered that it was a mere
faction in the house. Sir Symonds D'Ewes was certainly no
politician--but, unquestionably, his ideas were not peculiar to
himself. Of the last third parliament he delivers this opinion in
his Diary: "I cannot deem but the greater part of the house were
morally honest men; but these were the least guilty of the fatal
breach, being only misled by _some other Machiavelian politics, who
seemed zealous for the liberty of the commonwealth_, and by that
means, _in the moving of their outward freedom_, drew the votes of
those good men to their side."

[324] Since the publication of the present article, I have composed
my "Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First," in
five volumes.

482 THE RUMP.

Text and commentary! The French Revolution abounds with wonderful
"explanatory notes" on the English. It has cleared up many obscure
passages--and in the political history of Man, both pages must be read
together.

The opprobrious and ludicrous nickname of "the Rump," stigmatised a
faction which played the same part in the English Revolution as the
"Montagne" of the Jacobins did in the French. It has been imagined that
our English Jacobins were impelled by a principle different from that of
their modern rivals; but the madness of avowed atheism, and the frenzy
of hypocritical sanctity, in the circle of crimes meet at the same
point. Their history forms one of those useful parallels where, with
truth as unerring as mathematical demonstration, we discover the
identity of human nature. Similarity of situation, and certain
principles, producing similar personages and similar events, finally
settle in the same results. The Rump, as long as human nature exists,
can be nothing but the Rump, however it may be thrown uppermost.

The origin of this political by-name has often been inquired into; and
it is somewhat curious, that, though all parties consent to reprobate
it, each assigns for it a different allusion. In the history of
political fac