Sir _Walter_. As my mistress had a true _English_ heart, and made the prosperity of her people the only business of her life, she suffer’d none of her ministers to crave to themselves extravagant fortunes out of the publick purse. Tho’ foreigners flock’d into her dominions as a certain asylum, yet she never encourag’d them to the detriment of her native subjects, nor imploy’d them in foreign embassies, nor admitted them into her councils: her affairs being manag’d with equal prudence and integrity, and encouragements properly distributed, no wonder she was so fortunate in all her attempts. Thus we find she supported the protestants in _France_ against the oppression of the _Guises_, and so well assisted the _Dutch_ in the infancy of their republick, that _Philip_ II of _Spain_, with all his forces, was not able to reduce them. She was so far from bellowing her royal favours upon the sectaries, that she suppress’d their growing insolence with wholesome laws, and was as careful to see them put in Execution. She could display all her father’s magnificence, when there was a proper occasion to exert it; at other times, she observ’d a strict parsimony, equally advantageous to her own subjects, and easy to herself. The establish’d church flourish’d so well under her auspicious administration, that _England_ never saw so glorious a constellation of reverend bishops and learned divines, as in her reign. She retrieved the honour of the _Exchequer_, and manag’d her payments so wisely, that her people thought their money as safe in her coffers as in their own.---- Now, your deliverer’s reign was the exact reverse of this happy scene. Schism and faction advanc’d, hypocrisy and dulness, under the disguise of reformation, promoted to the highest honours, deism propagated, the true genuine sons of the church discourag’d, foreigners admitted into our private councils, trade neglected, our narrow seas daily insulted, the publick impoverish’d, the treasury exhausted and pillag’d by insatiable cormorants, the reputation of our arms decay’d and sunk, the sea-man starv’d, the soldiers paid with paper; in short, nothing but ill management and poverty at home, and infamy abroad.---- And this I think is sufficient to shew you, that you were mightily mistaken, when you compar’d you know who to the immortal _Elizabeth_. _The End of the Second Volume._ [Illustration] FOOTNOTES: [1] _Kings of_ Spain. [2] _Author of_ St. Bartholomew_’s_. [3] _Madam_ Maintenon. [4] Scarron. [5] _Maintenon._ [6] _Madam_ Maintenon. [7] _Madam_ Maintenon. [8] _Father_ la Chaise. [9] _The murderer of_ Henry IV. [10] Grandvil _hang’d in_ Flanders, _for attempting to kill King_ William. [11] _King_ William. [12] Lewis XIV. [13] _A place out of the reach of cannon._ [14] Scarron. [15] _Great houses near_ Paris. [16] Hermitage _near_ Paris. [17] _Queen_ Catharine _of_ Spain. [18] _Father_ Pahours, _Father_ le Mene, _Jesuits_. [19] Charles V. [20] _Madam_ Maintenon.