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Lord Nelson's steward in the Victory.
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After mentioning the excesses committed by the mob, and the arrest of Judge Jefferies, Bishop Burnet says: "The Lord Mayor was so struck with the terror of this rude populace, and with the disgrace of a man who had made all people tremble before him, that he fell into fits upon it, of which he died soon after.
"To prevent the further growth of such disasters, he called a Meeting of the Privy Councillors and Peers, who meet at Guildhall," &c. The pronoun he must relate to the Lord Mayor, but the sentence is obscurely expressed.
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Vol. ii. pp. 259, 260.
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Our correspondent should have added exact references to the places where these passages are to be found. Mr. Macaulay may have written these words quoted by our correspondent, in some hasty moment, but his summary of the character of Burnet in his history of England, ii. 175. 2nd Edition—a very noble and well considered passage—gives a very different and far juster estimate of Burnet's character.
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The names are spelt precisely as they stand in the document itself.
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