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 For what reaon the reitance to king Charles the Firt was made?

By whom it was made?

Whether this reitance was REBELLION, or not?

How the Anniverary of king Charles's death came at firt to be olemnized as a day of fating and humiliation?

And latly,

Why thoe of the epicopal clergy who are very high in the principles of eccleiatical authority, continue to peak of this unhappy man, as a great SAINT and a MARTYR?

For what reaon, then, was the reitance to king Charles, made? The general anwer to this inquiry is, that it was on account of the tyranny and oppreion of his reign. Not a great while after his acceion to the throne, he married a French Catholic; and with her eemed to have wedded the politics, if not the religion of France, alo. For afterwards, during a reign, or rather a tyranny of many years, he governed in a perfectly wild and arbitrary manner, paying no regard to the contitution and the laws of the kingdom, by which the power of the crown was limited; or to the olemn oath which he had taken at his coronation. It would be endles, as well as needles, to give a particular account of all the illegal and depotic meaures which he took in his adminitration;—partly from his own natural lut of power, and partly from the influence of wicked councellors and