quences, and proceeded to London without permission. The next day he was apprehended and committed to Newgate. His trial came on at the Old Bailey on the 13th of July, 1653, and continued with various interruptions to the 20th of the following month. The jury again acquitted the prisoner, but he was remanded to prison on the charge of correspondence with the royalists, and was sent to Elizabeth castle in the isle of Jersey; here he behaved with great contumacy; but was finally liberated when far gone in consumption. His death took place immediately after in August 1657. Godwin has ably contrasted the characters of Lilburne and Cromwell in the following remarks: "Cromwell always acted like a politician; he had certain ends in view, and he modified his measures in the way that he conceived would be most conducive to those ends. At this time we have no reason to think that Cromwell had any sinister views. His object was the public welfare according to the ideas he entertained respecting it; and he steadily adopted such proceedings as he judged would best promote that object. Individuals were with him but implements in constructing the edifices of the public good: and in such a man the private passions of love and hatred could scarcely be said to bear sway; he chose those persons whom he conceived best adapted to the purposes he proposed; he treated them upon a principle correspondent with these views; he spared no man from ideas of personal respect; he made no man an enemy that he might gratify any feelings of resentment and indignation. Lilburne, with perhaps equal integrity,' was in many respects the reverse of this. He looked at principles and men as they were in themselves, rather than as links in the great chain of causes and consequences. He chose a cause, and he adhered to it, unterrified by menaces or suffering; though, as we shall see, when his exertions appeared to him entirely hopeless, he was not inflexibly bent against all compromise, but was willing by retreat to save the shattered wrecks of his own peace. In the same manner he chose an adversary, satisfying himself that the man against whom he drew out the powers of his hostility, was worthless, a traitor to the principles he had avowed to support and a foe to the public welfare; and resolving in that case never to quit the prosecution of his crimes, till they had received an ample retribution. Lilburne was therefore fiercer, and in that sense of a more unalterable temperament than Cromwell, who, while he never shrunk from any means the cause in which he was engaged rendered indispensable, was largely imbued with sentiments of clemency, forbearance and philanthropy. In the contrast here presented to us it is some disadvantage, that the adherent of what we may denominate the better principle, afterwards turned apostate, and was then urged by sinister views, if he were not now. But the historian treats of facts, not of fictions; and these two men, such as they were, stand together as striking examples of two opposing forms of public conduct."

The historian is speaking of Lilburne before his flight to Holland.