Lord  CampbelVs  views  as  to  Cromwell  will  not  please  our  good
friend  Mr.  Thomas  Carlyle,  who,  we  believe,  has  nearly  finished
a  biography  of  Oliver  as  the  model  of  a  '  King.*  For  example,
the  night  before  the  '  bauble*  was  removed,  there  was  a  meeting
at  Whitehall,  attended  by  the  principal  ofiBcers  of  the  army  and
the  heads  of  the  Independents  : —

'  The  officers  of  the  army  inveighed  bitterly  against  the  parliament,
and  declared  violently  for  a  change.  Cromwell  reproved  them  for  these
expressions  of  opinion, — from  which  those  who  knew  him  best  conjec-
tured that  he  had  prompted  their  project,  and  that  he  was  resolved  at
all  risks  to  support  it.'

The  parties  reassembled  next  morning,  and  again  no  agree-
ment was  come  to.  Whitelock  retired  with  his  mind  in  utter
obscurity.
^  Historians  profess  themselves  wholly  at  a  loss  to  account  for  the
open,  imperious,  and  fi-antic  manner  in  which  Cromwell  a  few  hours
aher  expelled  the  members  from  the  House, — which  they  consider  as
inconsistent  with  his  general  character, — not  attending  to  the  fact  that
to  gain  his  object  he  had  previously  exhausted  all  the  arts  of  intrigue,
deceit,  and  hypocrisy.' — vol.  iii.  p.  52.
