Cromwell, and the latter Charles Martel. I own I was a little
surprised at seeing Cromwell here, for I had been taught by my
grandmother that he was carried away by the devil himself in a
tempest; but he assured me, on his honor, there was not the least
truth in that story. However, he confessed he had narrowly
escaped the bottomless pit; and, if the former part of his
conduct had not been more to his honor than the latter, he had
been certainly soused into it. He was, nevertheless, sent back
to the upper world with this lot:--ARMY, CAVALIER, DISTRESS.

He was born, for the second time, the day of Charles II's
restoration, into a family which had lost a very considerable
fortune in the service of that prince and his father, for which
they received the reward very often conferred by princes on real
merit, viz.--000. At 16 his father bought a small commission for
him in the army, in which he served without any promotion all the
reigns of Charles II and of his brother. At the Revolution he
quitted his regiment, and followed the fortunes of his former
master, and was in his service dangerously wounded at the famous
battle of the Boyne, where he fought in the capacity of a private
soldier. He recovered of this wound, and retired after the
unfortunate king to Paris, where he was reduced to support a wife
and seven children (for his lot had horns in it) by cleaning
shoes and snuffing candles at the opera. In which situation,
after he had spent a few miserable years, he died half-starved
and broken-hearted. He then revisited Minos, who,
compassionating his sufferings by means of that family, to whom
he had been in his former capacity so bitter an enemy, suffered
him to enter here.