The testimonies which prove that performance to be the king's, are more numerous, certain, and direct, than those on the other side.

This is the case, even if we consider the external evidence: but when we weigh the internal, derived from the style and composition, there is no manner of comparison.

These meditations resemble, in elegance, purity, neatness, and simplicity, the genius of those performances which we know with certainty to have flowed from the royal pen; but are so unlike the bombast, perplexed, rhetorical, and corrupt style of Dr.Gauden, to whom they are ascribed, that no human testimony seems sufficient to convince us that he was the author.

Yet all the evidences which would rob the king of that honor, tend to prove that Dr.Gauden had the merit of writing so fine a performance, and the infamy of imposing it on the world for the king's.
* See, on the one hand, Toland's Amyntor, and on the other, Wagataffe's Vindication of the Royal Martyr, with Young's Addition.

We may remark, that Lord Clarendon's total silence with regard to this subject, in so full of history, composed in vindication of the king's measures and character, forms a presumption on Toland's side, and a presumption of which that author was ignorant; the works of the noble historian not being then published.