The panic at Naseby (June 14, 1645) was not of so pronounced a character as that at Long-Marston; but it helps to prove the Englishman’s aptitude for running, and shows, that, if we have skill in the use of heels, we have inherited it:  it is, in a double sense, matter of race.  In spite of the exertions of Ireton, the cavalry of the left wing of the Roundheads was swept out of the field by Prince Rupert’s dashing charge; while the foot were as deaf to the entreaties of old Skippon that they would keep their ranks.  Later in the day the Cavaliers took their turn at the panic business, their horse flying over the hills, and leaving the infantry and the artillery, the women and the baggage, to the mercy of the Puritans,—­and everybody knows what that was.  The Cavaliers were even more subject to panics than the Puritans, as was but natural, seeing that they could not or would not be disciplined; and there were many of the leaders of the deboshed, godless crew of whom it could have been sung, as it was of Peveril of the Peak,—­

  “There was bluff old Sir Geoffrey loved brandy and mum well,
  And to see a beer-glass turned over the thumb well;
  But he fled like the wind, before Fairfax and Cromwell,
    Which nobody can deny!”

Cromwell’s last victory but one, that of Dunbar, (September 3, 1650,) was due to the impertinent interference of “outsiders” with the business of the Scotch general, and to the occurrence of a panic in the Scotch army.  The priests did for Leslie’s army what the politicians are charged with having done for that of General McDowell.  The Scotch were mostly raw troops, and soon fell into confusion; and then came one of those scenes of slaughter which were so common after the Cromwellian victories, and which, in spite of Mr. Carlyle’s crazy admiration of them, must ever be regarded by sane and humane people as the work of the Devil.  It is in dispute whether Cromwell’s last great victory, that of Worcester, (September 3, 1651,) was a panic affair or not; for while Cromwell himself wrote that “indeed it was a stiff business,” and that the dimensions of the mercy were above his thoughts, he complacently says, “Yet I do not think we have lost above two hundred men.”  Now, as the English critics on the Battle of Bull Run will have it that it was but a cowardly affair on our side, because but few men were at one time reported to have fallen in it, it follows that Cromwell’s army at Worcester must have been an army of cowards, as it lost less than two hundred men, though it had to fight hard for several hours for victory.  “As stiff a contest, for four or five hours,” said the Lord-General, “as ever I have seen.”  And what shall we think of the Scotch, who lost fourteen thousand men?  Mr. Lodge, whose sympathies are all with the Cavaliers, says that the action is undeservedly called the Battle of Worcester, “for it was in fact the mere rout of a panic-stricken army.”  Certainly all the circumstances of the day tend to