Sidney, Honeywood, and Boone, and who arrived off the English coast Sept. 10, only to know that the Royalist revolt was at an end, and that any intentions he may have had in connexion with it must be concealed, was not called in question for his strange conduct.  He came boldly to London, reported himself to the Council of State, explained that he had come back for provisions, &c., and was more or less believed.—­For, in fact, the Council itself, and the House itself, contained more open culprits.  Sir Horatio Townshend had shown himself in his true colours, and had been among the first apprehended; and, though the wily Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper cleared himself before a committee of the Council appointed to investigate a charge against him, strong suspicions remained.  On the 8th of August, just after Lambert had marched against Booth, there had been a call of the House with the result that Mr. Peter Brooke and Mr, Edmund Dunch, two members who had never attended and about whom there were evil reports, were fined L100 each; and on the 13th of September, while Dunch’s fine was remitted on explanations given, Brooke, who had actually been in arms with Booth, was brought to the bar of the House in custody, disabled from sitting in Parliament, and sent to the Tower on a charge of high treason.  Again, on the 30th of September, there was a call of the House, when fines of L100 were inflicted on Henry Arthington (Rec., O^2), John Carew (*_Rec., B_), Thomas Mackworth (Rec., O^1, O^2, R), Alexander Popham (O^1, O^2, R), Richard Norton (Rec., B, O^1, O^2, R), and John Stephens (Rec., R).  These six, I imagine, were so punished as having never attended the House, and as notoriously contumacious or disaffected.  But the House took the opportunity of punishing with smaller fines, ranging from L5 to L40, twenty-five members who had been attending of late too negligently; among whom were Lord Chief Justice St. John, Viscount Lisle, Lord Commissioner Lisle, Colonel Hutchinson, and Colonel Philip Jones.  At the same time they made an example of Major-General Harrison (*_Rec., O^1, R_).  He, of course, had never attended in the Restored Rump, for the very good reason that he had been Cromwell’s chief aider and abettor in the dissolution of the Rump in April 1653.  Remembering that fact, the House now ejected him altogether, and declared him incapable of ever sitting in a Parliament.  There was, of course, no suspicion of his complicity with the Royalists, nor of the complicity of many that had been fined L5 or L20.  The House, in its hour of triumph, was merely settling all scores together.—­In what high spirits Lambert’s victory had put the Rumpers appears from the fact that the House ordered the release of the Quaker James Nayler at last (Sept. 8), and from such half-jocular entries in the Order Books of the Council (Aug. 22 et seq.) as that Colonel Sydenham, Mr. Neville, or some other member of the Council, or Mr. Brewster, a member of the Parliament,