Henry Marten (regicide) and with effect, but he took no part in public life during the Protectorate, passing part of this time in prison, where he was placed on account of his debts. Having sat among the restored members of the Long Parliament in 1659, Marten surrendered himself to the authorities as a regicide in June 1660, and with some others he was excepted from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act, but with a saving clause. He behaved courageously at his trial, which took place in October 1660, but he was found guilty of taking part in the king's death. Through the action, or
Letters on a Regicide Peace of the country for the continuance of the war". The fourth letter, addressed to William Fitzwilliam, was written following Burke's reading of William Eden's "Some Remarks on the Apparent Circumstances of the War in the Fourth Week of October 1795". When Pitt's government tried to negotiate peace with France, Burke stopped composing the letter and instead published what became the first two letters, called "Two Letters on a Regicide Peace". Burke attempted to rewrite the letter to Fitzwilliam, but he did not finish before dying. The 1812 edition of his works did include a copy of the fourth letter that