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T IE «i:OR';SA HIJJROS,
U oa 1 )!: • i ev ry i' i- iay, in Florknck
~« . coumv, Ga; at THREE DOT)LA 118 a
. e ,,. ~ .Mid ii adv iuce, or FOUR DOLLARS,
j il(> , I until tin* end of the year.
j p - ••}•*. ;*s vi!l be conspicuously inserted
*i • ji ■' •! ‘ ( -yi ire, (' [jj. -s; l it* first, ami
-..■r-- • •.tasfjiieat ms-. do i. Nothin?
....... ],*> !• i:• ■ s .v,i! lie considered 'ess than a
A deduction will be made for yearly ad
\ ;tise , n' , 'its.
All aj» : • :i- S hand’! hi !>r publication
without * limitation, will be published till forbid,
m l charged accordingly.
Sales of Land anil Negroes by Executors, Ad
eieLittaU'i's an ! Duar ii.ias, are requir'd !.v law
;o lie adverlised i:i a public Gazjlte, sixty days
previous to the day of sale.
The sale of Personal property must !je adver
ise' 1 in like manner forty days.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate
. ust be published forty days.
Notice that application will be made to the
Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land and Ne
mos, must be puivished "'c' k’y far four months.
■ * All Letters on btunics* must bo cost
■ \ii> to insure attention.
STATE CONVENTION.
*. N AC i to provide for th“ call of,a Conven-
A_ tion to reduce the number of lie General
Assembly of the State of Georgia, and for the
other purposes therein rinuied.
Sec. 1. Be it inac't.l by the S note one! House
if Renrcsrntat'n-rx r f the Stole of Ceorg'ut ),i Cen
tral A °se>:t l >!y anil it is her* b i cnurletf. 1// the
i it to--:hf >f in' t. "i hi; tin* first .'dondiy in
April, eighteen hundred and tiiirty-uinc, be, ami
the same is hereby designated and set apart ns
tliedjy on which the citizens of Georgia. q-::di
fed to vote lor nmuibcrs of the Legislature, -Ivdl.
t ie several pi-tees prescribed in h.v far bidding'
ich elections, vote for delegates to represent
t i.*’ii in Convention, in number equal to their
r .‘present at ion in both braucl.es of the General
Assembly, according to the la or , . p-.; , smdi
t'ecMon to be is .ducted, isn ' •.! , • ; . and
nler the • ; ;ie ! nvs as ar—. : iree in r. poet to
elect; ins of m mber-* of the Gemvol Assembly.
See. J. An! he i f farther enacted. That it shall
be the duty of such managers to transmit to his
Lxcellency t!u* Governor, the result of sal I elec
tions under the iaws now of fore** conducting,
managing asid certifving elect tons of members of
t.te Gui >:d Assembly, as aforesaid, wirliiti r.-'ti
•. •■ .f ter ,- 1 1 ele.t u. whereupon it is made
hr v m li. >..*-"!aar y tlie Governor, to issue
:’roc■lima l ,- . ti.<>•! •> .it a the r# ,n!t of such
••*•** by no ifying the individuals s wet lly
ec!-.i to r*; vent the good people of Ceor-ta
in C iv.**titi m. ; contemplated bj die net. •
Sem 3. And he •'/ f/rther enac/ai. That every
citizen of the United '* a tea shall be eligible to a
in sail Co;.veation, who has at! >::;ed the are
of ' v.*niy five v -ar*’ tv! been an ini.si rant of this
S*nt“ three ve rs, inlineHatch ».*li.*-* the day
cf election, aiid*who rhall have i .fi on** yeai
i.i the eemitv for which It" Khali be Hf< '• I.
Sec. 4. A’ld l.e it farther enacted. That each
! • ib' 1 ’ I'.'t i: ce • as da’v elect'd, she!’. t;r- vious
• ; *ui i _ . -a; : i -aid Convenr.on, tak* the
ion, viz: “1 do solemnly
r ■ ,• ) ... si not attempt to add or to take from
*> siitH.i.vi. or utti-mp* to change or alter
any oilier •• ••*:' ohnse, or article of tf.c Con
ftitudan •>; i'K >1: s?« us Georgia, other than those"
touch ',: the ns re- nvitirte iu • ::er~S As
sembly thereof, a.id that I have been a cirize.irt
this State for the' • ' thro" years o help in.* God.''
And nnv person elected to a seat in said Cos; ven
tsoii, who shall refn >c to take oath aforc.-ai , shall
no: be allowed to take !;is seat in said Convention.
Sec hr. Ad be it further arreted, Tift the
members of said Convention shall assemble on
the first Monday in May. after their «lection, nt
■T iledgevilb*. in the Representative Chamber of
the State House, for the purpose of entering
upon and consumating the . rent objects of their
convention, to wit: a reduction and equalization
of the General Assembly; shall have power to
prescribe their own rules and forms of business;
p.d to determine on the qualifications of their
own members : elect ncce.-sary officers, m u make
all orders which rhey may deem conclusive to the
furtherance of the object for which such Conven
tion shall assemble.
Sec. 6. And he it further enact 'd, That it shall
be the duty of his Excellency the Governor, to
give publicity to the alterations and amendments
> «*i ie iu the Constitution in refaroii.*? to th" re
tutetion of the numb r of members composing
i • . ttcueral Assembly; and the first elonday in
October t.ext, after the raising of said Convention,
h“ shall fix on lor the ratification, by the oeople,
c 'f such amendments, alterations, or new articles,
a -> ’-hey may make for the objects of reduction and
equalization of the General Assembly only, and if
; n ll tied by a majority of the voters who, vote on
the question of “Ratification” or “No Rntifica
on,“ then and in that event, the alterations so
h y them made and ratified, shall be binding on
the people of this State, and not otherwise.
Sec. 7. beH further enacle,d, That it shall
he a fundamental article in the formation or a
mendments of the Convention, that each County
of the State now organized or laid out. or which
may hereafter be created by law, shall lie entitled
to at least one Representative irith * Reprcsenta
tive branch of the General Assunbly. i’lie Sen
ate shall be composed of forty-six members only,
from fort” Senatorial Districts, composed of two
contiguous Counties: and in the event of the
creation of any new county, it shall be added to
some contiguous Senatorial District; nnu that
the said Convention shall not disturb the Federal
basis, in apportioning the representation in the
General Assembly of the State of Georgia.
Sec. 8. And he itfurther enacted. That so soon
ns this Act shall have passed, bis Excellency the
Governor be, and he is hereby required to c-tuse
it to be published in the gazettes of tiiis .Sutc,
‘nice a week until the day fixed on by this act lor
the election o( Delegates to said Convention; as
well as the number to winch each County shall he
entitled m said Convention, according to the ap
portionment ol' members of the General Assem
bly, to be made under the late Census, taken and
returned during the present year.
Sec. D. An / he it farther enacted , That the
Delegates io said Convention be paid at and after
the same rates tii.it the members of tile General
Assembly now receive ; and that his Excellency
I the Governor he requested to draw his warrant on
the Treasurer lor the same, out ot any money not
otherwise appropri ited ; and all I .v.s and parts ol
laws militating against this act, be, and the same
are hereby repealed.
JOSEPH DAY,
Speaker of the House of .Representatives.
Cll Ail EES DOCGi 1 ER'l' V,
President of the Senate.
Assented to 26fh December, 1838.
HE URGE K. GILMER, Ciavcraor.
TABLE,
Showing the Representation af the several Counties
<j the Stale by trie late Act of Apportionment.
Appling, l Laurens, 2
Laker, 1 Lee, 1
Baldwin, 2 Liberty, 2
Bibb, ,3 Lincoln, 2
Bulloch, 1 Lowndes. 2
Butts, 2 Luuipkin, 2
Burke, 3 Macon, 2
Bryan, 1 Madison, 2
Campbell, 2 Marion, 2
Carroll, 2 Mclntosh, 2
Cobb, 2 Meriwether, 3
Cass, 2 Monroe, 4
Columbia, 3 Montgomery, 1
Crawiard, 2 Murray, 2
* ov.f iii, 3 Jdurgau, 3
kh ■: .am, 4 Muscogee, 4
! -ark. 3 .Newton, 3
I ,i‘Tui.ee, 2 Oglethorpe, 3
’ a;. teen, 2 Paulding, 1
Bade, 1 Pike, 3
Decatur, 2 Pulaski, 2
DeKalb, 3 Putnam, 3
Dooly, 2 Rabun, 1
Early, 2 Randolph, 2
CilingLam, 1 Richmond, 3
Libert, 3 Scriveu, 2
Emmanuel, 1 Stewart, 3
Payette, 2 Sumter, 2
Lloyd, 2 Talbot, 3
! orsytli, 2 Taliaferro, 2
;’laiikiin,. 3 Tattnall, 1
Gilmer, 1 Telfair, 1
Glynn, 1 Thomas, 2
Gii-one, 3 Troup, 4
Gwinnett, 3 Twiggs, 2
Habersham, 3 (Jniou, 1
Hancock, 3 Upsoiir 3
Heard, 2 Walton, 3
Henry, 3 Walker, 2
Houston, 3 Ware, 1
Hail, 3 Washington, 3
Harris, 3 Wayne, I
Irwin, ] Wilkinson, 2
Jones, 3 Wilkes, 3
Jasper, 3 Warren, 3
Jefferson, 2
Jackson, 3 Total, 206
FLORENCE ACADEMY.
npIIE exercises of the Male Department of the
jl F'orcuce Academy, will commence on Mon
day next, 7th mst. under the superintendence of
Mr. Gkokgi; J. McClkskey, who comes well
recommended as au instructer ol youth. The
following will lie tin; rates of tuition, porquarter:
Orthography, Reading and Penmanship, S4 00
do do " do with Arithmetic, 500
English Grammar and Geography, 6 00
Higher English Branches, 8 00
Languages. 10 00
The Female Department will commence on the
same day, under the direction of Miss Marga
ret llarvet, and the Department of Music un
der the charge of Miss Wright. Os Miss Har
vey's qualifications the Trustees deem it unneces
saty to speak, as ‘hey are too well known tore
quire any recommendation from -them. Miss
Wright filings with her the best evidences of her
capability to discharge her duties with the ut
most satisfaction, and the Trustees do not hesitate
to recommend her to the patronage of the public.
The terms of tuition, will be the same as s,tate
above, and for
Drawing and Painting, 12 00
Music alone, 16 00
do with n‘hrr branches, 20 00
Needlework an extra charge of 3 00
Board can be had, for males and females, in the
most respectable houses, at reasonable prices.
Jan. 5 39 BY THE TRUSTEES.
NOTICE.
\LL merchants, shop keepers and other tra
. ders of Florence, are hereby requested not
to trade with any of my slaves for any article
whatever without they have a written permit from
their Mistress or Overseer, during my absence.
THOMAS J. STELL.
Florence Feb. 18 1839. 45 3t
GOOD MERCHANTABLE
COW HIDES,
wanted by H. W. WOODWARD.
Feb. 26, 1839 46 3t
.3. A. fil. .'?SA€OA r ,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
STAuKSHILLE. LEE COUNTY. GFORGIA. _
WILL attend the Courts of the CHATTA
HOOCHEE CIRCUIT
Nov. 25 35 ly
FLORENCE, GA. TUESDAY, MARCH 5,1839.
ATTr.ATIOT-I.nst Aotice.
HAVING been appointed Attorney for the
Florence Company for the purposes con
templated by the annexed Resolution, I now
give notice to purchasers of Lots, that an oppor
tunity will be given to all indebted to the Com
pany, to comply with the Resolution passed. b>
applying to C«d. Jeruigan at Florence, whom 1
have appointed to transact the business in jny
name; should th<* terms and requisitions not be
complied with, I shall proceed alter the 10th
day of March next to enforce payment by suit,
to the next Inferior Cont i. Upon complying with
the terms of the subjoined resolution, deeds of
warranty will be executed by the agent.
“Florence, February 20, 1839.
“Resolved, that if any Lot purchaser shall
not appear by or before the 10th day of
March next, and pay off and discharge the Ist
and 2d payments due by giving thiec good and
sufficient securities, their notes due and unpaid,
shah be sued by our Attorney <l. Delauney to the
next 1 i:lprior Court, and all forfeturesbe declared
according to the terms of sale.”
The foregoing resolution comtemplates a pay
ment of the Ist and 2d annual payments in cash;
and notes due and secured bv three secureties for
the last payment, in lieu of the last payment,
now due. in order to enable the company to ex
ecute titles to purchasers, and close the business
of the Company
GUSTAVUS DeLAUNAY,
Feb. 23,1839. 46 2t Attorney F. C.
A BILL OF CHARGES,
\ GREED to by the Physicians of the town of
Florence:
To visit in town, in the day, $1 00
~ do do at night, 2 00
~ getting out of b-d at night, 500
„ visit out of the corporation, under
osemile, 2 00
~ mileage, per day, good weather, 1 00
„ do do * ramv weather, 200
~ do per night, good weather, 2 1)0
Ho do rainy do 3 00
Special attendance, per hour, 2 to 5 00
Consultation, 10 00
Natural Labor, 20 00
Difficult Labor, * 30 00
Instrumental Labor, * 50 00
Delivering Placenta, from 10 to 90 00
Embryotomy, 100 00
Examination per Vaginam, 5 00
Treatment of Gonorrhoea, from 10 to 20 00
do Synliihis, 20 to 50 00
Extracting tooth, 1 00
Venesection, 1 00
Arteriotoniv, 9to 500
Clipping, 2to SCO
Introducing Catheter, 5 00
Extracting Polypus. 10 to 25 00
Onerarion per hare-lip, 10 to 50 00
Trephining, 50 to 100 00
Aneurism, 50 to 100 00
Tapping, 20 00
Operation per Cataract, 30 to 100 00
Attendance and Vaccination, each, 5 00
Lancing child’s gums, 1 00
Opening Abcesses, 2to 500
Advice by letter, 5 00
Attendance on conlageous diseases, double.
Amputating Thigh, 50 00
do Log, 30 to 50 00
Fingers, 5 to 15 00
Toes, 5 to 15 00
do Arm, 30 to 50 00
do Fore Arm, 30 to 50 00
Operation per Lithotomy, 100 to 150 00
Replacing fractured thigh, 25 to 50 00
do do leg, 15 to 25 00
do Arm and Forearm, 10 to 15 00
Simple dose of Medicine, 25
Compound dose do. 50
Pills per doz. from 50 to 2 00
Simple Powders perdo/,. 1 00
Compound do do. 2 00
Crossing River, 1 00
Prescription in all cases, 1 00
Tinctures ppr oz. simple, 25
do do compound, 50
Introducing Pessary, sto 10 00
Taking up Arteries, 5 to 10 00
Dressing wounds, 1 to 10 00
Excission of Mamma, 50 to 100 00
Excission of Tumours, 10 to 40 00
We, the undersigned, bind ourselves to abide
by the above bill.
Z. C. WILLIAMS.
T. HARTRIDGE.
Feb. 20 46 Ct R. W. WILLIAMS.
ALABAMA LANDS
roll SALE.
1*1.7 HALF 9 14 30
. S. half 4 14 30
N. hklf 8 14 30
N. half 7 14 30
S. half 7 14 3!)
S. half 6 14 30
is. half 11 14 29
S. half 20 18 28
S. half 54 19 28
N. half 36 19 29
S. half 36 19 29
W. half 29 16 26
N. half 6 16 30
E. half 21 22 26
K. half 22 13 28
N. half 33 20 26
S. half 32 18 28
W. half 26 15 24
S. half 29 16 25
E. half 2 18 25
Any of the above Lands will be sold on te.rms
to suit purchasers, by application to John D. Pitts,
Esq. Florence, Ga. or to the subscriber, at Ma
con. J. COWLES.
July 26 18
Blank Holes
FOR SALE AT THIS OFFI(*E
From the Philadelphia Vititer.
The Tlca*c limit'* Haugiticr anu
She .9ud£e.
BY CABTAIX JlAl.hr A IT.
It was the land of poetry and song—the lam
peopled with tile memories ot the ung..ty past
ille laud over which the shallow ol a oiigrcuuwn
rented more glowingly than a present giuiy It
was beautiful Italy ; the air, like a sweet oi.oui,
was to the senses as solt thoughts are to the
mind, or tender feelings to the heart, bleat ing
serenity and peace. That sweet aivsxcj t balmily
over ti.e worn brow of au invalid, giving to the
pallid hue of, his countenance the lirst taint
dawn ol returning health.
The eye of the invalid was fixed on the dark
characters of a book in cumbrous binding and
massive clasp*, which the Roxburgh Club would
now consider au invaluable black-letter; and so
absorbed was he in its perusal, that he heard nor
the approaching steps ot visiteis, until tiie sound
of their greetings roused him from his medita
tion.
•The saiuts have you in their keeping !’ said
his elder visiter,’ a man whose brow bote traces
of age, though time had dealt leniently with
him.
•The dear Madonna bless you!’ ejaculated Ids
otliei visiter, a young gill with tt c hashing eye
the oval face, jud tlie classic contour of Italy.
’ Tiie invalid bowed his head to each ol laese
solutions.
•And now ,’ said the merchant, for such was the
elder visiter,‘that your wound* are healing, and
your strength returning, may we not enquire of
your kin and country V
A sligtii tlush passed over the palace face of the
sick man; he was siient lor a moment, as n com
muning with tituiseli, and then replied, T am oi
England, and a soldier, aided ot Hie lowest rank.’
‘Of England!’ hastily responded ihe mer
chant, ‘of England! oi heroic England! lie
crossed himseli devoutly, and started hack as it
afraid of contamination.
T may not deny my home and country,’ re
plied the soldier, mildly.
•But I shall inctir the church's censure for
harboring thee !’exclaimed the merchant; *thnu
I newest not what pains and | enables may be
mine fordoing thee this service .'
Then let me iortli,’ replied cue soldier; ‘you
have, been to me toe good iSann i t m, and ! .would
not requite you evil, let me co on my way, and
may the blessings o heaven upon you in ihd
hour of you own iieeo .'
‘Nay, nay, I said not so Tl.ou hast not yet
strength for the travel, arm, her ides, England w as
once the- brightest jewel m oui lady lather’s crown,
and she might reconcile liersell again ; but I fear
me sha will not, lot your master, Henry, is a
violent, hot-blooded man. and lie hath torn a wav
the kiticdom from apostolic care. Enow ye net
that your land is under interdict, and that I, as a
true son of holy mother church, ought not now
to be changing words with thee ?’
‘Even so,’ replied the sold er, ... theie are
many that think the km. s gin e hardly ucai;
by.’
•The shepherd knoweth best how to keep his
fold,’ replied the merchant, hastily nut you ;;ie
the king’s soldier: you take his pay, and cat kis
bread, ami doubtless ought to hope the best tor
him, and even so do I. 1 would that I•• might
repent aud humble himself, aid thei onrholy
father would again receive him into the fold ; but,
now 1 bethink me, thou wert reading; what were
thy .studies?’
'I he brow of the soldier clouded— he hesita
ted a moment; but then gathering up his resolu
tion, replied. ‘ln the din of the battle this book
was my breast-plate, in the hour ct sickness my
best balm,’ and he laid the open volume belt,re the
merchant.
‘Holy E'aint!’ exclaimed tl/e nen ■ rersing
himself, and drawing back as lie l>< t.i.a the volume
which his church had closed agii.nt tne laymen.
‘Thou then art among the heretics who bring
down a curse upon the land ! Nay, thy sojourn
here may bring down malt diction upon me and
mine; upon my house ami home. But thou
shait forth. I will not harbor thee. 1 will deliver
thee over to the church,that she may chasten thee !
Away from him, my child ! away iroin him !
The soldier sat sad and solitary, and watching
the dying light of the sun, as he passed maj. sti :
callv on to shine in other lands. One ray rested '
on the thoughtful brow ot the lonely man as he '
sat bracing up his courage to meet the perilous !
future. As be thus mused, a soft voice broke \
upon his reverie.
‘You are thinking of your own far off home,’
said the Italian girl; ‘how l wish that all 1 loved
had but one home—it is a grict to have so many
homes ?’
‘There is such a home,’ replied the soldier.
‘Ah!’ replied Emilia ; ‘but they say that here
tics come not there! Promise mo that you will
not be a heretic any longer.'
The soldier smiled, and sighed.
‘Von guess why I am here to-night, resumed
the Italian girl. ‘I know it by that smile and sigh.
You think that 1 am come to tell you to seek
your own land home, and, therefore, you smiled,
arid you just breathe one little sigh because you
leave this bright sun—and me.’
Am 1 then to leave yen, perhaps to be deliver
ed over to the power of your itnplicable church V :
Emilia ciossed herself. ‘No, no, go to your
own land and be happy. Here is money ; my
father could not deny me when 1 begged it oi l
him with kisses and tears. Go aud be li3ppy,
and forget us.
‘Never!’ exclaimed the soldier, earnestly—
‘never! andyon, my kind and gentle nurse, my
good angel—you who have brought hope to my
pillow, and beguiled the sail hours of sickness
in a foreign land—words are but poor things to
thank thee with.*
‘I shall sec vo* no more * said the yotrng Ital-
Yol. I.— No. 47.
ian, ‘aoo what shall make me happy when you
are gone ? Who will tell me tales of flood and
field ? I have been hapiy while you were here,
uid yet we meet very saiiiy. My heart stood still
‘■vLeo we lirst found you covered with blood, on
<ur way back to Milan after the battle. You
iad crept under a hedge, as we thought, to die.
But 1 took courage to lay my hand upon your
heart, aud it still beat ; so we brought you home;
and never lias a morning passed, but I have gath
eied the sweetest flowers to freshen your sick pil
low ; and while you were insensible in fuat ter
rible fever, l used to steal into your eha’ ' er and
kneel at your bed-foot and pray for lie Mad
oina’scafe. And when you revived you miied
at my flower, and, when you had voice to speak,
you thanked me.’
Emilia’s voice was lost in sebs ; and what won
der if one from man's sterner nature mir.g led
with them ?
The morrow came. The Italian pir! gathered
a last flower, and gave it in tearful silence to the
soldier. He kissed the fragrant gift, and then,
with a momentary boldness, the lair hand that
gave it,and departed. Ihe young girl watched his
foot- e still they were lost to 1 st*nrd to them
till they were lost to sound, and thin abandoned
herself to weeping.
‘Thou art sad, deat daughter,* said a venerable
father to hi» child, as they traversed that once
country tied expanse through which we now jos
tle our way from the City of Westminster, ‘Thou
art t ad, dear daughter.’
‘Nay, my father,' replied the maiden, T would
not be so ; but it is haul always to wear a cheer
ful countenance when —’
•The heart is sad, thou vvouldst say—’
•Nay. ! meant it not.’
T have scarcely seen thee stnile since we en
'( red this England—l may not say this heietick
Kn :!and.’
‘Hush! dear father, hush! the winds may
whi.-ptu it; sec you riot that we are surrounded
| by a multitude.”
•They are running madly to some revelry.”
•Let us leave the path then,’ said the girl; ‘it
•ui i.ot our fallen fortunes, or our dishonoured
tank. v. ; run to mingle in this stream of folly.
Fe: F-. j the king hath some new pageantry.”
‘V el!, and if it be so,' replied the father,
•lisj-i'y the gewgaw and the show might bring
back tin- truant smile on thy lip, and the lost
lustre to thine eye. Thou art too young to be
thus inoodly sad. Bee how anxious, how happy,
seem this multitude! not one care-worn brew !
thou mayest catch their cheerfuliness. We will
go witli the stream.’
The girl offered no further resistance. They
, were strangers in the land ; poor, almost penni
less. They had come from tiieir own country to
reels In i a dent which one of the nobles ot the
ci in; had incurred in more prosperous days, when
the merchant was rich in silver arid gold, and
ra ‘rcbai'dise.
Ti e vast throng poured on, swelling until it
In came a mighty tide; the bells pealed out, tha
ciuinon bellowed, human voices augmented the
din. The Thames was lined on either bank;
iv<> building on its margin crowded, and its
■•nil..co, peopled. Every sort of aquatic vessel
iove*“d its bosom, so that the flowing liver seem
ed i .-ti er sonic broad road teeming with hie.—
Galley after galley, glittering with gob! and the
purple, came.on laden with the wealth, and the
pride, aid the beauty of the land, ind presently*
the act in at ion «•! “a thousand voices rent the
skit s, Tin lung ticking! long live tic king.’
IJc re me- liti ty tie V 111. crn.c in all tl at re
gal digrity, ci and : mg« evs. pin e'eur, in « hich he
so int-ch delighted.
Aeu <! en 1 egan the pagear.t,cct.tiAed to tliii w
oi ; is.i. oi I'ctne, audio degrade the pretentions
rt ilepoje. Twi galleys, one Daring the sin s
c! h ng'and, the other markiti by the papal in
s i : , ;.«v: 11«(I towaiCs each ether, and the t c
titious < omest commenced.
1 on e on by the crowd, cur merchant ard his
rb.t ; ht< t had beer, forced into a cospicious situa
tion. Tl.c peculiar dress, ilie braided hair, the
bt nt ly ci i! the foreign as; ert ot the girl bad irar
kdi 1 (t ctii to the Hide gallantry it the crowd;
so that the lather and daughter were themselves
objected interest and curiosity.
Ihe two vessels joined, anu the n..click con
test »\ is begun. Oi course the English colours
t iii ti. | l.fi! over the japnl. Up to this point, tbe
merchant bore his pangs in silence; but when
the English gaily had assumed ti e victory, then
came the trial ot | alienee. Effigies ot the car
dinals v.tie hurled Into the stream aiuidst the
shouts and derisions of the mob. At each
plunge groans issued Iron: his tortured break?,
it was in vain that Emilia clung to lus arm, and.
imglciid him, by every tear, to him
sell. His religious zeal otercame
and when, at last, tlic hgura ot the pope, ores
sed in his pontifical robs, was b.urled into thw
tide, and loud exclamation ot agony and horror
burst trom his lips, ‘Ch monstrous impiety of *o
accursed ar.d sacrilegiofls king !’ sounded lowdw
above tiie din of the mob.
It was enough; the unhappy merchant was
immcdicatttiy consigned over to the secular alon.
Oh, sad were those prison hours! Ihe gtrl
told hi r beads-—the father prayed to all the
saints—aud then came the vain consolation* by
which each endeavoured to cheat the other.— *
They thought ot their own sunny land, its balmy
air, its living beauty and the thought ot home.
November came with all its gloom—the month
that should have bi en the grave ot the year, com
ing as it does with shroud and cerecloth, toggy,
dark, and deary; the lather's brow numbered
more wrinkles, the once black hair was more
nearly bleached, the features more attenuated.
And the danshter—ah! youth is the transpa
rent lamp of hope—but in her the light was
dim. •)»
In fear and trembling the unhappy foreigners
wgited the day of doom. The merchant’s offence
ohe Mttle likely to meet with mercy. Ilenry was
jealous of his title of head of the church. He