offences, but comforted and sustained by a firm faith in the pardoning love of Jesus Christ.' ***

It is a remarkable fact that the king absolutely declared that he would never pardon a criminal for that species of forgery of which Dr. Dodd was guilty. From that hour that kind of forgery increased!

(10.) The Farewell.

We were kindly favored with an entire volume of Sir Walter Raleigh's Poems by the Librarian of Harvard College to whom we are largely indebted. We see not how any one can read the lines without a deep feeling of sympathy. Raleigh was distinguished as a navigator, a historian, a soldier and a politician. Amidst all his cares he found leisure for the cultivation of letters. He was the friend and patron of Spencer, as may be learned from the following couplet :

Of me no lines are lov'd nor letters are of price,

Of all which speak our English tongue, but those of thy device.'

Speaking of his death, to one who deplored his misfortunes he said, 'that the world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for an execution.' In bidding farewell to his friends, he said, 'I have a long journey to go, and therefore I will take my leave.'

Having asked the executioner to show him the axe, which the executioner hesitated to do, he cried, I prithee let me see it! Dost thou think

I am afraid?' He then took hold of it, felt the edge, and smiling, said to the sheriff, This is a sharp medicine; but it is a physician for all evils.' He forgave the executioner, and being asked which way he would lay himself on the block, he answered, 'So the heart be right, it is no

matter which way the head lies.' At two strokes his head was taken off without the least shrink or motion of the body.

Note (11.) Placido.

For this account, we are indebted to the authoress, who kindly loaned us the Liberty Bell, of 1845, for which the poem was translated.

This noble being was publicly executed in Havanna, in July last, on the charge of having attempted to free the slaves of Cuba. Himself a man of color, and originally a slave, he wished to be the Spartacus, the Washington, of his race. His heroic calmness as he emerged from the church, where, agreeably to the Spanish rites, he had been made to pass the twenty-four hours preceding his last; saluting his acquaintances, and then chaunting in a loud voice this prayer, which he had just composed, produced an impression of the deepest regret on the throngs through which he passed to execution. The recital will make the American abolitionists resolve anew, as at the commencement of this enterprise, to reject, and to entreat the oppressed to reject, physical force, in their attempts to gain deliver

ance.

The translation gives nearly the literal meaning; but our language hardly affords the means of doing justice to the long low-rolling knell' of the Spanish.

Note (12.) Hymn to the Pillory.

This Hymn was composed by DE FOE, the writer of the celebrated work of Robinson Crusoe. He was confined two years in Newgate Prison for an alleged libel. It is a stinging sa

tire upon this State Trap of the Law,' as he terms it. Pope alludes to De Foe, in his satire :

'Fearless on high stood unabashed, De Foe,

And Tutchin flagrant from the scourge below.'

In this couplet, Pope has joined with De Foe Tutchin, whom Judge Jeffries ordered to be so inhumanly whipt, that he petitioned the King to be hanged! After this satire appeared, the noted Thomas Brown, produced a pleasant dialogue 'between the Pillory and Daniel De Foe.' Ned Ward in a book written against De Foe, makes the following allusion:

'The Pillory was but a Hook

To make him write another book:
His lofty Hymu to th' wooden ruff
Was to the law a counter-cuff,

And truly, without Whiggish flattery,
A plain assault and downright battery.'

He finely contrasts in the other two verses, the conduct of the slave owners, with those of the Spaniards, who butchered the people of Mexico, to possess their gold, and left one third of God's creation void.' He gives the palm of superior mercy to the latter.

De Foe is said to be the author of the following singular verse:

Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there,
And it will be found on examination,
The latter has the larger congregation.'

De Foe wrote two hundred and ten works! Some suppose he wrote more, from the fact that he did not alway prefix his name to his productions. He possessed a lively imagination, solid judgment, invincible integrity, a resolute temper, and great fortitude of mind. He was never awed by the threats of power, nor deterred from speaking truth by the insolence of the great.

Note (13.) James I.

This monarch was confined eighteen years in Windsor Castle. He was only eleven years of age when it commenced. The news was brought to his father, we are told, while at supper, and did so overwhelm him with grief that he was almost ready to give up the ghost into the hands of the servants who attended him. But being carried to his bed-chamber he abstained from all food, and in three days died of hunger and grief at Rothesay.'

The subject of his poem was his love for the Lady Jane Beaufort, daughter of the Earl of Somerset, of whom he became enamored while in prison, and to whom he was subsequently espoused. There is a beautiful story connected with his long imprisonment which will undoubtedly gratify the reader. It is said that at one time in awaking from a trance, and rising from his stony pillow, he prayed that some token might be sent to confirm the promise of happier days. Suddenly, a turtle dove of the purest whiteness came flying in at the window, and alights upon his hand, bearing in her bill a branch of red gilliflower, in the leaves of which was written in letters of gold the following sentence:

'Awake! awake! I bring, lover, I bring

The newis glad that blissful is, and sure
Of this comfort, now laugh and play and sing,
For in the heaven decretit is thy cure.'

He received the branch with mingled hope and dread; read it with rapture, and this, he says, was the first token of his increasing happiness. We are indebted to Chamber's Encyclopedia of English Literature for our extract.