with the fresh troops and the result was the total defeat both of their and cavalry not a third of their fine army escaping but providence most adverse to s glory at the time it seemed to have reached its the story of italy height cut short all those designs he so fondly had cherished which nothing but death could have prevented his attempting exposed to a cold cutting wind while heated with the exertions of the day that he might praise and thank his victorious troops in person was chilled and afterwards attacked by a terrible fever which no medical skill could remedy feeling that his end was approaching he seems to have had a glimpse afforded him of his past career and its results in proportions than during his life of ceaseless activity and his adopted son to his bedside he uttered a few words of counsel and farewell observing with some earnestness that had he known how short was to be his career he never would have commenced these which had only procured him a great many enemies but would have remained content with the of how many of us fail to make a just estimate of life till at its close i chapter of of thb contest between of and peter of for the crown of the two was renewed between their sons at length it to charles the second of who left the crown to his sou though of still the possession of robert was an amiable more esteemed for hia literary and his patronage of science aud wit than for his military or political skill like s his books were dearer to him than his kingdom he invited the moat eminent scholars to and was proud to call his friend this good prince had the to his only son who left two infant daughters the eldest of whom became to the tbe of throne b gifted and a lady of but among them the ornament of a meek find quiet spirit nor of a pure and mind early to prince of hun who indeed was brought to while yet the care of his nurse the young princess a ha � red of the awkward boy as he the brutal man king robert too regretted selected so a husband for his daughter and shortly before his death made a will settling the of oa and from any share in the ty sixteen years old when she became queen and husband was only two years older freed from control at � too tender an age she plunged into from to vice om to crime till she trembled not to hear her maid hint the of deaths her listening to the proposal of guilt was naturally followed by guilt itself the story of italy a hunting party waa devised at and were both to be present after the day s the royal company found refreshment and rest in a beyond the city walls in this abode sacred to purposes of religion the unfortunate was at dead of night his piercing cries reached the ears of his old nurse who had accompanied him from and who it would seem still hovered about him with dutiful and devoted she entered his bedroom in the greatest terror and there found only the queen sitting by the bedside with her face hidden in her hands her broken answers confirmed the worst suspicions of who seized a lamp and hurrying with it to the looked forth and beheld the dead body of the unfortunate prince in the garden below s at the discovery roused the sleeping inmates of the and the dreadful catastrophe immediately became known though the had escaped penetrated with shame and remorse returned to where she the of italy had hitherto been the popular darling but the of her crime had preceded her and she was received with stem looks and ominous silence the princes of the blood royal fortified their palaces and their as if they considered their o u lives and her brother in law the duke of the people to take up arms against her pope the sixth considering himself called ob to interfere desired the chief justice of to inquire into the murder without respect of persons the queen s was arrested and being put to the torture confessed the names of the on this the chief justice followed by multitudes of the citizens carrying among them a flag on which the murder of was painted appeared before the queen s palace to demand that the should be given up in vain would have them from their just fate those miserable and guilty persons including the maid were put to painful and disgraceful deaths louis king of however did not the italy that brother s death was while the principal remained he towards with purpose of on herself at his approach she fled to pro from whence she proceeded to where the then resided ae an humble for protection there is a curious print the old of the copies of representing presenting herself to and for his hit tion i have it before me as i write here is th pope a good humoured full faced elderly man a goodly double chin triple crowned with bi hand and in a richly decorated mantle clasped at the throat with descending from his throne sit each side of which a and holding out hie hand to who and pretty with a en her head in wide mantle lined w h before him and eagerly takes his hand priests behind her look ei m j the of italy while two and a warrior in complete the group the audience hall a decorated window but artist has not distracted attention by a article of was tried be re a public fear her husband s and pleaded own cause with great eloquence she was by her judges but not in the minds of most of her countrymen a� ter many 