The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-04-05 00:00:00

THE EXECUTION.

On Monday five of the !wart' unfortunate men
who were convicted for the murder of Samuel Dun-
kin, were executed at Dowupattick, in pursuance
of their sentence. Daniel M'Cuuvill and John
M'Alindru sere feinted, and it is supposed will be
transported for life.

MA RCM QS.

John O'Neill Bayley, E.q. indicted for • con.
@piracy to murder Robert Hammond, on the Bth
September last. at Tullyniskey, and also for falsely
charging Robert Hammond with stealing • gate,
and inciting one Hugh Alacartan to commit per.
jury, sod also to take away the life of the said
Hobert flonsinoted.—'File Jury, without retiring,
acquitted him on both indictment..
John O'Neill Bayley, Esq. Alexander MIT, and
James Doff, indicted for a riot and assault at Tat-
lyniskey. on the 26th, of January, on Amie Powell,
Henry Powell, and John Posed' : and Henry
Powell, John Powell, and Anne Powell, indicted
fors not and assault on John O'Neill Bayley, Esq.
Alexander Duff. and James Duff, on same day,
sod at same time and place.
Ti. Jury retired for nearly two hours, and re-
turned a verdict of goihy against James Duff, and
acquitted all the others.
James Duff lined' IW. foiiiwe benefit of Powell,
and to he imprisoned till the fine he paid. The
fine was immediately paid by Major Bad Ivy, owl
the Prisoner discharged.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION.—Frow calciaitien
by the College of Physicians, no leas than 40.000
die sweatily I. Groat Britain ad Consimanios, and at least
10,1100 Ia Lsodoe. The lots Wm. Tomball, Esq. a eery
ingestion Sorgeoq, ascertained that eve., 20th puns was
ruptured. These compleists are Indy alumnus to every
lodinated who MA the least exertion. - It is also incredible
the somber that infer from a remain Diaease, by being t
improperly treated. It was show ciressnatanees. Wend I
Dr. Comma to select eminent Physician awl Norms , q
at Most 30 years' repenters., to form a Medical Illsardi
sod slate the establinswei spends of 30,000 Patients We
bees cored—any of them after Hospitals had tailed--
Messrs. Coors's sod Co. are esnolttil at Womilandis
siren, Osferd-street, and at Charlotte Hone, Gent CMIlw
losmoreet, opposite tbe Bev. Rewind Hill's, daily. RIMS
Eight till Eigiol.—bleelmuirs have advice gratis miry loan
lag, frees Nix sill Eight, and ne &easy Mornisp
Twelve o'Cluek.—ens Raptures of 30 years standing red&
tally gond, wilb.N endsesiret...-There are private dame
M nib house, and priests men for Females.—N.lL
afiinad wend do well to read Mews. Comeau sod Co .%
Lectern es two penning Die-am, published at Owe
f 1111.8, by Mr. Haney, It, Illselikiamend. They 111
also pert nth! to poem Practllnwera.
Testerdays—fabyti Townite.--116111by at de Ilairk, Ire
never, int lad* sad Homo.

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THR MONASTERY.
Irmo imiLiappor; Rdlihwrg& Kope:ine," fur Ito
Ilostb of Marc

the tale open with a view of • little motto
tans forialice on the domain of the monastery of
Kesioaquheir—that is to sq., of Melrose, tenanted
by the widow of Is chinch I. who has just been
slain at the battle of Pinkie. The disturbed state
of the country, during the occupation of a great
partof its froortier by the English army of Protec-
tor Somerset, is dangerous', but doubly dangerous
to those. who here no guide or guardian like the in-
mates of this solitary mansion. The casual visit,
therefore, of so English foraging party i$ sue cieot
to throw the widow of Ainion (Arndt losing now dead-
ly fear fur herself and her children—but the corn.
mittider of the troop, Stewart Holton, has pity on the
family or a soldier. and grants them a protection,
which not unly secures themselves f future in-
sult, but attracts the els'', of neighbours that bad
hitherto been accustomed to regard them as in all
things greatly their inferiors. In the number of
these is found no lets • person than the L'dy of
Avenel—the widow of • powerful Baron, who also
hid fallen in the slaughter of Pinkie. This lody
he. only one child, a daughter, the rightful heiress
of her father's possessions, but extruded from throb
(as was this elision, of these turbulent de's) by a
tierce and elite! uncle. Julian of Avenel. the bro-
tl*r of the deceased Baron. The high-born dame,
and her injured orphan, meditate only a temporary
refuge in the favoured tower of Glemleing ; but by
degrees the two willows find therinelves happy to-
gether, and Mary Avenel grows up to the verge of
womanhood beneath the surne roof with the two
boys of Sirhon Gleodinning, sharing in ell their
1. lessons and in most of their sports ; the sisterly ur-
bitress of all their disputes—and by degrees the
bbject of more then brotherly love to them both.
Halbert, the eldest of the boys, is high, haughty,
active, spirited—Edward. the younger, calm of
temper. studious, retreating ; but both ere gener-
ous, and built its their several ways are beautiful
youths. Mary herself, timid and delicate, leans
with the natural instinct of her sex to the robuster
stay ; but the inequality of rank prevents tither of
her foster-brethren from expressing in words, feelings
which, as yet. indeed, they themselves can .earcely
be supposed to understaild ; their rivalry is not only
quiet but almost unconscious, and scarcely disturbs
for a moment the purity of their brotherly affection
for each other. Their pursuits, however, are from
infancy different, like their dispositions; sod ex-
cepting the flow of domestic affections, and the
I warmer flow of their love, the boys have little in
common.

Mary Avenel is about fifteen years old. when
her mother's health, long feeble, brgiva entirely to
give way, and a priest is sent from Melrose (for the
Benedictines were willing to show respect to the
blood of • family that had of old enriched their
monastery) to attrod her death-bed. But the con-
fessor discover, in her chamber a copy of the Bible
in black letter, rod clasped with silver, which lie
livers with grief and astonishment the lady has
been in the custom of reading, and loses sin time
in returning to his abbey with this alarming proof
of the exteot to which the new doctrines of heresy
had been gaining ground, even iii regions mo•s
within the control of the church. As he is about
to ford the Tweed with the Bible in his arms, a
female, atomic and in sorrow, requests him to con-
vey her over, and the good-natured Monk allows
her to mount on his horse behind him. They
reach the middle stream in safety ; but, suddenly,
the horse plunges into the deepest water, and the
female, standing up and singing, as he swims
downward, in wild and fearful accents, is suspected
by her companion to be some being of no mortal
mould. He is plunged over-lewd in the waters,
and gives himself up for lost; but, by-and-by, finds
himself lying safe on the shore, by the vide of his
monastery, having lost nothing but the Bible,
which has vanished along with his mysterious com-
panion. The account he gives of his adventure is
received with suspicion by his brethren, who unto-
rally enough suppose that his fears had taken away
from the accuracy of his perceptions; hut the dis-
covery of the Bible, in the tower of Glendrarg.
is ■ thing out so easily to be gist ever; and to in-
quire into the history of that dangerous volume,
and the extent to which it had been studied by the
two families of the tower, the Sub Prior, who is its
truth the moving and guiding spirit of his convent.
immediately undertakes a journey in person. Ile
arrives too late to witness the death of Lady
Avenel ; but, to his astonishment, if not to Isis Is r.
ror, he finds the same book, which Father Philip
luid carried sway. again lying in safety by the side
of the bed on which her remains are extended.
Unable to account for what he sees—for the whole
family agree in 'eying that the book had been re-
moved by Philip, and restored they knew not how
—he once more gets possession of the clasped vo-
NUN., and seta eff on his return. The sagacious
Sob Prior. however, fares no better than simple
Father Philip. A strange form glides over and
again before him on his path—he is thrown from
his hone;—and on reaching the abbey, finds that
the Bible of Lady Avenel has been taken from him
by the way. Haring lived fur tunny years in Koine,
the accomplished and learned Eustace is free f►om
the grosser superstitions of his order in Scotland ;
but there is sousething its all this that baffles his
penetration. More than half convinced that some
supernatural agency watches with peculiar atten-
tion over the family at Glendearg, he repeats his
visits from time to time to that deserted tower,
and, by degrees, becomes deeply interested itethe
daughter of the house of Avenel, and the sons of
Simon Gleinl. g. Edward. the younger of the
boys, iii particular, displays a turn and talent for
study which captivates the zealous churchman.
sod he lends his best aid in directing his education.
The supernatural appearance,. its the mean
time, which first brought Father Eustace to be a
Mlitlf at Glendearg, have not been confined to
him and Father Philip. Mary Avenel was born
an All-hollow's Eve. mid once, in privilege of that
favoured hour. had she seen she shade of her &thee
a gehtlentan with a light bream-plate, like
what I have west long spot when we dwelt at Ave.
oel—• • • black-halted, black-eyed. with a peaked
black beard." said the child. ea and massy a fold of
'starling round his neck cud banging down his
breast over his breast-plate; sea be had a beautifol
hawk, with silver bells, stool* se his kit baud,
with a crimes silk-Wind erli4111104" Twice
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