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GENERAL ZAREMBA.—This General had a
very long Polish name ; the King of Prussia had heard of
it, and one day said to him, " Pray, Zaremba, what is
your name ?" The General told him the whole of it.
" Heavens !" said the King, " the Devil himself has not
such a name." " Why should he?" replied Zaremba,
" he is no relation of mine."

Among the Irish who accompanied Montrose
in his campaigns, was one of whom an anecdote has been
preserved, which is at once valuable as showing their spirit
on that occasion, and curious as a proof ti at the Irish
national character was then precisely the same as at the
present day. A cannon ball having shot off the leg of this
brave man, so as only to leave it attached by a small piece
of flesh or skin, and he perceiving that his comrades were
somewhat affected at the sight, instead of showing the
slightest symptom of vexation or pain himself, he cried out
Never mind, my lads; if I can serve no more en foot,
my Lord Marquis must just put me among the horse ;"
and del berately pulling out a clasp-knife, he cut. the limb
fairly off, and handed it to a comrade "for burial with the
rest of the dead."—Constable's Miscellany.

The King himself had been obliged to change his religion
in conformity with their demands, or for the purpose of
disarming their vengeance. In this change of faith he had
the approbation of the most prudent Protestants, who,
to appease the majority of the nation, were willing to
forego the pride and triumph of having given their
enemies a Protestant Monarch, provided they could
by his means secure a solid protection to themselves and
the professors of the creed which he had been obliged to
renounce. Various obstacles occurred to delay the execu-
tion of his intentions, and the converted Monarch's Pro-
testant subjects, by whose blood and exertions he bad 'won
his victories and obtained his crown, began to suspect his
sense of gratitude, or to murmur at the tardy fulfilritent of
his engagements. To satisfy them, he issued, on the Ist
of April-, 1598, from Nantes (where he then was), the
famous edict of that name, which not only gave liberty of
conscience to his Protestant subjects, but opened to them
all Government employments, the Parliaments, and every
branch of the Administration, as well as to Catholics.—
' This edict the Parliament of Paris (which, though only a
Court of Justice, claimed the privilege of giving validity
to the Royal decrees by registration) refused at first to re-
gister. His Majesty on this ordered two deputies from
each Chamber of the Parliament to be sent for, and ad-
dressed them in a memorable speech, which deserves as
much to be cited for its spirit and liberality as the decree
itself. It seas with the intention of introducing the most
essential part of it that we have made the above statement :
" I take in pod part the advice of all my servants.
When what they give me is good, I embrace it. If I find
their opinion better than mine, I very willingly surrender
mine own. There is not one of you to whom, if he should
come to me, and say, ' Sire, you do a thing that is every
way unjust,' I would not listen very willingly. My object
now is to terminate the circulation of false reports. There
must be no longer any distinction between Catholics and
Hugonots. All differences must be lost in that of good
Frenchmen. Let the Catholics convert the Hugonot by
the example of their good lives; but occasion must not be
given to the spread of false rumours through the whole
kingdom. You are the cause of this, by not having
promptly verified the edict.

" I have received more blessings and favours from God
than any one of you. I desire not to be ungrateful. My
disposition is not inclined to ingratitude, though towards
God I must always seem so. But, at any rate, I hope
that he will always give me grace to form good intentions.
lam a Catholic, and I desire to see nobody in my do-
minions affecting to be more a Catholic than myself. To
be a Catholic from interest is worth nothing.
" It is said that I wish to favour those of the Protestant
religion, and an attempt is made to excite distrust in me.
If I desired to ruin the Catholic religion, I should proceed
in this manner,—l should call in hither 20,000 men, and
expel all whom I pleased ; and when I ordered any one
eut, he would be obliged to obey at his peril. I should
say-4 Gentlemen Judges, you must verify the edict, or I
shall put you tl death.' But in doing so I should be a
tyrant. I have not conquered this kingdom by tyranny.
I have won it by my rights and my toils.
" Your delays and your difficulties give occasion to
strange agitations in the city. Processions have been got
up against the edict, even at Tours, where they ought least
of all to have taken place, as its Archbishop is of my no-
mination. Processions have likewise been got up at Mans
to deter the Judges from verifying the edict. That has
only been done from malic. Take care that such things
do not happen any more. I beg you not to give me oc-
casion to speak of this affair again. Let this be the last
time. Do as I have desired, I command and beseech you."
An address like this is rather peremptory; bucllenry
knew well both the times in which he lived, the extent of
his own power, and the character of the parties with whom
he had to deal. The Leaguers of Paris were not to be
entreated into justice and liberality towards their oppo-
nents—they were to be commanded ; and the Catholic pro-
cessions of intolerance in those days could only be put down
like the Orange violence of our own times, by She strong
arm of the law.— Times.