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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-11-12 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

disregard of the sanctity of the marriage vow. On the
death of James she cast her eye upon and married Archi-
bald Earl of Angus, then a stalWart youth of 19 years of
age. After a few years spent with him in no very felici-
tous manner, she seems to have set her affections upon
the Lord Regent Albany, and, in hopes of the death of
his wife, she sued the Pope for a divorce from her hus-
band. One of the pleas upon which she grounded her
petition is very singular. Her biographer states that

EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS,

- CAUTION

AGAINST MONEY-LENDERS.

A case came before the Common Pleas on Tuesday, in
the form of an application for a rule nisi in the matter of
Sibury v. Wilkins, the rule being to show cause why a
judge's order to stay proceedings in the action should
not be set aside.
In the month of April, 1849, the Rev. Thos. Hodsoll
Wilkins, of Ringstead.house, Northampton, received a
printed circular from a person who gave his address as
" Alpha, 57, Button-street, Tavistock-square," and pro-
fessed his readiness to lend money on security or nego-
tiate bills of exchange. Having at the time some occa-
A, and suetn
to be, that ua.v.. sion for a loan, he addressed a letter to Alpha, and re-
- bus_ ceived in return a communication signed "J. Gardiner,"
but which he had afterwards reason to believe was in the
handwriting of the plaintiff Sibury. After some corre-
spondence it was agreed that Mr. Wilkins should accept
a bill of exchange for £l5O at three months, receiving,
however, only half that sum himself, and being made
liable, of course, for that half alone. Accordingly, he
accepted a bill in blank for £l5O, which was dated the
27th September, 1849, and forwarded the acceptance to
Gardiner. Having waited some days in vain for a re-
mittance, Mr. Wilkins despatched successively two let-
ters, stating his uneasiness. In the reply which he at
length received the person writing in the name of Gardi-
ner informed him as follows :—" You agreed to my pro-
position of jointly borrowing £l5O, to be divided between
us. I am endeavouring to obtain this loan, and shall
certainly not relinquish the project until I fail, unless
very handsomely paid for it." Between the date of this
reply, viz., October sth, and the 14th of December. a
variety of letters were interchanged, and on the latter
1.0 -T _ ,ne effect that he had procured
,ch lie had applied as his own share of
.oan to pay another bill; he added that the " scoun-
drel" who advanced that money demanded it back again
the day after it was received, with an additional £5; that
being himself only able to raise £25, he must look to
Mr. Wilkins for £5O. In another letter he stated that
the money must be forthcoming on the 29th, when the
—,,euuct was more excuse- bill became due, or writs would be out against all parties.
Subsequently he forwarded a worthless promissory note
this feature in Margaret's character will strike the reader of his own for £5O, to be negotiated by Mr. Wilkins,
'rem its similarity to that of her brother Henry VIII., and the proceeds applied for the purpose above alleged.
dthouzli her mode of getting rid of the objects of her By the payment of a small sum it was pretended that the
hanged affections was not quite so summary as his. action on the bill was deferred; but at length, on the
We must, however, conclude our notice of this biogra- 9th of February, he intimated. that the " fix must come,"
by (premising that we shall on another occasion recur to and on the 14th he wrote to say that the writs were out,
le two others contained in the volume) with the follow- and recommended that Mr. William Smith, of 16,
summing-un by the writer mingto• shoW

" It is certain that, if Queen Margaret could have proved the
charge of previous marriage or pre-contract against her hos-
bawl, she would not have had recourse to a pretext futile as
that which, after great re earch. Dr. Magnus discovered w.
her plea for divorce at Rome. 'The Queen's Gracc,"
continueth still at Stirling, and sueth fast for a divorce from
'tf Angus, submitting her cause to be, that when sly
married to the said earl, the late King of Scots, her

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Earl of A

band, was alive; and that the said King was lion, three years
after the field of Flodden or Brankston.' Notwithstanding
this discovery, made by Queen Margaret, of the existence of
the first husband, for the purpose of getting rid of the second,
Dr. Manus remained earnestly of opinion that the rights of
the Earl of Angus should be recognised by his pervi-rse help-
mate. The character, indeed, that the learned doctor is pleased
to give the Queen's repudiated husband for gentleness and sub.
mission, makes it doubtful matter if she could ever have
changed for the better."

Whilst prosecuting this divorce, which was subsequently
granted, we are told that, Albany having been forgotten,
" it was generally whispered ' that the Queen was forced
to retire awhile, on account of the birth of her first child
by Harry Stuart, with whom she had maf..
riage."; Subsequently the biographer informs t

a secret mar-

"There is little ',lief from the selfishness of Marg
usual conduct, to find the maternal feelings t
breaking forth through the crust of diplo

s ardently

211 en Mar

Led, was struck with such

,d, where she ni
advantage of I

£7O on the bill, %I.
the I

for the purpose of beinz r
Archibald. Earl of Angus, thl
she speaks angrily in another epistl

'Mel' spot

uch_a thing of he

id be appointed to accept service for
Mr. Wilkins and prevent the opposing attorney sending
into the country. The writ of summons was issued on
the 15th, in the name of Samuel Sibury, by Thomas
Pittman, attorney, of No. 18, Charlotte-street, Portland_
place, no application having been made to Mr. Wilkins
for payment of his acceptance, either by Pittman or any
other solicitor. Smith had been empowered by the de-
fendant to act on his behalf, as Gardiner suggested, and
he conducted the case. On the 6th of April a letter from

)ossible, may be attributed to the fact a
trance that occurs, since Christianity
regnant power bend; confided to the hands of a wo•
to reign as femme seule. She had no
°nu WP`'

was establ

avn w!lo was exr

guided ent
a elevated characte
able to her

tunes attril

.onduct,
lescend;.nts

we rise to most terrible c

which caused long
y litigation concerning the birthrights of their des-
. The fearful feud between the houses of Arran and
Stuart was of this kind, which deeply involved the
ty of her granddaughter, Mary, Queen of Scots. And
int hapless Princess was likewise marked as a victim by the
Ad and crafty Rutbven, on account of his family interests
eing affected by Queen Margaret's marriages and divot%
successiowcf tragedies, for -th

him was received by Mr. Wilkins, informing him that an
arrangement had been effected, by which he (Mr. Wil-
kins) should pay a moiety of the plaintiff's costs, amount-
ing to £6, and also the sum of £75 by monthly instal-
ments. A judge's order to this effect had been procured
from Mr. Justice Coleridge. It is with respect to this
order, by which proceedings were stayed, that the rule
nisi was moved for on Tuesday, the defendant having
become convinced that Gardiner, Pittman, and Sibury
had been acting in concert with a view to defraud him of
his acceptance. From the affidavits put in it appeared
that these persons had been carrying on a number of si-
milar transactions ; that there were at least eight in the
gang, and that they had succeeded in victimizing clergy-
men and gentlemen to an incredible amount. They had
in the summer of 1849 addressed circulars to various re-
sidents in the country, and also published advertisements
in the Times and in some country papers, in which they
offered to advance money by way of loan ; the addresses
given being in one case that of Thos. Pittman, in another
that of James Gardiner, and in another that of Samuel
Sibury. Nine gentlemen, of whom seven w

, was the con
ilargaret Tudor's indulgence of her selfish pas
Nor are the woes attendant on contempt of the divine
limited to the great ones of the earth
though shrouded in t'*-

nstitution of marri
Jany a domestic tr

.he obscurity of
_ry-day life, may be traced to the same cause. sorrow enters
ith sin it desolates the peace of home; and unoffending
uhlren suffer for the evil of their parents, whenever persons
-e found to break, either by Wilful passiOns or litigious con-
!st, the earliest law given by the Almighty."

The work displays great research and historical know-
ledge ; and we anticipate much pleasure and information
from the series. In particular, we look with great inte-
rest to Miss Strickland's biography of Mary Stuart, re-
specting whose unfortunate career we are assured that
she is in possession of many documents which have not
-t be.-

entered into communication with the reputed lenders,
and gave promissory notes in blank for various sums to
one or other of these parties—one giving five such accept-
ances, each for £l,OOO. Of the nine two received some
very trifling advances, and the remaining seven got no
value or consideration whatever. Five of the number
had writs issued against them, of their acceptance, be-
coming due, at the snit either of the three above men-
tioned, or of one of their confederates. We have also
one of three cases given at length. in which Richard
Augustus Long Phillips, late of Christ's College, Cam-
bridge, figures as the victim. This gentleman had the
misfortune, not uncommon with University men, to leave
behind him at the seat of learning some outstanding
claims. in order to liquidate these he proposed to him-
self to raise a sum of money on some reversionary pro-
perty, and put himself in communication with Pittman.
Having waited some time in vain for a loan on the secu-
rities offered, he took a journey to London to accelerate
the movements of his agent. Pittman then persuaded
him to accept a bill drawn by himself for £225, and intro-
duced to him a person named William Morton as pre-
pared to discount it. Morton said he could not do it at
the time. as he had already discounted that morning a
bill for £5OO, but that he would get a friend to do it.
Hereupon Pittman made over the acceptance to Morton,
which, however, was- never discounted, and which Mr.
, Phillips had great difficulty in recovering. Pittman now

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offered again to get it discounted at 15 per cent., provi-
ded a picture of Domenichino's was taken as equivalent
to £6O. Having refused this offer, Mr. Phillips was
next induced, by Morton to accept bills for £4 for
ha Crflf 1111 I,n,

STF.RIES OF LIFT

—if we ask the philosopher
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will want fbr its completion that one
ciz all these would be unable to produce
. "Analyze the seed with the finest
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0, found its way into the pos-
Langdon, a saddler in Duke-street,
Manchester-square, to whose house Morton had removed.
Mr. Phillips paid this man £7O on account of the note in
question ; and, having been sued, at the instance of
Thomas Foulkes, on another £lOO note, he compromised
that action by paying £5O through Pittman, of which
Pittman himself kept half. He paid- to Pittman for his
services—of:which the chief was procuring a loan of £7OO
from an insurance society—£lo2; and, being told that
the charge might have been much higher, further pre-
sented him with a ring. Heals° discounted, at Pittman's
request, a bill of exchange, produced by Gardiner, and
accepted by another of the nine, a clergyman near Lewes ;
as no consideration had been given for the bill it was
practically valueless to him.
Among the other links in this case by which the con-
nexion of the various parties was proved, one was fur.
nished by the affidavit of an attorney employed by S.
Sibury en occasion of his bankruptcy, who deposed that
the letters signed " J. Gardiner," and addressed to Mr.
Wilkins, were in the handwriting of Sibury. A second
was furnished by the Tittles. The acceptor of the five
promissory notes for £5,000 advertised in that newspaper
to caution any person against dealing in those securities,
fraudulently obtained by J. Gardiner. At a later date an
advertisement was inserted, disclaiming all connexion
with the case in question, by a person signing himself
.•

was an acceptance for £2
session of NI

e) do you find

"J. Gardiner, Ballymena, County Antrim." Subse-
quently a letter was addressed to the Times, requesting
a second insertion of this advertisement, which on the
ground of its fraudulent character was refused. The
manuscript of the advertisement so rejected proves to he
in the handwriting of a law-writer named Willis, who
had been employed by Fagg, the clerk of Pittman, to
write it. It also appears that Pittman and Morton were
in the habit of meeting at the house of Langton, in whose
name one of the suits was brouelit; and that Lewis, in
whose name another was entered., was a connexion of and
resident with Smith, being like him an attorney.
We are happy to say that the rule nisi has been granted
in two cases arising out of these transactions, and hope
to see the whole matter probed to the bottom. The
facts, as we have cursorily given them, should teach all
persons who feel inclined to raise money by discount or
loan, that security is much better that secrecy, and that
they bad much better rely on agents whose character they
know than on the ambiguous services proffered by such
persons as the present trial has introduced to our readers

@rural ff,llsrellaliv.

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An importation_ef a quantity of game has taken place

by a vessel arrived from Dunkirk, consigned to order.
Carpenters' wages in Wilitebaven are 19s. per week for
new work, and 21s. for old.

The clergy of the Isle of Man are about to address her
Majesty on the Papal question.
A shark, which measured nine feet in length, and,
weighed 3001 b., was caught last week, by some Dorset--
shire fishermen, off the Isle of Portland.
Mr. Harris, connected with the General Post-office,
who was supposed to be murdered, has turned up in,
Scotland.

The letter which we extracted last week from the
Times, and purporting to have been written by the Duke
of Atholl turns out to be a forgery.
An anonymous friends only known as T.E,E.. has given
the munificent sum of £5BO in aid of the funds. of the
Wesleyan Missionary Society.

The ladies of Tynemouth have purchased a magnificent
gold chain, value a hundred guineas, and intend presenting
it to the first Mayor of that Borough.
Two thatched houses were burnt down at Wakefield on
Tuesday, the thatch having been ignited by a spark from
some fireworks.

A thin gold coin, about the size of a fourpenny piece,
was lately found in the gizzard of a duck, at Driffield,
Yorkshire.

The treasurer of the United Presbyterian Church Mis-
sions has received from "Two Friends of Missions," per
secretary, the munificent donation of £l,OOO.
The post-master has ordered the discontinuance of a
postal delivery in several rural districts where it was re-
quested.

A sermon was recently preached in the Wesleyan meet-
ing house at Lidney, Monmouthshire, by a local preacher
named Greening, now in his 95th year.
An importation of 12 boxes of cherries has just taken
place from Palermo. This is a very remarkable importa-
tion at this late season of the year.
The Chinese government do not intend to send any
specimens of tea to the 1851 exhibition, and a committee
has therefore been appointed to send in samples.
Some workmen who were digging at the North British
Railway Station, Berwick, last week, turned up four or
five large stone cannon balls, some silver and copper coins,
and some human bones.

The monument erected to the memory of Sir Sidney
Smith, in the Cemeterie of Pere la Chaise, is tottering to
its fall. A few admirers of the renowned Admiral are
raising a fund to restore the monument.

It is said that several of the lay Roman Catholics con-
template having a grand dinner at the Freemasons' Hall,
in honour of the restoration of their hierarchy : his grace
the Duke of Norfolk in the chair.

Several of the London police magistrates have resolved
not to give one farthing of money, sent to them by cha-
ritable persons, for explicit purposes. They will receive
whatever is sent to be used at their discretion,

Several gigantic crystals have been found in Cairngorm
by the " diggers" engaged in the pursuit : two especially,
weighing 231bs and 551bs.
Her Majesty has granted a pension of £lOO a 'year to
Mr. John Payne Collier, editor of Shakspeare, and author
of the History of the English Stage.
On Thursday the spinning-wheel of Messrs. Cooper,
at Carlton, near Glasgow, was destroyed by fire. The
damage is estimated at £40,000, which is not quite cover-
ed by the insurance.
On Wednesday a sergeant in the Royal Artillery en-
tered a cab, at London-bridge, and, on the cabman open-
ing the door where he was directed to stop, he found the
unfortunate inmate a corpse.
On Tuesday, at Southampton, the crew of the steam-
ship Sultan h-ung up effigies of the Pope and Cardinal
Wiseman from the yard-arm of the ship amid hearty de-
monstrations of joy.
A STRAN GE Flsn.—An enormous fish. weighing up-
wards of 1001bs, called the maigre (sciceuaquila), was
caught during the last week off Brixham.roads, and sent
to Billingsgate-market. It was between five and six feet
in length.
The Carnarvon Herald says, " There is a sloop, a
vessel of and belonging to the port of Aberystwith, about
140 years old. She has made several voyages this year to
the West of England. The old vessel still looks well, and
is considered seaworthy."
CHINESE PRODUCE —The importations of fancy articles
from China are much more various and extensive than
used formerly to be the case. A vessel which has just
arrived from Canton has brought no less than 376 packages
of china and lackered ware.
William Chambers, Esq., of Glenormiston, has offered
a prize to the dixectors of the Scottish Institution, Moray-
place, to be given to the young lady who, at the close of
this session, shall best sing two Scottish songs with piano-
forte accompaniment.
The Mayor of Boston has written to Lord J. Russell,
suggesting that the Alien Act should be brought into force
against Cardinal Wiseman, as a Spaniard, and that he be
ordered to quit the British shores within twenty-four
hours of his landing !
The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land . has increased from £15,973,669 to £16,025,215,
being a difference of £51,546. The paper in actual circu-
lation has decreased from £21,215,706 to £21,161,602,
being a difference of £114,104.
A little boy, two years and a half old, the son of a
widow living at Cockroyds, near Bradford, wandered into
the fields on Thursday week, lost his way, lay down in a
corner, where he died from exposure to the cold, and was
found on the following Saturday.

The Stamford Mercury says that in a hurricane on
Monday, the post-mill top of Mr. Oxley, of Upton, was
completely blown off, and the sails broken to pieces.
Near Clifton, a mill was also blown down ; but two
youths, who were in the mill at the time, escaped injury.
A SQUEEZE FOR IT.—The hole in the iron door,
through which a prisoner got out of his cell at. the
Barnsley Lock-up, last week, but who was re-captured, is
ten inches by six inches. The hole by which prisoners
have their victuals given to them.

On Monday Mr.-Charles Locke Eastlake was elected
President of the Royal Academy, in the room of the late
Sir Martin Shee, by the all but unanimous assent of his
fellow-Academicians. On the same day Mr. J. C. Rook
was elected an Associate.

At the Westminster Nisi Prius Court, on Monday, Mr.
Foster, a brichmaker, employed on the Great Northern
Railway, at West Barnet, recovered £2OO damages from a
brother in trade, named Howard, and a married man, with
five children, for the seduction of his daughter, a girl
seventeen years of are.

In a shop at Ediziburgh, there is now exhibited a por-
tion of the trunk of a Canadian beech, in which the horn
of a red deer, with all its antlers complete, is seen com-
pletely embedded in the hard and solid wood, which it
had evidently transfixed when the tree was young, and in
a comparatively soft condition.

The presidency of the East India Company's educa-
tional establishment at Addiscombe, now vacant, and
with £1,500 a year, exclusive of a residence, and other
pecuniary advantages, will, it is reported, be given by the
court of directors to one of the last chosen members of
their own body, namely,—Colonel
PROGRESS OF POPERY 11,1 THE DIOCEST: OF EXETER.—
An application was lately made to the Bishop of Exeter
to permit the Romanist practice of mingling water with
the wine, to be introduced it► his diocese.. His lordship
declined to grant the boon, but it does not appear that
any censure was pronounced on the treachery which sug-
gests such applications.

On Tuesda'y last a fire broke out on the farm of Mr.
Gibbins, at Housham, Lincolnshire, by which no less
than seven stacks were entirely consumed. It appears
that some men had been thrashing during the day with a
steam thrashing machine, and it is supposed that the
sparks had communicated with some straw and set the
whole place in a blaze.

THE LATE Stu R. PEEL.—It appears from the last vo-
tume of Southey's Memoirs, that, in 1835, Sir Robert
reel wrote an official letter to Southey, offering him a ba-
ronetcy, but by the same post sent him a private note,
soliciting to know what he could'do for him : the poet de-
clined the baronetcy, but accepted an allowance of £3OO
a year.

Webeg to draw attention to the approaching division
of the profits of the Standard Life Assurance Company
for the five years about to be closed.. This Company, we
perceive, has had additions to itenumbers within six years
of 3,801} persons, and although only established in 1825
its income is £165,000 per annum. It is one of the oldest
and apparently most prosperous of the Scotch offices..
A singular instance of resuscitation occurred lately at
the Siitish Museum, which, however strange it may
appcar, actually took place. A certain snail, a native of
Egypt, which had been glued down to a card during the
last four years, and confined in a close glass case, acttrally
came to life the other day. and' was found by the
astonished "custos" promenading about in his narrow
domain.

EXTWAORDINARY ManamoEs..—The following extra-
ordinary occurrence took place in London. A gentleman,
a widower, left with three sons, became acquainted with a
widow lady who had three daughters: The lady and gentle-
man married, and with the children of the two families
lived together for ten years. During the last six weeks
the sons-and daughters were married to each other, and
what is more singular, the eldest son married the eldest
daughter, the others in the same manner.
MYSTERPOOS ACCIDENT.—An extraordinary accident
took place on Thursday, at the junction of the Derby and
North-Western station, at Birmingham. Between three.
and four o'clock in the morning,_ just after a train had.
passed over the Lewley-street viaddat, a frightful expid-
sicn took place under one of the arches, blowing up the
parapet wall and masses of buckwood in every direction.
No one connected with the train,.with the exception of
the stoker, was injured. The cause- of the explosion is
under investigation.
The North of Scotland Bank azd the Edinburgh and
Glasgow Bank have both recently- reported the state of
their affairs to their shareholders, consequent upon the
railway and other disasters of 1841: The North of Scot-
land Dank shows a loss of- two-thirds of their capital,
and their shares are consequently to be reduced to one-
half, and to represent for the future a capital of only,
.£190,000.- The Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank state that,
in addition to their reserved fund, .they have lost £1.10,000
of their capital.
Ann Cutler, aged seventy-three, an eccentric maiden]
lady of miserly habits, was found. dead, with an old. quilt
around: her, in her apartments in Clerkenvvell, London,
last week. The room was in a most filthy condition, and
had more the appearance of a marine store dealer's an a
human habitation. Although always under apprehension
that she would die poor, she '_eft four legacies of Xleo
each to religious societies. In her will she directed that'
her body should be enclosed in a coffin having a. spring
lid, as she always had a dread of being buried alive.
LAWENTABLE Loss OF LWE.—A dreadful accident
occurred on Wednesday in the.Frongoeh lead mines, near
Aberystwith, the property of the Earl of Lisburne. One
of the miners placed a lighted pipe near some- powder
which they were about to UM This ignited three, half-
cwt. barrels close by, and an explosion heard for miles
distant followed, the place being instantly enveloped in
flames. One poor man was killed on the spat; •two
others were so severely injured that they suraived but a
few hours, and the remaining four are still in,a dreadful
state.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—On Thursday evening, on the
return of a young man at East Peckham from his work,
he discovered the body of his grandmother, Sarah Bates,
a small shopkeeper, weltering in her blood, with her throat
cut nearly to the extent of severing her head from her
body. The deed, apparently, had been inflicted with a
large description of butcher's knife, which was found near
the body, covered with blood. The deceased had several
cuts on her hands, and both her eyes were blackened.
At present the affair remains envelopedin, the greatest
mystery.
The following anecdote is making the round of the
papers, with what authority we know not
" Not many summers. since the Bishop of London and Mrs.
Blomfield, having been at Matlock, went to see Alton 'Powers,
the fine seat of Lord Shrewsbury. It becoming known to
Lord and Lady Shrewsbury that the Bishop and his lady were
in the grounds, they invited them to be their guests, and there
they met Dr. Wiseman. Whether this was in good taste on
the part of the earl is nothing to the purpose: 'it might be an
oversight; but tha- intention was to be hospitable and kind.
What occurred as worthy of notice is.this—Dr. Wiseman took
pains upon that ceeasion to address The Bishop of London and
to speak of him to others by the style of Dr. Blomfield. The
Bishop had too much good sense and right feeling to notice it ;
but Lord Shrewsbury was greatly annoyed."
A STRANGE STEED.—When Professor Owen was sum-
moned to Buckingham Palace to see the great tortoise
(Testudo eZephantopus), presented by the Queen to the
Zoological Society of London, before its removal to the
garden in the Regent's Park,, he, by the gracious direc-
tion of her Majesty, and, in the presence of Prince
Albert, proceeded to takothe dimensions of the girth of
the animal. To do this more effectually he bestrode the
reposing mass. While thus employed, the tortoise walked
off with the professor, to. the great amusement of the
prince, while the philesoper, as he rode along, calmly
continued his measuremont, which gave twelve feet as
the circumference of this fine old Galapagosian.—Fruser'e
Magazine.
MRS. FANNY WEMBLE AND THE POPE.—The Chelten-
ham Journal, alluding to the recent proceedings of the
Pope, says, "The Protestant feeling of the country will
soon be roused, and we had a striking proof in our town
on Tuesday night, that it is by no means dormant at pre..
sent. Mr 3. Fanny Kemble was reading the fine histori.
cal play of King John, and when she came to the reply of
the monarch to the Romig!' cardinal—
" Thou can'st not, Cardinal, devise a name
So slight, unworthy, and ridiculous,
To charge me to an answer, as the Pope.
Tell him this tale, and from the mouth of England
And this much more—That no Italian priest
Shall tythe or toll in my dominions."
The last lines drew forth a long and spontaneous eheer,
which amply proved two things—that the language of
Shakspeare is fitted for all ages, and that resistance to the
tyranny of Rome exists, as an innate principle, in the
minds of Englishmen.