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flowers. Her faithful followers, one
after another, knelt and kissed her
hand, which was one blaze Of gems.
To her friend, Maria Bclgrave, she
said, go to Jerome. When my
grandson is emperor Of France, he
will make thee a great woman To
Col. barley, who had attended her
in all Der fortunes | will leave
you what will make you happy
nsver forget my grandson-you will
both be great"
The trsgicsl death Of the late Mar
quis Of Londonderry, (Castlereagh,)
affords an awful proof, that a per-
verted mind, even in the most exait.
cd station, is not secure from the as
saults Of Indebtedness. His Lord
ship displayed the mystery and dis
trust which marked his tortuous po-
litics, in the closing scene of his c.
ventfuI drama. For some days pre-.
vious to his death, he suspected the
members of the council Of having de-
signs on him, and even extended his
mistrasts to his household, and to his
friend and physician, DR.. Bankhead.
On the morning of the fatal catas-
trophe, he observed to the latter, that
"he had reason to be suspicious in
some degree. but hoped, that the
doctor would be the last person to
engage in any thing that would be
injurious to him." Lord London
derry was buried ia Westminster
Abbey, between Pitt and Fox
When the coffin was removed out of
the hearse for interment, the multi
tude Who were assembled on the &C.
casion, burst forth into tumultuous
roar Of frantic joy, whose hoarse
murmur floatcd along the aisles of
tho Abbey, with sounds that SEEM
ed to be unearthly. How deeply
unpopular must he have been, whose
horrid, suicidal death became mat.
ter, not of grief, but Of exultation!
Mr. D'Israeli, in bis late work, gives
some anecdotes Of tho intrepidity of
stoieal indifference with which many
have faced the king of tsrrors.' Sir
Walter Raleigh's career, observes this
charming writsr) was closed by spien-
did death, worthy the life of the wisest
and sreatsst of mankind. He ascend
cd tho sosffold with wonderful compo.
sure and cheeriulnsss. Having taken
off bis gown, he called TO tho execution
or to show him the axe; he passed the
edge lightly over biz finger, and smil-
ing, observed to the sheriff, this 10
sharp medicine, bnt cure for all dis
eases;' then laying bis head on the
block, he bid the hsadsman TO fear not,
but strike home 10 two blows he
was beheaded; but from tho first. bis
body never shrunk from the spot, by
any discomposurs of his posture, which,
like his mind was immoveable. To
this subject may be referred the
beautiful anecdote Of Sir Philip Sidney,
rssigning to the dying soldier, the draft
of water With which he was about to
quensh his thirst, as he rode faint and
bleeding from the field; and the sub.
lime answer given by Mr.. Bailly, may.
or Of Paris, to the wretch who insuIted
him on his way to the scaffold.
10 conclusion, l will present in few
words, . story Of great power and in.
terest. exhibiting q stesn and iavinci.
BILE mind, inaexibIy bent on self dss.
truction. 1t is from Paris and Fon.
blanque's Medical Jurisprudence. (vol.
I'd p. 6s) to which the resder 10 refer
red for moro ample details. The Corr
sican, Vitsrbi, was condemned TO death
in 1919, 40 an accompIiCs in assassina.
ton. He appealed in vain against a
| sentence that was passed upon him by
. court, composed of his personal ene-
mica. He determined to starve him.
self to death. For twenty days he suf-
fered the unrslenting pangs of hunger,
which must be considered as tie most
acute that can befal humanity. On tha
Goth day the unhappy man, thinking
himself at the point Of death, stretched
his body on the bead, aud said to the
gendarmss who were guarding him,
look how we'll / have laid myself out.
In the progress Of his slow dissolution,
he kept diary Of his sufferings, which
10 at tho same time, the most faithful
record ever presented to the wsrld, of
the effects Of hunger, and nost stri.
king picture Of man, which no forn,
of death could terrify. ID.
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