Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1831-07-14

=, "" VI, huu tue King sam.
Exeiaim'ng that there must be treason
abroad. and affecting the utmost alarm
anu Indignation, he rose aud put on
the same clothes he had worn when he
WAS last with the queen. The Earl
"i huntly and others soon joined him.
and after hearing from them as much
as was then known OF the matter. #,
was thought advisable TO repair Ia the
palace To inform Mary Of what had
happened. They found her already
alarmed; and anxious tn see them.
some vague rumours al the accident
having reached her.
They disclosed the whole mclar.
choly truth as gradually as possible.
attributing Darnie,'s death either 10
the accidental explosion of some gun.
powder IN the neighoorhood. or TO the
effects of the Lightning. Mary's dis =.
tress knew no bounds, and seeing thai,
IT was hopeless to reason with her in
the iIrst anguish Of her feelings, Both
we'll and the other lords left her lust
As day began 10 break. and proceeded
to the Kirk of. Field. There they
found every thing IN n state of conru
sion; the ediiice in RUNS land the towns.
people gathered round il in a state of
d'smay: OF the five persons who were
IN the house at the time Of the explo-
SION, onl one was saved. Darnley and
has servant WIN. Taylur. who slept in
the room Immediately above the gun
powder, had been exposed to its effects.
and they were accordingly carried
through, the air ali over the town wall.
and across the lane on the other side.
aud were found LAYING az shoot dis
/ tance from each other in a garden 10
the south oil TINS lane, both in their ni.ht
dress, aud with little external injury.
simmons, Nelson and the boy. being
nearer the town wall. were ONLY co,
lateraIly affected by the EXPLOSION
They were, however. all buried an the
ruins, out ut which Nelson alone had
the good fortune To- De taken alive
The bodies were by BothweII's com
mand removed to an adjoining house,
and guard from the palace set over
them.
The following summary we quote
as an illustration of the authors style
anu power OF historic writing.
"Should still more compr ehensivc
view OF this subject be taken: and the
whole life of the Queen Of Scots re
viewed, from her birth 10 her death,
1t will be found that however great her
advantages. they we're almost always
cnrnterbaIat.zed by some evil, which
necessarily attended or sprung out OF
them. She was a queen when only
/ a lew months old: but she was also an
orphan. She was destined. from her
earliest childhood, to be the wife Of
/ The future monarch of France; but
she was IN consequence taken away
i'";a her native country, and the arms
OF her mother. The power and tai.
cnts OF her uncles of Guise were con.
stantly exerted in her behalf; but she
shared, therefore, in the hatred and
Jealousy in which they were held by a
numerous party, both at home and a
broad. Her residence aud education
At the Court Of Henry the 2d-insured
the refinement OF her manners and the
cultivation of her mind; but il excl.
ted the suspicious aud fears of the peo
pic Of Scotland.
Sue was beautiful even 10 proyerb
but her beauty obtained for her much
envy as praise. She possessed the
heart oil her husband Francis but she
felt his loss more acutelv. She re-
turned 10 her own Kingdom az the
Quccu'dowaser of F,ance; but her
power and her pretensions made the
English dread, and did not prevent
her heretical subjects from openly
Drawing her authority. She married
Darnley ia the hopes Of Frightening her
prospects and securing her happiness
but he was the main cause Of over.
lclouding the one and destroying the
other. She was freed by his death
/ from the wayWard eapariccs Of his III
E governed temper; but she escaped
from one yoke only 10 be forced into
another thousand times worse. Sine
loved her brother and loadrd him with
iav0rs; but he repaid them by placing
I himself upon her throne, and chasing
her from the country. She escaped
into England, bot there she met viii
Z reproaches instead IL assistance. q
T prison instead OF an asylum, a motta
enemy OF n sister. an axe and o scat
fold. instead Of sympathy and protee
ton"
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