Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1835-01-31

menI Wneu tnc messenger, whose arrival
we have already witnessed, had been des-
patched on his nocturnal mission, she had
passed the time in fearful struggles with
the last foe, wrestling as It were boldly
with the dark angel, now pleading with
the Almighty, and adjuring him, by her
sufferings, and by her very sins, to spare
her We: little while; now shrieking out
the naToe of Elizabeth, and calling her,
az she valued her souls salvation, to make
no long tarryipg. In the opinion Of theI
leeches, who watched around her pillow,
and Of the terrified preacher, who com
muned with his own heart and was still,
her life was kept up only by this fierce
and feverish excitement.
At q glance she recognized the quee0,
before another eye had marked her en-
ItraDce.-LsIIah!" she groaned in deep
Isepulchral tones-SShe is como, before
whose coming my guilty soul had not the
power to pass away! She is come to wit
ness the damnation of an immortal spirit
TO hear a tale Of sin and sorrow that has
no parallel! Hear my words, q queen,
hear my words n"w-and laugh-laugh
If you can, for by Him who made US both
and is now dealing with me according to
my merits, never. never shall YOU laugh
again! Hereafter you shall groan, and
weep, and trcmble, and curse yourself as
do!-Laugh, l say, Elizabeth Of Eng
land, laugh now, or never laugh again''
For d moment the spirit Of the queen,
manly strung as it was, beyond perhaps
all precedent, was fairly overcrowed, and
cowed, by the intensity of the dying wo-
man 3 nanner.-Not long, however. could
that proud soul qua .oany Great. d hing.
"Fore God, woman''-she criet-,'thou
art bewitched. or desperately wicked! -
What ia the fiend's name mean yep
''ln the fiend's name truly, for he alone
inspired me Look here,-and then
pardon me, Elizabeth, in Gods name par
don me.n-
As she spoke, she held aloft, in her thin
and bird-like fingers, massive ring Of
gold, from which a sapphire Of rare price
CLEANED brilliantly casting bright dane
ing speck of blue reflection upon her hol-
low, CHASTITY features. "know you''-
she screamed .sthis tokenY'
'Where got you it, woman? Speak,
| say, speak! or curse you!-Where got
you that same ;okeng'-The proud queen
shook and shuddered as she spoke like
one in an ague fit.
! Essex !''-siehed the dying countess
through her set teeth-f'thc murthered
Essexv
/ "Murthered! Gods death thou Hest
He was a traltor-dOne to death-Oh
God! Oh God!!Iknow not what to say y
and a big tear drop, the first in many a
year, the first perhaps that ever had be-
dewed that iron cheek, slid slowly down
the face Of Elizabeth, and fell heavily on
the brow Of the glaring sufferer, who still
held the ring aloff, in hands clasped close
in attitude ofsupplication. "Speak, Not
/, tingha,n, what of-of Essexf'
i "That ring he gave to me, to bear it to
lshy foofstool, and to pray a gracious mis-
tiess' favor to en- eIrlng. but grateful SER
want"
"And n-thou''-absolute-
ly shrieled the queen.
i ''Gave it not to thce-that Essex might
die, not IL was the steady reply
'"Pardon me before I die-pardon me, as
God shall pardon tEeer'
"God shall not pardon me-woman
neither do pardon thee! Ee-an' he
T wi!l-'nay pardon ;hee-but tina, Will dc
: never! never! By the life Of the E'er-
nal, never!' and in the overpower,Dg fury
and agitation Of the moment, she seized
!, the dying sinner with an iron grippe, and
shook her in the bed, till the pondcrous
fabric creaked and quivered. Not anoth
: er word, not another sob pas sed the lips o.
n the old countess--her frame was shaker
+ by mightler hand than that Of the indig
nant queens; deep, he rsh rattle came
from her chest, she raised one skinny arm
aloft, and after the jaw had dropped, ant
n the glaring eye-ball fixed, that wretchet
r limb stood erect, appealing, as it were
n from a mortal to ar immortal judge.
8 The paroxysm was over. SPECIFICS
y and all but motionless, the miserable
$ queen was borne by her attendants 10 the
e barge; the tide had shifted, ana was still
: in their favor, though their course was al
$ tered.-On their return they again passed
the triumphant fleet of Cavend,sh, bear
n ing the ,nightiest sovereign of the world
i: the envied Of all the earth, a wretched
: feeble, heart-broken woman, grovelling
like crushed worm, beneath the bitter
. ct of human pan2s, the agonies of self
i created and seif-merited misery. a few
/. hours found her outstretched upon the
) floor of her chamber, giving way to an
! gu.sh uncontrolled and uncontrollahle.-
e Refusing the earnest prayers Of her wo
+ men. aud of her physicians, to suffer her
> self 10 be d,srobed, and to reciine upo,
d her bed feeding on tears and groans a
e lone ;-attering no sound but the name o
e Essex, in one plaintive, and of, repeate,
g cry;|mocking at all consolation ;-ac
2 knowledging no comforter except despair
: ten long days and nights she iingere'
; thus, in pangs thousand times more in
q tolerab;e than those which she had inflic