Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1837-12-09

which Lucy appeared were more than commonly
affecting. Ii was daughter, not beyond the
season Of infancy, ovcrmastering the tmlcitv o.
that tender age to become the supPliant to an Oh
Tended sovereign for the lifi: of fathcr.-slceer
Mary piticd the distress of her young petitioner
but she considered the death Of Lord Preston as
matter of political necessity: she therefore told
Lucy mildly but firmly, that she could not grant
her request. ,
"But he is good and kind to every onc," SAID
Lucy, raising her blue eyes, which were SWIM
ming with tears to the face of the q lcen.
ale NAV be SO to you, child, = returned her ma
iestv, '.bul he has broken the law of the country,
and therefore must die"
sBut YOU can pardon him if YOU choose to DO SO,
madam replied Lucy; land have read that trod
is well pleased with those who forgive: for he has
said blessed are the mcccitui for they sha II OBJ
tain mercv.'
alt does not become little girl like you to at
tempt TO instruct me,' replied the Queen, grave
"; IL am acquainted with my duty; and as It Is
nv place to administer justice impar'ialy, 1t IS
not possible for to pardon your father, however
painful it nav be for to deny the request OF so
dutif,l chiId.'
'.Lucv did not reply, she only raised her eyes
with appealing look to the Queen. and tneh
turned them expressiveiy on the portrait OF k'n9
James, opposite to which her majesty was then
standing There was something IN that look that
bore no common meaning, and the Green whose
curiosity was excited by the peculiarly emphatic
manner of the child, could not refrain from ask
ing wherefore she gazed SO earnestly upon the
picture: II was thinking replied Lady Lucy,
show STRANGE it was that YOU should wish to kill
NV father. only because he loved yours so faithful
lyc'
This wise but artlcss reproof from the lips OF
infant innocence, went to the heart OF the queen ;
she raised her ewes to the once dear and honored
cOuntcnance of a parent, who, whatever were
<Nf1r,,,
oainst others, had ever been the tendercst OF pa
rents to her. and the remembrance that he was
an exile in a foreign land, rel ing on the bounty
of strangers for his daily Bread while she and her
husband were invested with the legal inhe rIfance
of which he had been deprived, pressed upon her
the thought Of the contrast OF her conduct as
daughter, when compared with the fial piety OF
the child before her, whom q sentence OF hers was
about to render an orphan.
Rise, dear child she said, 'thou hast prevailed
thy father shall not die. grant his pardon at
thy entreaty-,hy fiiial love hath saved him.
On reading Lady Luey's petition.
r, mug, have bo.n lovely sight, view that siness child,
On whose young mid check and brow such fascination
smiled: .
The quivering liP-she appraised eye-tne
Which .p.ak, to sv.ry fss,ins viii, natures s!o-
On young pasriean, after years might give ''' wealth anu
power,
Blu, could ,hsy Ger thee feeling like that hour,
When 60 dreaded thy fond hearts first
desire.
yielded y and the pardon of thy SIRE
life:
Tho maid has suffered for her love, and for her spouse the
wifs
But there's feeling of the heart and indebted,
A, tina. which a father fills the bosom of his child.
There's something unselh.h and holy in the
Thsrc slove's indeed counterfeit, it is sacred flame
II is an cmanasion caught from radience bright,
heavenly flame from who is the Father of all Light.
ID. l.. s.