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There run "A ttril of horror through tho
assembly. Bat the next moment. a Ioud
bysterIcal shrek drew the attention of Aft
parties to the queen; She had fallen inscn.
slhle at the feet of the king. The council
,, was abruptly dismissed.
CHAPTER V.
Thus far the cause of the cbanccllor Ind
prospered. Poland had been preserved
from the horrors of "A civil war. The kings
life had also been saved, and great crime
prevented the career of assassination and
OF poisoning, into which the queen after
wards entered, was at all events postponed.
AS public man, the minister was fully fri.
umphant: But the minister was faiber
at this side he was WI lnerable: and fortune
dealt her blow with cruel and uuexpec,ed
severity.
We have seen with what stern fidelity TO
his ministerial duty, and how great a peril TO
his daughters happines, the chancellor had
arrested Augustus GIinski. The rebellion
quelled, the author of it punished decapta,ed
there seemed no just motive for holding lon,
ger in imprisonment youth who could no,
be accused Of having any guilty par,icipation
in the crime of his father. He accordingly
p'oPoseu "'S 'oc"se' Dut lHc anger OF the
king against the late duke, who to his poiti-
cal offence had aided that Of personal ngrat-
i,udc (ior it was Sigismund himself who had
bestowed on him the powerful duchy of Ii.
ihnana,) was still unappeased, and he inss.
ted upon including the son in the guilt and
punishment Of his parent. The representa-.
tions Of the minister were here unavailing;
he would listen to nothing but the dictates of
his own vindctlve feelings.
Count Lnski detailed the manner of his
arrest, and explained the singular interest he
felt IN the pardon and liberation of this. youth:
adding, that if Augustus Glinski died upon
the scaflod, he feared the life of his dauyh.
ter. But even this was unavailipg. The
old monarch thought he was displaying a
great acu,eness when he detected as he inn
agined, in this plea of daughters happiness,
"A scheme of selfish agrandzement. .Ha!
l,a = said he, so the wind sits in tina, quarter.
| A good match-duchess of Lithuania I
would rather you ask for the dukedom YOUR
SELF and married your daughter to another
1t was in vain that the minister again repea.
ted his simple and true statement: it was in
vain that he limited his request to the life of the
younger Gllnsk, conserving to the forfeiture of
h title and estates: Sigismund was resolved
this time not to DC overreached BY his subtle
"'n's'er' "e 'an!u'Se Vi eh,reaty was new
to Laski he had tried it and had failed. II
"ds ne" " i.'sN' W. e"u"'e 'a'leiy Inc mlscon.
', " n's " ,'e 'eas' "hpeach>
men. OF MS VeracIty. ne mad no other resource,
~, ~ ot''e' les'''"Se i'l 'ni. the resignation OF
MS "'"is,e IA. "'iice' nu' '"e oostihacy and
anger OF the king were proof against thus also.
This danger which threatened his reign had
been dispeed. He could afford to be self.
C iIo H"'.u nov VIC oo'''o'eu. IN snort,
Sou''' H'e"' ie'' '"e '"!d' Prese"ce-a discar.
'0u "'"'''e''
~ .' 'N! ""NV anu uia'ueu ny
, "''e''o re- .'e power "hich IS
-O'''" '0'''p' !" VIC VI ',I Wedhest ol men
VI ""''e"' P'rnaPs To cnlIn' mas often struck
We ooIe' ,et VI ""'''a" 'll' as strange ano!n'
a'y' At Tue insecure ana precarious founda.
ton OF lhe foWeroi me grea' munster IN such
m"narchy' is scarcely less curious to contem-
P''e' ne s'9acous couhse.icr the long ex.
per'ehced governor VINO mas Tor years welded
lne powers OF 'he STATE may De reduced to obs
sCurlly ana Impotence Oy "ord-a word OF
PuerlIe passion kIndied perhaps by silly in.
llgue' grea, ruIer Is u.Splaced at The caprice
,o,,' - a. IT, IT, - I''e'eu '''
PIesenye T., ,ne hIlT' ne was ~ reality the gov
cru" y, o'd"u EoroP" acknowledged MIN
ae,ri his onnn,, ""u J'so.oaS o nuu'a"
,,,a,',n, =. H. ~" ''y SS' ~
p. - ,h '',s 'i'I'us me ihdiVIdal haPpi-
-. " '""uI"i'us u,Pehued upon MIN out this
pJJ"I'' WI" 'an ueF'Seo great schemes, and
WY" ""s we rocN o support TO so many, could
,'s.i' NC I"aNe" ""u oVerthrown IN moment,
~ ~ tn ~ "u'i'or OF an angry Ola man.
NV I"''' ue'I''ue 'he grlef~nd despair Of
'na''' Wne,' sue hearu OF The crue resolution
"t"t ,ne ns '"u 'aNei OF me dreadful fate
""'." '".e"'eneu augustus Giinskl! AS she
'"' ''''' '''i'e III "e' Hol"'c chamber and in her
evpse1eu In"l' What mortal paleness had
su''eu upon nc' c,'u' ehance Her eye glared
"u'' anu !" Dc nNeu on 'he vacant wall, as il .
P"" '' i'so" oe'''e her' ana arrested her
,es"u, mere was a spirit there 1t was the
'"''n VI we y"""S augustus whom she saw
wI'ner,iis ana wasting ~ ms dungeon; dun.
se"n m"'n muu'd ueN'er MN up only to the
ta.','' 49, '"e eNe"'s "h'ch mad occurred,
an 'uea ., d u''"'' M"h augustus, presuung
s''' III ~ I've s'ouu oe spared had been resign
th,f o,ToaIarI' "e' VI Who'h the inaxIms OF
t t'a' az espeo'',,y imposed Inc duty OF reveng.
Ivy h's pa'T"'' amy himself 10 her How cond
~ hoI J.; a seo""u 'a'Her Inc very man
49, .--e - " Nus ..--- a.! NATURAL
ken loose from lmpr'sonment, that he was but
~ vas az '""t she !ct entitled to wish
was ,dd'iionai h;,,a "e- ""'u'y o1 added that II
f1r