New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-06-26

were strangers in the fand, poor, almost penni-
less. They had come from heir own country to
reclaim q debt which cne Of TIRE MOBILES Of tins
court had incurred in more prospasoas days,
when the merchant was rich in silver ana gotd5
and mercandise.
The vast throng poured on, swelling until it
became mighty tide; the bells pealed out, the
cannon beloved, human voices augmented the
din. The Thames was lined on either bank, ev-
cry building on its margin crowded, and its sur
face peopled Every sort of aquatic vessels COW
Grey it's bosom, so that the flowing river seemed
rather some broad road teeming with life. Gal
ley after galley, glittering with the gold and
purple, came on laden with the wealth. and the
pride, and the beauty Of the land. and present.
iy the acclamation Of thousand voices rent the
skies 1.-THE king the king long live the
kng!" He came-Henry the Eighth came, in |
all that regal dignity, and gorgeous splendor |
in which he so much delighted.
And then began the pageant, contrived to |
throw odium ON Rome, and to degrade the pre- |
tensions of the Pope Two galleys, one bearing |
the arms of England, the other marked by the
papal Insignia advanced towards each other,
and the fictitious contest commenced.
Borne on by the crowd our merchant and his
daughter had been forced into conspicuous sit
| uaton. The peculiar DRESS the braided hair,
the beauty and foreign aspect of the girl had
| marked nef out 10 tne Tuue giiiautFy VI INC
| crowd; 80 that to limited sphere, the father
and daughter were themselves objects Of inter-
est and curiosity.
The two VESSELS joined- and the mimic contest
was begun. OF course, the English colors tri-
umphed over the papal. Up to this point, the,
merchant bore his pangs in silence; but when
the English galley had assumed the victory,
then came the trial Of patience ERfges Of the
cardinals were hurled into the stream amidst
the shouts and derisions Of the mob. At each
plunge, groans issued from his tortured breast
it was in vain that Emilia clung to his arm
and implored him, by every fear, to restrain
himself. His religious zeal overcome his pru-
dence and when, at last, the figure OF the Pope,
dressed in his pontifcial robes, was hurled into
the tide, the loud exclamation of agony and hor-
ror burst from his lips. 'sOh monstrous impie-
ty of an accursed and sacrilegious king" sound
ed loudly above the din of the mob.
1t was enough; the unhappy merchant was
Immediately consigned over to the secular arm.
OH sad were those prison hours! the girl
told her beads-the father prayed to all the
saints-and then came the vain consultations by
! which one endeavored to cheat the other. They
thought of their own sunny land, its balmy air.
November came with ALI its gloom-the month
that should have been the grave of the year,
coming as it does with shroud and cere cloth.
; foggy, dark and dreary; the fathers brow
:, numbered more wrinkles, the once black hair
e was more nearly bleached, the features more
C attenuated.
r And the daughter-ah youth is the trans
y parent lamp of hope-but in her the light was
g dim
In fear and trembling the unhappy foreign
e ers waited the day of doom. The merchants
y offence was one likely to meet with mercy
Henry was Jealous of his title of head Of the
is church. He had drawn up a code of articles of
Il belief, which his subjects were desired to sub
Il no tn ba had iDstitntnf n p03rt 0f which
e he had made Lord Cromwell Vicar-G General
e for the express trial Of those orthodoxy in thu
II kings creed which was called in question
le Neither could the unhappy merchant hope t.
!; find favor with the judge, for it was known tina
Cromwell was strongly attached to the growin'
ID reformation; and from the acts Of severity witt
l. which he had lately visited some of the adher
is ents Of the Romish creed, in his new characte
< of Vicar General, it was scarcely probable tina
j. he would show mercy to one attached, b
lineage and love, to Papal Rome Strangers g
1t, they were, poor, unknowing and unknown
e. what had they net to fear, and Thut Trs te
ed" for hopes
ng The morning of the trial came. The fogs
~ that dismal month spread like dark veil ovt
VII our earth. There was no beauty in the lane
Sc scape, no light in the heavens. and no hope
ot the heart.
he The judges took their places; crowd
ay wretched delinquents came to receive the
doom. We suppose it to be a refinement OF IN
he dern days. that men are not punished for the
lily crimes, but only to deter others from committiI
on them. This court of Henry's seemed to thir
sat otherwise; there was the array of human pa
'u sons i'll the judges as well in the judged
ION the one hand, recreant fear abjured his creet
on another, heroism braved all contingencie
e., courting the pile and the stake, with even pa
l sionate desire and the pile and the stake we
so given with stern and unrelenting cruelty.
: +1,nra cta lat thp har n oUa1 m.
er. and n youthful girl; the long white hair of t
lat one fell loosely over the shoulders, and left
Tou shaded a face wrinkled much by care as
age the dark locks of the other were braid
over countenance clouded by sorrow and v
led with tears.
md The mockery of trial went on. 1t was easy
to prove what even the criminal did not attempt
you rainsay The aged merchant ayowed his fide
be- ty to the Pope as a true son of the church,
MED the supremacy Of Henry over any part
de- the fold and thus sealed his own DOOM
lble There was an awful stiffness through the col
Stiffness, the precursor of doom-broken OF
our by the sobs of the weeping girl. as she clung
my her fathers arm. Howbeit, the expected ST
rom tence was interrupted; there came sudden I,
,py, fresh attendants thronged the court. " Ro
for Lord CROMWELL Room for Lord Cromwell
v and the Vcar-G General came in his pomp a
rse, state, with all the insignia Of office, to assn
e to his pre- emnence at that tribunal Notes Of
ick- proceedings were laid before Lord Cromwell.
Door was told Of the intended sentence, and he nj
II gesture of appreciation. A gleam of hope
ung dnwned upon the mind of the Italian girl,
hen Lord Cromwell entered She watched his co
iood tenance while he read; it was stern, indica
we're of calm determination; but there were line
cart it that spoke more Of mistaken duty than I'M
with cruelty. Yet, when the vicar general gave
the token of assent, the steel entered Emilia's S
we and sob, the veriest accent Of despair, r
my through that court, and where it met the hui
o we heart. pierced through all the cruelty and
ming preston that armed it, and struck upon the
over ural feelings that divided men from monst
e in The sound struck upon Lord Cromwell's ear
steal eye sought the place whence it proceeded
foot, rested on Emilia and her father. strH
when emotion passed over the face of the stern il
when a perfect stiffness followed.
Lord Cromwell broke the silence. He glal
what over the notes that had been handed to
min speaking apparently to himself-'' From lta
merchant-Milan-r ruined by the wars
lered those Milan wars were owing to Clements Al
,e to ton, and Charles knavery-the loss ofsubst
and to England to reclaim an old Indictment.
hand Lord Cromwelrs eye rested once more upol
Girl merchant and his daughter 60 Ye are Of
sight. from Milan; is that your birthplace; :"
ound, "We are Tuscans," replied the merch
of ,,,o, ,na oh I ,,nhla ,orfJ and If the