The Gonzales inquirer. [volume] (Gonzales, Tex.) 1853-current, 1853-06-11
The Merchants Daughter and the Judge.
A TALE or THE FAST.

iHc TWO NCsscIs Joiheu, anu the minnie con-
test begun OF course the English colors tr.
unphcd over the papal. Up to this point, the
merchant bore his pangs in silence, but when
tho English galley had assumed the victory
then came the trial of patience. Eiligics of the
cardinals were hurled into the stream amidst
the shouts and dcrisions of the mob. At each
plunge, g,oans issued from his tortured breast
II was in vain that Emilia clung to his arm and
imp'ored him, by every fear TO restrain him
! self His religious zeal overcamc his pru-
dencc; and when at last the figure of the Pope
dressed in his pontiflcial robes, was hurled in
to the tide, the loud exclamation of agony
and horror burst from his lips: "Oh mon
strous impicty of an accursed and sacricgious
King" sounded 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 bcads--thc father prayed to all the
saints--and then came the vain consolation
by which one ondcayorcd to cheat the other
They thought Of their own sunny land it,
balmy air, It's living beauty, and that thought
was home.
November came with gloom--thc month
that should have been the grade of the wear
coming as IL does with shroud and ccrccloth.
lcggy, dark and drcary, the fathers brow mum.
bcrcd more wrinkles, the once black hair wns
more nearly blcachcd, the features more atten-
uatcd
And the daughter-ah youth is the trans
parent lamp Of hopc---bnt in her the light was
dim
i In fear and trembling the unhappy foreigners
waited the day of doom. The merchants of.
;encc was one little likely to meet with mercy.
Henry was jealous of his title of head of the
church He had drawn mp code af articles
of belief, which his subjects were desired TO
subscribe to; he had instituted court of
which he had made Losd Cromwell Vicar Gen.
era| for the express train Of those whose
orthodoxy ~ the Kings creed was called in
question. Neither could the unhappy mer.
chant hope to find favor with the Judge, for il
was known that Cromwell was strongly at.
tachcd to the growing reformation; and from
the acts of severity with which he had lately
visited some Of the adhcrcnts of tho Ronsh
creed in his new character of Vicar General,
i, was scarcely probably that he would show
mercy to one attached by lineage and love to
papal Rome Strangers as they wcrc poor,
unknowing, and unknown. what had they not
to fear, and what was left to hopc9
| The morning of trial came. The fogs of
/ that Ill u.
our North. There was no beauty In the lsi,i.
scapc, no light in the heavens. ei,i no hope in
the heart.
The judges took their places crowd OF
wfe'el,cd delinquents come TO receive their
doom We suppose il TO be rc6ncmcn. of
modern days that men are not ponishcd for
their crimes hut e..ly 10 inlcr others from
committing thcn, This court of ilcnry'S
seemed to think otherwise. There was all the
array of human passions IN the judges, as well
as the judged. On one haud recrcant lear ni.
lurcd l'i< creed on another hcroism bravcd
all contingencies, courtng the pile and tho stake
with even passionate desire, and the pile and
the stake wcrc given with unrclcnting cruelty.
AT length, there stood at ,he, bar ar aged
man and u youthful girl; the long white heir
of tho enc Cell loosely over the shoulders. and
lei, unshadcd face wrnklcd as much 10y care
as by age; tho dark looks Of the oti,sr were
brided over oountennnec clouicd by sorrow.
and wet with tears
The mockcry OF trial went on II was easy
to prove what even tho criminal lid mt attcmpt
10 ransny. The aged merchant avowod his
fidelity to The Pope as n true son OF the Church;
dcncd the supremacy Of Henry over any pari
Of ;hc fold, an,l thus scaled his own doom
There was en- awful stiffness through the
court Stiffness, tlc precursor cf Doom. broken
only hi 'hc scfss ol tic weeping girl. as she
cnng 80 hef fathers arm. tlowieii. the *.
poctcd scu,oncc was interrupted; there caiEc
s,ldcn rush ft,sh a,;cndCuce ,hronecd the
copfi. " Rcom fsr ord Cromwell. for
Lord Cromwell I" ard the Vicar. General csnc
IN hIs poinp and hs state, Will, al the ins .nia
II ellics, 10 assume his place of rrc.cioinCncc
al that tribunal Notes cf The proceedings
wefr iald ,esasc Lord Cromwell. lie was ttla
~ the iniso,ied sentence. and he made ,,cs
ture ~ sprto'asion.
g'eam of hopc seemed to dawn upon The
mind % the Italian girl, ss Lord Cromwell sn.
sesst', She waishsd his co,,n,,nsrcc while he
rcsd g vas stern, indicative ~ calm ,iesc,mi.
nation, lea, ,hcfc we're lnes in Il that q,akc
mov of missascn duty than innate cruelty.
Ne, when l'c Vicar Geaesal gave his token of
sysen, ihc steel .nfcsvi Emiiia's soul. and a
sol the seficss accent ol ,ies,sair. ran sl,sovrb
that eears. sn'l where II me, ,i,e hu,nan heart,
pisrcoi through sil The cruelty and oppression