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and who Contemplated annexing to this extensive
"property the Kingdoms of France, Of England
" and Ireland"
ga SMALL dull, elderly, imperfectly- educated
patient, Flooding invalid, with white hair and pro-
truding under-jaw, and dreary visage was sitting
day after dav, seldom speaking, never smiling,
eight hours out of every twentyfour, at a
writing table covered with heaps of iuterminable
dispatches in a cabinet far away beyond the seas
and mountains, in the very heart of Spain. A
clerk or two, noiselessy opening and shutting the
door, from time to time, fetching fresh bundles of
letters and taking others away-all written and
composed by secretaries or high functionaries,
and all to be scrawled over in big school-boy's
hand and STYLE if ever schoolboy, even in the six
teenth century, could write so illegbly express
himself so awkwardly; couriers in the courtyard
irving from departing for the uttermost parts
of the earth-Asia, Africa, America, Europe. to
fetch and carry these interminable epistles which
contained the irresponsible commands of this one
individual, and were freighted with the doom and
destiny of countless millions of the worlds inhabi-
tants-such the system of government against
which the Netherlands had protested and reFoted.
1t was system under which their fields had been
made desOlate, their cities burned and pillaged
their men hanged burned, drowned or hacked In
pieces; their women subjected to every outrage; to
put an end to which they had been devoting their
treasure and their blood for nearly the length of
generation. 1t was system, too,which among other
results, had just brought about the death of the
foremost statesman of Europe, and had nearly
effected simultaneously the murder of the most
eminent sovereign in the world. The industrious
Philip, safe and tranquil in the depths of the
Escorial, saying his prayers three times day, with
exemplary regularity had just sent three bullets
through the body of William the Silent, at his
dining-room door, in Delft. 'Had it only been
done two years earlier observed the patient old
man, much trouble might have been spared me;
but tits better late than never i =
Invisible the Grand Lama Of Tibet, clothed
with power as extensive and absolute as had ever
been welded by the most imperial Caesar, Philip
the Prudent, as he grew older and feeber in mind
and body, seemed to become more gluttonous of
| work, more ambitious to extend his sceptre
lands which he had never dreamed of SEEING
more fixed in his determination to annihilate that
monster Professionalism, which it had been the bust
ness of his life to combat, more eager to put
to death every human creature, whether anointed
monarch or humble artisan, that defended heresy,
or opposed his progress to universal empire"
Then comes the effeminate, abandoned and
treacherous King Of France:
"Henry I'LL, last of the Valois line, was now
| thirty. three years of age. Less than king, less
even than man, he was one of those unfortunate
personages who seem as if born to make the idea
of royalty ridiculous, and to test the capacity of
mankind to eat and drink humiliation if it
wholesome food. Improved how deeply engraved
in mems minds of that century was the necessity
! of kingship, when the hardy Netherlanders, who
had abjured one tyrant, and had been fighting a
| generation long rather than return to him, were
q
like Henry of Vaois.
"He had not been born without natural gifts,
such as Heaven rarely denies to prince or peasant
but the courage which he once possessed had been
exhausted on the field of Moncontour; his manhood
had been left behind him at Venice; and such wit
as Heaven had endowed him withal was
pended in darting yiperous epigrams at court la
dies whom he was only capable of dishonoring by
! calumny, and whose charms he burned to out-rival
in the estimation of his minions. For the monarch
of France was not unfrequently pleased to attire
| himself like a woman and harlOt With siiken
flounces jewelled schumacher and painted face with
pearls of great price adOrn ming his barred neck and
breast, and satin sppered feet, of whose delicate
shape and size he was justly vain, it was his delight
to pass his days and nights in a ceaseess round of
gorgeous festivals, Journeys, professions, masque-
rades, banquets and balls, the cost of which glitter
ing friVGlities caused the popular buTthen
and the popular execration to grow, from
day to day, more intolerable and more audible
i Now sauntering,
full dressed, in the public promenades, with CHASTITY
little deaths heads strung upon his sumptuous
| garments, and fragments of human bones dangling
among his orders of nighthood-playing at cup
and ball as he walked, and followed by few select
| courtiers who grayely pursued the same exciting
occupation-now presiding like queen of beauty
at tournament to assign the prize of vaor; and
now, by the advice of his mother, going about the
streets in robes Of penitence, telling his beads
he went that the populace might be edited by his
piety, solemnly Offering up prayers 10 the churches
that the blessing OF an heir might be vouchsafed to
him-Henry of Valois seemed straining every
nerve in order to bring himself and his great office
into contempt"
Here stands the hero of Ivry:
"And the other Henry, the Huguenot, the Bear
nese, Henry of Bourbon, Henry of Navarro, the
cheftain of the Gascon chivalry, the King Grant,
the hope and the darling of the oppressed Protes-
tants in every land-of him it is scarce needfu to
say single word. At his very figure
seems to leap forth from the midst of three centu-
ries, instinct with rudy, vigorous life. Such was
the intense vitality of the Bearnese prince, that
even now he seems more thoroughly alive and re-
cognizable than half the actual personages who are
| fretting their hour spOn the stage.
"W e see at once man OF moderate stature, light,
sinewy and strong; a face Drowned with continual
exposure; small, mrthul, yet commanding blue
eyes, glittering from beneath an archng brow, land
prominent cheek-bones; long hawks nose, almost
resting upon a salient chin, pendant m0ustache
and thick, brown, curly beard, prematurely griz-
Zled; we see the mein of frank authority and mag
nifcent good humor; we hear the ready saes of
the shrewd Gascon m0ther-wit, we feel the cleo
ricity which flashes out him, and sets all hearts
around him fire when the trumpet sounds to
battle. The headlong, desperate charge, the
snow-white plume waving where the fire is hottest,
the large capacity for enjoyment of the man, riot
ing without affectation in the certaminis gdudia,
the insane gaop after the combat to lay its trophies
at the feet of the Cynthia of the minute, and
thus to forfeit its fruits; all are as familiar to
if the distinct wars the hundred pitched bat
ties, the two hundred seges, in which the Bearnese
was personally present, had been the occurrences
of our cwn day. He at least was both king and
man, if the monarch who occupied the throne was
neither. He the man to prove, too, for the in
struction of the patient etter-writer of the Esco
rial, that the crown of France was to be won with
foot in strrup and carbne in hand, rather than to
be caught by the weaving and casting of the most
intricate nets of diplomatic intrigue, thoroughly
weighted with Mexican gold"
From the same:
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From the Publishers:
THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
oP OF NEW JERSEY. Containing his poetical works,
sermons, and miscellaneous writings, with memoir
by his son, WILLIAM CRoswELL DoANE. New York: D.
Appleton & Co. 1861. For sale by j. P. Des FORCES,
Light street.
Few men of the present century have displayed
more vigorous intellect or more varied learning
than the late Bishop of New Jersey, and the pub
LEGATION of his life and writings in the four volumes
now before US, is an act of justice to his memory
as well as q valuable contribution to religious and
miscellaneous literature. As churchman and
theoogian, he was so conspicuous, in a career but
recently closed, that the present generation win
continue to judge OF his ministerial life and teach
| ings as individual faith or prejudice may already
have suggested. But intelligent American
can deny his distinguished abilities, or fail to
appreciate the efficient and comprehensive
service which Bishop Doane has rendered to the
cause of education in our country. A native of
the State which became his Episcopate, he showed
his devotion to her interests by early and unceas-
ing efforts in behalf of her schools and colleges
| Regarding it among the duties Of his sacred
office, he labored for the diffusion of knowledge
with zeal that was rarely equalIed, and with re-
suits which are beautifully exemplified in the lives
and characters of young men and women in every
portion of the land. Trained after the most rigid
ideas of scholarship, it may truthfully be said of
him, as was said OF Cardinal Wolsey, "EIe was a
scholar and ripe, and good one." Whatever he
did, he did thoroughly; and when he established
the two Semnaries at Burlington, which, under
his immediate supervision, became successful,
learning which could nowhere be excelled. AS
pulpit orator he had great reputation, and
his sermons are most mastery expositons of the
faith and doctrine which he espoused and taught.
As poet, he was no mean rival of men who have
attained far higher fame, and in the pages before
us are collected many evidences of his warm and
sympathetic imagination. The general reader will
be particularly attracted, and not less probably
instructed, by the volume containing the Bishops
public orations and educational writings, which
form, in themselves, monument to his intellectual
scope and greatness, which the hand of tlial love
has well and wisely preserved from the decay of
time.