The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1861-04-06

4 tNW NVhAt thfViltIS UNCUT NC Hitei. NOW
sauntering full dressed, III the public prom
Eeuedes, with ghastly little deaths heads
strung upon his surnptuous garments, and
fragments Of human bones dangling among
Ills orders Of knighthood, playing 1t cuy,
and ball as he walked and followed by d
few select courtiers, who gravcly pursued
1.-The same exciting occupation; now pre-
siding, like aqueeB Of beauty, at tour
nament, TO assign the price Of valor; and
now by the advice Of his mother, going
about the streets in robes OF penitence,
telling his beads as hewent, that the pop
ulace might be edited by his piety, and
solemnly Offering upprayers IN the church
cs that the blessing Of an heir might be
vouchsafcd TO him Henry Of ValoisI
seemed straiuing every nerve in order to-
bring himself and his great Office into con-
tempt. \
As orthodox as he was proHigatc, he
hated The Hnguenots, who sought his
protection and who could have saved his
throne, as cordially as he loved the Jesu-
its, who passed their lives ia secret plot
tings against his authority and bis per-
son, or III fierce dcnunciations from the
Paris pulpits against his manifold crimes.
Next to an exquisite and sauguinary fop,
be dearly loved q monk. The presence Of
friar, he said, exerted as agreeable an
effect upon bis mind rs the most delicate
and gentle tickling could produce npon his
body and he was destined to have full
Ter dose Of that charming presence than.
he coveted. "a.
PHILIP II, or sPAts.
A small, duh, elderly, imperfectly edo
Gated, patient, plodding invalid, with white
hair and protruding under; jaw, and drcary
Yisage, was sitting day after day, seldom
speaking, never smiling, seven or eight
hours cut Of every twenty-four, at a writ.
ing-table covered with heaps OF intermin-
able dispatches, in cabinet far away be-
yond the seas and mountains, ID the very
heart Of Spain. A clerk or two, noise-
lessly opening and shutting the door, from
time to time, fetching fresh bundles Of
letters, and taking away others--all writ
ten and composed by secretaries or high
functionaries--and all to be scrawled over
in the margin by the diligeut old man, in
a big schoolboy's hand and style---if ever
schoolboy, even in the sixteenth century,
could write so illegible, or express himself
50 aSkwHrdiy couriers in the court yard,
arriving from or departing for, the utter-
most parts Of tho Garth Asia, Africa,
America, Europe-to fetch and carry
these intcrininable cpistles which contained
the irresponsible commands Of this one
individual, and were freighted with the
doom aud destiny OF countless millions OF
the worlds inhabitants-Su such was the
system Of government against which the
Netherlands had protested aud reyolted.
1t was system under which their fields
had been made deSolatc, their cities burned
and pillaged, their men hanged, burned,
drowned, or hacked TO pieces; their wo,
men subjected 70 eyery outrage; and to
put an end TO which they had been dcvot-
ing their treasure and their blood for
nearly the length Of ono generations. 1t
WAS q system, too, which, among other
results, had just brought aboht the death
OF the foremost statesman Of Europe, and
had nearly effected simultaneously the
murder Of the most eminent sovereign III
the world. The industrious Philip, safe
and tranquil in the depths OF the Escurial,
saying his prayers three times day
with exemplary regularity, had just sent
three bullets through the body Of VIII
liam the Silent, at his diniRg-room door
in Delft. "..,." ~. ...... 80 If l ~
/ .rr -. 'i -.
A most important dispatch--iE which
the King, with his own hand, was sup
posed to be conveying secret intelligence
to Mendoza concerning the Armada, to-
gether with minute directions for the reg
ulation Of Guise's conduct at the Inemora-
BILE epoch Of the barricades-c contained
but single comment from the monach's
own pen. ''The Armada has been 10 Lis
bon about q month--qaassi Ga mag
wrote the secretary. There is but one
s in quasi said Philip. I'll. e. .-...s -.
| Again, a dispatch Of Mendoza to the
King contained the intelligence that Queen
Elizabeth was, ut the date of the letter,
residing at st. James's. Philip, who had
no objection TO display his knowledge Of
English affairs--as became the man who
had already been almost Sovereign Of
| England, and meant to be entirely so--
supplied piece Of Information in an apos.
tile to this dispatch. ''St James is a
house Of recreation, he said, (which was
once monastery. There is park be-
tween it and the palace which is called
Huytal; but why it is called Huytal,
am sure don't know His researches
in the English language had not enabled
him to recognize the adjective and sub
stantiye out Of which the obtuse compound
Whitehall { Huytal) was formed.
On another occasion letter from Eng
land, containing important intelligence
CONCERNING the Number Of soldiers enrolled
in that country 10 resist the Spanish in.
yasion, the quantity OF gunpowder and
various munitions collected, with other
details OF like nature, furnished, besides
bit Of information of less vital interest.
I'm the windows Of the Queens presence.
chamber they have discovered a great
quantity Of lice. oil, clustered together, ("
says the writer. - Hs.-El. a.
Sucha minute piece Of statistics could
not escape the microscopic eye of Philip
So, disregarding the soldiers aud the gum
powder, he commented only OH this last.
mentioned clause Of the letter; and did it
cautiously, too, as a king surnamed the
Prudent should: I ....
| But, perhaps they we're fleas, " wrote