The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1865-09-21
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came; how the House OF Lords and
House o. Commons chopped round; and
how deeorously the 1najorities Welcomed
King GEORGE
Bolinghfoke, making his last speech
IN the House Of Lords, pointed out the
shame Of peerage, where several lords
eoneurred to condemn in one general
vote all thatthey hadapproved in former
paffiameats by many particular reselu-
tiens. And 80 their conduct was shame
ful. st. John had the best Of the argu-
ment, but the worst OF TIE vote. Bad
times We're come for him. He talked
philosophy, and professea innocence.
lie courted retirement, and was ready
honest Mat Prior, who had been recalled
from Paris, was about to peach regarding
the past transactions, the philosopher
holted, and took that magnificent head
of his out eff the ugly reach OF the axe.
Oxford, the lazy and good-humored, had
more courage, and awaited the storm at
home. He and Mat Prior both had
LODGINGS in the Tower, and both brought
their heads safe out of that dangerous
menagerie. When Atterbury was car
ried Off to the same den, a few years
afterward and it was asked what next
should be done with him? "Done with
him? Fling him to the lionsn' Cado-
gan said, Marlborough'slieu But
the British lion of those days did not
care much for drinking the blood of
peaceful peers and poets, or crunching
the bones of bishops. Only four men
We're executed in London for the rebel
lion Of 1715; and twenty-five in I1anca-
shire. Above a thousand taken in arms
submitted to the Kings mercy, and pc
titioned to be transported to his majesty's
colonies in America. | have heard that
their descendants took the loyalist side
in the disputes which arose sixty years
after. It is pleasant to find that a friend
of ours, worthy Dick Steele, was for let
ting off the rebels with their lives.
AS one thinks of what might have
been, how amusing the speculation is
| We know how the doomed Scottish gem
tlemcn came out at Lord Mars sum-
mons, mounted the white eocllade, that
has boen a flower of sad poetry ever
since, and rallied round the ill-omened
Stuart standard at Braemar. Mar, with
500 men, and but HOO opposed to him,
might have driven the enemy over the
Tweed, and taken the possession of the
whole of Scotland but that the Preten-
der's duke did not venture to move when
the day was his own. Edinburgh castle
might have been in King James's hands;
but that the men who were to escalade
it staid to drink his health at the tavern,
and arrived two hours too late at the
rendezvous under the castle wall. There
was sympathy enough in the town-the
projected attack seems to have been
known there-Lord Mahon quotes Sin
clair's account Of q gentleman not con-
cerned, who told Sinclair that he was in
& house that evening where eighteen Of
them We're drinking, as the facetious
landlady said, ''powdering their hair"
for the attack Of the castle Suppose they
had not stopped to powder their hair?
Edinburgh Castle, and town, and all
Scotland Were King James's. The north
of England rises, and marches over Bag
net Heath upon London. Wyndhanoie
UP in Semersetshire Packington in
Worcestershire; and Vivian in Cornt
wall. The Elector of Hanover, and his
perhaps the crown jewels in London,
andare ofIpi0 IiarWich and HelvoetsIuysi
for dear Old Deutschland. The King4-f
God save him LANDS at Dover, WITH
tumultuous applause, shouting multD
tudes, roaring cannon, the Duke of Mae}x
borough weeping tears Of joy, and all thu
bishops l<neeling in the mud. Ina faMt
years mass is said in ST. Paul's; matAnlA
and vespers are sung in York MinistesL
and DR.. Swift is turned out OF his sstalA
and deanery house at St. Patrick s, +a1
give place to Father Dominic, from .Sala
amanca. All these changes We're ppssitd
bic then, and once thirty years afterWaNk
ALL this we might have had, but, fpr
the pulperis eriqui jactu, that little foTss
of powder for the hair which the scoNh
conspiratorsstopped to take at thefaverh,
You understand the distinction IsWoAhA
draw between history of which 4 dn
aspire to be an expounder and ma nnesn
and life such as these Sketches, WQqlfA
describe. The rebellion breaks OUT in
the. north; it's storyiisi before YOU in In
hundred volumes, in none more irlYl
than in the excellent narratiye Of I,oaslast
Mahon. The clans are UP IN, sSootlandi
DerwentWater, Nithisdale, and Forster;
are in arms in Nofthdinbertand b. sst Tbs
are matters % Of his SSy for Which S
Guards are settb watch, the streets and
prevent the people Weaa VII! d
] read presently of d couple Of soldiers
almost logged to death for wearing oak
bOughs in their hats on the 10Th of May