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AssAsslNATIONs IN HISTORY.
Richard I-Janes I-Willlam, Prince Of
Orange.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
The carly annals Of the British monar.
chy, are 90 stained with tho blood Of
Sovereigns and Of Princes, that We
scarcely know where to begin, in select,
ing examples Of assassination. We pass
in silence many violent deaths, BY the
dagger, by poison, or by starvation in
prison, aud come down to the reign Of
tho Second Edward, A. ID. 1927. This
weak and irresolute Prince fell upon vic,
lent times, in which domestic rebellion
aud foreign war united to ursettle his
kingdom. His own Queen, Isabella of
Frsucc, conspired against him, and his
choice of Ministers aud favori,as, odious
to the people by their tyranny, complete.
ly slienated the public mind from his
cause. Finally his chief adherents being
FIRST murdered, sn sbdication was extort
ed from Edward, who was imprisoned in
Berkley Castle. There, at the instiea-
tion of Mortimer, the Queens paramour,
the King was cruelty sssass' mated, by his
two keepers, Mantravers and Sournsy.
The manner Of his death was so savage,
inhuman and revolving, that the people,
notwithstanding the barbarism of the age
aud and the Kings own unpopulari,y,
compelled his executioners to quit tho
country to save their lives.
Richard | was the next English mon,
arch who died by violence. He was
starved to death, or otherwise murdered,
in the Castle Of Pomfret, in 1899, after
having been deposed by Parliament. 1t
was in his rel ign that the iusurrection Of
Wat. Tyler broke out.
The assassination Of James |. OF Scot,
land, which took place in 1887, was an
atrocious murder, avenged soon after by
a scarcely less atrocious execution Of the
asssssins. 1t wss tho fruit Of a conspir-
, scy, set on foot by Sir Robert Graham
who had been banished by the King
He chose for its execution, q season o
public festivity, which the King, sur
rounded by the mobiles and beauties ol
| tho Cours, was celebrating st the Monas
terry Of Blackfriars, in Perth. This mag
nificent edifce had been the scene of
gayety for weeks, aud on the night fixed
for the Kings murder, the amusemcnts
Of the Court we're kept up till long after
midnight. The gay aud accomplished
monarch had joined 10 the dance, and
called for the parting cup, and was just
retired to his own apartment, where he
was standing before the fireplace iu q
kind of uudress, gaily conversing with
the Queen and her ladies'. Suddenly he
heard loud noise 10 the Court, as Of the
clashing of armor, and the gloomy fash
ing of torches glared from without thro'
the rooms. Heavy footsteps were heard
along the gallery. A page in the act OF
carrying somo wine to the King and
Queen, first saw the oon-pirators in the
passage, and cried out "Traitors" and
was instantly stabbed to the heart by one
Of them. They then rushed toward the
Kings apartment with axes, sword9 and
other weapons. One Of them rushad up.
on tao King with a dagger, but james,
though uoarmed, grappled him by the
shoulders, and dashed him violently to
the ground. A second assassin the King
seized by the neck and threw down. So
strong was his grasp, fighting for his life,
that they retained the marks Of the
throttling they had received long after.
Yet in vain did James attempt to wrest
dagger from either. Graham, the
Kings implicab'c enemy, now entered the
apartment, and with ferocious exul,ation
pointed his dagger at the Kings hear.
James, whose hands bad been cut by the
daggers Of the two other asssssins, now
mplored for mercy, us further resistance
was vain. Graham was deaf to his ap
peal. The unhappy monarch then beg
ged for confessor. "No, said Gra-
ham, 800 confessor shalt thou have but
this dagger" and thus saying he plung
ed the weapon into the Kings body who
fell to the floor amid the shrieks Of the
Queen and the other ladies', The re.
maining couspirators now rushed, with
fendish malignity, to stab the fallen
King, even after he was dead, SO that 10
fewer than sixtcn mortal wounds were
found in his breast alone
The alarm was now given in the town,
and the citizens, with the kings SER
wants, rushed into the monastery, when
too late, to defend their sovereign. The
red glare of torches, and loud threats Of
vengeance burst upon the midnight reg
icides, who, struck with dismay, fled .in
all directions. The most furious indlg-
nation was reused all over the kingdom,
and every baron and chief in the High:
lands united in cndeavins to appreheOd
them. Within q month after the sssas.
.instiom, they were al! taken, and no
punishment was ever more summary and
revolving than the series of exquisite tor
lures which were devised to put them to
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