The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1865-06-20

+ We nav mention The names Of Ra-
leigh and Mouuijoy as two other 10.
T stances
As bot little is generally known OF
the Queens partiali,y Cor Moungoy,
We shall mention two or three incl.
dents in his short but brilliant eareei,
/ before treating Of Sir Walter Raleigh
whom this paper principally concerns.
Charles Blount was one OF the
bandsomes, cavaliers OF bis day. lie
was first noticed by the Queen at
/ Whitehall. IN 1885, who asked her
laly.caryrr, Who was the youth Of
tho graceful stature and agreeable
countenanec Z and was informed, be
was learned student Of Oxford, aud
tie younger brother Of Lord William
MouuJoy.
The young student heard the whis-
PEREZ inquiry, marked the Queen s
gaze, and blushed 10 the eyes.
Elizabeth gave him her hand to
kiss. and said, saw there was noble
blood in thy veins.
Some days after this, she witnessed
| his success at tilt with Essex, and
awarded him a golden chess-queen,
richly cnameled, which Charles wore
in passing through the royal chamber.
| Essex, observing the ornament, ask
ed Mr.. Fulke Grenville where he
got it 2
The Queen sent it TO him after the
tilling, was the reply.
| Now ! perceive that every TOOL
must have favor, said Essex.
Blount heard these words, and sent
| the prime favorite a challenge. They
met in Marylebane Park. Essex was
wounded in the thigh. When the
Queen heard it, she exclaimed, BY
Gods death, its fit and proper that
some one should take the Earl down,
and teach him manners otherwise
there would be no ruling him.
Charles Blount was too much OF a
soldier 10 remain long at the Queens
apron string. He broke away, and
went TO the war in Flanders. Eliza
beth discovered it, and wrote TO her
general, Sir John Norrey's, to send
| her t,uaut back. Serve me 50, once
more. and III lay you too ast,ior run
ning. You will never leave off I'LL
you are knocked on the head, as that
nconsiderate fellow Sidney was, said
the Qacen to her truant knight.
Sidney, MS the reader is aware, re-
ceiyed his mortal wound in the battle
fought beneath the walls Of Iutphen.
| As he was, also, fayoriie with tie
! Queen--so great iayorite that she
thought the Court no Court without
him-we may remind the reader, in
this rareniheiical paragraph, OF the
last and noblest act oi hls lite, record.
ed by Loid Brooks :-' Passing along
with the rest OF the army, where his
uncle, the General q. e., the Earl Of
Leicester,) was and being thirsty
with excess of bleeding, be called for
drink, which was presently brought
him but as he was putting the bottle
10 bis mouth, he saw a poor soldier
carried along, who had eaten his last
at the same feast, gtastly, casting up
his eyes at the bottle which Sir Phil
lip perceiviug, took it from his head
before he drank, and delivered it tc
the poor man, with these words, III,
nece sity is greater than mine
But 10 turn back to Charles Blount
the Queen appointed him her deputy
and sent him to Ireland, in place oi
Essex, who had made a terrible mes
of the war in that country.
On hei mentioning this appoint.
ment to Bacon, be replied, courteir
like, Surely, madam, you cannO
+, make better choice, unless you senC
over my Lord Essex.
1t is just possible that this MAJ
: have been sneer at MounUoy, WHIT
,, was not at this time, much over thirty
years Of age. Bat sneer was neve
more unjust, for Mounjoy was tb'
ablesi, and Essex the weakest, ant
most inefficient viceroy that IRELAND
ever had.
Essex I exclaimed the Queen
when send Essex back into Ireland
I'll marry you. Claim it Of me-
But this appointment was looke'
upon, in those days, as a sort Of ban
ishment from the Court, and the sun
shine of the Queens countenance. Il
was Essex's enemies who procured
him the appointment to ireland, iron
which be, after a few.months, cut ant
run.
Mounuoy owed il TO his own talents
but judging from bis letters, he dit
not the less regret his absence from
Court. In one Of those epistles hC
boldly speaks OF his love for the Queen
she being nearly seventy. This
most dear sovereign, / DO not write
with any swelling justification Of my,
myself If any impious tongue dc
taA my proceedings, viii patiently
bless il. that by making me suffer fol
your sake, Il that have suffered fol
your sake, a torment ADORE oil others
a griered and dsspised iore-.'
Elizabeth, far from taking sucl
language amlss. replies
20, Eha; melancholy humor hail
exhaled up into your brain, from I
fallfrauguied heart, that should breeC
such doubt, bred upon no cause Civ
en- by Us at all, nepsr kdr7ng pro
noaaoed any syllable upon rhicl mci