The Hawaiian gazette., 1873-02-05
to demand for her or for any State of the

Union.
THE Loves OF ELIZABETH. - The sex
of Elizabeth, of England, was physio-
logical blunder Many of her most seri-
Gus defects arose from her not having
been man, as nature must have origin
ally designed. With a masculine will,
masculine character, and a masculine am
bition, she had all the feminine weak
nesses without any of the feminine graces
or charms. Her vanity was in excess of
her pride, and, in spite of her unquestion-
able greatness, rendered her ridiculous
through life. She was ever anxious to
be loved, and had the exceeding misfor-
tune to be least lovable when she loved
most There was no great need of affec-
ton in her stubborn spirit, no yearning
for sympathy in her self-suficient nature,
no inappeasable craving for what romanti-
cists would call intercourse of soul. She
wanted lovers more than love, because
lovers fattered her inordinate vanity, and
told her, as lovers usually DO, that which
she secretly thought of herself. She
never tired of hearing she was the Virgin
T Queen, and never acted as if she relished
the arrogated honor. Coquetry she would
have carried to perilous degree, if there
had been anything perilous in such
homely Amazon. Not one of all the men
she had desperate and protracted fiirta-
tons with-not even Raleigh, nor Leices-
ter, nor Essex-cared a 7nGraced, for her
in the way she wished them to; but from
reasons of state, and from motives of
policy, they pretended to adore her.
Crafty courtiers as they were, it must
have been difficult for them to refrain
from laughing in Elizabeth's face, when
they called her beautiful, or when they
compared her voice to the tones of the
lutte. They had passed through many
hardships, but nothing harder than to adj
dress Euryale in the language becoming
to Agalaia Raleigh showed his keenness
of insight when he spread his rich mantle
beneath her ungainly feet, and Leicester
his understanding of character when he
wrote to her that her lovely image ban
ished sleep from his pillow. OF her nu-
merous suitors, none would have given a
flip for her heart, but much for her
crown-the sole aim of their gallant mas
querading.
The secret loves of Elizabeth and SeY-
mour, and Raleigh, and Leicester, and
Essex, and others, have often been writ
ten, and not, it is to be presumed, without
a basis of truth But love is fine bap-
tism for relations springing from vanity
on one side, and from considerations of
diplomacy on the other The Princess in
her early years appeared to be fond of
Seymour, and it is charitable to think she
was. Pretty stories have been told of
the Countess of Nottingham's withhold
ing the ring sent to the Queen by Essex
before his execution, and of the consum-
ing sorrow which Elizabeth suffered after
his death. The stories are dramatic and
interesting, their chief defect being that
they are entirely untrue. The woman
whose reputation had been almost ire
parably injured by her connection with a
man of whom she could calmly say after
his execution, " His loss is not so much,
for although he had large wit he had
little Judgment" would not be likely to
be troubled by remorse for deliberately
sending her nearest friend to the scafold.
Elizabeth could not forgive in any OF
her sisters the possession of gifts and
/ graces which she must have been pri-
vately conscious were lacking in herself.
Mary Stuart's objectionable offense was
her beauty and seductive charm, and her
rival was never able to regard with kind
ness the men who, willing to forget the
woman in the sovereign had sought her
hand, and afterwards welded where in
clination led. There is a species of dis
mai compensation IN all conditions OF lie.
If Elizabeth failed to awaken in any mas
culine breost the flame with which she
hoped to kindle the torch of her vanity,
and if her vestal assumptions were not
always credited, she had the good for
tune, so surrounded was she by distin-
guished soldiers, statesmen, and scholars,
to shine with the light reflected from
them, and bear in history a glow not her
own H. BrO'oa, IN Dec Galaxy
INSANITY IN THE MIDDLE AGEs.-The
middle ages, were a period of upheavel,
when everything was swallowed up in
the bottomless abyss of scholasticism and
demonologv. and medicine became rou-