The National Register. — 1813-01-31 (London, England)

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.  irg on a stranger's neck—lets fly his 'shaft, and finds his EDITH 'expiring in her murdered brother's aims. (In the recovery of his lost reason, MORTHA,M learns that his infant son and nurse have been carried off by armed men—at his nrideeris instigation, as he supposes. He, quits his home, stow a desart : and in fotcign lands, the foremost in every daring enterprise of war, seeks anxiously for death.—This recital closed; it is agreed that REDMOND and MATILDA shall repair home, and that WILFRID, at night, shall attend with an armed force to bear from IloK ED Y to BARNARD the treasures of MORT H AM, and the lady. Night arrived, the rival lovers forget their jealousies, in attempts to Booth MaTlLDa's melancholy on quitting the kat of her fore-fathers. The bickering faggot sparkled bright, And gave the scene of love to sight, itade Wit rat n's cheek more li%ely glow, Play'd ou MATILDA 's neck of ,now. 11cr nut-brown curls and tOrehe hiub, And laughed in 11.F.onovn's azure eye. Two lovers by the mirk!' sale, Without a glance ofjealous hate ; 'I he maid her lovers sate hetweem. With open brow, and equal mien : It is a sight but rarely spied, Thanks to man's wraith and woman's pri(!e. Ing.silence without is lsroken by a minstrel, whose importunity and distress obtain fi,r him, in these times of turbulence and distrust, an unwelcome admittance to the hall. MATILDA'S kindness, however, makes amends for the rough. mess of the warder; and, at her request. %VI IFR t D and the harper enliven the painful evening of parting with their atelodics. Of the harper— Each look and accent framNl to please, Seemed to affect a playful ease ; His face was of that doubtful Whirl) wins the eye, but nit the mind : • Yet harsh it seemed to deem amiss Of brow so young. and smooth HA tliis— l'Tis was the subtle blow, and sly, Tail( spying all, seems nought to Ty, ft,,,imd all the group his glance, sole, Unmarked themselves, to mark the wh.re. The minstrel is EDMOND, one of BERT RAM'; desperate outlaws, who, having gained an entrance to the car.tle himself, prepares one for the rest of his party. " Harper ! methinks thy maple tar," AIATiLDc Said, can gold us raise ! Well nigh my fancy can discern, Near the dark porch a visage stern, • E'en now, in sander Slr nook-I see it ! RP omoNo, Wlt Frttn, look ! A human form, distinct and plcar•— God, for thy mercy !—lt draws near." She saw ton true.-BERTRANI and his' followers enter. A desperate conflict ensues; whilst WILFRID conveys MATILDA bv a wicket to the woods ; and urged by her fears for REDNIOND's safety, and her reproaches, he retutns to the fight; all had been lost—but that the soldiers who had been provided to escort MATILDA arrive. The castle takes fire, the fight thickens amidst its flames, the assailing party are killed to i man or taken prisoners, ail except BERTRAM ',v170 escapes. WILFRID is wounded, and is borne fiom the flames by rEDMOND.  Three days have succeeded to this night of horrors, when BERTRAM stealing to his lucking place discovers a figure digging the earth of the cavern, and at length drawing forth a casket. It proves to be LDMOND, who when compelled to disclose his business and the cause of it, informs 13ERTRAM that NVS/CLIFFE having considered Guy DENpt. 444 himself fit iastruniclts to assist is a plot by which